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#3DS in Skandinavia !

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#65387From: Martin EnthedNov 8, 1993 5:34 AM

JE -<<It's called the 3DS Witch IPAS and hunts down problems in 3DS caused by witches and eliminates them.>> Somekind of fire AXP that turn's everything in the seen into flames, will that do the trick? !! (-: JE-<<I'd like to be able to create swirling vortex's as well with nice wispy clouds.>> Do you want the clouds to move irregulary in the wind, gathering up with other clouds and so on ? Or do you wan't every cloud to move it's vertices too ? JE-<<Another area which hasn't really been addressed much is procedural materials>> Give me an example! JE-<<which compiler are you using for IPAS and which type are you mostly developing?>> I am using Watcom 9.5, but everybody including GY is telling me that it's suicide, because it's hard to debugg. But so long I havn't had any problems. I have done PXP,AXP and SXP. NO IXP at all! My preferences is at AXP and propobly KXP as I'm into animation effects ! regards, Martin

#65477From: John EllisNov 8, 1993 2:38 PM

Martin >> Somekind of fire AXP that turn's everything in the seen into flames… << Yeah, that'll definetely do the trick, TORCH the suckers! >> Do you want the clouds to move irregularly in the wind, gathering up with other clouds… << Ideally individual clouds should have their own random pattern (which can be adjusted to be like Cirrus <Ice clouds> or Cummulus Nimbus <Storm Clouds> but at the same time look similar. I would be happy with a good set of moving clouds overhead. If you can develop a particle system that can be opacity mapped onto a dome or plane with good pattern motion that would do the trick. An example of a procedural material would be like wood grain that flows through the contours of irregular shapes. For certain instances this is much better than texture mapping. These are the SXP's. Not having done any programming with Watcom, I can't say whether its suicide or not, but having worked with some "old-fashioned" compiler's like fortran etc, it has been my experience that good modular programming and clean code makes the job of debugging fairly easy. Some of the newer compilers have some good trouble-shooting features which I imagine is what GY is talking about. Especially when you're up against deadlines. <G> IXP's are good for special effects too, but I think alot more diversity of opportunity with AXP's and KXP's. How complex do you think you can get with them? I realise this is a vague question. – JE

#65647From: Martin EnthedNov 9, 1993 12:14 PM

JE-<<IXP's are good for special effects too, but I think alot more diversity of opportunity with AXP's and KXP's. How complex do you think you can get with them? I realise this is a vague question. – JE>> I hope to get into the programming and realy puch some edges. But I must see a market for IPAS and have money to sit down and realy do it ! I'm gathering ideas for another package, and have made some small new IPAS that propobly will fit into the next package !