3D Artist #30 Online Supplement

> Published October 1997, 40 pages.
> Issue Status: This is the current issue until March 1998. It shipped on 12 Nov.
> Supplement page status:
30 Jan. 1998: MetaMax metaball plug-in errata.
13 Jan. 1998: Goes to 11 listing errata and 3DS Max shape animation info updated.
25 Nov. 1997: Full LW3D 5.0 for PowerMac report attached.
18 Nov. 1997: Full 3DS Max shape animation article attached.
15 Nov. 1997: First pass at creating this page, with additional linking yet to come.

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Cover Story: The cover image is by Michael Koch. He writes that it was created entirely with Kinetix 3D Studio Max r1.2, plus Adobe Photoshop for final compositing of the rendering, wireframe, and background.
___ The head was built with patches. I started with a patch at the tip of the nose and added new patches outward from there.
___ The hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were created with the help of Peter Watje's particle-based Hair plug-in. It currently is in open alpha testing and can be downloaded from his site at www.blarg.com/~peterw/IPAS/. The textures were created completely in Photoshop. No scans were used.
___ For lighting, I used four spotlights, with two of them working as projector lights. To enhance image quality, I rendered the face at double the print resolution and sized it down in Photoshop.
___ So far, this is only a personal project, and more images of the model will be available soon on my home page.

Michael Koch is a freelance artist and physics student in Mainz, Germany. He first wrote for 3D Artist about Max expessions in issue #28. See pages 18-19 this issue for his report on Max shape animation, demonstrated with an earlier version of the model used for the cover.
___ See Editorial Space for comments about cover design.

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All review text related to plug-ins and dedicated utilities for LightWave 3D and 3D Studio Max will be posted here as part of our third-party resource listings. Other reviews and all how-to articles, with few rare exceptions, are not posted. To get those, please see our Back Issues page for how to purchase the issue.


Page	Title	Author	Description
3D Artist Reports
6	ClothReyes 1.1	Mike Beals	Review (accompanied by a two-part explanation of how to use the product).

8	Ray Dream Studio 5	John B. Crane	Review

18	Shape Animation in 3DA Max r1	Michael Koch	Wrap-up review of MorphMagic, Smirk, and Mix 1.6 for doing blended morphing in 3DS Max r1. [full article]

24	More Renderers for 3DS Max/Viz r1		Three reports and additional information.
	RadioRay	Alex Kiriako	Review, plus accompanying explanation of how to use RadioRay.
	RayGun	Alex Kiriako	First look
	RayStudio 2.0	Jacques Hennequet	First look
	More Info	Alex Kiriako	Where to find more about raytracing and radiosity, plus comments about raytracing in 3DS Max r2.

28	Books - Videos - CDs	Alex Kiriako	Reviews > 3D Graphics & Animation > 3D Studio Max Professional Techniques > 3D Studio Max Tips & Tricks Tape 1 > Bebop Bytes Back > Inside 3D Studio Max Vol. 3 > LightWave 3D 5 Character Animation.

28	Planetary Traveler	Cecilia Ziemer	Desktop movie review of "the first full-length [43 mins.] production done entirely on desktop computers."

29	3D Studio Max r2	Alex Kiriako	First look, with an important note about installation.

34	LW3D 5.0 for PowerMac	John B. Crane	Report on how to make the Mac version of LightWave 3D 5.0 run smoothly. [full text]

34	TrueSpace 3.1	Frank McMahon	Update to our tS 3.0 review in *3DA*#29.

35	Cinema 4D	Alex Kiriako	First look
Escheresque 3D Graphics
20	Another World Revisited	Tim Moseley	Using 3D Studio Max to emulate one of M.C. Escher's best known works.

21	Spiral of Union	Francesco Franceschi	How to use Imagine (v4 for DOS/Amiga and Imagine for Windows) to create a spiral slice object as a step toward emulating Escher's "Bond of Union." [IFW screen shot] shows finished spiral object (37.1K JPEG)--an image not in the printed magazine
More How-To's!
4	Bubba's Place	Jacques Hennequet	How the Contents Page image was done using 3D Studio Max r1 and SuperGlow.

14	Meshing Around	Rick Greco	An introduction to using RDS5's new Mesh Form modeler.

16	Easy Eyes	Phillip Finch	How to create an animatable, seamless eye object in LW3D using MetaNURBS.

22	3D Stereoscopic Imaging	Josh Nelson	How stereo viewing works, and stereo output options and how to make them work.

25	Living with RadioRay	Alex Kiriako	Vital info the docs don't tell you, or don't make clear. See also the author's RadioRay review.

30	Building Your Own Alpha Workstation Part 2 of 2	Peter Plantec	More info about assembling your own powerful Alpha-based workstation.

32	Custom Tools Part 2 of 2	Andrey Zmievski	The final steps to writing a very simple 3DS Max plug-in as an example of how to create your own.

40	Lock Down!	Michael Caputo	How to make Animation Master's bone/constraint system work.
Columns

10	Editorial Space	Bill Allen	Growth & Changes: Shifting toward mainly how-to content, challenging cover artists, and noting the issue's international scope. [full text]

12	Taming The Wave	David Hopkins	A Bag of Tricks: A collection of LW3D pointers including how to get dithered blurs to work, loading .WAV files, project maintenance, a wild mapping time saver, uses for fog, and camera movement.
Tricks & Tips
6	A Basic Skirt	Mike Beals	Accompanying the author's ClothReyes review, info you won't find in the docs: an intro to using this 3DS Max r1 plug-in for clothing, and how to create and animate a basic skirt object.

10	Cover Story	Michael Koch	[jump]

36	TRIPS		A collection of short TRIcks and tiPS. Submit yours to <editors@3dartist.com> (NO attachments, please) and, if it gets published, we'll give you a six-issue airmail/first class *3D Artist* subscription.
	LW 5.5 SkyTracer	Phillip Finch	Better, if not necessarily intuitive, sunsets.
	Output to Spark & DV Camcorders	Patrik Beck	$15 storage for 21Gb of LW3D broadcast-quality animation.
	Max Booleans	Alex Kiriako	Fool-proofing 3DS Max r1 Boolean operations.
Departments
37	Business Card Ads	Lots of colorful messages about services and products.
38-39	Classified Ads	Employment, schools and training, 3D Swap Meet, and more!
38	Contacts	Where to find info about products mentioned in this issue. Tell 'em you heard about them from 3D Artist!
4	Contents Page Story	Every issue's Contents Page has an image, and every image has a story.
10	Errata	Corrections and updates for previous issues.
10	Cover Story	The making of this issue's cover.
10	Masthead	Details about *3D Artist* magazine.

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Errata & additional info:

> p29: The download for Sandeep Shekar's MetaMax metaball plug-in for 3DS Max r1 has moved to www.3dcafe.com/software/meta12b1.zip.

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