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Looks like several folks have chimed in on your question. I don't really have anything to add other than that I really like the MAX. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'm sure EVENTUALLY there will be a PCI version, but according to the developers of both the hardware and the software (two completely unrelated companies) the PCI bus was too loose when they were developing their respective parts. I'll bet sometime next year PCI ddr's will come to market. I…
It's fine to field render it as long as you're not using a frame that was very dynamic (lots of delta between feilds 1 and 2) as a still frame. If you're doing cross fades where both clips have movement, then it'll look a LOT better feild rendered (think about…
Ed Kellerman, another Asoft forumite, has the COOLEST flowing riverwater bump map I've ever seen. You might want to check out FO2S.FLC, downloadable from the libraries here (I'm pretty sure it's in a zip file, and I don't know what the zipfile's name is, sorry). John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
The latest Vibrant drivers DEFINITELY support the MGA PCI/2+. I'm using the combo as we speak. You've probably got a hardware or software conflict going on. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
There are plenty of services around north america that'll do film as a service. Kodak's Cinesite will do it for @ $8.00 per frame, and I know of a place in Toronto that'll do it for $2.50 per frame. Not that bad, really… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Sounds great. Can't wait to try it out… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I've been using 1.8 gamma for Abekas output. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Yes, according to Drastic Technologies (developers of the MAX software) feild one will go on one disk and feild two will go on the other, to be interleaved on playback. You don't have to have two disks with MAX, but two disks will obviously provide the throughput for the higher…
MAX lists for @ $7000, but you need to supply the HD controller, Seagate Barraccuda HD (no others will work at this time), and EISA MB. MAX is really a different product than Studio – as a matter of fact it is PART of the non-linear STUDIO setup. It is…
AIR is located in Fremont, CA. – about 40 minutes south of my office. They are a fairly well known/successful manufacturer of clone boards, but I've always considered AMI to be superior in general. Too bad they don't have such a beast out, yet. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Russ's answer is definitely more educated than mine, since I really don't do any still output, just animations. I've never tried what you're embarking on… but good luck John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I have the EXACT same card, and mine works fine. What motherboard are you using? I had an OPTI chipset based Pentium 90 MB that was totally incompatible with Vibrant, due to a dual processor PCI architecture. I switched to the intel based MB and everthing is fine now. John…
FWIW, I changed my syquest address from 6 to 4 when I was having intermittent problems. The problems went away, but I find it much too simple and voodoo-istic to actually be related to the address . Give it a shot, though… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'm not sure if that message was intended for me… I was giving someone advice on their qemm line for optimizing the system. I don't have any problems at all (since swapping an MB with an OPTI chipset…). John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'm curious to hear if Intel makes a more "compatible" dual processor chipset. thanks, John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
You might want to experiment with motion blur and special opacity/texture maps applied to specially shaped objects (like the intersecting "X" shaped planes used in vapor.axp) John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'm doing a 10 second animation that will be rendered to film (someday when I get time ), and I'm also looking into the gaussian interpolation scheme. I'll let you know what I find out… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
If you've got an Adaptec 174x or 274x series controller you're in buisness. These are the only two controller cards currently working with MAX, because MAX software directly accesses the controller's bios to get the phenomenal 4.5 meg per second throughput off one Seagate Barraccuda drive. John Tissavary (LUNA cie,…
It's not 3DS, it's the Vibrant drivers making repetetive calls to the ATI's bios. Gus Grubba determined this, you may want to ask him for elaboration. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
There are a couple of EISA/PCI P5/90 boxes on the market. There's DEC and ALR, and also a company called AIR manufactures an EISA/PCI P5/90 motherboard. It sounds like a really nice one, but is on back order since they just released in a couple of weeks ago. I havn't…
Is it possible to view an entire scene with your viewer, or is it just one object like Optimize's? I'd love to have a scene viewer… (hint hint, nudge nudge, be-your-best-friend ) John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'm not sure what the problem is, or what it's not doing. You didn't mention what the symptom is once you get to dos, but I assume there is no driver letter assigned to the Syquest. I the Syquest external or internal? If it's external then it should be at…
