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#5975From: PAUL WASSERMANFeb 25, 1989 12:52 AM
So you started with 1 monoscopic picture and created the stereoscopic one? That's pretty slick. The manual that comes with the glasses states that you need to make a stencil of the object (I assume this means cutting out the image you want to duplicate from the IFF picture) and the shift it (I guess). This is my first work with graphics applications on this machine so I'm struggling a bit… Hopefully I can figure out how to convert a standard IFF picture into 3D before I graduate!?! Thanx again, Paul
#5978From: Stan Kalisher (Impulse)Feb 25, 1989 10:44 AM
Paul – for some strange reason known only to them, Haitex takes th approach ]of lowering the river intstead of raising the drawbridge. We feel that moving the camera to replicate eye separation makes infinitely more sense than trying moving all the objects. Using the "stencil" function in Turbo Silver, you could take a standard IFF picture apart, ans brushes and make a Stereo picture. I haven't tried that yet, but it should work just fine. <–Stan
#5979From: PAUL WASSERMANFeb 25, 1989 11:58 AM
OK…. The idiot is starting to figure this out 🙂 You're saying to just load a standard IFF monoscopic picture into TS and then just re-adjust the camara angle? Boy.. I'll get this eventually… Question.. How does TS know which "object" in a standard monoscopic picture is in the "foreground" and which is in the "Background." Thanx for the help Stan, Paul
#5980From: PAUL WASSERMANFeb 25, 1989 1:17 PM
Stan, Trust me in the fact that I'm REALLY trying to figure this out… OK. I firgured I needed to created an object so as to use an IFF Brush to place the mono picture on it. I used the ADD/Surface command and the gave me a nice flat surface. And that's about as far as I get! I was able to Scale it in the attributes menu to make it larger, I was UNABLE to rotate it along the X-axis so it would be a wall and not a floor. I then Added an axis and tried to make it larger but the Size command in the attributes menu seems to have a mind of its own! Sometimes it will make one axis long sometimes not… I know I must be missing something relatively easy. Is it possible to have a Surface the exact size of the screen facing forward and then simply use an IFF Brush to place a picture on it. Then I assume I'd render it then shift camera angle and re-render for the stereo view. But then again, I could be COMPLETELY off base… Thanx again for your time, Paul
#5985From: Stan Kalisher (Impulse)Feb 25, 1989 3:00 PM
Paul – No that wouldn't work. In TS we have the unique abilit to use a brush as a brush. We call it stencil. It becomes a 1 pixel thick object that can "live" in the 3D world. It can have all the attributes of a 3D object, even cast shadows, but it can bee only seen from the front or back. You could "chop" up an IFF picture into brushes, then re-asseble them in TS as objects at various depths etc, then make two renderings each with a different camera view. <==Stan