3D Artist #34 Online Supplement

3D Artist magazine issue #34 Online Supplement

Published October 1998, 28 pages.
Issue status: 3DA#34 went to press in October, and shipped on 10 November. It is still in print. [back issue orders]
Web supplement status

Cover The cover image is by Sanford Kennedy of Sanford Kennedy Design, using 3DS Max r2.5 NURBS and the Shag: Fur plug-in. There is a full article about how Max's NURBS feature was used, plus a sidebar about how the fur variations were achieved. This is the artist's third cover, and the third featuring flying creatures, having previously done the covers for our issue #s 16 and 27 with bird images.

Table of Contents & Supplementary Info

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3D for Historical Re-Creation

	14	Designing Museum Applications by Clay Hamilton & Theresa Breznau	Using LW3D and WCS to re-create an ancient Native American pueblo. Notes about project management. (2.66 pages)

	16	Bourdon House by Nancy Heinz-Yerka	Re-creating classical English interior woodwork with TriSpectives. (1.34 pages)
Great Variety of How-To's

	7	Pose Sliders by Mike Caputo	Using the unlimited posing potential in Animation Master 6.1. (0.63 page)

	8	Boning Up by Rick Greco	Using bones in SSP 2.5.2 with single-piece meshes imported from Poser 3.0. (1 page)

	10	Metaballic Tranformations by Jon Winchester	Complex metaball animation using tS 3+. (0.68 page)

	10	Transitioning to TrueSpace 4 by Jeffrey W. Wall, M.D.	A guided tour of what to watch out for with some changed and new features in tS4. (0.97 page)

	10	Easy Volumetric Lighting by Tom Marlin	Getting some good starting points for one of tS4's new features. (0.88 page)

	12	Going Bats with NURBS by Sanford Kennedy	Cover Story: Using 3DS Max r2.5 NURBS to model a fruit bat's body and wings. (1.34 pages)

	13	Shag: Bat Fur by Sanford Kennedy	Using the Shag: Fur plug-in for 3DS Max r2.x on a fruit bat modeled with NURBS. (0.66 page)

	18	LightWave Hand Animation by Mitch Butler	How to animate hands with a morph manager such as LW's Morph Gizmo. (1 page)

	19	Taming The Wave: Procedural Eyeballs by David Hopkins	Putting LW's procedural textures to work without UV mapping. (1.47 pages)

	28	Snowy Bryce by Martin Murphy	Tips about creating snow-covered mountains so real you'll want your skis. (1.33 pages)
Re:Poser A section of tips for storytellers learning to work with Poser 3+.

	20	Using 3DS Max r2 with Poser 3 by Sanford Kennedy	A way to remodel stock Poser figures without losing morph targets. (0.64 page)

	21	A List of List Tips by Larry Weinberg	An updated digest of tips sent to the Poser Mailing List by Poser's creator. (1.11 pages)

	20	Ballzac by Cecilia Ziemer	An easy introduction to creating all-new Poser figures starting in other apps, such as shown with RDS5. (0.56 page)

	23	Figures from Props by Bill Allen	Creating new figures using Poser 3 Props, shown as an alternative for the "Ballzac" tutorial. (0.2 page) [full text]

	22	Depth Clues by Bill Allen	Poser 3's undocumented depth map feature and how to use it for compositing and creating stereograms. (0.64 page)

	20	Poser Update & Tools / More Pieces for Poser by Cecilia Ziemer & Bill Allen	More figures, free Props, a freeware hierarchy tool, and other info. (0.21 page)

	21	More Poser Tips by Cecilia Ziemer & Bill Allen	(0.06 page)
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Errata & additional info:

> inside front cover: Zygote Media Group has moved to 677 N. 1890 W. #45A, Provo, UT 84601; 800/267-5170, 801/375-7220, fax -7389. > p8: Figure 4 at mid-page should have been labeled Figure 5.
> p26: The Toolbox listing of advertisers with Training Materials should include Trinity Animation's ad on page 2, and Design/Systems should be noted as an Adobe dealer.

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