This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 21, 1995 8:13 PM
>My goal is to wait until early 96' and get a twin P6 motherboard. Does anyone know of any flaws in that plan?< Intel just announced the P6 SMP machines will be delayed. They were supposed to be out in Nov, now it appears they will be Q2 '96.
>The Dark Forces cover/poster was rendered (in Prisms) at a lower resolution because of time constraints.< I liked that cover. I assume Lucas has all the Star Wars characters as 3D objects.
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 21, 1995 8:13 PM
>The literature mentions that the ipas routines need an intel math co-processor. Is the co-processor in the AMD chip an Intel or Weitek?< If I remember correctly the AMD chips don't have a FPU. Same as 486SX chips.
DVC Video Decks
Message #191432
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 18, 1995 1:51 PM
Anyone looking to get a new video cassette recorder may want to hold out till the end of the year. I've seen a couple articles this week on release dates for Panasonics DVC and DVCPro equipment. DVC stands for Digital Video Cassette. Sony and Panasonic are going to introduce camcorders…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 18, 1995 1:36 PM
>Regarding a controller, several people have suggested an Adaptec A2940WKit (32Bit PCI). Is Fast-Wide SCSI the way to go, or is there some other SCSI flavor I should be looking at?< If you are going to use NT look for products that are on the Hardware Compatibility List. I have…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 18, 1995 1:36 PM
>Turtle Beach is writing the NT drivers as we speak so they should be out soon.< I was looking at getting a TB card. From what I have read on the WinNT forum TB has been promising NT drivers for over 2 years. I wouldn't count on seeing drivers when…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 18, 1995 1:36 PM
>The reality is that Microsoft have not made it easy for hardware developers to develop drivers for Win 95.< Not that I don't believe you, from what I read they held back W95 to improve Plug and Play. >Win 95 has inherent limitations which mean that especially for hardware developers…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 17, 1995 10:40 PM
>That's about the best description of the PVR I've ever seen. DPS should hire you as a PR man!< They already have, his description is the one DPS published. There is info in the librarys. >does the "daughtercard" actually insert into a PCI slot and cable connect to the PVR…
>I'm trying to make an animation of a book opening.< Schrieber/4D has a set of routines called Pages. There is a Roll Page and a Turn Page.
>Triton chipset, and it DOESN'T support Symmetrical Multi-Processing.< Triton2 chipsets will support SMP. I don't know when they will be availabel, but since the SMP 120/133 chips just came out I would say real soon.
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 17, 1995 2:32 PM
>Hand Painting is the way to go if you want to control the lightning.< I d/l'ed a demo of WinImages and it does lightning, glows, flames, arua, and other images effects. They can be animated over time.
#190886-
#Industrial Meshes
Message #191281
>Anyone have any leads on some "Industry" type meshes? I'm looking for things like, centrifugal pumps, air compressors…etc.< Autodesk has a couple of new CD-ROMs with meshes you might want to check out. Fortunately most industrial/mechanical stuff is based on primitives that can be created quickly.
#The Boxer
Message #191280
Anyone seen the new Computer Graphics World with pics from The Boxer animation? Or if you were at SIGGRAPH this year. The skin and clothing on the characters is very good. Hopefully that high end stuff will come to our software soon.
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 17, 1995 2:00 PM
>Least I'm not looking at porn on the Web .< According to some of these "news" shows that is the only reason any of us online people got computers.
>How was the sample animation of the magic dusting the letters, and coating them with glitter? Was only Magic used, or was it a combination of magic and LenZfx?< >Do you already have Magic? I can talk you through this one.< I'd be interested in some tips also. The glitter…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 13, 1995 6:04 PM
>The DPS documentation says that you will get uninterrupted playback, even if they span multiple hard drives. True, this isn't disk striping, but it will do what he wants it to do.< I knew about uninterrupted playback, even with different compression settings. I assume he wanted disk striping to increase…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 13, 1995 5:53 PM
>A few PVR and related video questions:< >If you want to have approx 8-9 GB of storage for the PVR, is it better to buy the Micropolis 9 GB AV drive with a 12ms access time, or two Micropolis 4 GB A/V Drives with 8.5 ms access times, striped as…
>the latest I heard Traz is trying to make Toaster-qualifying the software pretty much concurrent with the other remaining implementations for 4.1.< The traffic around here lately is mainly regarding Flyer owners. I hope the Toaster users won't be left out.
