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Unfortunately, even with the newer faster cards, some IPAS render previewers just don't run very well in 15 – 24 bit modes, and some coming out soon will not run at all unless you're set for 8 bit, period. This is not a problem with Eyebrowse because I can just…
>>tried to scroll down I got the eyebrowse info screen… I'm sure you meant this message for Aaron, but I'm pretty sure that that the scroll thing is an intended limitation in the free demo… They need to give people -some- incentive to purchase the full version. David
>>But when you delete the image file from DOS, how do you get rid of its twin? I guess by hand. I played around with it a bit the other night and created a bunch of thumbnails, then last night I cleaned out my image directory. Now that I know…
Thanks, I see them now. Please see my message to Gary (most of it is for you). David
Viewpoint has a T. rex skeleton, but I don't know if it is a complete one or not. (all I've seen is the upper half) I'm sure it's not cheap either… David
Out of curiosity, where does Eyebrowse keep its thumbnail files? I'm trying to determine the effect of the speed slider on the file size, but I can't find the files. Thanks, David
>>(IPAS) soon to make their bids for a 15-, 16- or 24-bit main display. There are also several IPAS routines out now that prefer 8-bit displays, such as the realtime preview stuff in the Yost routines… these run at a snail's pace in anything higher than 8-bit. There is also…
Make sure the Matte attribute is not on for the transparent object. Just an idea… David
Thanks for the info. If you manage to eliminate the necessity for multiple morph objects, that in itself will be a wonderful thing. Being able to keyframe the control skeleton is another, even if only in the IPAS itself. David
I just recieved a mailer from you with a bit of info and a screen shot of "Bones". I've been eagerly awaiting a true skeletal animation capability in 3DS that will allow a keyframed skeleton to deform any pre-existing mesh, but was a little dissapointed with what I saw in…
The method Eric gave you should be just what you need. In the upcomming "3D Studio – Special Effects" book (due out this month) I wrote a chapter that goes into detail on doing this type of composite. Just render your animation or image normally, then render another version of…
I don't remember exactly what I was talking about, but I'm glad it helped. David
I'm not exactly sure what problem you're having, but if you're laying frames to the par and then trying to pull them off as tga's for a background in 3ds, then you HAVE to use an IFL listing the tga's that you want to pull from a par anim. 3DS…
Is Lantastic the best one to use? David
Can the network be diconnected (so to speak, or made invisible configuration wise) by a separate boot setup? I think I'll order the machine this week, so I'll be popping in soon with questions about what the best net stuff is, and so forth. So be prepared.
Two more words… too expensive! I'll check into prices, but it will probably cost more than I can afford, and the LAST thing I need is to put anything else on credit.
Well, $1500 is outa my range for now. I'm trying to save up for a move in a few months and I'm about to sink $$ into a new P90 system (which alone is stressing my wallet more than I'd like). I still might check into it, just for fun…
>>QEMM with ALL high memory excluded (exclude A000-DFFF) I hate to think how much base memory that leaves you. I'm about to order a P90 and was thinking about doing a peer to peer network with my one other machine. With Qemm loading most stuff high on my machine now,…
Oh, you messed up the game… I was about to start in with "20 questions"
Your explanation is exactly correct. The only reason you need to split the alpha in this case is because BLUR ignores the alpha in 32 bit images. If you use BLUR to process a 32 bit image and composite it later, the RGB portion of the image will be blurred,…
>> 'the three little pigs', when they danced around the kettle after the wolf fell in, were actually promoting witchcraft… I guess that means that "Hansel & Gretel" didn't stand a chance. I don't remember that, but I'm glad I didn't hear about it… makes me sad. 🙁
I'd never really considered a dish before because I've always thought they were pretty expensive. You mentioned $275 a year. Are those just subscription fees on top of the initial purchase? Do you know if you can lease/rent units for a resonable price, like in the range of $60 -…
>>the only way to come close to this effect would be to use the BLUR IPAS (Or mabye the XAOS one). Well, not the ONLY one, but certainly the easiest. A rack-focus effect using the Blur IPAS (I don't know anything about Xaos's routine) in its simplest form involves rendering…
Music television, huh? haven't heard of that one. Is it something new?
A microchip actually punched INTO his arm? Compared to some of the bodypiercing people do nowadays, even that wouldn't be considered TOO strange.
Depends on the price, but i'm considering it. I'm also planning on moving, hopefully by the start of the year, the tiny place we're in now gets smaller by the day.
