Markus Altendorff wrote:
> 
>  >From evilsnack:
>  >JV:  The ruins look like a bunch of brand-new objects left
>  >in a heap.
> 
> Yes. That's because they're in fact a bunch of brand-new objects
> left in a heap. ;-) The ruin is one of the models that didn't
> look at all like i wanted it. I thought of something like a
> cliche ruin a la Indiana Jones, dark, dusty, with a single ray of
> sunlight falling on the fountain, but i'm not that versed when it
> comes to modelling. Time was also a factor. So i ended up with
> extrusion objects, converted to polygons, then crumpled and cut
> in various predictable ways, placed into the scene by hand...
> some sort of automatic debris or particles would be nice. I
> remember some IRTC animation of a tree through the seasons, with
> an algorithm that did let snow and leaves drop to the ground. I'd
> like to be able to use something similar within Cinema... so far,
> no success.
> 
> By the way, what does the "JV:" mean? I've seen it on all your
> comments ("Judge's Verdict"?)

Those are my initals; in times past, my e-mail was not properly posted
to the comments.

>  >The banter between the two characters isn't that amusing.
> 
> Which one? The one at the beginning wasn't intended to be funny,
> and the one at the end was more of a filler...
> Oh, and remember the eternal lines (almost) straight out of Star
> Trek: "Dammit Jim, I'm a desktop publisher, not a writer..." :-)

Yeah, well, okay.

Regards,
John

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