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>> BTW is there any special procedures to installing memory, or do you just plug in the new boards and turn on your computer?
>>that is more optimised for my needs. I will undoubtedly upgrade to ImagineX.X or maybe AM by hash.
>>George, and Greg, and Andrey, too. Guess my computer has no sense of humor! Funny it happened to be the last message on the board at the time and I was rung off (properly) by Tapcis. Thanks to you all for the experience.
#CUTOFF
Message #9917
George, and Greg, and Andrey, too. Guess my computer has no sense of humor! Funny it happened to be the last message on the board at the time and I was rung off (properly) by Tapcis. Thanks to you all for the experience. SID
I will reread my magazines tonight and find out if it comes with a freely distributable player. Jason
Jason, I may be wrong, but from what I understand, SMACKER uses a compression format that they developed. To use that format you have to buy thier software. I don't believe they made this format available in the public domain, so you need to buy their software to use it.…
I have only read 2 reviews of Smacker, so don't know much about it. This may sound dum, but what is a proprietary formatted anim? Jason
I have the mesges, I want to send the IGES for output for a sculpture…
>> But, will it do everything POV 3.0 is supposedly going to do, > can it do the things (like for example brush-tacking) that Imagine does but POV can't? > So, it is hard to generalize, but I was trying to give the original poster a vague idea to answer…
>> >> I think that POv is a lot easier to use under memory restrictions like this, but you'll find the modelers available for it to be pretty restricted after using Imagine. Anyways what I was going to say is you can't really say Imagine or pov has better textures,…
Jason, Doesn't SMACKER produce a proprietary formatted anim? -GreG
Another way to compress flics is with a program called Smacker. It is made entirly for compressing 8-bit animations. It can compress animations with a ratio of 12:1 without any loss in quality! Also it allows real-time decompression. A 24-bit windows version is in the works now. Just thought I'd…
>> as far as uploading Flics/AVIs do you have any recomendations on how to keep the file size as small as possible without any/minimal loss of quality?
Hey greg < I'd recommend you at least Upgrade to Imagine L/T, which comes on CD for $99.00.> Yea I read somewhere in the threds about L/T it seems like a pretty good deal One more question, (for now) as far as uploading Flics/AVIs do you have any recomendations on…
Todd, >>Will ISL or any other utilities/add ons work with 2.0 ? Where can I dnload these items ? If you are on an Amiga, look on Aminet for version 2.0 of ISL. That one supports Imagine 2.0. The first PC version of ISL was 3.0, so I can't help…
Howdy Todd, Nice to meet you and have you here. You can use objects in 2.0 that were created in 3.0 and above, but you will not be able to access any of the imbedded STATES that may be in these objects. Also, I believe that subgroups defined in 3.1/3.2…
#Learning other programs?
Message #9746
Ah! Mr GreG Hello, and great to meet you! You seem to be a very wise individual when it comes to 3d, animation, Imagine etc.. as I have seen in this forum," as well as others" by your many contributions. Now that I have you all buttered up, it is…
#Learning other programs?
Message #9745
Thanks for the reply, Michael For now, I am trying to learn, what I need for what I am trying to do,as far as computer software/hardware, which is constantly changing. Their's no doubt I need MOMEMORY! I have'nt decided to upgrade to more mem or get a new system that…
>> Oh no! Did you get it cleared up? Last time I got both PC *and* the Amiga version and I told Mike about it. Maybe he got it wrong and put me on the Amiga list. Sent a fax right away. I hope I'll get it soon. -David
>> Does anyone know of ANYWHERE where I can get an output of a 3d mesh via stereolithography?
#stereolithography?
Message #9675
Does anyone know of ANYWHERE where I can get an output of a 3d mesh via stereolithography? (Where you zap a vat of polymer with an excimer laser til you get the volumes?) Pat
ANIMATION MODELS
Message #9582
I am looking for 3d models of vehicle suspension systems. I am using Crystal Topas to animate the models so I am limited in the file types I can use. If anyone has suspension models or would like to create the models for a price, please send mail to the…
Have you put this up over in Amigauser classified ? I would think you'd be able to sell it pretty easily over there.
