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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sculpt 3D, ray tracing. (Bugs with morerows and screenblanker)
Message-ID: <1320@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 04:09:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1320
Posted: Tue Aug 25 04:09:35 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 06:15:00 EDT
References: <362@io.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs
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Summary: It ain't Sculpt-3D's fault!

In article <362@io.UUCP> carlos (Carlos Smith) writes:
>
>I have been happily playing with Sculpt 3D for the last two weeks. It is a 
>wonderful program (already one of my favorites on the Amiga) and Eric Graham
>has done a wonderful job of taking something inherently difficult (3D design
>on a 2D display) and made it easy to use, but powerful.
>
>A couple of warnings though. I have found destructive interference between
>Sculpt 3D and Morerows, as well as with Screenblanker (from Charlie Heaths
>FastFonts package). Morerows seems to confuse it as to the image size of the
>rendered image, to the point where if the image is saved and immediately
>reloaded, it is shifted to the right and wraps around to the left, and a
>requester tells you "Error loading image". It also does not load correctly 
>into DigiPaint (a great companion, since it allows you to touch up and/or
>work with the results of the ray-tracing, since they are in HAM mode). This is
>solved by eliminating morerows. Oh well.  The interference caused by 
>
>-- 
>			Carlos Smith
>			uucp:...!harvard!umb!ileaf!carlos
>			Bix:	carlosmith

As you may have read already, Carlos, the problem resides in the Digi-whatever
products. Alas, Tim has not set them up to handle overscan. So overscan images
in ham mode produced by ANY program won't load into them correctly. It appears
Sculpt-3D is clean on this issue. (It may be slowish; but, Hoo Boy are the
images it produces NICE!)
(Check out the Byte by Byte vendor support conference on Bix. Scott and Eric
are checking in there these days, bless them!)

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