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#5668-ER & Avid Message #5690

From: ASDG Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum March 30, 1995 11:29 PM

Dennis, Tis true…Elastic Reality Inc. has merged with Avid Technologies. We're all really excited by the prospect of what we're going to achieve together and looking forward to what the future holds. Jason ERI tech support

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#ER & Avid Message #5668

From: Dennis Wiener Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum March 30, 1995 9:25 AM

I read in todays NY Times that you guy's have been bought by AVID. I hope this doesn't effect your hardware & software compatability in any way. .

Student Discount ? Message #4377

From: ken lee Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 12:02 PM

HI, Do you have any student discounts? or any competitive discounts. I am using True Space right now. I read some nice features in AM and am thinking to try it.

#4355-WI arrived Message #4376

From: Dan Richardson Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 11:32 AM

>>You can generate your effect in reverse, of course, but that does result in twice the frames, which (I guess?) you wouldn't want.

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VR Upgrade Message #4375

From: Steve Earl Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 10:46 AM

Nick, Any time frame on the VR Update / Upgrade? Also, I know you're pretty busy, but could you confirm my registration? Steve Earl InteSys Technologies, Inc. Gilbert, AZ 85234

#4347-Satisified Customer Message #4374

From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 10:42 AM

Due to compiler issues we were not able to access the 16-bit AVI DLLs under NT. We recently solved that problem but it won't show up until the next major product release, probably early summer. Thus, you won't be able to generate or play back animations when using Simply 3D…

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#4332-AAPlayer bug Message #4373

From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 10:37 AM

>>Any time I try to use the Animation player(or try to run the CD Demo for that matter) on the new machine, I have to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the blue Windows screen, then select continue (by hitting enter rather than another C-A-D) to be able to see…

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#4335-Materials and smoothing Message #4372

From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 10:32 AM

>>It looks as if separate strips of material have been randomly applied to each facet

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#4353-Fascinating problem… Message #4369

From: Bruce Herzog, M.D. Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 7:22 AM

Ewan, Remove the DCSHKEY.EXE from the load= line in win.ini…just erase it…Sound is controlled from the InControl icon and group in Control panel and this disables it. Set sound volume from your Mixer if it's a SB16 card. Change load=DCSHKEY.EXE…ETC to load=etc. Bruce Herzog Forum Staff NY 16-Feb-95 at 7:33a…

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#4364-Why Imagine? Message #4366

From: Michael S. Flynn Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 3:36 AM

Tim, It sure beats $3000 for 3D Studio! Michael

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#4204-#Why Imagine? Message #4364

From: Tim Wilson [Crestline] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 2:40 AM

>> I'll let you know about the new features if you want.

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#4344-WinImages … slow Message #4363

From: Richard Lindner Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 1:21 AM

Michael, This is a public forum and you have posted addresses and Phone/Fax numbers for all to see and use as they may see fit…The announcements warn you of this. If you wish, the staff can move the message to a safe area of the forum..Your call. Reply to this…

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#4353-Fascinating problem… Message #4362

From: Richard Lindner Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 1:20 AM

Ewan, PMJI. A few things I remember about your problem (hopefully correctly ), is check to see if the volume is adjusted correctly in the Diamond driver (if there is this feature). The other thing to try is erase the DCSHKEY.EXE statement from the load= line in Win.ini (backup this…

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#4313-WinImages … slow Message #4357

From: Ben Williams Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 12:29 AM

Chuck, ALL pending orders will be shipped by this coming Monday. ALL of them. So you should have your copy by the following Friday. I'll not go into the various jumping through hoops we've had to do for this release, I will simply say that no one at the company…

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#4344-WinImages … slow Message #4356

From: Ben Williams Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 12:29 AM

Yes, I'll check for you. Ben Williams for Black Belt Systems

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#4342-#WI arrived Message #4355

From: Ben Williams Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 16, 1995 12:29 AM

Dan, Thanks for the reports – this kind of detail is very useful, and although I'm truly sorry you've run into these things, it gives us a chance to show you how fast we can respond… > Some Help buttons in dialogues give me Invalid Keyword errors from help. I…

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#4348-New Vendor Sign Up Message #4354

From: Marc Reinig Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:45 PM

Darryl, Thanks, I'll be looking for them. -Marco

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#Fascinating problem… Message #4353

