This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Before I get scolded for not reading the manual, I will jump in and say that I read the manual on Units Setup and what I found is NOT A BUG. Swift, silent, unprompted scaling and coversion of units on Load and Merge is a !@#$% feature!!! The incidents that…
Don, We get strange results when we run our VTR setup batch file twice. The tape will jump, sputter and drool… The batch file does TMODE 11, TARGEDIT (with variables to turn on genlock and set the source to S-VHS), INIT and SONY422. You mentioned genlock problems: could the TARGEDIT…
Ugh! The only problem that we have had so far (AG 7750/DQ422+), is that if we accidentally load the control software (SONY422.EXE) twice during a session along with other commands to initialize and setup the Targa+, we get completely whacked out recordings. We could be seeing the same problem? I…
John, Thanks for your support! My rave was looking a little thin for awhile — it needed some proping up! I can see a few things that PAR might do better, but the QP does what we need. –Donald Newlands
A) Will Optimize remove coplanar faces? B) Isn't the DXF import routine in R3 supposed to weed out redundant faces? -Donald
We just got a Matrox MGA 4Mb PCI board — you can run it at high resolution in 3D Editor, etc. using the RCPADI driver that is included with the board. Set 3DS to use RCPADI using 3DS VIBCFG, and if you need to change your RCPADI setup, delete 3DADI.CFG…
Units + Tempo= Wierdness
Message #127654
Most of the work we do is in decimal feet. Because of this, most of the time, I don't bother to set Units — decimal feet look just like the (default) decimal inches on the status line, so why bother. Besides, coming from a background in AutoCAD, a unit is…
AWww, yes, yes, but! a) I can't spend $2500 +/- $500 until 1995 when we get a new capital budget. b) We don't do that much video animation (yet, although we might do more with Quick Pass). c) Since our need is not urgent, we may as well see what…
#QuickPass Rave
Message #127576
Hi All, Not having yet joined the PAR/Targa 2000 etc. Club, I have skimmed the messages here regarding these products with sullen disintrest. However, now that we have upgraded our Diaquest controller to Quickpass, I am compelled to gloat. Our Diaquest board had seemed like a classic piece of "Hardware…
Object Pivot Point
Message #126171
I am working on a project that requires many complex animated instanced objects. MeshRes from IPAS #7 would be a great tool if it supported instances (and if it provided some simple means of embedding "hand optimized" objects). So, I am using Replace Mesh to update my simple objects with…
Ah ha! Got it. Thanks!
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Lofter Path Export DXF ?
Message #125963
Nik, I don't follow what you mean, "add the path in the Keyframer to the box". The KeyDXF utility that Phil described sounds like a simpler solution! Thanks very much! Donald Newlands
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Lofter Path Export DXF ?
Message #125962
Phil, That sounds like the perfect tool! Thanks! –Donald
Lofter Path Export DXF ?
Message #125764
Hi, My question sounds so obvious that it sounds stupid, so please tell me if it is: Is there a way, to export a lofter and/or keyframer path as a DXF file? It sure would be nice to be able edit with those paths in ACAD! Is there an IPAS…
Scott, That sounds like a copy of 3DS R3 I saw that had the copy protection disabled with a "pirate patch". 3DS ran fine for a few minutes, but soon the mesh got garbeled–sprouting faces everywhere and the program would abort part of the way through renders with the message,…
John, Thanks for your reply! We'll steer away from the Opti-based boards! Donald
John, We are about to buy the same general box: * P90 * 4Mb Graphics Card * 64Mb RAM * 1 Gb SCSI HD * CD-ROM May be so bold as to ask a) which brand of machine/motherboard you bought and b) how you are liking the MGA II ???…
#Siggraph Party ?
Message #109027
Hi, I'm just making my travel plans for Siggraph and wondering when and where the party will be–hopefully in the first part of the week?… -Donald
I'm using WinCIM 1.0.4…. I suppose that I could get handy with Compuserve commands, but I really feel that an easy to use "What's New" equivalent is necessary and important part of what this forum was and should be. -Donald
"What's New" Library
Message #103975
It is really sad to see the "what's new" library section gone…checking it was one of my favorite pastimes–a one-stop place to check the pulse of the forum and the Autodesk Multimedia community. I liked the fact that all the sections were lumped together there. That way, we saw a…
Robert, Actually, the 486 that I compared it to is a really sweet DX2 system, while the Pentium demo system has a lot of junky components on it…
Did you see Sherwood's message later in this thread? Have you seen Phar Lap incompatibilities with AMI Pentium BIOSes? Donald
Thanks for the replies! I will check the readme.doc file and give that a try. I will also check the BIOS maker… Fortunately and unfortunately this box is just a demo, and this is exactly the kind of thing that we were hoping to (not) discover. We have been having…
#Pentium, and Page Faults
Message #98988
We are trying out a 90Mhz Pentium with a Diamond Viper and for some strange reason the damn thing has been bombing out while loading 3D Studio and while rendering with "page fault" errors. When I have a memory manager configured (QEMM 7.0 or just HIMEM) 3DS bombs when I…
Adobe Premiere will import FL? files and sequential TIF files and output AVI in different compression flavors and Quicktime…
John, I just demoed a 90Mhz Pentium today, and it comes up about exactly 3X as fast as a well-oiled 486-66 on Birdshow… Donald
