This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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"I'm running 65,000 colors" Ahah! Thanks for letting us know. (You're welcome)
". And, will registered owners of R4 receive some sort of written notification when they can order and expect delivery?" uh, well, the answer is OF COURSE, but then I would expect something to go wrong, a la SIGGRAPH invitations. I anticipate that we will get this straightened out, since…
"…I thought 3ds will be exclusively on NT once "R5" is out – there has been a lot of trouble concerning this in former times….." I don't know specifics. Both 3DS DOS and 3DS MAX have their own product managers. I believe the DOS version will go away eventually, but…
"the r12 equivalent of Solmesh at 12 wire density with either DXFOUT or 3dsout in R13…" The DXFOUT from R13 will not work for ACIS models into 3DS. You must use 3DSOUT. The command FACETRES might be your ticket to resolution. For instance, if you create an arc of 90…
The date I have for my WACOM.IDR file is 10/15/92, and is 3,161 bytes in size. I'll send that to youvia email in case this helps. And no, I don't know of a later driver. I'm not really familiar with the WACOM and AAPro, but would appreciate you telling me…
"Is this (and you) part of the MS plot to take over the universe as we don't know it?" Yes, this is part of the plot. But now that you've figured it out, we'll have to change our strategy. I've always favoured .WRI format for postings regarding products that run…
"… as I work through the manual and learn how everything fits together." Great! There is a tutorial on the THEDIVE.BMP, where you use clone ink. If you have troubles with the settings, let us know. Several people have reported that clone ink appears not to work. The workaround as…
Search for the messages marked READ!!! as the subject! There are several messages posted by Anne that are from Gary. Excellent reading.
"" once I click on the vertex of the cube and move the mouse I do not see a blue outline as the illustration shows" You must configure your 3D Editor to run with 256 colors. More colors than that will not display face highlights. Sorry!
"Why do you have to complain to get the bug fix you should get it anyway" should read: "Why do you have to register to get the bug fix you should get anyway" No need to "complain" as far as I'm concerned. You should be sure you report your bug…
" curser does not show up and 3DS later alerts (dialogue box) that Device is not found." This sounds like the COM device is not properly set. Make sure that after you get things set up correctly (try COM2, configure for COM2, etc.) you save your settings with 3DS.PRJ. (You…
" ETA for R5 ?" Jonas is at SIGGRAPH, where no doubt they'll be able to give a date. From what I've heard, it's probably still half a year away from release. For the finicky folks, the NT version I'm talking about is not going to be called R5. I…
" It seems that when you assign the target and click ok, it morphs into itself" It's not clear to me what's happening. Can you successfully morph following these steps. In the 3D Editor, create a box. Make a copy of the box. (Don't do this in the keyframer, it…
"I am looking for a few books myself right now. One called "Tips and Tricks" and another, "Special Effects"" Some folks get their books on CompuServe: GO CBK. "3D Studio Tips and Tricks Series", Delta Graphics, Bousquet and Melenhorst. (3 books: Morphing and Animation, Glass & Reflection, Shaping & Lofting).…
You can create text in the 2D Shaper, loft it, then use the BEND command for wrapping text in a circular fashion.
" Can this be done with 3D Studio or Animator Pro, or are the professional cartoons still done with traditrional methods." It's me again – I hope you've seen the cartoon show "REBOOT" on Saturday morning. It basically *could* be done with 3DS, but isn't.
"When I run setup from the disk, the player installs, and nothing else. Does Animator Studio check the speed of my computer at installation time?" If you're looking at the installation directions on Page 5, we goofed! You are accidentally being asked to install just the player. You sound like…
"Is Animator Pro a suitable tool for producing the types of kids cartoons (and some big kids cartoons!) that we see on TV, or are there other more specific products." I did see an episode of some show that used AAPro. I don't work in the industry to know how…
Hi Al, QA's comment on the ACECAD: "Animator Studio uses wintab. We do not have one of these in QA though this should work." How does this compare to your experience? Are you using ACECAD's Wintab driver? Does this work? Some people report that after AAStudio, the tablet's drawing area…
"The files in Autodesk's Animator Studio promise to have a file placed on CIS that describes the most current bugs in the software. I've looked here several times and no such file exists." I may have missed the reference you're talking about. I did see the reference to AASTIPS.ZIP, which…
Mike, Thanks for posting your concerns about AAS. I'll make sure they're passed to Brent and Mark -the product mangers. Right now, because of SIGGRAPH, I doubt I'll get immediate feedback on your comments. Nik
"IS THERE A DRIVER THAT I CAN DOWNLOAD SO THAT I CAN PLAY THE .FLI FILES…" FLI files are supposed to be the same specification no matter which program writes them. Our WINPLA.EXE or PLAYER.EXE (DOS) should do the job. Does the Corel CD version 5 have a non-standard FLI…
"Nik, You're a god!" We have a "Nik is God" wall here in Product Support, where people who post such sentiments can see printouts mounted in 8×10 photo frames. I'm told I spend too much time gazing at it though. But, thanks very much for your kind words. Glad I…
" I'll wait for the 1.1. I guess the update will be free??" Yes, I'm told. Thanks for hanging in there.
