This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#3DS suggestion
Message #24025
I might have suggested this one before but I've been thinking about it again: I have a lot of spots in my animations where you just sit for a few frames (like 15) and admire the view. 3DS seems to render each frame seperately, so it takes a while. Is…
Thanks. I understand that this isn't at the top of the list, but it might be a fairly easy function to add. I think that most people would base their charges for animation on the length of the finished sequence, but I bet that there would be a lot of…
#A strange? 3DS wish…
Message #23809
Gary and Co.: I have a suggestion for a future edition of 3DS but I'm not sure whether it is really as good an idea as I think that it is. I do a lot of segment animations because I need my rendering machine during the day. I often set…
Chris: Thanks for the advice. I think that I remember that the Syquest drives are SCSI – are yours, and if so are you using their controller? Thanks Chris P.S. I'm a little dissapointed that more places aren't running the rewritable optical drives – Mine gets 290 Meg on each…
Mark: I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I wasn't trying to convinve you that you didn't need a 3D package. I like 3DS a lot (so much that I bought myself a copy at home!) but I still use Animator Pro. My main use for it…
Chris: Thanks, I'll look for Zipit. Several of the service bureaus that I've talked to use Syquest removable winchester drives. I have got a rewritable optical drive at work that would be even better, but fewer places sem to use it. I mainly need to move big files between home…
Mark: I'm **not** trying to sell you off of 3D animation at all. You were looking, I thought, for something relatively inexpensive before you got 3DS. We've done some 16mm animation, but it requires some pretty expensive hardware to do right. We've got an analog film recorder (a Matrix Multicolor)…
ProVas ADI driver
Message #22279
If anybody out there is using the Lyon Lamb ADI driver for the ProVas or MiniVas animation controller, I wonder if you are having the same problems that I am. I can use their VasTools to record from TGA files without problems. If I record from 3DS, it runs through…
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#SAFE FRAME bug?
Message #22278
Chris: Message 22207 outlines a way to grab the position of the last frame that sounds perfect for this problem. I have to move animations between work and home, but I split them mainly to keep the size of the texture and opacity maps down. Some of my maps for…
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#Which Software To Buy?
Message #22277
Mark: I think that if you can keep everything in memory, you get the best possible speed. I know from experience (and from the manuals!) that if an Animator Pro animation is too big to fit into memory you get a visible pause in the replayed flic when it hits…
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SAFE FRAME bug?
Message #22276
No, I didn't! (I'm printing your msg even now…) I have been writing down the X,Y,Z data for everything in my notebook, moving the first frame to match those coordinates, and and then killing all of the other keys so the animation starts where the last one left off. Thanks…
Stealth disks
Message #21706
I've noticed something about 3DS that is a little wierd. I have a multifunction optical disk drive at work set up as drive G: and a CD-ROM drive at home also set up as drive G:. (Both machines have stacked C and D drives and E and F as the…
Phil: Thanks! I'll be looking for it. Chris
Thanks: I'll play with it this weekend. Chris
Lee: Thanks, that was the question that I was trying to ask. It sounds like you got to SIGGRAPH this year. I didn't – how was it. What was this year's "hot topic"? (SigGraph usually seems to have one topic that seems to be big. A couple of years ago…
Mike: You **were** the one that told me that the IPAS kit wasn't available yet, weren't you? I was wondering if you (or anybody else) had heard anything about when it would be out. Chris
Chris: I'll keep working on the animated texture maps and let you know how they work out. An opacity map would be fine for one material diffusing into another, but I need two materials diffusing into a third. Chris
Chris: I don't have an answer for you (yet…) but I have a similar problem trying to do a model with two colored solutions diffusing into each other. I got a suggestion to use an animated texture map but I haven't worked out a map that I like yet. Chris…
Mike: Thanks for the word on the IPAS kit. Are you taking names of requestors or do we just ask again when the announcement comes out? Chris
Luke: The Conference? It looks like May of 1993 at the Akron U Polymers Building. It is being cosponsored by SAMPI and NCGA. It looks like there are going to be about 8 invited papers, and a manufacturer's demo/display area. In fact, we're still looking for a keynote speaker. We're…
#IPAS reference
Message #20041
I was reading Appendix C of the 3DS2 manual and it suggests that I contact you to find out about getting the IPAS reference and sample code. So, how do I get it? Thanks, Chris
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Liquid movement Help!
Message #20040
That sounds good. I was thinking along the lines of using a FLC to animate the diffusion, but I had not thought it through yet, or done any experiments. I'll try your suggestion and see how it works out. Since I work in a materials science group, a **lot** of…
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#Sony EVO-9650
Message #19652
I've been reading your thread about the Sony EVO-9650 and I have a question. I read a discussion of formats for single frame animation where the author criticized the 8mm format because it wasn't rugged enough for this kind of editing. Have you had any experience with tape wear or…
SigGraph Book Spying
Message #19649
It dosen't look good for my getting to SigGraph this year (and I wanted to snag the new 3DS demo tape! ) and was wondering if I could recruit some one to snoop the Academic Press booth for me. If somebody has the chance, take a walk by the Academic…
Sure, your 33 MHz Weitek would, since the DX2 is the clock doubled chip and the outside world sees it running at 33 MHz. I would be interested in somebody comparing rendering times between the internal coprocessor and an external Weitek on a 25/50 MHz DX2 system. Since the Weitek…
Jack: No, not yet. I thought of that as soon as I had the problem. I'll borrow a cable from work and see if it makes any difference. My cable is probably more complete than most commercial cables, but one line in a place that the dongle dosen't expect it…
Keith: Actually, I haven't tried printing to the port on my computer at work that has the dongle on it. It is a color printer (and a wierd one!) so if anybody gives me trouble through the dongle this one should. Chris
Kevin: Well, **I** didn't see your warnings about the Weitek/IceCap combinations! Actually, I had to wait a while for the computer so I had the Weitek and IceCap sitting in my filing cabinet until this week. I bought the combination based on the original stories about the combination (and, in…
#BE CAREFUL WITH WEITEK!
