This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I just spent the day working on a Quadra 700 with the hottest Radius board going (whatever they call it… Rocket?) a gizillion megs of memory and Stratavision… Hhhhckkkkth… ppttoooiiee… yucK! I was doing a simple 3D logo in 'millions' of colors and even in quick, draft, or whatever mode…
Steve: I will be interested in Corel Draw the day it can handle DXF files from AutoCAD properly… and I hope 3.0 can do that. There are some sample movies in the libraries that you can download and see what you think… the individual who uploaded the flic can be…
Shawn: Well, congrats… I guess Jake should buy us a beer so we can celebrate your appointment . C#
David: Yeah… that's pretty good. I used Colorado Memory before and the access time from tape load was about 6 minutes… and then about .2 seconds once the tape directory was read… Drives you nuts if you don't know what is on the tape, plus you have to keep adding…
Mike: Don't you recall your email? They're using 1024x768x256… C#
Aw, geezee… you mean I have to put up with you in BOTH forums now? . C
Emilio: Well, I'm glad you have such a good opinion of yourself… someone needs to… Was that your windows player that was posted on the forum today? C#
Mike: I've got the cleanest config.sys this side of the Mississippi… I think if you keep playing it will still crash on you. WingII doesn't recognize when it is about to reach the end of memory, I don't think… C#
Mike: Origin told me that I had 'bad disks' on my WingCommanderII package, but I found someone else with exactly the same bug, running Dos 5 on an IDE drive with a 386/33 or better. Right when your in the heat of battle and you get blasted and your control…
Gary: Well, now that explains the mess you're in! . You need to view the above water world from a constant upside down position for it to appear normal to you… >that's< why you bought that contraption! C#
Roger: Saying "I will have it on Thursday" and saying "If my software comes in on Tuesday I will have it on Thursday" are two different things. I know better than to say the former. If my client must have it on Thursday, with absolutely no alternatives, then I would…
Sherwood: Although I agree that you should be able to rely on what someone tells you, anyone in business will also tell you not to make promises on commitments made by others. I am sure Autodesk is doing their best to get everyone updated… and it would be nice if…
Roger: I'm going to step WAY out of bounds here and speak for Gary. He's tired, he's worn out, he's frustrated, and he's got a sore butt… which explains the tone but not the intention of his note to you… What he's trying to say is that he's pretty darned…
Evan: Not necessarily… the rules of evidence must be met. I used to do illustrations for court cases… and there is a fine line between the evidence simply reflecting the actual conditions and the evidence having an influence on the jury that is not in line with the rules of…
June: Remember… your hard drive becomes part of your memory using PharLap's dos extender. Glad to hear you got it worked out and thanks for letting us know what the problem was. C#
Rick: Yes, I see what you mean. Jack's idea won't help you either if the tires aren't on a predictable path. The idea I posted would mean that you would have to morph the skids one frame at a time. I would imagine that someone could write a C program…
Rick: You can make up a 'flat' object that has more faces than it needs when it is 'near 0 length'. Then, you simply morph it to the final 'bent' line on the pavement and animate the sucker… (This 'flat' object is actually a near flat square tube with alot…
June: Well, I don't think it's the software unless you have a bad file, which is certainly possible. There is no DOS VGA driver per se, BTW. A driver is software that is loaded to allow special features of a graphics card to work with a software package. A true…
Mark: Like I said to someone on the forum (I thought it was you) you need to get 3DS 1.01. C#
June: I'm sorry… don't use ANY driver (I wasn't thinking clearly…). Delete the aa.cfg and start over. While your at it, if you're using anything other than a msmouse or summagraphics tablet, try using the keyboard only. Make sure that you aren't running the vesa driver supplied by Orchid from…
June: Well, that looks pretty good. I'm not sure that video rom shadow will have an effect but after you try what I said in my earlier message I would try it with the video rom shadow disabled. I don't know where AMI writes this stuff to, but maybe Jake…
June: You shouldn't need a memory manager just yet. Yes, Animator Pro attempts to restore the state of the last session. Let's try getting things to work without a high resolution option first. Don't load the Orchid Vesa driver and see what happens with Animtor Pro set up for stock…
Oh… I didn't realize you were using a pressure stylus. Is it a Watcom? I think that would make for interesting effects but I can see where there might be a problem with clicks. I like a Summa with a button stylus. C#
Kurt: That's not necessarily true. It is true if you want to do something other than provide all of your memory as extended, and I know you don't need a memory manager prior to DOS 5.0. Just to make sure I bounced out of this message and loaded Animator Pro…
June: First, let's get down to some basics before you go out and get a memory checking routine or start pulling memory chips at the risk of ruining them with static electricity… Please list the COMPLETE information about your system, including the DOS version, memory size, and disk size, etc..…
Paul: The two packages are more complimentary than they are exclusive. 3D Studio is a full blown 3D modeling/animation program and currently sells for a little over 3 times the cost of Animator Pro. Animator Pro is, at best, a 2-1/2D animation package that animates pixels, not models. Animator Pro…
Greg: If your card is VESA compatable, there should be a chart in your card manual that shows what vesa modes are supported. If the BIOS on the card is vesa compatable, then all you need to do is use the vesa driver in the set rcpadi statement. If your…
Ali: Then maybe you should start using the keyboard shortcuts… they are in menus immediately following the command. In general, you will be glad you learned the keyboard stuff. I don't know how to use Animator with a non-button stylus…. in fact, I can't imagine how it would work?
