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A store named Video and Audio Center, 1426 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90403, 310 451 6200 has those thingies. Bill
*** is there such a thing as bad ram and do I have cause for suspicion? *** Yes RAM can be bad and I certainly would be suspicious. Not necessarily that they are selling defectives, but maybe "used" or "Hijacked". bill
Spoke with Scot a couple of weeks ago. He said new version s/b avail soon. Haven't seen one in my mailbox yet. Bill
*** Is there a problem with IK,… or a problem with what I am doing? *** There is a known problem with IK. I had trouble with mapping params killing the IK Chain. Also had the prob of copied objects having no IK Chain. You may also be doing something…
Hi Greg, PMJI… I have the DEM Data CDROMS in USGS 3" format. I find when I bring a topo in that the vertical data is often not true to the live landscape it represents. Any chance you could do a test for me and tell me how a particular…
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Duracell commercial?
Message #143773
*** actors in vinyl suits, is it all digital or a combination *** I saw a TV segment ont that recently and they only mentioned the use of actors in suits. Bill
Dont know what exactly you are trying to do but I have had good luck with Mirage and Fields. I used it for a Satelite that cloaks into view while crossing a planet face. Worked great. Of course it took some testing to get the ripple and wave settings set…
In addition to what the others said…make sure u are not asking 3DS to check many unnecessary paths for maps. Esp. if the are on CD Rom. I know…this will not add minutes to a render but 20 to 30 secs per frame over many frames does add up! Just…
Hi, I have used both Drastic Technologies Animation Commander, and Diaquests' DQ422+. cost 495 and 2k respectively. Bill
Hmmm…that sounds a little better. I didnt know ur times were for two sessions. Thanks for the info
#IK porblems
Message #139940
Hi Jonas, Any info yet on the Surface Mapping killing IK skeleton problem? How about prob of skeleton in IK being rotated for an object copied from another object? Bill.
Martin, I just looked at my ani pro files. What I have is VESA.DRV, file size 22,959. Dated 10-15-92 at 20:37:22 hrs. I believe this drvr came with my Truevision VideoVGA card which the stlth64 replaced in my system. I looked into the VESA.DRV file and the comment says it…
Stlth64 and AniPro
Message #139894
Martin, After further investigation re: stlth64 VRAM I see that I didnt do anything special to access svga modes in ani pro. I installed the board, removed my previous vesa tsr and ran the Diamond install and config. My VESA modes are all controlled by the Stealth BIOS. I setup…
Hi, *** A job that takes about 22 seconds to render under dos takes about 33 seconds in the foreground, and about 24 seconds in the background slave *** Hmm… I have been reading the threads Re: OS2 and 3DS and was just about ready to move in that direction…
Hi, The way I find easiest is to render the first camera view to a series of Targas, then switch to the second camera view and do the same. This works well for me because I then use Diaquest to put the images to tape. If you are creating .FLCs…
Hi Martin, *** Can you get Animator Pro to work in vesa or super vga modes? *** Yes, I am able to run all modes up to 1024 X 768. If I remember correctly I had to undo my previous VESA drivers. I am now only running SVGA. I'll look…
*** looking at the Stealth 64 w 4 meg Vram *** I have a stealh 64 VRAM 2meg and have found it very good with 3D Studio R4. I have, however found probs with some DOS base apps, eg: Vistapro, Animator Pro and others. The probs exhibited themselves as mouse…
CDROM Jukeboxes
Message #139534
Anyone have experience with one of the CDROM jukeboxes? I am considering the Pioneer DRM-604X and wonder how it might help with accessing the multiple disks with 3D Studio. It would be nice to have access to the WCT, Texture Universe and several other images ROMS without having to add…
I was afraid of that. Well here I go "delving" again. Thanks for reply. bill.
