"Divine Wind" <div### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote:
> The people using this news group are a great deal more experanced than me,
> so...

Yes, the people that post to this site are a fantastic resource.  And many
of them have web sites of their own offering valuble tidbits.  Check out
Chris Colefax's site at http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/#IncludeFiles In
particular the Clock Modifier could help a lot.  While it's rewarding to be
able to sync complex animations to the clock on your own, you'll have to
learn to store a lot of data in disk files so the current frame knows
what's going on.  Things like acceleration and collision detecion become a
lot easier then.  I have LightWave 3D and use it often for quick modeling
of my carpentry projects. Still, POV remains my favorite ray-tracing tool,
the SDL is far more intuitive for me than LightWave.  Or for that matter
Maya, 3ds max and a lot of the other high dollar packages I get to try out
once in a while.  They are powerful and very fast, but I don't have time to
really learn them.  Good luck with your project ;)

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