Imagine 3 : Part 3

(Taking the main image apart)




Special Imagine Features
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Step 1 
(clouds.iff)

The background to the image was a scanned image of some
clouds. To make it more interesting, it was swirlled around
a little in an image processing program (Art Department,
ImageFX or Photogenics) and saved to disk.


Step 2
(quick-stage1.iff)

Various objects were created or loaded from public domain
collections and placed in the Stage editor. The cloud
background was added in the Action editor's Global menu. The
finished render was 1024 by 1024 pixels and took about
twenty minutes to render on an A4000 with 20Mb of RAM.

Step 3
(quick-stage2.iff)

More objects were loaded or created. This time a lens flare
effect was used to add a little more interest. The image
created in step 2 was used as a background, and the image
re-rendered to combine the two sets of objects. Combining
them in this way saved time and memory. Because the
resolution was quite high, if all the objects were rendered
at once, the Amiga started to run out of memory.

Step 4
(logo.iff)

A logo was created using the Spline editor and a PostScript
font. The logo object was given a texture and pl




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Many PostScript compatible fonts can be loaded into Imagine
and turned into objects. The result is smooth lettering
which you can then treat with textures and brushes like any
other object.


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There can be as many light sources in the scene as you
require. Here there is a light source inside the lamp, as
well as one to the front and another to the rear. All lamps
can be made to cast shadows if required.


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Objects can be given special textures which are generated
internally, rather than given a brush map. These procedural
textures look very smooth and can be finely controlled.

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Imagine 3 can add a lens flare effect to the image, as
though the light sources were reflecting inside the
imaginary camera used to "photograph" the image.

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The complex modelling tools available will allow you create
realistic objects. If you can see it, you can model in with
Imagine 3.

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The physical properties of objects can be adjusted to create
translucent solids, or highly refective mirrors. You can
combine these settings with texture and  brushes to create
almost anything.