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Subject: Re: B5:LotR TLaDiS - Some Observations, Questions, etc. (SPOILERS
Date: 21 Jan 2002 23:42:06 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>The wheel had already been invented and perfected in Lightwave.  *Use* the
>wheel.  If necessary, tweak it some more, but *don't* go to different
>software.  To change to Maya is to incur additional work and expense, and
>leave yourself open to the possibility of errors and inconsistancies.  This
>kind of thing really pisses me off.  The change makes no sense.  There are
>times to be conservative, and this was one of them.
>
>

Understand, however, that we did not *have* that software, or those images.  WB
had literally lost all the CGI archives we gave them every season.  All we were
able to get, at the very last moment,  was a copy of the ship files we had
given Sierra for the B5 game.  That's it.  

 jms

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