This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Mark and David, My brother has Alias sketch on his PowerMac. He likes the output but is very frustrated with its speed. In 3DS object transformations go fast. But in Alias, when he clicks on an object it takes quite a few seconds before it selects it to move. I…
Wow! thanks for the info. It'll make animating a lot easier now! ——————Will
Thanks evreyone for your help. Wish I had asked before I bought a diamond! Oh well, ——————-Will
Well, I try….. P.S. I'm interested in the SC2000 and read through messages in there and noticed your name. Maybe you could help, how exactly do I participate in it; I'm not sure what to do. Are they going to distribute different parts for people to work on or do…
#another morphing problem
Message #140931
My trouble with morphine is that the objects don't stay in place. I thought that the objects morphed about the pivot point. I had an object and its morph target on a plane and put both pivots on the plane. Yet when they morphed the object still slipped through the…
FOV distortion
Message #140700
I put the FOV to 175 and then placed the camera in front of a plane with a pattern with a high tiling rate. But when I rendered it the pattern came out in a regular grid. Do to the high FOV the pattern should be small at the edges…
#Blue Diamond
Message #157518
Is there such thing as a blue diamond. I was telling a friend about the structure of a diamond when she suggested I buy a blue diamond, which has a structure of 1 carbon, instead of the 4 carbon one I know (or is it five). anyways, she said she…
Thanks, I'm going to get it for my own Christmas present. —————–Will
3DS4.?
Message #138465
I'm getting ready to buy 3DS4 but was wondering what the current version is. ie 4.0a or 4.0b. More importantly, are there going to be any more bug fixed releases cause I want to wait till it's working its best. thanks in advance —————————Will
Am I the only one that likes Y-up?
#Z-up
Message #137566
I'm writing a ray-tracer and am importing objects from 3D-Studio for the geometry using .ASC files. The Y and Z coordinates are switched when loaded into my program so the objects are sideways. I switched the Y and Z in the 3ds.set file but it didn't change anything. I have…
The sysop said someone wrote a program that makes .dxf files for lofter import. I don't know, I think it can only load .lft files. But if it can load .dxf files, from what I've seen of those they are pretty easy to create, simple ASCII type files. though I…
You could try making a very flat disk. Then pull the edge vertices of this disk around to represent the jagged part of the bulb (be sure to keep it as thin as possible). Then Boolean away the jagged disk from the bulb (if you kept the jagged object thin…
>>Doesn't use z-buffer internally
Thanks for the info Jonas. I looked it up in a book I have and there is talk of it. I'm writing my own renderer and like to know the tricks that others use. —————————Will
>>… it includes things like video post, an a-buffered renderer, open arc…
I couldn't find the real time rendering library. What is the file name for it? I'll be purchasing an IPAS dev. kit soon and I never thought a PC had the power to do real time. I saw a preview of R4 at a seminar a while ago and was…
To make a laser beam…. I apply transpancy falloff to get the tube a little fuzzier on the edges and apply some really crude levels of motion blur to speckle the edges. Sometimes I apply a procedural texture that can move around it or some other animated map, but the…
#Twisting
Message #131932
I was wondering if the YOST twist IPAS has the ability to define spline twist amounts for the length of the twist axis. I have written my own simple twist program that just linearly twists objects. But I am working on one that you set the twist amount using splines(like…
#129849-
Tiff Files
Message #129981
Jonas, I fixed the file and all is well now. As far as the new drivers I won't be downloading those for awhile. For some time my system has been teetering on workability. Drivers not being found, incorrectly loaded, IRQ conflicts with my modem and sound card, lost clusters, etc……..…
Thanks for the advice Tim. The image came from PhotoStyler where it works fine but I discovered the problem. The file is not 32 bit, its 16. It's a grayscale picture with alpha. I converted it to 32 and it works fine in 3ds. ——-Will
#Tiff Files
Message #129830
Is 3DSr3 not able to open tiff files with alpha. Whenever I try to view with renderer/view/image a certain 32 bit tiff file, little lines appear at the very top of the screen. As I press escape the colors in these little lines dance around and the system locks up.…
Tablets
Message #129580
I have a wacom UD-1212 and have not been able to get it to run in 3D studio. With one driver I was able to get a cursor and move it around but as soon as I clicked, the cursor would disappear and nothing morre could be done. That's the…
#Help with Ipas
Message #126167
I'm a novice programmer that is just learning C/C++ and want to write IPAS programs. I bought Watcom C/C++ 32 and have been learning a little. I saw where you need the IPAS developers Kit for $250. I would like to know if there will be a new IPAS kit…
I found a program that converts truetype to DXF. type 'go graphdev' to get to the forum and then search for tt2obt (I forget the extension). You need to pay the programmer (Markus Rahlff) to get the program to convert vowels though. My only problem is that I havn't been…
#3ds4
Message #125236
What is the cutoff date for getting 3ds4 free. I bought 3ds3 sometime in July
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