This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Judy Just make a shere and make it move up through a pool. When it gets to the top, pop is by replacing it with a "exploded" version of the shere for just a frame then hide it and start over. If you want more bubbles just make incedent copies…
John, Most of my rendering is out to file, then I use VP to output the entire animation to tape with transition effect etc. If I am setting the output display gamma to 1.8 then I don't want to be playing with the output file gamma? Am I correct? Thanks…
After just finishing our studios big CD-ROM project, I am finally gettting a chance to try and get R3 working with my video equipment which has set idle for a few months. In R2 I had spent time experimenting with my Targa Gamma to get it where I wanted. Now…
Forensic Animation
Message #71814
Fred, Can you give us more idea of what you are looking for?
Judy, I needed a good lava flow for a volcano I animated. I made a good map in animator pro, then just slid it along as a cell to animate it in anipro. The resulting map was applied to a morphing mass in 3ds. For more 3d realism you could…
Dermot, I have been experimenting with the Autodesk VB controls for a few weeks now. It seems to work well, except it has some constraints. 1. I am still unable to get full screen to work on all machines in all video modes. 2. The animation is always played on…
Larry, Figured it out. For some unkown reason my V-Lan Receiver had the wrong or messed up drivers. I downloaded the drivers for my 7750 and it worked. (Strange since I haven't downloaded any new driver to them since installed, and Oz seemed to work fine. Rotoscoping was the only…
Thanks for the responses. I will keep pluging away. Andrew
Nik, I am new to VB, and learning rapidly. The AAVGA.DLL is in the system directory and full screen works with the AAWIN player. But it doesn't work if I use the VBX control. As I said I am new to VB and Windows programing so right now I am…
After playing around till 3:00am, I finally decided to try downloading the drivers for my 7750 to the vlan again. It worked. For some reason, the drivers had been changed. (It worked OK when I used OZ for editing though.) I also found that instead of calling a batch file…
#Vlan and Rotoscoping
Message #66899
Help! I finnally got DIGITGA to work from the command line. (For some reason my controller had the wrong driver or it was corrupted. I have an Animmax 2.) Then I set DIGISET and made a batch file as follows. @CALL DIGITGA This was put in the first line of…
V-Lan and Rotoscrope
Message #66889
Help!? Anyone using Vlan for rotoscoping. I cant get Digitga to work. I set DIGISET. Then run DIGITGA and it prerolls my VTR then stops and hangs. I had it working months ago, but my system and its drivers has changed since then. Anyone have any clues? (I took down…
Nik, That is the VBX I am using. (Most current posted here on the forum) Everything seems to work great except it will not go into full screen mode. I have a ATI Mach 32 with 2MB and V2.11 drivers. I would like to be able to use this in…
#VBPLAY.VBX Problem?
Message #66385
Any Visual Basic Programmers? Has anyone worked with the Autodesk – Microsoft Visual Basic VBX? I get an "Internal Error" message if I try to play an animation fullscreen. Does anyone know of a fix for this or is it something that may be rooted in the display driver. I…
John, Take a lot of art classes. Most of the stuff you are going to learn in the computer classes is going to be obsolete by the time you get out but the art and design experience will life with you a lifetime. Unless you want to program, programs like…
The major part of the CD-ROM was done with 3D Studio. We reconstructed electronically 7 ancient structures. The user can take a self guided tour through these reconstructed buildings. We linked somewhere around 700 animations together to create a psudo VR enviroment. I plan to upload an image created for…
I started my company about a year ago just doing small freelance projects, and funding my equipment out of my pocket. We just completed our first CD-ROM entitled "Exploring Ancient Architecture" which began shipping Friday. For that project I had to buy one machine and rent 3 more. (Cash flow…
Paul, Not completely on the subject, but I find it amazing that there is enough work out there for animation to support 48 machines on line all of the time. My business is growing here in the midwest, but though there are times I would love that many machines, I…
OK. Gary can't seem to find a problem with tablets on his end. But I guess I am not the only one having problems. By reducing the polling on the network, as Gary suggested, I was able to make the tablet at least workable, but it still freezes when ever…
I'll give it a try. Have you found a good polling time that works well and still doesn't conflict with the other machines?
#Slave Hangup
Message #63574
As you can probably tell, this is the first week I have had to sit down and begin putting R3 through the paces in my studio. (And just when I had R2 configured perfectly. But the new featuresmake it worth the trouble. You guys have been busy.) I am using…
#Tablet Problems in R3
Message #63482
I have a Numonics Master Grid that I am using in SUMMA mode. In R3 the pointer always seem to get caught in the middle. This problem multiplies it seems when I have a system running as a slave out on my network. The problem isn't there if I hook…
Laptop
Message #63447
Thanks for the information. It has been a big help. Andrew
What type of software interface does the HP tape drive use? Is it easy to use? The one thing that I have found in working with the QIC-80 tapes, is that Norton Backup is extreemely easy to use. The software that came with the Colorado took my network down everytime…
Thanks for the help.