>> I like to blow things up!
GreG, What would be the incentive for uploading if it weren't free? Well right off the bat I can think of two – recognition and advice. I can't even think about 3.3 yet. Otherwise I'll need 72 hour days. -Joe-
>> Can you believe I've only used it once? I dunno, maybe it's just me. I like to blow things up! -GreG
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Tim Wilson [Crestline]
Graphics User Group A Forum
· Imagine Users Group
April 5, 1995 5:08 AM
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>>> You can us bones to simplify this too. Umm, yes you can Sam. Thanks for showing me up.
>> Heck, SHREDDER.IFX should keep ya real busy. It's a killer effect..
David, >> this works
>> You can us bones to simplify this too. Umm, yes you can Sam. Thanks for showing me up. Just goes to show you that you can do it a number of ways….just too many darn options to keep track of! 🙂 -GreG
>> Oh yea, I forgot to ask the sales guy, Mike, if Imagine was planning on having or already has facilities for third party plug-ins. Do they?
Steve, Man are you gonna be in for an overload. Actually, since you are upgrading from LT it won't be as big an overload as it would be if you were upgrading from 2.0! Although texture/image tacking, states, and bones, 100+ textures, 12+ special effects, etc. are gonna open up…
>> you can try placing the nebula.itx on a disk with several circle-sections to it, tack it to this default shape, then rotate the inner circles progressibely to "twist" the shape of the nebula.itx pattern.
>> fortunately there are two shift key on each keyboard! 🙂
>> BTW I did get a letter from Impulse two days ago, unfortunately with the Amiga version!
>> I sort of got associate to work but I think I'm going to stick to selecting the separate objects in multimode
>> Free uploads??!! Joe, Yep, otherwise what would be the incentive for someone to upload? >> Between my day job, Imagine, and KPT, it's a wonder that I have the time to write this message to you. Well, if you like creating textures with KPT, IM3.3 should keep ya even…
Hi Greg, I sort of got associate to work but I think I'm going to stick to selecting the separate objects in multimode and moving/rotating them that way for now. It seems to be working out ok. Thanx for the help… ->James
Hi Rich, There is a second file in the Imagine library called Faceflap 2 (FCFLP2.ZIP). It shows an example of applying a map, and might answer your questions. You wrap z, using all of the compiled image from your animation. For a good fit it seems fairly important to crop…
#Plug-In's for Imagine?
Message #9498
Oh yea, I forgot to ask the sales guy, Mike, if Imagine was planning on having or already has facilities for third party plug-ins. Do they? Steve
Greg, I just ordered my Upgrade to 3.0 Pro + the constant update deal. They said they would ship me 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 tommorrow. I can't wait to see them. You say 3.3 is on the way? Alright, I love this program! I have been using trueSpace for quite…
#FACEFL.ZIP
Message #9495
I used the instructions that you posted and created a map from the head of a character I am creating. It appears that it came out similar to your example. I am having trouble however mapping the newly created and colored map back to my modelled head. Do I use…
GreG, Free uploads??!! Holy Moly, I didn't think *anything* was free these days. That's great. As far as the software I'm using, I just switched to TAPCIS. I don't think I'll have any problems uploading once I read the manual on how to do it. I simply haven't gotten around…
Jim, Thanks, I will download the image and if I have any questions, I'll get back to you. -Joe-
If I can get good results from it, anybody can 🙂 good luck. PS… btw, I think I figured out the custom gadget button things like you had in WinImages. 🙂
I've not had much time to work with it; I want to, but it's pretty arcane. 🙂 I'll figure it out. Ben
Hi Gary, thanks for the detailed help. I will have to try a lot the next days. 🙂 -David …later just tried it, WOW this works better than I expected! It looks great, exactly what I wanted. thanks again! The only problem is that it takes very long to render,…
Hi Greg, thanks for the help. I'll try it. -David
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