Subject: Re: Attributes and the GROW Effect
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:00:57 +1000 (EST)
From: Nikola Vukovljak <nvukovlj@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>

On Mon, 16 May 1994, Wes Parham wrote:

>   Okay, here's the skinny: 
> 	I made a rectangle which had its top portion coloured dark brown
> 	and it's bottom portion coloured a lighter brown.
>      It also had the Linear Texture applied.  The end result would give me
>      an extruded object which grow and then faded to full filter value
>      close the the end of the effect.
> 	I grouped this fellow to a parent path and it extruded nicely over
> 	time in the Stage.
>      The only problem was that the attributes of the extrusion were
>      fudged-up somehow.  The linear fade at the end worked just fine, but
>      my lighter brown seemed to assume the same dark brown intended for the
>      'other parts'.  The 'other parts' assumed a red colour and a slight
>      transparency.  I'm clueless. Any recommendations besides breaking down
>      and giving in to the inevitable 3.0? (which I will as soon as funds
>      are better, believe it!)  Perhaps having full (255) transparency in
>      the Texture is mucking it up? No, I can't say, that's why I'm asking
>      you folks.
>      wes~
> 
> 

Which version of Imagine are you using ? In v2 (Amiga) I couldn't even 
get the object which had the grow effect applied to it to be a consistent 
color! Black was the only one that worked.
I asked Impulse about this and was told that they were aware of the bugs 
in Grow FX and that they were going to try and fix this for v3.
Grow Fx did not even work for me in v 2.9.

Another bug is that the object cannot be scaled in x and z like it should 
be able to.

Nik.



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