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3d editor axis
Message #37569
>>switching views in full screen mode… I get around this when zoomed way in by setting up my zooms in the non-full screen mode, then switch to full screen to work. To switch from TOP to FRONT, I never press "F", but switch back to the multi-view screen, hit the…
Liz, Why are you putting the .AXP names in your 3DS.SET file? Only .PXP IPAS files should be specified in the external program section (USER-PROG1, etc.). AXP's are assigned to objects as part of their attributes. You might read pgs. C-15 and C-16 in the manual. Also, note that with…
(Cough, cough, hack…) Fortunately my computer command center is in a warm room – lay back in my chair, prop my feet up, everything within fingertip reach – fast computer, big monitor, 3DS; life could be much worse! I may actually have a touch of pneumonia – back to the…
DT, >> FWIW, Roger Danielsen has Windows in his shell… TAHIWWAGD (Thanks A Heap, It Was Worth A Great Deal! ) All this time of switching back and forth, I never thought of trying that. The machine locked up until I tried running 3DSHELL – now everything works OK. Still…
Michael, (Part 5) The AutoCAD 12 manuals have everything you need to know to build DXF files. I used them some time ago to write a little C program to convert (not x,y,z, but) a rectangular matrix of z-values into a 3DS mesh. I uploaded it once as MATHDXF.ZIP (lib…
Alan, hello to you! >> .AI from CorelDraw with No Fill is very important… Prompted by your comment, I finally sat down and ran a series of tests – you sure know how to work a guy! My tests confirmed your comment exactly with one interesting aside: using a tight…
#setting up a tablet
Message #37028
Master GP, Life on the East Coast? The East Coast? (…humor him, he might be dangerous…) Hey, life here on the "coast" is great, if you don't count the last 5 days or so in bed with the double flu, multiple software projects due the end of March, and me…
David, I read your question about bringing graphics to 3DS from Corel Draw. My humble experience with the same thing has left me never using the DXF format for the reason you mentioned – hundreds of extra vertices in the shaper. However, the AI (Adobe Illustrator) format has worked well,…
Nick, For what it's worth, I'm using a Gateway EISA with the DX2, Award BIOS. Went from 16M to 40M with no problems. JKJ
Rick, >>Formula for NTSC colors? I've been looking for the answer to this one too. The closest I've come is in my PrimeTime character generator manual: "If you are outputting text to video, be sure to keep your Saturation levels below 75%, as a general rule-of-thumb; higher levels can create…
Pete, Glad you got it working! When you weld after detaching/attaching faces, you throw away the 'element' status and end up at the starting point. I like to create separate elements from faces when possible primarily so they will be easier to work with (and to select!). Since there is…
Pete, >>decal'n one side of a sphere or cylinder… If you use cylindrical or spherical mapping, and place your decal in the center of a larger bitmap, you can control the placement nicely. I guess you know that if you use the 'Decal' button, you have to pay attention to…
Dale, I'm no expert, but I use AniPro, AniPlay, 3DS & Windows with QEMM386 with no problems. You may have to exclude certain addresses from QEMM. Try, x=A000-FFFF, and if that works, follow the QEMM instructions or experiment to find the smallest range. x=A000-B7FF works in my system. For your…
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Robot Walk?
