This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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"FYI, we never received any either. We have 10 end-user registered copies, you'd think that 1 or 2 might have made it!" I'd think so too. Perhaps they have the Pyros copies on hold…?
" I leave tomorrow and to this date haven't received a single invitation." I'm sorry – hopefully things will all get resolved at the door. We have received too many reports that tickets didn't arrive that something must have gone wrong. Kathy's got this message thread and will see what…
Hi Dave, Kathy Clinton was forwarded your message about the lack of SIGGRAPH invite. There are so many people on this thread that we may have not sent the invitations we thought we sent. We're checking into this.
I passed this thread over to Kathy Clinton's email.
"I've NEVER gotten an invite! I know I'm registered 'cause I always get multiple upgrade notices and sales brochures. Oh, well…" Well Ian, both you and I need to talk to Kathy Clinton "Autodesk Multimedia Party Queen". I've been at Autodesk Product Support for 8 years and haven't been to…
"I've got a couple 4MB Milleniums also. I'd like to support added. " Got it (thanks)
"We have yet to recieve our invites for the Autodesk party at siggraph. Who should I contact?" Here's from a previous message: (also, check out the SIGPARTY.TXT file): I'm checking into this thru our Direct Mail department. To the best of my knowledge, the invitations dropped a couple of weeks…
"Just got a Sigma RAVE MPEG video card. Works great but I need a driver for 3ds3" I've passed it on as a Wishlist to our Product Management. You should also let Sigma know – they might influence things too. Nik
"I have to tell you I'm not very happy with your company." I checked with customer service, and they are unhappy with your experience but have been able to track all the things that have happened to you. There is a thing called a "Priority Mailing List" that they moved…
"This is the first and only one app on my system which makes problems under w95." I have asked the programmers the same question. Apparently, AAStudio uses resources (like Video for Windows) that runs into problems on Win95. If this were a simpler program, we wouldn't use as many resources…
" But after installing on my Pentium90 with Win95 Preview, all Programs but the Animator Studio itself are runnung well." Animator Studio does not yet support Win95. There are plans to update the registered customers for free to a Win95 compatible AAStudio version that will be released on the heals…
Steve, here's a message I think you'll like from Customer Service: "Nik, Order #71-104869 shipped on 7/31/95. thank you." Should be there today (or tomorrow).
"The UK seems to get a very bad deal from Autodesk. I've been complaining about the price of the Animation Suport Libraries in your Software Dev. Kits section. $25 in the USA, $330 in the UK!." I"ve been following the thread on this – and it looks as though it's…
"Can I download the patch/es?" Hi Garry, Yes (the R13 stuff from GO ACAD) and No (the 3DS stuff is considered an "RMA" which requires the diskette with the serial number be returned to your dealer for new diskettes. Autodesk will send the dealer or customer the update.
"Does this imply that Adesk is phazing out the Sentinal?" No, the Sentinel Pro is here to stay!
"What is the situation in the UK? I just received my brand new copy of AAS yesterday and it needs this update by the looks of it. Who do I contact?" Hi Paul, The UK does not have c1 at this point. They will honor the agreement that any registered…
Mark, You might see if your folks can upload their files to this forum for you – if they email you, it'll cost them money to upload, but if they contribute to this forum, it costs only for their phone call. Check with Anne if she thinks this would be…
Peter's Water FLC
Message #182664
Mark, folks can send you files, just like they send you mail, over compuserve. ask them to zip the suckers down though to save on uploading and downloading time. -nikdave
"I have a SummaSketch III digitizer loaded in 3DS R3… I was wondering if there is a tablet menu for 3DS" I doubt there is one – we've never heard of one in Product Support. However, not many folks are aware that Summagraphics put out a digitizer template for Animator,…
"rule: so long your file is not bigger than your ram…it's look like same." Thanks!
" 3D-Studio does not see the slave computer. Can I network render with Lite or do I need a more advanced version ?" You should be able to do this, if one computer can see drives on the other. 3D Studio should see whatever DOS can see, so that if…
"Can you start 3DS with different configuration parameters for 3DSNET.SET, 3DS.KEY and 3DS.SET at the same time?" This is handled a little differently from the SETting you described for DS.set. Use a batch file to start 3DS which does the copying. Some lines could include: 3DSnet1.bat C: cd\3ds4 copy 3dsnet1.set…
"I have a version of liquid speed for 3ds r3, but now I have 3ds r4, where can I get an upgrade from ?" You should look at some of the loose sheets in the 3DS4 box – something colorful should catch your eye! Liquid Speed upgrade form! Call them…
Here's some more info I just received from Vibrant. I received a file at the same time (which takes a day or 2 to get posted here) called vg000004.vdc. It should be on the Vibrant BBS though (512/918-3411). "This will fix the blank screen problem on both the Stealth 64…
"under dos the p90/32mb have to handle 3ds4, only. under os2 something more – but it still much faster. why???" Wow! I don't know (only have DOS on my machine). I'll pass your message to QA, and ask them to see if they've heard of this. Thanks for letting us…
"Once the drivers load for the network there isn't enough memory left to start Studio." You should be able to start 3DS with less than 300k of base memory. Seems to me that if you're down that low, the Lantastic drivers are not optimized. It's hard to believe that Lantastic…
"Tried it and it pretty much trashed my 1024 display. I still haven't had time to go in and really tweak it, but stlbios.exe certainly wasn't the quick fix I had hoped." Sorry you ran into this. I think I had posted this before, but here's from Vibrant (about 2…
"Anyway, dxf3ds always works for me…" Thanks Brad – I'll keep this in mind.
