Caligari trueSpace3 for Dummies
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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… Product details and pricing info |
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25 Customer Reviews Posted
- Wish I'd included the physics chapter!
- I must say that writing a Dummies book was both a blessing and a curse in many ways. It sure wasn't easy trying to describe the complexities of 3D in a way that the bare-bones novice could grasp... but luckily IDG lays down a very good approach for the authors.
The biggest problem with writing the book was its length. I was told to keep the thing under 325 pages or so but before I knew it, I'd written so much I was cutting entire chapters. (Imagine giving birth to a baby only to be told to chop off one of its arms... sob.)
I must apologize for a couple of things:
1) The humor overload... what can I say? I thought I'd put enough in there, but they had me ramp it up even more. Deke McLelland (author of the Photoshop for Dummies series), I certainly am not.
2) The physical simulator (physics) chapter. I wrote it, but because I went on blabbering about all the other stuff in the program, I had to cut it. (See above.)
Now of course the book and the program are both horribly behind the times, and I really don't use Caligari products anymore... but I must say that the Caligari staff were always wonderful to me and trueSpace will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thanks everyone for the reviews, good AND bad.
- 2004-01-28, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- not bad
- I think truespace 3 for dummies is not a really bad book. Everything is really easy to understand and I am sure that if you are a first timer you wil understand everything. sometimes the humour is a little bit irritating but that's a personal comment. If you're a more advanced designer please do not buy the book, it will not do you any good. But for beginners the book wil be perfect.
- 1999-01-26, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Merely another Truespace Manual
- This book is claimed to be for dummies, but even at this level, many of the ideas in Truespace 3 are presented poorly - i.e. it is just DESCRIPTION of the tools and offer no ideas in how to APPLY them. There is just no point in buying a manual which you already have. I strongly recommend Truespace 2 Bible - which is also for 'dummies' but explores many of the tools with EXAMPLES and ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 1998-06-08, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- An excellent trueSpace resource guide not just for beginners
- Caligari trueSpace3 for dummies is an excellent resource guide not just for the beginner. It covers from animation (Inverse and Forward Kimatics), organic modeling (metaballs), texturing, tips, and best of all: how tSx (trueSpace Extenssions) increases the overall usefullness.
- 1998-03-23, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Nothing more than a dressed up manual
- The book is only for those of you who have picked up Truespace3 as a toy, it's merely a manual that is lacking much of any useful content. For those who pirated the program, it's a manual, for anyone else, it's a paperweight. Our only hope is that Peter Plantec, Frank Rivera, or someone with a great skill of writing AND Truespace3 will write a Truespace3 Bible, so that this book will be forgotten. Note: I have nothing against E. Swan, it's just that a poorly written book deserves a realistic response.
- 1998-03-19, 1 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
