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/* Is there a product which I can use to play sound with FL* files in the DOS environment? */ I've seen numerous sharewares in the GO GRAPHSUPP forum which do this. Check is out, search with keywords MULTIMEDIA, VOC, FLI, FLC, WAV, etc. -dave
/* I'll take this as a R4 wish. (6 days left for your(everyones) wishes ) */ Holy cow! I didn't know we were under the gun! Yeah, here's a few we'd love to see: 1> color control for Preview in Keyframer… right now its blue, it would be great to…
/* Re smooth joints… Our new skinning IPAS3 routine actually does smooth joints beautifully. You don't get the cute FFD boxes around each joint, but you can do great muscle effects by animating the joint cross-sections, and the skin looks perfect. */ I'll make a note of it and add…
/* While Autodesk doesn't usually talk about future releases (a touch of cynisism here… ), they did drop the bombshell that the 3DS renderer will be ported to SGI. This will be a render slave only situation, no user interface. */ But what an increase in performance! Glad to hear…
/* YOu might also try Hijaak Pro, it can convert anything to anything, almost. */ Yeah, that's a good one too. I was trying to suggest some internals to ACAD though… see if that's what he needed before spending more. 🙂 -dave
Gary; Thanks for the quick response. As a side note, I thought the gang represented 3DS and ANI very well at NAB. I am still amazed at the power of these products on a PC…. most everything else I saw there was on a Silicon Graphics platform. I have heard…
/* What is a suggested method to rasterize an AutoCad drawing. */ Howdy Charles. Depending on which release of AutoCAD you're using, there may be some built-in methods of doing this. In release 12, you can use the PLOT command after you have configured ACAD for the raster file format…
Gary/Yost Group/All Excuse the ignorance here, but I just returned from NAB and saw many 3DS-type programs there. There were 3 main capabilities I took note of and was wondering if they already exist in 3DS (very possible… its a huge program) or as IPAS routines or as future features:…
/* PMJI As an educator, I'm always interested in instructional goldmines. Am I lurking in the right direction? Of which download do you so highly speak? */ Trying to remember what this is regarding… just got back from NAB in Vegas and my brain is seriously overloaded right now. Instructional…
/* Thanks for your recent contributions. I hope your poco routine is successful. Do you have the Poco 1.0 *and* the Poco 1.3 addendum to the reference manual? */ Hi Jonas. I have my POCO manual, but I don't think I have the 1.3 addendum. If you have copies available,…
/* when you run a presentation, are you saying that you run a batch file for each flic or gif you show? I think you might have a solution to my problem but I am a bit confused by what you do with the batch files. */ That's exactly right.…
/* It seems that I stumbled onto the right thread for my current problem.I have many presentations scripted in AApro. The instrutors who use my presentations love them except for the inability to go backwards in the script. */ As much as I hate to admit this (after all the…
/* A fli/flc file saves the differences between frames. To get to the image on the last frame, all previous frames may need to be explored in order to recreate the last frame. The fli/flc format makes playing in one direction very efficient. If playing backwards is important, I would…
/* I'll look into it. The reason I asked was that a current trendy demo type of ours is playing FLC files as screen savers. We need to do a lot of transitions like the join transitions. */ Yeah, a lot of folks are doing that these days. I've also…
/* OK you AA fans. I am kinda in a hurry and can't find this in the manual, so if it is there, please point me to it. In animator, can I have a flic which is 2 frames, then generate a transition between the two, inserting the necessary frames?…
/* I downloaded the course files you recommended. WOW! What a goldmine! Thanks for letting me know about that. I'd be interested in a similar technique course in 3DS too. */ We're working on it as we type! 🙂 Registration period is slated to being around mid April. -dave
Hi Steven; I think you're right… a hybrid solution ( best use of all available resources ) is the best solution. I don't buy into exclusivity, but for a while there it seemed like Autodesk had. I see a lot of presentations… by Adesk… that was (and still is) my…
I agree, a hybrid solution of the two would be superior. /* Note that AAP was not _designed_ as a presentation package… it was designed as a 2D animation package using the Quantel Paintbox/Harry metaphor to let an artist paint over time. When most business types see all the features…
/* Well we may actually be working to some form of limited agreement here. I too believe that Adesk should be using Ani Pro and 3DS flics in their presentations; I too despise the trite and overworn blue gradient background with yellow text; and I'm no great fan of Powerpoint…
/* Actually, I've seen presentations for both Eric Herr and Carol Bartz that were done exclusively in Animator Pro (with 3DS support). They were extremely impressive. Just setting the record a bit straight, here. (I realize that quite a few presentations are still done in PP though.) */ Gary, What…
Hi Steven! First off, I appreciate your feedback on this, and your points are valid.. no one case covers all situations, and the effectiveness of any tool should be task qualified. The issues I am concerned about here related more to the psychological impact of Powerpoint vs. Animator Pro. /*…
ANI-not Powerpoint
Message #91457
I thought I'd start a new thread on this since apparently some share this ironic situation. First off, your points support what we've felt for years about the effectiveness of presentations. I don't think Adesk personnel have had to sit through too many PP presentations. I have seen my share…
