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very poor support
Message #47923
PMJI, but what do you call this? This is support at it's very finest. Come up with a question – post it and you will get an answer – lots of them – quickly. Buy 3ds. Dave Mennenoh
#very poor support
Message #47922
DOn, I think you are being unfair to Autodesk. There is absolutely nothing wrong with their policy. I work for a AutoCAD/3DS dealer and we do our best to offer top notch support to our customers. Most of the time we can figure the problem out ourselves and sometimes we…
Quite the wordsmith Paul. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your message to Ana. One thing I beleive though is that formal schooling does not always an artist make. I have had lots of art classes but never went for a degree or anything and maybe that shows in my work and…
Ana, Obviously you don't get a word I said. I never proclaimed that I was great or even good for that matter. I simply stated that I didn't enjoy being lumpled into your general mass of everyone. But that quote I left you still stands true. I hope you achieve…
Hi James, Good to hear from you. We just decided to become a dealer in the last week or so actually. I was the one pushing for it the whole time. They finally gave in 🙂 Oh well, I will give you a call tomorrow night maybe. I have a…
Dennis, If you use AME to make a primitive like a sphere it is by default a surface only. You have to turn it into a solid. I can't remember the exact procedure right now – I will give it a look tomorrow and let you know. Someone else know?…
Alex, Thanks for the info – I will give Schreiber a call about the 3d surf routine. Also, you should be able to upgrade your DL-Xpress to the newest revision so that you will have color icons. I think the newest is 2.16. Dave
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Message #46903
Ana, Just had to reply again to your EVERYONE bashing. I'm sure the people you spoke of – whom I have never even heard of – were very good animators. But to quote a book by Richard Bach: "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." If you want…
Dennis, Did you tell AME to make your original sphere, from which you were subtracting, solid? Sounds like that is what's causing your problem with being able too see through the thing. Let me know if you try again and if it works for you. Dave Mennenoh
I was not offended in the least, just trying to explain myself. Your story about Unisys was interesting. But I have to say they are utterly stupid for giving that kind of service and not charging for it. That is indeed rare. Spose they don't need to make money like…
Danny, Thanks much for the reply. I have Fractint and should have AniPRO within a week. Otherwise I have Photo styler which should work I assume. I have tries using Fractint but could never get it to do what I wanted. Also, I haven't heard of GifDXF and maybe thats…
>>>I think that NOBODY in this forum can do a work as 1/100000 as good >>>as one of the worse Avery's. I do hope you are including yourself in this statement. Dave Mennenoh
Alexander, IMHO, the _best_ drivers around are Vibrants. I have done tons of benchmarks using the various drivers (mostly in AutoCAD though) and the fastest and most stable are Vibrants bar none. I would suggest using DL-Xpress for 3DS it is a very nice driver with color spline arrows and…
#Terrain
Message #46805
First of all, has anyone seen Comanche Maximum Overkill? I just got it and have to say that it's the best flight simulation I've ever seen. I have noticed something strange with it though. I have a Gateway 2000 486/66, ISA, (overdrive processor), 32Mb, and a Diamond Speedstar 24. I…
# 3rd Dimension Next Issu
Message #46804
Ang, Hi there. We have just become a 3DS dealer and I'm interested in the Group Montage thing you're doing. What kind of requirements are there to being a member? Also, could you change my address in your records to: David Mennenoh Office Technology Inc. 1315 Gillingham Rd. Neenah, WI…
#angel 3D mesh anyone?
Message #46767
PMJI – means Pardon Me for Jumping In. So did you get the models you were after? Dave Mennenoh
Here are some answers – It will do a color E-size plot in under 10 minutes. I have verified this. The drivers for windows support whatever your program will output. You don't need the postscript simm unless you want to print postscript. I have plotted some very nice TGA's at…
John, instead of wasting your time looking for a 3DS driver just use windows. Any decent imaging program such as PhotoStyler or Photo Shop will import and let you print TGA's. All you will need is a Windows driver which will be very easy to find. Dave Mennenoh
Why? The windows version runs very fast – out performing DOS in some areas. The interface is very well done and you can draw just the same as in the DOS version. A line is still a line is still a line. On a fast machine it performs wonderfully. If…
Pat, Are you on a network? If so the network may be looking at it's copy of command.com and if it differs from that on you local drive you will experience this. Even if you are using the same ver of Dos this may happen. Otherwise, if you start 3DS…
John, Would it not be easier to just roate the sphere around the text? Dave
>>What is the difference between the HP 550c and 650c? Steve, About $8000 and 200lbs . The 550c is an A-size (8 1/2 x 11) color ink jet printer. It is pretty nice really. The 650c is a large format color ink jet plotter. It will print up to E-size…
Gary – Could you please re-iterate your beveling technique. I have your original message about doing the bevel but I don't quite understand. Are you saying to drag the entire baseline to say +5 units, then insert a vertex where the bevel would start and then drag the bevel end…
Hmmm… but it's fairly cheap to buy a short cable to allow you to lay the dongles anywhere you'd like. We've had to do this with having 3DS CADAM and something else – otherwise the computer would be a foot from the wall behind it. Dave
Actually HP makes very nice windows drivers for the 650C they ship with the printer. As far as I have seen the best way to print images is from Micro Grafx Designer. It is about the only prgram that will support printing to anything larger than B-size. Corel Draw will…
I suggest the Diamond Speedstar 24. They ship with decent drivers for 3DS and AutoCAD (Panacea) and are very inexpensive. About $150. It is an ISA card does 16.7M colors at 640×480 and 256 colors at 1024×768. Actually, I am very impressed with the speed of the card – even…
DOS 6.0
Message #44228
Just wondering if anyone had tried using DOS 6.0's EMM386 with DOS 5.0? I kinda thought that staying with 5.0 but using the EMM from 6.0 would work very well. If what I have read is true it is fully VCPI compliant – and even started with the NOEMS switch…
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3ds novice problems
Message #44117
Jennifer, PMJI – About your boolean problem – Make sure you pick in the "This is my object and I want this subtracted from it" order. Also, remember the second object (your cutter) is deleted after the boolean is complete. Make a copy of it first before you use it.…
#Help
Message #43251
I am trying to get a series of characters to follow a circular path. Actually it is the word animation. All the letters are seperate objects. So far I have the first A to work like it should but I am having problems getting the rest of the letters to…
#Tip
Message #43250
Here is a quick tip for getting rid of all of an objects keys (except 0) in the keyframer. Create a dummy object. Then use Object/Tracks/Copy and select the dummy as source and your object as destination. Copy all keys as relative. There may be an easier way of doing…
Mike, First or all you may want to consider getting another driver for used with 3DS like Vibrant Graphics DL-Xpress or Pro-Res. This may solve your display/FLC problem. The MAG's clicking is it trying to sync to the new resolution. It sounds like you must have a Gateway 2000 -…
Will it finally support compressed .TGA's?