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 12, 1995 10:32 PM
>A few PVR and related video questions:< >If you want to have approx 8-9 GB of storage for the PVR, is it better to buy the Micropolis 9 GB AV drive with a 12ms access time, or two Micropolis 4 GB A/V Drives with 8.5 ms access times, striped as…
>>Windows NT needs 16MB and 100MB HD space, same as what the Toaster requires.At least the Toaster DOES something after 18Megs , with NT you just barely woke up the OS and 16 Megs of Ram are used. Today I got en error message saying running low on Virtual memeory.…
>After Video Toaster 4.1 for Flyer ships, adaptation of the Toaster-only version will be completed and will ship.< Is there any timeframe for 4.1? Or should I know better not to ask? We we see it before the end of the year?
>Tim, I'm not familiar with you, so I don't know what your claims to expertise may be in this industry, but I certainly know your comments about health or lack thereof for this company are pure baseless speculation. We are doing well enough that we've added 19 staff recently, most…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 12, 1995 1:45 PM
>Autosurf is, or was, a product purchaced by Autodesk from a company called Solution 3000. It is capable of producing complex "surfaces", that is, like pro-e, it has the horspower and math to acuratly describe every last square millimeter of a complex surface.< I've been using AutoSurf, I hope programs…
>Anyone who really thinks they are going to purchase technology that won't soon be replaced by something better, faster, cheaper…is deluding themselves. Why not just get the best tool for the job at hand at the best price and make your money NOW while the oppourtunity is available.< You said…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 11, 1995 4:23 PM
>I've got NT installed – 1. over windows 2. On a separate FAT drive 3. On a separate NTFS drive >I'll let you know what I think works best; at least for me.< I found that a seperate partition formatted NTFS works best until I can rid my machine of…
>PMFJI >…on a downhill slide just like the Amiga was since 1988. >Your opinion only?< It sure hasn't been heading uphill. Some people go down with the ship. >>…The Toaster allowed it to drag on longer than it should. >Why didn't Newtek develop the Toaster and the Flyer FIRST for…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Shipping/Receiving
September 10, 1995 10:45 PM
>Gary has stated that MAX's network rendering capabilities will be very much like Classic's, I'd be *extremely* suprised if the "one hardware lock – many slaves" philosophy is done away with.< I can't wait for MAX. NT networking is fantastic, the administrative tools allow you to run an entire network…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 10, 1995 7:35 PM
>Got tired of all this and went and bought a new 4MB Stealth (my Viper was 2MB).< I've got an S3 based card and they are much faster than the Viper. If you have full-drag on the whole window image will drag, not just the outline. On the Viper it…
>If you have an animation thats 90 frms, and a radial UV map in FX thats 90 pixels high, it will start at the first horizontal row of pixels and use just that row as the map for the first frame.< That pretty much explains it, now I understand. I…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 4:17 PM
>I really appreciate this info. So you got your P9000 based Viper to run (not in vga mode) in high res/high color mode.< Yes, I had to use the vga driver until I installed SP2. I'm not talking about the boot options that allow you to choose vga mode, I…
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 4:17 PM
>Good news about the PowerPC… I wonder if you can have a dual boot Mac OS and NT.< They are trying to get there, that is the plan. Probably not until next year when the PREP Macs come out. At this point Apple only sells the Mac OS to OEM's.
