CompuServe Thread

Gary, I know, I appreciate the input. I brought the question up on the forum, in case there were some renegade IPAS programmers, working on such an entity, that no-one knew about. I spoke to Steve, and I think we're going to go ahead and try this. If it doesn't work, then we'll resort to plan B, but I think we can do it. We're going to spend the next couple of weeks trying to do a couple of mockups, and see how it goes. Paul .

Gary, >> DYNAMICS, not kinematics. It'll handle collision detection, wind, and gravity. << OK, that makes sense. I stand corrected. He gave his upcoming product a plug in his _own_ column in AV/Video (Sept '93). The address for anyone who wants to know is: Positron Publishing 1915 N 121st Street, Ste D Omaha, NE 68154 800-365-1002 phone 402-493-6254 fax Gary, BTW it's Malnack, not Malnick <g>.

Hi Gary, We spoke some months back about a 6min animation sequence in a rave video…remember? Sorry for not getting back to you as promised but job moves (and this troublesome thing called "wife") has been keeping me busy. However, I will soon be embarking on a mini project which I hope will enable me to animate a collection of objects -resembling a person- as a human (some of it has already begun). The idea is that by linking external routines, possibly in a similar way to linking objects, one can be prompted for the movements required of the "person" along the keyframer. Soooo, you can input 'walk forward/5 steps' at a keyframe, next keyframe 'look right' and so on. I once did something similar in Lisp (when I were a lad long time ago) with AutoCAD, created slides after DVIEW commands and put them into Animator v1. Worked just fine. I would be very interested in reading your comments Mr P.K. PS I am using a friends compuserve account again….