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- Short: NEW FreeForm1.7 3D Bspline modeler demo
- Uploader: enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org
- Type: gfx/3D
-
- **************************** IMPORTANT INSTALLATION *****************************
-
- You need the Helvetica11 font in your fonts drawer. If you do not have it
- already, I have included it on the disk.
-
- You need to add an assign statement to your user_startup drawer in
- the system S directory, telling what directory FreeForm is located in, on
- your hard drive. AFTER ADDING THIS LINE, YOU MUST RE-BOOT FOR IT
- TO TAKE AFFECT.
-
- example:
-
- Assign FreeForm: work:graphics/3D
-
-
-
-
-
- If you have 3.0 operating system or greater, you must set the path name
- for where MULTIVIEW is located on your machine, in order to access the
- online help. Change the last line in the configfile, that says amigaguide
- to your path name. You may also have to move the ff.guide file to the
- same directory as MULTIVIEW.
-
-
- If you have Aladdin4d, you can run FreeForm from with Aladdin by
- copying the line below to a file called FreeForm; and moving that file
- to your tools directory in Aladdin.
-
- run >NIL: FreeForm:FreeForm03040
-
-
-
-
-
- Look at the "WHATS NEW" button in the help system.
-
-
- *************************************************************************
-
-
-
-
- ********* THIS IS VERSION 1.7 A NEW UPDATE TO VERSION 1.6 **************
-
- FreeForm is a Bspline and NURB editor for Real3D2, Aladdin, LightWave, Caligari and
- Imagine.
-
- Some example conversions have been done for you to see.
-
- REAL3D2 - spoutbs.rpl
- LIGHTWAVE - spoutbs.geo
- CALIGARI - spoutbs.geo
- IMAGINE - spoutbs.imag
-
- This usable DEMO is provided so you can see some of the functions of
- the program. Some functions are not accessible, for obvious reasons.
- Due to the reorganization of functions for the DEMO, you may experience
- some bugs. Due to the large amount of combinations of button presses
- and functions, it is impossible to find all of the bugs on my own. If
- you find any while using the program, please describe them and what you tried
- to do, and forward the information to my friends BBS address or to me
- directly at the address below.
-
- This demo contains just part of the abilities of the program. Some
- prefs and other functions were shortened or left out do to:
- 1. It's a DEMO
- 2. Space considerations
-
-
- There may be some screen shots and a short morphing demo included
- if time and space allow.
-
-
- The program includes on_line help through an amiga guide file and
- phone tech support.
-
- If you wish to order the full program, it is only $59.95. Please include
- what type of processor you have. You will receive all future upgrades
- for only $5 for each upgrade.
- (Please support an Amiga programmer)
-
-
-
- $59.90 + $5 shipping and handling.
-
-
- Fori Owurowa
- 1873-75 Cropsey Ave
- Brooklyn, NY 11214
- U.S.A
-
- 718-996-1842 (12:30 pm to 7:30 pm Eastern time)
-
- enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org
-
-
-
- FreeForm has a realtime Perspective and Parallel view interface, with
- points picking and bones modification in all views.
- In the interactive modes, you can choose how your object is displayed on
- the fly. Choose from
-
- 1. Knot- object drawn in realtime by connecting points through the knots.
- This gives you a more accurate shape and size than Real3D's
- lines through the control points.
-
- 2. Cntrl Pnt- Same as Real3D's lines drawn through the control points.
-
- 3. BOUNDING BOX - You can toggle this on and off, on the fly, while in
- any of the two other modes. It is useful if your
- machine is slower or the number of points on the
- object is very large.
-
-
- The following are just some of the features in the program, that I feel are
- improvements over most of Real3D2's Bspline modeling portion.
-
- 1. FreeForm IS 20 TIMES FASTER THAN REAL3D2.(Yes, I said 20 times !)
- FreeForm renders your objects without having to set any
- subdivision levels. Your objects are always be smooth. No
- matter what resolution your in or how close you zoom in
- to the object, you won't see the polygonal edges that appear
- on smooth objects in Real3d when you zoom in close and render.
-
- The curves in the editor, also maintain their smoothness at any
- resolution and zoom, without having to set any subdivision levels.