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Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 4:17 PM
>> The NT Backup is nice, it is a scaled down version of Arcada Backup. >> Adaptec ships a version with the EZ-SCSI software that works under >> Windows 3.1. >Interesting – do you know if the NT Backup and EZ-SCSI WIN 3.1 versions can interchange >tapes? That would be…
#TPaint Processing
Message #121868
>For years TPaint rendering has been making a mess of the white and sky-blue colors. They are turned into ugly grey. I find that using Alpha-Paint keeps the colors pretty much intact.< >Has anyone else had this color rendering problem?< YES!! I have this problem, I thought it was my…
#LW PC (Intel) slow
Message #121867
>My Matrox actually seems to display 24bit faster than 16 bit.< Probably because 16bit mode requires calculating a pallette where 24bit is the full pallette. >So I am wondering abou 3ds, lightwave, or wait and see what happens with Softimage wich is supposed to have an NT version in the…
LW PC (Intel) slow
Message #121866
>The Main reason that I was looking at it is it suports Open GL. LightWave should have an OpenGL upgrade in 7-10 months. This will be very cool.< It supports OpenGL as well as any other video card at this time, meaning it isn't a big deal. The OpenGL support…
LW PC (Intel) slow
Message #121865
>I've also heard that the ram factory (& come on surely one factory does NOT make the worlds entire RAM supply!) was nowhere near the quake zone.< Yeah, the quake destroyed the plant that manufacturers 50% of the supply of resin that the chips are in (the black stuff). >For…
LW PC (Intel) slow
Message #121864
>The vedio card issue is a very important one. If you had it to do over would you still pick the same one? would you add more ram (4megs?) and do you know what w-ram is?< The Stealth 64 is a pretty fast card. More video RAM will only get…
#We're not alone
Message #121863
>I use TAPCIS over Wincim, because TAPCIS is completely automatic. It logs on, download my messages and the threads of the forums I have selected and then logs off. Does it all in less than a minute.< Then try CompuServe Navigator, does the same and runs under Windows.
#We're not alone
Message #121862
>I guarantee that a correctly installed OS/2 (while possibly more of a hassle) will be infinitely more stable than any Microsoft incarnation. Compare OS/2 to Windows NT. Everyone agrees that NT is a vastly superior operating system to Windows 3.1 & Win95. Take a look at the hardware incompatibility list…
#Toaster 4.0 upgrades?
Message #121854
Anyone know when Toaster 4.0 for non-Flyers owners is supposed to ship? Someone I do work for bought his Toaster 4000 in March and was supposed to get a free upgrade to 4.0. He hasn't seen it yet, so I assume it is delayed.
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 9, 1995 11:26 AM
>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…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 9, 1995 11:26 AM
>At SIGGRAPH95 there was a patch modeler IPAS announced for 3DS r4. What is the expected ship date? It was mentioned at siggraph but I wonder if it is still on target? I have a project that would benefit greatly from its use. My deadline is middle of October.< I…
#Kyle's KM HEAD work
Message #189982
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Autodesk 3D Studio
September 9, 1995 11:26 AM
I just d/l'ed your kmhead.jpg file. Wow. Great job. How did you do those teeth? I was kinda bummed on metaballs since a lot of meshes look blobby. Not that render though. That is a pretty realistic, but stylized head. Have you made a body or animated it yet? I'd…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 11:26 AM
>Better yet how 'bout " New improved NT lite – same great operating system but less filling.< That reminds me of the NewTek Screamer. NewTek was going to release a four CPU, Mips R4400 render box that supported up to 1GB RAM. After some Amiga people found out the OS…
>I use Cadkey. I am a big fan of 3D Studio, but I have nothing good to say about AutoCad. BTW, I work as a machine designer and spend most of my time using CAD packages.< Do you have any problems converting Cadkey .prt files to 3DS? I use DXF…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 3:11 AM
>it's supposed to be trivial to do NT Mips and PowerPC versions, but I don't know of SGI and Mac do some weird stuff to their hardware which would prevent NT running. I'll second the porting to all NT supported architectures, though!< The current PowerMacs wouldn't work since they are…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 3:11 AM
>Well I finally found someone else with the same problem as I have. NT has VIPER PCI listed in the hardware compatibilty section. Diamond says it should work and has sent me the newest BIOS (3.13). Still EVERYTHING I've tried to get my Viper PCI (2MB) to run under WIN…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 3:11 AM
>Don't forget that two 17" monitor configs cost as much as one 21" monitor, and running them both at high rez (1152, or 1280) they offer more display area than one large monitor. Not for everybody, but it'd be nice to have the option like the Mac.< I'd like to…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 3:11 AM
>Ok, Ok, I know that most backup apps can do this, but I was impressed with the speed and fluency of the NT Backup, especially considering it's an app that comes with the OS for free.< The NT Backup is nice, it is a scaled down version of Arcada Backup.…
From:
Tim Krego, [pro.image]
Autodesk Multimedia Forum
· Hware/OpSys/video
September 9, 1995 3:11 AM
>I guess, if you are concerned about price, the PAR might be a better choice. Although the DPS hardware costs the same, the drives are certainly more expensive.< I don't think there is that big a price difference. You can get a 2GB SCSI AV drive for $800. The PVR…
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