" When the saving process gets until 99% then the system freezes. any help?>" The first thing this suggests to me is disk space. I'm not sure why 99%, but it looks as though some final operation is about to take place and can't. If it's disk space, make sure…
"When was the 3DS r4c2 upgrade announced on the forum? " Adding to Jonas's reply, there is a change in the installation guide that tells you about the Authcode. If you install 3DS normally, you don't get a message requesting an authcode. It's not until 3DS actually starts that you…
"THE NEW DXF FORMAT IS ALSO NOT COMPATIBLE" The best combination of R13 and R4 is R13 c3 and R4c1 or R4c2 (no difference between the 2). R4c0 doesn't read R13 files, and the DXFPCH file here is a minor version of the R4c1, but has the added feature that…
#STEALTH 64 VRAM
Message #182311
"Please add my name to the list of people having trouble with Diamond's new Stealth 64 Video VRAM card and the 3DS Vibrant drivers. Has anyone heard an updated on when we might see new drivers?" Have you seen the thread on this? – the STBIOS.EXE file might take care…
"When I try to save out a flc in AAS using the to bitmaps palette check box I get strange interlacing lines sometimes when I check the dither option – undithered is OK. I have already sent you a bug report (via compuserve) which you haven't replied to I even…
"I did note in several places the text is duplicated …. hard to tell if this was by design or oversight i.e. page 93 Time Actions page 95 Rendering and Multiple Actions…" I'll bring this up at the next meeting. My copy of the B&W has this as well. It's…
Hey Dave! There's a bug in your announcement. Check out this NEW and more accurate info: "To receive your 1c1 update, please fax your product registration card to Autodesk, Inc. (fax 415-507-6123)" Your message had an older FAX #. The FAX orders to the number you posted will get forwarded,…
"The flic plays ok by itself" Hmmm. It would be good if you could get it to fail with one of our sample files – that is, in terms of us reproducing it . Disk resources: you mentioned 50 megs of RAM – is this an unusual amount? I usually…
READ THIS!! AAS update
Message #181420
"Well they better come swift and fast" YESSSS! I'll quote from the letter I was just given to post: July, 1995 Dear Autodesk Animator Studio Customer: Starting in mid July, Autodesk has a maintenance update to Autodesk Animator Studio* known as "1c1". The primary difference in Release 1c1 is the…
**Free AAStudio update**
Message #181419
Here is the information on the update planned for Animator Studio customers. I will also post this as AASC!.TXT in the AAStudio section for future referral. Thanks for hanging in there! The c1 copies are just starting to ship; I do not have my copy yet but am looking forward…
" When I try to start program I get a message: MetaShell is already resident." MetaShell is a TSR launched by Chaos. Chaos thinks that something is present that looks metashel. It generates the first message. Then it tries to start up and lo! Metashel isn't loaded! Certain DOS substitutes…
"I need drivers for a G-95 card running on an Intergraph TD-30" There seems to be support for the G-91, but not 95. (Did these not work?) The Millenium is also not listed; I'll make sure it gets on the wishlist. Do you have any workarounds? VESA perhaps? " VIBLIST…
Here's the description of the file referred to about 3DS and NT File Info for 3DS4-NT.ZIP Section: HWare/OpSys/Video Contributor: 70303,1363 Size: 82424 Submitted: 6/24/95 Type: Binary Accesses: 166 Title: Running 3DS R4 Under Win NT 3.51 Keys: 3DS WIN NT DRIVERS This ZIP file contains instructions and Sentinel Pro lock…
"stack fault errors with Phar Lap: … Bare Bones configuration" It's odd that a bare bones config does the same. Does "bare bones" mean the same to you as it does to me? (Brian and I differ slightly on this one.) It helps if you have DOS 6. If so,…
"Is there anyway that I can get 3DS to to 25 FPS" If I understand you correctly, you would like to have 25 individual JPG frames on your hard disk equal a second of video. I think that all you have to do is render the frames. It's when it…
"Does anyone know what the deal is with th "Flipper Errors" in Animator Pro?" I believe you meant to say that the errors were in AAStudio, not AAPro, right? AAStudio was code named FLIPPER during its production, before it had a real name. Hence the errors are Flipper errors. But…
Where is FLICIN.TXT? Here's the description for you: File Info for FLICIN.TXT Section: Index and Info Contributor: 71722,170 Size: 4542 Submitted: 3/30/94 Type: Text Accesses: 472 Title: Importing Animations into Windows Aplications Keys: AAWIN AA AAPRO WINDOWS IMPORT EMBED Paper describes how to import or embed an Autodesk animation into…
"as soon as the first flic starts my machine freezes up" Is this flic able to be played when it's the only one? if not, it could be that the video card driver is involved here too. Could you let us/Dave know your video card and driver date too, if…
" To get the fix, go on the Vibrant BBS 512-918-3411 and download the file stlbios.exe. The fix needs only to be run once. It worked for me!" Thanks! The guy I'm talking to at Vibrant was going to give me some info, but it looks like I'm hearing it…
Thanks for this info about the 2 orders that you know about that we charged for the AAStudio b&w manual and didn't refund the price. I called customer service and they said that they can't look up all the packages we sent that we charged the customer for. We would…
"(Are we supposed to put our seriel numbers with our messages?, I can't find anything in the manual about it)" Nope! This is used when Autodesk needs to verify customer info – we don't need it to help you here. But thanks for asking, and thanks for the driver info.
"Ken has been real helpful – if you're going to Siggraph, you should run into him there. He says he always makes the trip. He's extremely forward though – he's asked me to send him a photo! If I sent him a photo of Kim Bassinger, he wouldn't know the…
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