Re: FLASH: Swift 3D

[David Doggett]

So what product do developers prefer to use for 3D that isn't too expensive?


Dave

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Swift 3D



> At 08:16 AM 8/31/00 -0500, Chris Rhoades wrote:

> >Does anyone have any favorable or unfavorable opinions about Swift 3d?

Is

> >it the best/easiest to use vector 3d rendering/modeling software out

there

> >for the price?  Is it worth $139 for what you can get out of it?  Just

> >trying to find out the meaning of life this morning and thought you guys

> >could help.  Thanks in advance for all the insights!

> >

> >Chris Rhoades

> >Whitestone Consulting

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>rhoadeschrishome [dot] com

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> Funny you should ask. I just now clicked SEND on the following, to another

> Flash users' list:

>

> Having seen a few mentions of Swift3D here, I must tell you that I was

very

> disappointed with the product. I found it only useful for the simplest

logo

> animations, and even for those, there is little one can do to alter a

> timeline of moves once they're made--simpler to start from scratch. And

> forget about characters walking, or anything that has moving parts. S3D is

> a spinning logo creator.

>

> At the Macromedia booth at SIGGRAPH, I saw a great demo about importing 3D

> into Flash 5, and we were shown 3DS MAX-compatible software that was to be

> distributed free, for the sake of content creation in the Flash platform.

> There were plenty of competitors offering similar web experiences of 3D

> objects, but the Macromedia solution looked best, for users of MAX,

anyway.

> Now that you've mentioned it, I'm going to check out Macro's web site for

> information.

>

> If you haven't heard of this, hang on and keep an eye out before you

spring

> for plugins and software to get 3D into Flash. The demo we were shown was

> simple, with crease-free workflow and excellent 3D results. I'd rather

have

> that than the kludgy experience of Swift3D, I'm sorry to say.

>

> S3D is version 1, still, so I suppose they may well pull it out of the

fire

> with improvements to the next version. I find it

> a very weak package, not suited to animators.

>

> PS: Chris, to this I'd add that it's not worth $100 to me. It's a crude

> tool, lacking in basic and useful 3D tools. It is obviously meant for no

> more than spinning logos.

>

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