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Message #161465
Hello
>7. Back up options?(I use a Colorado TBU 250 on my other machine..slow,small, does anyone have a brand and type suggestion?) I like the HP 1533a also known as the Jet store 6000 dat tape drive. About 4 to 7 gigs per tape. I also like tapedisk software which allows…
Sanford I really think that computers make it possible for a single individual to do serious animation. The traditional methods require a team for sure. Ed
go into the vibrant display dialog by using 3ds vibcfg command. In the main display config area the drivers that vibrant can emulate are listed if you "enter " while the .current driver is highlighted. If your display card is capable of 64k or 16m colors there should be a…
Same thing happened to me. You can get away with 64k colors on the main display. Ed
>>What can Penello do that you have been waiting for? Ive always wanted to make moving paintings; something that would be closer to painting than animation. Before I was computer aided I would actually lay out hundreds of pieces of paper with grids and paint on them to get an…
PMFJI I needed to do this and achieved it by using a camera very far away. I got the view lined up by using cubes. When the front top corner vertex of the cube is exactly coincident with the back lower corner vertex the view is correct. The cube will…
Sanford
#meshpaint
Message #160776
Thanks, I changed the main display to 60k colors and it works. I think there is a problem with the display. I loaded a tooth mesh with a filling map that I created in Painter using the grid method for placement. The mapping type is sphere. The meshpaint display shows…
Good idea. I bent the meshs quite a bit in my tests. Ed
< I realize it must be OFF to maintain certain consistantcy with ver2, but I'm not sure, in VER4, whether set to on or off how it manifests itself.> I dont know about v4 but in v3 new transparency=on resulted in opacity maps that were not totally transparent in the…
PMFJI My tests with the Hash spline model to dxf for 3ds has produced meshs that are very useful except they cannot be boned or smoothed without holes showing up in the meshs. Ed
If I understand what you are trying to do, you could 1) either make a black and white opacity map by magic wand selecting (in photoshop or photostyler etc. ) the black areas of the web map, inverting the selection so the web is selected and filling the web with…
Great! I appreciate it Ed
Hello Greg
so do I, except Im a slow typest(g) Ed
#PAR QUESTION
Message #157087
hello Ive loaded 1.5 and it seems to work fine but I dont have access to an ani file thats in the root directory. I can only access anis in project directories. Should I create a directory in par and move the ani into it in DOS? Thanks Ed
Hello I am definatly no boolian guru but i have created cubes with lots of polygons by tesselating in Optimize, which works much better than 3d editor tesselate because the polys are all in a grid. Ed
#user view
Message #156067
Hello jonas I wish for a button that would automatically align the user view to a camera view. Thanks Ed
Hello Stefan
Also Stefan Elsner 100437,1254 is a rayman developer who is helpful. Ed
#holes in meshes
Message #155796
Hello My conclusion after playing around with Sculpture and Optimize ( I dont have Caligari ) is that Sculpture exported dxf's are ok as long as you dont vertex manipulate, bones bend, or smooth them. They have hundreds of faces that look like this: \ / a __\/____ b c…
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TARGA+ NT DRIVERS
Message #155745
Hello Chuck I own an ATVista card. As 3d studio moves to Win NT I will run NT and try to get as many NT versions of the software I use including Photoshop, Painter, Elastic Reality, AXA 2d animation,Coreldrw, etc. I use the Vista card for frame grabbing sequential still…
#Rayman and 3ds materials
Message #155682
Im making a jar with a label on it. Im using a bitmap of the label with a black background as a texture and the the same image with alpha as an opacity map. It shows a label with a transparent background in the materials ed. and renders fine in…
Hello michael I think Im all straightened out. Ive got it going on the network and im getting productive. I will upload an image when I get something good. Thanks Ed
< I am not a good artist because I have one good eye and a defective brain. Jeffrey.> One good eye is probably enough and I never let my defective brain stop me(G)! Any time you spend learning a 2d image manipulation or painting program ( Painter, Photoshop, etc. )…
