Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Ed Federmeyer" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: 3D - basic questions about available software Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:00:13 -0600 Organization: Ed Federmeyer Lines: 35 Message-ID: <7208ss$je62@scea> References: <363E6C0A.46EA@mindspring.com> <363f908d.6140877@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <363FA07B.692E@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: charlie.cns.iit.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Jonathan Calvert wrote in message <363FA07B.692E@mindspring.com>... >> >What are people using to generate 3D models? If you do not own >> >any modeling software, are you just using provided sample ... or >> >models generated by folks with the nice software packages? I got the "3D Studio R4" offer when I got my Yaroze. It's a pretty heavy duty and featureful (and expensive) program for the simple 3D objects I use it to create. (Boxes, spheres, etc) I'd have a hard time recommending it unless you're planning on spending alot of time creating 3D objects. It could also be handy to make prerendered intro screens, backgrounds, and stuff like that. On the other hand, I also use a program called "Poser 3" (v3 just released a few months ago, "Poser 2" was good, but "3" is well worth it) for creating animated models of people. (Poser3 adds a few animal types as well). It's not a picnic, since I wind up exporting each frame of the animation as a DXF file and then converting each DXF to an RSD and coloring/texturing the RSDs and combining them into a big TMD. But it isn't all *that* bad either. I would recommend this if you want to add "people" to your games. I think "Poser 3" is in the range of about $150. Steve Tolin was telling me about a program called "Character Builder" that is aimed at generating animated GIFs of "people" for web graphics, but he's been able to use it to generate animations for a side-scrolling action adventure game. The url is: http://www.zapadigital.com/ looks cool, but I have not tried it myself yet. I dunno if you can export the "people" data as 3D DXF files to convert to RSD/TMD or anything like that. It's a bit cheaper to register than Poser3 at something like $99 I think. (You can get a free trial at that url). EdF