Subject: Imagine 3.0 thoughts...
Date: Wed, 04 May 1994 07:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew P. Vogel" <vogelap@ucunix.san.uc.EDU>

I had the chance to show off Imagine 3.0 and Forge at my local 3D graphics SIG
last night. The group is about 20 people, evenly split between Imagine and
LightWave. No one in the group uses Real3D.... Anyhow, it was a small group
last night, mostly LightWave folks. I installed Imagine 3.0 and Forge, and
began showing them off. I started with Imagine, but switched back and forht
between it and Forge when I realized that some of the audience had no
experience with algorithmic textures...

Some really nice little touches became evident to me in Imagine... Small things
like when you're in Stage, and Amiga-K to track the camera, it remembers the
input from track to track even if it isn't set in Action. Try it... You'll
see what I mean... You don't have to type the TRACK object name again and
again, but you could change it if you needed to. Handy, nice little speedup.

Is it just me, or will Im3.0 allow you to have multiple lines of user gadgets
down at the bottom of the screen? NICE! 

I like the new combination QuickRender screen - just one click on OKAY does the
whole shooting match, unlike 2.9's multiple boxes...

At any rate, the entire group was VERY impressed, and more than once I heard
"I didn't know Imagine could do that!". Perhaps the seed for some LW->Imagine
converts has been planted. 

I also showed off Forge, and folks were very impressed by it. The LW folks had
a tough time understanding its function, but after explaination, they were
right there... When I told them that you could use the images generated by
Forge in LW and other programs, they liked it!   

I plan on doing nice demos of both programs at my user's group meeting, since
there is a good deal of interest in 3D in my group.

Does anyone have any suggestions as far as special things to show (in either 
program) during my demo? I like to shoot for 10-15 mins per program, so it
needs to be something short... Dramatic/neato/keen stuff is a definate plus.

Mike? Impulse? What do you think I should focus on for my user's group demo of
Imagine 3.0?

Steve? Apex? What do you think I should concentrate on for my demo of Forge?

Others? I'd love to hear your ideas!!

-andrew vogel

P.S. - Mike & Impulse... I haven't had as much time as I'd like to play with
Imagine 3.0 (yet!), but I can tell from the time I've had... It was pretty
much worth the wait! Keep up the good work, guys...



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