While moving things around in my office today in preparation for new windows installations (On the building not my computers) I found this old dinosaur still in the shrink wrap! It predates the faceroom and claims to make 3D Faces from front and side view photos. Anyone interested in it let me know. If not, I'll probably e'Bay it as it's never been out of the shrink wrap. (In fact, I was under the assumption that sticky fingered roommates had stolen it ages ago! Shame on me! Now I have to think nice thoughts about them for a week of repentance! )

Might want to make sure you check the system requirements.. it might be win 98 or even win 95 only.

LOL! It is as a matter of fact Win 95 & 98. Oh well, one more box for the trash collector. From the pictures on teh back of the box, it's not really that good in anycase. I never got around to opening the darn thing, now it's just an oddity. Ah well.

If it's Win95 & 98 it most likely still runs fine under WinXP. I've got some old software that was made for Win 3.11 & Win95 and it still runs fine.

You could still ebay it.. just add that info to the description. While it MAY work under XP, it might not, and no sense getting bad feedback by not ofering that info up front.

It would probably run fine using compatability mode in WinXP. I have 95 and 98 software that runs find using compatability mode.

Hehehe... Well, It'll probably just sit in it's shrink wrap til it reaches antique stage. Just looking at the results on the out side of the box, I'm better off sticking to the faceroom in Poser. I get better results and they work on figures with actual expression morphs for animation. The output of this thing is one single uncut mesh from the looks of it. Hrmmm.... strike that! The only output formats listed are JPG, BMP, FPX, TIFF, AVI and VRML. VRML isn't exactly the best mesh format out there and the other output methods are all 2D except AVI. :blink:

I got a couple pretty nice characters from some low rez pictures of a couple ex's of mine in Poser 6's face room. If I'd had better photos I could have done something amazing.

from googling face factory, it looks like it doesn't even output 3d at all.. The info on it makes it looks like you input a side and front face image, tweak it within the program, and then save a 2d image out from it for use in other 2d applications.

Isn't VRML a very old primitive form of 3D? I know Poser used to support it in some fashion as did Bryce, but it's been ages since I used either to import or export that format.

Looks like it was a 3d vector graphics format, and going by wiki, it appears that you could possibly use that format with some of the newer formats that have replaced it, because they are in some cases, backwards compatible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

I thought my fuzzy brain remembered using it to import some very low poly stuff a few years back.. So it's definately a dinosaur in the 3D realm. I should put it in a glass case and display it as a historical artifact. LOL!

Hel, that's nothing compared with some of the old stuff I own. Want a copy of Lightwave 1.0 for the amiga? Or maybe Videoscape 3D?

Pretty cool Gareee. Remember Sculpt 3D or Tubo Silver?

Yep.. I was a beta tester for Sculpt 3d, and even earlier for Fun with Art for the atari 800 computer line.

Somewhere here, I still even have the Aegis demo videotape for Videoscape 3d.

Probably worthwhile capping and putting on Youtube sometime.

Yep...I have a few Amiga 4000 and Video Toaster Demos tapes along with LIghtwave and Toaster training tapes somewhere. I think I have one for Animation Master too.

This is the first image I did with Sculpt 3D. The castle was made in Sculpt 3D and I composited it wth a photo in either Deluxe Paint or Photon Paint, which I was a beta tester for. It was pretty primitive since it used a HAM (hold and modify) technique to simulate more than 4096 colors. Once you changed the color of one pixel, it might modify on or more pixels next to it depending on the difference between the two colors. You could save in 24 bit color but at the time, there was no way to display 24 bit without very expensive graphic cards. We've come a long way! 

I need to see if I can fire up my old systems one of these days, and do some screen caps of some of my ol;d pictures. More for me then anyone else, but it's a shame all that work drawng or animating has no place to be displayed

tainted-heart thanks for the trip down memory lane! I've got a bunch of 400k floppies and a 512k Mac in the shed. I've still got the very first LaserWriter and Aldus PageMaker 1.0! 

I used to live outside Topeka and bought one of the first Amiga/Toasters after running into Kiki Stockhammer at an industry show. I wonder whatever happened to that little minx? She was really a great person and terrific ambassador for Newtek in those days (and pretty damn hot too). [EDIT: I just googled her and found a fascinating page called "Remembering Kiki Stockhammer" : http://www.patswayne.com/kiki/ 

By the way, in the mid-nineties I got to fool with an early beta version of Poser because a friend of mine was tight with the guys at Fractal Design. Although it was pretty kludgy, I remember thinking, 'boy, in about 5 years this is gonna probably be a killer app.'

Ah yes...Kiki Stockhammer...yummmmmm! Shw was a hotti! The Amiga/Toaster was one helluva machine! To think that the effects for the TV shows like Hercules, Seaquest, Robocop and Babylon 5 were all done on 8 bit Amiga/Toasters with Lightwave is mind boggling. Imagine the power that machine could have these days with a dual 64 bit processors and a couple of gigs of memory.

Yep.. I lament the loss of the amiga systems. No telling how much further advanced we'd be, if they had taken off instead of Windows based systems.

Hehee.. google kiki stockhammer and warp 11.....

Oh man...Kiki never looked so good!!!! Warp 11 ROFL!