This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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/* Now, what really bugs me is a commercial that ends in the middle of someone's laughter. "It's pink. Hee hee hee (cut)". Argh! I dunno, it just bugs me. Tons of commercials end in laughter. */ Tons of shows are filled with laughter… and I ain't laughing with them…
/* A decade ago, people claimed to see symbols in the fur of the side-view camel on the old-style Camel packs. Today, Camel's advert character is known as "Joe Camel", and it's his entire head that resembles human male exterior details. On the other hand, maybe a real camel face…
/* Not at all, in my view, in this instance, the message is positive. First the message is that "scrubbles" almost do the work by themselves, which makes your job easier. Second that they are "fun" little dudes to work with. And if all this is true this would promote…
/* I find the Listerine commercial entertaining, and I get the idea that using Listerine is supposed to give you the confidence of Tarzan. On the other hand, I'm not sure the idea of a rampant Listerine bottle terrorizing my bathroom is a comforting thought. I have a collection of…
/* Actually, this is right about the time of year I like to head up to Broadway and catch "Springtime for Hitler". */ Wow, a Mel Brooks fan! alright! Springtime for Hitler in Germany… Winter for England and France… -dave
/* You owe me a dollar and a donut… or do I owe you? Of course I've heard the song… it definitely crawls out of the haze of my evil past, though… */ 3D Editor/Render/Configure/Atmosphere R0G255B0, right? -dave
/* Chevy.3ds/640×480/PS 1.1 is about 2:34 seconds under Windows, compared with 2:23 seconds with QEMM or HIMEM.SYS under DOS. Smaller files are actually sometimes faster, larger sometimes a bit slower. */ How fast does your system in DOS setup work with QEMM and HIMEM.SYS outta there? This could be crucial.…
/* I understand that I am in Bedrock, but I am buying this stuff myself (not my company) and I don't have the price of admission. */ I'm not a sales person at all, so please don't read this as a plug… there was (and may still be) an upgrade…
/* Thanks for an excellent tip – I have DL'ed those files and I will look them over. One question – I may have the same problem with some of these files that I have with some of the "instructional" flicks that I pick up in the LIBS here -…
is the celspray zip on-line ? meaning is it available for the general public ? It looks tres intersting! It is free to the general public. Have fun, and if you'd like to see more of this kind of thing, let us know. We use Animator Pro as much as…
/* This is generous – Mark is gone for a week. */ Wnen he has some time, I'd be interested in his feedback too. /* The CELSPRAY I haven't really had a chance to play around with. I downloaded it; it seems to be working well! Thanks. */ I really…
/* I encourage you to get a look at PDI's Japanese Coke ads, if you can. I'm not sure where you'd be able to see them, but I have a feeling they'll show up at Siggraph, somehow. */ I'll be on the lookout for them. -dave
/* That's the beauty of it! If you don't take it seriously it works on your subliminal level, which from an advertising standpoint is ideal. */ Ah ha! Sooo! Scrubble is responsible for the decline of the American Family values!!! 🙂 /* It also appeals to the child in all…
/* Philadelphia area 3D Studio User group will meet May 17, June 28. And generally third Tuesday of each month at Synergis Technologies, 593 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell, PA 19422. (10 minutes from the Norristown entrance of the Pennsylvania Turnpike). For more information call Martha Lubow at 215-643-9050, ext 110.…
/* What?! Don't you like the Dow scrubbing bubbles? */ Those are wonderful. I have a scrubble (my wife ordered one for me during a promotion by Dow a few years back) in my bathtub. Makes taking a shower and facing Monday's a lot easier in the morning. How can…
/* Different strokes. I can't stand the polar bears ads. I kind of liked the first one, but they got shamelessly tacky (must've been inspired by CBS' coverage) during the olympics. */ Definitely. /* The listerine bottles keyframing is awesome, but I also don't really like that cutesey stuff. I…
/* picture looks fine). At this point I assumed that I could use One Pallette to combine the two pallettes and everything would be fine (56 + 130 is 180 colors, so the pallettes should combine fine without any fitting of colors needed). Well when I do this, the fine…
/* Sure – I'd love to check it out. It's great to have POCO routines – and I'll mention your contribution to Mark Gerhard, the Animator Pro product manager. */ I and two other guys (Mark McGraw and Greg Schutz) formed a company a few months ago… we're in process…
/* I believe you're slated a slot that'll appear during the forum reorg. happening within the net 2 weeks. */ Thanks for the info. Mind if I askwhat might seem to be a reall stupid request? Could we have message and file sections 14? Reason: we're 14 on ACAD forum.…
/* Man, you are really _out there_ on the beer ad. First of all, that's the ***Chrysler building*** in NYC!!!! It is NOT the "3DS" building by PCA. Sheeesh, you should get out a little more… */ Thanks for the footnote, John. (yes, I know its the Chrysler building… but…
/* Fire away, all. */ I understand your frustration, Gayle. I have seen this happen for years in the CADD world, and been a victim right up to construction documents using fonts and block libraries which were never released within our company. Software litigation has a long way to go……
/* Is there a program which will run through an flc and export each frame into a numbered gif or other format file? */ I came in late on this one, but if you're trying to export a FLIC as individual PICs… take a serious look at the internal supplied…
/* My customer has a generic clone PC. He has a Trident Video Card running the TVGA 640x480x256 color driver. He can run all of our application with no problems at all except the .FLC animation. The animation was created with Animator Pro at 640x480x256. Any ideas? — Brian */…
/* There are 3-4 good tutorials in the ACAD Forum under User's Groups. It should be here also. I've got 3-4 that I made up for a class that I had to teach without books. */ These are the telecourse notes for ANI1 sponsored by NAAUG. -dave