net errors
Message #138895
Hi, What might cause a net rendr error of "cant create frame.inf file"? Happens intermittently on my slave machine. Running Rel 4. Also I have a vapor and a lighning IPAS that will intermittently cause my slave mach to dump out to dos with a "Heap Error" "Dump- cant dump".…
Hi, I did just what you are looking for using the time envelopes under the Explode IPAS. In my case I created the bounding box from the left viewport so the pieces explode, travel to the side then coalesce back in. Worked out great. Good luck. Bill
PMJI… CNN ran a story on it tonight. Im sure we will see a media blitz over this in the next few months. FYI. Bill
Hi, Thanks for the response. I was beginning to feel abandoned! (waahh) Have a great weekend. bill
#IK and mapping prob
Message #137490
Hi Jonas, Havent heard from u yet re: IK probs with mapping and skeleton after object copy. Are u too busy to talk? Just wondering. Bill
IK
Message #137136
Hi Jonas, Have you gathered any info for me yet on the surface mapping problem and IK? Also have you noticed in the file I sent you that the skeleton of the copied man is rotated? I have tried this several times and result is always the same. It seems…
.3DE
Message #136870
Hi, Where is the 3D Resource Editor for download? It is mentioned on page 138 of the R4 New Features book. bill
*** IKMAN.zip *** Just got it. Will look it over. I have since found my probs have to do with scaling by selection set in editor while the man still has hierarchy in keyfrmr. The scale function not only changes the skeleton but the mesh also gets changed undesireably. BUT…my…
#IK
Message #136163
Help! Any ideas on what would cause a linked set of objects, ie: 50pman to not be "pickable" by IK? I have even merged in 50pman from the CD Rom and when I go into IK and CAN pick his structure, the skeleton in interactive mode is all messed up.…
#sale
Message #136161
IPAS routines. Animation Commander VTR controller. Truevision VideoVGA card. Stacker (H/W). Corel ver. 3, CD Rom. 1X36 70ns SIMM. E Mail or phone me. Bill Lundeen 310 451 1608
I've known him for 5 1/2 years. Small world. thanks
Hmmm…I have had probs similar in the past but it was due to things like not excluding targa mem range, wait states and one time gettga and puttga utils were hosing my images. Did u say u are going out to video or this is happening to hard disk bill
*** DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS X=F000-FFFF X=E000-EFFF RAM DEVICE=c:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\TPLUS\targap.sys b0 i270 me r2 w2 s2 d6 *** Is there a specific reason you are using Read, Write and I/O wait states of 2? Bill
PMJI…Do you know Joe Sandusky, Post Prod Supervisor? If so, tell him Bill Lundeen says hello.
*** I get some strange horizontal lines on the screen on the image. *** If the lines are evenly spaced you may be having a memory range conflict. Try adding an "EMMExclude=" to the [386enh] section of system.ini file. Range is the area of memory your video card is using.…
I'll double Gregs' offer!
*** The 5 min VHS tapes are $1.85. There are not short SVHS tapes. *** I called VU VIDEOS, INC. at 800 637 4336. Was quoted 1.24 ea. for 50 ten min VHS (plus .10 ea for sleeves). SVHS quan 10 at 7.49 ea w/box. FYI. bill
*** I even had a SW Bell tech out today going over the line with an analyzer and getting "good results." *** Phone Companies always get good results on line analyzer tests except in the most extreme error situations. For a data grade line they need to fire up "special"…
Wow! Sounds good to me. Thanks Aaron, I am enjoying Mirage already and the future u describe is even more exciting! Bill
*** Will Animator Studio support the PAR directly? *** Dont know. Need to ask the Adesk folks on that. bill
*** have you seen Razor PRO? *** I saw it at AU. I have RAZOR (not PRO). It looked pretty good but I'm not sure the $700 price tag is reasonable. My experience with RAZOR is positive though I think I may get more use out of Animator Studio once…
Hi, check with David at Digimation.
*** How on earth did you get ver. 1.3.3 ? *** I got mirage about a month ago, ver 1.3. Discovered a prob with using sequential masks files > 100 or so. David responded quickly verifying the problem and sent me the update a week later. This allowed me to…
USER-PROGn = "$VIBRANT$LIQUID SPEED","LS DEMO" Then select LS DEMO from program pulldown menu bill
***it does not support an animated mask right now.*** It doesnt? I have been successfull using sequential bitmaps as masks. Works great for "cloaking", "Predator" and "Transporter" effects. Check with Digimation to make sure you have the latest version (1.3.3). Bill
***I don't think I've seen so many mistakes in a manual in all of my life. What a piece of crap…*** No kidding!
Puppeteer?
Message #132015
Hi, Been out of town for a week. Yes it is frustrating, I have been able to apply one of the included motion data files to 50PMAN. It was a tedious process that once complete yielded good results though I still have some corrections to do to make it the…
*** going nuts or what. *** Yeah, I was burning brain cells for a while trying to learn Puppeteer! Finally able to import a mesh and apply one of the provide Motion Data Files, but it is a tedious process. There are still some bugs/quirks in Puppeteer that I hope…
Got ur phone msg as well. will call as soon as i get done running around. The list of critters u sent is exactly what i had in mind. look forward to the scorpion! later, Bill
Got ur phone msg as well. will call as soon as i get done running around. The list of critters u sent is exactly what i had in mind. look forward to the scorpion! later, Bill
*** especially if you squinted and/or had a few gin and tonics *** You making Stereo Pairs?
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