From: Ewan Grantham Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:24 PM

Based on a suggestion you made to another user, I downloaded the 1.30Z drivers for my Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM board. When I run the demo CD now, I see the animation (hurrah). Unfortunately, it also blows my sound out of the water, so I don't hear the narration, or…

#4328-New Vendor Sign Up Message #4349

From: Darryl Freedman Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:04 PM

Hi George, I'm trying to send some animations for anyone on the forum to download. As soon as I figure it out they'll be availble. If you have specific question, send me a note. Also look for us on our Internet home page http://www.spadion.com/anicom Regards Darryl Freedman

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#4320-#New Vendor Sign Up Message #4348

From: Darryl Freedman Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:04 PM

Reinig 72410,77 (X) Hi Marc, Samples are coming. I'll post them in the library. (assuming I can figure out how to do that). We have a home page on the Internet http://www.spadion.com/anicom As for making your own actors, the present version of 3D Choreographer comes with a "geo" character which…

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#Satisified Customer Message #4347

From: Ron Frenzl Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:37 PM

Hello Nick, I've been reading all of the good things you and others at VisSoft are doing for your customers. I am now happy to include myself in that group with the purchase of S3D. I would like to express my amazement as to the speed and quality of the…

#4237-Version 3 New features! Message #4346

From: Chris Duke Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:26 PM

Steve, I just received my AM v.3 upgrade notice via snail mail today and I have a few questions. 1. What other improvements beside Unattach and Insert Control point have been made to the modeler ? Any other tools ? 2. What is variable patch resolution ? 3. Would you…

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#3822-AM IMPROVEMENT Message #4345

From: Jim Jonah Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 8:59 PM

Charles, I'm glad you got it solved! I was getting worried for a minute there . Jim Jonah

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#4266-#WinImages … slow Message #4344

From: Mike Brennan Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 8:55 PM

Hi Ben I called last week to check out my order status and was told it will ship the next day. I'm in Canada so between our mutual postal services – a very loose definition of the 'service' word , it may already be on the way. As you've asked…

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#4330-Version 3 New features! Message #4343

From: ap Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 8:28 PM

Steve, Thanks anyways! Guess I'll have to wait for the good stuff after school. Why is everything great after school? Can't wait to hear about the results from the customers. -ANDREW

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#WI arrived Message #4342

From: Dan Richardson Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 8:13 PM

WI finally arrived. Looks very promising. Also looks kind of shaky. Here's some random notes from a few hours of poking at it. Some Help buttons in dialogues give me Invalid Keyword errors from help. A few I found just offhand are Area|Transparency Controls|Help (I dislike dialogues with no Cancel,…

#4329-Multi-Morphs Message #4340

From: ERI Support Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 7:26 PM

No problemo – thats what I'm here for 🙂 Chris Edgin ERI Tech

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#4284-Rendering with PAR & AM Message #4338

From: Bruce Herzog, M.D. Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 5:07 PM

No Problem…We can still move it if you wish. Bruce Herzog Forum Staff NY 15-Feb-95 at 5:30p EST

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#4331-OS Upgrade Message #4336

From: Michael S. Flynn Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 4:47 PM

Steve, That's kind of what I figured. As far as Warp, I can't really see the point of buying one OS to operate another. The only reason I would try NT would be because if I can get a job this year, I would look at buying a DEC Alpha.…

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#4321-#Materials and smoothing Message #4335

From: Michael H. Katz Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 3:44 PM

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#4331-OS Upgrade Message #4333

From: Adam DiGleria Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 2:59 PM

Hash (Steve?), I have a coupla questions regarding A:M 3.0. 1. Are the Goraud and Phong options available in the renderer or as preview only? 2. If not, can you give me any indication of how much faster the ray tracing is? 3. Are there still plans to release a…

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#AAPlayer bug Message #4332

From: Ewan Grantham Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 2:22 PM

Having had a chance to play with VR last night (finally received and installed it), I noticed that any time I try to use the Animation player (or try to run the CD Demo for that matter) on the new machine, I have to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up…

#4254-#OS Upgrade Message #4331

From: Steve/HASH, Inc. Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 1:26 PM

Thats a tough one! IMHO, NT is only suited to Pentiums with 32MB+ Ram…. I have no experience with OS/2, except it's a ROYAL pain to configure…. You may want to wait and see what WIN95 brings… Steve, Hash Inc.

