There is NO excuse for it to be otherwise. Tools should all be immediately accessible and easy to use. Of course in the case of some tools even /getting/ to the plugin can be difficult. Sure the 'real' artists do it by hand (and yah, odds are their results look a darn fine deal better too), but hey, for those of us who still have a vision but lack that level of understanding about color theory (how to make something look like it is underwater by tinting the pixel just right), the plug-in sure comes in handy. Thus why a water effects or flame effects plug-in in Photoshop comes in so much handy. While it is technically feasible for an artist to use nothing but a pixel by pixel 2d editor to create any image that you could see on your computer screen (and indeed some artists do create that way and do a lovely job of it, they have darn near total understanding of color theory and how the human mind interprets shapes and shades), the rest of us (none artistic-genius types) have to rely on mere external tools to aid us in this process. The program should be natural and easy to use, should work flawlessly and efficiently, be quick and obvious in its usefulness, and all in all feel like a tool and not like a burden.Ī truly good program heightens the artists creative potential but offering up new ideas. The goal of an artistic program is to allow the artist to move their creative vision from their mind (or some other medium if it has already been copied down to it) to the computer with AS LITTLE FUSS AS POSSIBLE. If you do not have the talent and patience to learn a complex interface, then I doubt you have the talent and patience to do character modeling and animation period. You'll never make a Quake III, Tribes II, NWN, or GTA3 with it. Since Creator was (and still is) marketed as a military and civil engineering vis-sim tool it is best suited for those types of products.
#SOFTIMAGE 3D CRACK PC#
Unfortunately for Multigen two things happened:ġ) The ability to do amazing graphics on PCs exploded very quickly in the timeframe between the orignal GeForce card and the GF3 card.Ģ) The market for PC based military flight simulators dissapeared. It's only OpenGL based, so vertex and pixel shader playback would be done completely via vendor specific extensions to OpenGL.Ĭreator tried to bust into games. blech.ĭetail texture application didn't work right in 2.05 (when I got away from it). Multigen Creator can do multitexturing, but it doesn't give the user any way to set the blend level between the layers. Yeah, if you want to make a game that is about 5 years behind in terms of graphics. It would seem such a package could be cheaper too, since it wouldn't have to support as many fancy features." Possiblly a modeling package more geared to hardware capabilities, or some way of adapting an existing modeler to make it more hardware friendly by blocking or modifying features that 3d hardware can't handle. I'm wondering if anyone has run across a good solution to this.
#SOFTIMAGE 3D CRACK WINDOWS#
Even if you have the target 3D hardware on the modeling machine, it's rare to have the modeling windows look anything like the finished product. "There are other problems too: modelers that have no concept of polygon strips/fans or that make it very hard to avoid generating polygons that will never be seen (the inside surface of a pipe for example).
For example many of the procedural shaders used by these packages map very poorly to a hardware shader's abilities, and similarly, if you want to use a hardware shader on some polygons, most modelers give you no way to see the effect while modeling." While they can be used to make models for realtime 3D hardware, a very large number of their features don't map well onto realtime 3D hardware. Milo_Mindbender asks: "I've been involved in doing a number of games and other realtime 3d apps and I always run into the same problem: the 3d modelers that most artists use (MAX, Maya, Softimage, Lightwave.etc) are all heavily biased towards doing non-realtime rendering using raytracing or some other technique.
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