Subject: Re: Trees & vertex--->Now forge
Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 12:28:47 -0700
From: Lesk@cc.snow.edu (Lesk)

>What is forge ?
>
>Keep in touch
>Hannes
>
>PS: Just create an the leaf object before calling the tree function
>


Hello Hannes;
        I just got this today. But as I read through my mail I believe your
answer about forge has been resolved already. There seems to be a blast of
action about the program and how it works. But just in case, I will
summerize.

        Forge will allow you to see immediate results as you make changes
in your texture settings. It does this by way of sliders for each setting.
the 2.9 textures do not function quite properly, but the 3.0 textures  are
supposed to work fine. You can see your textures animated in a small
animation box and determine how well you like the result as it changes over
time. Forge allows several views in both a flat plane and sphere. once your
settings are just what you want. you can save them as an attrubutes file to
be selected in imagine or as a brushmap or even as a series of pics. You
have nine places where you can add textures to the surface giving you a
wide variety of results (mmmm how many cells are there in the body.....).
It is easilly installed using the standard amiga install script. And once
is installed is very difficult to remove yourself long enough to even go
use the john...... (wife wife what wife?). There are a number of textures
that come with forge, essence, and essenceII, as well as the hundred or so
that come with imagine. I think this makes imagine about the most powerful
rendering tool there is (IMHO).


                                                Render Ho!
                                                  Lesk

P.S. I just finished making a booger for Ed "Big daddy" Roth. I may be able
to post my texture later in the week (Assuming anyone wants a booger
texture!!!).




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