Re: FLASH:Adobe Dimensions

[Gregg Caines]

I use it and love it.  I've never really been patient

enough to wrap my mind around 3d modeling but

Dimensions is a pretty cool alternative.  It's mostly

capable of just extrusion, but it can import some

2d shapes, and extrude them and then you can

combine them into more complex shapes.  It can

render basic animations to postscript, which can

then be imported into Flash (as a series).  There

is a bit of post-import tweaking necessary (for

some reason it uses masks extensively and

needlessly) but it's still easier than tracing.  It's not

compatible with any other 3d packages AFAIK, and

it isn't very flexible at all, but it's the simplest thing

I've come across to get the job done.


Here's a sample of something I did with it fairly

recently as a demo:


http://www.neometrixsystems.com/dev/multi-tier.html


If you can already model fairly well with 3ds Max or

some other professional modeling environment, then

this is probably not powerful enough for you.  If

you haven't got time to learn that stuff or are missing

the brain cells like me, then try Dimensions...


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> Has anyone used this prog, and would it be considered a competitive

product

> with Swish3D and Vector?

>

> thanks

>

> Steve





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