Message #35698
Danny, Glad to be of some help. Thank you for making me think about backwards knees! I've played with walking before but not with concave legs. 27000 face legs! – that's a bunch of faces. Must be some fantastic geometry. I usually give up by then and try to replace…
#Printer for 3DS
Message #35624
Anyone have recommendations on a good relatively inexpensive (under $10K) printer for hardcopy from 3DS? Dye-sub? Need to show stills before rendering long animations. Anything usable under $5K? JKJ
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Creating Ice
Message #35623
JK >> got to get Photostyler… I got Photostyler from Mac/Micro Shopper (1-800-622-7006) for $99. They said it was some special deal with Aldus. So far, the only downside of this deal is now I get MAC junk mail. Ack! – Mac attack! JKJ PS. Hope you upload your final…
Gold Lion looked great! Will Greg Pyros Gold be in 3DSr3.MLI? Is your gold available for pre-release evaluation? JKJ
JK Thanks for the materials! I just got them today – love the Poured Plaster and the Molten Fire. The Fire is fantastic – I suspect you'll see it on someone's TV commercial one of these days! (Did you make the GIF with Fractint?) You have more??? – you upload'm,…
I've been building all kinds of neat stuff lately – from furniture to space shuttles & satellites – just starting in on some gas mask models. This is great fun! I'll send the mesh as soon as I save up the $15 for the upgrade I need. JKJ (with excessive…
The capital of Abyssinia is Addis Ababa. How much is an Exabyte 8500? Will it also solve all my backup problems too? (just backed up again to seven DC2120 tapes) JKJ
O venerable mr gp…. Thanks… I'm caught up till the next time. I think I've built ten million faces worth of objects since I talked to you last – and I feel another wave coming! You get an A+ in "Best Helper" and an F- in "Greedy Businessman". You've accidentally…
Hey Mark!, You can sometimes salvage the aftermath of a nasty boolean adventure by _extensive_ welding… hide the back half of the object, zoom in close, and eliminate most of the extra zillion faces by manually welding most of the vertices. Watch out especially for faces where all three vertices…
Duke, I'm using the Diamond Speedstar SVGA (not the 24) with AniPro at up to VESA 1024*786. I had to use a generic VESA driver that (came with another board) to get it to work in VESA modes. Let me know if Kevin's non-Jeffery suggestions don't work in your case.…
#Face-building glitch
Message #33625
Roger, Just read your comment (I got behind by over 2000 messages due to a triple-whammy of work and travel!) on the unsmoothable faces from AME. I've seen that problem several times on things I've made in AME or booleaned in 3DS. Usually, it was due to invisible faces with…
Monte, One image-based method for 3D digitizing is called Phase Measuring Profilometry (PMP). PMP is a non-laser based directed-light method relying on phase difference calculations between several frames of a object imaged with light thru a sinusoidal density grating. For more info you could check out R&D magazine, May 90,…
Carl, Thanks for the jumping in! It's far nicer to hear success stories. I wish everyone would take a few minutes and upload a file of everything that DOES work well together – would save a lot of grief and experimentation. Personally, I bought the SUMMA (for the stylus) on…
#30349-
Aligning X-sec's
Message #30521
Mr. Ang. G. Not sure if this will help with your MRI scans, but I've had good success in digitizing layers for lofting by tracing them over bitmaps in CorelDRAW. Before exporting, I check them by selecting… Corel reports the number of nodes (vertices) per curve, allowing vertices to be…
Mark, I tried your DXF export puzzle using ACAD v12 and 3DS r2.01. I got similar results when DXFOUTing by ENTITY/BINARY, selected by Crossing (except that L1 became L02, L2 became L03, and L3 became L01). With DXFOUT/BINARY (not by entity) however, everything was in order. I had created the…
Mike, Just a quick observation. My experience with FIT lofting has found it fantastic for moderate changes along the fit shape but occasionally stuttering when the fit profile changes abruptly. For example, with the lathed cylinder you described, I had problems if the "trough" steps were drawn exactly horizontally in…
Mark, Once upon a time, the word I got from Autodesk was to run CFIG386 with the -NOVM option to disable virtual memory. Did you happen to try this (along about Dec 1)? This helped the lockup problems I was having with my SUMMA II+, and it helped but did…
Mike, The CHAOS.BAT file you sent would not even run on my system as it was missing a critical line just before the line "set batchval=1": if %windir%.==. metashel /i This installs the MetaGraphics driver as a TSR if Windows is not running. Without the TSR, MENU.EXE will not run…
#Language
Message #30451
Craig S., Thanks for "speaking" up about the language. I, too, see no sense in offense for the sake of impact and I suspect many others feel the same. Over 100 years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "What you are thunders so loud that I cannot hear what you say".…
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#Chaos won't exit!!
