amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid) (12/09/90)
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)