" ACECAD D-9000 Non pressure sensitive…" I'll give your message to QA and ask them to check into this. Thanks
#183235-
Autodesk 3ds party
Message #183661
"How about Europian users? Are they going to be invited?" Well, I'm not part of the SIGGRAPH party so I don't know the definitive answer, but sure, European users should be not only invited but I think we'd be very excited to meet our cousins across the seas! Tell 'em…
Brent Blackett (Acting AAStudio Product Manager) read your email and asked me to respond on his behalf (he's at SIGGRAPH): "Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence in a ground breaking product. The good news is that we already have hundreds of customers that are thrilled with the outstanding combination…
"But after installing on my Pentium90 with Win95 Preview, all Programs but the Animator Studio itself are runnung well. " Dietmar, The AAStudio Acting Product Manager saw your question. He asked if I could post his reply for you. Here it is: "Windows95 Preview is a beta operating system and…
"I think Autodesk should probably do a recall of the product before they lose complete credibility and built-up goodwill." Hi Laurence, Brent Blackett, the acting AAStudio Product Manager saw your post and wanted me to send you this message from him: "Laurence, when we send out free c1 updates to…
Whoops, I meant to include Brent's responses all in one email back to you. He commented on various parts of your message. It's kinda long… You: "Is it me or does the program quickly come ..to…..a…..c..r..a…w….l…. like its bleeding away my memory? The disk thrashing becomes quite rythmic and runs…
"pg.156 Tweening a Shape…. Am I the only one who has the called for "Choose Action/Render and Use Last option unavailably grayed out? My only choices at this point in the tutorial are Render. Any attempt to close out of this exercise results in Flipper flipping out with a GPF…
" I'm having a couple of errors with Animator Studio. First one while in sound lab I'll get a "Couldn't read streams from original file" error whenever I try to say a .wav file. The second is in studio and is "Animation error: An internal error occured". Any help would…
"FWIW, funny, but the wintab driver bug doesn't show up in Corel, Photoshop, Fractal Painter, Fauve Matisse, MSOffice, Photostyler, Truespace, Adobe Premiere, Pagemaker, Quad Studio, Midisoft Studio, Cakewalk, etc. only in Anim Studio! What does AS do differently that brings this "bug" out from hiding?" From Brent Blackett – Acting…
Paul Can you email me (privately) your AAStudio serial number, and address where we can send you a USA AAStudio c1 update? We're sorry you're feeling upset, and we hope we can help you by sending you c1 now. Thanks.
Time of party: Tuesday, Aug 8 7 pm to 11 pm Biltmore Hotel 506 S. Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA (213) 624-1011 K
#183246-
Autodesk 3ds party
Message #183647
Todd – from Kathy Clinton: "I tried to track this problem down with the folks who mailed the invite out. Seems we're having a problem with our "registered customer" database and we're trying to work it out now. HUGE apologies to anyone who feels left out. As I said before,…
"When do you expect Autodesk to release the NT version of AStudio?" This has not been announced. I have been reassured that the NT version will be available around the same time as 3D Studio's NT version, which will be – I guess – around the beginning of next year.…
"When does Autodesk expect to release the NT version of 3D Studio?" They'll announce that at SIGGRAPH (next week).. A ball park date is beginning of next year, is my guess. We're not shipping at SIGGRAPH, just announcing.
"What are the limits of the amount of lights?" I believe they're limited by your hardware. You mentioned you were NOT using shadow-casting lights, which would be a big drain on resources. I am not sure I understand why you have so many lights, but I'm sure you have a…
"I wish I could say that increasing the "FACETRES" value worked, but it didn't. I raised the value up to 10 and 3dsout the file. When I bring the model in 3D Studio the arcs look like they have been created with SHAPE STEPS set to 3" This is unusual.…
"An associate has bought a Diamond Stealth SE PCI 1mb video card for his P90" I assume you've tried the latest (1.0.7.p1) Vibrant drivers. They're later than the ones shipped with 3DS. I have added your request to the wishlist. Hopefully you can use a workaround, like VESA, in the…
Robert, Great reply – not too long for such good info!
NT and Version 2? Sorry, no. If you upgraded to R4, you could follow the directions mentioned in Jonas's "post" (3ds4-nt.zip in the hardware/opsys/video library). I am unable to tell you if it's going to be as fast to render.
"Just copied 3ds3 over the net to a new machine. The new machine uses a mouse not a digitizer like the other does." You're probably suffering from the presence of a 3DS.PRJ file. Look in your 3DS3\PROJECTS subdirectory and rename it, if you have it. Then start 3DS.
"So could you again ask the programmers, if there will be a solution for WIN95-Users when Win95 is available (not Beta)" Sure – I'll ask.
Hi Paul, I did what you said and you are right. I'll see if I can find out what is going on here.
"The folks at SIgma gave me the impression there was a solution in the can at Adesk. Any insight?" Let me know a phone number and who you spoke to; I'll call them. Autodesk does not like writing drivers for video cards, etc., and heavily leverages the ADI program where…
"I am a registered user, paying member of the club, and as of today I too have not received any invite. Something is wrong." Thanks for letting us know. I gave Kathy your email message and hopefully we'll find out why so many people didn't get invitations, and fix the…
"And here I thought it was because I was Canadian!" Kathy Clinton was doing a background check on your nationality – I guess someone had hinted about you being Canadian. She's got your email and knows you're on the list of folks who haven't received tickets. Sorry for the problem.
"I feel honored to be included among such distinguished Animators in this thread as one who also didn't receive an invite this year, but did last year." Yes, it's quite a distinguished list! (Kathy Clinton's been forwarded this thread to see if we can clear up this problem. We want…
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