This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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If you bought from B&H give them a call to see what kind of deal they'd give you. Let me know if your business plan works(enough Hi8 business profits to pay for Betacam,ATVista, Transcoder, Pentium etc.). I'd like to try it in this part of the country.
You are not alone! I too feel that Autodesk has very poor DIRECT tech support. It is a shame that the employees at Autodesk have such an arrogant attitude toward those that pay their salaries (customers). No doubt you will get much defensive response to your cry. One thing you…
#46383-
Image Morph Pgm
Message #46466
John: Thanks for your comments on Morph. My copy just arrived today. I'll let you know if I duplicate your findings. I haven't heard from HSC yet. I guess they still arn't shipping. I'll be testing on the new Metheus card at 1024x768x24 bit S3 928, 486/66. Don Landis
I tried to use smoke to create a puff of smoke and the effect didn't look real because the IPAS module makes the smoke look like it's in a bottle or any shapped glass container. Real clouds don't have any bounding borders. You could retouch the image in photostyler but…
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Bending light (Refract)
Message #46464
Yes! and I didn't spend alot of time tweaking. I don't know what your project is since I didn't see the beginning of this thread but your insistance on exact refractive accuracy leads me to believe "special effects" has no place in your project. You are aparently attempting to recreate…
There will no doubt be others with DOS 6.0 experience but I have heard the concensus that DOS 6.0 works fine as long as you don't use double disk. I use QEMM and stacker with no problems on DOS 5.0. At any rate you should disable smartdrive for 3DStudio and…
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Sony LVR3000 Control?
Message #45657
I must confess, Paul, that I've heard of your company prior to being a member of this forum and as such realize animation houses in the big leagues such as yours are indeed making substantially higher than the mentioned 75.00 per hr. But, you being a professor of economics I'm…
How do you get windows 3.1 to work without x=B000-B87f?
PMJI Hooooray for you, Martin! Reading this thread I felt so inadequate at having never even gotton close to the common income of you gurus at $75+ per hr. ($156,000 per yr) doing animation. I was about to take my modem back on the other side of the tracks when…
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Just to update you: We solved the problem with windows in 256 modes. It turns out the card was picking up some interferrence from the IDEN TBC installed. If I remove that card the problem goes away. The Panacea driver downloaded from this forum works great but is somewhat limited…
TBC cards Trash win3.1
Message #45455
Recently encountered problems with a resident TBCard (supposed to be inert to the system ie power +-12v +-5v only from ISA bus) and running windows in any 8 bit or 16 bit mode (24 bit is OK) with coprocessed video cards. The TBC is an I-Den. The coprocessed cards tested…
#Animate animals
Message #45454
I too have been perplexed by the complexity of trying to create lifelike animal animations and as such have given up except for two possibilities you might consider. Mannequin- will automate wireframes of basic movements for humans that can be morphed in 3DS. Morph is a bitmapped based software that…
When you did your animation did you happen to observe the lower left corner of your screen? It tells you how much RAM requirement you swapped to HD. I use 32M here but I also have 4 meg on a cache ctrl. card so all 32 is available. Martin F.…
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Pharlap and Windows NT
Message #45415
The little talk that I got at Comdex was the impression that eventually all Autodesk products will be Windows NT and that doesn't mean developing a product to run on windows 16 just to run through an emulator. The emulator was established to give NT an immediate cache of software…
Appears that when you start paging to the Hard Drive (EISA SCSI Adaptec) you have the problem "page fault" and it locks up. If that is right your problem sounds just like the EISA SCSI ADAPTEC – pharlap bug combination that a friend of mine is working on with pharlap.…
Also you can port the bitmaps from these packages as maps to 3DS in supported file format. I've done this with deluxe paint and 3DS although I had to create the shape to map to in the shaper. I create thin "bitmap" objects that can be animated in the keyframer…
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.TGA files in Vid Post
Message #45366
I'll bet the fourth character being a "0" is the culprit. Try restricting yourself to using ONLY LETTERS in the first FOUR characters and ONLY FOUR sequential NUMBERS in the last four of the name in the future. And, never use less than FOUR letters. (I know that diaquest requires…
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3DS 1024×768 Drivers?
Message #45354
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3DS 1024×768 Drivers?
Message #45353
Donald: Pleased to report Metheus was sent onernight and I installed last night. I'm experiencing several problems with installation. Windows: Works great in 1024×768 thru 640-480 24 Bit– no problems All 256 color modes 640 thru 1280 have random trash green color on the program window but none on the…
John: Glad to have met you at comdex, Monday. Dittos on the lack of 3DStudio at the show. I asked every day and was told there was not to be any demo of 3ds because it was not windows. Since they told you the same, I wonder whether Autodesk has…
< PUT CAPS AND LOWER CASE TEXT ON THE SAME INPUT> try turning your caps lock off!
