CompuServe Thread

>> It seems to me that adding glows and starburst effects as post processing functions would be fairly easy. Similar to the Lensflare global effect. << The Lensflar global effect will add a "halo" – similar to a glow, around an object. The halo's size is controlled by I believe the light's Z-axis (it may be the X axis, is escapes me right now). Starbursts can be accomplished using the twinkle.itx. Apply it to a disk as the texture docs state. You can then track this disk to the camera so that it is always facing the camera. Fog objects can also be used for glow effects. >> have been very frustrated with 3.0's strange dxf support. Will there be a maintenance update that will fix this problem? << Right now, Imagine 3.0 will Import DXF 3D Triangle data. This is the only flavor of DXF IM3.0 reads. IM3.1's DXF is very robust however, allowing much control over DXF import, and how individual entities & layers are imported. You'll have to ask Impulse, if there is a "maintenance update". -GreG

Daniel I am sorry that you are with out the ever present cash to move to the next level. The only way we have of servicing our client base is through this barbaric exchange of funds. A program that costs less would be no program at all, as such it costs us lots of money to do upgrades as you suggest, in the end things like a more robust DXF handler would take a longer time to reach you and it would be in the form of a major upgrade, ie Imagine 4.0. So when we reach 4.0 in May of 95, maybe the tooth fairy will have bestowed upon you the needed moola to get the next upgrade. Mike