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From: amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid)
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Another imagine experiment..good and bad news to report..I created a bird 
bath using the forms editor and wrapped a stone brush/texture around it..
looks great..ok so I make some "water" by taking a hemisphere and squashing
it down in height..then I use the ripple effect over 20 frames in the 
actions editor having placed the "water" inside the bird bath.  Now the
water is filtering a lot of light..slightly blue..and the ripple come out
great..radial from the center..as if someone is dripping watter in the
center ..BUT..  the BASE of the birdbath changes hues during the ripple
effect..as if the reflections from the water were bouncing off some ceiling
(ther is no ceiling) or as if the bottom of the bird bath basin were 
translucent (it is not) or as if some how the ripple effect were connected
to the base of the bird bath object (it is not).  This is WEIRD.
On the good news front..Vista-Pro objects are completely compatible with
imagine..save out as silver object and import directly to Imagine.  The
coloring is all retained when you go into imagine (yay!)

I heard someone say Mike Halvorson and others from Impulse are on PLINK..
does anyone have info (tel #, other?) for PLINK..I'd like to be able to
sit in on an on-line chat session with these guys.  

One other item..the explode f/x works splendidly even with very large
objects like a 180k object file of Mount St. Hellens (ka-boom!).