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; Pre pa ring to re nde r a sce ne in Cine rna e Ll. M ote the a bility to loggia individua l re nde ring options Real3D (particularly v1.4) and Imagine, you • swiftly feel at home using Cinema4D. But Cinema4D has features such as the automatic determination of units and the ability to use maths in numeric requesters (if you can't be bothered to work out the individual lengths of the walls in a non-rectangular room this comes in very handy), the background grid gets scaled with the display and disappears if it gets too small, unlike Imagine's, and the ability (if you run your Cinema4D screen in enough colours) to be able to render in a window on the Cinema4D screen is also a nice touch. On the minus side, Cinema4D won't work with Postscript fonts (just like old versions of Real3D, fonts have to be built by hand and are all separate objects. You are supplied with two - Helvetica and Diamond - which both look pretty similar) and has no algorithmic textures at all, so anything other than solid colours has to be scanned, grabbed or hand-painted. Then again, Cinema4D's method of ensuring that the texture you have applied works prop- CENERY DEPT. As a test I tried to build a pretty simple scene in Cinema-ID and compared the time it took to the same scene built in LightWave I constructed a simple table and a milking stoat using primitives and boolean operations. surfaced the objects and rendered the scene at a low resolution_ From start to finish it took me over an hour in Gnema4D, but it has to be said that I am not as familiar with the package as I am with Light Wove. The some scene in Light Wave took me about half an hour to complete (without the human model), but the important thing was that even if it had taken me the same time, it would have been easier because of the way LightWave is put together. Having said that also tried the same scene in Imagine 3 and it took me the same amount of time as Cinema4D, but it felt harder to create the scene and am familiar with Imagine. AMIGA COMPUTING FEBRUARY 1996 HERE ARE MY ACTORS Cinema40 has or) inverse kinematics system built in and very handily comes with a mannequin object ready to roll at the click of a button. The 1K system that comes with Cinema4D doesn't have any form of constraints that would be required to stop your elbow bending backwards, but that notwithstanding is actually damn easy to use and, apart from the odd hand pointing the wrong way, is pretty accurate. Although this doesn't make character animation into something as simple as a simple thing, it certainly beats manually positioning limbs hands down and is so much faster that you'll probably end up using it all the bloody time. erly is superb and gives absolute control over texturing. The way it works is that you edit a grid which overlays your object which is subject to all the same tools as the objects themselves, such as rotate, move and scale The type of grid that appears depends on the type of texture wrap you have chosen - choose a planar map and you just get a flat squarish grid, but choose cylindrical or spherical mapping and you end up with a full or par- the b! isn't tha t assay to se e whoa extruded, but it re nde rs nice ly The origina l bilm•so use d for e xtrusion Here's a pre pa ra tory la yout for my re nde ring of R icha rd Burton discovering the M ounta ins of the M oon 12 tial cylinder or sphere surrounding your object Back on the positive side, Cinema4D has a help bar which constantly comments on whatever item your pointer lingers over, and Cinema4D's requesters all check your input and won't let you leave until you enter a figure which meets the minimum or maximum criteria. Cinema4D's numeric requesters also remember what figures you last entered, sav. ing a lot of time when building a large number of similar objects. It also has some funky features like being i able to set the light for your scene based on longitude and latitude settings, and a calendar to accurately recreate daylight, and a mathematical perturber for objects that allows you to change a ball into some sort of weird sea anemone in one easy step. L f f T F 5 A W R A P Well, that's all we've got room for. Cinema40 is a good package that needs some tweaking to make it a great package and is certainly a competitor for Imagine. With version 3 already looming on the horizon Onema4D looks set for a bright future. HAM Product Supplier Price Tel Ease of use Implementation Value For Money_ Overall Bottom line Workbench Hard drive 12 Mb IG graphics above cardrAGA PRODUCT DETAILS Cinema4D HiSoft S terns E199 01525 718181 SCORES 15% 15% 115% SO%
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