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VR in the "Real World"
Message #154427
Hi Dick, Sorry I didn't reply to you sooner, but somehow your message got lost down in my WinCim file cabinet where I didn't see it until today! There are some definite improvement I would make to WinCim, but it's better than anything else I can find. Not unlike other…
>>Anyways, so now I know about you 🙂
Hello Michael, Sorry for the delay in responding. I am online only a few times a week it seems, no matter how I try to get here more often. >>>Q. Can the CDK be set up to use more of the color palette, so shading looks more natural, ie. rather…
Hi Jerry! Good to see you here! How is that little Eddy and Maryann? I have been trying to talk Millard into letting me bring the boys to Meckler just so Jarrod could meet Eddy, but no luck so far… :(. >>>>Check over in CyberForum's Virtual City section. VRASP has…
Hi Paul, Good to see you here! I know that commercialization concerns are a big subject with many folks. But I also feel that such a contest would certainly help a lot of people (granted, me included) to learn about such modeling considerations. It seems a shame to not offer…
Hi Kevin,
>>>>>>I would like to in time start my own company that does actually a few things such as the arch walkthrus, a real virtual reality mud, and do animations for companies/small businesses. …… Does this seem like a feasible dream/goal?
>>>>>>>>>I played with an early version of Navigator, but it was too slow, and the graphics were too crude (on a 486-66). How much more data could a DOS/VESA version handle? Could the Navigator be set up more for "interactive rendering" and less for "real time interaction"? If the software…
Hi Dan, Welcome to Asoft. Yes I am a CDK developer/dealer and would be happy to answer any questions I can. And I am VERY please to note that our stuff has been moved to the NEW library section for CDK applications (Yeah, raw, sis-boom-bah!) It is no longer in…
>>>>>>>>>>>Is there a technical description on the release 2 on CIS available or if not have you a file you can send me. I'm looking for something like the 'Cyberspace Developer Kit Concepts & Components for CDK Release 1' was, which can be downloaded, but did not find something on…
Sorry for the delay in responding to you, but it looks like Kevin Y. has answered all your questions already! We are backed up as always in trying to get the next version out and I haven't gotten to the forum except about once a week lately. Isn't that great!…
>>>Do you think there there people out there running NT 3.1 that aren't going to upgrade to NT 3.5?
>>>Remember me. I'm the guy who said I wanted to be the dance instructor in the virtual ballroom waaaaaay back when…
To Kevin via Jonas? Hi Kevin, Nice to see you here. Thanks for the clarification about WinG not working under Windows NT 3.1. I did forget that one. But Rendermorphics and Hoops should function just fine, is this true? By the way, when are you guys going to get your…
Regarding the new version of NAVFlyer, registered shareware with with mouse support: CN
Yes, Rel 2 is shipping now and is available from your local Autodesk CDK dealer. We are one of these dealers as well as a CDK developer. You should contact the closest CDK dealer to your location first. The name of this dealer can be obtained from Autodesk's 800 line…
I could perhaps answer some of these questions… >>>>1. We are using models created with Autodesk 3D Studio 3.0 and animating them with Cyberspace. When reading in the 3d Studio objects, they loose their bitmaps (texture maps). Can anyone tell me how to get the 3d Studio texture maps to…
#POP QUIZ!!! Answers
Message #146489
Kevin, Sorry for being so long in replying to you. I have been out of touch over the holidays. I hope you've had a wonderful New Year. >>>>I would rather Mr. Gwinner explain his project in as succinct a manner as possible by posting a synopsis to this forum.
There is a file somewhere in the libraries here that does an early comparison between CDK and WTK. Perhaps Jonas could point us to it, I have forgotten where it is myself, but as I recall it had the name of both in the title (i.e. CDKWTK.zip or something like…
To my knowledge, 3D Studio does not read in IGES files but there are many translators out there that both input and output IGES. I think it is more than just an AutoCAD conversion utility. It has been around for a long time and was not created by Autodesk. AutoCAD…
I never had such an introduction before… >>>>>how they use it in their application.
Thanks for the reply…. Yes mouse support is available NOW for those who register NAVFlyer (See beginning of NAVFlyer.TXT for price… it's __low__….-sorry sysop, adjectives about prices are ok right?). I think we are going to go ahead and include 3DS file input in the registered version as well as…
#CDK Grant PRogram
Message #136119
CDK Grant Program for edutcational institutions!!!! see below… Sysop…Please check with Joe McCrae (spelled wrong? sorry) about leaving this one message posted here. When we asked if it was OK to repost a message multiple times so that it would be here for more than a week, he told us…
Maybe you are right Kevin, maybe you are right…. I tell you what, we are just getting the faster version of this DOS version of NAVFlyer finished up here to replace the one that is there now. When it gets up here, hopefully this week, you download it and take…
Thanks again !! 😀 Ang
CDK fishing
Message #134868
Hello Jeffrey, This is just an update reply to see if you have had a chance to check out NAVFlyer. You had mentioned an interest in it in your last message. It IS here now although still the slower version. We are interested in your feedback, both good and bad.…
Regarding : Navfly.zip in the Software Development Section of the Library. A shareware CDK flyer for DXF files….. >>>I've noticed you have listed an affiliation with two Universites in Flordia. I'd be very interested in knowing what people are doing down there, what kinds of projects are underway and what…
Want Ads
Message #134866
Jonas & Kevin Kevin I am convinced now that you are certifiably crazy… and wonderful. This would be a boring forum without you… Yes my helmet is on, both for the trenches and for flying. Its only when I land that I have to start ducking! I was just interested…
Appropriate Info
Message #134865
Hi Jonas, Another question of nettiquette…. Sorry the question I asked about the Want Ads ended up in the IPAS Usage section. I was trying for the Want Ads section but I blew it in WinCim and didn't pick the appropriate section, so it defaulted to the first one I…
3D Studio DXF color info
Message #134864
sorry for the late response here, but I just wanted to thank you and Gary for the prompt response. Your messages saved me a lot of work in investigation. Thank you both for giving it to me straight! Tell Gary thanks too, I've lost his response to reply 'thanks' to.…
>>>When Millard finishes yelling at you for writing it, tell him it was all my fault for being so cryptic.
