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From: [e-mail] (Jamie Krutz) ()
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Subject: Re: RE: image map in modeler
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ken VanBrocklin) writes:
>
> >Adrian Onsen wrote:
> >    How can I import an IFF image file into modeler to use as an
> >object? Or do I have to use a third party utility like Pixel 3D to
> >convert the image into a 3dobject and then import it....
>
> There is no function in modeler to create objects from pictures. What you
> can do however, is load the picture in modeler to use as a template to
> create the object.
>
> Pixel 3D has a function as you discribe, it works ok for logos or other box
> shaped objects. It basicly trys to put point's (lots of them) along the
> edges of black and white images. Then does an extrude.  I found using the
> same image in modeler was quicker with better results. If you try to build a
> boat from a picture for example , the the object winds up looking like a
> barge.

Another, perhaps more elegent option that will be available soon
is to use ProVector and its included Stylus Tracer program.

Stylus Tracer can automatically create a 2D structured drawing of a
bitmapped image (autotracing). You can then load the structured
drawing into ProVector to edit its spline objects to get the shape just
right. This all works now, and editing bezier curves is a lot easier than
editing a bunch of points (just drag one of the curve's control handles
and see the results in real time).

What's coming is the added ability to save 2D objects in LightWave
format. When that's available you will then be able to load the object
into LW Modeler to do rotations or extrusions to create the final
3D object.

All of these programs support ARexx, so it would be possible to
automate the process even further.

ProVector, as I mentioned in a previous post, is an Amiga structured
drawing program from Stylus, Inc., here in Colorado. Structured
drawing means every shape you create is an object that can be
resized, tweaked, moved, have colors changed, etc., at any time
without getting jaggies or changing the way any other part of your
picture looks. Multiple layers makes this very flexible, and you can
even include bitmapped elements along with the vector objects.

PV has many features including excellent spline and freehand drawing
tools (it converts freehand shapes to splines automatically); gradients;
text on path effects; antialiased IFF-ILBM rendering to create
high quality video graphics; and the ability to directly load EPS files as
_editable_ vector graphics (this will also be very useful when LW
object export is done - read in a client's logo done in Illustrator or
some other drawing program on Mac or Intel clone, and save it out
directly as a LW object!); etc.

Stylus recently began shipping ProVector version 3 bundled with
Stylus Tracer and PSImport. To pester them about getting LW
object support finished, please call: 970/484-7321.  :^)

Regards,
 -Jamie (PV beta tester) Krutz


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