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Martin, First you should run down to your local bookstore and get a copy of "Autocad 3D design and presentation" by Bousquet & Hester. It goes a long way into discussing video options for animation. The Videolynx will work for what you want but the Targa+ has a much better…
Actually, I'd be fore deleting it from CompuServe. I finally got the thing Starting over…. Actually, it should be deleted from this section. Or is it part of CompuServe's way to pump up their revenues? A real waste of $$$. Very bogus. I agree totally with Bryan. Sysops: Please nix…
#aap
Message #3920
well the mother board is being replaced with one with a different chip set on it. i tried the 32 megs in a 386/33 and it worked fine so its not aap or qemm or the simms. thanks for your help in resolving the error. sherwood.
#3833-
#IBM Genlock
Message #3919
How much is the Targa+ now?
Thanks! Fast service is what I like! Tom
Tom, I finally figured it out, and when I did I got MAD. That file is downright PATHETIC! I can't believe I wasted so much connect time downloading it. If anyone else is reading this, don't bother! Bryan
Game&parks: Thanks – will try the Apian VESA extended bios. What monitor are you using? Is it a fixed or multi-variable type? Can I get 640 x 480 x 256 colors on a regular fixed VGA monitor, or must I have a multi frequency type? Emily
You can use the Trilobyte .FLC player called play73.zip in the "what's new" library section. It should play your files just fine! Graeme.
#3675-
#DWG to DXF Utility?
Message #3914
George: My program, The Stripper, can convert a DWG to a DXF. The program is meant primarily for converting DWGs or DXFs from newer versions of AutoCAD back to earlier versions, but it can also just convert DWG files to DXF files in the same version if you like. David
I suppose disk i/o would be a good thing to add to Play. Is Space Invaders this important? Graeme.
It sounds like he wants a matte image to use in the key channel. You can create one by rendering your image/animation again with just a white self-illuminated material on your objects that need to be the key objects. Speaking of SI materials… if you want to make a fluorescent…
It's called DXF3DS, and it's in the 3D Studio DL right here in ASOFT. Check it out, and I hope it makes it into the next rev of your book! – G
Again, no problem. Trilobyte's PLAY program will play FLC's quite well directly off the hard disk… No extra RAM required! Check it out and I think you'll be pleased. – G
#Time Code Generator
Message #3908
Does anyone out there have a time code generator for an AG7750. I am desperate… New or Used… New would be nice. Please leave a telephone number and a business name if you are a dealer.
yes they are all 4 meg simm moduals 70 nanosecs. the board is a dx-6100 33/50i with 256 write back cashe. the microprocessor is intel a80486dx-33/50 mhz. the board has eteq cougar chipset with vlsi implementation. thanks
Maybe i should look into Generic cadd for my architectural models! Thanks again! Steve
It does sound like more trouble than its worth. I'll stop beating you and Gary up on this and continue to beat up the cadkey folks. They move a lot slower than you folks (hence, the support is not near as good as yours). Thanks for you feedback. Steve
#AutoShade to AAP
Message #3903
I am using Animator Pro, AutoCAD Version 11 and AutoShade. Is there any way I can get a shaded rendering into animator Pro without using the Pixelpop TSR. I've tried this and it doesn't work. I am using the old flimaker from Animator and thus am not getting the high…
I have a USvideo board with the Zymos BIOS. I am using the Apian VESA BIos extne extension BIOS and I am having no problem with animator pro. I can output to video and have had no system hangups. Try the Apian VESA extended BIOS.
#ANIPLAY Limitation?
Message #3901
Grant, I would like to create some acad help animations. I would like to be able to start from lisp shell out of acad to start a .bat file or script that runs an animation and then return to acad. 640x480x256 would be ideal. Which or your suggested options would…
#3611-
#Driver for Ani Pro
Message #3900
Brad, What is PanaMate? I have an STB EM/16 and I have the STB VESA but I can't get any higher than 800×600. I have configured Acad for 1024×768. Any ideas. Stephen
Grant: A possibility regarding the size/speed of the RAM chips is to use the NS (nosort) switch on the QEMM line. I had a problem with QEMM/Windows/Acad that required this fix. Seems the machine couldn't keep up with itself when trying to keep the active application in the fastest (60ns)…
G.. I think what he is concerned about is the placement of the animated image to be faded into the live video section. As he explained it to me if we create a black background with the animation in white (that is the image in white) he can sync the…
Freelance Programr Wantd
Message #3897
Graphix Zone, Inc., has opportunities for competent multimedia programmers on Mac, PC, and Philips CD-I platforms. Possibility for full time employment if skills are there. Fun environment and great opportunity. Call Angela Aber or Glenn Freeman at (714) 833-3838 or E mail us back.
Freelance Programr Wantd
Message #3896
Graphix Zone, Inc., has opportunities for competent multimedia programmers on Mac, PC, and Philips CD-I platforms. Possibility for full time employment if skills are there. Fun environment and great opportunity. Call Angela Aber or Glenn Freeman at (714) 833-3838 or E mail us back.
Freelance Programr Wantd
Message #3895
Graphix Zone, Inc., has opportunities for competent multimedia programmers on Mac, PC, and Philips CD-I platforms. Possibility for full time employment if skills are there. Fun environment and great opportunity. Call Angela Aber or Glenn Freeman at (714) 833-3838 or E mail us back.
