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- Well I too am having trouble with Sparks. I did manage to get tutorial (I
- use the term loosly) 3.4 to work. The part that's missing or at least not
- clear on the first 100 tries is... once you've performed the "getpoints.lwm"
- micro and exported the particle object to lightwave, go to the Sparks
- interface and select the Source Object button (this by the way is stated on
- page 19 of the manual second paragraph) and select "Source Only". I beleive
- there should be a law or at the very least a rule that programmers should
- not be allowed to write manuals. I still haven't been able to control this
- beast very well yet but it does seem to have some good potential. Another
- complaint of mine about Sparks is, you get all these very nice demo setups
- but without the original Lightwave scenes and Sparks Project files so that
- you can study how they were done. Argh!!!
- If anyone has any clue as to how Sparks works please chime in!!!!
-
- On Fri, 16 Jun 1995 08:55:52 -0700 (PDT) DMetcalfe wrote:
- >On Thu, 15 Jun 1995 Jeric@cup.portal.com wrote:
- >
- >> Sorry I can't help you. I tried to learn Sparks, but the manual was
- >> apparently written by somebody for whom English is a second
- language.
- >> I was also pretty darned underwhelmed by the interface in general.
- >
- >Eric, you are to be commended for your honesty and (atypical) modesty!
- >For the record, I couldn't get much out of the program either. ;)
- >
- >The PowerMacro "Swarm" usually approximates particle effects just fine for
- me.
- >
- >Darren Metcalfe "Had this been an actual emergency,
- >downinit@teleport.com we would have fled in terror,
- > and you would not have been informed"
- >--
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