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BryceTalk "My Current Project"
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BryceTalk "My Current Project" — July 1, 1999
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Calyxa: have you seen my "poor man's BSmooth" stuff? Susan: attention span... desdanova: lol Wolfie: ? Susan: Calyxa, go ahead and tell us about it, sure!! : ) Calyxa: OK... Wolfie: letsc Susan: You're always onto great things! Calyxa: Klaus mentioned in the Euro Terrain talk a while back about .pgm format... Wolfie: he needs to do some windows versions so we can play too Calyxa: that was something I could wrap my brain around, so I wrote a simple c++ program that spits out .pgm files which can be imported into Bryce... they come in as terrains, but you can change'em to lattices... http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/seamtest.jpg the one on the left is a 128 grid lattice, the one on the right is a 1024 grid lattice. Wolfie: More Madanna Bras! Cool! Calyxa: I'm currently working in Java - and plan to test it out at my brother's place on his windows machine when I get something going... Gigabyte: How do you convert them to lattices? Susan: you do the different sizes in your app? or change from128 to 1024 in Bryce? Calyxa: the lathing part is just an educational ramp-up... to convert a terrain to a lattice, you use the double-ended arrow thingie on the Edit palette. different sizes in the app. Gigabyte: Oh...thatnx er...thanx Calyxa: here's the same scene file, but with a rocky texture - http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/seamtest2.jpg seams are totally invisible. Calyxa: anyway... the ultimate goal of this is not to make lathed objects (tho that'll be nice). what I'm hoping to figure out is a way to carve roads. I've already got a couple road tutorials... desdanova: curved roads i'll bet Wolfie: What about using splines? Calyxa: but this will be easier and more accurate. Susan: I'd like to see what it looked like when it was just a terrain, too.. just to help me undertstand what's going on.... Calyxa: you mean the g2h of the hourglass thingies? Susan: yeah Calyxa: that'll take me a minute... hang on. Susan: well, not g2h but just convert to terrain Calyxa: oh - ok... not like this - http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/pgm7.jpg but that's an earlier test... Susan: : ) Calyxa: turns out I don't have a render of it as "just a terrain"... but there are a couple other test pix... Wolfie: Do you know if Klaus is going to ever get a Win port of BSmooth? Calyxa: http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/pgm11.jpg http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/pgm14.jpg I thought I saw something in that Euro Terrain talk about the schedule slipping on that or maybe not even happening... Susan: he mentioned that in the terrain chat (there *is* a log, you know!)... and no, no plans to port it. Says he's really busy right now Calyxa: (rendering that hourglass as 'just a terrain'...) Susan: rendering now? currently? Calyxa: ya Wolfie: he said he was doing it on his page is why I asked...didn't even know there WAS a terrain chat Calyxa: 128 grid, simple/fast gold material.. it'll be ready in a mo' Susan: that was on a tuesday.... we shoudl have a terrain chat on Thursdays one of these days! Wolfie: I was working in VB all day on tuesday Calyxa: a tuesday... a couple weeks ago Wolfie: I gotta get on a list sometime for the events Susan: hmmm.. I send out email regularly about them... go to the BryceTalk site.. look under manage your accoutn Calyxa: some of us checked that box "do not notify me of events"... desdanova: Wolfie, the chat in on Euro time... Wolfie: ? desdanova: 11:30 am pst Susan: and double check that your email address is accurate or if you'd checked the "dont'tell me about it" you can change either of those things to make sure you're on the list... Wolfie: yea...I didn't use my email addy when I registered...didn't know where it was going to be used...got enough spam as it is desdanova: lol Calyxa: (about to upload the 'just a terrain' version...) Susan: oh, so that's one of the bogus email addresses that gets bounced back to me each week, eh? if so, then please, do us both a favor and put your real email address in there. If you don't like it (I send out 1x per week), you can go back and check the "don't send me" Wolfie: yea... help@microsoft.com get a LOT of email I bet...heh. Susan: and I'll no longer send you! : ) Calyxa: http://www.best.com/~calyxa/ pearl/0images/hourglass.jpg desdanova: what is the resolution of that Caly? Calyxa: 128 Susan: :D Wolfie: The first time I ran BT, I didn't know if it shoed that info like Netmeeting or icq or not... desdanova: did you ever trt to go beyond 1024? Calyxa: not yet, but I have considered it. Wolfie: ah...now that is the same object except in terrain mode? Calyxa: the java stuff I'm writing is painfully slow. Wolfie: Please...no java... Calyxa: yes Susan: Wolfie: Calyxa: no java, no program. Susan: http://www.metacreations.com/products/bryce4/talk/manage.cfm Wolfie: ew... Member of the NoJava club here. tnx susan Calyxa: it's not going to be a craplet... Susan: k... Calyxa: it'll be a downloadable stand-alone app. Susan: I think that, with this I"ll wrap the end of the official BryceTalk Event... : ) Wolfie: MANY people have trouble running java apps...not just me Susan: talk as long as you want to! Calyxa: well, I think I can build it standalone on mac, not sure about windows.
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