This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I am totally biased with what, John? With the fact that the message comes from you, with the fact that I have been promoting NT as the OS for 3DS since the beginning of the party or with my condition of Mac owner? The only thing that may be true…
[continued] minimum. Simply, NT is not the heaven you have painted here. NT could be heaven or hell depending on your needs. For me it will be heaven because it will let my favorite program to be ported to a serious chip like the AXP series. For others it will…
John, Honestly, and with all my respect, that was the biggest amount of half truths that I have ever seen posted on line. I don't know how much time you have spent with NT, but I have been running the bloody thing since its second beta and while I like…
"On my own, by messing around with the different pull down menus." Good for you, but remember that manuals could be of some help sometimes They could save you a lot of time in CompuServe. ana /krazy images
Only if the board has a [unidirectional] parallel port. I am waiting for at least a Pentium board for my PowerMacs, with at least SIMM space for 256MB. Until then, I will keep my Pentium dancing arround, ready for an Alpha upgrade . ana /krazy images
Someone promised me a personal demo of R5, so I guess that I have to go . What month is it? ana /krazy images
You can't convert a RGB file to CMYK in Photostyler? Yes you can, just change the color mode and it will do it for you. You can even make Styler to do separations on EPS files, and even give it your target printer media to get consistent colot between your…
If you want to get top advice from someone who has researched this field deep and hard, then I am sure that your future investment will be safe if you talk with Paul Lind. He is the authority here about CD authoring. Dr. Paul, are you there?
Jonas, I think he is talking about something like NURBS rather than metaballs. I will define metaballs more something like high density fluid modelling 🙂 As for my definition of clay modelling, check out Pixel Putty Solo from the Valis Group (maybe Adesk could convince them to port this extraordinary…
To be honest, we have an account at AOL but we only visit the Valis Group and Pixar folders from time to time. The average AOL user is pretty ignorant about computers, and pretty insolent as well at times, specially the ones over the game forums . There are exceptions,…
No. Don't get the drive if you are serious about CD. Plenty of problems reported by very angry users. I cancelled mine just in time 🙂 ana /krazy images
"My fantasies are not appropriate for a family forum!" Yeah, no kidding. I know that you have an account on AOL, Alan 😉 (you didn't expect that one, hmm? ) ana /krazy images
"Anyone involved in producing imagary is bound to be a perfectionist. And perfectionists take everything too seriously!!" I don't know James 🙂 I doubt that anyone involved in producing imaginery using computers is going to give too much credit to a PC Magazine article -I won't give any credit at…
Hey, I bet that you also have obscure fantasies about 3DS being ported to NextStep! The postScript of 3D? hmmm? Maybe what they need is to sell the thing to Billy the Kid and get it included in Windoze 96. ana /krazy images
The question is: Are we taking this too seriously? I bet that Gary doesn't care at all (after all, it is PC Magazine ) ana /krazy images
John, The thing is that a solution like that would save us money and time. As I told you, we would be able to have a machine exclusively dedicated to 3DS (no multitasking to reduce performance), quickly cut and paste between 3DS and Mac software, access all the file systems…
Thomas, Maybe you have to send this to PC Fantazine ana /krazy images
Bruce, Romans, my friends, I finally got a chance to read the article on page 29 of PC Mag. At the top, a photo with a caption talking about MS bringing the [supercool, exclusive, your best adjective here] professional 3D tools that only exist on the [neat, one and only,…
Gary, You are kidding us, right? Is that really you? "Last I looked" "the last time I looked" "24MB just to put up the program manager and the command shell" "good news" "amount of memory protection under NT" "infinitely more than under Win95" "very robust" Boy, what a message :)…
No John, you haven't got that one right. The nice thing about my approach is that in that way we would be able to control _everything_ from one machine. If such as solution could be possible, I would have two front ends on Powermacs and leave all the time available…
The only reason I can think of (and that's a guess because I never have encountered your problem) is that that for some arcane reason 3DS needs real ram instead of RAM+swap disk space while scaling that 640×480 to the final render res. If that final res is too big…
I really don't care about SI on NT. I was just trying to guess what are the reasons for PC mag to publish a review on three SGI 3D programs as the "future of animation". I don't know the content of the article, but knowing past PCMag relations with MS…
Ted, It doesn't make sense for PCMag to publish an analysis of 3D software on the SGI. It only will make sense if they include a one page box about MS plans for 3D or about how cool is the beta of Softimage on NT 🙂 Anyway, PC Magazine is…
So your 3D book only require a .01% quality over the rest to put a renderer at the top of the list? I think it is not a matter of quality, but of perception and personal judgement. The finished art from Renderman just looks different, the same each renderer in…