Have you CAREFULLY tried all options in the QEMM manual for troubleshooting memory conflicts? The highest likelyhood is that QEMM is stealing memory from somewhere that pharlap wants. Try editing your QEMM line to the following: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS ram RH:N MR:N RF and be sure to exclude (x=nnnn-mmmm) any areas that…
I had a similar problem happen _once_ with a .prj file. I had six lights that "disappeared" on me in the keyframer. I was able to see them, but could not select or tag them. They did exist in the 3D Editor, however. I was not able to reproduct the…
You guys are really great. Thanks Gus, Rolf, Gary, et al. I'm not doing any programming, but I'm sure I'll see the benefits of the RT shader soon! John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Thanks greg, I'll check it out. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I agree. The Kurta was my total favorite digitizer. I liked the Wacom, but prefered the feel of the heavier stylus of the Kurta. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
All that stuff ought to work (though I'm not sure what the Animator Express is… – ther is a product called Matrox Animation eXpress or MAX, is that what you meant?). If you are talking about the MAX, you'll have to map the MGA II somewhere low, like the B000…
Yeah, I've noticed that CIS aborts leave messages in limbo, too. Maybe CIS has been aborting a lot in recent weeks… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I don't have composer, but I tried to view alpha only in Medit, and it told me there was no alpha, even though it's a 32bit targa rendered with alpha on. strange… but I'm still going to check out the atmosphere thing when I get a free moment. John Tissavary…
Have a GREAT time (like you need ME to tell you that !)!!!!!! I'm soooooo jealous. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I've had this happen with two different CIS interface softwares (CsNAV and WINCIM) on three different machines. I'm beginning to suspect CIS having something to do with this, since there have been a lot of double posting lately from all over the place. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
give fade-in fade-out a try. It'll do EXACTLY what you're looking for. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Thanks John. Luckily negative alpha worked. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I'll have to see, but it did work great with negative alpha, so something's going on. It works, I did it, and that's what counts John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I've made the composite work with negative alpha. I'm at a total loss why, but I don't even care at this point as long as the job gets done . John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
#Hilite won't composite!?
Message #118022
I just can't seem to get this to work. The procedure is this: 1) render scene to file "uphi0220.tga" alpha on 2) vp queue "uphi0220.tga", "hilite.ixp" (tried with and w/o alpha) to file "uplt0220.tga" 3) vp queue "upfn*.tga", "uplt0220" alpha queue on, fade in frames 210-220 In the latest tests…
Yes, sometimes I spend more hours getting a system running than animating. I just have to bank these days as a "necessary evil". Fortunately I don't hate hardware altogether – I used to enjoy working on motorcycles. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
This is exactly what I was doing, but for some reason it kept defeating the image underneath it. I'll try it again and see what happens… thanks, John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
#Hilite and alpha
Message #117903
Hi Gary. I'm having a problem compositing a hilite.ixp'd image on top of some .tga's – I cannot get the hilit image to composite without completely masking the image in the queue before it. I'm positive I was able to do this no in the past with both flare.ixp and…
It seems that each different version of Inscriber costs something different. Go figure… John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Inscriber is really a top notch CG package. It is not aimed at the desktop market, which is why it's so expensive. Also, I think you really need an A/B roll setup. I don't know about the windows version, but the dos version works in real-time, and doesn't record sequential.tga's…
I paid under $600, but it was on sale (returned item). I think it hovers around $700, though John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Beauty contest editing? Sounds like just what I need for my insomnia ! I'll let you know when I get a chance to try different pixel sizes. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I've never had a client specify exact looks either, though I've certainly heard of it happening (especially art directors). I was speaking more of my own art direction. There are certain looks I want to acheive that 3DS is perfect for, and there are certain looks that are easier to…
That's another good tip. I've been using dummy cubes as reference points for keyframing, but it's so annoyingly time consuming. Your tip sounds like a good one for certain types of modeling. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
Yes, it was a very informative chat for me. I'll certainly be in touch as things develop =-) John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
That's right. I spoke with Frank Foster about that at Siggraph. Sounds like an exciting piece. That's the one Steve Scheerer and Tim Miller are working on, right? John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
I don't know if I've got flash bios, but I've got the Neptune chipset. The AMI bios seem pretty no-frills. John Tissavary (LUNA cie, inc)
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