This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Marvin, DId you ever get your background problem figured out? It's kind of hard to tell what's going on by your message but it sounds to me like it's most likely a palette problem. When you Render/View Image you're most likely looking at it in 24bit color. When you actually…
>>Hardware support matters… Of course it does Rico, but it's really not up to the OS to support everything out there. It's up the manufacturers of the hardware to write the drivers. You need to get on your products manufacturers and tell them to write NT drivers. Right now many…
Rico, I was just looking through the messages and wanted to say something more regarding NT vs. WIN95. I think you're misinformed about 95's compatibility with everything. Neither my PAR or my Fargo Primera will work under 95. The manufacturers are currently developing drivers for both OS' but NT will…
Yeah, I haven't been bold enough to try doing file manipulation on the PAR from NT. I guess I do have everything on DAT though…. Maybe, I'll give it a go. I haven't actually gotten the 1.4 ones yet – maybe later. Right now, I'm trying to find the Beta…
#Hollywood electricity
Message #189962
Does anyone have any info. on how to do the Hollywood style electric effects which have arcs of electricity traversing a person. It's a fairly common effect so it can't be too difficult. I'm really needing to accomplish this within 3DS so if anyone has any tips it would be…
#Love my Amiga!!
Message #189903
>Some people clint to their Amigas until the very end.< Hey there – I've still got an Amiga 1000! I still think Shadow of the Beast is one of the best games ever made. The thing still runs though – it was ahead of it's time really. Anyone remember Sculpt…
#Lightning how to?
Message #189901
I really need some advice with lightning. I've got the chance to get a prett decent job that's dependent on me coming up with a few samples by Tuesday. The client wants to have a logo revealed by a lightning strike. The lightning needs to be controlled for the initial…
Thanks much David. I'll grab 'em later and take a look. Have you found them to be better? DM
Ok, fine you're not Bill, but I swear there was a Bill that logged on from M&M. Oh well anyway, if you're going to take offense at your name being wrong then post it for people to see. Yes, I'm happier. Your message was much more constructive than it was…
#Vapor lingering?
Message #189100
I'm in need of a little help with Vapor. I've got a project similar to MartinF's laser burn but somewhat different. I've got an axp cube linked to a dummy that's on a path. While the smoke looks nice the problem is making it linger behind the moving cube. I've…
I haven't gotten any info on the new speed razor. I was just figuring that since In:Sync has obviously gotten the PAR to work under NT they may be able to get it to work with plain old Razor Pro also. Seems logical to me. Maybe Eron will be able…
Thanks for the info Doug. I'll take a look and see what ver. of Photoshop I have. I do have dual boot setup. I guess I may have to install WFWG also eh? What a crock. Thanks again. DM
>>Did you delete WFWG first? Yup. Why is that a problem? What I did was install a new hard drive altogether. My C: was a 340 Mb so I replaced it with an 850. I've got 3.51. Well, I got razor up and running – although it won't open the…
#Par and NT
Message #188804
Eron, I'm wondering, since you'll be shipping speed razor soon, if you have any tips on making the PAR work under NT? I figure you must be able to do it if you're shipping software for it. Is there any chance of getting the PAR to work under NT with…
PAR overheating drive
Message #188802
Mark, FWIW, I've had my PAR and a Micropolis 2217 since January and haven't had any problems with it. I took a suggestion from Martin Foster and leave my case open with a 9 inch fan blowing on the drive. The thing runs at near ambient temp. and the fan…
Hey Mark, Man this is getting to be such a bummer. I think I'm going to reinstall plain old WFWG tomorrow. At least everything works. I'm getting _very_ frustrated by the lack of support for NT. It really irks me that vendors like Turtle Beach are developing Win95 drivers before…
>>welp, if you need further assistance… Don't worry, I'm not one to be shy about welping. Thanks again. DM
Hi Mark, Yup the OpenGL screen savers are pretty cool. I have to reinstall Photoshop 3.0 and Razor but Er and some other ones are fine. The programs like photoshop install DLL's into Windows and they were killed when I moved to NT. I changed hard drives all together so…
#NT up and running
Message #188676
Ahhhhhh… Finally. After a day of screwing around NT is finally up and running. Boy it's a screamer! Haven't been able to get Razor Pro to run yet. It just sits there with the logo displayed. I have to kill the task to make it go away, but it doesn't…
Mark, Python's an IPAS marketed by Schreiber for _growing_ an object along a path. For some things you can use opacity mapping as a workaround but there are times when mapping won't do the trick and Python will. It's in Schreibers catalog, if you want more info. on it. DM
Thanks Dave, lots of good info. I think it's the DX translator they're using. The dxf's aren't from AutoCAD. They're from a package called Calma. I've never heard of it though. I spoke to a woman today in the eng. dept. and she said the package was really old. She…
Thanks a lot Dave. Hopefully the NT drivers will be out of Beta soon. I'll be installing NT tonight (and probably this weekend) so I'll let ya know how it all goes. I wouldn't even consider Premiere if you're looking at getting that or Razor Pro. RP is a great…
#DXF Import
Message #188529
I'm having a problem importing a .DXF file. It was imported from (exported I mean) from a package called Calma from Apollo systems. It's of a valve that the client want's rendered. No matter what way I import the dxf it comes in as 2D objects. Mostly circles. They're arranged…
Bill, You're too much sometimes. Just because you don't _think_ there's a use means nothing. Pyros' routines save much time over doing it manually which in itself is a very important use. I for one wouldn't want to try and duplicate a quatro effect manually. And as it's been pointed…
