Unite 2010GDC ChinaAsia Game Show 2010GDC 2011
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So how does the method work?Before I explain how my method works, I will first take you through my development of the algorithm, after which I will outline the method in full. Meeting TonI while back, in 1998, I was broke. Well, actually, I'm still broke... but that's not the point. The point is that I couldn't afford to buy any 3d animation software (such as 3d Studio, or Lightwave, or even TrueSpace). So, I decided to search the net for a 3d animation program that was free. I already knew about Povray, and it didn't have very good animation capabilites; I ignored it. I then came upon Rhino, when it was still in it's beta, and free. But, of course, Rhino was a modeler, not a 3d animation program. Also, it was a NURBS only program, and I only knew how to model with meshes (from making Quake models and such). Finally, I came upon a program called Blender (http://www.blender.nl), and it was a full fledged integrated animation/rendering/modeling program. And it was free! So, I downloaded it, and started using it. It turned out, however that the GUI was designed for efficiency, and not for ease of learning. So, I e-mailed one of the programmers of Blender, Ton. He was very helpful, and told me the basics of using Blender. Now, this was two years ago, and only 50 or so people used Blender, and probably only about ten more people knew about it, as opposed to now where it has become very well known, and there must be ten thousand users or so, and probably half of the internet knows about it. In fact, when I first started using Blender, no one had even thought about the C-Key idea, and the manual was still in the middle of being written. Anyway, because of how few people knew about it, I was able to e-mail Ton many times after that. Most of the time I e-mailed him with feature ideas for Blender, because there were many features that seem standard in other programs that weren't in it (such as environment mapping, and translucent objects, and a UV editor). Then, at about the same time that the C-key system was implemented, I started coming up with ideas of my own, and not ones that I had seen in other programs.
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