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#can't allocate instance
Message #168233
I was attempting to render my tree stuff last night, and got the following error message: "Can't allocate object instance!" There are presently a little over 6000 instances of one object in the scene. Have I hit some kind of limit? I don't know where in the rendering process this…
#can't allocate instance!
Message #168232
I was attempting to render my tree stuff last night, and got the following error message: "Can't allocate object instance!" There are presently a little over 6000 instances of one object in the scene. Have I hit some kind of limit? I don't know where in the rendering process this…
If you want to smooth out your seams, you have to boolean, but if you don't care about the seam, you can just attach your objects together without losing your mapping coords. the only work-around I can think of (and I haven't tried this, but it oughta work), is to…
Yes, It is called Novatar, and it is put out by the Novastor people. Kinda spendy, but it works.
We have a program that writes TAR files to our exabyte tape drive that can set it to all different types of modes, including 8200 (it is an 8505), with or without compression. One of our IBM workstations has an 8200, and it reads the pc tar tape just fine.…
Actually, after I downloaded the image that showed what the distortion looked like, I realized that I have experienced this particular gremlin. I didn't know what the heck was causing it, as it only seemed to happen with merged objects, or at least that is what I thought. I never…
I am pretty sure there is a keyboard on the world creating toolkit somewhere. I don't remeber if it was a seperate file or part of another, though.
When using bones pro, it is important to realize that you must also "lock-down" the portion of your mesh you dont want unduly influenced with other bones. With your human, if you just put bones in the legs to animate him walking, or something, and you are getting unwanted movement…
>>Oh Yeah, how cold did you say it was up there???
>>P.S. I'm a little concerned about where your going to get this skull? I guess as long as it's no one I know…
>>yikes!..
Well, I am not made of money, but for a 300 dollar disk, 50 dollars to upgrade doesn't sound all that unreasonable. Granted, I'd rather pay 25 bucks for each of my disks to upgrade, but it is going to take a fair amount of labor to take advantage of…
can you talk about the landscape creator program that you uploaded some pictures of a month or so back? I was told we could get details after NAB.
There are other ways to do this besides vistapro, and I don't think that will help you anyway, with such a small area as 50 acres. I could create a landscape mesh for you if you still have the 3d topo lines. I can convert it to a mesh real…
#array just sitting there
Message #166892
I set up an array last night by doing the following: I have two different objects, I need 25k of one, and 9k of the other, I created an array to make 24 copies of one to the side, and 8 to the side of the other. Then, I did…
What do you consider a huge finacial outlay? I own quite a few IPAS routines, and even then, I don't see any of them charging high upgrade prices when the time comes. I figure 50-100 bucks. For me, that comes to less than a thousand. Not exactly comfy, but not…
>>Remember Escape from New York? Interesting Movie….becoming too true though.
Have you downloaded the latest drivers from the forum here? They are 1.0.6, and called vib3ds.zip.
You're &%@#ing welcome! (G)
>>, Where did you say you live?
>>Now I gotta go look up Tourette's Syndrome!
even if this were possible, I am sure you would be losing so much in the process, that it would be pointless to even bother. NT can do a lot of stuff DOS can't.
Well, if you are able to filter it through Autocad, it should help a lot. Autocad is certainly more flexible with dxf files than is 3ds. My experience with microstation was with 2d files, and we had to read the microstation files directly into our unix workstations, and I can…
Is a local company selling it, or an indiviual? I assume you are talking about computer bits?
Odd I've never experienced this (or maybe I just am not undersanding it properly) I do a fair amount of landscape type stuff with large meshes that are usually in a geographic projection, which can dump objects out past the million cutoff point in 3ds. Usually these meshes can be…
What would you charge for, say, a human skull, resonably detailed, and I provide the skull?
select.p3d- Camera View?
Message #166672
can this script be modified to use it from a camera view? I have a camera that spins in a circle, and I'd like to know exactly what it can see and what it can't of the land around it. It would be handy.
I think he would have to export to DXF. (I know, an obvious question). If the 3d portion of Microstation is anything like their 2d stuff, he may be in for a few quirks and frustrations getting it out. I don't know what kind of stuff microstation might be dumping…
Definitely well done, I can't wait to see the finished object. What kind of face counts are you at?
>>I had a similar idea, make a circle with the victim's families, then turn loose the killers one at a time inside the circle. It would not be a pretty site.
I wouldn't worry too much. We are still 8 months away from a release, I was told that Autodesk is sponsering an IPAS developer conference at the end of June to give the skinny of the plan to migrate over. I figure the ride won't be too bumpy. I hope…
Video for DOS. it converts between flic and avi's and such. I've never used it myself, but you can find it in the libraries. The file is called "VFD.ZIP" The latest version was just uploaded last week.
>>Thanks for the help Tim. This file is exactly what I was needing. Brad Cooke
I talked to Aaron last week, and he says it is released. I got my release version later that day from my local dealer.
It would seem people take a much different attitude towards driving on the east coast (at least the parts of the east coast I have been to). Having been born and raised on the west coast, I was kinda used to wide streets, lots of highways, space, and all that,…
Jeez, I can't imagine hitting a moose at full speed. I've seen people hit deer and have it total their car. And a bull moose has got to be three times the size of a deer. Ouch.
Maybe you oughta try wincim. It makes life a whole lot easier. I still have some free kits left.
They could always hold Siggraph here in Portland. The town isn't that crime ridden, and the weather actually isn't all that bad in August. And then there is always San Jose, San Fransico, Boston, Seattle, Pennsylvania, and there has to be plenty of others out there. I don't know how…
actually, I do think it would be a neat idea. Beveling fonts manually can be a pain. I will be at Siggraph this year, by the way. We met at the 93 siggraph in Anaheim at the official 3ds/sony gig, so hopfully I will run into you again this year.…
Speaking of fonts, didn't you include a little postcard with release 3 about getting information about more fonts? I sent mine in and never received any information on extra fonts. been a coupla years now, I'm starting to wonder… (g)
what resolution and pixel aspect are you using to get the letterbox effect?
If you have the backup option set to yes in your 3ds.set, 3ds will make a backup file when you save called 3ds.bak, or prj.bak. Ususally this will be in the same directory that your original file is in. As far as getting your file back, I am sorry, but…
It does look like an interesting city. I've always wanted to go and explore the country side and the swamps. I hear the cops are really corrupt there, though.
Have you checked out the installation guide? Since R3, 3ds uses an inline driver system. At the 3ds prompt, type '3ds vibcfg', find your video card and set your resolutions. I recommend getting the latest version of the drivers from the forum here (1.0.6). do a keyword search on "vibrant"…
It turns out that MLI's shipped with the demo are all fiddled with, so Mike was kind enough to send me the unlocked MLI versions and they all look fine.
I think the one he is referring to is on the R2 cd rom. I remeber a face moving around on that one.
I haven't tried it, but Ed Kellerman wrote a script (I believe the file is called keysca.zip) that does what you want, if I understand it. He just uploaded it a few weeks back. I recommend you take a look.
I suppose you can find stuff like that everywhere. When I was a tot living in San Jose, Some mental defective murdered two girls (one had apparently baby-sat for us on occasion) by stabbing them to death about a hundred times each. This happened less than a half mile from…
jeez, ask a simple question… (g)
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