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Meet Gary Lauer, MetaCreations CEO
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Meet Gary Lauer, CEO of MetaCreations, May 6, 1999
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JFBuckley1 disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. Foehammer1 has just entered. Gary L: yes, it means we have lots of great people across our company especially, in the development ranks. Canoma and Headline Studio are two examples of what our people are up to! AuntiAlias: Queue list: Jeffric, ccasady, Sideways, Snoopy, kpg, tuckersaur, andyl, Spike, Lise, Edo!, Gregg, magister, DreamVoyager, Lise, Jeffric: thanks :) AuntiAlias: ccasady, go for it! ccasady: Do you think you might do a week long "Poser Camp" when Poser 4 ships , Just like that excellent "Bryce Camp" coming up at the end of this month? also:: With Kai gone now are you going to be the one who dresses in black and parades beofre an audience at MacWorld like Michael Eisner did for Disney after Walt died? Do you think Meta needs a figurehead or not? Kikuchiyo has finally arrived. Foehammer1 has just left. Wintermute is off to see the Wizard. Gary L: Poser camp sounds great, and if you'll organize it I'll dance there! tuckersaur: lol Chris! Clay: LOL ChaMelEon: gotta see that AuntiAlias: ; ) kpg : Re Canoma, again: I don't want to hammer the blindingly obvious, but wouldn't it benefit the firm and consumers by having press NFRs go out just before products ship? Fast-appearing reviews = fast start to sales. Danoe: lol ccasady: okay, it sounds like it's going to get to be a complicated program soon, like they all get to be kpg is off to see the Wizard. tuckersaur: just the way we like 'em! ccasady: Poser is on the verge of being a fantasicly useful tool magister: good nite all Mhyper: hear hear ccasady: Can hardly wait for the upgrade Mcharb has just left. tuckersaur: sure is kpg has finally arrived. ccasady: Thanks, magister disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. AuntiAlias: Sideways, you're on! ccasady: and we don't need a figure head I don't think : ) tuckersaur: lol Rodney: <did my first Poser art last night... after owning all three versions>> MetaCharacter: (watch the side-talk, people) ;) ccasady: answered my own question. AuntiAlias: Sideways? you still here? Sideways: There is one annoying Bryce interface problem (one shared with most 3D environments, for that matter) for which I would like to suggest a solution in this forum: It's easy to lose reference of the X-Y-Z axes with an odd camera angle or complex scene. I always find myself having to guess what axis to click on in the Edit palette, and I'm usually wrong...1 in 3 odds, House usually wins ;-) What about having the rotate, move and scale icons in the Edit palette re-orient themselves, live, to match the sel kyle saunters in. Sideways: The icons could re-render right into the palette on the fly to not "break" the interface, and would look real spiffy, to boot. It would also help indicate whether the object is in the object's, the camera's or the world's orientation. On a similar point - it would be WAY cool the have a nano-preview of a scene auto-render in QTVR-space, to let the user spin around in a scene for quick orientation. SolidSnake is off to render mirrored spheres. Sideways: [patching in]... to match the selected object? SolidSnake wants to play too. rgross has just entered. Suddenly dickie appears. Mcharb wants to play too. Gary L: Sideways, I can't answer that here but I know the Bryce team has seen your suggestion ChaMelEon: sounds good to me AuntiAlias: Queue list: Snoopy, kpg, tuckersaur, andyl, Spike, Lise, Edo!, Gregg, magister, Snoopy.... ask away! : ) Snoopy: Gary: Glad you're with MetaCreations now, but do you think SGI will ever get their act together? I would love to get one of their 320's. 3d~?~elf: ? DreamVoyager: Forggott me, AA? Before Lise. Gary L: Snoopy, I'm still a stock holder in SGI so I hope so! Their 320's look real good Snoopy: Me too!! Gary L: ...we have one Snoopy: Is it great? dickie: Hi I know sorry I'm late. i9'd love to know if anyone at meta is expanding the dxf/s3d export capabilities? Baument disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. AuntiAlias: kpg, you're on! kpg : Re Canoma, again: I don't want to hammer on the blindingly obvious but wouldn't it be better to send out press NFRs just before product ships? Fast-breaking reviews = fast start to sales. Gary L: We have been showing this product under NDA for over 6 weeks but I appreciate your suggestion ChaMelEon: Is my computer needle skipping? AuntiAlias: Queue list: tuckersaur, andyl, Spike, DreanVoyager, Lise, Edo!, Gregg, magister, 3d~?