CONTENTS: =========SECTION 1 - Support Products/Sites 1] Imagine related: References/Help Books/Magazines/ftp sites,BBSes, Models/Textures (pics) materials, HTML home pages. 2] How do I reach Impulse? 3] What is the Imagine Mailing List and how to get it?
SECTION 2 - Modeling and Detail Editor 1] How do I brushmap a ground plane? 2] How do I make glass? 3] The Slice command doesn't work or gives me errors. 4] How can I make a room so that the walls don't have cracks? 5] When I select a group of points in the DETAIL editor, all I can do is drag them...not ROTATE or SCALE interactively. 6] List of common Index of Refractions 7] How do you make mirrors? 8] How do I make 'metals' and what are some good gold attributes? 9] Is there a quick way to add faces to my object without using the Slice command? 10] How do I make 'wireframe' objects? 11] How can I create seashells? 12] May I use more than four textures in Imagine v2.0? 13] How do I make realistic clouds? 14] How do I create visible light beams? 15] How can I simulate underwater ambient? 16] Does anyone have suggestions for emulating soft shadows? 17] Can I create 2d/3d smoke effects? How? 18] How Bones works? (by Lesk and Mark Decker) 19] Halo around light sources. 20] Can a reflective object inside a glass tube render properly? 21] Help with Slice function, By J. Goldman. 22] Fog object and global fog: undersea fog spotlight. 23] Disco ball effect: how simulate some sort of radiosity. 24] How can I create a candle flame? 25] What are the differences between Spin and Sweep functions? 26] Modeling strategies: modeling hands, feet, etc... 27] How can I create neon lights? 28] How can I get a checkered plane with checks of different textures? 29] How can I simulate the effect of a bright light reflecting off thousands of tiny particles suspended in air? 30] I still have questions about the bones feature, let's say I had a "can" object of coke and I want to make it dance. 31] Constrain, freeze, release: inverse kinematics. 32] Inverse kinematics: getting started, By Randy R. Wall. 33] Phong edges, By Charles Blaquiere. 34] How do I obtain a nice sparkle off the edge of a wine glass or chrome object (By George deBeaumont)?
SECTION 3 - Forms Editor 1] After a Forms Editor object is loaded into the Detail Editor and manipulated, it won't reload into the Forms Editor.
SECTION 4 - Cycle Editor 1] I made this animation sequence in the Cycle editor, but when I set it up in the stage/action editors, the motion of the overall object isn't there!
SECTION 5 - Spline Editor 1] I tried to import a Postscript font but I got a 'Vector not found' error. What does this mean?
SECTION 6 - Animation, Stage Editor and Action Editor 1] Even though I move an Object/Camera/Light to a new POSITION/ALIGNMENT/SIZE in the STAGE editor, Imagine seems to 'forget' what I did! 2] How do I use the Grow Effect? 3] How do I use the Tumble Effect? 4] How do you get something to roll (at the right speed!) while following a path? 5] When I move a Tracked Camera in the STAGE editor, it doesn't realign and draw the Perspective view correctly! 6] When I increase the number of frames in an animation I find my scene gets mangled in the first frame. Why? 7] How do I use the Sway Effect? 8] Depth of field. 9] I'm having trouble creating a revolving light (ala emergency vehicle), I am making an animation of a room which has hanger-type doors opening and I want to make a warning light which flashes when the doors open, By Peter Borcherds.
SECTION 7 - Rendering and the Project Editor 1] Why do objects render fine in Scanline, but disappear in Trace? 2] I have a problem with Filtered objects/fog and the Global Backdrop! 3] My animation frames look fine, but when animated, they have the 'crawly' effect. 4] What situations, parameters, attribute values, etc. require the most trace rendering time? 5] How do I get rid of the 'Jaggies'? 6] How can I figure out pixel aspect for a given resolution? 7] When making a disco ball effect, will a SPHERICAL light set at 255 be bright enough to cause visible spots on the surfaces in a scene? 8] How long should it take to do a full trace picture with perhaps one transparent glass on a Amiga 3000/25? Is 4.5 hrs too much? 9] Is there any particular format that Imagine prefers? Ham? 32 Color? EHB? 24 bit 1000 x 1000? 10] I would like to use conical light sources with my rendering, is there anyway "see" in wireframe where the light will fall? 11] How important is lighting for a rendering, and is there any 'preset' method used to get good results? 12] Help with Fog, How do I use it and how does it work? 13] How can I render in Widescreen/Letterbox format? 14] I selected Spheres for my particle object, but all I get is a polygonal shape! 15] Help with Fog: if you place a fog object inside another, they cancel out, why? 16] The config file says something about 'oct-tree level'. What EXACTLY is this about?
SECTION 8 - Essence Settings and Other Attributes 1] Electrical Arc (Essence) 2] Veined Marble (Essence) 3] Rough marble/rock (Essence) 4] Soap Bubble (Imagine 2.0 and higher) 5] Spaceship Panels (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 6] Bark, mountain, stone effects (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 7] Solar corona (Essence) 8] Solar corona (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 9] Sludge (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 10] Marble (Imagine 2.0 and higher) 11] Starfield (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 12] Photon Torpedo (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 13] Spaceship shield (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 14] Spaceship shield (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 15] All purpose ground cover (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 16] Steam engine, shafts of light (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 17] Fun with Fuzz texture (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 18] Water (Imagine 2.0 and higher) 19] Castle brick (Essence) 20] Cloth (Essence) 21] Fabric (Imagine v2.9 and higher) 22] Glowing fireball (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 23] Nebulae (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 24] Fire and ice (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 25] Quick & dirty way to make trees (Imagine 2.9 and higher) 26] Ship texture (Imagine 2.9 and higher)
SECTION 9 - Miscellaneous 1] What the heck is BTW, IMO and other weird abbreviations... 2] Rendering and refresh times are MUCH too slow, even with an accelerator. Are there any Basic tricks or hints to help? 3] How long will before my renderings aren't ugly anymore? 4] Hex edit for Imagine - High Res video mode change Amiga only 5] What are Particles? 6] Everything about motion blur, By Mark Allan Fox 7] 3D stereograms, By Gary Beeton 8] Working with bitmaps, By Douglas Smith 9] What are N.U.R.B.S? 10] What's a Blob?
CLOSING - Closing statements and Disclaimer
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