Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Nick Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Win/Mac 3D Modeller upgraded Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:19:39 -0700 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3581FDD8.321F@home.com> Reply-To: porcino@home.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cs1000396-a.gvob1.bc.wave.home.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-SYMPA (Macintosh; I; PPC) Animation Master 98 from Hash Inc., www.hash.com has just upgraded their spline based modeler to export RSD files! AM98 runs on PCs and Macs, and is an extremely easy and fast modeler to use. It has a good animator, and excellent bones and inverse kinematics. As an interesting technical note, it uses the same surface subdivision technology Shiny is using in Messiah. The result is that AM models are very small - I built a character in AM98 and the same one in 3D Studio. The models looked the same when rendered, but the AM98 model had only 238 surfaces, whereas the equivalent 3DS model had over 1500 (built properly in 3DS not imported from the AM98 model). Duke Nuken 3D and many other well known games were modeled using Hash, and it only costs $199. -nick ----------------------- http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9376/