You sound like a dealer? In looking around so far, most of the sales people I have been talking to seem to ask me more questions than they give me answers. A question from somebody who has paid little attention to the laptop technology untill now, (never thought I could…
Who makes the ERGO and how much was it with the configuration you have? Where can I get one as well? With the R3, I was thinking that when I am not on the road, I could hook the notbook up on my network and just use it as another…
#Laptop
Message #62787
Is anyone running 3DS off a laptop? I know this is kind of crazy, but I just got through lugging a tower through the airport because we spent a few weeks finishing up a project at a clients. I would have killed to have been able to just carry a…
#Hi Cap Disk Storage
Message #62785
When you mean that the optical disk is slow, how much so? I understand that you probably wouldn't want to use it as a swap drive, but I would think that it would have to be better than tape. (My local dealer just tried to sell me on that very…
#Hi Cap Disk Storage
Message #62784
One of my biggest problems in my last project, using QIC-80 tapes, was when I needed a file that always seemed to end up at the end of the tape, taking forever to reload onto the sytem. How fast is the access time in reloading from Exabyte tapes?
#Hi Cap Disk Storage
Message #62576
Having just completed a major CD-ROM project which required more that 30 Qic-80 tapes of animations and 3ds maps and files, I never want to see one of those tapes again. I am beginning my search for a better solution. Has anyone found a good solution for handing large amounts…
You can use the edit program that comes with Video for Windows to import in .flc files and then save them back out to .avi. It is real easy. Just pick up a copy of Microsofts Video for Windows. To add audio, all you have to do is insert it…
I find that the to tape charge for most files is between .50-1.00 per frame depending on the output (S-VHS, Beta etc.). As for doing the rendering, it is usually charged by the hour for machine time. This ranges from $20 an hour for night rendering (no rush) to $65…
#57106-
ILM
Message #57293
On many occations we have grabbed a Hi8 tape to use in our EXABYTE. They have never failed yet. Yet for some dumb reason we still buy the expensive tapes when we are ordering stock. I guess it is just peace of mind because it costs so much in time…
David, By doing it that way you just create another demo tape, the idea of this project is to truly be a collaborative work. One single animation done by everyone. If there an IPAS that you want to use, let me know, maybe I have it and it wont be…
ASOFT FAMILY PORTRAIT!!!
Message #56282
ASOFT FAMILY PORTRAIT I have been getting a good response so far so here are the rules again. One thing that was suggested to me, which I think I am going to change is that instead of uploading the files to the forum, just put them on a disk and…
#IPAS Lens Flare Help!
Message #56208
I am using the IPAS Lens Flare routine and am having problems. TThe system seems to hang up when ever my camera turns 90 degree or so away from the object I am flaring. Has anyone else had this problem? It renderes the image then hangs in the IPAS routine.…
#ASOFT FAMILY PORTRAIT!!
Message #56206
OK, lets try it. I will need some help from the SYSOP, hopefully he can help collect these things. These are the rules. 1) Create a representation of yourself in 3D. It doesnt have to be a portait, in fact prefered not, but some form that represents you. 2) You…
John, I often go into models and select only ceritain faces to apply a certain material to. It is very easy to do in 3DS. The only problem comes when you want to use different mapping. You then have to detach the faces selected from the object, apply mapping then…
#ASOFT FAMILY PORTRAIT?
Message #55852
We were playing around the other day with creating new characters for a project we are working on and an idea came up. We have all been leaving messages on this board for a while now, but there are a lot of us who have never seen each other. The…
Don, What exactly does SCUBA TECH do? I am an avid SCUBA diver who has been missplaced in the Midwest for the time being, but hope to return to Florida soon. You might check out one of my renderings here on the ASOFT library, called "Atlantis". Andrew McClary Graphic Alchemy
You may be right to some extent. But I have yet to run into a project that has needed more than 256 materials. It has never possed a problem. Most of the time if I need to change the color of a specific model, which shares say "red", with another…
I havent tried this, but it seems like it would work. Try generating a star field in Animator Pro and then use the effect "trails" in animator pro to streak out the lines. This could then be used as a background in 3ds. Let me know if it you try…
When working with PC based animation programs, and even wokstation, programs. If the animator is using more than 256 materials, he or she is wasting alot and being sloppy. This is especially true, if there are maps involved. Each new map means memory, and more time to render. And since…
Ang, Put me on the list. Andrew McClary Graphic Alchey Productions 7364 North Ritter Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46250
What I usually do is creat two view ports that are the same. Yet, the one has my background showing, and the other I use for zooming and panning. It seems to work well, maybe not as easy as what you were looking for, but after working with other 3D…
I was able to create a good effect by using the tornado IPAS that came with 3DS. You just make it small and lay it on its side. You set the tornado for high chaos and play with the speeds. You can also lay another tornado on top of that…
3DS for science
Message #53891
I did an animation of a cell dividing. Both Mitosis and Miosis, it worked well but was a bear to animate. For demostrating scientific principals, 3ds works great. I have yet to actually pump a slew of raw data into it yet.
1-Pent. or 2-86DX66s?
Message #52813
Question to you elite out there with Pentium machines. Which would be faster to complete rendering a large project, 2-486DX2-66's, or 1-Pentium PC. I am going to be renting some machines to finish a project and am faced with this question. For the configuration I need the cost will be…
Paul One thing to be aware of, lawyers I have found take forever to pay. Make sure you get an up front retainer, (they like that word), that will at least cover your expenses and your modeling time. Make sure that you get payed upon competion and not upon completion…
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