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J the B, What a difficult life you lead. Confined to the horrible living conditions of whitewater on the edge of wilderness, subject to all those nasty elk and eagle intrusions, and now this – suffering thru a vacation in Mexico. You po' fell'r! We need to get some of…
I use Modify/Vertex/Weld a LOT, to clean up after booleans, simplify meshes, and along with Edge/Divide and Edge/Turn, to add detail and fine tune meshes. Just be very careful not to accidentally weld to a vertex that is on the back side of a mesh – you can accidentally weld…
>>NAB… I'll not make it to NAB, but perhaps at Siggraph? I'm spending this week sawing and hammering pressure-treated lumber. JKJ
>>Pyros Might Jump In… Good one! No, great one! JKJ
>>for those of us who fall asleep in the room… Hey, I did that Friday for the first time ever. After several nights with about 3 hrs sleep, working all day, then performing in an evening Easter production, I was doing exactly what you recommended (preparing a 20-hr rendering queue)…
Hi Tom, I've played with red/blue stereo a little using 3DS alone. I made left and right cameras, rendered an all-red left view and an all-blue right view, and used videopost to combine the views with the front one 50% transparant. (I made a single camera straight up in the…
Gayle, Did you catch David Gould's camera alignment method in msg # 163524? Much quicker AND easier that what I was doing. Check it out! JKJ
DDGD, >>UserView-> camera, up cursor… Very nice method – clean and quick. I can't remember the last time I used the cursor keys to rotate the user view – thanks for the reminder! Man, there is too much to know… JKJ
>>cute trick… Reminds me of a poster I used to have that said something about "people who think they know the trade when all they know are the tricks of the trade." Great thing about 3DS is that a bag of tricks can fool some into thinking I know the…
Hey, it sounds like you've done all your homework! Your routine should be great fun and a useful tool. Dispite the "fad" appearance, there is still a lot of interest in stereograms. I make some customized for special occasions – with people's names, etc. My 12-year-old son has made some…
Christophe, Thanks for your response. I may not have sufficiently explained the problem I was having. Your experience does indeed illustrate the classic PAR "drive full/block size" tradeoff. In my case, all animations starting on certain frame numbers were getting SPLIT on 100 frame boundaries into two (healthy) animation files.…
>>red/green stereo images… Not related to 3D Studio, but have you looked at the freeware program Fractint? It can generate some great dual-color stereo fractal images. The book Fractal Creations comes with the software, a CD with zillions of fractal images, and red/blue 3D glasses. This may be of interest…
>>3DS plotting… A few weeks ago someone from Viewpoint (the mesh people) mentioned here that they had software which they developed to print wireframes for their catalogs. You might call them and see if they have made any decisions on selling the software. It should be a lot better than…
>>stripe, window to corner… I hope you have this fixed by now, but here's my 2 cents… My latest encounter with window/wall stripes was just today. In my experience, this is almost always caused by a thin sliver of a face. These used to cause me a lot of grief,…
Don't know this comment is appropriate here, but I sometimes adjust the effective local axis of an object by adding a single vertex at a suitable position (away from the object). This is invisible and changes the bounding box allowing me to rotate the object around any desired point in…
What is a "vertical interval holographic stereogram?" JKJ
>>SIRDS IPAS… I think there would be a moderate interest if the routine were fairly complete, meaning support for more than just random dots. Will your routine handle bitmap background strips? I hope this is not discouraging, but I'm afraid such a routine might not sell too well unless it…
>>When you loft an object with coordinates, and apply the >>opacity map to it the "end" of the object will not become >>transparent, no matter what you do Mike. I'm getting caught up on messages and noticed this one from a few days ago. I ran into the "end" problem…
>>user view -> camera view… Gayle, Just catching up on messages here. I use the following method to align a camera with a user view. Quick, and not too dirty. – Create a small sphere ("target sphere") an place it in the midst of your scene. – In the desired…
>>we will delete an entire selection of faces, leaving the isolated >>verts with which we can Create/Face/Build less complex geometry PMJI. Have you tried using Modify/Vertex/Weld instead of rebuilding faces? I've done it both ways and for me, dragging and dropping vertices seems easier and quicker than rebuilding. Just a…
>>do you run the DSPPAR each time?… No, every time I've checked it, nothing changed, so I've quit running it when rendering. I did try that when doing test files that produced the split, but everything looked OK. Just one of those small mysteries of life in the fast lane.…
>>par full?… I don't think that's the problem. I'm familiar with the playback problems with using the inner tracks, but I see none of that. This seems like more of a driver problem, especially since the split is always on an even 100-frame boundary. And I've can put much larger…
I've optimized several times in the last few days since I'm on the last 100 MB or so of this 1Gig drive. Do you think it's related to optimization? Could it just be happening at the end of the drive? Either doesn't make sense to me – I would think…
#PAR oddity
Message #161420
On my PAR: When rendering frames 392-4xx to filename TEST, the first 8 frames (392-399) go to TEST0392.ANI the next xx frames (400-4xx) go to TEST0400.ANI I get a consistent break on a 100 frame boundary with frame ranges such as 392-452, 392-402, 389-402, 292-302, and 198-202. Not a big…