/* Let us not forget the obvious compromise. It is a quite easy thing to include Flic files as part of a Power Point Presentation. Thus you can utilze both slides (and the ease of use and enhanced control they provide) and animations (with the greater attention grabbing and holding…
/* I'm afraid I must disagree with your premise. Animator Pro is not a very good presentation program. It is an EXCELLENT tool for producing source graphics to feed to real presentation tools such as Powerpoint, Compel, Grasp, etc. */ Hi Steven! I welcome disagreements, but I've used Animator Pro…
/* >> You can refer to what this is all about in the ANI telecourse files in ACAD forum section 7. The basic gist of palette fitting is this;
/* Apart from the rather ironic nature of all this, I think there is something wrong at the heart of the operation. As a CAD journalist I visit loads of Autodesk dealers and more often than not I find myself in a room full of computers running some of the…
/* Try this for fun at "any" fast food restaurant: when they tell you how much, give them a twenty (or whatever big). Then, after they typed in and figured the change they have to give you, give them the change so they would only need to give you a…
My favorite one to date was the guy who was thinking about buying 3D Studio and asked how many disks it came with. I told him about 8, so he asked if he could purchase one now and buy the other 7 later! -dave
/* Now, this book was written for the original Animator, but isn't this true even today ? I don't want to cause trouble, but I would really like to get to the bottom of this! [groan] And when using Windows, you need Smardrv.exe for Windows to operate at its maximum,…
Can anyone tell me why the following is happening? 1. I have rendered sections of animations separately in 3ds and then joined them in ani pro. The problem is that when I play the joined FLC, a very brief shift in palette occurs before the first frame of the second…
/* Does anyone know what the minimum requirements will be to run Animator Pro unders Windows 4.0? I'm making a big assumption here that this type of product is under development. DOS won't be around much longer, so it's my guess that a Win 4.0 version will be available. Also,…
>> it took me by surprise that Adesk standardized on PowerPuff. Didn't Adesk have a tool for business graphics about a year ago? I remember my dealer showing me something with titling and basic wipes. With AniPro being such a strong tool, I too was surprised to see PP everywhere…
Ted and all the 3D Studio Users, >> Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Ave Boston, MA >> Beatty Hall Rm. 8426 To all concerned parties the room has been changed to Lufkin Center Rm. 2A-103 Thats one flight up the stairs from the visitor's parking entrance at Wentworth. You…
Using a RAM drive is rather pointless with anipro because it uses a DOS extender that will use every available bit of ram you have and more, plus it loads as much of the flick into ram as it can when you open it. In my opinion (someone correct me…
/* Last company meeting (we have them quarterly or so) there were several presentations using Animator Pro rather than Powerpoint. Could be that a few folks recognize the irony of having Powerpoint presentations at a company which makes great graphics software! */ I have to admit, it took me by…
Maura; Hi. I saw your complaint, and though I can sympathize with the frustration of a package with a wrong disk in it, I've had this happen from many companies over the years. I don't work for Autodesk, and I'm not a salesperson. I'm a product support tech. I don't…
We use PowerPoint for our presentations. This choice usurped AAPro when our one of the departments within Autodesk was chartered to standardize on a group of products for our company to use. One of their choices was PowerPoint. I don't know why that decision was made, presumably PowerPoint is much…
-Why in the world would someone want anipro to be run under windows ??? don't you agree that running it under DOS, makes for more free memory for Animator Pro to run ? Please, if you have any comments leave me a message!, I have been using anipro with a…
Is there any way I can run 3d Studio 2.0 and or Animator Pro 2.0 from within Windows? Don't mean to but in, but I thought latest version of Animator Pro was R1.3. There an "Explorer" Windows version (much like original Animator), but I haven't had much luck running Ani…
Nik; Just wanted to make sure you received my fax on the Sanyo GVR S950VTR checklist of items for compatibility of 3DSR3. Thanks again! -dave
#deskjet 500c driver
Message #33723
Hello gang! Anyone know what the name of the file is which allows the HP Deskjet 500C (color) to work with AutoCAD R11c2? Is there an in-line driver which allows black and white in AutoCAD itself? Help appreciated… Dave Aguilar 76260,453
Thank you! It was DTL.ARC and DETAIL.ZIP. Have a great thanksgiving!
Thanks Bob! I'll say a blessing for you at our Turkey dinner tomorrow!
#Clipping
Message #22256
Anyone out there want to recommend a great clipping routine? Place a circle or user-definable window over existing linework, automatically clips out everything inside or outside—great for vicinity maps,etc. I went through MCN, CADENCE and CADALYST, I know I've seen these out there (think one of them was called AutoView…
You read the entire message base? What a life!
#lineSTYLES?
Message #22151
Hey Dave; Speakin of all this r12 stuff, wouldn't it be great if they could give us a localized LTSCALE? They gave us dimstyles for localized DIMSCALE, why not styles for linestyles? Makes perfect sense to me!
Anyone destroyed their laundry with those shirts yet?
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