#3d book
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Can you give us an example of the type of "advanced" tips that will
set your book apart from the rest. I don't mean to be pessimistic
but I've heard too many "different" and "advanced" terms thrown
around about all types of "instructional" manuals. What kind of
"high end secrets" can we expect?
Thank you for the opportunity to give you and other forum members a
preview of the book! The book is 484 pages, perfect bound, with color
plates inset in the center of the book. While this may not help
describe the content of the book, I wanted to stress that this book
was produced with a certain degree of quality, that I have not yet
seen by other artists and their 3D Studio books. The book consists
of 3 sections; Getting Acquainted, Advanced Techniques, and a
Command Reference. There are 17 chapters within these 3 sections. The
"Advanced Techniques" section runs from chapters 4 thru 13. To be
fair, I must say that it is very hard to answer your question about
"advanced tips and high-end secrets". Who's to say how one particular
user would judge our work as compared to the next user who may see it
as completely different. This is my opinion of advanced
techniques…if you feel you have vast knowledge (which is quite
likely for some of you) you may consider checking the book out at the
library when it becomes available, or perhaps wait for one of several
reviews that will be available in November. I have several years
experience working with Alias, and Wavefront and I feel I have
knowledge worth sharing on several techniques. I have read several
threads in this forum about the lack of information on lighting
models, for instance, used in computer graphics…chapter 13 is
devoted entirely to this subject. I could go on but messages in
forums should not be as lengthy as this one is. I will finish by
saying we spent many, many hours and dollars on market research
trying to value this book in this market. According to our
information this market would have supported this book at 3 times the
price we are asking. Still I was concerned with giving people the
most possible for the money, so I have included a demo version of a
raytracing package developed for 3D Studio. It has cost me tens of
thousands of dollars to produce the software and the demo is free
with the book! For further info contact me direct at 70761,3061. Glad
to share this with you.
TP PS The
book is finally finished and ships this wednesday!!
Is the "ray tracing package" an IPAS? What does "package" mean in 3DS language?
Thank you!
Rachel,
No. The Mirage Raytracing Engine is not an IPAS routine. Not yet
anyway. In its current release (2.0) it will work as a standalone
program. You will shell out to it much the same as shelling out to a
paint program etc… With the help of Adesk and the Yost group we
hope to have an integrated package working as an IPAS for Release 3.
So far Adesk has expressed a sincere desire to help us acheive our
goals and the others have offered to be testing sites.(beta should be
available any day Gary).
Payne,
Will you support .SXP, .BXP, .cel & .fli/.flc file formats for inputting
texture maps? What about calculating the object positions at different frames?
A ray tracer could be an .IXP but you would also need to read the current 3DS
file of the scene for some of the information.
Keith.
Could you please send some info to my mailbox? I am interested in your book
but have never seen _any_ books out on 3ds..
Thanks!
…Steve
> The book is finally finished and ships this wednesday!!
Hey, I'll support ALL you guys. How do I order?
Okay, sold, how do I buy one! ????
Jim
[PolyGone Cafe']