CompuServe Thread

Ed, >> surprised to see very little activity in the scripts section. Are scripts falling out of favor? << I think it's only a few people who've got into them. It's a bit intimidating at first for non-programmers, but once they try to (or are forced into) writing them they soon see the power – I think people's work would actually improve if they got into it. The people who are using them just don't seem to talk about it much. I write several for each project I work on now, but they are just quick and dirty routines that would probably be useless for any one but me. I have a bunch of stuff that I could upload as samples but it's just a matter of taking the time to do it and there's certainly no time to clean it up for public usefulness. >> I've been doing my work (particle systems) mostly with IPASes. Compiling is pretty quit, and the improvement in performance is significant. >> cool. I trust you'll have samples one of these days. >> What keeps you entertained these days? Done any more POCO stuff? << no POCO, but I'm into L-systems and L-objects with the new product World Builder and the old stand-by, Yost's Silicon Garden. World Builder is incredibly deep and we are trying to use it for a Japanese commercial. Different layers of the commercial will be done in Renderman, Alias, 3ds, World Builder, and VS (MetroLight's own renderer) all matched to the same camera and lighting (theoretically). We've done another commercial for Korea and some film work for "Virtuosity". Very busy.