Message #18606
Folks: I just found out today that the combination of a Weitek 4167-33 and an IceCap running in a 50 MHz 468 system ***DOES NOT*** always run properly. Although this has been recommended as a way to get a Weitek on a 50 MHz system, Weitek no longer seems to…
I understand about the variation in systems. I haven't tried my system at work yet. The Hardware Lock is on LPT2, which is on a cable with a parallel line amp and a color printer which is shared, so it is always on. I haven't tried running 3DS2 with the…
Does that mean that the hardware lock gizmo isn't as transparent as it is supposed to be, or did the designers of the offending CPU boards do something wrong? Chris
#The Dongle lies!
Message #18490
I just got a copy of 3DSR2 on my system at home. I have my HP LaserJet II connected through the hardware lock on LPT1 (the only parallel port I have) through a cablw that I made myself some years ago. When I start 3DS it tells me that the…
Great! I hope to be able to get there. I got to the show in Dallas two years ago and was hoping to get to Chicago this year. Our travel money is always tight but I think that I have a good chance to loosen up enough for me to…
Are you going to be around the Autodesk area on the exhibit floor? I would like to come by and say high in the physical world if you are (and if I can get there! ) but I'm probably not going to get there until Wed or so. Chris
My 30 frame test animation was just that – a test. I wanted to see if it looked like a hallway when I animated ot, or if any more holes would show up. (I keep finding little pieces of wall that aren't there at all or that have their normals…
I thought that the window hole was probably being skinned over when it was translated into 3DS. I figured that AME would fix the problems **if** my magic number to turn it on would ever come. I should go beat on our procurement people and find out if they've ordered…
#Invisible windows…
Message #18287
I've been playing with a drawing of the building that I work in. It is a 3D Autocad R11 drawing, mainly of the floor that I work on. (I'm going to use it for a walkthrough tour of our labs) I've tried to isolate each different material on its own…
Ok, thanks. I have the SCSI interface at C800 and it is stealthed, so the EMS page might be sitting over the SCSI BIOS. The wierd thing is that I can still use the drive. I'll play with QEMM and see what happens. Thanks again Chris
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3ds rel 2 Qemm Problems
Message #17106
Robert: I have a very similar system, but I ended up putting the Targa+ at E000 and stealthing out all of the ROM from C000 on up to the BIOS. The SCSI card at C800 is stealthed and still seem to work. The trick was to use ST:M, NVR, X=D000-EFFF…
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#3ds rel 2 Qemm Problems
Message #17105
A combination of Stealth (ST:M), NVR and X=D000-EFFF did it! Everything works as it should (well, almost everything) – rendering, materials editor, etc. My Lyon-Lamb animation controller even started to work right! The only thing is that my Rewritable Optical drive is on a SCSI adapter at C800 which has…
I've got my SCSI controller at C800 and it "stealthed" when I set QEMM's Stealth parameter to ST:M with NVR turned on. So, if I exclude **both** the D000 and E000 pages, and put the Targa+ at E000, everything pretty much works. Before, 3DS2 would tell me that it was…
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#3ds rel 2 Qemm Problems
Message #16934
How much of the D000 page does the Phar Lap extender need? The whole thing? Thr reason that I ask is that I applied your (and several other people's) suggestions for setting up QEMM386 and managed to free up a LOT of memory. Unfortunately, I am still having problems. I…
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#3ds rel 2 Qemm Problems
Message #16364
Do you know if there is a Targa+ 16/32 ADI rendering driver version for 3DSR2? I've got the driver that I was using under R1 and (as we've discussed before) am having some problems with crashes when I render a scene and later switch to the materials editor. Chris
#3DS2 lockups
Message #15962
I'm still getting the occasional system lockup or reset on 3DS2. I have the Targa+ device driver 1.13 dated December 91 installed as well as the Lyon-Lamb VTR controller driver, which dosen't seem to have any effect – I get lockups with or without it. I don't have **it** working…
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#Anger re: Autodesk
Message #15961
Dale: I've used Animator Pro for a couple of major and minor projects and found it fairly easy to learn for a program that does as much as this one does. I thought that the tutorial was about the best I've seen and the manuals are also quite good. I…
#3DS2 lockeps?
Message #15556
I Just got my copy of 3DS2 yesterday. It installed ok (although I had a bad disk 2 on two of the three machines I tried to back it up on. This is the second Autodesk product that I've had a disk problem with in the last month or so)…
Noah: Please e-mail me a rate/service card, too. I've been thinking about the options for doing 3DS animation and having somebody else do the recording makes good sense, at least at the outset. Chris
I think that it was about $200K list price when we got it. We got a deal and paid about $20K for it. (Actually, it was bought as part of a big NASA numerical modeling project. I'm sure SGI got paid a lot closer to the $200K than the $20K!…
How about our SGI 4D 340GSX? (I have the recurring dream about 3DS running on our SGI machines…) Chris
Kevin: Sounds logical. I'll have to try it when I get my 3DS update. I already have one dongel (on LPT1) and I hesitate to put one between LPT2 and my Tektronix color printer. I've had enough trouble with that thing by now! (I've got one port on the Tek…
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