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trueSpace is a popular 3D animation and rendering program used to create a variety of 3D graphics and animations. It is also a great tool for creating awesome special effects. To date, however, this functionality has not been explored in any other book. Anyone involved in graphics needs to know how to create interesting, powerful effects, and they can do this with a variety of programs including trueSpace. In this book users will uncover the secrets for harnessing the special effects capabilities of TS. All aspects of F/X creation from photorealistic animated water to full 3D fire and explosions will be explained. It will also cover numerous plugins available for creating these effects.
Features
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Covers all F/X topics and details on how to create them
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Uses popular plugins such as Primal Particles, CoolPowers 3&4
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Book comes with new plugins and shaders not available anywhere else!
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Most tutorials will function in trueSpace 3 and up
Table of Contents
Basic Effects; Interface of Primal Particles; Custom Shaders and functionality through ts4.X interface; D.S. Fractal Noise Shader; Interface of WaveGen 1.5; Water and Other Liquid Effects using WaveGen and D.S.Fractal Noise; Discussion of CP3&4; Creating Fire and Combustion Effects Using PP and CP4 Shaders; Inter-face of MeshForge 2; Space f/X (nebulas, black holes) Using D.S. Fractal Noise and MeshForge 2; Advanced Effects (tornadoes)Using PP,CP4 and Others;
On the CD
CD-ROM (Windows only) to include: Demos of æPrimal Particle; MeshForge; D.S. Fractal Noise LE; trueVoxles, also includes various customer shaders and plugins, including: tsX Extender 2.1, UVTweak 2.0, and Hairplug.
AUTHOR
BIO
Nick Robalik (Levittown, PA) is a designer and founder of Digital Soapbox, a graphic design studio where he fuses his computer animation and audio production background with Web, print, and video design. He also creates animations for broadcasts and games, and writes for a variety of magazines, including trueSpace User Magazine and Mastering 3D Graphics. You can check out his webpage at http://www.digital-soapbox.com
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