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- bunch o'stuff deleted here for the sake of being brief.
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- | image. You would first have to create an animated sequence, render and
- | save it then create a floor object and place the sequence on the floor
- | object as a image map, but this only works if you do not want the image of
- | the stained glass window to fall upon any other object. If you do then
- | there is much more work involved.
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- Hmmm, I have never considered hitting the 'Trace Shadows' button to be
- very arduous...
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- I have also seen many people
- | complaining about the number of add ons for 3DS you must buy to get decent
- | results. The same can be said about LW. Without add ons such as Sparks
- | or Newton's Law LW all in all is about even with 3DS in features. Price
- | wise is a different story. I believe all of the companies that produce 3D
- | animation programs bloat the prices of their programs. I haven't seen a
- | significant change in any of these programs within the last 3 to 5 years
- | that could justify these prices.
-
- Then you havent been watching very closely. Stuart, Allen, and George,
- have added more features that I care to list here in the last 2 years.
-
- here is a small list -
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- IK - basic
- render sample - makes it a lot easier to see textures
- front projected mapping
- shadow mapping
- glows
- new surfaces, crumple and raindrops
- not that cross platform use is a feature, but I think that is a major
- accomplishment.
- faster and faster...
-
- And as for add on prices, anything over
- | $50 is a rip off, because all they are are add ons.
-
- $50, excuse me.. a rip off, hmmm I see. Professionals will tend to use
- whatever works, or whatever they can make money with. if they have to
- buy a $15 000.00 plug in for a special effect, they will of course pass
- that along to the producer or director they are working for at the
- moment, they will not get ripped off.. (numbers used are for example
- purposes only).
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