Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> I broke an enormous amount of new ground with this entry in terms of my
> own learning,... very satisfying.  But a lot of it never made it into
> the picture,... not so satisfying.  I assume it is the same for
> everyone.  Some pictures go like that a little more than others.

Yes, this was my "spend some time learning wings3d" round.  Now that I've
spent the time, I glad I did. There are things I can do very quickly with
subdivision modelling that take forever with a spline modeller like
Hamapatch ( and vice-versa).   I did get much better at it as I went along,
unfortunately that shows in my models and it's pretty easy to tell which
were the later ones since they look much better.

Unfortunately, I spent more time on the modelling than planned, so actually
putting the scene together in POV ended up being an exercise in cutting
corners. There are more sections in my scene files that are commented out
because I realized I didn't have time finish them than there are sections
actually used! (Not that I was going to use all of them, just that I had to
switch to alternate ideas when I realized it was the 25th already...)


> most valuable thing I did this time was to create a junk file that I
> could discard code chunks into.  This made it easier to move through
> ideas without loosing some bit of coding that I thought to be
> particularily clever.

Ah yes... I'm on my 4th or 5th junk file already, and they're all bigger
than a full scene.  Useful for going back and snipping bits from here and
there, but I never seem to find the time to go through and explore them like
I planned when I created them.  On the other hand, things that I only barely
understood when they were added to the junk file, I now find my brain has
percolated into some semblance of order and they're now usable ideas instead
of wonderous bits of confusion...  I'm just waiting for the IRTC topic to be
announced as "Abstract Confusion" and I'll be set ;-)

RG

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