I was just kidding people 🙂 It is all pure theory based on dreamware that will never exist, not in the current thing. Read my message to Don to get the whole story. ana /krazy images
True. Timbuktu is slow. The speed of Timbuktu depends on the host PC, because is the host PC that converts all the GDI to Quickdraw. Disk and calculation speed is just the same of a normal PC, because the PC is the CPU that runs your application. It also depends…
Who cares about what a piece of trash like PC Magazine could say about 3D? I am wondering who won the Editor's choice… wait, I remember now that Softimage was purchased by Microsoft! hmmm, I see ana /krazy images
Gary, The DXF->RIB converter that comes with Renderman for the PowerMac gets its job done but the results are pretty bad once you get them into Renderman. No smooth surfaces, just hard edges 🙁 ana /krazy images
For those of us who have sold their souls to Mephistopheles and Autodesk, the idea of a high performance custom machine for 3DS (or AutoCAD for that matter) won't be that krazy. In the other side, this idea won't match Gary's thoughts about 3DS as an open, inexpensive and popular…
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#The Truth
Message #164914
I am just starting to play with it and it is a nightmare sometimes. Maybe it is because I am too much into the simplicity of the "3DS way of 3D" but I agree that the quality of renderman or, better said, the "style" of Renderman, the final appareance of…
Hey Gary, do you still think Renderman is the best renderer arround or has r5 take that position already :)? ana /krazy images
-I was going to send you a sound file with "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy, which I actually think is one of those happy songs that keep the good humor resulted from a nice vacation, but it is almost 3MB compressed (well, maybe next time)- Glad…
"I just went to a Soft Image demo, and I was not happy." I just went to the dentist and I am not happy either. That I could understand but why you are unhappy after seeing a SoftImage demo I really don't know 🙂
Oh, I get it now 🙂 Sorry for the confusion. ana /krazy images
Hey, I thought the message was already scrolled from the forum. Glad you liked it! "PS lets not give anyone, any ideas" Why? Giving your costumers more options to choose from is not bad for anyone (except for the developer if they give too many options 🙂 I always have…
This things happen overnight 🙂 ana /krazy images
I am really wondering how many people did forget about April when they read the topic and the first paragraph… "what? WHAT!? WHAAAAT!?" followed with a few "I am going to send letters to everybody at Autodesk, I am going to call the President, the Navy and burn Sausalito to…
"Greg Pyros" he, oh yeah, instead of the MacOS logo at startup we can get Gary, the whole Yost Team and Carol Bartz morphed into one stylized face with YostOS in Futura Italic bellow. And don't tell anybody, but if you hold down the Option key, the logo will change…
Are you telling me that the news aren't correct? Oh my… ana /krazy images ps.hmph! I was expecting some more cover from you, Gary
Ha! There you are. Bugs! And NT is bug free, not to talk about Windoze, hmm? I keep trying to find something I _don't_ like about my PowerMacs and still I haven't found anything. Do you want me to send you the list of bugs and hardware headaches on my…
It won't be as sick when you read the news at the WSJ by Monday 😉 ana /krazy images
A joke? What joke? ana /krazy images
#3DS/NT: CANCELLED!
Message #162149
I just have recieved this month issue of PowerPC News via Internet. Take this people: 3DS Release 5 for NT developement has been halted and the new version will be released for PowerMacintosh only as a result of Apple's buyout of 55% stock from Autodesk Inc. The new 3DS will…
Hiyo Martin, No way out, hhm? Well, I will try then to transfer models from DXF to a NURBS based modeller on the 8100 and then use Renderman for appying looks and render. No much trouble, though, since this is just a hobby of mine, nothing related to work. The…
Glad you like the little is posted here 🙂 Shy? What does shy means? ana /krazy images
#Renderman and 3DS
Message #160734
Ok people, so before we start to break our heads on finding the best way to take 3DS to Pixar Renderman, anyone want to share any notes/ideas/comments/advice to optimize results, etc.? Thaaaaank you 🙂 ana /krazy images
Not only has an ugly packaging, interface, clipart and its manufacturer organizes a contest with entries that could blow the mind of Ed Wood and Divine together, but is the most buggier software ever this side of an Origin's game and a ATI video driver for Windows: Corel Draw, ladies…
Sometimes (for me, nearly a 100% of the time -I am really lucky 🙂 it pays to jump into early technologies because while people are sitting still waiting for the "next thing", you are able to squeeze the new technology (a good example of this has been the PowerMacintosh or…
It is SCSI, no doubt about it, and it is magnetic media, just like a hard drive on a cartridge. I still have to see the sustained throughtput rate, but the peak is 8.5MB/s and according to the literature, it is targeted at video and imaging. As for the Pinnacle.…
Albert, Please read my reply to Dietmar. ana /krazy images
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