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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.080711.7207@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: Manual or automatic?
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- References: <69612@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov18.070137.21238@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <69774@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:07:11 GMT
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- In article <69774@cup.portal.com> blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams) writes:
- >Ben Scott writes:
- >
- >"a 244K Addendum file? That's way beyond reasonable. I will look forward to
- >
- > Reasonable is one of those slippery, individually defined terms. You are
-
- True. But I wonder how many users out there would disagree with me? (I'm
- not asking for public replies here, nor taking a survey - this newsgroup has
- enough messages already...)
-
- > situation. If Imagemaster was priced where it should be for the features
- > it provides, it would be financially feasable to do a new manual on a
- > regular basis - but we believe that the Amiga market absolutely will not
- > support that kind of pricing.
-
- Please consider the possibility that you have things bass ackwards - with a
- more up-to-date manual, or at the least, PRINTED addenda ("addendum" doesn't
- quite cut it in this case...) and a 3-ring binder format, might justify a
- higher price for many people. Perhaps selling two versions, a low-end with
- a simpler set of functions, and a higher end with all the feeps and
- whistles, might allow you to widen your customer range, even if it adds to
- your technical support workload.
-
- >"Yes, I realize that [bug was easy to get around] as well. But with bugs
-
- No, that's not what I meant exactly - there were two sentences of yours in
- the segment I quoted, and I was replying to the second one in which you said
- that version 9.22 was already shipping. I did not know the bug was easy to
- geet around.
-
- > so are tested minimally. The HAM defaults got by us simply because no one
- > here uses HAM as a default - we like the register modes better. Note that
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but if by "register modes" you mean something to do
- with HAM-E output, there are probably several users out here who can't use
- them. I myself have access to a Toaster, a DCTV, and a DMI Resolver, and
- still would use HAM display mode in Imagemaster for most operations due to
- the better speed of screen refreshes.
-
- > The addendum is part of the manual. Your failure to treat it that way is
- > not in accordance with the organization of the package we sold you - your
- > choice, again, but your implied assertion that the morphing is not
- > documented is unsupportable. It *is* documented, there ARE mentions of it.
-
- OK, I will go further and say that in the version (9.20, though the floppies
- say 9.19 on the label) I have, it is not well documented IMO, even in the
- "addendum" file. Perhaps I'm reading it without the context of reading the
- entire printed part of the manual, but I found a lot of things not
- mentioned. Like how to work with the warp/transparency curves - I can't get
- them to work at all, actually; I suspect it's another v9.2 bug though.
-
- >"I'd recommend you add that [vector preview] to Imagemaster if you haven't
- >already (I couldn't find mention of it anywhere)."
- >
- > It's possible we'll do that - it's not a very high priority, though.
- > Imagemaster can already generate an image-based morph preview in just a
- > few minutes on a 3000-class machine. There are much higher priority items
-
- 96x60 res doesn't show me enough. Morphs can get very detailed, I don't
- have to tell you. The wireframe, despite the fact that it does not include
- any of the image, tells me more about how well I've placed my vectors.
-
- >"Also, I had a lot of trouble keeping the (non-morphing) background stable
- >
- > Hmm. You should be able to get a high degree of isolation by adding edges
- > to the points surrounding the areas to be controlled, and then
- > surrounding the morphing region with an enclosed, edged, IShape that does
- > not move. Edge features are v21+, I'm not sure what version you have, btw.
-
- As stated above... edges would be nice.
-
- >Ben (Williams... we could get confusing here... :^)
-
- Nah - I don't post here enough to get confused when someone posts a question
- to "Ben"...
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
-
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