~elf Tuckersaur... go for it!! :D tuckersaur: I heard a new rev will be coming out for Infini-D YES! In addition to the bug fixes - can you please add OBJ import and allow *3d objects* to be used as particles in that awesome particle engine in there? kpg : ? tuckersaur: Also - a bryce ? Hometime: ? Gary L: thanks I'll be sure the team gets your suggestion. AuntiAlias: Tuck... your Bryce question? tuckersaur: Can you please allow direct import of ID4.x objects into Bryce? ChaMelEon: big work that... technoid materializes from thin air. jcastick has joined the party! Slee wants to play too. ChaMelEon: taht was my question... Heather is off to see the Wizard. Gary L: It's on the Bryce 5 consideration list thinkpiece disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. dickie: dickie is still around thinkpiece has just entered. AuntiAlias: andyl... you're on! : ) Slee disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. Suddenly Slee appears. andyl: Will Bryce be compiled to take advantage of the G4's altvec when it arrives? tuckersaur: thank you. dimension saunters in. tuckersaur: YES!!! good question. Suddenly Slate appears. Snoopy disappears in a blinding flash of smoke. Gary L: we're looking at it for all products dickie: any news on additional export plugins? AuntiAlias: Queue list: Spike, DreanVoyager, Lise, Edo!, Gregg, magister, 3d~?~elf, kpg, Hometime andyl: ? Mcharb: ? AuntiAlias: If you ahve a question, please type "?" if you have a comment, please type "!" Spike!!!! thinkpiece slinks out. Spike: Should we look for a Ray Dream 6? Perhaps with "the interface"? (I like the new manual!) Thanks for not loosing what makes Bryce special. I think youve got some loyalty. AuntiAlias: if' YOU! jcastick: ? AuntiAlias: it's YOU! Ringo: ? ghazelwood wants to play too. thinkpiece materializes from thin air. AuntiAlias: Queue list: DreamVoyager, Lise, Edo!, Gregg, magister, 3d~?~elf, kpg, Hometime, andyl, Mcharb, jcastick, Ringo dimension: how do you get on the queue? Gary L: We're very aware of the Ray Dream community and you should expect an upgrade soon. More info to come. AuntiAlias: if you have a question, please type "?" dimension: ok AuntiAlias: like this: ? dawn: ? dickie: I can't tell you what it would mean for us ground breaking boys if you could sort the plug-ins"!" AuntiAlias: that is how you get here in da queue! ; ) Danoe: or ! for comment ;D Jeffric: ? AuntiAlias: DreamVoyager!!! dickie: cheers DreamVoyager: Iv used Bryce since B1 and love it. I skipped B3 as I found it buggy and inferier to B2 (MAC) as to material quality and rendering. I kgot B4 2 days ago, and the little Iv had time with it, I love it. dimension: ? DreamVoyager: But only having it for 2 days, some of my comments might allready been answered to... 1) interference in water, so the waves "bounce off" or reflect from objects. 2) I just saw in the hand book that we now have "Level of fussyness"... GREAT! Been waiting for htat one! Lise has just left. DreamVoyager: 3) Curved sky/horizon... as now, the bryce world is parrallell... 4) bendable planes? 5) VERY IMPORTANT: show the Bryce World boundries... so we know where the baoundries are before we hit it with objects... correcting them can be a big mess! 6) buliding gradient skies, or to be able to place the bradient notches. As now is, it is difficult to make Swedish (Polar) night skies, with crimson horison all arround and truquise to deep chrimson skies at top. Thats all I can think of now at 5 am min the morning :-) Lise wants to play too. Gary L: DreamVoyager, thanks that's a lot for only 2 days :) get some sleep! j/k ChaMelEon: go to bed! DreamVoyager: LOL... this is my life ghazelwood: ? Danoe: LOL DreamVoyager: this, and naked women AuntiAlias: Lise, you're ON! :D DreamVoyager: (when will we see better genitalia in Poser? kree saunters in. Lise has more important business elsewhere. Spike is off to save the world.
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