Siggraph: Sun, Aug 8 thru Fri, Aug 11 312-321-6830
Richard, I just zipped and emailed ATOM.3DS to you, summer of '92 version. It has an "atom" flying out of the Oak Ridge area on a Tennessee map. Due to perspective, it's set up to render in the front view to get a classic atom representation. JKJ
>>camera zoom button… I've never liked it either, but as you said, it is reversable and there are always more interesting things to think about. JKJ
It's a pleasure to provide feedback when it doesn't seem to go into a black hole! >>"Always Render" box… This sounds like a good idea. If you do, you might consider making rendering interruptable by any view control click. >>geometric tools, 3D environment… I pondered on this for a little…
Ok, I'll dig up the 3DS and email it to you. I work at Oak Ridge National Lab doing software (officially) and technical CG (unofficially). I know the Health Physics route – I once had a job (NDT & metallography) where they made nuclear fuel elements and did a little…
>>rotating electrons… Hey! I did that once. (I live here in Oak Ridge, TN, "Atomic City. ) If I can remember correctly (it's been a few years)… I made several rings and positioned them appropriately in the Editor. My "electrons" were spheres that I linked to rotating dummies positioned in…
Brent, >>demo version of MeshPaint 3D… let me know what you think… That's kind of like the beautiful girl asking "Am I pretty?" Are you fishing for compliments, or what? Zounds! This is one incredible program!! Between segments of a project I thought I'd try it out for a few…
Hey Rach. I've been using the People on company time lately. I've been so busy doing animation projects for work that I've had to farm out 95% of my software development work. 3D is more fun! I'm still working at home on my own equipment, but I've got one big…
Hi Rachel! I hope things are going well for you. The chair discussion was began concerning the physical chair, interesting to those of us who sit on our butts a lot. A couple of people were interested in specific HM chair meshes. I've been using your little people lately. I…
I'm not COMPLETELY talked out of it yet, you just dampened my impulse buying mode a little – thanks! I may buy it later for work if a project comes up that absoulutely needs it. Fortunately for me, the kind of work I do with 3DS very rarely would benefit…
>>LenZ/Eyebrowse inseparable… Thank you for your response. Sometime I wish I didn't write software myself – I get frustrated by things that don't work the way _I_ want them to. I guess I was looking for a excuse to buy it in spite of the hardware lock. I think I'm…
>>HM chair mesh… I asked today and got a "don't know" answer. The person on the phone said she had tried to find this out before and does not yet have an answer. She suggested that my local Herman Miller dealer would know. My local dealer must be very busy…
>>painting on 3D objects… One question. I run my 3DS screen at 1024×768 to allow greater detail while modeling. Most of the IPAS user-interfaces I've seen seem to have been created to a specific screen resolution. Does your software scale the working area to the screen or will I have…
>>LenZ/Eyebrowse… Could you tell me… Is Eyebrowse an integral part of LenZ, or more explicitly, can you run LenZ without Eyebrowse? (I've never liked what I've heard about Eyebrowse – I bought a copy but never installed it so I'm probably being a little unfair) JKJ
Just my kind of fun! (Yikes, can you imagine having vision like that? I thank God for eyes that work.) JKJ
>>demo gradients… Yes, I could use all the demo gradients from MatEd (and VideoPost, I think). I picked *.* and then a .GRD file. I rendered some of the animated examples out to PAR for playback – very impressive! Although I thought I'd probably never use effects like that myself,…
>>back support forum… Wow, what an all purpose support team! Thanks for the Herman Miller phone number. JKJ
Hi Lee, I missed your first message, but concerning the HSC demos – the first one they uploaded had just a few presets to play with and most of them were useless due to missing bitmap files. I brought this to their attention, and although they never answered me, the…
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Message #159696
>>image to shaper for tracing … You can set the image as a background in the Editor, turn on "See Background" in the shaper, then trace over it. One problem with this method is if you change the view by zooming or panning, you will lose alignment with the image.…
Hello Rock, I just tried your double vision problem and it is easy to do with video post and a transparancy mask. No IPAS needed. – Decide the shape and size of the central area of normal vision and build a transparancy mask. Make it pure white in the middle…
>>IPASses & stuff… Kevin, What is your phone number? I am getting ready to make some major purchases (i.e. outfit a lab at work). Do you deal in hardware too, or just software? I need 4-6 machines, network-ready, with all the fixings. JKJ
>>HVAC… An HAVC animator?!! One of my best friends is an HVAC architect for a firm in Wash DC, and does work for many of the government buildings there (including the White House). With much arm twisting they have just ramped up with CAD, but haven't touched animation yet. I've…
I've never seen ANYTHING that Mr Glenn did that wasn't amazing!
>>green to red… You made me think some more. (Yikes, stop that! ) A simple solid color change may be a good alternative to a gradient for many types of animated information charts, especially where there are a number of data elements and the population can be fit into discrete…
>>projector light… Yes! That was actually the technique I recommended to Bob Weil when he asked for ideas. I had used that on a similar problem once. It sounds like there may be some other ways that might work too. As 3DS is used more and more for scientific work,…
Great – I'd like to know how you did it. Always suspected you were a little unconventional!
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