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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 913.1 | There is VCELL | SMURF::COUTU | He who will not risk, cannot win. | Wed Jun 27 1990 14:47 | 11 |
| I've played with a demo version of VCELL which looks somewhat
interesting. However being a real 'animator kind of guy' I can't tell
if it is really any good or not. VCELL itself is a commercial product.
The animation data files it produces are significantly large but that
is probably expected for any animation package.
You can copy the demo from my system if you want to see it:
VERMNT::/usr3/atari/vceldemo.arc
Dan
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| 913.2 | | CURRNT::WRIGHT | LDIR can make the earth move | Thu Jun 28 1990 06:34 | 4 |
| Thanks Dan, could you post the price and manufaturer as well please?
Tony
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| 913.3 | Tom Hudson's CYBER stuff | PAULJ::HARRIMAN | It's a dog eat dog food world | Thu Jun 28 1990 10:23 | 21 |
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I have Tom Hudson's CAD-3D, with the animation additions, of which there
are two, CYBERMATE and Cyber-Studio (I think that's it's name). I
tried cybermate for a while, it's a lot harder to learn than Hudson's
cyber-studio language. The cyber-studio is a language extension of
cad-3d, which allows you to go into cad-3d and generate objects in
3d space, which you then write programs to manipulate one of three
cameras (or the position of the objects in the cad-3d world). It also
lets you create objects or trail the cameras along splines (you
can use splines to create objects as well). The language itself
is a lot like ALGOL, which means it looks like BASIC but you have
to terminate everything with semicolons, and it has numerous functions
to hook into cad-3d as well.
CYBERMATE is (apparently) a MODULA-2 language with much less
ability to manipulate the objects, although it allows you to
add sound to your animations. I don't like it nearly as much as
cyber-studio, although it came free with the cad-3d disk.
/pjh
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| 913.4 | ANI-ST | STRIKR::RAYER | | Thu Jun 28 1990 12:10 | 7 |
| I seem to recall that a commercial animation package, ANI-ST, formerly
expensive, is now available as PD from virtually all libraries, as well
as some magazine cover-disks ...
Regards,
Carl
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| 913.5 | | SMURF::COUTU | He who will not risk, cannot win. | Thu Jun 28 1990 17:38 | 6 |
| Re: .2
I don't remember the manufacturer of VCELL or the cost but I believe
that it is contained the documentation that comes with the demo.
Dan
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| 913.6 | Info on ordering Vcel | SMURF::COUTU | He who will not risk, cannot win. | Fri Jun 29 1990 12:42 | 18 |
| Re: .2
Okay, I looked it up last night. Vcel (got the spelling wrong before)
is made by:
Erik R. Johnson
8430 DeMontreville Trail
Lake Elmo, Mn. 55042
If you buy it before 1 Sept. 1990 it will cost you $34.95 (US) plus
$2 for shipping and handling.
It lets you create 'actors' which are entities of an animation (like
a leg or arm) and then operate on those actors to rotate, twist, etc.
by increments in order to animate. The demo animation provided is quite
smooth and very lifelike.
Dan
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| 913.7 | | CURRNT::WRIGHT | LDIR can make the earth move | Tue Jul 24 1990 06:49 | 5 |
| Thanks for the replies. I have now bought CYBERPAINT,CYBERSTUDIO (with
CYBERMATE), these are exactly what I was looking for. As yet I have not
tried CYBERMATE, still reading the documentation.
Tony
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