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From: amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid)
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Subject: Re: Imagine brush wrapping
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Date: 9 Dec 90 06:32:33 GMT
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More 1.0 commentary..brush wrapping so far appears very "rough"..for instance
I wrapped digitized impressionist paintings onto planes to create sort
of a "pictures in a gallery" effect.  I had roughness set to 0, it was
a color replace brush/map, tried varyious hardness settings, turned
off dithering (and tried on too), turned off phong shading (and tried
on too)..and my "paintings"  look like they were painted on a tree
rather than canvas..as I said very rough.  Any insight anyone?

One feature I notice that's really lacking in imagine is the ability
to load a background image into a scene a la Sculpt 4D.  The brush
in the globals setting only is for a kind of mock reflection for
reflective objects.  I'd rather see here "load background image"
rather than a brush requester for this pseudo reflecting.  I tried
to get around this limitation by mapping a background picture onto a
plane..then placing and sizing this plane behind the objects I wanted
to animate.  Well as I mentioned above, the brush wrapped plane looked
very rough..not convincing at all..and besides the plane picks up light
from the lamps etc..in this case I simply want that picture to look like
it looked when it was in dpaint only behind all my other stuff.  

-Mike (amigan)