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- Summary
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- - CD-ROM Contents
- - Welcome to Amapi 3D
- - Register Your Product
- - Technical Support
- - About Amapi 3D, The Natural Way to Model
- - Other TGS products
- - About Defocus Dei
- - 3D Studio Max 2.5 Plug in
- - About TGS
- - Third-Party Utilities
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- *** IMPORTANT: The online documentation is in HTML Web Browser format ***
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- CD-ROM contents
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- - Amapi 3D v4.1
- Amapi Installation:
- Double-click on Amapi3D/Setup.exe
- Typical: 120 Mb required on Hard Drive.
- Compact: 60 Mb required on Hard Drive.
- This mode doesn't load the 500 3D models library.
- Custom: You can install the only necessary files for the application.
- 25 Mb are required in such a case.
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- - Amapi 3D Documentation
- Read the HTML documentation of Amapi 3D:
- Double-click on Doc/English/Amapidoc.htm
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- - Tutorial
- Presentation:
- Double-click on Tutorial/Tutorial-US.htm
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- - Gallery
- The Amapi 3D sample images are classified by themes.
- After installing ACDSee32 utility, open ACDSee32 browser from the Program File
- Menu, then open the Gallery/Arts directory to view the images.
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- - Amapi Frequently Asked Questions
- When Amapi is installed on your system, you can read them from the FAQ.htm file
- in the install directory.
- Double-click on FAQ.htm to read this file
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- - ReadMe (this document).
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- - MicroScribe Documentation
- To the Immersion MicroScribe device users a Word format documentation
- (.doc) is available:
- Double-click on MicroScribe doc/Amapims.doc
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- - Defocus Dei
- Presentation:
- Double-click on Defocus Dei/Presentation.htm to know everything
- about this product
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- Installation:
- Double-click on Defocus Dei/Setup/Setup.exe
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- - Utilities
- Install the Shareware program ACDSee32 to make a Slide Show
- with our Gallery images
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- Installation:
- Double-click on Utils/Acdc3223.exe
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- Welcome to Amapi 3D
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- The TGS Team would like to personally thank you for using Amapi 3D. Whether it is
- used for industrial styling, architectural design, or modeling for film and
- game content development, you'll soon find that Amapi 3D is one of the best
- things that ever happened to the creative software community. It is fast, it
- is fun to use, and it is an extremely powerful - a natural extension of your
- own imagination and creative mind.
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- Be sure to visit the Amapi community page and gallery on our Web site,
- http://www.tgs.com/Forms/Amapi/amapi-community.html, where you can submit your
- own Amapi-related artwork and creations for inclusion in the Amapi Gallery.
- You'll also find valuable tutorials and links to resources and examples from
- third parties.
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- We hope that you will say "I'm Happy I used Amapi!"
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- Sincerely,
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- Laurent Billy
- Amapi Product Manager
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- REGISTER YOUR PRODUCT
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- Registration of your product is worth doing. Besides being informed of new
- releases, technical tips, and Amapi news, your registration insures that you
- will get support, free patch releases (if needed) and a discount on the next
- major release. You can register your product in the following ways:
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- - Visit www.tgs.com/Register and input your product information
- - Send the registration form in by FAX to either 619.452.2547 or
- +33 556 13 02 10 (For Europe)
- - Mail your form to TGS Inc. or TGS Europe (addresses below)
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- TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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- As a REGISTERED USER, you have unlimited use of TGS' Online Support
- Resources. These can be accessed in the following ways:
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- - Email: Send your question to support@tgs.com or support@europe.tgs.com.
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- - Web: Use the online support form at www.tgs.com/Support.
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- About Amapi 3D, the Natural Way to Model
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- Amapi 3D is a powerful, user-friendly and ultra-fast modeling program that
- creates stunning models that can be exported to a wide range of formats.
- Many users select Amapi as a companion to animation and rendering platform
- products, and find that Amapi allows them to create better models for these
- packages in less time. Amapi 3D also allows users to use lower-end systems
- that are not licensed for the expensive animation platform. Amapi 3D is
- also used at home, since it is so affordable.
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- While focused on delivering modeling tools that are fast and easy to use,
- Amapi 3D also includes some very cool animation and rendering capabilities.
- This enables low-end seats to "preview" what the model will look/move like
- in the animation and rendering platform, and provides enthusiasts an affordable
- "total solution" for modeling, animation and rendering.
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- Amapi 3D's Natural Design Interface puts every tool within instant
- reach, letting on focus on the "what" versus the "how" of 3D design.
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- Amapi 3D modeler includes advanced 3D surface creation tools (Extended
- extrusion, Sweeping, Skinning, Multi-profiles patched surface creation),
- Bezier surface smoothing tool, Interactive filleting tool, Intuitive boolean
- tool, NURBS Free Form Deformation box. and many other modeling and assembly
- tools.
