This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ana, In all seriousness, I don't know what the final fallout will be. Intel has quite a commanding dominance in the marketplace and there are soooooo many complacement people out there, that it will probably take something alot more heinous than this little bug to cause real harm. The true…
See ….. this is a perfect example of what I'm always telling people. The sheer fact that as head of a development team, you actually sat down in front of a monochrome Mac II and hand tweaked fonts so that your end users would have the best possible data to…
#More Pentium Jokes
Message #139423
O.K. Ana …. just for you……. Movie rights to Pentium Saga sold !!!!! Working Title: "Partial Recall" Intel Pentium Labs: Where Quality is job .99999925643 Intel: The New Standard of Accuracy Intel announces P6, chip will be called the Approximatium Intel ships P6 early, substantial upgrade price attached to "RePentium"…
There are so many jokes floating around the net regarding the Pentium ….. I had a feeling that you'd enjoy those ….. That particular set was compiled by an animator at Boss Films. I just cleaned it up a little and cross posted it. My mailbox is full of them.…
#3DS Fonts
Message #139400
>> Can you give us some suggestions on the most efficient fonts on the WCTK >> and in 3DS to keep the vertex/face count down. Actually "ALL" of the fonts are as close to totally refined as you can get for efficiency purposes. The .fnt fonts were hand tweaked by…
Glad to bring a a smile. 🙂 I'm sure there will be lots more Intel based jokes in the near future. As I see them, I'll funnel them this way. Stay tuned …. same bat channel…same bat time.
#Pentium Jokes
Message #139179
Q&A: THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people. Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant? A: A mad scientist. Q: What's another…
Glad you got it working. You definately had me baffled, (not that hard to do ) 🙂 Paul
YUCK!!!!!! I've had various mouse problems with 3DS over the years but never anything like that. The next obvious approach would be looking for a memory management problem, but beyond just starting to try various combos, I unfortunately have no suggestions. Sorry ……. Paul
Wow, thanks alot. That sounds like what I need! Add a really fast modem and I'd be phenomenally happy. 🙂 You know ….. I'm soooooo brain dead these days that I hadn't even considered using the laptop as a rendering slave when I'm at home. Yet another justification. Let me…
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Mouse Trouble?
Message #138575
Try mouse.com in the autoexec.bat and that should fix it. I've seen a number of systems that didn't allow 3DS to see the mouse when the mode was loaded into the config.sys. Paul
Try mouse.com in the autoexec.bat and that should fix it. I've seen a number of systems that didn't allow 3DS to see the mouse when the mode was loaded into the config.sys. Paul
O.K. It's a bet. 🙂 Paul
Sounds extremely cool! Unfortunately it sounds like I'd end up playing more games than actually showing clients WIP. I will definately check them out though. Do they have good graphics? Paul
Actually there isn't a full name policy that I'm aware of since a quick scan reveals at least 30 forum regulars without last names. Jonas would've surely mentioned it since he noticed my new name months ago. 🙂 Secondly please, please, please, please, please Don't screw up my karma by…
The DXF link should definately help once you get it working correctly. Why don't you get those boys in management to put 3DS on some of those PC's at work? Paul
I am actually looking for one as an easy way to show a couple of clients stills while we're working on various projects. Instead of constantly making hardcopies. I thought a nice 24 bit laptop would be a wonderful way to show them off. Paul
Thanks, I actually knew that. 🙂 We've had a closeup look at them and so far so good. I've seen the 3DS, Iges, Dxf, Alias, Obj, and Renderman ones. The fact that they'll be given away sounds like a great thing for the SGI crowd. I purposefully left my last…
Yep, that was the one. The sequence that you saw had a fairly intense DVE across it? The DVE was quickly done at the very last minute and if you noticed, the DVE was making the creature get smaller as Ben Garzarra was talking about the creature evolving into a…
Sure I'll give you some reference points. Let me go back into Alias and make a list then I'll email them to you. I didn't realize that your computers weren't networked together. 🙁 How are you transferring your geometry? Disks, tapes ? It's pretty easy for me to experiment because…
Thanks …. the stiff walking sequence was probably the Carnosaur. It was around a 12 hour turnaround including rendering and I worked from a single artist's pencil sketch of the creature. In 12 hours there's no time for anything but the absolute basics. 🙂 There was a point in time…
Tim, That was I. 😐 I actually did all of the sequences for 9 shows in less than a month. :-/ Averaging a creature, 4+ texture maps, 5 morphs and a series of stills for each of the shows every 2-3 days. That's concept to final delivery every 48- 72…
Thanks alot! I'll see if I can't get some info tomorrow once everyone's back from the Thanksgiving Holidays. Thanks Again, Paul
#Laptop/24 bit Graphics
Message #138093
I was wondering if there was such a beast as a notebook/laptop computer with a 24 bit graphics display? If so, could anyone give me the manufacturers name of a specific model?
