Discusses how to harness the power of trueSpace to create powerful special effects, use F/X plug-ins and Python scripting, and provides a first-look at PyroCluster for tS and describes how to produce amazing effects with it. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Inside trueSpace 4 is the ultimate resource for professional trueSpace users. In a complete tutorial format, starts with a quick overview of the interface for inexperienced users and progresses through detailed instruction on effective modeling, material creation, and animation. It reaches to an accomplished level that provides information on creating special effects, compositing, placing cameras and lights, and using plug-ins for producing high-quality, expert animations. Undocumented techniques and a professional approach will appeal to the large installed base that is hungry for sophisticated advice. Dozens of step-by-step exercises, secret techniques from expert Frank Rivera, a thorough technical review by Caligari trueSpace Evangelist Terry Cotant, hundreds of illustrations, and the popular Inside graphics format combine to make Inside trueSpace 4 the book for every user to own.

Key Features - Primer on new features of versions 3 and 4 - The basics: tools, creature design elements, new features, and how to remove the jointed look from your models - Creating, modeling, and animating your creatures - Surfacing techniques including color, UV projection, texture maps, bump maps, and procedural textures - Animation with trueSpace

Thanks to programs like Caligari trueSpace3 -- and books like Caligari trueSpace3 For Dummies -- a regular person like you can do 3D modeling and animation on a regular PC like yours. In Caligari trueSpace3 For Dummies, author and ace 3D designer E.W. Swan renders this fun and fascinating program in terms you can understand, so that you can get right to work fashioning your own 3D worlds, replete with lighting effects and animation. Caligari trueSpace3 For Dummies shows you how to Orient yourself in trueSpace3's three-dimensional authoring environment Create photorealistic logos, objects, backdrops, and characters Animate objects -- even have them walk, fly, and collide with one another Use your 3D creations in Web pages, multimedia, film, or video

A step-by-step tutorial introduces and illustrates each feature and then brings readers through such advanced functions as modeling, modifying, animation, and 3D Web authoring.