CompuServe Thread

Hi Jonas, Well, here's a few more. . . . – Allow for Universal values for Gravity, Wind (animated, of course), etc. That Plug-ins can access so they can, for example, all follow the same "gusts" of wind (like 2 particle systems, a Flame.axp, and a physics calculation in one scene). – And now that I think of it . . . _local_ control for wind, so a gust of wind can travel across a hillside affecting objects/routines in a natural, varied fashion. Maybe just a set of bounding box/ellipsoids, that you can animate, and that calculate the wind direction from the objects trajectory . . . and is cumulative with multiple objects. (Esp. if you could create a small "funnel cloud" by spinning an object around! – O.K. so it sounds like a Plug-In now, but it would want to input to that universal wind variable for other routines to access) – Well, I certainly like that one alot! – Animate the amount of motion blur calculated for a given object, so it is only calculated when needed. – New motion blur (?), except for in low contrast shots, the dithering doesn't work very well. I've become a MBlur fiend Renderman and PhotoShop are the masters so far. – Animate auto reflect On and Off – so it is rendered only for needed frames, maybe automatically (only calculate it when the "reflecting" object is in view). – "Set Transform" – to another objects orientation. – When merging, the "Duplicate object name" requestor needs a "+" button. – "Space" lighting. <g> Where the effect of light doesn't vary much between a 0 degree hit and a 98 (or so) degree hit. (Like when you see pictures of the earth, the light has only a very quick fall off on the horizon.) – "Cruising" zoom (like my earlier "New Scrolling" wish) -The ability to set a value for the number of faces up to which to Full Draw meshes . . . for interactive movement of objects, orth. views and cameras. – Scale time for selected objects/channels instead of the entire anim. – Auto Expose for previews. When you use a lot of lights, previews get washed out. – Unhide heirarchy – Isolate object. (Hide all but object . . . , and center work area on object(s)) – Using a custom palette from the same flic you are processing (so you should have exact colors) gives poor results when Gamma is on (input and output gamma settings are the same). I was trying to add some glow to a shot and I had to go back to High palette mode to get a good palette. Be seeing you, – Ron P.S. . . . It looks to me like I never sent this older wishlist, if it is a re-send (within a month or 2), my apologies. ………….. – When Linking an object, 3DS currently "untranslates" the object (in relation to it's new parent), so that it stays where it was before you linked it. Though usually desired, the ability to turn this function off when needed would be great. – The center for the "view area" (and the axis for view rotation) can be lost if you use Zoom Extents or Marquee Zoom. I now try to use only Z, Shift-Z, and Pan to move around so that when I switch to a new view (Top, Left, etc.), or want to rotate the view around, I am still centered on the same "current" area. – The ability to choose a different type of key interpolation for _each_ segment (between any 2 keys). – (Default interp. type set by user?) – As many choices as possible for interpolation. Alias has eases, linear, step (or hold), and spline. SI adds Bezier (the type I've found most useful). PRISMS adds Quadric, Raw (a datafile), Sin(), Random() all those math functions and channel calls, and anything else you can think of. Thanks for listening. Be seeing you, – Ron