Ali: Absolutely… Anim Cels and Poco plus screen resolution are the major differences, but the use of the similar tools is exactly the same… and Animator Pro contains all of Animator's tools. There's also some improvement in morphing, too, but I can't remember Animator vs. Animator Pro any more… other…
Ali: Snort, chortle, guffaw….choke…gak…ahem. Well, it's true that I did a few of those kinds of things, too… Which is a GREAT lesson to learn in Animator. Save your work in pieces and put it together from pieces… you will find that changing your mind about what it is you're…
Ali: The starfield generator requires, I believe, a certain number of blank frames to be set up… then you execute the poco routine and it will put moving stars into a flic. If I can offer a brief description of what I >think< would be typical, Left clicking on the…
Hmmm… Well, that might make sense. Collage is letting Windows handle the screen resolution and display info for it… I don't know how you get a 3DS image on the screen with windows… I'm talking the 3DS interface as well, not just a rendering… C#
Alec: Well, Stephen Spielberg isn't known for his acting, either. The way that Autodesk has latched on to your stuff, you should be able to get plenty of help from them! . You should just hire out for a modeler… and then you can do the directing without being 'bothered'…
Sounds like you might have the wrong ink type set… Can you be a little more specific? C#
Will: I don't have it handy, but some of the registers in your palette are for screen colors… if you get one of these registers turned to white instead of the key color, you will end up with a white border. C#
Vahid: New Rider's Publishing has one out… but it doesn't have 3DS in the title… it's something like 'Designing and Presenting with Autodesk'… C#
Matthew: He said $1000. C#
Aaron: Only the vertices provided by the creation of the polyline in AutoCAD will be transported to 3DS. There are variables in AutoCAD that will determine how many segements a circle or ellipse will have. All others are dependent upon your screen picks… C#
Aaron: Yes, I'm pretty sure … but as Gary points out, you can only use Polylines… I use this feature to transport building 'outlines' that I intend to construct in 3DS instead of transporting the entire 3D model from AutoCAD. C#
Aaron: Well… I think you can just 'load' a dxf file, as long as it's 2D, into the shaper… pick load and pick *.dxf… C#
Angelo: No, you are very clear now and I don't agree with you. You can't send disjointed faces or pmesh surfaces to 3DS and guarantee that all of the face normals will be aligned. If you leave the meshes together (closed) then you have to separate them into objects once…
Brian: Well, that's what AutoCAD on OS/2 did, using OS/2's DDE and Excel, I believe it was. I think you will see the same sort of thing for Windows. Or, you can go out and get a Unix box… C#
Angelo: Do you combine meshes from two different layers? If I explode them don't I end up with a bunch of faces? Are these 3 or four sided faces? Once you've aligned the normals, if you don't leave them as closed meshes, I don't believe you will be guaranteed that…
Brian: Whoa… lighten up, dood…. I wasn't offended by what Myron said. I'm more offended if some 'Intergraph' expert gets on here and starts making absurd claims when he should know better. Myron's a businessman… he doesn't know diddly… . All that's required to get rich is luck and perseverence……
Tom: Make up a plot directory and put your original .shx files in it. Copy a romans (which I >think< is the simplest roman font) to your acad directory using the file name romant.shx. When you want to plot, replace the romant.shx file in the ACAD directory with the 'real'…
Peter: Yes, I think you're well on the way to public self flagilation and matrydom… either way, now, you're gonna get the OMF… if Autodesk listens… for a cause well executed. If they don't… for making a mess of yourself on the forum . Keep up the good work. The…
Jeff: Yes, you can get a form from Autodesk that you can fill out for the purchaser of the previously owned AutoCAD and they can send it in, along with the original disk containing the serial number to Autodesk for an update when they need to… C#
John: There can be a number of causes, but if you're using R11, my first guess would be that you don't have enough disk space on the disk that your swapdefdir variable is pointing at… C#
Steve: You don't have ANY viewport defined, right? If you do, you must plot from paper space. If you don't, I have no idea what the problem is. I have never heard of this before, so unless you are using a unique version of AutoCAD (educational…) I must assume that…
David: I can't tell for sure where you are putting the lines… in paper space or in model space… but, you can't have a linetype at two different scales in a drawing. Also, the length of the line makes a difference as to whether the line will appear dashed or…
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