PMJI, I work for a large computer dealer and although we only sell Compaq, IBM and apple they to have come out with chaper and chaper models to compete with the Dells and Gateways of the world. But I would have to disagree with the "el cheapo HD's and no…
Help
Message #37436
Greg, I was wondering if you could save me some trouble on this project I am working on. AS per our conversation several weeks ago I am still planning on having you lay the 6000 frames to tape for me – but is taking some time getting it all together.…
Thanks for the info. Hopefully ver 4.x will take care of it. One more quick question on memory while I'm at it. In the text file that describes how to compute how much mem will be needed at rendering time, I don't quite understand the mapping one. It says to…
#Memory
Message #37340
I was wondering if there is some sort of memory management problem in release 2.0 – which is what I'm using. It seems that once it fills memory and starts paging to the HD it never releases the memory again unless you quit and restart it. Even doing a reset…
#Help
Message #35681
Greg, Hi there. How are thungs in CA? I am buying a Diaquest serial controller, because I found a place that will rent decks to me for a fairly good price. What I am wondering is how do you go about determining the field order for particular equipment? Or is…
Jack, In regards to you sending me the updated DL-Xpress for 3DS my address is: David Mennenoh 1401 E. Cass St. #7 Appleton, WI 54915 My serial number is:16978 Thanks a bunch. I can't wait to get them. By the way I was using your software's selection for the Diamond…
#Drivers
Message #33172
Jack, I have had your DlXpress drivers for some time and am wondering if you will be sending upgrades out. I havent seen the colors in the mapping icon since I can't remember. It would be very nice to finally be able to again. Please let me know what I…
Actually I was also getting the same sort of problem. The gray scale bump map ending up in the rendered tile. I ended up using a value of 1 for the bump map slider, it corrected the problem to the point where it was tolerable though. Any recommendations? Dave Mennenoh
Thanks for the info. So, say if I wanted a "bathroom tile" with the grout indented like it should be, what would be the most effective way? I was under the assumption that if you wanted to make just the grout recessed I would make the tile then make the…
#Bump Maps
Message #32669
Hi there, Question for ya. When using bump mapping how does the bumpiness slider actually affect the map? I mean does a value of 1 mean that the maximum depth of the bumps will be 1 or is there 1 a pixel depth between each successive level of gray in…
Thanks
Message #31724
By the way thanks for your help with my missing faces problem a couple of weeks ago. So, what new things can we expect from R3? One more thing, can you tell me if Borland C++ 3.0 can be used for IPAS programming? Thanks Dave
#Beveling
Message #28957
Hi, I was wondering if there was an easy way of doing beveled lettering with 3ds. I have found it fairly easy to scale portions of the letter and then manually move vertices and adjust segments but it is kinda time consuming. Would Autocad be able to handle this with…
#Eval
Message #27952
Hi There, Question for ya. I work for a large computer dealer, and we recently got 2 copies (dealer evals) of 3DS 2.0. I have one copy that I am using at home to learn so that when we become an authorized MM dealer the transition will be smoother. What…
I've got an ATI graphice ultra, and have been experiencing the same Abnormal Program Termination Error, but I get it when I try and make a preview of the animation. But, I have found a driver that has solved all of my problems DL-Xpress from Vibrant Graphics. It is a…
Thanks
Message #24689
Hi, Sorry, I don't know who responded to my message over there but thanks for the quick reply. I'm kinda new at compuserve so you'll have to forgive me. I did what you said and took out RDPADI but it didn't seem to matter. Preview still locks up every time…
#Help!
Message #24656
Hi There, I work for a large computer dealer, and recently we purchased two eval copies of 3D-Studio 2.0. I have been using it for a while, trying to thoroughly learn it as we are going to become a dealer. Anyway, I have a Gateway 2000 486/33 with 20Mb Ram,…
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Help!
Message #18519
Mike, Thanks for the info. Actually I do have the tutorial and have gone through the section on mapping. It's not that I can't or don't understan mapping, I do. I do use it. I just can't figure out certain aspects of it. For instance, I am working on a…
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