CompuServe Thread

>>Anyone done any stereo imaging(the kind with the funky two colored glasses) with 3DS? I am wondering if there are any programs that will convert two cammera rendered images into one stereo image for viewing with the glasses. Generally any methods and advice would be helpfull.<< Someone asked this question last spring, and lo & behold! here was my response to them: — I am using a Windows program called "3D Maker" from Synthonics, Inc. (Westlake Village, CA ph# 1.818.707.6000) to do my red\blue conversions. Ads for it are frequently in "New Media" magazine (they are the ads that usually have a large red/blue image with the headline "Image of the Month", I think this month's is a chameleon). 3D Maker is extremely fast, but might be difficult to use over a series of animation frames, because it only works with still images and not animation files. The process is fairly simple, load a right view, load a left view, set stationary points in both views and hit the 'Make 3D' button. It then generates a full color (kinda') stereo image using red and blue overlapping. I have found that when rendering both eye views that wide-angle camera lens' don't work because the object distortion on the outside edges is too great for the 3D stereo overlap to work correctly. I have had to really tame down my left and right views to get proper 3D.— I hope this helps! Sean Platter