RENDERING PROGRAMS

dougy_n

i am looking for a free program to go from sprites to the nova ship format and the LASER app. on the d/l page makes me key thousand of frames and frequenltly crashes :frown: and any help at all is greatly welcomed thx a million!!

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Jericon

this would be better suited on the Developer Board.

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Mantaray

You'll need a 3d app, which unfourtunately don't come cheap. Machanisto (sp?) is the only user-friendly free one. Once you find that, make your ship, and set your camera at 45ş angle angled towards the ship.
Set the light to be facing the ship at a 30ş angle towards the ship.
make your ship at 100 degrees along the y axis per second. Make it stop after 350 degrees.
you only need about 5 keyframes... do a search for "keyframes." I posted some tips about 'em.

Render it out as a quicktime movie, then follow the instructions found (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/monster/Plugins/lasik.html")here(/url).

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dougy_n

Infini-D, Appleworks, Graphic Converter, Photoshop, Kai's Power Goo and Bryce.

this was from another topic and these are free acording to that board strking bryce it was said that all of them can be found watered down a lot for free excluding bryce.

i tried mechanisto and i am NOT a math guy. so with this in mind any ideas folks, plese...... help me......

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Jules

Search for Strata 3D 3,0,2 on (url="http://"http://www.download.com")www.download.com(/url)

You are looking for the free version of 3.0.2. Quite a capable modeller, I like it very much. After you have the program, email me, and I will send you the Serial Code (since you can no longer register - free version was discontinued).

See the link in my sig for examples of Strata in action.

ewan

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dougy_n

thanks jules but download.com no longer has it on there it wont find it, maybe you should submit it as a utility on the nova addons page........

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tycho61uk

There's nothing wrong with mechanisto!
Check out my site for making ships and sprites with this most excellent of programs! (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/tycho61uk")www.geocities.com/tycho61uk(/url)

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what_is_the_matrix

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Originally posted by Mantaray:
**You'll need a 3d app, which unfourtunately don't come cheap. Machanisto (sp?) is the only user-friendly free one. Once you find that, make your ship, and set your camera at 45ş angle angled towards the ship.
Set the light to be facing the ship at a 30ş angle towards the ship.
make your ship at 100 degrees along the y axis per second. Make it stop after 350 degrees.
you only need about 5 keyframes... do a search for "keyframes." I posted some tips about 'em.

Render it out as a quicktime movie, then follow the instructions found here.
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Just some minor corrections and/or clarifications:
The camera should be placed 45° ABOVE the plane of the ship (usually the xy plane).

The light is placed about 30° TO THE LEFT of the centerline of the ship (while it's in its initial position), shining on the opposite side of the ship from the camera.

Make your ship rotate 10 degrees PER FRAME around the y axis, stopping after 350 degrees. This is only a general rule. If you have a big ship (say a freighter) and want it to turn smoothly, but slowly as well, decrease the number of degrees per frame it turns. You need to make sure that the number of degrees per frame divides evenly into 360°.

Oh, and POV-Ray is a very good free program as well. It's not quite as user friendly, but it makes animated sprites very quickly when the initial modeling is done.

Good luck!

Matrix

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dougy_n

tried mechanito but did not understand it tat whole transformation thing iss too hard jules e-mail me the other app plz. thx doug dougy_n@yahoo.com

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SpacePirate

Well, try Strata 3d 3.02. You can't find it on all of the download sites, as they have been replaced with updated, yet worse, versions. You can get the links from the Strata 3d thread a few pages back, try searching. Anyways, you can probably find LASER at vortex's site, (url="http://"http://chaoticore.northernswamp.com/")http://chaoticore.northernswamp.com/(/url) . Click the 'Programs' link.

Actually, don't bother searching. I did it for you. (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/003280.html")http://www.ambrosias...TML/003280.html(/url)

You can find a tutorial on making sprites with Strata 3D at (url="http://"http://www.ewanc.f2s.com/tutorial/tutorial.html")http://www.ewanc.f2s...l/tutorial.html(/url)
Thank Jules for that one.

