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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: TOD vs VDF files...?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:13:06 GMT
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Will,

I'll probably be writing a conversion program early next week.  I can
give it to you to play around with once its done.

The only thing is that TOD is much more encompassing than MIME.  The
trick will be how to nicely segregate the vertex-animation part out of
a TOD file and if it will be easy enough to use from Softimage (I
haven't looked at the kind of TOD file that SoftImage generates).

Steven

On Fri, 21 May 1999 22:01:18 +0100, will atkin
<william_atkin@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>
>>
>> I have played with Softimage and it is cool!  I see where you are coming
>> from, Softimage has some very good animation tools.  I don't think that
>> Craig mentioned taking over the 3d animation world....yet! :-)
>>
>> Nathan
>
>Hey if you guys figure out how to convert TOD to MIME let me know..  I've got
>access to Soft too, but didn't have the time to mess around with TOD.   Soft
>does really help with the texturing process though, alot better than RSDtool or
>RSDanim.
>
>Later,
>
>Will