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Mitch: I'm looking for similar space effects backgrounds. Please let me know if you find something. Regards, Reza D.
Just contact Autodesk and ask for Animation Support Library which contains what you need and more. Good Luck. P.S. I used this library to create a lossy compressor which is available in lib 7 under newage.zip.
Denise: Check out New Age Interactive's flic compressor & player in this forum in library 7 under NEWAGE.ZIP. This is freeware for now however we have not released the audio part to the public domain yet. Good Luck, Reza D. New Age Interactive
Dear Yost Group: How does one get a copy of that SIGRAPH demo reel? I have a friend who is in the market to purchase multiple copies of Lightwave for his staff and I would like to convince him to get 3DS. This tape could help if it is knock-your-socks-off…
James: Thank you for the CD-ROM duplication tip. I will certainly look into that when we get ready for mass production which is still some time away. NEWAGE.ZIP contains a flic compressor and real-time player for 386 or better machines running DOS. Regards, Reza D. New Age Interactive
Hello James: The "Solar System" in your message got my attention. I'm currently making a CD-ROM product for realistic visualization of the Earth and (in future) the solar system. This will be for both adults and children, will use a 100MB+ texture map of the planet and will be rendered…
Dear Theo: The switches have been changed in NIC 2.2. The /c1 that you used no longer means anything. You need to look at the text file to learn about the new compression switches. I'm not familiar with that particular animation and I don't know what you mean by being…
NIC 2.0 upload
Message #116564
The latest version of New Age Interactive's flic compresion/player is now available for downloading. This release has 3 to 5 times faster compression with unlimited file size. See the included text file for a detailed description of this release and its new features. Available in the UTILITY section under NEWAGE.ZIP.
You might also want to check out NEWAGE.ZIP which is another flic compressor and real-time player for DOS. Reza D.
You might also want to look at NEWAGE flic compressor/player found in the utility section under NEWAGE.ZIP.
3DS animator wanted!!!
Message #111744
3D Studio animator wanted for a CD-ROM project. Must be creative, very motivated and willing to work hard. Understanding of VGA palette, flic file creation and some hardware knowledge a plus. Southern California location is prefered but not mandatory. User interface design capability a plus also. New Age Interactive 1223…
Dear Mike Lyons: If you have a need for a 32-bit DOS based flic compressor/player, please check out NEWAGE.ZIP and DINO.NI in the utility section of this forum. Source code licensing and linkable decompression library is available to game developers. Regards, Reza D. New Age Interactive
Dear Dr. Langdell: I have developed extended DOS based tools for compression and real-time playback of flic files. If interested, please check out NEWAGE.ZIP and also DINO.NI in the utility section of this forum. My tools out compress Indeo and Cinepack by order of magnitude and let you play full-delta…
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#Smacker Compressr Update
Message #108126
Jeff: The 1.1 specs look great. Good luck and keep in touch. Reza D.
Tom: Thanks for the P5/90 insight. What is holding me back from getting one right now is the $5000 cost of 128mb RAM. But I remember paying $4500 for the original IBM-PC and 10mb external hard disk. So i guess this isn't so bad compared to what you're getting for…
Dear Krazy Images: Once again, you're absolutely correct. The "false sense of continuity" is true too i think. But it's a free market system and as you have noted there are things like Mac and SGI for graphics pros. By the way i read a news release about 3DS rendering…
Tom: I've been following your comments on P5/90. Very interesting! Had no idea setup would be so painful. I take it you now see significant performance increase over 486/66? How much faster would you say your new machine is in rendering? Just out of curiosity, what do you do? I'm…
Dear Krazy images: Very well put. Like your analogy of "Lotus and Wordperfect box". I certainly hope they port 3DS to PowerPC too. But keep your eyes open for Intel reducing P5 prices [DSoon you will be able to buy a Pentium box at about the same as a PowerPC…
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Dell p5/90 experience?
Message #107010
I'm considering one of those too. I plan to max it with 128mb ram and render huge 40 to 50mb texture files. Let me know if you get the machine before I do. Also, do you or anyone listening in, have any experience with 3DS and 50mb+ texture files? What…
Jeffrey, Today's PC have trouble playing 8-bit (256 color) flics as it is. 16-bit and 24 bit flics would increase frame size to a point that it will bring the PC to a grinding halt. However, there is still a lot you can do with the available Autodesk 8-bit standard.…
Thomas: You have also maxed out on the input file size limit. I may pull out that stop and release it into public domain. Keep an eye right here. Reza D. New Age Interactive
You've maxed out the preset file size. I will be uploading NIC v1.2 with no limit on input file size.
