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In article <9603180235.AA0012g@ancient.demon.co.uk>, Dave Naylor
<dave@ancient.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm attempting to use Pixel 3D to create a font - from an IFF picture - for
> use in Imagine, but I'm having problems.  Pixel 3D creates the object for

>   Whenever I quit then re-enter the Stage editor, after playing around with
> my scene, the object I created within Pixel 3D has no depth.  This happens
> even though it loads perfectly into the Detail editor, as well as initially
> loading into the Stage editor in the first instance.  For reference, the
> target object is really four objects grouped together, and I believe the
> Stage editor is only loading in the first object.  How can I get around this
> problem?

Check that the objects are REALLY grouped, do a QuickRender in Detail (you
extruded the object? maybe the side faces weren't generated), do a Join or
Merge of all object elements (warning: it'll 'glue' your faces/polygons so
later it'll be hard to select them apart, so save a copy first) so it's a
single object...

Personally, I only use Pixel3D for converting from Imagine to Lightwave
format; the bitmap conversion always let me unsatissfied and I ended up
touching up the object for too much time. I've found the built-in bitmap
conversion on Imagine 3.0 to be far cleaner than Pixel's. I create the
object to be extruded in DPaint in Hi-res laced, 2 colors, as big as it
fits on screen (if it has a lot of detail, that is , if it's a simple one
a 2/3 screen size works ok), save it to RAM, load it on Imagine's Detail
with Object/Convert IFF/ILBM, and most of the times, the resulting object
needs little touch-up...

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Victor Vargas G.  €Amiga 3D animation & video graphics/Mac DTP€