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n the beginning the earth cooled, the seas formed, and fife came to the planet. That life evolved from single cell animals all the way up the food chain to the dinosaurs which eventually became extinct for reasons still uncertain. Man reached his ascendancy and inverted the home computer, for which more men designed the software Imagine 3. Finally, there came Dinoverse from a small company called Kryonix and now we On the story. Dinoverse is the name of a very cheap set of objects designed for use with Imagine 3 or higher based around a variety of dinosaurs. Thee are four dinosaurs in the package rang. ing from the highly-detailed Velociraptor design to the Triceratops. In addition to these four familiar beasties, there is also a selection of prehistoric plants and insects, although, given the differences in scale, you might never end up using them in the same scene together. TEXTURE MAPS The objects themselves are not modelled in superfine detail, but certainly detail enough for whole body foreground shots, except for the selociraptor which fills a disk all by itself, The texture maps that the author has created for the models are nice, with larger-than-screen sized bitmaps for good surface detail, but there are no separate greyscale bumpmaps for that authentic pebbly skin look This is wholly due to Imagine's deficit when it comes to bump mapping an object with a texture. The reason for this is that Imagine 3 uses the Y-axis to determine the apparent extent of the peaks and troughs of a picture used as a bumpmap, which means that positioning and sizing a texture in three dimensions becomes an impossibility, To add insult to injury, Imagine's fairly groovy states function don't work properly with bumpmaps, so though you can set a state you can't lock it down. This means that instead of the bumpmap moving with your object it stays in the same place, so that your object moves through the texture. This problem is supposed to be resolved in Imagine 4, but as Kryonix supply the object- without bumpmaps, it's all much of a muchness. In addition • &pont/ D e skI n's supe rb listociroptor sbfo , t w i t h i to the dinosaur models, you will also find several landscapes that have been saved out of Vista Pro in two versions as low and very low resolution (compared to the originals) Imagine objects which would make a useful background on which to place your saurian actors. To finish off the scene, Kryonix have provided an animated sky map with 120 frames of animation to overlay onto a cloud object as a transparency map. The sky animation is extremely subtle, so don't expect to see major changes in the sky if you use it. Also, it doesn't loop, which is a shame, so there's no use making your animations exactly 120 frames to take advantage of a loop. The 10 disk set comes with a printed manual explaining how to install the disks (simply copy them all into a drawer and assign it accordingly) and more importantly, how to actually use the objects in Imagine. The tutorial provided is written in a sparky, clear manner and makes it easy for even the bare bones (if you'll forgive the pun) beginner to get to grips with the awkwardness that is the States function. One thing that must be pointed Out is that you probably States is a function Imagine 3.0 and higher • .1 allows the user to set sitioning and texture mfor- .iPon for on °two, Once •u hove set several states •L , •••rn Wittl th , •er-used feature cS p o a w e r f u n o l r t h e n m o r p d The objeds contained in this set are all of reasonable h but not outstanding quality, but the amount of effort that has gone into b creating a decent skeleton for them is easy to see. Kryonix Design e deserves plenty of support for this collection and Amiga Computing awaits t his collection of States-controlled aircraft w e AMIGA e COMPUTING FEBRUARY n 1 996 r vats 1 Digital dinosaurs still seem to be in vogue even two years after the release of Jurassic Park. Frank Nord investigates Jargon box Nimpmaps are prchwes 311 CE140111 information 2reyscole), that ate used by &D rendering programs to give the impression that an obrecfs surface is bumpy when rendered. you need to actuany deform the surface or an obiect you have to use displacement map shouldn't read the manual if you are one of those people who get incensed by poor spelling. Numerous 'their's for 'there's and bizarre punctuation means that the manual has a less than professional feel to it, and 1 would urge Jeff (the author) to use a spell checker before he does his next print run. Things like this do make a big impression on people and can spoil a very good product_ However, at a cost of only E24,99, it is hard to fault the amount of work that has gone into the truly important side of this package - the models. Supplier Price 1 ussential 1BLACK t ei..01 . 1.11oerided UL RAM Imagine lx Product Tel Ease of use Implementation Value For Money Overall El AWL] line PRODUCT DETAILS Dinoverse Kryonix design E24.99 01303 243845 Scon't"Tp , •!: 60 ,90: 75
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