CompuServe Thread

Hi Robert… How about rendering your reflection map to a TGA or gif or whatever then using a spotlight projection? You can then animate it to your hearts content. While I'm on the subject I recently projected a Flic onto a cube which was rotating around two axes (one linked to a dummy) with the spot light also linked to the dummy to maintain the alignemnt with the cube. The problem I had was the spotlight occasionally "forgot" which way was up and projected upside down (I have modeled text on the same side so I know it did this) for about a frame or two. Anyone know if this is fixable given the difficulty of rotating things around two or more axes? -john- DAS.

Robert: >> I'm trying to make a compact disc in 3DS, What you want is the free IPAS routine called RAINBO_I. It was created by a company in Hong Kong (Pointer?) specifically for this purpose. I found it on the Internet on Avalon about a year ago, look in the libraries here, or holler if you can't find it and I'll e-mail it to you. Greg Pyros

Robert, I have just finished a sequence using a CDROM in it. What I did was use an actual master cdrom, you the gold ones and scanned the cdrom. he resulting tiff file was exquisite- a perfect texture map. I then mapped this to a cdrom object using bitmap fit. The result was good. The cdrom is spinnig from a distance and arriving center stage in the foreground and looks very convinving. If you need reflections I would suggest adding a reflection map. I also trried the rainbow ipas but did not get the look I was after. r since a real cdrom has a bending diffraction pattern which is difficult to model. Hope this helps. The key is scanning the cdrom with a good 24bit scanner. I used an HP IICX. Good Luck. Steve Schram.