--== See a hi-res picture of the lock under pix/real3d/CanalLock?.jpg ==--

I produced this animation using Real3d 1.4, it took ages!

I first started with making the landscape out of seperate blocks, but I
had a problem of gaps, and steps on the ground. I then had the excelent
idea of making a canal like they do in real life. Make some ground, and
then cut (dig?) out the canal, lock chamber, gate recesses etc..

The ridged gates are made in a similar way, by making at first a solid
door, and then using a tool to cut out the recesses.

The canal/lock walls where the most fun. To get a different texture on
the side of the object to the top I had to AND NOT with PAINT, the tool
having the texture on that I wanted, for example brick, or piling. That
left the grass on the top (in fact I added the grass using the same
technique after I had done all the other cutting/texturing).

I added some (rather poor) clouds over the top using a sphere with a picture
produced from:

Clouds30.lha       gfx/misc    45K 143+Generates fractal clouds


I converted the IFF24 frames that Real3d makes to MPEG using EasyMPEG:

Easy_MPEG105.lha   gfx/show   217K  57+Easy MPEG encoder rexx program w/GUI


For playback I use aMiPEG:

aMiPEG05.lha       gfx/show   116K  17+MPEG player with support for CyberGFX


Enjoy,

Michael Askin

ps. Is this the first 3d canal scene ever produced? I've yet to see another
one.