jal@wsu-cs.uucp (Jason Leigh) (06/08/89)
I recently noticed an ad in Amiga World for Byte by Byte's Sculpt 4D Jr (A more affordable version of Sculpt 4D). Considering the major price difference ($149.95 : $399.75) is there also a major difference in features between the two? I would hate to purchase the cheaper version only to find out I should have bought the more expensive version in the first place. Any advice or alternative suggestions for modellers/animators would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jason Leigh jal@zeus.cs.wayne.edu
unland@cbmvax.UUCP ( Regional Support) (06/08/89)
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. -- ******* Rick Unland Commodore Business Machines **************************** * Usenet: uunet!cbmvax!unland ARPA: cbmvax!unland!@uunet.UU.NET * * Standard Disclaimer: If I said it, I was drunk! * * If I didn't say it, I wasn't drunk enough! * * "I thought they said the Commodore could stand up to anything!" * *********************************************** Earth Girls Are Easy! **********
aaalexis@sactoh0 (Andrew A. Alexis) (06/10/89)
In article <747@wsu-cs.uucp>, jal@wsu-cs.uucp (Jason Leigh) writes: > > I recently noticed an ad in Amiga World for Byte by Byte's > Sculpt 4D Jr (A more affordable version of Sculpt 4D). Considering > the major price difference ($149.95 : $399.75) is there also a major > difference in features between the two? I would hate to purchase > the cheaper version only to find out I should have bought the > more expensive version in the first place. > > Any advice or alternative suggestions for modellers/animators > would be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > Jason Leigh > jal@zeus.cs.wayne.edu Just yesterday I received a notice from Byte by Byte that they will be offereing a product called sculpt 3dXL(or something like that) RSN. It sounds as if it is basically an upgrade of sculpt 3D. It costs 79.95 to upgrade from sculpt 3d, probably inthe 100-200 dollar range new. The flyer said that the triview is "improved" and runs faster. I think there is one new texture available too. If you have your heart set on a version of sculpt, you might wait for this, The flyer implyed it is available now, but you know how those things are. :-) As for sculpt 4d Jr., if I am not mistaken, it is basically a 3d modelling program. I believe it does not include the ability to do ray tracings. -- ############################################################# # Andy Alexis # UUCP: pacbell!sactoh0!aaalexis # # Regular Guy # Plink: andy*a # #############################################################