#solar.zip viewer
Message #3892
Hello out there, I just took the time out to go and down load the file solar.zip, which took quite some time to get. Now I find that I can't use aaplay tu run the program. Any suggestions? I would like to think that if it's there, one could at…
Thanks very much for the information about the VESA driver and about PLAY. I will give both a try. It is really helpful to have help from people who have a lot of experience like is found on this forum. Thanks very much. I stil don't exactly understand whether it…
Thanks, Grant. I'll give Panacea a call today. Are there any suggestions for a well-working combo of VGA with genlock and added sound to animator pro? Has anyone had experience with the Microkey boards from Video Associates working with animator pro? Thanks Emily
#3696-
Videolinx Frame Buffer??
Message #3889
What does TARGA+ have in addition to / or instead of ntsc in/out? Also, how does that affect quality?
#3669-
#Videolinx Frame Buffer??
Message #3888
I'm still a little in the dark, here. What does TARGA+ have that the videolinx doesn't? It can output images at 746 x 484 in 24 bits and I understand that the targa+ cannot do this – isn't it limited to 512 x 480 in 32 bits depth. Is it…
#3841-
3DS on Irisvision
Message #3887
Last I heard Silicon Graphics was working on a RDPADI for the Irisvision card. -GB-
#3825-
#Generic 3D -> 3DStudio
Message #3886
It's okay to beat a dead horse, but you're betting the wrong one. Really, its a million times easier for the cad translator to make the faces, than for a program to look at arbitrary lines and guess at what the faces would be. You should be beating up on…
#3824-
#Generic 3D -> 3DStudio
Message #3885
Algorythmically, you are asking for a very difficult thing. A program would have quite a bit of trouble finding closed shapes in 3D space from an arbitrary number of lines with an arbitrary number of coincident points for each line. Consider a cube constructed of 12 lines, for example. First…
#3837-
#usvideo board
Message #3884
Your best chance of getting your US Video card to work is to purchase a driver from Panacea, (800)729-7420. Another company that may have a driver for you is Vibrant Graphics at (800)937-1711. Currently, there doesn't appear to be a freely available VESA driver that works with the US Video…
#3839-
#aap
Message #3883
AA Pro and any Phar Lap application can use up to 64 megs of ram without any trouble and any ram QEMM finds is ram that AA Pro can use, it just sounds like the simm is bad or the address decoding logic on the mother board is not compatible…
#3DS 2 DXF
Message #3882
Been lookin all over for 3DS2DXF. Whar is it? Michele
RIO 4.01 or 5.0 4 sale
Message #3881
I have RIO 4.01 for sale for $900.00. I will obviously transfer my right as an owner for your upgrade to RIO 5.0 for $300.00. If you want, I can get you the upgrade myself and sell you RIO 5.0 for $1200.00. If interested or if you want more information…
#RIO 4.01 or 5.0 4 sale
Message #3880
I have RIO 4.01 for sale for $900.00. I will obviously transfer my right as an owner for your upgrade to RIO 5.0 for $300.00. If you want, I can get you the upgrade myself and sell you RIO 5.0 for $1200.00. If interested or if you want more information…
Bill, the original readme.doc that came with 3DS explains how to do batch rendering, and if you just type 3DS RENDER with no arguments, it'll tell you what commands you can feed it. – G
I'm sure that the lens scaling in 3DS 1.0 is wrong. We're going to be changing it in 2.0 to be consistent with the way Ashade does it. You're correct about what 3DS means by FOV… it's the distance from the upper-left to lower-right corner. We got our original numbers…
Nick, I just got a copy of your POCO application that builds automatic word charts today to look at. GREAT STUFF! It's a real application. Very very cool. Congrats to you, Tim, and John. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you guys… ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU GET THE DOCUMENTATION. -…
AniPro will work perfectly for your application. Two things: 1) The VESA driver that came with your ATI board is bogus. Delete it and download VESA.ZIP from DL5 here in the forum. It includes a VESA driver for the ATI that will work fine. This will get you up and…
Yeah, but what I want to know is… will it save my high score? – G
Well, I'm not an expert on Generic's products, but Scott should talk to Peter about this. He designed G3DD and he's been very happy with DXF3DS. I think they ought to get together and discuss it. – G
The tests that I ran were done on a group of Compaq 386/33's and 486/25's and /33's before Siggraph. There were no memory managers installed. – G
#batch render
Message #3872
Hi, Is there any way to do unattended renderings with a batch file in 3ds? A readme .doc on some update disk will do… I've heard it exists, I just cant find it. Bill
#lens settings
Message #3871
On a couple of recent projects that involved mapping 3DS images to 35 mm photography, I noticed that when we matched/scaled one to the other that the lens settings in 3DS did not correspond to those with which the photograph was taken. This differs from, say AutoCAD DVIEW, where the…
#3762-
3d-Studio Animation
Message #3870
I only know what I read in the papers. The Examiner seems to cover it more closely, but NBC seems happy to fan the rumors. There was very little speculation on alternative affiliates in the two articles I read, though Jim Gabbert's station (KOFY? 20?) was mentioned since they pick…
#3812-
Aircraft meshes
Message #3867
Greg,–if my grandma saw this thread, she would kick our butts … or as she says, put spots on YOUR liver! She could do it too… she is the stunt granny that does the 3 forward, 2 backward and 1 and 1/2 gainer down the steps in the Medic Alert…
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