Hello Markus, on Dienstag, 25. September 2007, 11:17:20, you wrote:
> Hi, > yeah, but he writes what lets me drop down RS3D. I didn't touch it for > years now and don't miss it. Sad but true. I see it the other way around. What he said let me stay with RS3D. RS3D is a professional tool. But yes, it lacks of some feature the often used tools in a production environment provide. Look for example at the quality of the editor view of Caligary Truespace. But its the architecture and the special features of RS3D I like. RS3D is more like LEGO, where you have small blocks, and when you know this small blocks and know the architecture, its often easier to build something different than the mainstream. For example, its said that RS3D have a good hair system. But when you look at RS3D, theres no word like hair or something in the program! All is based on the small features of raytraced NURBS and the interpolator and VSL. I like the minimalistic aproach also in programming languages. I like APL, TCL, or my favored Smalltalk. In my opinion RS3D is a tool for the artist who wants to go beyond, but has also the time to learn the basics and the things which going on behind the scene. But IMO this helps also in a more production environment. For example, for some weeks I need to recreate a scene in a 3D program. The original file wasnt available. So I simply grabbed a faked image as a boilerplate and recreated it in RS3D. On the left, you see the boilerplate, on the right the output of my scene: http://realsoft3d.turboland.de/tmp/DolphinBeachBall-BoilerPlateVSmyBeachBall.png In my RS3D project I have a material for the colours of the ball. In the GUI, there are simply 10 colour fields. So I can simply change each colour by simply clicking on the desired field and choose the colour in a colour selector. Or look at the faded reflexion. This doesnt really appear in such way in reality. But in RS3D, I simply set it up by create a dependency between the distance of the mirror to the object. Very easy and fast solution I think. So, in small, individual projects RS3D is a tool to think about. When you know whats going on behind the scene, RS3D is a fast and flexible tool, IMHO. Best wishes, Yogi Marc Michael
