From: Bernd Korves [b.korves@bham.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 12:01 PM
To: bowman@vt.edu
Cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: 3d modeling packages

Doug,
we are using 3DStudio Max. Why do you find that difficult to use? Run
through the tutorials and you'll get a good idea. You might need a load of
extra plugins to make it work with your VR software.
We export everything into .3ds format (.obj export is also possible with the
right plugin).
The beauty about 3DStudio is, that you can make models look good before you
convert them. Sometimes you run into problems, when generating Boolean
objects and the face-normals go a bit funny, but as i said: there are
plugins to control that. Texture mapping, etc. are much easier to handle in
3DS than in DIVISION's dVISE / dvReality.
We are using the exact same hardware as you were using in your 'Gorilla
project' and 3DS gives you a good control over the geometric complexity of
your model, if that is a limiting factor.
Regards,
Bernd Korves (Dipl.-Ing.) Ph.D. Candidate
School of Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
The University of Birmingham
mailto: b.korves@bham.ac.uk
voice: ++44 121 414 7619