Aha ….. it could definately be operator error, The tools in Alias are extremely powerful but they also have a fairly intense learning curve. Have you done tests on various export levels to try to alleviate the problems? Creating polygons from NURBS is a task unto itself, first of all…
Although it may be possible to generate pfms, it definately isn't a good idea, there's actually enough info left out of the pfbs so that your pfms would turn out screwy. Although alot of people think fonts are generally harmless, if you start generating pfms without knowing what the math…
What type of problem do you have transferring geometry to Alias via DXF? After moving well over 200 different files over during the past year without a hitch, I'd like to find out what kind of problems exist. I just moved a huge file (400,000+ verts) over a few minutes…
Thanks Gary, Have a great Thanksgiving! Paul
#Happy Thanksgiving
Message #137800
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DXF is ….. we do it all the time without any problems. If you're going to go any other way then you need to find a good intermediate format. Acuris has been developing a set of translators for the SGI machine to exchange models between formats. It appears that they…
That hasn't been produced in a "looooong" time has it? Seems to me that when Wordperfect bought ZSoft that they pretty much wiped out all of that font stuff. The major problem with the old ZSoft stuff was that it was never updated to work with the newer versions of…
It's a date. Already marked it on the calendar. I'll make the calls in the a.m. Paul
Well Mr. Pyros, > If you show …. they will buy. 🙂 Seriously, I hope you come …. Martin and Alan appear to be going, maybe you and I could act like "gameheads" and see how far we get. I'm interested in this gaming thingamajig.
30 lbs ?????????? Wow …. that's my ultimate goal. If I can lose a total of thirty pounds I'd float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. I can definately appreciate the new housing …. Adrienne and I are moving the puppy and kids prior to March 95. I'm…
Actually 3DS is one of my problem areas. Unfortunately like most drug addictions, I can't seem to control my intake. Paul
Martin, Sounds like you're doing great stuff, Are you going to the Winter CES? My health's much better. Thanks for asking. Just dropped alot of weight and I'm still trimming down. I feel like I've just come out of drug rehab or something. Everything looks so much better. Dropping the…
That's sorta what I thought but two different people had told me Chicago, so I was unsure. Are you planning on attending? I'm looking for a good conference with good atmosphere, food, and people.
Hi Martin, How goes the "Virgin" lifestyle? I'm in the process of resetting priorities and generally rearranging my day to day activities. After too many years of the rat race, I finally reached the end of my rope and decided to try something totally new. I've been lying low for…
That Jim Henson reference was made quite a bit, It happens to be one of the primary motivating reasons for the change in lifestyle. While I would've loved to have met him in life, I'm not quite ready to meet him on the otherside yet. 🙂 Thanks for checking.
Bob, Another problem in printing the fonts is in the fact that they have "no" hinting info, so instead of clean text like you're used to in word processing programs, you'll end up with jaggedy text that may not be pleasant for your clients to view. At the same time…
Thanks John, I'll no doubt be migrating back to the forum as a participant over the next month or so. I just need to make it through this 12 step revitalization program. 🙂 Keep those threads running. I've really enjoyed lurking. Paul
I thought you had said you were involved on the project. Glop! Squish! Splat! For Gameboy, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo from Fox Interactive. Page 9 GamePro magazine. Congratulations! Paul
Thanks Tim, I'm pleased to still be around. 🙂 Paul
Hello Again Gary, Funny seeing you here. 🙂 Paul
#Need Font Previewer
Message #135435
Bob, As Gary already said the Postscript fonts on the R3 CDRom are fully compliant with the Type 1 spec. There are a number of reasons that most programs like FontMinder won't read them and print them. Reason #1 – Only the PFB's are included on the CDRom. 3D Studio…
Jonas, You are definately on top of things. I had no idea that anyone kept track of those things. I changed the login name because I'm concentrating more on Paul the individual artist instead of Paul the businessman. I had forgotten how nice it is to actually relax and enjoy…
Jonas, I thought I was the invisible man ….. I didn't realize I was being watched at the same time. 🙂 Paul
Thanks Alan …… I've seen a number of references to The Pagemaster. You did alot of work on that didn't you? Hope everythings well in Ca. Paul
Hi Dave, I'm lurking ………….. 🙂 I'm actually on the forum 15-20 times a day, but I've been watching instead of posting. I'm in rebuild mode. Playing with animation for the fun of it, Fishing, playing with my children, enjoying my new puppy, etc. I needed to take time to…
Debt of Honor is a great book Tom Clancy is a phenomenal writer, Jack Ryan as President. Should make a great movie. Paul
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