Re: FLASH: 3d vector art

[Erik [gearik] Mattheis]

>Whelp, if anyone would like to see my 3d test here it is....

>www.websitepartners.com/rapfoto/index.htm

>(my MIME still isn't set right so....)


>I think if I had to redo the whole thing from scratch knowing what I know

>now about production I think I could do it in about 6 hours or so.  Maybe

>more, maybe less.


Cool, Al. Maybe I should let up on my defense of Dimensions, but I feel

compelled to say that I created http://www.gourmandizer.com/flash/3d/ (46

frames) in 2-3 hours after launching Dimensions the first time.


Yeah, yours has a natural spin ... whereas mine looks like it's careening

through a dense asteroid field or something ... I don't understand the

degrees to rotate to make something like yours, and haven't hit on it by

experimentation  ... could you explain the degrees of rotation you used for

the axes for each "leg" of the rotation? Don't know if this applies to the

app you used, but if you create a  sequence 360 degrees rotated in

Dimensions, every frame is the same, so I've had to do the first 180, then

the 2nd.


And one last pro-Dimensions response I have is that the thing about how it

exports gradients as lots of shapes ... it is absolutely not the nightmare

DG describes ... you just separate everything that is not a gradient into a

separate layer in Flash, hide the layer, and then the "gradient" surfaces

become easy as pie to isolate, at least for objects of a complexity I'd

think you'd want to use in a Flash movie anyway.


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Erik [gearik] Mattheis

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gourmandizer

records/design

<http://www.gourmandizer.com>

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