This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Richard, It depends on if you want 8 or 24 bit color. At this time, I don't know of any 2D animation software under $15,000 that does 24 bit color. Azeena Technologies Animation Paintbox does full screen at 256 colors, but if you don't have a ton of RAM, (like…
It's a well deserved accolade Jason!
Jason, would a magic wand work with ER? 'Cos you are vector based and I've only seen wands in pixel based programs like Photoshop! In ER you are surely putting vector lines ontop of the picture so as to manipulate it rather than actually selecting a few pixels to make…
#Software?
Message #4307
Can anyone tell me what animation software is available for IBM PC to do full screen 2D animation? Preferably from scanned images. Most of what I've seen or read about have all been limited to something like 320×240 with any degree of fluidity. Any and all suggestions would be greatly…
> I remember reading that the acceptable window length was lengthened to 45 > days last year, for credit card orders. You might want to check into verifying > this, and let us all know. 🙂 30's probably enough in any case, barring "interesting" events like GifGate. I hear Perry…
If you only ordered it a week ago, I don't even have to check – it's not gone out yet. We're not quite that caught up. All orders should be caught up, even given the current sales rate, by next Monday, the 20th, which means everyone should have the goodies…
Nick, maybe I can help a bit. All WWW Browsers that I am aware of support the GIF format for image display (among others, but .GIF seems to be the mose popular). Of course, Simply-3D supports .GIF for the final rendering, so I would say Simply-3D is an excellent tool…
Well after reading all this. Can you check ?? I ordered about a week ago and havent seen anything yet. Mail usually gets to me in 5 days even cross country.. Let ma know.. Thanks Bob Tasa from The Design Shop..
#EDITORS CHOICE!
Message #4300
Hi Everyone! The February issue of Computer Graphics World and named Elastic Reality the Editor's Choice for the Best Rendering and Special Effects product of 1994. On behalf of everyone at ERI, we'd like to thank the Editors at CGW and our users for recognizing our work in this way.…
FUTURE ER SIGHTINGS!
Message #4299
Hi Everyone! Sneak Preview Time!!! I was given word yesterday that three movies slated for near-term release have featured Elastic Reality produced effects… These are (in no particular order): Outpost, The Hunted, and Last Gasp. Last Gasp, I'm told, has Robert Patrick in it. I don't know about the rest.…
Ben, You said: (b) as sure as we can be that we can ship within 30 days. 30 days is the time that we have, by law, to ship the product from the time we charge the card. FYI… I remember reading that the acceptable window length was lengthened to…
Mei-Tien, A magic wand is often difficult to master. Just ask Mickey Mouse 🙂 We are none-the-less looking at this and other techniques for making shape creation even easier. I don't have more info on this but I do know the R&D guys are hard at work on something. Jason…
Bri, Thank you very much. Elastic Reality for Windows owes a great deal to the skill of the programmers who worked on it, both the Windows specific team and the platform independent team. It owes a lot to our technical support staff and our beta testers who really beat the…
Rico, Aw shucks! (blushing) Advanced editing features are slated for future releases..our SGI product has the ones you mentioned, and more. Jason ERI Praise Acceptence Squad
Particles??? How??? Grady III
Ed: >>I encorage anyone who has PM2 to take a look at your project. Glad you enjoyed the FLASH.ZIP. This is a real compliment coming from you the expert. And I saw your picture in "Amazing PhotoMorph News" which reached my snowbank here in Canada yesterday. Is that a morph…
#S3D ClipART libraries
Message #4288
Hi, I have recently purchased Simply 3D (CD-ROM version) for Windows, and have also registered for the product. I am very impressed by the power of this program and I have enjoyed using it very much. Unfortunately, I do not have Corel Draw or other graphics packages that can export…
#Materials and smoothing
Message #4287
I have imported an object in the shape of a tapered drinking cup into Renderize Live. The object was created by a sweep operation and has 36 facets. When I apply a solid-color material and select smoothing for the object, the object renders smoothly, as expected. However, when I try…
#New Vendor Sign Up
Message #4286
Hi George, AniCom makes 3D-Choreographer. 3D Chor is a $149 Windows program for creation of 3 dimensional animations. Windows magazine named it one of the best 100 products in 1995 in the Feb issue. It differs from many programs in that it focuses on the character actions and movement rather…
Thanks. See you at NAB! We'll be in the Newtech Pavilion.