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#4250-#Version 3 New features! Message #4330

From: Steve/HASH, Inc. Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 1:22 PM

Sorry, Andrew…. I know 200.00 is alot especially for a student! but we've poured mega effort into this new version and we think you will find it's worth every penny! Steve, Hash Inc.

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#4315-#Multi-Morphs Message #4329

From: Michael Smith Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 1:03 PM

>>Nothing special to do at all and for the purpose of linking the animations, you only need one roll.

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#4286-#New Vendor Sign Up Message #4328

From: George Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 1:01 PM

Darryl: Thank's for the reply. I always thought the world revolved around 3-D Studio. I'd like more information about this. Sincerely, George

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#4282-30 day demo Message #4326

From: Richard Lindner Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 12:51 PM

Michael, What program are you talking about? Richard Lindner Forum Staff

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#4100-PROBLEM WITH AM Message #4323

From: [F] Jenee Burns Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 12:01 PM

Dejan, I have notified Hash of the files and they are safely in a private section waiting for thier attention. They will be in tocuh with you directly. Regards, Jenee

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#4288-S3D ClipART libraries Message #4322

From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:50 AM

Dear Dr. Cheung: Visual Software has several CD libraries of clipart objects, and is producing additional volumes every month. The Architectural and Business ClipART libraries each sell for $39. My salesperson insists that I tell you that if you upgrade from Simply 3D to Visual Reality for the special price…

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#4287-#Materials and smoothing Message #4321

From: Nick Josephs [VISSOFT] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:32 AM

>>When I apply a solid-color material and select smoothing for the object, the object renders smoothly, as expected. However, when I try to apply a marble-like material from the Textures and Materials CD, the facets become visible

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#4286-#New Vendor Sign Up Message #4320

From: Marc Reinig Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 10:23 AM

Darryl, I'd like to see some samples. Could you post some in the library here? Also, is there or will there be a way to create your own 3D actors or to import them. If not, this will be a significant limitation for professional use. What capabilities are there for…

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#4308-A Wish Message #4319

From: ASDG Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:56 AM

Ken, True, we're vector based. I don't know the details, but presumably our programmers do. After all, they make the BIG bucks 🙂 Jason Makes little tiny bucks

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Clipping sequence of ima Message #4318

From: Neil McEvoy Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:43 AM

As a long time user of Imagemaster on the Amiga, I'm now trying to find my way around WinImages. It seems to have all the power and then some, but its taking some getting used to. My specific task at the moment is to crop a sequence of 640 x…

#4261-A Wish Message #4317

From: Mei-Tien Hsing Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:40 AM

Please, add it quick, it will help me a great deal… Mei-Tien

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#4297-A Wish Message #4316

From: Mei-Tien Hsing Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:39 AM

Jason, Hope that will happen soon….. Mei-Tien

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#4283-#Multi-Morphs Message #4315

From: ERI Support Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 9:30 AM

You insert your first sequence, in the a-roll and continue inserting the other sequences into that roll as well. After all images are inserted into the a-roll, accept, and then select the pass-thru TJ project and select FLC as your saver. Nothing special to do at all and for the…

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#4290-Moving alpha channels Message #4314

From: Ed Lecuyer [NORTH COAST] Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 8:16 AM

Hi John, No that picture was not "morphed" I really am that handsome (VVVBG)! I answered the phone when you called to order the stylize pack, but then I handed it to someone else before I knew it was you. After the order was taken and I saw who it…

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#4211-#WinImages … slow Message #4313

From: Chuck Gill Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 2:58 AM

I ordered Winimages by phone (800 number) first week of January and was told i would receive it by Jan 21; when i didn't receive it, i called and was told that i would receive it around the first of Feb; i called and was told i would receve it…

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#4296-ER problems Message #4312

From: Brian Reed Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 2:33 AM

Hiya… couple notes.. Have you ever seen the video 'Cry' by Godley & Creme? Pretty sharp, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was done with an early SGI-ER. Stargate eh? Didnt even read the post that close (I'm swamped here!)… I know one fellow that worked…

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Want to buy Message #4311

From: NATAN ZACHS Forum: Animation Vendor A Forum February 15, 1995 2:03 AM

I want to buy I am in Mexico, can you inform me where to order.

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