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*** Black Widow & cockroach *** I would be interested in purchasing these meshes from you. Any other insect critters as well if not "stylized". Bill Lundeen 310 451 1608
*** Do you have a copy of COMMAND.COM in the 3DS directory? This used to be needed to do any shell functions. It probably is still. *** PMJI, but I am able to shell with command.com in my \dos directory. I have to use the comspec=c:\dos\command.com to do it however.
I recently got a Wacom SD 421E. Only have pressure pen at the moment. That is a prob for 3DS. I can run the tablet in Mouse emulation mode but it is useless because there is no way to exit out of the commands: 2Dshaper create/line, 2Dshaper create/freehand. Also there…
U could use the 3DS provided loft files and loft them urself.
I saw a msg on the Forum…someone, I think Gary Yost said he thinks they fell of the face of the planet. It might be kinda difficult to return if they sold the books then went to Vegas! I havent called them so dont know.
*** Some of us are runnig out of money *** Me included! I often eat PB&J, sometimes splurge for PB&Marshmello Creme. Priorities…my Fiance hates my priorities. Bill
I sent my request several months ago…no show yet!
*** if only one pass had gotten out of sync, it will be fixed as the machine lays off one pass. (Hope this isn't too confusing). *** Understand. I will try that to see if it will fix my case. *** As far as the overall PAR vs QP debate,…
***this would be directly dependent on the length of the animation.*** You are correct in that. Tho from my experience I have only seen 3 frame swing dependent upon anim length. 22 to 25 passes for anims of 100 to 900 frames, TGA files ranging in size from 180kb to…
It is a tough call! When to wait, when to buy. I believe it all depends on need vs. available dollars. If I need to get something done fast and dont have the IPAS to do it, I buy if it will (or may) pay me back in the short…
Kevin you animal!
*** people have told me they get which has been 10 frames per pass. *** FYI: I am getting 25 frames per pass.
George, PMJI…I concur with what you describe. I see the same when following the steps you outline. I too have temporarily put aside Puppeteer to pursue 3D anim creation rather than Brain Bashing. Puppeteer is a good product but I believe the pressure Schreiber recieved to get it out has…
CT, *** scale the meshes with 3DS, and then import the meshes into puppeteer, and build the and build the puppet relative to the size of the geometery. *** Ok, if that is the rule then that is what I'll do. The doc for 1.04 says "OBJECTS/SCALE will work like…
CT, Thanks in advance for anything u come up with. Bill
***load the control software (SONY422.EXE) twice during a session*** nope…not doing that.
I have done all the cable experiments that can be done. I had a Panasonic rep come to my loc. and verify cabling and sync. He found nothing that helped me. The interesting thing is that the problem is evident in some anims and not others. Diaquest said they saw…
2D Shaper/Wacom
Message #127872
Help! I have just installed a Wacom 421E tablet and find that when I enter 2D Shaper and invoke either Create/Line or Create/Freehand I am stuck there with no way out. Anyone with info on this? Thanks, Bill.
Hi, Just a note on a prob I have with mine that u may want to watch for. On some animations I get a complete frame vert jump at every point where Quickpass dropped the frame during the Final Pass-Frame by Frame mode. Diaquest says its my VTR (7750), Panasonic…
*** all Autodesk support people are being replaced with a $250 CDROM called Supportdesk. *** My brother in law can get me one for free from the swing shift janitor.
Hmmm…I just went to check my procedure and I find: Enter puppet from 3D Editor, import 50pman, scale the pelvis up and the pelvis grows larger than the children. Not only that but the other objects are not really reflecting the new scale factor accurately, ie: larger in one axis…
David, NPFJI…I'm sure I was at the 3D scale setting. Have u scaled 50PMAN by choosing the pelvis?
