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YARC Boards
Message #1359
John, Greg Patton (GrPatton) on AOL has written a utility that converts DXFs to SEGs. The utility is in Hashes forum on CIS. Maybe you could incorporate gregs utility into your conversion program. I would LOVE to buy 3D clip that could be used in Animation Master efficiently. Hope this…
#1335-
YARC Boards
Message #1354
>> but Hash won't hand out the secrets to the tessellation of their >> spline patches. that's understandable. BTW, do you plan to do a third version of the Syndesis CD-ROM? I might have a few objects that I could contribute. -David
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YARC Boards
Message #1348
Thanks for the reply, sorry to hear that though.
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YARC Boards
Message #1318
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Had quite a bit of work to do this week. Does InterChange work with Animation Master?
Shucks, thanks! I guess I am. It's very kind of you to call my work amazing. Which renderings have you seen? They seem to be stirring up alot of interest these days. Thanks again for the note:) – Rod
Hi Joel, You need MACzip to unzip files. Try using the MAC File Finder, GO MACFF, to locate it. Then you shouldn't have any trouble unzipping files. Becareful, tho, that you don't download programs for PCs. You won't have any trouble viewing text files, but programs wouldn't run correctly. Always…
>>>>>>>>>>> I am…. looking for development tools for capturing video images and displaying them from within programs. Can you help? Thanks.
TapeRecorder Trip Tone?
Message #1013
I would like any information available on a way to use a regular cassette player to interface with a PC. The method would have to be something that any receipient of the cassette tape could employ to have his tape recorder actually advance a PC slide show. Any technology would…
Joel, Not at all. There's a wide variety of unZIP utilities for the Macintosh, and the newer ones are just as good as the ones on the PC end. For now, GO MACFF and search on the keyword UNZIP for programs newer than mid-1993. This will help ensure the 2.04…
I publish a free newsletter which (among other topics) hypes my fractal animation programs, which are quite different than FRACTINT and HOP. If you're interested, e-mail me your mailing address. –|> | < |<
Mac de zip
Message #983
Mr. Wood: I am new to this forum. I am concerned that most of the library is .zipped and I am running a macintosh (Quadra 800). Before I spend time and MB downloading, does this preclude me from using these files? In the past I have not had easy times…
Andy, SGI is used for mostly major applications (with a lot of bucks) However the bulk of 3D aniamtions is still done on more discrete platforms like PC MAC and AMIGA. And a lot of those animations are as good as any animations created on an SGI. I know of…
My company makes several inexpensive CDROMs of 3D models. We have two editions of the "Syndesis 3D-ROM". Volume I contains more than 500 models. Volume II contains more than 200 new models. All models are unlocked and ready to use, each is stored in five 3D formats: AutoCAD DXF, 3DS,…
Where will your article appear?
Hey, aren't you the guy who does those amazing Animation Master renderings of humans?
Kevin, I reccoment the PAR (personal animation recoder) from DPS. It's a card for the PC (or Amiga). It's a HD-VCR. You give it the TGA files and after a short time you can play back your anim as video. Supports full video resolution. I think it's $2500 plus HD.…
Try XING-CD… XINGIT is the company…. We convert .tga as a atream into MPEG… Don't really know if it does FLC's???
3D Clipart
Message #961
Does anyone know :- a) Are there any '3D Clipart' CD's that I could buy to load shareware objects into Imagine(3.1) – ( In the UK ) b) Are there any other areas within compuserve that hold 3d objects. c) Are there any monthly magazines published on 3d rendering software…
Animation Icons
Message #960
I am looking for icons that display animation behavior (e.g., a printer with paper coming out, or a card scanner with a card being scanned in). I am also looking for development tools for capturing video images and displaying them from within programs. Can you help? Thanks.
