This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Thanks Alan, I'll try that today. Can't wait to see the 7th… expect to get the inside scoop here as to how to be the first on the block to check it out? JKJ
YES (from my friend with no Compuserve)
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Just got the 3D Artist newsletter. (Bill Allen, 505/982-3532) November issue has articles on "Real People", Windows 3D software, shadows, etc. JKJ
A 9mm S&W handgun, 30 cal. carbine, 30/30, couple of shotguns & 22's (and a really good slingshot!) I've got a friend with a stockpile with some military copies (AR-16s or something? I'm not a connoisseur, I can check. He probably can get anything.) You have any drawings or a…
Gary, Being a Boolean Basher myself, I've had numerous strange things happen in addition to a few reboots. Part of the trouble may be my interpretation of the expession on page 7-56: "when a Boolean operation fails…" The text seems to indicate a "failure" will always be accompanied by the…
As I tell my kids, "If it was easy, EVERYONE would be doing it!" I forgot to mention I like the (horizontal) layout of the manuals. If I push my keyboard back a little, put the manual in front, and hold the mouse on a lap-board, the tutorials are MUCH…
#3DS DOCS
Message #28379
Let me start your 3DS doc survey with my humble observations… (I've used 3DS for 6 months now, with a healthy background in microcomputers and useful related interests in photography, art, mathematics and engineering…) I found the 3DS manuals to be VERY good. The tutorials are excellent and the reference…
Wow! Great tips for gold! Thanks, Gary. The best I've come up with until today has been series of 9 flat mirror maps (my geometry is interesting!) with an modified GOLD.GIF mapped inside a hemisphere BEHIND the camera, two white fill-in panels angled away on either side of my object,…
I think Autodesk products (and others) are high, but not too high for what you get – I write software myself and have a healthy respect for what is involved. The ONLY realistic price moderator is volume with compitition – look at PC hardware in the last 15 years! As…
Mr. AJ – Thanks for the "brass valley" suggestion. By brightening and yellowing the specular, and playing with the shininess and percentage of reflection map, I've come closer to that gold in my mind. I owe you one – could I build you a gun or something? JKJ
Keyframer Visibility
Message #28247
Mike, Did you ever get a chance to try out the GIFDXF line unhider program (DXFUH.ZIP) I sent by CIS mail on 11/8? (message 26553) I assume you were able to get it OK. I want to send it to someone else and I'm curious as to how it worked…
Sure! Here's one way… In Shaper: create your text, choose SHAPE/ALL. In Editor: CREATE/OBJECT/GET SHAPE to get the 2D text. Apply a material and some light (if you simply turn the Ambient light all the way up, you can get flat, evenly-lit text.) In Keyframer: position and perhaps animate your…
…obsession thru possession to …, the braid continues to entwine. I, too, wonder about the scarcity of meshes; cheaper to DL and lots more fun! Maybe people are afraid their latest creation will show up on channel 10 making money for someone else? Personally, I like the Stone Soup Group…
#Good gold!?
