This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Hi Bill, >>I think the R3/R4 difference is coincidence. Yeap, I learned a new english word: "coincidence". Took a few minutes to find it in my translation books but now I know what you mean . Well, I don`t think it`s a connection problem. The ATVista is directly connected to…
I did contact Truevision but they had no idea. Michael
I have no idea what can be wrong. Maybe it`s a little devil in my 3DSR4 ADI driver… . Michael
Well, makeing images or even animations in this way pumps up the rendering time "a little bit". But it`s always the same: the better the image the more time it takes to render. But the image will be worth the time… Michael
Hi Andrew, >>Glad to hear animation is on the list for Rel 2. Rayman is a >>great product even without it! Thank you very much! >>Can you share any more release 2 features? Well, not all but a few: – ANIMATION RENDERING with special optimizations to reduce rendering times of…
>>Why wouldn't a dual Pentium system be twice as fast a single >>Pentium system? PMJI: a dual Pentium system (I use a ASUS PCI/EISA Dual Pentium/100 board) can`t be as twice as fast because they use the same 2nd level cache, the same bus (adress and data path) and the…
Hi Sanford, what me really makes mad is that everything worked fine with 3DSR3 (same driver!) and doesn`t work with R4. BTW: Vista Tips works fine, too. Hey, by the way: I read your PRO CGI in the 3D Artist. Great articles ( I WANT MORW PAGES). I love to…
The driver works fine with 3DSR3. But when I use it with R4 I have a real problem… Michael
I didn`t take a look at the NASA forum. I`ll give it a try. I don`t need only clouds, I need a earth mapping that looks like the real earth… Michael
#ATVista and 3DSR4
Message #166422
Hi, I`ve got a problem with my ATVista board. I had 3DSR3 and everything worked fine with my ATVISTA board. I connected the ATVista to my SONY LVR 4000P. I used a SONY TV with S-VHS connection as a video monitor. As I said everything worked fine with 3DSR3. Then…
You can call Digimation if you`re in the USA or call CAA (Mrs. Mueller, (Germany) 7022 9577-0) for more information… Michael
I`m using bigwld.gif. It`s nice but doesn`t look like the earth as seen from space… Michael
You can make animations with RayMan Release 1 if you output any frame of your animation as a single 3DS file. Then render the images with the RayMan batch mode. BTW: I'm already using RayMan (pre- pre- alpha version) Release 2. Michael
filmmusic? Very interesting. We need sometimes music for our animations. Maybe we can do some interesting project together. You can call me by phone (much faster dialogs then on CompuServe ): My phone number is 0208/85738-12. Michael
I made some water animations in 3DS and with RayMan. If the water doesn`t flow and you have to look through the water: make a plane with GRID, apply a (animated) bump map. Make the material very transparent, give it a (extreme) little touch of blue and make it a…
Well, the most important thing is the building. But one wall of the building is completly glas. The building should look very realistic so I have to made the reflections a little bit more important than they`re normally are. I tried your tip and after I rendered a short camera…
I have a workaround for my current job (fly very fast and have a lot of clouds ). But I`ll buy a CD with great texture maps in the next weeks… I`ll tell you when I have seen the mappings… Michael
Hi Dave, I made several test renderings yesterday and I found out exactly what you said: reflection maps doesn`t work in the way I want. I tried to use my reflection photographs as a texture map but that lost the reality look as soon as I move my camera. Now…
I`ve used the 3DSOUT command for a actual project. Before we used ACADR13 we saved the ACADR12 work with the DXFOUT command and imported the DXF file in 3DS. Then we had a lot of manual work to do before we can use the mesh. With ACADR13 there is no…
Hi Dave, thanks for the tip. But doesn`t that pump up my rendering time extreme? Isn`t there an other way? Michael
#reflections on my windo
Message #165589
Hi to all! I`m making a architectural scene in this days and I have a problem (I have a wish and this is my problem ) I have a lot of windows in my building and I want to see the real-world environment reflecting on the windows while I fly…
Hi Johnny! What are you doing in Germany? Can you speak german? We`re developing RayMan (the 3DS render engine) and we make animations for industry videos, broadcast, advertising spots, music videos and multimedia applications… Michael
Hi Johnny, we`re also in Germany (Oberhausen) and only 35km in the north of you. Maybe we can make some information exchange… BTW: I often have to vectorise a logo and I scan it, use it in the 2D Shaper as a background and then I trace it with the…
Thank you for the hint but I think a Viewpoint Map could be cheaper than downloading to Germany from a USA mail box… Michael
