Magnetic Pages Article | 1993-07-22 | 18KB | 33 lines
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Title : MagRack 2000
Publisher : CyberCraft
Author : Carl Read
Country : New Zealand
Conditions : Public Domain
Category : Art
Released : July 1993
REQUIREMENTS
Drives : 1
Memory :
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COMPATIBILITY
A500 wb 1.3.2 : YES
A600 wb 2.05 : YES
Display : PAL& This is the picture I knocked up&for this issue's cover. It was&produced using Turbo Silver 3 from
Impulse Inc.& Those are supposed to be Compact&Discs if you're a bit unsure of what&they're meant to be. The CDs were&quite easy to model but when I started&rendering I hit a problem. I had&copied the CD cases exactly with the&inlay inside the plastic. This,&despite much playing around with the&plastic's transparency and the scene's&lighting, made it seemingly impossible&to get a good display of the pictures&on the inlays. In the end I gave up&and placed the pictures on the cases
instead.& The only other major problem I had&was the usual one of too little&memory. Despite removing all the&unseen bits of plastic from the CDs I&was still running out of my two megs.&So it was a case of halving the size&of all the objects in the scene which&causes Silver to use less memory but&doubles the rendering time - sigh.&Thus the final render took over three&days. And that's only for the cover&picture which is non-interlace. I've&still to do the full interlace version&which will take over six days! Double
sigh.& The only other problem was with the&RAW stencil which I got upside down&and didn't realise it till the end of&the full render. The full text reads&"RAW, Order Now And Don't Miss Out."&Perhaps it will be readable in the&interlace version. I couldn't rip any&pictures from Raw but hopefully that!makes up for it's non-appearance.& The eight pictures used are all&from the following disk magazines...&Amsmag, April 93; Stolen Data 10;&Satanic Rites 4; Freedom Crack 2;&Grapevine 14; Zircon 3; Cemetery News&2 and Sledgehammer 2. (I hope I've got&the numbers right.) I didn't get them&all reviewed this issue I'm afraid but&the ones that missed out, Grapevine,&Sledgehammer, Stolen Data and Raw,&will be done next issue - promise. I&haven't as yet managed to get&up-to-date versions of Raw or Stolen&Data so if anyone would like to pass&them on it would be appreciated. Ditto&for Scene Lyrics which I've never yet
seen.& Disk mags on CD are not a crazy&idea either as it's already happening&on the PC and Mac. Come on Commodore,&sign up some of these before someone
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