From: moka@elecsun4.elec.uow.edu.au (Mohsen KAHANI)
Subject: TECH: Problem with Virtek 3D-WARE
Date: 17 Oct 1995 05:51:57 GMT
Message-ID: <45vg9t$m6a@wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au>
Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.


From: moka@elecsun4.elec.uow.edu.au (Mohsen KAHANI)

Hi everybody,

We bought a virtek 3d-ware software to build our virtual world. I have
got a few problem with it and it seems that there is nobody in their
support group to read emails. I sent them an email 5 or 6 weeks ago,
but no answer.  I repeated that one week after, and after another one
week, sent an email to sale section, complaining about the support
staff. He promised me that I would get my answers within 8
hours. After more than 80 hours, I sent him another email, and he
again promised to get somebody answer me by the day after. After more
than a week I have got nothing.  So I decided to send some of my
questions here, maybe somebody could answer them.

1- what is the order of rotation in 3d-ware, eg. x,y,z or y,x,z,...

2- How one can determine what object is under mouse pointer

3- In their advertising, they claim that 3d-ware support sound. I didn't 
see anything in the manual, but there are some function prototype in 
header file (tagged incomplete) about Gravis. Does anybody know anything 
about this as well.

At last, I should say, although this is a commercial software, but you 
can find some public domain software, eg. APRIL with much more 
capabilities and ease of use.

Regards,
Mohsen
 

| Mohsen KAHANI  , PhD Student                                        |
| Department of Elec. & Computer Eng., Wollongong University          |
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