LANDSCP is a .SEQ animation. You fly down a valley with meshwork mountains on either side. As you fly up the mountains they take on a solid character.
My Landscape was created early last year ('88) and was something I thought I would spend a weekend on. It didn't make it past the evening news. About 2 hours were spent on it. I first used Tom Hudson's CREATION program to generate the 2 20*20 grids that are each side of the valley. It took 20 minutes then to get 2 with water running along 1 side, now with CyberSculpt it would take 5 for every thing. Then I dropped into CAD 3-D and enlarged the objects to nearly fill the universe and positioned them. I then used my favored trick of opening all three view windows and double clicking the rotate icon. This produces a cross hair in each window. Move these with the mouse by click and drag. In the last active window three numbers will be at the top. When I positioned the hairs where I wanted the camera to start I wrote down the three numbers, the I repeated through the points on my spline, the numbers aren't exact but as you can see they get close enough for a spline. This takes about 90% of the work out of making an animation like this and makes stuff like STHENGE possible. Enjoy the animation and the tip.
(Chris Harmon)