/* Is it possible to erase an entity once you have created it? I am unable to go back to a piece of the item once I have finished a session and notice someting wrong. I know about undo, but I am talking about items created five, six, or one…
/* Getting on PCGNet is a big priority for the Rendering Plant BBS. It'll be a little while before I'm comfy with the bbs software and the add-on to set up the mail grabbing event, but I hope to put it together before the end of May. If I can…
/* That's true here, Dave. I run the Kansas City 3D Studio User's Group, and we have a pretty huge BBS for 3DS already (been on a week). It's called the Rendering Plant, and the number is 816-525-5614. We have 4 sysops getting meshes and textures in many ways (scanning,…
/* Is there anything closer to the Virginia area? */ Not to my knowledge, but you might contact the user groups (ACAD) listed in the NAAUG guide. Call Kim Starling at 415-491-8480 for the groups in Virginia.. perhaps one of them has a BBS. -dave
/* I just read the news flash with GO ACAD – they're rearranging forums there! I'll see if we can't coordinate. */ Ditto. I guess we'd just be happy if we could have the number be the same for the message and the file section in both forums. Some easy…
Glad to hear it. Thanks. -dave
/* I don't own the 2000 but my use of the Targa+64 relys heavily on the cards ability to capture and output RGB video. The 2000 can apparently only capture and output Y/C or Composite video. There's a big difference between each format with RGB being the best followed by…
/* One thing that drives me crazy is that it doesn't have RGB or Component capability….professional? Brent Bonet – POP! Multimedia Atlanta */ Could you elaborate a bit? What are you trying to accomplish, and what kind of capability (lacking) are you refering to… very interested. -dave
/* Dave, thanks. I'm not sure if we can do section 7 – we were planning to combine HyperChem with the CHAOS section, which would leave section 8 available. However, I don't know how difficult, or how much havok it would cause to do section 7 – I'll check. */…
/* I see quite a bit of activity in the NAAUG section over in the ACAD forum. I wonder if we can get something going for the multimedia side of things by opening up a NAAUG/UsrGrp/AdeskU section here in the ASOFT forum. */ I guess my only question at this…
/* Yup, you can use it on any drive… even CD-ROM's. Tom came up with an ingenious scheme for hash-encoding the CD-ROM's directory structure and then placing the index for it on the magnetic media… so even a search of a CD-ROM's directory is instantaneous… no matter how many files…
/* I have AApro and I am looking for the same type of effect. I like the idea of incremented tga files which came off of video, but 'it never rains in California'…. Could you tell me how you would do this in AApro? */ In a nutshell, we have…
NAAUG telecourses
Message #94622
/* Could you provide me more information on NAAUG (North American Autodesk User Group). As you mentioned NAAUG is sponsoring the telecourses this year including two courses on Multimedia products. One is called 3DS1 on making a living with 3D Studio, and the other is ANI1 on animator pro techniques.…
/* I've downloaded the NAAUG files but haven't looked at them – I would think a posting of them wouldn't be bad. As far as a NAAUG section, or something that NAAUG could be a part of, I will talk it over with some of the others here. It's hard…
/* Where are the really good AutoDesk BBS's that have good 3D-Studio, guys? I *know* there've got to be some… */ This one's a great BBS, Mike. You might also try PCGnet though as they just started a 3DS conference area… a carry over from the older 3D Render conference…
/* I've heard that that was done by the "california raisins" claymation guys. They used a combination of stop-action animation, together with CGI to acheive that great look. */ It would be wonderful to find out the file sizes required of animations like that. Probably be a real shocker too.…
/* Dave – telecourses?? Details! */ Gads, just when I thought we've broadcasted wide and far, I get a response like this. 🙂 Okay, Nik, you decide how best to make this information available. I discussed with Chris Allis the telecourses which NAAUG is offering this year on the ACAD/NAAUG…
/* It's gotten to be my favorite show. */ We need to get Godzilla into 3d mesh form! 🙂 /* Different topic: Have you seen a new coke comercial where mechanical ants plan a night trip to a bottle of spilled coke? Very cute. */ Yeah. The one I like…
/* There is great stuff on the comedy channel right now. I think it will be on until about 8pm. It's guy watching japanese monster movies and commenting. Funniest stuff I've ever heard! */ Mystery Science Theatre 3000, no doubt. Excellent late night craziness. -dave
/* Great! Let me know how it goes when you get the 2000. How much are those things going for? Did you have to get a special hard drive (low tcal) such as */ Price we got was ~$5000. /* the micropolis 2217? Do you know if is supposed to…
/* 5 As a new user of Anipro, your uploads are invaluable. Please keep them coming. I'm looking into taking a course on Anipro, but time is at a premium these days, due to my work schedule. Therefore, I rely on what I glean from this forum. Since I received…
/* Has anyone out there used the new Targa 2000 desktop video production engine? It sounds hot! It appears that you can grab video in real time and also print to tape in real time. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has done an animation with this…
/* I'm searching ideas for doing a realistic lightning strike with 3DSr3. Any suggestions? I'm a new user and I don't know all the tricks of the trade. */ Just curious, do you have Animator Pro too? Lightening's a snap with ANI. -dave
/* You got me pegged. I was the one taking a rest in the Xaos demonstrator's chair . */ Wow. I must have seen 100 new faces at NAB this year. Guess I got lucky on this recall. 🙂 I read through your techniques, and I look forward to the…
/* #2 should be a moot point by the time R4 gets here. There are already routines in the works that will morph dissimilar # of vertice objects. I would rather see that as a wishlist item to replace the outdated morph function that's in R3. */ Hi John. Don't…
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