Robert, We are testing a 90 Mhz Pentium against a fast 486-66 and found it to be almost exactly three times faster. Your results suggest that we might not have the optimum configuration if you are getting 3X on a 60 Mhz Pentium… Donald
Craig, Have a look at Adobe Premiere for Windows… It imports FLI and FLC and sequential TIF files and saves in Mac Quicktime… Donald
Nongraphic Slave Mode
Message #92126
May I second that wish? Donald Newlands
jeffrey, Really! Nobody told me about that… I feel much better about Adesk! Now, a word with my dealer! Donald
John, That sounds like just the right thing. We've just moved to Minnesota, I just installed three SCSI cards and I am shopping for a BIG tape drive and an animation service bureau. As we were moving I had the nightmare of having to finish a project as soon I…
HP 650C 3D Studio driver
Message #82747
Ken, For some strange reason, the DOS4GW 386 extender that comes with Alchemy uses only the first 16Mb of RAM. I use our copy of ALCH386 with the DOS4GW that came with HiRes QFX, which supports as much memory as I have (64 Mb. on one machine.) The extender will…
#Exabyte video Vs. Sony
Message #82746
John, Have I been missing something? This sounds "wonderful"! Where can learn more? Please don't let me buy that multi-gig tape backup before I learn more about this system. We are using a Targa +/Diaquest/7750. It was a very big step up from FLC files, but I still have that…
RDPADI prob & other Qs
Message #82745
That's an amazing and inspirational Autoexec.bat! There should be an "Autoexec Hall of Fame" on this forum. I clipped your QEMM line — you may have helped solve one of the lingering mysteries of my EISA system. Why is it that people only send in their Autoexec files when they…
#Visual Link program
Message #82744
Visual Link is one of the worst product experiences that I have had in the ten years that I have been using Autodesk products. Mercifully, they pulled it off the market. However, many of us were left ORPHANS after eagerly buying this product that never came close to its promise!…
Virtus Walkthrough
Message #82743
rachel, Is it spelled "hoky" or "hokey" (pronounced "ho-key")? I don't have the latest version of Walkthrough, but the reply I got from Virtus on their AOL forum was not encouraging: they basically told me to wait for Version 2… I have seen Sense 8 VR software running on PC's…
John, I have been hearing lots of good things about the MGA series, but have been put off by high prices at the upper part of their line–somehow after years of paying > $1,500 for a decent graphics card, I am sceptical of anything that costs more than $500, now…
Phillip, So far, I haven't found any PRACTICAL use for the current version of Virtus Walkthrough. But "working" with (around) the program may give me a better understanding of the relationship between the 3D spaces I design and 3D animation. I also see in it, someday, the potential of having…
There ARE lots of examples of programs that do a decent job of making 3D interactive without special hardware, especially in the games department. This kind of interaction would give 3DS users an incredible way to develop animation… Donald
rachel, I had heard about Sterio CAD, but it sounded too expensive, and nobody had actually put it to a test. Either getting either the software into 3D Studio or a set of 3D polys out as keyframe paths would be key to making "interactive" an effective way of developing…
Ron, Sounds like a really useful product for Targa users! Please let me know when you finish, I also would really like to try it!
#Virtus Walkthrough
Message #80835
This is another response to your reply to my question about the MGA 3D features in the Micron 60 thread…time for a new thread! I am trying Virtus Walkthrough this week, and am deadlocked in passionate love/hate struggle with the software. Love: Great interface for controlling interactive 3D view. Hate:…
John, The Kurta, with its heavy stylus and "soft" tablet surface does have a nice, substantial feeling…like a soft lead on heavy paper… Donald
Max, I use a "regular mouse" ($29) most of the time in 3DS. However, on occasion I have been known to pamper myself with a "luxury mouse"… I have a hard time with the mouse emulation in most tablets and find that work in 3DS is so screen/mouse dependant that…
Hmm, I am feeling my techno-fetishistic tendencies subside on this subject — thats good! Thanks John! I can go on now. I can wait a few years for the Nintendo Reality Engine…
I have been meaning to benchmark Photoshop VS QFX in terms of basics–file loading, scrolling etc. I am pretty sure that we would find that opening and closing files are pretty close. Brush response is clearly faster in QFX, but Photoshop does such a nice job of filling in that…
Fractal Painter
Message #80589
David, I now have all three kinds of tablet — I would buy a Wacom if you can with the XGT coming in as a close second, but having just spent one-hour on hold to Calcomp with a digitizer puck that had come disemboweled (by itself!), spewing copper wire all…
ana, All of the three big pressure tablet makers support simultaneous mouse/digitizer use — I think that it is really a feature of the Pen Windows interface that you can leave your mouse hooked up and running. Donald
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Designjet 600 Drivers
Message #80587
Try Image Alchemy..($100-200). There is a demo somewhere on Compuserve. We use the 386 version to convert TGA files at the command line to the HP RTL format and then dump them to the 650c for color poster plots. The process works great once you finnally tweak all of its…
David, QFX used to be a collection of separate image processing utilities that could be batched. The current version is a single, non-batchable paint program. I have kept my older versions around to keep this capability… Perhaps you could get a deal from Ron Scott on Hi-Res QFX 2.0? Donald
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