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Yep, I'm interested in that Wu algorithm and that other thing you mentioned… 🙂 Regards, Jens.
>>One thing for sure is that the release of Lightwave on the PC will better the entire market, and possibly turn it on it's ear Agreed. >>the $600 Lightwave will be competing directly with the $3000 3DS Ahem. You mean the $995 vs $2995; those are the_list_prices (not street) I've…
LOTUS Screen Cam trans??
Message #856
Our West Coast office has made a little demo up using LOTUS Screen Cam, which they want to "tweak". Does anyone know of a format converter which could transfer the Screen Can movie into a more standard format (like .FLC or .AVI) that I could edit with my animation software.…
Sounds like you've got a more direct route into ST3 than I do. I've had no luck going straight in. I'm on a GUS, and the order of loading samples in ST3 seems to be really critical, later samples sometimes corrupt older ones. Sometimes not. Really screwy. So I load…
Thanks, Ian! I'll check it out today.
Hi Geoffrey, Why don't you use Modex? Of cause, drawing the pixels is slower, but you can use the multiple bitplane-writes to speed up the Clear-Page-Mechanism up to 4 times. And you can use tripple-buffering (paging) for flicker-free animation. I think it's worth the approach. By the way, I wouldn't…
#Assembler: The A-Flag
Message #851
Hi folks, I just discovered the A-flag.. but don't have a cpu-reference and don't know when the A-flag is set or reset. If you know anything about this mystery flag please reply. Maybe I can speed up a lot of my algorithms… SUBMiSSiVE
SCREAMTRACKER 3.01
Message #850
I've been using Screamtracker to create .MODs, I was wondering if anyone knows if ST3 will allow the user to record in real time instead of inputting the notes and figuring out the exact timing for them. A similar MOD editor, MMEDIT allows you to do this but I haven't…
#Creating .MOD samples
Message #849
I've been working with SCREAMTRACKER 3.01, I was wondering if anyone else out there uses this program and if they have any tips for creating samples or know of any programs that do. Currently I record the sample in CTWAVE for Windows, then convert it to a .VOC using the…
>I'll let you know about the Wu algorithm. PMJI, that sounds interesting.. Incremental (or otherwise?) line algorithm? Bri
#Public Demo Thread
Message #847
Jeff, I'm sick of posting this stuff in the "irony" thread. Let's start our own thread for this "public demo" group, even if it does just turn out to be the two of us. You'll note I've already done this. > Yes, exactly, I fiqure the extra calcs on a…
Jeff, BORDERS? Where the heck are you? The only Border's Books I know of is in Dallas. Is that where you are? I live in Garland, myself. As for the rest of your message, allow me to do som off-line composition and I'll let you know about the Wu algorithm.…
I dislike it intensely, as I do most 4GLs. The problem is that it's very easy for me to think up a problem that outside the domain they're designed to solve. When that happens (and it usually happens when I'm trying to learn the stupid things) they just break down…
Fred > Actually, you only have to project the poly turnpoints on the screen, right? From there on it's just Bresenham lines and fill algorithms, do you agree? < Yes, exactly, I fiqure the extra calcs on a few points (for aspect adjustments) would be quicker than the slower pixel…
>The last major ASOFT discussion I was involved in was w/Sanford Kennedy on skinning un-skinable models. AAh, I haven't gotten into SKIN yet. I have it, just too busy at this time. I probably ignored it. I tend to pop around, not really reading everything, and dropping the topics once…
#Converting Beta and 1"
Message #841
I'm new to this area. I'm looking for information about companies or products that can convert existing Beta and 1" archive film/video to AVI, MPEG or like types of formats. Anyone have some information for me????
So since A:M doesn't have particles, I could animate one small sphere, save the motion library, insert a lot of spheres into the scene, apply the motion with variations in timing, and get the same effect, COOL!!
#Imagine
Message #837
greg, The video bios version of my CIRRUS card is BIOS version 1.20, and the VESA sUPPORT IS installed , the VESA version is 1.02. Imagine render OK in 320×200 or in quarter screen, but in 640×480 I still have the same problem, just like i'm looking at a hight…
Thanx, that's very nice of you? Look for three more coming out in the next few months. Oh no, not more dancing cars… ..
Full Motion Video
Message #832
Hi; New to this forum I would like to try you all for a *big* question for me. I produce videotapes from consumer VHS tapes using an SVHS Panasonic analog studio. The quality of the VHS source tapes is often poor, and this can't be helped; but it necessitates me…
It's not hard to do a rippling flag.. in fact, there's one as an example in the 3DS example meshes. As I recall, that one isn't great, but is old. I think there is an IPAS that lets you do that with about the same ease that you described in…
QT JPEG vs. PC
Message #829
I was given a Mac diskette with a few QT JPEG images on it. I xferred them to a PC (I have no capability of viewing them on a Mac). I opened them up in QT for windows' v1.1 Veiwer utility. This opened the images, but only displayed the top…
Don't have specific author info, but its a speed inprovment of the exist MPEG viewer V1.1 that is in the motion video sources library. The description for that file gives some pertinent info. Hope this helps Ian McNeill
George, I've never heard of it. Downloading is an activity you perform on your computer to access files in our libraries. Do you require assistance with that end of the process?
