This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Frames to fields?
Message #156176
John, Thanks for the info on Videotex. Paul S.
John, Thanks for the info on FIELDR.ZIP in LIB 2. Paul S.
#Frames to fields?
Message #155830
If I want to take a 100 frame animation rendered to frames (not fields), and shorten it to 50 frames *with* fields, how do I do this? I am trying to gain the smoothness of field rendering in Vistapro, by rendering twice as many frames in Vistapro, then using 3DS…
CIM's
Message #155642
Bruce, >> I'm not sure [WinCim] 1.3 and 1.3.1 are same (size wise or otherwise) since I read some very irate messages from users having problems with rebuilding indices, etc. with 1.3.1. > I got OzCIS DOS at GO OZCIS (4 disks, I think). Maybe they have Oz for Windows…
Jeff, Chuck wants us to post our replies in the Truevision Forum, or to him in private e-mail. Thanks. Paul S.
>> What should I spend the $5000 on? I assume the first $3500 would be on 3DS 🙂 For that matter, will $5000 be enough to start?
#Light wish
Message #155404
Hi Jonas, Lights that don't create specular shininess, but are location (or at least "area" specific, so not like ambient light. Works on the diffuse attributes of a material. I suppose a bit like radiosity, but more limited. I know how to work around it, but it gets to be…
Wade, Keep yer eyes open the next few months… you'll begin to see some images of the city uploaded. Paul S.
Jonas, Wouldn't object/tracks/copy work in many instances? I'm scriptaphobic for the time being. Paul S.
>> For example, what is the cost per minute to be in this forum (not including the regular connect rate)?
Bruce, >> Going by the sheer volume of D "verbose-r-us" G's posts, I think its safe to assume he's not communicating at 2400 baud.
Right tool for the job..
Message #155233
>> my weapon of preference for difficult hardware is a .44.
Dance, hardware!
Message #155209
>> You haven't lived until you've blasted a telephone or a defunct Sony CD player (covered with exploding targets, no less) with an AK-47, Uzi or (no joke) a honking big 30-pound Browning automatic rifle shooting 30.06.
>> Once I leave a msg here, feel free to quote it anywhere you want as long as it's intact and in context.
>> I'm curious if this illusion can be of any benefit in a virtual environment…
>> Was that a shot-gun you used or do you live you live in downtown LA?
>> Pretty soon, everything in the world is going to be patented, TM'd or copyright.
>> the manuals seemed to made of very combusable material.
>> If you lofted a surface of revolution, it would be an easy mistake.
Never mind, as David Marks suggested the face normals were flipped. It was lofted as a surface of revolution object, but the shape wasn't created with any "thickness," as the glass in the tutorials is shaped. I've created bottles before, but probably always created shapes with an inside and an…
>> As a user or camera view changes,
#Bottle madness
Message #154754
Hi Jonas, I'm uploading paulbotl.prj in a zip file to the mesh library, keywords FOR JONAS. I've lofted a basic bottle shape, but the mesh behaves very strangely. As a user or camera view changes, the bottle appears to rotate in the opposite direction, while the rest of the objects…
Good Luck! Paul S.
RE: WinCim 3 and "free." At 2400 baud it takes many hours, then you get charged $10, I think. FWIW. Paul S.
>> solid –> semi-solid –> gas –> Paul S. gas or gas = Paul S. but not gas –> Paul S. Paul S. Passing All Undercooked Lentils
Hi John, You could do this for objects by simply rendering your scene, no fog, with everything hidden but the object(s) in question, alpha on, then place these rendered frames in the Video Post queue below your KF scene, with alpha selected in the alpha column. Render again with the…
Hi Angela, >> I have textured trees of only 9 polygons each and such things that come in pretty handy in making virutal worlds.
Hi Wade, StudioCity is a collaborative group project that users of 3D Studio are putting together. It started on this forum (Asoft), but has just recently moved over to the new Showcase Forum (Ashowc). Basically (big inhale), it will be a city made up of meshes from individual contributors. Much…
>> Thesis Antithesis Synthesis … discuss … Flatus –> *critical point*
ASOFT screen saver
Message #154275
Hi Jonas, >> FWIW, on NT, I like running the supplied Opengl textured flag screen saver using the ASOFT Year Book page #1 as the texture.
Test project
Message #154124
>> You got access there cause I gave it to you, and I'm the one that will be doing the teaching…….
>> DOS has some limitation about only seeing so many files in the root directory. Maximum files in the root is 64??
>> I posted my interest last night, hope all who are concerned about Targa drivers for NT will do the same. Go Truevision.
Hi Joe, >> What we really need is a list of the committee members, their responsibilities and UID's so we can get the rest of the SC2K stuff set up in ASHOWCAS.
Hi Bob, >> No, what he said was that he was attempting to put the biggest financial burden on those who could afford more.
Hi Angela, >> contest > Paul, keep up the great work on SC2000! I sure am glad one of the original 3 organizers is still around. What happened to Kevin G. and Sanford? Where did they go and why?
Also, are you using interactive to set key frames, then letting IK calculate leg posotions? This will not solve for positions according to joint parameters, although it is a rather intuitive way to keyframe. You need to define an IK chain, then solve using a follow object to have IK…
>>The variations are for variety… …keeping most of the diffuse saturation low enough to look ok on video, and you should keep that in mind when you put yours together.
>> View objects in full detail or box on a per-object basis. Render samples in the mat editor at a cretain frame – so I can check out animated opacity maps without doing a full render, etc.
>> is there some way to get a hold of the USGS DEM files?
Welcome, Anne. Paul S.
#3DS material library
Message #153017
Hi folks, I was wondering who worked on the 3ds.mli? Donald Newlands and I are putting together an .mli for the StudioCity and Main Street projects, and it would be great to have some pointers from some "experts." Specifically, I'm wondering if there are reasons for the subtle variations between…
>> Is this message section traffic going to jump to ASHOWCASE soon? Now that StudioCity 2000 exists on ASHOWCASE, I image that this message area will be shutting down soon..
Hi Don, >> Let me know if you would be open to a contribution,
>> Good to see someone's really got something going !
RE: Gamma >> Well, it would break some of our rules to save different "versions" of the 3ds.prj file… (It gives me the willies to think about it.)
>> What methods/process would you recommend that I use to create imaginary terrain using 3DS3?
Hi Kevin, >> By commercialization concerns, are you referring to the creators legal rights to the use of models submitted? > BTW- do you think we'd be successful in getting people to participate?
>> We deliberately don't save gamma settings in PRJ files because we don't want folks who send PRJ files to other people, screwing up the other folks' gamma settings.
#Wishes
Message #152245
Hi Jonas, I may be off, but it seems like my gamma settings aren't being saved with my .prj files. It is easy to forget, and I use 2 different settings. 1.) .Prj files save gamma settings for all four variables. Also, if I load a map-path in during a…
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