Motion Data Files
Message #127421
Hey Chris Thomas of Schreiber, I hear you guys will have the Flock of Birds at your disposal for a while! How about uploading some motion data files for us? *** I could use one of a human walking 4 or 5 paces then reaching up on tip toes to…
Hi Chris, Much better thank you! I must admit I am having quite a steep learning curve here but when I get frustrated I work on something else. I have noticed that 3D Scale doesnt work well for me. When I scale, for example, the pelvis of 50PMAN the pelvis…
for sale
Message #126721
FOR SALE: Truevision VideoVGA card. Drastic Tecnologies Animation Commander complete with cables and chipsets for RS232 and RS422 use. Please reply private EMAIL if interested. Or phone me if impatient like I am. Bill Lundeen AuDigger Graphics 310 451 1608
Hi, I had this prob as well. I call them and they have an upgrade to ver. 1.04 which fixes the mesh import prob. Also, be sure to start Puppet from the 3D Editor and not the Keyframer. Bill.
im interested! bill lundeen 2153 montana ave #c santa monica, ca. 90403 310 451 1608
Book!!? What is that? (grin)
ive done that by doing what ur doing. maybe somebody else has a better way. i used it in a gumby anim where the camera follows gumby after he goes into a book. cam follows into a bitmap of the first scene within the "book world". then the "book world"…
or limit the hilite key/briteness to pixels only found in the object u wish to hilite
ATI Mach64 & Matrox MGA2
Message #124123
Hmmm…my rotary position zero can memorize 11 diff settings, 1-7 can each hold one setting. i have all mine programed into sw pos zero. possibly the slide switches u have each store only one setup? if so maybe u could program one for 1280 and the other for 1024…? P.S.…
>If I go to high the screen splits or is off the monitor edges?< i too experienced this with my mistubishi hl6605. i was able to customize by working with the monitors built in timing adj/settings. does your monitor have those adjusments? bill
i missed the beginning of this thread. if you are in the L.A. area i can help with your 3ds to vhs solutions. bill.
thanks to both u and gary for getting back to me. this was a case of momentary lapse of consciousness on my part. i put in my brand new drive without checking termination! so i had two drives terminated on my chain. silly billy!
disk error
Message #121340
HELP! i just installed a Seagate ST11950NB drive. Capacity 1.7 gig. i am getting a DOS box error msg while rendering. msg reads: -ATTENTION: A serious disk error occured while writing to drive D: Retry (r)?- Anybody else seen this? thanks, bill.
Hi, >>I hope I can re-use my 4 8Mb SIMMs in the next PC that I get.
BRAVO! Well spoken. Thank you for your efforts. Bill.
PMJI…can someone pls post the phone number for altamira?
Schreiber Silliness
Message #120781
Hi Murph, had a disk crash hence the delayed reply. i got the lock from them in april. when i found the problem they began working on a fix. here it is august and still waiting for the "corrected" lock. that is all i know. bill.
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#Schreiber Silliness
Message #119318
>>this hokey copy protection
Yep. they say gold is where u find it so im not surprised ur drillers were eyeballing the well dig. I havent hit the Mother Lode yet but I do pretty good. Average an ounce/week of small to fine gold and usually come up with a large chunk or two.…
Kevin, well ill be dipped! my property is 14 miles up Footes' Crossing Rd. Of course it is easier to go thru No. San Jaun and on thru Alleghany. Only three miles of dirt to my claim from there. Talked to my Mom last night. She said there is nothing…
i saw some of the work they are doing for "johnny". it looked darn good to me!
kevin, i didnt know u had property up there. my folks just moved to Pike. havent heard from them so they are either all right (no danger) or the fire got the phone lines. (dark humour, eh?) bill
Brian, personally i only experience a gain of 4-7 secs redraw speed per four viewports. but hey… thats better than a kick in the pants. bill.
Greg, You forgot shoe size! Bill.
Greg, What address to send demo tape to? Is SVHS acceptable? thanks, bill. 310 451 1608
i talked to schreiber yesterday and was informed that DRAPE is still not ready to ship. they think it may not ever be complete. they are crediting/refunding for those of us who hve it on back order.
hi john, i also generally use medium palette but as i near final rendering stage i switch to custom palette. see the 3ds ref man pg 8-117, VGA Palette Control for Flics, for a descr. of how this is done. bill.
hi, i started to get into IPAS programming and decided i had enough on my plate already. if you're interested i have Metaware High C and the Phar Lap DOS Extender that i would like to turn into cash. digger.
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