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You might want to talk to the folks at Trylobyte (they put out a shareware hi-res flic player available on this forum. They are the authors of a CD-ROM title, The Seventh Guest, which sounds like a similar concept to yours, and is distributed (published?) by Virgin. I'm not sure…
Thanks for the info, Ana. I was getting confused, because I talked with an EISA indoctrinated (after spending $1300 bucks on a AMI MB he'd better be!) friend of mine who tried to convince me that VLB SCSI cards would only provide ISA performance. I kind of figured he wasn't…
Thanks for the info. BTW, do remember what issue of PC Mag that article was in? I'd be very interested in reading it. I'm sure I'm getting an ASPI card, and a FAST SCSI drive next, so I'd like to be as informed (ha!) as possible before I shell out…
#SCSI II FAST VLB
Message #49218
Hi Ana. I was wondering, with you knowledge of all the gobs of confusing hardware out there, if you knew anything about SCSI II FAST VLB cards. I've seen Future Domain, Bus Logic, and Ultrastore flavors. First question: Does VLB offer any improvement in data transfer for SCSI? Does it…
I Greg. I'll be in town for Siggraph, though I'm not exactly sure of my arrival time. I'd like to show up for your get-together. And I'm almost totally definitely maybe probably absolutely sure our gol-danged demo tape will be ready by then, too. Please let me know when, where,…
3D Acad entities -> 3DS
Message #48847
Wonder if anyone can help me on this one. I just spent eight hours yesterday beating my head against the wall, doing everything wrong. I'm trying to take polylines with 3D info, representing rooftops of a city that is part of an Acad terrain model, and extrude, loft or whatever…
How do you like the Animation Commander? I'm considering buying one, but haven't heard too much about it, just vague raves about how good it is. ^.^ jt
John, a minimal setup would include 4megs ram, 386/25 although any 386 without a math co-processor will afford outrageous rendering times, and at least 250megs of HD space. There are so many graphics cards to choose from that you would pretty much have to decide what you will be using…
#3d Acad entities ->3DS
Message #48839
Wonder if anyone can help me on this one. I just spent eight hours yesterday beating my head against the wall, doing everything wrong. I'm trying to take polylines with 3D info, representing rooftops of a city that is part of an Acad terrain model. I have imported the actual…
Thanks for the reply. I thinks it's Central Point stuff that's conflaggerating the setup. I use Maxell tapes, lifetime warranty. ^.^ jt
Hi Joe. A frame buffer is a video card that actually loads the pixels into its on board memory. Many frame buffer cards (i.e. Targa+, AIVista) have RGB, NTSC output that allows you to view the rendered (or otherwise acquired) frame on a video monitor, as opposed to a VGA…
#CMS 120 tribulations
Message #48416
Has anyone out there suffered through Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 120 troubles? I recently installed one in my 486/66 VLB (video+I/O), and have had many wierd problems: Crosslinked files resulting in complete hard drive crash (probably not related, but happened right after the CMS was installed) LOTS of errors reading…
Animator Pro, from Adesk, comes with a high-res flic player that'll do any resolution you have drivers for. It's got GUI and works nicely. Trilobyte has a shareware highres flic player, and is available on this forum. ^.^ jt
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same Exclibur, but that was shot on film, and (practically) all film is shot at 24fps. Back in the old days (silent, hand cranked) they shot at 18fps. Video needs to be specially synched to work with film, so digital video effects…
The World Toolkit CD-ROM that comes with 3D Studio has a lot of bump maps on it. You can make your own, too. All you have to do is scan (or otherwise acquire) an image, preferably TGA format, and use it as a bump map. I always convert the image…
glad I could help. ^.^ jt
Try creating a dummy (Hierarchy), and linking both camera and target to this dummy. Set the camera as you would normaly, but move the dummy in the keyframes, instead of the camera and target seperately. You could also link the camera and target to the object you are 'shooting', but…
It is possible that you are getting a strobe effect between camera speed, frames, and bumps per distance. Kind of like spokes on a wheel when they look like their rotating opposite the wheel. One fix is to change the size of the bumpy metal. Another is to change camera…
Not only does 3D studio come with a CD-ROM with a gagillion texture, bump, and whateverelse maps, but you can create you own materials in any decent imaging software like photoshop/styler, animator pro, etc… . And, yes, there are third party materials libraries available, though I haven't yet tried any.…
PMJI, but if the other excellent suggestions don't word, and there is a large piece of geometry adjacent (preferrably at a steep angle to the cable) you can have the cable enter this adjacent geometry (i.e. a servo box that is attached to the main body of the crane). The…
Simplicity is usually the best way to go. If you have Animator Pro, you might consider doing a 2D flic of lightning there. Ani Pro gives you a lot of control over color, and you can save yourself the complication of trying to reproduce a model of lightning(!). Then apply…
Martin– Excellent idea. I really like the idea of compositing traditional film trickery with modern 'byte' induced hallucinations.
John, sounds like a dream come true. Please fill me in on the the conversion stuff in greater detail. You can send me a message, or send hard mail to the following: John Tissavary La Luna Cie John Tissavary 1782 Pacific #2 San Francisco, Ca. 94109 415.673.0812 I am looking…
I'm new on this forum, and missed the what, where, when, and why of the 3ds book. I'm interested. jt
Try Imagine interface, from Shriber Instruments in Colorado. It works. I don't have their number, but they also market the Yost group IPAS routines, so somebody'll post the number, I'm sure.
Can you get your hands on an Orchid Farenheit (@$220 VLB, $175 ISA)? The drivers WORK (!), and the card is excellent, with high refresh rates, hires, and 16.7 million colors at 640×480. It'll also support 1280×1024 for psycho Autocad work. They also have excellent product support, which sold me.…
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