This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I got a demo with R4, and the results half on average some of the redraw time sof my meshes, with the small stuff thats not a problem, Nut with 250,000 even a P133 can start to slow, so Liquid Squid as I like to call it, seems to be…
Can I ask how you made the effect on "Drippy" I'd love to make an alien blob attack the Enterprise, but have no idea how you did that excellent affect Matt:)
Flipping 'eck 400 megs Ram LOL, Two solutions, wipe off your Hard Drive and replace dos and windows 3.1, or, partition the HD, and change the address of the swap file for the partition, I havn't tried this as I have stuck clear of 95 after hearing horror stories about…
Peter did R4 correct that problem very soon I going to have to do some stuff higher than 1024, will I encounter the same problems? matt:)
I started with a Vic 20, and its paint package, can't rember what it was called when I was eight, a little latter I got a expansion thing for it which boosted it to 16K ROFL, Then with the amiga it was animating frame by farm with D' Paint 2,…
Thanks for the Repley Jim, I look forward to the loss of a Big Mac for per month for access to your BBS, Please post an announcement for when you set up the Telnet Access, Is it possible you could set up a CD-Rom that people in the UK could…
Thanks Greg, thanks for the "Quick Reply" nice to see I'm not the only one stuck in working on a Saturday night LOL, Good luck with the deadline, I'll "Bug" next week with some ideas for a Pyros VIRTUAL tour . I mainly interested in pictures of Staff and projects…
Please give me a shout when you have something, I'd love to see it, I used to make Film Trailer for a living so I can understand Film companie mentality, it take 7 people just to decide on how to answer the phone :), and 1000's to cahnge a light…
Eric has written (or Audrey his wife has!), two IPAS's, ones called TNT and is a particle generator, the other's called make tracks, and is used for all sorts of things including Phasor's, a good demo of them is the new gif he has on the ASHOWCASE forum, were the…
Flame, love it, own it, but try making a circular explosion! The only Ipas's to allow that are one by Eric Peterson and Inferno, or so I'm told… Matt:)
"Killer Ipas" would also have Killer prices! LensFX, is the only killer app' without the big price tag, I would love to own World Builder, the thought of any organic scence I can think up without the hard work makes me dribble LOL, but at L1000+ in the UK, it…
I only own LenZFX and IPAS six, I can't think of an other methods to reproduce glow/Glare or Fire or Skin without drawing frame in ani-pro or morph every target, perhaps these are two MUST have Ipas Greg 🙂
#Net from the UK?
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Ermm, can I acsess your BBS through the Net?, I live in the UK so a phone call would be very expensive LOL, If I can avsses it through the Net how can I ?, oh.. and whats the cost? Super Vary sounds very good, I'm also a beliver in…
PMT ?, you mean Pre MAX Tension? LOL Greg 🙂
Ae there any stills from the movie here?, being from the UK, Laser Disk is VERY expensive LOL, I can afford Cis though! Matt:)
You wouldn't the Beards and glasses would put you of, there is nothing worse than a 3D's backseat driver LOL Matt talking about Greg W! 🙂
For those of us in the UK, how about a virtual tour, e.g. some stills and info on the adesk forum, its always a bummer living in the UK, I have to miss Siggraph and all the partys LOL, The other Greg 🙂
Mike, the hawk is now in another still called into the trap, which is a series of stills showing a space battle, "trap" shows the "hawk" leaving the Enterprise-D and moving into attack! "Trap" should be on the Ashowcase Forum soon, Eric Petersonand myself have now built about 9 of…
Another cheat for making a flare "fade" behind objects is to put it first in the Keyframer, then 3D's renders it, then the Scence over the top, Bit Simple but tends to make suns fade behind planets in my work 🙂 Greg.