#Want Ads
Message #133648
A quick question. I see people selling 3DS and other packages here on the forum.What is the story here. Are all these people dealers? Where do these packages come from? How can someone have a 3DS for $1100? I got the word from a ACAD sysop on our shareware message…
yea,, that day care was in my town ! It made a major big stink here. Gainesville boycotted Disney for a while, but on the bright side, Hanna Barbara came in and gave them new characters to put up!
you bet… We'll keep in touch Angela
Thanks for the reply…. Yes the mesh sizes are very limiting for anything to come close to real-time using this default CDK VESA driver. Especially so for a medical mesh I would assume, being anotomically correct. Please stay tuned for future releases to improve on the display performance. We have…
Juan, I just got a few more official answers for you… CDK will ship with the Rendermorphics and Hoops displays. Hoops is/or has (I'm not sure which) (and I quote) a "hardware accelerateable API". So anyone can write their own hardware accelerator display class at no extra cost, I am…
Thanks for the 'lifetime' subscription…It's nice to know somethings last forever… Snail mail: Angela Pate MicronGreen 1240 N.W. 21 Ave. Gainesville FL 32605
Been watching this thread while ROTFL for some time now. You guys are great. I couldn't keep silent any longer. So you are not a dealer? Then how do you have this awsome insight, this psychic perspective that seems to ring in my brain and dreams at night? Do you…
Hello Juan, And how is Las Ramblas today? Not sure about hardware accelerators, but in software… At Siggraph, publicly announced, I know I saw support for Reality Labs from Rendermorphics and Hoops from Ithaca, and others..??..??..I'm not sure. Doesn't quite answer you question does it? However, as I recall you…
CDK Grant Program
Message #132989
Sysop: Please consider leaving this posted until CDK Rel 2 ships. We are happy to post it here at the request of the CDK development team. The following information was released today, Tuesday, November 1, 1994 at 6:08 am PST. For your benefit, we have highlighted the key messages of…
Thanks for the insight.. I am still interested in learning more about your new Windows product… Or the Amiga product, though I am complete Amiga ignorant. At least it might help to know what is available and how it may help get models into a usable format. Where do I…
Pen numbers huh? Isn't it funny how people use different words for the same thing. We never thought of them as pen numbers other than when configuring plotters. Color index numbers are what I've always known them as, indexes into the color lookup table. The dxf docs also call them…
Check out NAVFlyer.zip in the Software Development Kit Library, an interactive CDK flyer that we need this color info to work on 3D Studio created DXF files. >>>>When my company's translation product, InterChange, converts a 3D model to DXF format, …….In other words, we could read the 3DS file, interpret…
#new NAVFlyer Upload
Message #131895
NEW UPLOAD..based on Autodesk's CDK (Cyberspace Development Kit) NAVFlyer.ZIP file in the Software Development Kits Library This is a true 3D interactive flyer that uses the keypad only for navigation. It has the ability to lockon to an object to orbit easily, shaded and wireframe mode, and online help. The…
autodesk cdk
Message #131756
>>Is anyone out there serously using autodesk's cyberspace developer kit, and if so; how do you like it? what are you using it for? how much experience in c++ do you need to use it? what is the learning curve of the program? do you have an examples that you…
I enjoyed the IK girl and learned a lot from you example, thanks. I was playing around and trying to make a mobius strip with IK. Just a flat ribbon like mesh that I could bend around and twist. I got it to bend around but for some reason I…
#3D Studio DXF color info
Message #130913
Hi Gary, A question (s), In the DXF output from 3D Studio (we've tried both R3 and R4) is it true that there is only color information being sent regarding layer color? No entity color is being saved? And the color information that IS being assigned to each layer is…
>>a client straps on a headset & gloves and 'walks' through his building making changes wherever he wants.
Thanks for the reply, Yes we are in Gainesville, Fl. and Keith is here… You spoke to him about the NAVPlayer, no doubt, which we showed at Siggraph. However, it is not the same thing as this NAVFlyer shareware subject that we were discussing here in the CDK forum. Let…
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