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James, It doesn't exactly give you an extra selection set D, but you can use the 64 display colors as sets and select by color. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG6CA937
Neil, A couple of places to start for Plug-ins (IPAS) is Digimation 800-854-4496 and Schreiber 303-759-1024. However, if you bought the educational Version 2 make sure you let them know. Many Plug-ins require v3 or v4. Good luck TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGC450EB
>> that time when I used to sleep
Christopher, From the C:> prompt type: 3ds vibcfg and it will load. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG3D2625
Darin The results would be strange if the extrusion was much at all. Any parts of the map that touched the outside edge of the box would show thickness, but anything in the center would only appear as flat. If you apply the map to just flat faces with no…
#3DS World Wide Web Page!
Message #178206
– Reply to message #178144 (already scrolled) So this is what you do in your spare time. See you around Siggraph?? TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG3F0667
Anne, Well put. Very good tips to pass along to 8-bitters, thanks. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG3F0667
Herb, I'm afraid you are out of luck! 3DS needs the hardware lock plugged into the parallel port to run. Period!! How much did you pay for it and where are you located, if I might ask? Any chance of getting the money back? TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGB8A256
>> most excitement Connecticut has seen
>> But no good Mexican food in sight. Anne, I'll bet you can't find Finnan Haddie in San Diego, either TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGJHG5BA8C6
Darin Bring the image into the 2D Shaper as a background image and trace over it, then loft it to 3D. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG56D256
Denis Here are a few things to look for. Try Surface/Smoothing/AutoSmooth Make sure the material was created with Phong set on. Make sure you render with Gouraud or higher. I would create a object like that by bringing the 2 shapes directly into the 3D Editor with Create/Object/Get Shape, by…
Dave There are no built-in 3DS hardcopy driver except for the HP300xl. Most everyone uses various windows programs (Photoshop, Composer, Painter, etc.) which have the necessary drivers. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGA43689
>> Is there a special board to accelerate the work and/or render in 3DS r4??
Tom I try to finish my animation in segments then render each segment over night. I try to storyboard things in 5-15 second cuts to make things more managable. Not always possible, but if you watch TV or movies there are seldom scenes longer that 15 seconds. Just more to…
Hey Michael, Why not Haiti or Cuba Later TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0006MGHHGp09A0
Eberhard, The best place to check would be with Viewpoint at 801-229-3000. I believe they are 8 hours behind Middle European Time zone. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG76B434
Dave f.B. Yes, you can certainly do very nice interiors with 3DS. However, interiors with good shadows and reflections and materials tend to use up computer resources. 8meg ram will not be enough for speedy renderings and 16meg may be minimal. 32meg seems to be a starting point for high…
Anselmo Ask all the questions you want here in Compuserve! That's what it's here for. Just don't forget the tutorials when you have the time. Your photo training should help in setting lights and in scene composition, but things may be confusing at first because 3DS lights don't work like…
Cameron, My S64 is running BIOS version 2.02 dated 04/14/95. Would you check your systems so we can clarify if there is differences with the BIOS. There is quite a bit of confusion on the subject and a few people are waiting for new drivers. Thanks TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGD089F8
Good point, Brian, thanks. -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0006MGHHG_DC2D
Anselmo In the 3D Editor go to Surface/Mapping/Type/Spherical. As a side note, make sure you do all the tutorials that come with 3DS. There is a wealth of information there. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG95A758
Cameron When I do that all I get is either a full green or purple screen during the test. This ain't rocket science, as they say???? Thanks TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG7945DB
Danny Fractal Painter 3.1 will let you accomplish painterly effects on rendered images. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG50B290
David The student version of 3DS is release 2 and boolean operations can be very fussy. Try to tesselate the objects so that each object has about the same number of faces and avoid trying it on object with long thin faces. Good luck TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGC3200C
Robert, Just wanted to jump in a say hi, presuming you're Robert Undi from the Philly area Welcome to CIS. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG5FACC1
Bob I've sent and recieved a couple of faxes with Winfax Pro in NT with no apparent problems. What I can't seem to do is print directly from Word6.0 (for example) to the fax. No big deal for me. What was the competition you won and can you post a…
Eric It seems that Diamond has made a change to the bios of the newer Stealth cards. Undoubtably, Vibrant is working on the problem and will get it fixed eventually. Waiting together…… TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGA2564F
Cameron, I can't RELAX, please explain how you got the vibrant drivers to work with the NEW stealth 64 vram cards in true color. I've tried vib1.05 and vib1.06 with no luck. Thanks for your help TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGA43689
Daniel, Try this: Render to JPG from 3DS. Use dos copy command to copy the JPG's directly to the PAR. Seems to me I did this in the past with good result. The potential problem is the double compression, once by 3DS and again by the PAR. You will tend…
David Thanks for the info, it is a UK number. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0006MGHHGp09A0
James I have used Autocad with Softdesk Civil to create accepted landscape from survey data. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG5382F3
Thorsten IMO,the best method for the money is the DPS PAR board to put the animation on video tape. The European office is at (0730) 233084 or fax at (0730) 266691. Good luck TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG93C79E
>> certainly does support 24-bit color
Chris Within 3DS, you could load the GIF as a background image (Render/Setup/Background/Bitmap in 3DEditor, then View/See Background in 2DShaper) and trace over it. Some forum members have used a feature in Corel called Trace then save it as a DXF file to load into the shaper. I have no…
Paul Sorry about the repeat of the same message, didn't realize it was to you before. Getting in touch with your dealer sounds like it's the best bet. It's usually an indicator that something has "touched" the 3DS.EXE files and loading from a fresh set of disks may be in…
Paul, here's a quote from sysopland "It sounds like your 3DS.EXE got corrupted somehow. First, check your system for virus' that might've "touched" the program, and then delete your 3DS.EXE and reinstall it from the original master disks, making sure that nothing modifies the program in any way. If the…
Martin, I've been running a user group in Boston for several years and am involved with the NAAUG MM SIG >> 1. What activities
You'll want to check out RenderPrint from Insight 800-825-4115. It lets you do tiled test prints using adustments for gamma/brightness, gamma/contrast, brightness/contrast for as many as 25 tiles on a sheet. Plus other features. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHGCD2E7C
The latest version of Vibrant does not support the Stealth 64 in true color. Someone posted a message a while ago that they got true color by using VESA, but it was slower. I haven't tried that yet, I'll run that machine in 256 mode until Diamond gets it fixed.…
>> I have been using 3ds since R2. I've started using R4
>> The Keyscripter…
>> the furniture industry as a hole
>> We are betting that rendering/animation will help us
>> Thank you for sending me the file.
Chuck, The most important item in the new computer is the amount of RAM. 32 meg is a good starting point for most 3DS jobs and more is required for complex jobs with lots of lights/reflections/tranparent materials/etc. It goes without saying that a 1 gig HD is a minimum. Save…
Patrick I can tell you where you have to look, but don't know the exact steps so you'll have to check the manual. There is a dos only network setup with WFWG with a command "net start". Once you have the dos portion configured 3DS will be able to use…
Craig, Raster Print is new to me, but you may be refering to RenderPrint from Insight 800-825-4115. It does what you want. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHG6A8975
Bradley No current versions of 3DS do not use dual processors. It has been announced that the next release will be written for WinNT, which does support dual processors. There is NO news that says the WinNT version of 3DS will support multiple processors, but at least a few on…
#Animating an Escalator
Message #174885
Al As James replied, there isn't any render time savings in instances. How much ram do you have? Maybe paging to disk is what is causing long render times? I will send you the .prj file in any case. It is a very simple example of how to get object…
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