Glad to hear it's finally working for you. I've been following your plight because I've been considering buying this softVTR. On using fields– Did you render directly to tape on the EVO-9650? If so what type of tape did you use? Rendering to tape with field would have taken its…
Just read your message on the Premier 928. Saw one at Comdex this week and was given the opportunity to play with it. I measured Winmarks 3.11 at 5.9M for 1024×768 24 bit and 21M at 1024×768 8 bit. This was the 4 meg version. A comdex special was $599.00.…
These are good questions you bring up and ones I been contemplating for some time. It really bothers me when I see ads for animation at x$ per rendered second. I wonder if this includes modeling, mapping, and keyframing? To answer this I have proposed a three tiered approach. 1.…
< I could make up a short S-VHS tape or a Hi8 tape and send it to you.> If you care to I could play it back on a Sony R5u (SVHS) consumer deck and take a look at it on the scopes. I also have a EVO9800 Hi8 deck.…
Nik: I understand there is a card that holds multiple locks internally but this takes up one more precious slot. My 12 slot MB is already full! I don't follow your logic on setting up a ROM with instr. as a security measure. This sounds like entering serial numbers during…
Pharlap and Windows NT
Message #44880
Just returned from Comdex and saw something very interesting. Pharlap Shell running under Windows NT. I was told the product is in alpha right now but is expected to go beta next month. It should be able to run any pharlap based product in the windows NT operating system. support…
Metheus Premier 928 w 4
Message #44879
Is anybody using this product? I would like to hear your comments. I saw one at Comdex and it seemed to fill all my wish list but I was not able to see it with 3DS nor AniPRO.
I was just kidding about the steel thing. Can you imagine it if all software required one of those dangle thangs. It does seem to be catching on lately. I think I would give up computers. Actually, I would like to find out who invented those things and subject em…
No, but its supposed to start at 9:00AM and will probably last for an hour. It's Bill Gates and if he tops last year's show it will be worth the long lines to get in.
Just enough to drive ya up the wall. And then when ya call on Monday some temp receptionist tells ya everybody's at comdex but not to worry because they call in daily! right!
Some of the best deals are coming from the University market. I picked up a VO-5600 a couple of years ago for $500. It was in mint condition. Added a Hob-Nob and Dubit kit for $1000 and presto! a 3/4 feeder deck. Expect to pay 3800 for a good 5850…
To save time I'm guessing that your problem is similar to the classic RCdriver problem with Diaquest and targa. Try rendering to RDpadi with the appropriate RD*.exp driver. Reconfigure your 3DADI.cfg and see if the frames load into your frame buffer for recording. I'm just guessing now since your the…
< Do you need an exhibits pass? > I've got dozens of them. Seems everybody was giving them away this year. I've already received my badge so no long lines anymore. I'll be arriving Sunday afternoon. Planning to attend Gates' keynote Monday, so maybe we could meet at the fountain…
The dongle is an 8 bit part.$$g. I know what you mean about the laughing at your soldering skills. My brother-in-law is an expert (my evaluation) C programmer and when he looked at the code I wrote to do underwater cave mapping in Basic he just started laughing. That was…
Thanks for your reply to my questions. > I still don't understand how 5 meg +2 megs for $575 equals 16meg for only $500 more. I know I'm slow at times but it sounds like one of those math puzzlers from Scientific American Magazine to me. ((575)(16-5))/2=3162.5 or is it…
B&H? Cables to go? Bailey, Bailey, Bailey … Didn't you ever hear of Radio Shack? I don't know where you live but I'm sure there must be a dozen stores nearby. If you can hack you should be able to draw out the pin configs of a two bit adapter…
Comdex
Message #44332
Is anybody planning to attend Comdex in Atlanta next week? I will be there Monday thru Thursday. I would be interested in meeting up with any forum members. Don Landis
Right!
Surprize, surprize! My waiting icon is now working again. It was non functional for 11 days. Did the culprit scroll or did the programmers fix the problem? I wonder if the problem will return? Thought you'd want to know.
RenderEngine TC/VTV-2000
Message #44257
Where can you buy an Amiga 3000 with 16 meg RAM for $1500? Do they have Toasters for similar discount? Did I understand you correctly that this DCTV does 24 bit animations with output to video at broadcast resolution in real time for $299?
Thanks for the update on the Amiga. I've used the toaster once to engineer a four camera live switch shoot of a rock concert and really liked its video capabilities. Never used one for post or animation but my artist has both 3ds and toaster Lightwave and chooses 3ds whenever…
My intro to computers was punch tape with Dartmouth BASIC. Now my father retired from computers (UNIVAC) in '62. Neither one of us ever dropped a tray of cards, Greg!
Hey Brian– How did my reply to another forum member end up at the end of your reply to Roger D's message #43245? Did a CIS data processor drop a tray of cards? Don Landis
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autodesk error fix N/G
Message #43201
Be sure your path is correct when setting the RDPADI eg. as follows: SET RDPADI = C:\3ds\drivers\rdptarga.exp SET RCPADI = C:\3ds\drivers\rcptargp.exp (both set statements should be in your startup batch file.) Be sure that each of these files is indeed located in the above mentioned subdirectory or the subdirectory designated…
Thanks again Paul for your response. It appears to me that this problem is resolvable but just a few more questions. Are you using any Model 441 AMI controllers? Would you suspect that an early (1990) vintage EISA ALR bus is fully EISA compatible? The controller is configured for 32…
Thanks for the reply, Paul. In many cases I've read about on this forum purported "bugs" often turn out to be cases of improperly installed drivers, defective hardware, or peculiar combinations of hardware, etc. Hopefully, you can prove this case is not a bug but another improper installation. I believe…
Thanks, Gary, I'll be looking forward to anything you find out about this. The guy is pretty upset since he spent so much$ and can't get it to work. Please see thread response to Paul Lind(anim8). So far it appears that his problem IS hardware specific although he is convinced…
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