Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!unland
From: unland@cbmvax.UUCP ( Regional Support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sculpt 4D Jr
Message-ID: <7067@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 16:10:37 GMT
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Reply-To: unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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If you are serious about 3D and wish to do complicated and detailed animations
then I suggest you buy Sculpt 4D and not the Jr.  Jr. is fine if you just want
to putz around, but the tools for real production are not there. The Sr. version
has all the object editor tools that enable you to edit complex objects in 
great detail. Also Jr. does NO Raytracing, and allows No smoothing in it's other
rendering modes. If you want anymore info Mail me and I will endeavor to answer
as best I can. One last thing, I do not know how much you know about 3D 
animation but Jr. allows only Key Frame animation, This means that you cannot
make a sphere follow a spiral path or any path which is described by connected
points.  The way Jr. does it is to use Key Frames, where the placment and
shape of the objects are described in full in two or more scenes and the 
program then computes the straight line path between the points at which the
the objects are located in the different scenes. "Sr". will allow either
global or key frame animation and also the mixing of the two.
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