From:
Anton L. Pickard-Ferguso
Computer Animation Forum
· Forum Information
November 15, 1994 7:58 PM
I spoke with Side Effects today and I think I will stay with Alias for the time being. I am just gettting started with an SGI Indy and I am not doing character animation. PRISMS is a full blown package which is comparable to Alias's Power Animator. I am going…
Hi Ed, Take a look in the libraries here. (Try a keyword search using "Video for Windows" or "Quicktime" or whatever format you want to play). I just DL'd Playit v. 1.51 the other day and it works fine as far as I can tell. I've also used Vidvue 3.1……
Well, Robert, Your question was put to the greenest of the green. I'm an architect who has taken a wild hair to become a master of animation. So far, I've managed to make 2 short five section animaitons which parallel the tutorials in the manual of StratVision 3D, the volkswagen…
Ed, there is one. Check out Graphsupport Forum for animation payers. There should be the latest Video for Windows drivers. I'm sure you can also find them in MSLIB. -David
hehe morphing seems to be perfect for political stuff 🙂 -David
recording
Message #914
I have Truspace and povray's autobatch utility as well as RTAG, DTA, AAPLAY, PLAY and Windows Media Player, but I am interested in recording broadcast quality video ray-traced animation (numbered targa files, I guess ) to video. What hardware/software do I need for $2-4,000 in addition to my p590? I…
Hallo Christian. Vor einer Woche haben wir Euch schon mal auf ein mail geantwortet . . Wir benutzen StrataStudioPro auf einem Powermac 7100, haben jedoch noch einige Probleme. Wir waren an einem Erfahrungsaustausch sehr interessiert. Bis bald . . .Robert.
Hi John. We just start working with StrataStudioPro on a powermac 7100. What's Your experience with the performance of that constelation? we have big problems by waiting for every litte step for minutes. Even very simple operations like moving sliders cause serious delays. What's to do? Thanx for Your reply…
Ed, It exists, and since AVI is Audio and Video, sounds are built right in. What kind of computer do you have?
Windows plays AVI files. If you dont have Video For Windows, look to Microsoft. VFW11.??? is available here somewhere, probably in WINMM. For sure its here on CIS, and its free. Now the challenge: make it work right. Bri
The new version is a NURBS modeller. And it's fast! Only saw a very first version. -David
David > Did you ever made an animation for a political ad? No, but maybe I'll morph Helmut Kohl into a pear , or Ross Perot into Dumbo the Flying Elephant.
Interesting stuff. When you talk about Hensen, you mean the hand controlled, puppet type control right? Or does that integrate into SI/Alias somewhere? I'd say that it would be something a bit more difficult and unnatural than a "waldo" or the reflector-input type deal. As I understand, Hensen's setup has…
#Video Animations on PC
Message #884
Hello, Does anyone know if there exists a "Video Animation" player for viewing AVI files. If one exists, is it public domain? Can you add sounds to it also ? Thanks Ed
John, and anyone interested in facial animation. I'm looking into a company called All Effects (818-768-200) that makes an animatronic unit. Haven't received their information yet. They say they have a product that can do most of what Hensen can do. I don't believe Hensen sells their system. Has anyone…
Thanks Anton for the name and number. I will look at them. Let me know how your evaluations go, and if you are planning to do character animation (especially human faces, hands, clothing), which package you plan on buying.
Did you ever made an animation for a political ad? -David
Yes, this should work, but it sounds like a lot of work 🙂 -David
David, > we have political commercials on TV. < Sorry to hear that. Here the law is that if a station agrees to show one political commercial, they must show all. Furthermore, they all must be charged the same rate (the minimum) regardless of how many are aired. In short,…
Thanks, Ian! I'll check it out today.
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!!
Thanx, that's very nice of you? Look for three more coming out in the next few months. Oh no, not more dancing cars… ..
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
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…
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
Nice to see you on CompuServe. Just wanted to pass along that I've really liked the dancing cars… great work!
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…
Beta MPEG Custom Control
Message #782
> 1. What type of applications are you developing that require MPEG video playback? Screen saver 2. What development language are you using? Visual Basic 3. Are you developing for a specific market? if so, what? No 4. Have you developed MPEG playback tools yourself? For what platforms? No 5.…
Well, Thanks for all the input. The best I have been able to do is MMGRASP. Unfortunately it looks like I'll have to find a new echo cardiagram that will use the Windows multi-media interfaces. So my new quest is to find public domain full motion immages of just about…
"we are a multimedia-developer company from Germany, Cologne, and since we do not use a lot of 3-D animation we have only Strata vision on our Macs. We are interested to get in contact with other Mac-users who use the same or other programms to exchange experiences!" Can you send…
>PROJECT: Suppose I wanted to model & animate two people sitting at a table talking to each other. I want this scene, especially the facial mouth movements and gestures, to be as life-like as possible. < From what I have seen, a "waldo" is your best bet for the faces.…
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