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From: baer@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Animation Journeyman
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.195337.13098@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 19:53:37 GMT
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In article <61682@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>I am nearing the point that I will be purchasing this product. Because
>of its continually evolving nature, what is the upgrade policy? Also,
>what are the current realm of tools available in the modeler for creating
>objects?

We had a free upgrade to Version 1.1 for owners of 1.0.  But, now that
1.1 is out, and it's rock solid, we charge $10 for upgrades, unless there's
a new manual which would be $15-$20.  We don't charge for versions that
are just bug fixes, but we do charge for upgrades that have new features
(which they usually do).  We are constantly trying to improve Journeyman,
and it had gone through a lot of changes since V1.0 last August.  We have
an automatic update policy.  If you sign up for this, we automatically
send you upgrades, and charge your credit card.  It's useful for people 
that absolutely have to have the latest version.  I would say for now,
there may be a new version every 2 or 3 months with minor bug fixes
inbetween.

What do you mean by "current realm of tools"?  What features does Sculpture
have?  Or are there other modelers for JMan?  Sculpture is the only spline
based modeler for the Amiga.  We are using a custom spline that we designed
which allows much more fine tuning control than any of the more popular
splines.  It's unlikely any other Amiga modelers will support JMan directly.
That's why we made our modeler so powerful.  Many features like boolean
geometrics or lathe are not as useful when you have direct patch modeling.
But we do have important features like extrude, clone, hide, etc.  And you
can look at the object at any angle in both view windows.

Hope this helps.



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