I didn`t call them until now but the price of the low res map (2160 x 1080) with Ocean Floor is 875 british pounds… I`m afraid to know what the price of the high res (8720*4320) version is… 🙂 Michael
Hi Jonas, thank you for the tip. It`s the cheapest way and I`ll try it before I`ll contact Viepoint or get the other CD. Michael
Yeap, Viewpoint makes great stuff. I didn`t know that they also have mappings. I`ll contact them… Thank you. Michael
Thank you very much John. Yes, I`m very interested in the adress (and a fax number would be great). Thank you in advance. Michael
#searching good earthmap
Message #164323
Hi to all! I'm looking for a very realistic earth mapping. I have the earthmap from Acuris but it doesn`t look like a real world as seen from space. I looked for a photo to scan it but I didn`t found one that works. I`m flying around the world so…
Hi Brian! I reduced the file to 500 KB and I sent it to you via e-mail… Michael
Hi Brian, I`ll take a look at it but I don`t think that I can reduce it to less than 5 megs… 🙂 Michael
#Shadow Problems
Message #162437
Hi to all, I have a little problem with raytraced shadows. I have a archictural scene with 180,000 triangles. I use raytraced shadows with a bias of 0.01 and a pixel size of 1.5. When I render the scene I see wrong shadows. Sometimes a shadow is interrupted, uncomplete. Sometimes…
Hi Greg! Thank you for the answers. I`ll contact them!!! Michael
Hi Greg! Thank you for the fast response. Do you sell the system? I think it works without compression. Does it work with a Alpha channel? Which kind of connection it used for a PC (SCSI, Ethernet)? Does it support PAL (768*576). Do you have any kind of printed information?…
PMJI: I`m looking for a new harddisk recording system. We need full broadcast quality (Betacam SP or better). Do you have any idea (and price)? Michael
searching for a vulture
Message #159048
Hi to all! We`re looking for a vulture model. We need the bird to let it fly through a music video. So the model should be ready to animate. I looked in the Viewpoint catalog but they didn`t have a vulture. Does anyone know how much it would cost to…
Hi Noah! You`re looking for RayMan! It reads your complete 3DS file with all materials, light settings, camera and environment settings. Call Digimation for more detailed infos. RayMan is available for a special price of 595 US$ until mid of march. So hurry up… Michael
Mike, I made some little benchmarks with the results I`ll explain below. I used a 486/66 VLB with 256 KB second-level cache and a Dell Omniplex Pentium/66 PCI with 256 KB cache. All machines had 32 MB RAM. The config.sys and autoexec.bat are the same on both machines. Virtual Memory…
It sounds that you`re looking for RayMan! RayMan is a 3D studio raytracer that reads your .3ds files with all settings (textures, lights, camera settings and so on…). RayMan is available from Digimation for a special price of 595 U$ until mid of march. Ask the Digimation guys for more…
Hi Jonas, I`ll upload a press release with all information soon… Michael
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#RayMan still BETA?
Message #156318
RayMan (final) Release 1 is available since January. You can get it from Digimation for a special price of 595 US$ until the mid of march. Michael
Uuups. That sounds complicated! But try a basic scene with a glas and a ball that rolls slowly behind the glas. Very very interesting effect. After you did it look for a job that wants exact this animation .
Hi Mike! Take a look at your image directory. If you have a .FLT file there you can convert the image with FLT2TGA.EXE to a TGA file. FLT`s are temporary RayMan files that contains all image information. If you have the file you can easly rescue your image. Regarding the…
Hi Kyle, much luck. I`m looking forward to see the resulting .FLC. BTW: I wanted to write a script to automate the saving of the sequenced .3DS files but I haven`t enough time. Maybe anyone out there can write such a script… Michael
RayMan release 1.0 can`t render animation. You could try the following: – generate a sequence of 3DS files (for e.g. SCENE000.3DS, SCENE001.3DS and so on…) – make a rnder-batch file like: RAYMAN SCENE000.3DS MYINI.INI RAYMAN SCENE001.3DS MYINI.INI … This is just an idea. I don`t know whether it works or…
I`ll take a look at it… Michael
Hi Edward! Much look with the "problem causing line"! If you use EMM386 or a old version of HIMEM.SYS (earlier than DOS 5.0) this can cause problems. >>BTW using @ with the vmc file line is not documented. OH SH…! You`re right. I took a look at the manual and…
Uupps!!! Please forget that I said something about animations. Should be a surprise… Michael
I hope that we`ll have a few nice animations for the Siggraph 1995 Demo-Reel. You`ll see my condom animations. Really funny… Michael
The last thing you saw was the final beta version. You know what this means ? . There`re some differences between the final beta and the final selling release. >>(Have you guys gotten animation working yet?) Yes, but it`s a little bit too early to announce. We have to make…
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