Message #28228
Can anyone help me make a realistic shiny gold 3DS material? I want to fly a cross that looks like a polished bar of gold. I've had more trouble with this material than anything I've done to date, trying bitmaps, flats reflecting moving shapes, moving lights, etc. I've gotten some…
Thanks. Does the Opta card work in all modes? He had problems with the old Herc driver in that it would do everything but play Previews in 3DS. The new driver has its own problems. I hear of other boards that will run everything in 3DS but not all AniPro…
upload disconnect
Message #28208
While attempting to upload GEB.3ds, Compuserve evidently disconnected me while entering keywords. Did this upload make it, or should I try again later? Was I doing something wrong? Thanks. JKJ
Hope you don't mind me butting in, but I follow all of these threads in my never-ending search for knowledge… The boolean method I described will leave you with a grid on the top face of a 3d letter only. Retaining the top face only will give you a 2d…
Edward, I've animated 3d mathematical surface functions by morphing between various surfaces – you can watch the surface change with changing parameters! Would be useful for various disciplines. I generally use MATHCAD (Windows version) to compute the surfaces and output a matrix to an ASCII file. I wrote a short…
Mitchell (famous) Waite, If you want 2d letters: I've turned letters into grids by means of a boolean intersection with a 2d GRID (100/20 x 100/20 x 0/0 with a letter 90 units high.) I had to loft the letter first, then intersect with the grid, then delete all vertices…
Larry – I ordered 2.01 and AniPro 1.3 the same day 4 weeks ago – yet I hear others are getting a 2 week turnaround. My dealer is very small (in volume, that is!). It makes me wonder if the big guys get what they want right away and the…
craig, For what it's worth, the imaging people at the company where I work often have trouble with compressed TIFF files. All uncompressed TIFFs I've given them work fine, as do all TARGAs. I usually render 800×600 compressed TARGAs for quick overheads and hard copy. I have to specifically set…
Troy, Just listening in on your boolean adventures. A triple-letter intersection (I read the H book too!) was one of the first things I attempted with 3DS booleans, with similar disapointing results. I even had trouble with 2-letter intersections when the letters were complex. I finally concluded that 3DS booleans…
Thanks for your advice on the Hurtn' Herc. My friend has had a time with video boards, having tried two different Orchid's, the Nth TV, a Diamond Stealth, a $69 Oak (fewest problems but SLOW!), and now the Herc+2. Back to the drawing ( or should I say _graphics_ )…
#Still waiting for 2.01
Message #27943
(I'm afraid the tail of message 27941 got scrambled. Repeating…) Is anyone else besides me having trouble getting 3DS 2.01? I've had it on order since it was first anounced on this forum. My dealer says Autodesk is just real slow. Should it take a MONTH?? What can I do?…
For sale
Message #27942
(Joe – thanks! I guess that means OK!) —-Extry memory for sale!—EISA machine? I just added 32 megs and had to pull out 8 megs of 2-meg EISA sims to make room. Will at least work in a Gateway 486/33 EISA because that's what they came out of! Purchased from…
#Hercules problem
Message #27941
[ A request from my friend, Bruce McGlasson (JKJ) ] ——————————————————————- I'm having a problem with 3DS and the Hercules Graphics Station Card+2 with Hercules Autodesk driver 2.11. After deleting 3DADI.CFG and reconfiguring, 3DS works fine the 1st time, then misbehaves on all subsequent executions (the screen comes up very…
My 2 cents: I'd like to see AD send out the 3DS tape I recently saw at the dealer's shop, ACCOMPANIED by notes on each segment. While I got lots of new ideas from the tape, I kept asking myself, "Howwwdd they do THAT???". If anyone does a newsletter, sign…
Angelo, I have been using the NEC CDR-84 for months now and am very pleased with it. The double speed (300KB/s) REALLY helps; the sample flics fly on the 3DS disk. Also run a lot of MPC stuff and programmers's reference disks without a hitch. I've had two different (older)…
Thanks for your response, Tim. There are several areas in the east I would like to acquire digital USGS data for. What do you need to know, latitudes and longitudes for the areas or quad names? What is the approximate cost for your data service; do you have fixed rates…
> Gus, does this imply that an EISA machine is immune to the 16-bit to 8-bit plague? JKJ (the more I learn, the less I know)
Jeff, to quote Brian Livingston (more or less) in Windows 3.1 Secrets, pg 637: "If one 8-bit device exists within a 128K region [of the adapter segment memory], the [BIOS] forces the other devices in that region to use 8-bit transfers as well. This affects the regions addressed as A000-BFFF,…