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- The Amapi 3D v4.1 release includes:
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- - Choice of user interface layouts (Standard or Natural Design Interface).
- - Fast GDI and OpenGL rendering and acceleration choices allow use on low-end
- or high-end systems.
- - Choice of standard wireframe and shaded representation, plus new WireShade(TM)
- mode for optimized visual feedback of complex 3D models.
- - Fast key-controls let you use both hands, speeding the design process
- - Freeform deformation and NURBS tools deliver stunning results
- - 3D text editor (TrueType fonts).
- - Management of layers and scene hierarchy management, to classify objects
- in groups, textures .
- - ActiveStyles rednering with a selective ray-tracer (transparencies,
- reflections, refractions.), texture-mapping & artistic rendering.
- - Library of more than 500 objects and textures.
- - Animation module handles objects, cameras and light paths, as well as key
- framing edition, allowing you to morph an object into another with a
- visual time-line control.
- - Outputs AVI and QuickTime movies.
- - Import/Export to over 20 formats, including Internet 3D VRML.
- - Create better models for 3D Studio, FormZ, Electric Image, Lightwave,
- Strata Studio, SoftImage.
- - Complete documentation with numerous tutorials, tips and tricks.
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- Other TGS products
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- *** See our web site: www.tgs.com ***
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- The TGS Desktop Division provides easy-to-use, interactive applications that
- enable the creation and use of graphics:
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- - Amapi 3D is a powerful NURBS and polygon modeler targeting the design
- prfessional and graphics enthusiast.
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- - 3Space Publisher used by Web Designers and developers to create 2D/3D
- graphics and animation for the Web.
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- - LiveWork 3D adds art & animation to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
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- - 3Space Assistant is a 3D desktop viewer for AutoCAD DXF, VRML and Open Inventor
- files.
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- About Defocus Dei
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- Defocus Dei is a software program which allows you to generate depth of field effects
- within images : select the focus point, choose the blur amount you want
- ....and you get a more realistic photorealistic result!
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- Defocus Dei can be used on images rendered by TGS Amapi 3D v4.1, LightWave v5.0 or v5.5,
- and Kinetix 3D Studio Max v1.2 or v2.0.
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- 3D Studio Max 2.5 Plug in
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- This plugin works only with Windows NT 4.0 or higher.
- It is not compatible with Windows 95 or 98.
- Installing the plug-in:
- Double-click on 3DStudioMaxPlugin\Setup\setup.exe
- For using the plug-in, read carefuly 3DStudioMaxPlugin\ReadMe.txt
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- About TGS
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- As part of the growth strategy for the TGS 3D Desktop Division, TGS acquired
- Yonowat in September 1997. Maker of the world-famous Amapi line of 3D
- modeling applications for the Mac and PC, Yonowat is a strong addition
- to TGS.
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- A pioneer in VRML and interactive 3D graphics, TGS delivers software
- products to professional developers and end-users. TGS is the largest
- supplier of PC and UNIX software products based on Virtual Reality Modeling
- Language (VRML), ANSI/ISO PHIGS+, OpenGL and Open Inventor standards. TGS
- products facilitate the creation and use of 2D and 3D graphics by developers
- and end-users.
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- TGS' Open Inventor-based 3D graphics software development tools and 3Space
- end-user applications have been bundled by Microsoft Corporation for Visual
- C++⌐ and the Internet Explorer Starter Kit, and by Digital Equipment
- Corporation for Windows NT Intel⌐ and Alpha⌐ systems.
- Applications using TGS' 3D technology have been distributed to over
- 1,000,000 systems worldwide.
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- Teamed with Silicon Graphics, TGS initiated 3D/VRML in April 1995 with the
- release of WebSpaceT Navigator, the first VRML browser. TGS is a founding
- and Charter Member of the VRML Consortium, a Corporate Sponsor of the VRML
- Repository, a member of the Microsoft Component Builders program, Digital
- Internet Innovators, ANSI/ISO X3H3 graphics committees, the OpenGL Advisory
- Forum, and the VRML Technical Forum. TGS is active in establishing new
- standards and directions for computer graphics technologies.
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- TGS Inc.
- Worl Headquaters
- 9920 Pacific Heights Blvd.
- Suite 200
- San Diego,
- CA 92121, USA
- Phone:619.457.5359
- Fax: 619.452.2547
- Email: info@tgs.com
- Web: www.tgs.com
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- TGS Europe SA
- European Headquarters
- PA Kennedy 1, BP 227
- F-33708 Merignac, France
- Phone: +33 556 133 777
- Fax: +33 556 13 02 10
- Email: info@europe.tgs.com
- Web: www.tgs.com
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- Third-Party Utilities
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- TGS has included the shareware utility ACDSee 32 from ACD Systems LTD
- for your convenience on the Amapi 3D CD-ROM.
-