THanks for the heads up. Won't do it again. So far haven't had any nasties coming in. Alex Imbastari
#Multi-Morphs
Message #4283
My question >>I will be starting an ER project soon where I will have on the order of 10 images that will morph into one another. In other words, #1 will morph into #2, then #2 will immediately morph into #3, which will then morph into #4, etc., in a…
#30 day demo
Message #4282
I just tried to load the 30 day demo from a magazine cover disc. It would not install with a s3dhlp.dll missing message. When hand copied this hit the time/date problem. Has anybody got any suggestions Thanks M. Nash-Hunt
Russ, No Problem. Michael
Humanoid/KineModelz News
Message #4279
Pardon my ignorance, but can your models be used in Visual Reality? Thanks, Ewan Grantham grantham@MR.Net or 74123,2232 Editor of RADIUS – A Magazine of Future Fiction and Fact Ewan Grantham & Associates "Innovation in Information"
Glenn, You might want to try posting your question over in GO GraphSup. Richard Lindner Forum Staff
From:
Ed Lecuyer [NORTH COAST]
Animation Vendor A Forum
· North Coast Sftwre
February 14, 1995 12:51 PM
I just downloaded the "moving Alpha Channels" example that you posted. It is excellent! I encorage anyone who has PM2 to take a look at your project. -Ed
PM2 Video Online
Message #4274
From:
Ed Lecuyer [NORTH COAST]
Animation Vendor A Forum
· North Coast Sftwre
February 14, 1995 12:48 PM
I just uploaded a 3 minute video that "shows off" some of PhotoMorph 2's advanced features. I know it's HUGE (12 Meg) but it really shows off the software (Including Motion Morphing, Blue Screening, Alpha Channels, Multiple Filter Layers, etc.) Since I did the video, I will entertain "How Did…
#9 has support in GRVENA section 1, Barbara Brown [#9] [72037,2161]. I think there's new drivers and a BIOS revision..Why not check? Bruce Herzog Forum Staff NY 14-Feb-95 at 1:16p EST
If you post a message please expect replies to be in the forum. Try GRAPHSUP and ask there.. Bruce Herzog Forum Staff NY 14-Feb-95 at 1:14p EST
Enjoy the View! Bruce
Charles, > In Winimages F/X when I click on HELP– getting started, or display quality or keystrokes I get an > informational message ! INVALID KEYWORD. Our fault, and you can't fix it – this was only in the first couple of hundred disk sets shipped. I've told Dave in…
Mike, Regarding the 2-day mail, I'll talk to them about it. Thanks. Your order was shipped yesterday. Ben Williams for Black Belt Systems
Ken, Your order went out today. Ben Williams for Black Belt Systems
>>I started using simply-3D in the hopes of incorporating 3-D rendered images into a design for a html home page. Can these images be viewed under WWW browsers such as Mosaic or Netscape?
Thanks for the answer Mike. Russ Spencer
That would be a very nice feature add :-). We will defintely consider it. Chris Edgin ERI Tech (Yes, its a boring title 😉
No Luck, didn't change a thing. It must be in the card or it's drivers.
Ben: You gentlemen were kind enough to send me WinImages:Morph r3.0 before my recent trip to Miami Beach. I had about 6 hours all together to play with it while I was there and have found it to be confusing and powerful. I have a problem: In Winimages F/X when…
#Find Sreen Capture
Message #4257
Can anyone tell me where to obtain a user friendly Screen Capture pfrogram ? I have tried "Graffx" and Screen Thief" both unsuccessfully. I'm looking for a program which can capture svga images from the Dynamix flight sims and to print them as a gif or bmp file. Please drop…
#A Wish
Message #4256
It will be very helpful if ER support some kind of Lasso command( or magic wand) which defines the outline of a picture precisely for us, then we can modify it for the shape that we need. Will this be in ER someday soon? Mei-Tien
#OS Upgrade
Message #4254
Steve, I just found out that there is no upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT; I have to cough up about $290 which I'm not sure I want to do. I would like to take advantage of a 32 bit OS, but I'm not so sure that Warp is…
Ben, >>There is no "2-day mail" service we provide.
> Mark me number three, at least. I ordered about three weeks ago and guess what….? > The operator said it would ship the next day and should take about three to four days > to get there. My how time flies. I would appreciate your help in getting me…
#AM and OS2 WARP
Message #4251
After a few false starts I have Animation Master Running well under Warp. But why you may ask? I often have the need to render multiple batches of animations, sometimes executing a program to alter textures or other attributes within the files [thank you HASH for providing ASCII files and…
#Version 3 New features!
Message #4250
Steve, WOWSERS! Looks great, but I thought the $100 upgrade was a lot for A:M 2.0 (had a coupon for A:M when I got Playmation 1.47 at SIGGRAPH ''93). Now it's going to be $200! You guys wouldn't happen to have a student discount would you? Please, Please, Please !…
>That was the problem. Funny how after making AVI images and reading computer >and graphics magazines for years I have never heard of this shortcoming. Such is life with windows. MS never tells about the problems, and of course anyone will write a glowing review just to get published, based…
Yea, that post would make a good text file in their library.. >Without a doubt its one the most impressive programs I have coming across, Yep! As a windows programmer I agree. First of all, they've made a very nice and simple interface…. just taking functionality and providing the simplest…
Steve, I'm sure I read it in the "Inside Track" of PC Mag a couple of issues ago, but maybe they got their facts mixed-up. I'm glad to hear that Hash is Microstuff free!!! Have you talked to Jenee about the file upload situation? I haven't tried to upload anything…
ADPro ARexx & PSAcript ?
Message #4246
Chis, Would you PLEASE show me an example of SET_RENDER_MODE with all it's arguments used? I spent all day Sat trying to get it to work (with ADPRo 2.5) and never got it to go. I know the docs say it the same ast the GET_SCREEN_MODE, but there is a…
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