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Danny

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Originally posted by dougy_n:
tried mechanito but did not understand it tat whole transformation thing iss too hard

Oh well... I tried!

(Hey spacepirate, what's up with the studios link in yr sig? Is it supposed to go to something other than that 'nice try' message?)

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SpacePirate

Yeah... I just haven't updated my sig to my new site... (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios..")http://www.evula.org/infernostudios..(/url). It's not done yet.

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Jules

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**Well, try Strata 3d 3.02. You can't find it on all of the download sites, as they have been replaced with updated, yet worse, versions. You can get the links from the Strata 3d thread a few pages back, try searching. Anyways, you can probably find LASER at vortex's site,http://chaoticore.northernswamp.com/ . Click the 'Programs' link.

Actually, don't bother searching. I did it for you. http://www.ambrosias...TML/003280.html

You can find a tutorial on making sprites with Strata 3D at http://www.ewanc.f2s...l/tutorial.html
Thank Jules for that one.
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Actually you'd better try here for my Strata 3D tutorials: (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ewanc/tutorials/")http://homepage.mac....wanc/tutorials/(/url)

Ive been thinking about my spinning tutorial, and was wondering whether anyone would find it useful to make an updated version for NOVA sprites. I would be happy to make one if there was any demand.

I will try and upload 3.0.2 free to my idisk if I have time...

ewan

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UncleTwitchy

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Originally posted by Jules:
Ive been thinking about my spinning tutorial, and was wondering whether anyone would find it useful to make an updated version for NOVA sprites. I would be happy to make one if there was any demand.

I'd be interested in what advice you have towards rendering banking graphics.

And, while completely off-topic, is there a decent way, in Strata 3D base 3.0.2 to create and animate Explosions?

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Jules

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Originally posted by UncleTwitchy:
**I'd be interested in what advice you have towards rendering banking graphics.

And, while completely off-topic, is there a decent way, in Strata 3D base 3.0.2 to create and animate Explosions?
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Well, Ive never really tried. Im pretty sure wit would be quite easy to do. If you experiment with point lights, flares, and fog textures, Im sure you could come up with a decent looking explosion that would be quite easy to animate. I will have a play around with it and post here if I get it looking good.

I have also uploaded Strata 3D 3.0.2 free to my iDisk. You can download it here:
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ewanc/strata/Strata_3D_Installer.sit")http://homepage.mac....D_Installer.sit(/url)

Also, you will need the resources to go with it:
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ewanc/strata3d_resources.sit")http://homepage.mac....d_resources.sit(/url)

Hope this helps some of you,
ewan

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Mantaray

for explosions, check out (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/001228.html")this topic(/url), which - although the links don't work anymore - has some cool ways of making strata particle explosions.
by the way, before iTools went the way of the dodo bird, I managed to download these movies, so when i get the time I'll upload 'em.

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dougy_n

jules your .mac site is not there acording to them could u e-mail me the tutorials, please?

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SpacePirate

Yes... I noticed that it was missing too... Mantaray, if you could upload those somewhere, that would be great.

Ewan, that expanded tutorial is a good idea, though it should be simple to figure out yourself, given enough time. Though it isn't necessarily hard to figure out, given enough time, I would like to see how other people manage to do it.

Thanks again for that tutorial... that is what got me into making EV Graphics.

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Liked your pictures by the way... Priceless.

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Jules

(quote)Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**Yes... I noticed that it was missing too... Mantaray, if you could upload those somewhere, that would be great.

Ewan, that expanded tutorial is a good idea, though it should be simple to figure out yourself, given enough time. Though it isn't necessarily hard to figure out, given enough time, I would like to see how other people manage to do it.

Thanks again for that tutorial... that is what got me into making EV Graphics.

And dougy_n, sorry after I posted that reply, I had a quick re-design of my .mac account and moved the tutorials to (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ewanc/tutorials/")here(/url). Sorry for the inconvenience.

ewan

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