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Hi Marc,
> Speaking of add on utilities.......
>=20
> At the Newtek Christmas party there was a piece of software that was=20
> allegedly being used by/for Nutopia that was a high end version of=20
> sparks. Actually it looked more like an addon for an SGI. Anyway It w=
as=20
>
> < Message Cropped >
>=20
> Thank you for any information about this seemingly amazing software a=
nd=20
> and help in the right direction to acquire it.
>=20
The software that was shown was a custom software package written
by Eric Myers, an excellent programmer/animator for NUTOPIA at the
time. (If others helped in the development, Sorry about no mention.)
It was a stand alone particle system package that displayed the
particle launches in real-time on the Amiga , and then produced
output scene files/motion files in the LW format. It had another
amazing feature built into it. The particle emitter could be
manipulated in real-time by a Polhemus 3D motion tracking device.
A few other features included chained bone structures with dynamic
links. This also supported the 3D input w/ multiple control
connections.
It was not associated with Sparks in any way. I am not sure of the
status of Eric's software package. It was a beautifully designed
particle system. Maybe a bit too complex for the average user,
but that could have been worked out with a few default settings/
tutorials/different user interface/ etc.
That's all I know!
JEL