>>Mistery Science Theater 3000. You can watch it in Comedy Central… I don't get Comedy Central… or the Comedy Channel… or E… or the Sci Fi channel… or…. AND I still pay for cable! Boy I hate my cable company, but seeing that they are the only one around, it's…
Dont tell me… a tatoo of a microchip? David
You've got that right! If most people had even a little more common sense, this world would be a much better (and safer) place to live. David
He was talking about the new Dual CPU systems. There's a BIG difference between that and two single systems. A dual processor system has 2 cpu's in one computer and is only useful if the OS supports this kind of setup. Win NT does, as do some others, but Dos…
>>Ask Chris what's on his arm sometime. ??? David
>>some self appointed "protector" wanting to remove that immoral writer from school libraries… That reminds me of the stories I heard not to long ago about some groups wanting to remove "Little red riding hood" from school libraries because the granny in the story drank too much wine… and they…
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#Dataset Piracy
Message #123221
It's a tricky issue when it comes to kids. There are some things that children have no business having access to, but how can you stop them? You can't. But it shouldn't be easy for them to get it, at least not without their parent's knowledge. And there is really…
I have to admit that the PAR installation was probably the smoothest I've ever had, however I haven't tried the new software yet… I ran out of room myself when I got the PAR and yet another drive, and after a couple of weeks of looking, I finally found a…
I think I'll wait for an official description/price/rendering comparison before I put any more thought into it, because unless there's some big surprise to come, it doesn't make much sense (unless they cut the price in half). We'll see. You mentioned the Whale.jpg image (didn't you)? I trust you have…
I think the whole mess is based on the price of the "entry level" 486 setup. Maybe the price, especially if it's not set yet, probably shouldn't have been mentioned yet. The simple fact is (IMHO, of course) that unless the price of the Render garden, etc, is comparable to…
>>Could you elaborate more to me publicly or privately on this ? Publicly, please. 🙂 (I'm very interested in Mirage too.) David
>>Didn't they say that a single standalone machine took 30+ hours and their composite machine took around 30 minutes? Nope. I used the 30 hour figure for a hypothetical comparison between a 486/66, the 5 processor Render Garden, and 5 networked Pentium 90's. The figure they quoted in there original…
Just another thought… I could get 5 P90's, 32 megs each, network hardware and software, AND hire someone to come in and set it all up for me, and probably still come in under $20k. If the render garden people (sorry, I forget the company name) were to pack 5…
Gary's out for a few days, but if your using an IFL with over 1000 frames and getting a memory error, then it is a bug in r3. This will be fixed in r4, but in the meantime just break your scene down and only use IFL's with less than…
I still don't get it (sorry). I hope my math is right here, but if one 486/66 renders a scene in 30 hours, then the render garden will render it in 6, correct? If I got 5 P90's for the same price as the Render garden, and since P90's are…
Press Relase WFW LAN
Message #122727
>>30 hours to render during which time anyone needing access to any of the PCs dedicated to the rendering job were locked out. With Render Garden we were able to accomplish the rendering while allowing others access to their PCs. If you bought 5 P90's instead of the render garden,…
Yes, it was great of Brick to log on here and help clear things up. I think I'll wait a little bit before trying out the new software as I really don't feel like running into surprises, like rendering a whole project directly to the PAR drive and then losing…
Will do. David
Thanks for the clarification. I haven't downloaded it yet because of the apparent problems people have been having with it, so I'll wait for the next one. Also, you mentioned that this was a beta release. Please state that in the file description in the library here, because there is…
Thanks for the info on Razor, it does sound interesting. If the need arises, I'll check into it further. >> I find renders a bit too slow (windoze, I suspect), and I've managed to crash the system quite a bit. Do you have Blackbelt's Winimages/FX? I got the new version…
I guess I shoud have downloaded it first and then checked. The file description in the lib just says "version 1.25 dos software", which made me wonder. (I thought the new software was supposed to be 2.0) Thanks, David
Will Razor output sequencial targas? I've got som lit about it here somewhere, but I can't seem to find it right now. David
>>Annoyingly, Photoshop 3.0 still lacks batch file/macro capability… Yup, that's pretty annoying all right. I spoke to Adobe a while back on this, and they said that the next version of Premiere will input, process through Pshop, and write out sequencial targas (the present version will only spit out AVI's).…
#New PAR software?
Message #121859
Hello all you PAR people out there… I saw the note from Dave White about the new PAR software being uploaded here and went to look at it, but noticed that it was a new Dos version, 1.25. I was thinking it was going to be the 2.0 software that…
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