- FREEFORM CAN RENDER CURVES IN CURVE SHADE MODE, FASTER THAN IMAGINE2
- RENDERS POLYGONS IN SCANLINE !;
-
-
- 2. Spin open objects at angles of less than 360 degrees, at 1 degree increments.
-
- 4. Easy duplication of control points, by setting the point to be a SINGLE,
- DOUBLE or TRIPLE type. This way of doing it frees you from having to figure
- out how many points are already there, and takes away the lengthy task
- of separating the object into curves, then duplicating or deleting points,
- (hoping that you didn't add to many or to little), then picking all the
- right curves in the right orders, and putting the object back together
- again as in Real3D. (When I brought a computer I wanted it to do most
- of the work not me !)
-
- 5. Give an edge curve a thickness automatically.
-
- 6. Set Object On Ground function, positions objects on the editors ground
- for you.
-
- 7. Pick points by dragging, clicking or lassoing. Lasso lets you draw a freehand
- line encircling points that you want picked. It allows you to weave in and
- out of spaces that a drag box cannot get to.
-
- 8. Adjust object by Control Points or Knot Points.
-
- 9. Automatic Bones creation for objects, and modification of objects using
- Bones.
-
- 10. Export objects to Real3D2(Bsplines and Tension NURBS),
- LightWave, Caligari and Imagine (Bsplines and Tension NURBS converted to
- polygons adjustable by you).
-
- 11. Rail extrusion allows easy creation of complexed shapes
- (Example teapot spout - spoutbs.FreeForm). Rail extrusion automatically
- aligns the cross section to be extruded for you. Real3D2 does not.
-
- 12. Morph Extrusion allows you to set 2 edge curves, and FreeForm will
- extrude from one to the other creating the in between sections for you.
- (Example - a mesh that is a circle at one end, and changes to a square
- at the other).
-
- 13. Screen redraw is 3 times faster than Real3d2.
-
- 14. Curves drawn during dragging are complete, and not disconnected from the mesh
- like Real3D's.
-
- 15. Points are highlighted for easy picking; and picked points are shown to
- you, so you can tell if you have all that you wanted.
-
- 16. Tension - allows you to modify the shape of curve sections without it
- affecting the knot position. This makes your Bsplines NURB like curves
- and allows you to create objects which are next to impossible in
- Real3D2.
- (In Real3D2, when you triple a point to create a sharp corner,
- the knot moves away from its original position, changing the
- size and shape of the object. A result wich you may not always want.
-
- Example- Imagine a bottle whose cross section is a smooth circle from the
- top to the center of the bottle, and changes to a sharp edged octagon
- from the middle to the bottom. Much like a bottle of Heinz ketchup.
-
- 17. Blend - allows you to pick sections and generate a smooth transition from
- the first sections shape, to the last sections shape.(Blends Tension)
-
- 18. Easy Morphing previews - Just pick an object, set it to source. Pick
- another object, and set it to target. Then select Morph it. That's it !
-
- 19. Multi-pick file requester allows you to load in more than one object
- at one time.
-
- 20. Export objects to 9 different workspaces; without any additional memory
- usage.
-
- 21. Taper and twist with easy to use deformation functions.
-
- 22. Change the render screen mode and resolution with out having to open
- new environments.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- If you are interested in distributing this product, all dealer inquiries
- are welcome.
-
- No liability from the use or misuse of this program is expressed
- or implied. All products mentioned are the trade marks of their
- respective companies and have no affiliation with FreeForm at
- this time.
-
- All code of the program is the property of Fori Owurowa and may not
- be used in whole or in part for any other purposes.
-
-
-
-
-
- This is the third update; version 1.7.
-
- **** BUG FIXES *****
-
- 1. Fixed a bug with saving to ram:. Commodore returned the illegal
- volume name "Ram Disk" instead of ram: to the program through
- the file requester.
-
- 2. Fixed a bug with the buttons. When you were in points mode, and
- had modified some points, and then swicth to camera; if you
- didn't use the right mouse button to end the interactive mode,
- the buttons would leave themselves on and change orders. If
- you did use the right mouse button to end the mode, it would have
- sent you back to the mode you were in before you pressed the
- camera button, which was what it was designed to do. Now I
- checked for those of you who press the points button or bones
- to get back.