Hi David, >>No sync .WAV to PAR playback. Bummer. Major. Especially since I just went out and bought NT workstation 3.51 today. Well, without audio playback I'd say I'm going back to WFWG. Boy, I sure hope everything gets starightened out soon. At least it seems like everyone is working…
Don, I'm in a sort of similar position. I've got 1 computer, soon to be 2, with R4, Par etc. and haven't had any problems using WFWG 3.11. Las week, I put Win95 on and while it looks nice, and is faster at opening programs like Photoshop, or Elastic Reality.…
Yeah I saw it. Thanks. DM
Thanks Gus, but you didn't exactly make me feel any better about this. I can clready run the PAR in a DOS box just fine. It's Razor Pro I'm concerned about. Correct me if I'm wrong but DPS already has drivers for NT which David Rhoten says work just fine.…
#Par and Win95
Message #187823
Gus, Thought you may have some insight on this. I'm really trying to get the PAR up and running under Win95 but not having any luck. It seems to be an incompatibility between the Pardrv TSR and Win. I'm wondering if because it's a protected mode driver that's somehow conflicting.…
David, I got PANTI136.zip off of DPS' FTP site but it doesn't help for Win95. It keeps saying it can't find dpspar.sys even though it's right there. Oh well, I was just hoping the NT drivers would also work in 95. Of course not. Anyway, I really wish I could…
Mitch, 95 works just fine if you press F8 and go to DOS. Running from within Windows is the same as before as far as I can tell. You'd still have to run the VESA drivers. The PAR flat out refuses to be seen by Win95 though. SO far I…
Paul, Have you had any luck getting the PAR up under Win95? I installed 95 the other day just to look at and I get the same results. I can't access it with Razor Pro and directory structure is a mirror of C:. Boy this sucks. I like the feel…
#DPS' FTP Site
Message #187519
Can anyone give me DPS' FTP address? Thanks DM
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Kurta XLP1218 & 3DS.SET
Message #187505
Hi Tony, had any luck getting your Kurta to work? The only advice I can give is that most people who use a digitizer use it in Mouse emulation mode within 3DS. This seems to be the best solution. Hope that helps. DM
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3DS Video Drivers
Message #187504
Use the Vibrant drivers. Start 3ds by entering 3DS VIBCFG. It's in the manuals. DM
[76570,2752] Bob Williamson VFD.ZIP Bin, Bytes: 83934, Count: 3719, 06-Jul-94(20-Apr-95) Title : VFD 1.6g FLI FLC AVI MPEG Convert/Extract Keywords: VFD FLI FLC AVI MPEG CONVERT EXTRACT PLAYER VFD 1.6g (Video for DOS) is a real-mode DOS command-line motion video cross-compiler that creates and converts among FLI FLC AVI (dib…
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#3D Studio & WIN 95
Message #187502
Jeffrey, I have no idea on your AutoSurf or Designer questions, but hopefuly someone else will jump on them. As far as 3DS goes the screen gets messed up because you're running it in a DOS window and using the Vibrant drivers. This kind of behavior was the same in…
Peter, How big do you mean by bigger? What resolution are you outputting in? You could try using summed-area filtering and turn the texture blur all the way down. There is even a texture-sharpen setting in the 3ds.set file which you could try adjusting. But aside from that type of…
Rich, oops.. also meant to ask, if you don't have Water.ixp you could start with caustic.flc which is included on the WCT. If you want to take an image and make it wavy and blurry and then use that as either a texture map or reflection map on your water…
Rich, For really nice water you should get Yost's IPAS Botique #2. It's got an IXP for doing water that can be used as both bump and texture maps. In your material you can try increasing the reflection blur and see if that helps. You also probably want to use…
James, Here's the info on VFD: [76570,2752] Bob Williamson VFD.ZIP Bin, Bytes: 83934, Count: 3719, 06-Jul-94(20-Apr-95) Title : VFD 1.6g FLI FLC AVI MPEG Convert/Extract Keywords: VFD FLI FLC AVI MPEG CONVERT EXTRACT PLAYER VFD 1.6g (Video for DOS) is a real-mode DOS command-line motion video cross-compiler that creates and…
>>The NT Drivers work… David, Is there any chance of uploading those drivers here. It sure would be nice of you. It's bizzare how the PAR directory structure shows up. Seems something related to WIN95 and it's networking. I can't get it do anything but show my C: drive. Weird.…
Rico, I think that _many_ if not all of the professional animators will upgrade to either multiple 586 based systems or change platforms to something like Alpha or MIPS. With '95 this would not be possible. Also I don't believe '95 supports OpenGL – although I'm not sure. Microsoft has…
Kyle, PMJI, but it seems you haven't been on for a while. Or do you mainly stay in IPAS usage? Anyway, done any cool Metaball stuff lately? What do you think of Danny Mercurios metaball modeller? Sounds like the mapping support is going to be great. Take care. DM
Greg, Hmmm, don't quite get you. First you said Parout, runnign on a single machine, would copy the alphas after the fact. Which is exactly what I do now. But then, later, you said the alphas would need to be re-run through VP. So, basically it sounds pointless to run…
Jason, Please reply to messages instead of starting new threads. It makes for an easier to maintain message base. Thanks much. DM
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Render:plse hlp a novice
Message #187103
Jez, You'd be better off to either fix the normals or use specific two sided materials instaed of forcing two sided. You'll save yourself alot of rendering time. DM
Greg, Ok – you've almost sold me. How much do you charge for Parout and will it run on a single machine and/or a network. Right now I have to manually copy all my alpha splits to the Par and because they're so small I normally don't mind. But saving…
Doug, It actually depends on the video card you're using. This only happens on certain cards and/or certain Vibrant drivers. On some cards running in true or high color is just fine on other it isn't. Unfortunately yours is one where it isn't. Not a huge deal but a pain…
Sure Greg but a batch file is Free! DM
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