Hello,

My name is Eric Wessels. I recently released a piece of software, Poet3-D,
as freeware. It is designed to provide a real-time textured OpenGL playback
of scenes consisting of articulated figures (humans) and primitives. It is
designed to be an interactive front-end that exports to Pov-Ray.

Anyway, I'm a college professor and I wrote the package for an Animation
class I taught this spring. So far, I've recieved 1200+ hits on the site but
not one e-mail response! I'm currently trying to decide whether to flesh-out
the GUI and functionality of this alpha software or put it on the garbage
heap.

If anyone could try it out and give me some info I would appreciate it. The
URL for the software is http://home.winsocket.com/~dreamsir/p3d.htm

I can be contacted at poe### [at] xoommailcom or ewe### [at] erolscom. I have more
confidence in the latter e-mail address.

If someone could give me some feedback on the software, I would greatly
appreciate it.

Sincere thanks,
Eric

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I'm one of the people that downloaded your program, I have to confess
that I couldn't figure out what to use it for.  I'm only one person though.

Bob

"Eric Wessels" <ewe### [at] erolscom> wrote in message news:390f631e@news.povray.org...
| Hello,
|
| My name is Eric Wessels. I recently released a piece of software, Poet3-D,
| as freeware. It is designed to provide a real-time textured OpenGL playback
| of scenes consisting of articulated figures (humans) and primitives. It is
| designed to be an interactive front-end that exports to Pov-Ray.
|
| Anyway, I'm a college professor and I wrote the package for an Animation
| class I taught this spring. So far, I've recieved 1200+ hits on the site but
| not one e-mail response! I'm currently trying to decide whether to flesh-out
| the GUI and functionality of this alpha software or put it on the garbage
| heap.
|
| If anyone could try it out and give me some info I would appreciate it. The
| URL for the software is http://home.winsocket.com/~dreamsir/p3d.htm
|
| I can be contacted at poe### [at] xoommailcom or ewe### [at] erolscom. I have more
| confidence in the latter e-mail address.
|
| If someone could give me some feedback on the software, I would greatly
| appreciate it.
|
| Sincere thanks,
| Eric
|
|
|

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Bob Hughes wrote in message <390f998d@news.povray.org>...
>I'm one of the people that downloaded your program, I have to confess
>that I couldn't figure out what to use it for.  I'm only one person though.
>
>Bob


Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry it took me so long to reply.

The original concept of the system was to allow you to pose and animate
characters in a realtime environment. The characters are low-res in the
editor. However, when you render the characters out to Pov-Ray the low-res
models are replaced with hi-res models. For example, the girl on the Web
page appears as a series of boxes that looks humanoid in Poet3D. However,
when you render to Pov-Ray she is replaced with a highly detailed meta-ball
model. The other primitives and the image-mapping options in the editor are
an early attempt to flesh out the system to do more than just character
animation. However, it is most useful for that purpose. The need as I saw
it, was that there is a empty niche for doing character animation in
freeware/shareware modelers. Also, the two models I provide are fairly
detailed. There is also a void of completely posable high detailed models
avaialble for free. As a whole animation system, it needs a better GUI and
to support .3ds models as well as height fields. I think the interface would
have been more intuitive if I tried to mimic a commercial package rather
than use my own system. BTW, you can use P3D for character animation and
combine it with your own scene code. It is under one of the menu based
rendering options.

I appreciate you input. Please feel free to post or e-mail
poe### [at] hotmailcom me with any questions.

Eric

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"Eric Wessels" <ewe### [at] erolscom> wrote in message
news:3922ce11@news.povray.org...
|
| Bob Hughes wrote in message <390f998d@news.povray.org>...
| >I'm one of the people that downloaded your program, I have to confess
| >that I couldn't figure out what to use it for.
|
| Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry it took me so long to reply.
|
| The original concept of the system was to allow you to pose and animate
| characters in a realtime environment. The characters are low-res in the
| editor. However, when you render the characters out to Pov-Ray the low-res
| models are replaced with hi-res models. For example, the girl on the Web
| page appears as a series of boxes that looks humanoid in Poet3D. However,
| when you render to Pov-Ray she is replaced with a highly detailed meta-ball
| model.

I see, okay.  I didn't get that far, only messed around with the objects and
pseudo-human.
It's not really my cup of tea.  Hopefully I'll get back to it again and check
a rendering out too.

Bob

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"Eric Wessels" <ewe### [at] erolscom> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Eric Wessels. I recently released a piece of software, Poet3-D,
> as freeware. It is designed to provide a real-time textured OpenGL playback
> of scenes consisting of articulated figures (humans) and primitives. It is
> designed to be an interactive front-end that exports to Pov-Ray.
>
> Anyway, I'm a college professor and I wrote the package for an Animation
> class I taught this spring. So far, I've recieved 1200+ hits on the site but
> not one e-mail response! I'm currently trying to decide whether to flesh-out
> the GUI and functionality of this alpha software or put it on the garbage
> heap.
>
> If anyone could try it out and give me some info I would appreciate it. The
> URL for the software is http://home.winsocket.com/~dreamsir/p3d.htm
>
> I can be contacted at poe### [at] xoommailcom or ewe### [at] erolscom. I have more
> confidence in the latter e-mail address.
>
> If someone could give me some feedback on the software, I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Sincere thanks,
> Eric

Hi,
Updating the POV-Ray links collection,
I am bumping this old thread because this software's homepage is down and none
of the provided emails work. Eric, In case this newsgroup adress is different,
could you please let us know where to download you POET 3D animation software?

Or if anyone else has it around some harddrive and can provide it?

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