Roger: I'm going to upload a file that will demonstrate what you need. Just keep checking this forum for new uploads from NEWAGE. Reza D.
Roger: I have a flic compressor, a real-time player and an authoring tool. If your application can tolerate a little bit of visual loss, the compressed flics will be a lot more efficient than uncompressed flics. Check out NEWAGE.ZIP in the utilities library. I think these tools will be perfent…
Hi there, what is "The Movie Machine"? and what does it do? Reza D.
Roger: That's exactly what I'm doing with NIC. To program the interactivity or so called "authoring" I have developed a visual authoring tool. This allows you to define hotspots (VCR controls, etc.) and assign flics or events to each hotspot. At this time these are proprietary tools and are not…
Sacha: I read your message about an animation CD-ROM and I think its a great idea. I have developed a flic compressor that outperforms all Windows compresors for 8-bit flics. It was is the WHAT'S NEW lib under NEWAGE.ZIP. You can BROWS for NEWAGE keyword to see where it is…
#New Lib Format
Message #102022
Dear Sysop: I can see that the menu has been rearranged and it looks good. However, my uploades NEWAGE.ZIP and DINO.NI which is an animation compressor/player and a sample compressed flic which used to be in lib 9 (What's new) is still in lib 9. Do I need to delete…
Alec: You might want to check out NEWAGE.ZIP which contains a shareware flic compressor/player. Let me know what you think. Reza D. New Age Interactive
Kouros, Got your e-mail. Let me know what day you will be at Gensys because I want to try to burn a test file on a CD-ROM this week. Reza,
#Newage FLIC compressor
Message #99154
New Age FLIC compressor/player is a new 32-bit DOS software for compression and real-time playback of Autodesk animation files. Flic files of up to 640×480 are supported and up to 1 to 6 reduction possible. The player has built-in drivers for popular boards and supports VESA as well. The latest…
NEWAGE.ZIP
Message #98995
A new NEWAGE.ZIP was just uploaded to lib 9 and it is about 250k. The first one was missing the DOS extender. Reza D.
NEWAGE.ZIP re-upload
Message #98991
Dear Bob Henderson, I was notified that my upload NEWAGE.ZIP was missing a part. I have since created a new ZIP file with the same name and just uploaded it to lib 9. I will appreciate it Bob if you could make this fix available to the users as soon…
To those who already downloaded NEWAGE.ZIP: If you get a dos4gw.exe error after running NIP or NIC its becuase the DOS extender was not included is the ZIP file. Another NEWAGE.ZIP was just sent to lib 9 at 1:00AM 4/28. I hope you will make the effort to get the…
#Newage FLIC compressor
Message #98989
New Age Interactive announces a 32-bit PC application for compression and real-time playback of Autodesk animations. Full-screen 640×480 FLI and .FLC is supported and up to 1/6 compression is possible. The player has built-in drivers for many SVGA adaptors and supports VESA as well. Both the compressor and player are…
#NEWAGE.ZIP upload
Message #98787
Dear Jeffrey Pike, I uploaded my latest flic compressor/player in zip file called NEWAGE.ZIP to library 9 last night. Please let me know if it got there and how long before people will see it. Sincerely, Reza D.
Wishful Thinking
Message #75540
How about adding RADIOSITY capability to the renderer? I think that would really put the Studio in the big boy's category. Not that it isn't already. Also, how about making OMNI lights shadow casting. Non-shadow casting lights tend to have pretty un-photorealistic results. Last but not least. How about a…
FLC to MPEG!
Message #61730
Does anyone know of a DOS program that will take FLC files and turn it into MPEG type compressed format for multimedia presentations. I have a bunch of FLC files with some standard MIDI files and also some VOC files. Would like to be able to sync, compress and navigate…
.flc Scripting
Message #61541
Does anyone know of a scripting language for navigating through FLC files. Trying to do something similar to The 7th Guest by Trilobyte. I thing they compress the flick files further for CD-ROM playback. I'm not sure. Any suggestion will be great.
.FLC Scripting
Message #61540
Does anyone know of a scripting lanuage for navigating through FLC files. Trying to do something like the 7th Guest by Trilobyte. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
#.FLC Compression
Message #55576
Does anyone know of a DOS based program for compression and playback of .FLC files with synchronized audio? Something like what the folks at Trilobyte have done with The 7th Guest. I appreciate your suggestions.
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