Nebula-SNS opened this issue on May 02, 2001 ยท 5 posts
Nebula-SNS posted Wed, 02 May 2001 at 7:35 PM
Well, I loved the challenge I made so much, and because I've learned/stolen so much from the other great entries (-: , I want to do another, slightly longer, response to it. Here's the plan: We start off panning around a space station/gun, sorta like the Barge Cannon from Gundam Wing (or so I have been told). You see a shuttle fly by, and you zoom in to watch it land/dock at the station. When you see the docking bay, you'll notice... Problem 1: Arrays ...a large rank of Poser figure soldiers, wearing... Problem 2: Modeling Clothing and Clothes Morph Targets ...and when the guy steps out of the shuttle, all the soldiers... Problem 3: Linking Large Groups of objects ...simultaneously snap to attention. Then I go on to 'push the big red button,' I use a reverse-fountain to simulate a cannon charging up (ala the Sister Ray Mako Cannon from FF7), and a large glowing, expanding sphere, with pulsating lights (ala Bahamut Zero from FF7), until the cannon shoots and blows a planet up (think Alderaan). So, the problems are- 1: How do you array? I'm sure I saw an array command, but I can't find it. I could just duplicate stuff over and over, but that'd be tedious, and placing them would be a pain. What's the shortcut, and where's the command? 2: To get every single soldier to snap to attention, I want to link all the soldiers, 'dummies,' to one 'control' soldier. Could I just link each individual figure together, or would I have to link each arm to each arm? Or, does duplication also dupe the animation attributes? 3: I want the soldiers wearing custom uniforms and helmets. If someone can point me to a good clothing tutorial in Carrara/RDS tutorial, I'd be much obliged. Also, is there a Parallel-type light in Cararra? I learned a neat way to do comet/energy cluster light on Bryce parallel's (set it to volumetric, really bright and fuzzy, and linear falloff), and that makes a cool looking beam/pulse. Finally, can you make signatures on this board? I'm tired of always having to type in the adress over and over... Thanks a bunch! Nebula Supernova Studios