RE: [flasher] RE: how was this 3d map made?

[Jamin Shoulet]

Helen


I think you should stick with 2d...creating it in vector has its drawbacks

of taking a longer time to create, but if this is for the web, your file

size will be much smaller than creating a 3d images, exporting it as a GIF

or JPEG and then re-importing it into flash.  If you did that, zooming in

will make the image look pixelated (its the ole question of vector vs.

images).  Maybe you could do a quick rough image in 3d just for placement

and use it as a template, trace over the image with vector.  Or if you feel

like going back to the ole traditional roots of art and create 2 vanishing

points and use those to guide your perspective.  


I hope this helps....I'm really tired and I cant think straight....but for

some reason I got a lot of sleep.


--Jamin

http://www.lostnewyorker.com





-----Original Message-----

From: Helen Triolo [

designeri-technica [dot] com (mailto:designeri-technica [dot] com)

]

Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:45 PM

To: flasher from chinwag

Subject: [flasher] RE: how was this 3d map made?



Hi Jamin.  It probably won't be anything, actually.  I have a map that I

did in Illustrator that I planned to use -- a regular ol 2d street map

that'll do the job.  But I thought it would be so much more fun, since

I'm doing it in Flash, to do it with a 3d map like that one if there

were any way I could.  It sounds from other people's posts though, that

it would take an eternity to do (2d streets took me long enough, I can

just imagine trying to do 3d with buildings and cars and little

people...)  But it was worth asking about just to see.  If I did do a 3d

map, I had only envisioned doing it from a single perspective and then

being able to scroll over and/or zoom to various parts of it, as I'm

currently doing with the 2d version.


Regards,

Helen 

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Jamin Shoulet wrote:

> 

> will this be for something that you can fly around and manipulate or will

it

> be a static image that you can zoom in and out?

> 

> --Jamin

> http://www.lostnewyorker.com

> 

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Helen Triolo [designeri-technica [dot] com (mailto:designeri-technica [dot] com)]

> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:19 AM

> To: flasher from chinwag

> Subject: [flasher] how was this 3d map made?

> 

> Hi all.  I got a very cool-looking (except for all the ugly ads) map in

> the mail the other day and wondered if anyone can clue me on how it

> might have been made. I scanned in a piece and stuck it up at

> http://i-technica.com/streetmap.html . Aerial photos plus 3d software,

> I'd guess, but what 3d software?  It looks like a lifetime of work to me

> (!) but it would be so great to do something like this for a map project

> I'm currently working on...

>



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