which apart from colour?
It seems to take Diffuse,Ambient and Specular settings (intensity + color) and maybe shininess, but definetly ignores opacity.
(i also dream of realtime paint effect
maybe you should look on squeak (www.squeak.org), nice free multimedia system.
had a quick look and don`t really get the connection between advanced shading or self written maya paint effects and sueak.... maybe you could give me a hint. i feel a little mucked... maybe just because of the beautiful start page. just tell me if you ment that serious.. have you ever made your own paint effects in maya?
no, dont have the money for maya, I licensed Lightwave but feel more and more attracted to free opensource software like Blender where you not got ripped for each update. I might be wrong but when you said Paint effects I thought something like active textures which are possible with Squeaks 3D engine, each GUI Element, socalled morphs, can generate and change a texture in realtime. Of course its possible with GEM too, one example are the videotextures. But the possibilitys with Squeak are very interesting and it becomes another item in my toolbox for interactive art. With the classes of the Siren project it can be interfaced via OSC. And have a look at the croquet 3D collaborative environment!
Cheers,
Malte
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