Space Station Construction Kit with Shuttle presented by QUARTEX!

So, you're tired of waiting for NASA to build a space station and have
decided to make your own?  This is a good place to start.  Included on
this disk are all the objects you need to create a space station of
your own--its layout and size limited only by your imagination and
available RAM.  The following is a description of what you will find
on this diskette. 

To load these objects into Sculpt-Animate 3D, use either LOAD SCENE or
LOAD OBJECT.  In the "drawer" slot of the file requester, type the
name of this disk followed by the name of the directory you want.  For
example, "Space_Station:Parts".  Select the object you want from the
list of files that will appear. 


This diskette contains several directories at the top level:

Parts/  

This directory contains individual Named Objects.  These may 
be read into Sculpt-Animate hierarchies as named objects, or 
loaded individually by Sculpt 3D. 

1. Array1.scene is a model for a large rectangular solar cell array.

2. LatticeCell.scene is a segment (cell) of the metal structure 
   used in the planned NASA station.  This object should be used 
   sparingly since it requires quite a bit of memory for each copy.  
   To build a column of lattice segments it is easiest to read one 
   copy in fromdisk, select it, and then, placing the cursor at 
   the left or right edge of the cell, perform an Edit Do Reflect 
   command.  Repeated selection and reflection can be used to create 
   a column of any length (limited by RAM of course!).

3. LatticeJoiner.scene is used in the NASA type station to tie 
   together two columns where one can be rotated with respect 
   to the other.

4. SolidCell.scene is used similar to the LatticeCell.scene, but
   has 4 solid sides.

5. Fullboom.scene is an object created from the combination of
   other objects.  It represents the main boom of the NASA type
   station and is made up of reflected LatticeCells, LatticeJoiners,
   and Array1 found in this directory.  To view the hierarchy of the
   object (the individual pieces) use the Edit Selected Named Vertices 
   command.  This object requires at least 1.5Meg of RAM For rendering.

6. Module.scene is a cylindrical living/working module with docking 
   ports at each end.

7. ModuleJoiner.scene is a cylindrical living module whose primary 
   purpose is to link (join) together other living modules or a shuttle
   or anything else that comes to mind.  It has docking ports at each
   end and four around the middle.

8. Sat1.scene is a satellite with a parabolic antenna and two arrays.

9. Telescope.scene is a space telescope with two arrays.


Shuttle/  

This directory contains one Named Object.  This may be read into Sculpt-
Animate hierarchies as Named Objects, or loaded individually by Sculpt 3D.

1. Orbiter.scene is made up of three sub-objects: the body, door1, and 
   door2. The doors can be opened and closed by using Edit Do Select 
   Named Vertices command, traversing the hierarchy of names in the 
   select gadget, and selecting one of the doors.  Now that one door is 
   selected the cursor should be moved in the Tri-View window to the point
   where the door meets the orbiter. You can then use the rotate gadgets 
   in the window to open or close the door.  If you are planning to use 
   the shuttle with doors closed, better results can be obtained if the 
   doors are removed by doing a Edit Select Named Verticies and an  Edit
   Erase and then with the Edit Color set to full white, Edit Smoothing 
   ON, and Edit Texture set to SHINEY, connect the verticies at each end 
   of the cargo bay with edges thus creating a completely closed cargo bay.


Animations/

This directory contains example takes and global scenes that 
employ the objects on this disk.

1. NASA&Shuttle.g.scene is a full scale NASA type space station with
   shuttle that requires at least 1.5 Meg to render.

2. LowRAMNASA.g.scene is a scaled down version without the shuttle that 
   requires at least 1.5 Meg to render.

3. Orbiter.g.scene is the space shuttle which require at least 1 Meg to 
   render. 


Notes: If you create a scene but don't have enough RAM to render it, your 
local dealer may have a machine that does, and may be willing to allow 
rendering after shop hours (never hurts to ask).

Use your imagination.  Instead of using a large number of extremely 
detailed objects and running out of RAM, use just a few objects and some
creativity. Sometimes simple and imaganitive is the best approach (unless
you have 8 Megs of RAM, in which case you can ignore the preceeding message).

Above all else, enjoy!

Glen Graham

THIS GALLERY 3D OBJECT LIBARY DISK IS A MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTETION OF THE
U.S. SPACE STATION AND ORBITER WHICH IS ARRANGED AND CONFIGURED IN THE
SCULPT-ANIMATE SCENE FILE FORMAT.  THE MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THESE
OBJECTS ARE COPYRIGHTED BY BYTE BY BYTE CORPORATION AND ARE LICENSED FOR USE
ONLY WITH THE AMIGA VERSION OF SCULPT 3D, ANIMATE 3D, OR SCULPT-ANIMATE 4D.
ANY REPLICATION, MODIFICATION, OR TRANSLATION OF THE MATHEMATICAL FORMATS IS
STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND CONSTITUTES VIOLATION OF BYTE BY BYTE CORPORATION'S
COPYRIGHT.