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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
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Subject: Re: Imagine textures?
Keywords: imagine texture
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Date: 22 Oct 90 17:26:06 GMT
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In article <1232@compel.UUCP> her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen) writes:
>Does anyone know what kind of textures Imagine does support.
>
>Does it have marble?, Wood?, Wave? Clouds? etc.

Version 0.9 comes with Checks only.  More will come with v1.0.


>Can it do bump mapping (modifying the normal vector)?

No.  Actually, I don't know what bump mapping is (I'm so ignorant, it hurts.
Somebody please explain to me what bump mapping is, please?! --I'm serious).
The only thing that _sounds_ like bump mapping (I'm getting into deep water
now) which Imagine can do it calls "Altitude mapping" using brushes.  This
feature will be in 1.0


>Is it possible to create your own textures (in assembler or C) as in 
>TS?

They provide no documentation on this in 0.9 but I'd be surprised if they
left it out of 1.0 considering that Turbo Silver had this ability.  Why
should they regress?


>What I really would want is textures as in DKBTrace. It is realy awesome 
>what you can do with textures in DKB  (for instance have a look at the
>DKB roman scene with marble pillars under a blue sky with a few grey clouds).

I haven't seen this picture (would you mail it to me?) but Imagine (at least
in v1.0) will be able to map a brush to the world.  Not knowing any more
about this, I'd imagine (pun intended) that you could simulate a cloudy sky
and mountains at the horizon this way ... I may be wrong.


>Helge E. Rasmussen  .  PHONE + 45 31 37 11 00  .  E-mail:  her@compel.dk
>Compel A/S          .  FAX   + 45 31 37 06 44  .  
>Copenhagen, Denmark

 ._.  Udo Schuermann           "How is American beer similar to making love in
 ( )  walrus@cscwam.umd.edu    a canoe?" -- "Both are f***ing close to water."