Message #30450
md, I tried every-which-way to make Chaos fail to exit and couldn't. The batch file looks pretty robust to me, as long as everything is running from the same directory. Did you do anything unusual after installing, like move things around in directories, starting Chaos from other batch files, etc?…
While you're there, tell them thanks for rushing ATVISTA software updates to me (at their cost) so I could play with the board over Christmas. Wow! Mr. AK sure looks good unbanded and undithered! Santa forgot… maybe the New Year's fairy will bring me that Sony laser disk . JKJ…
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Nominations
Message #30448
Aw shucks… ain't never been nominat'd for anythang b'fore! JKJ (parenthetically persistent)
OLDCITY, Camera view, renders at 1:12 on the 486/66 DX2 (40mb ram) with the parameters you mentioned. Ratios as expected.
There is a great book by Philip Shaddock, "Multimedia Creations", Waite Group, that includes an introductory version of GRASP on disk plus enough info on using it with 3DS and AniPro to excite anyone with a little multimedia in their blood. JKJ (easily excitable?) P.S. Great work, Mr. P.S.
Jeff, I just hooked up the SUMMA II+ to 3DSr2.01 and tried it out with the ROTATE in the keyframer… I see what you mean! It sort of makes the tablet usless (or at least a patience builder) doesn't it? What computer hardware are you using? I will detail my…
Other than release 8 and a 500 MHz machine! JKJ
Woah! Only 10% have CDROMS??? Then 90% of the people are missing 90% of the fun! (and the maps, and the meshes, … ) A CD would be slick but a tape would be a lot cheaper to produce – and just as valuable to the mutated set.
I haven't uploaded it – I wanted someone to give it a crash test first. (runs fine for me, will it work in general?) Jeff Heft has it now and will check it out. It's only 10K; I'll CIS-mail it to you. JKJ
Jim K., If you have a particular font you need, I could try to convert it for you to see if it works. JKJ
IMHO (don't you just love these acronyms?!), the easiest way to learn C is with either (Microsoft) QuickC or QuickC for Windows – both are interactive and let you learn more quickly. I've brought several programmers up to speed that way. QC for Windows is especially great – although it's…
Mid PA is beautiful! I remember now going to visit Penn State once long ago (something about a girl???) As for (south of) Pittsburgh, I tell people that "Pittsburgh is a good place to be FROM." JKJ (happy in Tennessee)
Teachers of all kinds get my highest respect – seems to be one of those professions done for love, not money. The detection and measurement of progress generally depends on your vantage point! Hey, since teachers know everything, do you know any AutoCAD AME experts I could quiz? I may…
Kind Mr. PhilD, My dealer has been YO!ing customer service for weeks now (at least that's what he tells me). I ordered 3DS 2.01 at the same time. He knows I've been anxious for both, especially since I got the IPAS packages weeks ago. Since I've seen neither, he finally…
>Tapes and books don't go well together.< I generally agree, especially for basic (C++, etc) instruction. However, in this field, after one learns the basic system (how to run the program), the next and much harder step is to develop the ability to apply the basics creatively – how do…
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Good gold!?
Message #29195
Sean, I'm working (part time) on a video intro for a local Baptist church for a program they have on the ACTS network. They have one now where their logo, a cross on the Oak Ridge city logo (the atomic symbol) rotates out of a map of the US. It…
Good luck getting 1.3 – I sent the right disk (after pondering the inconsistency) over 5 weeks ago and I STILL haven't received the upgrade. My dealer says they are just slow. I'm about to put them into the "so what?, we are Autodesk and you are nobody" category. JKJ…
JDH, I just sent DXFUH.ZIP (DXF Unhide) to you by CIS mail. The .EXE is there plus the C source for you entertainment. I could upload it to the forum, but I'd like an independent evaluation first. I sent it to someone else a month ago but I never heard…
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