[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Imagine

walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) (11/27/90)

Imagine Users,

In an effort to help Impulse bring a bug-free version of Imagine 1.0
to market, which ultimately benefits us, the users, I have recently
taken it upon myself to ask the Usenet Amiga community to report bugs
and observations to me so that I may bundle this in one package to
mail to Impulse. 

I have received very few responses (effectively only 3) which makes me
sad, but considering the upside of this: maybe the number of problems
is really very limited and we now have them all :-)

[Robert Wallace: I got your mail but my reply is getting stuck at
uunet for some reason.]

This is the LHARCED, UUENCODED package that I am mailing to Impulse
(they're getting an unpacked version ;-) of course, via snail mail!)

 ._.   Udo Schuermann          "How is American beer similar to making love in
 ( )   walrus@cscwam.umd.edu    a canoe?  -- Both are f***ing close to water!"


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Instructions for decoding this file are stored at the end.  Just save
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The letter is 14,637 bytes long, the uuencoded .lzh file is 9,760
which represents a 1/3rd savings for transmission.  If someone thinks
this is taking bandwidth savings too far, kindly inform me via email. 

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size 6934

Instructions for decoding this file:
	1. Save this entire posting to a file (say "foo")
	2. Run the CLI or Unix command
		uudecode foo
	   This creates a file named "Imagine.letter.lzh"
	   Note: it is NOT necessary to edit the saved file
	   before running it through uudecode!
	4. Run the CLI or Unix command
		lharc x Imagine.letter.lzh
	   This creates a file named "Imagine.letter" which
	   you may read.  You must specify the .lzh
	   extension because there is a "." already in the
	   name.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@cscwam.umd.edu

R_Michael_Medwid@cup.portal.com (11/29/90)

The main problem I've found with imagine comes with trying to render a 
scene in full trace multiple times.  For example, if I create a car and set
the lamps and cameras etc. and then go out to the project menu..if I am in
full trace mode the first time out I am ok.  But if I go back to the stage
area and say change a lamp or camera position..when I go back to render 
again from the project menu I get a screen full of black.  This problem
does not occur when I use scan line mode.

The other thing I don't like is not being able to adjust the zoom factor in
the preview window in the Cycle Editor.  Well actually you can if you zoom
out in the three views but then your object is more difficult to work with.
The preview window should have variable zoom.
I don't like Impulse's opinion that Imagine is so easy to work with that it
hardly needs a manual.  It does have many very easy to use features but the
program also has a lot of depth, it really is hot.  But that means it deserve
s an equally excellent set of documentation.  Sculpt Animate 4D is a fine
example of excellent documentation (tho the images created by sculpt pale
next to silver or imagine in my opinion).  One thing that could be explained
better is proportioning objects relative to the diamond shaped primatives
in the cycle editor.  I've experimented with this quite a bit and I'm still
not entirely clear on that relationship.

The movie editor is not funtioning yet.

srp@modcomp.uucp (Steve Pietrowicz) (11/30/90)

In <1990Nov26.191011.1021@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:

]In an effort to help Impulse bring a bug-free version of Imagine 1.0
]to market, which ultimately benefits us, the users, I have recently
]taken it upon myself to ask the Usenet Amiga community to report bugs
]and observations to me so that I may bundle this in one package to
]mail to Impulse. 

You're probably too late for 1.0....It's already been released.


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SR Pietrowicz    UUCP:  ...!uunet!modcomp!srp        CIS:  73047,2313

menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies) (12/09/90)

R_Michael_Medwid@cup.portal.com writes:

>next to silver or imagine in my opinion).  One thing that could be explained
>better is proportioning objects relative to the diamond shaped primatives
>in the cycle editor.  I've experimented with this quite a bit and I'm still
>not entirely clear on that relationship.

	To understand the cycle editor, I found it very helpful to
	"snapshot" (you'll find it in the menu) the object (this
	saves the object in any of it's inbetweened positions and
	then load it into the detail editor. You'll find that your
	object(s) now are "threaded" together with a skeleton. Pay
	attention to the relationship between your objects axis(s)
	and the skeletal line. Hopes this helps.
 
        -steve
-- 
Stephen Menzies
Email: S.Menzies@CAM.ORG