that havn't got it yet, BUT will have it in the next few weeks, I'll e-mail you with a telephone number for them next week Weird CIS ID by the way, only two didgits after the comma Matt 🙂
Deform, lofts, maps, decals etc, I've used every method availble to make it, at one point there was 80,000+ faces and 700+ objects, since then with the Boo-leaner I've scaled it down some what. Joke is, DS9 (Which I have also worked hard on) on has 20,000 more faces than…
Nope, But I'm ordering Inferno A.S.A.P, in the UK it takes a while for IPAS to filter over here LOL Matt 🙂
I think my dealer has now got Bones-Pro in, I'll check tommorrow and E-mail you if they have matt 🙂
I have had the same problem, but remaking the stack sorted it! Perhaps it does remeber, 🙂 Matt 🙂 Another "Happy" LenZFX user 🙂
ek!, the big S must own the Yost Group, I knew that Gary Y' thing was a front for years, and every said that I had just watched to many x-Files… Yours in Horror Matt 🙂
I off to buy '95 tommorrow, so any advice on R4 and '95 would be helpful! Anyone got it running yet? Matt 🙂
#DXF Help Thanks
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LOL, ROFL, 🙂 I knew it was some thing simple.. Thanks Mike you have saved me reading the entire Ref manual agian, I'll name one of the runabouts after you and your CIS Number and post it to you and the ASHOWCASE Forum. Thanks agian matt n greg 🙂 Runabout…
#HELP 2D DXF'S
Message #187047
Probably Simple but I can't get any help in the manuals on this one… I have Eric Petersons Starfleet Text DXF's and I can't get them to become a single object, they are DXF's and will not load into the 3D Editor no matter what I do. When loaded into…
If I remeber the thread correctly, you were having trouble with mapps? On the work I doing at the mo' I render the object to be mapped as aflat object with amb' light of 255 then take the gif to ani-pro add detials etc, and create a seperate bump mapp…
Do you know about the Ani Pro method? Matt n greg :0
Unlimited E-mail, Boy CIS have me over a barrel, mind you UK access cost alot more than US access e.g. 99% over here don't have free local calls! Thanks for the advice, they really should put these things in the manuals LOL. Matt and Greg 🙂
What about the free cigars though? Greg 🙂
#3D's 5! MAX
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MAX was that not the name of the Butler in Hart-to-Hart? LOL… Does that mean we all have to smoke cigars and have a voice of gravel. And get a dog or Har Drive called Freeway? Yours in hope of enlightnment 🙂 Greg.
Yep the Runabout from DS9, but mines called the Valleyforge, Matt 🙂
How do I get on, and Usenet erghh!!! Quetions like: What does Invalid Normal array mean? :), A: means your a pirate son! That seems to annoy them, I have no idea why ROFL. Do you have an address is it run by Autodesk or an Individual? Boy there E-mail…
Easy, no matter what the other packages say, 3D's can do every they do better and faster! Which means that you can be far more productive and gets LOADS more work done in the same amount of time. Plus the anim's and stills will look great and not "Simply 3D"…
THE SCI-FI MEDIA forum has a few, AOL has some sites to, plus there are TREK meshes in ASOWCASE by E, peterson ans M, Ludwig I hope that helps 🙂 P.S. I'm building an Interpid class as soon as I finish mapping a runabout So you may be in luck,…
Ermm, could you please tell me what a mail list is please, NG,WWW and CIS is easy but what are these mail lists? Thanks Greg 🙂
Cup of tea!
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How about the DS cards working properly?? 🙂 or a timer on screen to show what the time is or how long you have been working, a handy feature for smokers or coffee addicts on when to go and get the next fix! Yes you can do that under windows,…
I have a P133 and a DX4, the video card DS-64 PCI VRAM well out performs the DRAM DS in the DX4 for redraw and under Liquid "Squid" moves at amazing speeds, but then the P133 cost far more than the DX4 so Its a measure of Cost to performance,…
Thanks Roy that xplains a problem I've been having, whoops better turn of vapor then!! Greg 🙂
Could SIGGraph be a Dr Who convention this year, more mutants than humans? At least I 10'000 miles away! Greg W'
Probably the first non-mutant though, I keep trying to take that photo but I don't seem to come out in Polriod with no lights on 🙂 Greg W'
Boolean Help!
Message #181050
Help! I'm making a Space ship which needs the detail of hull plates, the actual plates that go together to make the hull, making them on the straight surfaces was easy, now at the front of the ship the hull curves and bends, so booleaning on all this score lines…
Buy a P120 if you can afford it, I upgraded from a Dx2 66 and the redraw and renderingg speeds on a P120 are amazing. The Diamond Stealth 64 PCI Vram is a good card, but there are some bugs with the drivers at the mo' The Dram card works…
#Mutant alert!
Message #181048
Oh dear!, after seeing the Yearbook I'm really worried about my photo now, The JPG has confirmed my fears about the Yost group, as I thought they really are space aliens, Jack Powell must have huge brian power, perhaps he is like a Talosian from Star Trek, and Mr Yost…
#DS Fix2
Message #181047
The DS line I have is: c:\s64\util\s64mode monitor. Should I kill that line? I'll change the Win-Bios settings as well and see if that helps, the Vram card does work fine exepct it only works in 65' K not 16' mill'. I have used other S3 drivers to get it…
#DS Fix
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Mark, do I delete out all the other DS drivers from my Autoexec.bat, my VRAM made some very nasty effects when I ran it form the Auto'.bat!!! Should I be using some other driver for 3D's and not the Vram ones? Thanks Greg W'
#The Look for 3D's
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On that subject a good freind of mine said "that to be taken seriously as a 3D Studio user, I would have to grow a beard and get some eye wear", when I asked him what he based this on, he showed me the Inside 3D's cover and showed me…
#DS Drivers Help
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A list of the drivers :-), are NDI WARP 1053 1024X768X65536,2MEG and S3 TRIO 64 1024X768X65536, 2 MEG. The four meg drivers may also work, but I only have 2 megs on the card at the mo'. Some other drivers may work, but these two seem fine except they are…
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