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On Sat, 20 May 1995 [e-mail] wrote:

>     What does it mean to have more than one texture on a surface?  re
>     the above, it's not color OR bump OR etc, we can of course (and I
>     know you know this already, David) color AND bump AND luminance,
>     so I'm still not grokking how it differs from Imagine's scheme.
>
>     But I've heard it ad nauseum, so I assume it's true and not just
>     some wierd nomenclature overlap.  Pray explain.

Pray that I will....errr....I mean, I WILL!  I forget the specifics now,
but in Imagine, you can have something like 8 different Texture maps
layered on top of each other...I think they can be applied to different
surface attributes too, like LightWave's diffusity, specularity,
transparency, and bumpidity. =)  You can also interactively edit the size,
location and rotation of each texture map.  So, if you wanted to combine
a wood grain, a reptile skin, and marble texture all on the same surface,
you could do it easily and still be able to add more textures.  The thing
I liked most about Imagine's surfacing abilities is that if a texture is
not aligned to your object correctly, you just rotate the texture itself...
no need to pull it into an image processor and flip it 90 degrees or to
do some sort of morph to get the texture mapped at a different angle.
This form of texture mapping is one of the few things Imagine has/had
going for it.


>     "Groups of objects" is equivalent to "Load from Scene", which
>     preserves heirarchical relationships between all objects.

True, but the point here is that Imagine can group the objects together
directly from within it's modeler program...this is not a big deal though
because, like you said, it's easy to parent objects together and import
them into other scenes with the Load From Scene button.  Okay, fuckit,
skip the "Groups of Objects" idea....now that I think about it, it
probably IS easier with the current way things are done in LightWave!


The only other Imagine-like feature I'd love to see in LightWave is the
ability to add Bones right from the modeler...Imagine doesn't have this
ability, but it does have something called the Cycle editor which allows
you to easily set up skeletal structures and assign objects to the bones
that make up a skeletal structure...then you can set up repeating cycles
for the object to follow.  It's pretty much useless for REAL character
animation though because you can't control the movements of the bones
within Imagine's equivalent to Layout (Stage editor).

It would be real cool if we could add Bones to an object AS we model it!


                                      -David Warner
                                       Event Horizon Graphics

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