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>"Groups of objects" is equivalent to "Load from Scene", which
>preserves heirarchical relationships between all objects.  Knowing
>you are going to do this, you just pre-plan and build, say, robots
>it thier own scenes for importation to many other scenes.  If
>pre-planning is too cramping for one's bohemian life-style (where
>did the notion of artistic spontanaiety {sp?} ever come from?  Every
>significan art form I've seen requires mucho planning...) one can
>always build a scene as normal, save the whole shebang, then kill
>all objects one will not be importing to another scene,
>and THEN save that scene as the "Load From" scene.

As a former owner of Imagine I have to say that the above is correct
that planning is a major part of any Artistic endevor. Lightwave's
bigest advantage over Imagine has been it's abilitity to quickly and
easyily give visual feed back on what the final animation is going to
look like. Plus a better Manual and easyier to understand interface.
I however also find that Lightwave came up short on it's ablitity to
visually target it's image maps to it's surfaces. Programs like forge
however seem to solve most of those problems plus with all the user
support from VTU and LightwavePRO magizine. I am not about to say I'm
disatisfied with Lightwave. Note that Imagine had the ability to map
'many' color maps on to the same surface. An object like a planet
object whould only require 1 set of polygons to have 'color' maps of
land, oceans, clouds, etc all working independantly of each outher.
It made for easy to do maping, and lower polygon count.

.......$.02 NORV_MAN


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