Short: Two JPEG 24 bit pics from Scenery Animator 4.0 Architecture: generic Here're two more 768x480, 24 bit color JPEG compressed stills I made with my Beta copy of Scenery Animator 4.0 from Natural Graphics (due for shipment in May 1993). Hawaii.jpeg is an interesting one - it's a straight-down view from a high altitude of one of the Hawaiian islands. Note the volcano caldera on the left. The island is completely bare of vegetation which gives it a surreal, and yet almost photograph appearance in this rendering. Scenery animator has really only one interface "switch" to add detail to landscapes, called, oddly enough, the detail button. This scene was rendered with it on. Mons.jpeg is the famous DEM (digital elevation map) of the enormous Mons Olympus volcano crater on Mars. Here, SA4 has "terraformed" it by the addition of trees. I gave it an uneartly sky color and added 45% cloud density. If these aren't the most realistic looking computer-generated clouds you've ever seen, I'd sure like you to show me some better. The 3D object at the crater's center was originally scanned by me from my business card, (Epson ES300C 24 bit flatbed scanner and ASDG ADPro driver), then imported into Pixel 3D and converted to an Imagine object, then brought into Imagine where two of the letters were replaced by object primatives, then exported back to Pixel 3D Pro and saved back out as a VideoScape 3D ASCII .geo object, then imported into SA4 for plopping into this landscape. Note that the object casts no shadow. I could've painted one in but chose to leave it as-rendered. In both pictures the titling was performed in Centaur Development's spectacular OpalPaint Version 2.1 as I displayed on my OpalVision main board. The bevelled box behind each title was created with one button press and an ARexx macro written by Greg Niles of Centaur. The fonts are standard Amiga bitmapped fonts that live on my hard drive. Please view these pics on the highest quality display you can muster... a 24 bit hi-res RGB board like OpalVision or FireCracker is the best of course. Translating these pics down to HAM will cause the loss of half their horizontal resolution, and thus loss of a lot of detail. AGA hi-res HAM8 should be fine. Send any comments/questions/brickbats/bouquets to me at: harv@cup.portal.com Enjoy!