Mike K. I just sent the GIFDXF line unhider program (GLUP?) to you by CIS mail in the form of a ZIP file. I hope you get it OK since I haven't tried mailing a binary file before. I hope it helps – let me know what you think. I…
#IPAS Boutique
Message #26526
Mr. G, Gary, O Great Wise One, As per your comment last week concerning selling my soul, er, work, to pay for IPAS: (message 26128, "Re the Boutique… selling a little work now and then is pretty satisfying…") – I did it! I traded an animation I did last weekend…
Mike K. Sorry to hear about your problems with 3DS. I have a fairly loaded Gateway and I haven't had any crashes – that is I haven't had any after I put more memory in my machine and got all my DMAs and IRQs sorted out. Before that, look out!…
Mike K. Your welcome, and welcome, and… I wrote the program last night before I went to bed. It takes the DXF file that GIFDXF puts out and processes it, one line at a time, searching for the index codes that join the vertices into faces, turning all negative indices…
Mike, excuse me for butting in, but I've used GIFDXF several times to build terrain for 3ds and I've had the same problem. As you probably found out, you can turn on ALL LINES in the 3d editor, and see what is going on. Unfortunately, since the ALL LINES option…
Thanks for the info, Ken. I call Schreiber and they're sending me a demo of 3DSurf, but a satisfied customer – the next best thing to buying it then trying it – beats a demo anytime!. Can you tell me where I can get US Geological Survey data on disk…
##26158-Topo conversion
Message #26239
Thank you, Ken, for your offer. I don't have the final drawing yet, but I think the preliminary I saw was 1"=100' over about 25"x30" with approx 100' change in elevation. I'd like to be able to do this from scratch myself, but I don't have a tablet over 12"…
##26158-Topo conversion
Message #26238
Thanks, Chris, for the info. I'll call Schreiber tomorrow. For this project, I'd like to farm out the digitizing and conversion. I don't have a tablet over 12×12. If the QuickSurf or 3DSurf is not too expensive, I'll get that. I just love new toys (oops, I mean TOOLS!) Thanks…
#Need topo conversion
Message #26158
I need to have a topo (site plan) converted from paper to 3ds. Can anyone do this or recommend someone who can. Would apreciate a ballpark cost or pricing schedule and some idea of how long it might take. Thanks in advance. JKJ
About a possible IPAS version to create meshes from math functions: I should clarify one point. The program I wrote relies on some external means to generate the data. I use MathCad to input the functions and generate an ASCII data file, although there are many other ways to generate…
#3d meshes from functions
Message #26124
Hello Aaron, Thanks for your interest in the function-to-3d mesh program. I put together a ZIP file (see msg 26117) and will upload it as soon as possible. The program (I called it MATHDXF) solved my problem of generating 3d surface plots that could look stunning. As an unexpected bonus,…
#3d meshes from functions
Message #26122
Gary, Be glad to upload the function-to-3d mesh program. I tried a little while ago and got a message that the area was full and to contact the SYSOP. I'm an idiot (new to Compuserve, anyway) – what to I do now? JKJ PS – I'm real excited about the…
3d meshes from functions
Message #26117
Hello ALL! To whom it may interest… I wrote a program to allow me to create a 3d mesh of any function which can be calculated mathematically. There may be programs around which will do this but I couldn't find one in a hurry so I wrote a little conversion…
#Hello, my name is…
Message #26116
Hello ALL! I've been evesdropping on this forum for several weeks now and would like to introduce myself. I sold some MIDI gear and motorcycles this spring and bought 3DS and Anipro – what great fun! In the daylight I write software (mostly scientific and technical) – at night I'm…
#25966
Message #26115
Pat, I'd be glad to send you a sample of what I did with GIFDXF. I'll put all the files on a disk and stick them in the mail. Glad to be of help. JKJ
#3d meshes from GIF files
Message #25903
Hello Pat! I found the GIFDXF in lib 3. The documentation is good and it's easy to use. I'd be glad to send a sample of what I did with it. Do you want the initial grey scale GIF, the rendered GIF, or the 3d mesh? As I'm new to…
3d meshes from GIF files
Message #25072
Scott, Just tried out the GIFDXF program – made some homemade terrain! Works great. I used ANIPRO, 800×600, made a palette with lots of greys. Drew a contour map of a river and mountains and filled the contours with greys. Used Apply Ink repeatedly with JUMBLE & SOFTEN inks &…
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