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- From: RCarris@cup.portal.com (Randy L Carris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher.
- Message-ID: <68937@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:55:29 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- This is getting as dirty as a political campaign. I've never seen such a
- large bunch of biased, misleading, and downright false claims. My opinion
- of all three companies involved is going down the toilet. When will
- people learn, smear tactics backfire when used to reach educated audiences.
- Please keep it clean.
-
- A related topic: Why not spend more of your energies improving other, less
- fad oriented aspects of your software? I've heard a lot more about Morph +
- than I have about improvements to ADPro, I product that I'm sure will be of
- much greater use to me 6 months from now than Morphing. Of the upgrades
- continuously pumped out by Black Belt, it morphing they seem to be spending
- most effort in. Please, both of these products have other, "bigger" things
- that could be improved. Here's a few suggestions:
-
- ASDG: How about making ADPro more memory efficient? There have been plenty
- of times I've had to reboot my machine to get an image to load into ADPro
- on my 12 Meg machine. I know speed is your issue, but it would be nice if I
- could sacrifice a little speed to be able to use that non-contiguous mem I
- sometimes have. Image Master does not have this inconvenience. Also, why not
- give the user the option of whether to convert everything to 24bit? When I
- want to crop a very large 2 color map I'm planning on using in 3d, it would
- be nice to use your wonderful cropping tools (this one goes for BB too).
-
- Black Belt:
- Why not spend time making your sequence editor a little more user friendly?
- This one of the tools I find most promising. With a little work it could be
- a full blown rotoscoping powerhouse. Make all path setting, script selecting,
- etc. interactive by using file requestors. Give us more batch selection
- options. Take a look at the Nucleous PSFC for examples of how to make it
- more powerful. I'll give more specific suggestions on this if you like. The
- potential here is HUGE. To augment this, letting users create script
- sequences by selecting the functions to use would save lots of time in
- creating simple scripts.
-
- This has gotten long, but I hope it's worth it. Please do not take this a
- flame on anyone. I'm just trying to get us on to improving each product, and
- to see a little less throat tearing.
-
- Thank you.
-
- Stepping of of soap box...
- Randy Carris
-