Short: A collection of Imagine tips and tricks Author: Carmen Rizzolo Architecture: generic . THE IMAGINE ORGANIZER . -or- . A friendly, honest alternative to panic. . By Carmen Rizzolo . . . . -- HISTORY ---------------------------------------------------------- . Release: 1.0 - October 21, 1992 Articles 1 through 8 Release 1.1 - October 27, 1992 Articles 9 through 11 Fixed several boo-boos in Article #6 Release 1.2 - March 18, 1993 Articles 12 through 13 . -- INTRODUCTION ----------------------------------------------------- . Ok, so what's the purpose of this article? Well, it's a series of articles I have made over time. One I plan to add to, instead of releasing seperate articles everywhere and hope you get them all. Now they're all together.. Fun, eh? In here you'll find all the tips, tricks and tutorials that I have written to further help you get along with Imagine. There will be things in here to speed up your creation process, smooth out rough motion, and do things that maybe you never thought you could do with Imagine. Although the tone of my dialogue is geared towards the Imagine novice, I hope that everyone will find a few things in here that they didn't know before. I'll release updates to this as I add to it. The articles are in no particular order, so look through the Contents for what interests you. Have fun, and don't get lost! . I can be reached at the following places: . E-Mail at AmigaNonymous: (619) 477-2368 Net-Mail at CarmenR@cup.portal.com on Portal, or carmenr@netcom.com on NetCom. . -- CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------------- . 1. Spline Based Rotations 2. Decrease Animation Creation Time 3. Get the Most Speed Out of Animation Playback 4. Making Custom Drawers in Your Projects 5. What to Name Your Actors 6. Looping the Waves Texture 7. Graphically Editing the World Size 8. Graphically Positioning the World Size 9. Using Conform to Path 10. Hiding 2-Dish flaws in 3D objects 11. Signing Your Animations 12. Crack Your Objects Up! 13. More on Speeding up Trace Renderings . ??. Leaves Rustling in the Wind ??. Nifty Neon ??. Flowers/Branches/Whatever Swaying in the Breeze (Imagine 3.0) ??. Structures Riddled With Windows Made Easy ??. Fun with Zooming ??. Springy Motion (Imagine 3.0) ??. Motion Blurring ??. Looping Essence textures (Maybe!)