Hello I will let you know Ed
Hello Michael Something in my boot files was causing rayman to be unable to access ram. Without vmm Rayshell wouldnt run (no memory message ) and with vmm the rendering of alessi paged to disk constantly until lock up. I changed my boot files to a minimum configuration and so…
My advice is to consider other factors besides the features list. I have worked extensivly with perhaps the most feature laden program on PCs, Real 3d, and I gave it up instantly when I got my hands on the more expensive 3ds. ease of use— 3ds is incredibly deep and…
Im using Dos Memaker on both. The problem machine shows 590kb conventional memory. I have a line set dos4gvm=d:\rayman\rayman.vmc in the autoexec.bat. In rayman.vmc the virtualsize=65536000. The situation is different than in my previous message and, to me , more mystifying. I can now enter rayshell and render files except…
Tim If Hash dosnt know theres a problem then I will definatly not upgrade since its unlikely they solved it. I really do like splines though so im hoping to see a spline modeler for 3ds.Ive tried metaballs but I find it hard to get control of for objects that…
spline modeling
Message #154349
Hello Sanford I recall that you use Animation Master sculpture module for spline modeling. Im running into a problem with dxfs imported from sculpture. I tried to smooth some of them with Bones pro smooth and holes were showing up in the models. It turns out that the models render…
Thanks for your response < Regarding the dongle switch: I have no idea what`s going wrong. What happens when you put the dongle on the "problem" machine and start RayMan in the normal way?> Rayshell starts, when I do file open a box appears with the 1005 out of memory…
PMFJI Im not much of a philosophy student but I dimmly recal that Karl Popper advanced the notion that absolute beliefs, religious or otherwise, are distinguishable from scientific assertions in that a scientific thesis can potentially be disproven. For example the theory of relativity could have been shown wrong(if it…
Hello Tim The concept of variable use permits is alive and well in the music field. I know the guy who did "Ode to GI Joe". The music cost him so much when it was a student project. When it got into one of the Expanded Entertainment animation videos he…
Rayman
Message #153961
Hello heres another question I have two computers (486/66, 486/50 ) each with 32mb ram. I would like to run rayman on both by switching the dongle. One works, the other shows a "1005 out of memory" box when I try to open a file. This is the computer that…
#Rayman Problems
Message #153844
Hello Michael Im exploring Rayman and Ive got a couple of problems. You announced that Rayman would have two modules, one that works from within 3ds and a stand alone renderer. I cant find reference to using rayman from within 3ds. How can I do this? If I try to…
PMFJI I tend to get memory allocation errors often when using smooth. If I just try again without any changes it always works. Obviously a bug, but the work around is so easy I havnt bothered to report it. Ed
Hello Mike < When you change a image or bit map it then becomes your art work.> Im not a lawyer but my impression is that how much an artwork must be altered before it is "yours" will be hacked out in court case by case. I read that the…
PMFJI It really helpes me in making decisions about purchasing IPAS routines if I can play with a disabled demo . I bought Bones Pro after working with the demo for a few minutes. I hope you folks will consider uploading a demo Thanks Ed
Thanks Ed
Hello Richard Do you have a shipping product? Thanks Ed
Hello Don Who makes the RC-2000 and where can they be purchased? Thank you Ed
Thanks Ed
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SyQuest or Bernouilli?
Message #151424
hello Jonas > That would be nice but currently it is a missing PharLap feature.> If Autodesk were to request such a feature form Pharlap they might be more inclined to listen than if end users were to make such a request. I must say I am dissapointed in what…
#SyQuest or Bernouilli?
Message #151046
Hello David Im going through the same process of deciding on what to use for major storage. Ive used syquest 88 for two years without any data loss except for losing a whole disk which had a corrupted FAT table and needed reformatting.Ive never lost anything on Bernouilli but I…
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