Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: ZenTile -- new features

dwilmes opened this issue on Oct 23, 2001 ยท 5 posts

dwilmes posted Tue, 23 October 2001 at 9:08 AM

ZenTile, used for tiling and creating heightfield maps for Bryce and Vue, has been enhanced. You can flip pictures and tiles horizontally and vertically, and there are 4 ways to tile, plus a new quarter-and-blend option for pre-tiling for yet more variations. These new options make ZenTile even more useful for those creating textures, especially for clothing. Picture shows 2 pictures chosen randomly and turned into useful textures with just a few seconds work. You can check out examples at: http://www.zenwareonline.com/zt/ztnewfeatures.html Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com/cr2edit/cr2edit.html Sorry Win only for software http://www.zenwareonline.com for ZenPaint, ZenTile, ZenGrid and VueMaster

jamball77 posted Tue, 23 October 2001 at 10:53 PM

Wow that is cool. Hey I made the pitch couple days back for the SDK in Poser 5. Cupa spilled the beans a bit about Poser 5. It will be collosal, stupendous, and faster than a speeding bullet. ....but no SDK. Oh well....... and thanks for CR2Edit. Worth every penny :)

dwilmes posted Wed, 24 October 2001 at 12:34 AM

Yeah, *I* think it's cool, LOL! It's very addictive, dumping pictures on the app and watching what happens, it can be very hard to predict what comes out. Here is another, the textures are different tilings of the birch trees (original shown greatly reduced). The one at the top left is a closeup of a birch trunk. Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com/cr2edit/cr2edit.html Sorry Win only for software http://www.zenwareonline.com for ZenPaint, ZenTile, ZenGrid and VueMaster

Phantast posted Wed, 24 October 2001 at 4:58 AM

Zen is a religion. Would you call your product IslamTile or ChristianTile?

dwilmes posted Wed, 24 October 2001 at 7:45 AM

Zen is a way of looking at things, a state of mind, and could be said to have more to do with philosophy than religion. Zen Buddhism is one of many subsets of Buddhism, having arisen in China with the blending of Buddhism and Taoism, where it is called Ch'an Buddhism. Don't know about IslamTile, but if you visit a Fundamentalist site you will find hundreds of products with Christian in the name. Achieving a state of Zen is often accomplished with the aid of what a Westerner might call hypnotic routines, such as chanting, raking sand into patterns.... or watching the steady progression of tiny tiles -- each representing the Whole -- across a screen, until they form a new Whole which had never existed before, one which is made of a (theoretically) infinite number of Selfs, where the notion of a unique individual Self is irrelevent. Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com/cr2edit/cr2edit.html Sorry Win only for software http://www.zenwareonline.com for ZenPaint, ZenTile, ZenGrid and VueMaster