HOMES ©1994 AmProdEx Inc., All Rights Reserved. Version 1.0, 4/1/94 Included here is any information that has come to our attention after publication of the manual. Your ordering info will be on file so that we may keep you informed of new products and special offers. HOMES software is not public domain but commercial and is not to be reproduced in any form for any other purpose other than archival purposes. Piracy hurts everyone, spread the word not the software. If you would like to print out this ReadMe.asci file to your printer, load the file into any text editor or word processor and follow that programs' instructions. Any questions in regard to these disks or documentation please contact AMPRODEX Inc. from 9AM-7PM EST Monday through Friday at (716)337-3238 or FAX (716)337-3238. Write us at; AMPRODEX Inc. 4650 Langford Road North Collins, NY 14111 1) There is no specific mention to the limited range of motion for all door and window objects. The pivot points are adjusted to facilitate rotation or movement within a scene. Therefore, if you move or rotate an object too much it may appear to be emerged in another object, so proceed with caution and common sense. 2) Two brushes are included in the Images directory which are used as maps for the appearance of shingles on the roof of all four homes. Originally the shingles were modeled but this took up too many polygons. It is also used as a map for a brick appearance on the RanchChimney. There are also five images included which can be used as backgrounds or image maps for the windows. 3) There are 14 scene files included, below is a description of each. Each home consists of a hierarchy of objects, you should look these over to familiarize yourself with the objects, positions, and pre-defined surfaces. Then it will be easier to create your own scenes either by loading from scene, loading specific objects only or using these scenes as a starting point, which will retain the moved pivot points for heading or movement adjustments for animation. If no animation of windows or doors is required, load the all objects of each home saved as one. Also, if no interior is needed just load the Home scene to use, clear all the room and exterior objects and load the exterior only object of that home. This will free up some RAM. FOUR HOMES- This scene will load all objects of all four Homes, 183 total with 500 surface definitions. Each object is parented to a null so that you may append each home to each other creating a street. By moving the null for each home you can position each home with pivots for moveable objects retained and make your own neighborhood. HOMES- This scene loads the all objects saved as one for each home. This is useful if no animation of doors or windows are required but an exterior shot is to be made. LAKESIDEHOME- ONESTORYHOME- RANCHHOME- TRADITIONALHOME- These scenes have all their individual objects loaded with pivot points adjusted for rotational heading or axis movement for animation. Use as a starting point or load from scene to have all objects retain their pivot point adjustments. FLY- Each home also has an exterior, 360 degree fly around scene. Render the preview for 190 frames to get a good view of the home. WALK- Each home also has a scene that walks you through the interior rooms via doors and doorways. 4) There are three objects not listed in the manual for the Ranch Home, though they are part of the scene files. They are; RLivingRoomPatioDoorStep RLivingRoomSlideDoorStep RStorageDoorStep 5) Each home has a road object associated with it. What the manual omits is that they have the same surface names for the pavement and stripes. This is helpful when appending the homes so the surface appearance will blend between the four road objects. Lightwave 2.0 Users: 1. The FourHomes and the 4 Fly-around scenes contain Null objects. You will need to compensate for this. 2. Where Cubic image mapping is used, you will need to re-save the objects using the correct planar map. After familiarization of all the parts which comprise each home, you will be ready to customize your own scenes with whatever objects are needed. Application of 24bit image maps and input of furniture and other household objects will further expand your architectural renderings with photorealism. Have fun and consider our other 4 packages in this series: Interior Design I, II, III, and Construction. Thank you for the purchase and feel free to call with questions! The Files are organized as follows on the 5 Disks: Disk 1 - Traditional directory - Readme.asci file Disk 2 - Ranch directory Disk 3 - Ranch directory (the rest of the files) - LakeSide directory - TerrainYard file Disk 4 - Images directory - OneStory directory Disk 5 - Browser directory - Scenes directory These directories were installed as sub-directories under a master Homes directory in our 3-D Objects directory.