Jim, the splashing water are particles. They explode a little and the gravity brings them down again very quick. The particles are small transparent spheres. Particles are a great thing. You can use them for so many things! I did the anim at TV resolution and the whole thing (the…
>> I've got some questions on them, but gotta go to work, I'll ask >> later.:) just ask, I don't have secrets. 🙂 -David
Hi Jeff, we have political commercials on TV. Every party gets time on TV, but they can't buy commercial time just like other commercials. So it's limited. -David
Hardwired is an Amiga demo (by Silents?). Regards, Jens.
Chris, Well, dude, just jump in any time with some code. I'll be posting my stuff here as it finishes, so you'll get to see that regardless. All together, we could be the "public demo team", so tell me anything you think might be interesting. Actually, I find most demo…
Jeff, I'd be most happy to look at your code. Your 320×200 calculations sound like they'd work rather well. Yeah, I do the 256X+64X=320X trick myself, it's much faster than doing the multiply. I haven't worked on poly routines yet, though I do know in theory how they should work.…
Chris, Yeah, voxels (in the first part of Airframe). Some people call it that, though I think that's kinda stretching the definition of "voxels" a bit. Really, I'd call it a height field. And, yeah, 62K is major-league impressive for what that demo does, isn't it? Oh well, someday I…
ER does run on the mac. In fact, when it first came out, I saw it for about $99. If you want to check it out, you can download a demo of in the Graphics Plus+ area, or direct from them.
Nice to see you on CompuServe. Just wanted to pass along that I've really liked the dancing cars… great work!
Hi Charlie, Microsoft's Video for Windows Developers Kit contains a Mac floppy which has a converter utility on it. This reads in the playback information from the AVI file and makes a Mac resource, essentially imitating a Mac QuickTime file. Although I haven't gotten hands-on with this utility, there is…
Hi Richard, I understand that there's some discussion of OpenGL in the MSWIN32 forum. There's also a Usenet newsgroup you can subscribe to called comp.graphics.opengl. Other than that, sorry, no word! Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Tech Support
John, Thanks for pointing out the camera rotation work around. I wrote the comparison late at night and left out many features from both programs. I stand by my statement referring to Lightwave's displacement mapping. To obtain anywhere near the quality of Lightwave's procedural displacement mapping would require a morph…
#3D modeling
Message #809
John, I actually don't care which program is better in the future. I will continue to use which ever better fits the particular project I am working on. If r5 blows Lightwave away, great. Heck, if Real 3D becomes the PC equivalent of Power Animator, fantastic. I will use what…
Catch 22
Message #808
Well I just joined this har forum this am and so far I'm not too impressed. Ah cain't download no messages. Keep getting a memory allocation error and then that host is not responding. Nothing like this ever happens on the other self respecting forums (fsforum etc) I frequent. So…
HOW CAN I SEE SOME SAMPLE MORPHING ANIMATION?
Video File Formats
Message #804
From:
Eric Crichlow [Digital F
Computer Animation Forum
· General Discussion
November 12, 1994 1:10 PM
Try as I might, I never seem to be able to locate the file format specs for any of the popular video schemes (QuickTime, MPEG, AVI). Are these doc files too big to be located online here? Are they only available for a fee? Either way, where can these formats…
>> > Pretty good. But isn't that YOUR name? What is your name? I think "The Demo Team" is boring, too. Thanks.
Light Wave
Message #802
Thanks John, …Thomas
#DOWnloaded.zip
Message #800
Please send a copy of DOWloaded.zip for windows.
Two things come to mind.. the special naming in the DEF file, then you must copy it to the \WINDOWS directory as a .SCR file, and restart Windows for it to be recognized. That naming in the DEF requirs "SCRNSAVE:" and looks like: DESCRIPTION 'SCRNSAVE : Your name here'
I'm not sure if the MPEG player that I am Using will work for you but it is a NONAME Windows MPEG Player that is Software only(No Hardware required) and it supports the WinG and Win32 formats. It is available online as vmpeg1.zip although I am not sure exactly Where.
#EXE –>screen saver
Message #797
How can I turn a EXE file into a screen saver — to be recognized by Windows? (The EXE can be shutdown by mouse click or key press.)
From:
Anton L. Pickard-Ferguso
Computer Animation Forum
· Forum Information
November 11, 1994 8:44 PM
Philip, The software publisher for Prisms is Side Effects Software which like Alias is a Toronto company. I am also looking into an SGI with either Alias, Softimage or Prisms. I am also in Toronto and word here is that everyone is migrating over to Prisms. I've never seen the…
Thanks for the input. After looking over all the literature it seems the FARO is the way to go. Once I get it up and running I should probably post something about using it. Thanks again,
#PRISMS software
Message #794
From:
Anton L. Pickard-Ferguso
Computer Animation Forum
· General Discussion
November 11, 1994 7:45 PM
I'd like to hear from anyone using PRISMS software on the SGI. How does it compare to alias? What are it's strengths/weaknesses? What use is it best suited for? Best platform for best performance? I have a call into Side Effects for info, but would like to hear from users.…
>>I'm sure I have. I tend to lurk a lot, so maybe not. The last major ASOFT discussion I was involved in was w/Sanford Kennedy on skinning un-skinable models. >>I even met my name-mate @ asoft I remember that; 'N' doesn't look a thing like 'K', so how could anyone…
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