-
-
- 3. Fixed the saving to Real3D, gave an error message on workbench
- bu it was nothing bad. Just left some extra code line in by
- accident. Saving to RPL NURB format now saves the object to Real3D
- with the tension modifications, as they look in FreeForm.
-
- 4. Fixed the close object bug.
- ********************
-
-
-
- ***** New Additions ********
-
- 1. Added a Build from cross sections function. Its in the Forms menu.
- See the "explain" drawer on the disk.
-
- 2. Added adjustable tension. You can now get tensions in between smooth
- and sharp, at 0.1 increments. See the Tension menu/Adjustable tension.
-
- 3. There's a new function that works in conjunction with the "Only these"
- function. It's the HIDE (all unpickable sections) function.
- It won't draw curve sections that contain points that were not
- set to PICKABLE with the "Only These" function.
- It's in the "object/POINT functions" menu.
-
- PLEASE REMEMBER TO TURN THESE MODES OFF WHEN YOUR DONE WITH THEM.
- IF YOU FIND YOU CAN NOT PICK A POINT FOR SOME REASON, CHECK TO
- SEE THAT THESE FUNCTIONS ARE NOT CHECK MARKED.
-
- 4.
-
- *****************************
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 25002 18780 24.8% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 convertedobjects/spout1.Lightwave
- 139828 29144 79.1% 19-Jul-94 12:54:44 convertedobjects/spoutbs.geo
- 28186 13290 52.8% 19-Jul-94 12:54:36 convertedobjects/spoutbs.imag
- 1539 540 64.9% 19-Jul-94 12:54:34 convertedobjects/spoutbs.rpl
- 13770 7419 46.1% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 explain/Build_func.pic
- 460 267 41.9% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 explain/Build_func.pic.info
- 3000 1633 45.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 helvetica/11
- : © 1985, 1987 Adobe Systems, Inc.
- 4140 1160 71.9% 19-Jul-94 12:54:48 objects/MrphRail.FreeForm
- 672 267 60.2% 19-Jul-94 12:54:48 objects/Spin_Me.FreeForm
- 2956 1932 34.6% 19-Jul-94 12:54:48 objects/spout1.FreeForm
- 456 312 31.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 rail_objects/cross_sec.FreeForm
- 460 308 33.0% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 rail_objects/rail1.FreeForm
- 460 297 35.4% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 rail_objects/rail2.FreeForm
- 23428 4215 82.0% 19-Jul-94 12:54:54 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame1
- 460 268 41.7% 19-Jul-94 12:54:54 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame1.info
- 27438 6196 77.4% 19-Jul-94 12:54:54 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame2
- 460 269 41.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:52 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame2.info
- 29986 9292 69.0% 19-Jul-94 12:54:52 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame3
- 460 269 41.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:50 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics/frame3.info
- 3236 3134 3.1% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 AmigaGuide
- 179 132 26.2% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 configfile2
- 838 316 62.2% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 configfile2.info
- 628 276 56.0% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 ConvertedObjects.info
- 628 261 58.4% 19-Jul-94 12:54:46 explain.info
- 58248 20895 64.1% 19-Jul-94 12:55:00 ff.guide
- 841 321 61.8% 19-Jul-94 12:55:02 ff.guide.info
- 1634 809 50.4% 19-Jul-94 12:55:02 ff.readme
- 837 321 61.6% 19-Jul-94 12:55:02 ff.readme.info
- 332284 132047 60.2% 19-Jul-94 12:53:14 FreeForm03040
- 3060 875 71.4% 19-Jul-94 12:53:16 FreeForm03040.info
- 628 260 58.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:50 rail_objects/rail_explain_pics.info
- 628 258 58.9% 19-Jul-94 12:54:48 helvetica.info
- 628 260 58.5% 19-Jul-94 12:54:48 objects.info
- 10984 6709 38.9% 19-Jul-94 12:55:04 PPMore
- 628 268 57.3% 19-Jul-94 12:54:56 rail_objects.info
- 16516 9623 41.7% 19-Jul-94 12:55:04 SaveScreen
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- 735586 272623 62.9% 23-Jul-94 23:24:50 36 files
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