MinDBenNdER
6-12-03, 10:34 PM
The Animation (http://www.motionndesign.com/realstarwars.html) was done using a Book by New Riders called; 3ds max 4 MAGIC (http://www.newriders.com/isapi/st~{2458DEFE-7601-4781-BD04-728B23B37079}/session_id~{8487F601-DDDE-4C9A-AD57-BD3C0B5E3C88}/product_id~{CF94C605-88DF-488A-AD54-5F6288F75873}/books/product.asp).
It shows how to animate the materials using Alpha channels and Map Gizmos. The impact fire and debris was made using a Particle Spawn called “Super Spray”.
The book is a tutorial style manual that’s more of a step by step tempo. To use it, you have to know your way around 3DS’s controls and interface. Can be confusing at times. But it is worth the $40. Most New Rider books are written very well.
The difference from the book version and mine is; the book illustrates it as an Asteroid hitting the earth. I changed that to show a satellite launching a Nuclear attack. That was done to stay away from copying strait off the book. But the camera motion, and explosion effect can be made using the steps in the book.
"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge ... that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil...? " (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/documents/starwars.speech/) is what President Reagan said March 23, 1983; as he gave is proposal on the “Star Wars” project. According to a article written in 2000 by ABCNEWS.com (http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000tech/starwars991101.html), Washington still has plans to develop such a project; “One plan has lasers being attached to the front of Boeing 747s. Another is a smaller version of SDI, arming satellites with high-power chemical lasers.
Like its namesake movie series, Star Wars is a technological dream that just won’t go away.”.
Satellite technology played a big part in the war just fought with Iraq. GPS system that was said could guide a missile in any were around the earth in as little time as two hours. How far will man take warfare to the outskirts of the earth’s atmosphere? Remote control weapons of mass-destruction? Live counter fighters? Orbiting military bases? Live gun fights in space?
It shows how to animate the materials using Alpha channels and Map Gizmos. The impact fire and debris was made using a Particle Spawn called “Super Spray”.
The book is a tutorial style manual that’s more of a step by step tempo. To use it, you have to know your way around 3DS’s controls and interface. Can be confusing at times. But it is worth the $40. Most New Rider books are written very well.
The difference from the book version and mine is; the book illustrates it as an Asteroid hitting the earth. I changed that to show a satellite launching a Nuclear attack. That was done to stay away from copying strait off the book. But the camera motion, and explosion effect can be made using the steps in the book.
"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge ... that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil...? " (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/documents/starwars.speech/) is what President Reagan said March 23, 1983; as he gave is proposal on the “Star Wars” project. According to a article written in 2000 by ABCNEWS.com (http://abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000tech/starwars991101.html), Washington still has plans to develop such a project; “One plan has lasers being attached to the front of Boeing 747s. Another is a smaller version of SDI, arming satellites with high-power chemical lasers.
Like its namesake movie series, Star Wars is a technological dream that just won’t go away.”.
Satellite technology played a big part in the war just fought with Iraq. GPS system that was said could guide a missile in any were around the earth in as little time as two hours. How far will man take warfare to the outskirts of the earth’s atmosphere? Remote control weapons of mass-destruction? Live counter fighters? Orbiting military bases? Live gun fights in space?