This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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D'oh! I sure hope Impulse fixes this bug in 3.0. The utility of particles is greatly reduced if each particle is just a plain object without any of the textures or brushmaps that are one of Imagine's greatest assets. (And no, I wouldn't accept a cop-out such as "you can…
An Omega? Isn't that that funny games computer? Blaq!
You mean Peter's demo reels have a story line? Blaq!
Oh Gawwd, I'm spawning my own herd of dittoheads. Blaq!
Kapryan, on an 8mm-wide tape, the information is recorded in a smaller area than on 1/4-inch tape (VHS?), 1/2-inch, 1-inch or 2-inch tape. That little flake that falls off will therefore cause a much bigger glitch on 8mm tape than on 2-inch tape, which explains why TV stations tend to…
#Imagine 2.9 texture tips
Message #36686
[ continuation ] will have a marble-like quality. ——————————————— Hope these tips were usefull, play around with the params to further tweak these two textures…you'd be surprised what can be done. -GreG Here's something that I found very usefull and use very often. The new CNDAPPLE texture is GREAT for…
Imagine 2.9 texture tips
Message #36685
Ok folks, here's some more texture play for you guys. Imagine 2.9's DETHSTAR texture leaves much to be desired for my tastes. Here's a solution I came up with….use the RADWIND,TUBEWIND,RECTWIND textures to create multicolored spaceship panels: – Add a primitive sphere with it's default values. – Apply the RADWIND…
Brian, you're in for some good news: all the "big 3" Amiga image processing programs excel at performing the kind of post-processing you mentioned, and at a much lower price than Photoshop. The one I use is Imagemaster, and I find it a very complete solution. It includes all sorts…
Kapryan, as you may know, magnetic recording tape, like videotape for example, has a thin coating of a ferrous oxide substance laid upon a mylar base (the tape itself). If a flake of ferrous oxide "drops off" the tape, there can be no signal recorded on that tiny spot anymore.…
#IM bugs
Message #70407
Here are a couple of Imagemaster bugs related to ARexx commands. I'm using IM R/T 1.06 on a Firecracker/24. "Autoredraw 0" does not stop auto-redrawing. "Bright -50" gives an arithmetic error. Blaq!
Nate, I'm quite flabbergasted at the thought that I bought NOTHING AT ALL this year. I don't know if losing my job had anything to do with it, but I didn't feel the irresistible urge to buy some new hardware or software. Sure, I could use more memory, and an…
#Imagine/PC 2.0 fog?
Message #69782
Does Imagine/PC 2.0 have a bug regarding fog? I can't seem to get a global fog effect; creating a large fog cube object doesn't help either.
Ben, does this mean the flood fill tool is finally fixed? In earlier versions, it would miss any pixels on the bottom row and right column of the selected area. Blaq!
Jerry, if your deadline is sometime in January, then I have a good chance at completing one of 2 anims by then, which means I'll be able to put together a short demo reel. If not, well I can always hope there will be a volume III! Blaq!
Nate, It'll be pretty easy to spot me this year. I just made a badge with my name and "CompuServe member". Pretty evident. I would push for Saturday after closing time, the front/left corner of the Red Lobster restaurant.
John, while reading Wired, I stumbled onto an item about "teradactyl nightmare", a misspelling of the classic Virtuality game; however, it gave me a good enough scare that I had to boot up WordPerfect and ensure I hadn't mistakenly given out the improper spelling. Fortunately, I was right. It's p-t-e-r-o-d-a-c-t-y-l.…
Finally! To be honest, some of those POV images were good, but a couple were downright lame, and showed what a poor choice of submissions had been made. I figure if we get to work, us Amigans and Mac folks should win this thing most every month of the year!…
Craig, all I can say is, you must see the CN Tower. It's not overrated, not one minute. And I advise on eating at Red Lobster next to the International Centre; you pay almost as much for those inedible burgers on the show site as you would for Red Lobster's…
Uhh John? "Pterodactyl" is spelled just like that. Blaq!
Peter, Eeek! Hast thou forgotten my obsession with flying logos? But seriously, the timing may be a bit off for me. I'm starting work on two, 20-second animations, and once that's done, I can whip up a few Imagemaster effects and have enough footage for a small but enjoyable contribution.…
[ continuation ] Software such as CrossDOS, which is included with Workbench versions 2.1 and up, allows your Amiga to read and write PC disks transparently. And there you have it, a 3-step plan to get your mug on a mug. Street prices for all this should hover around $400.…
Steven, A one-stop, inexpensive solution is a box called DCTV, from Digital Creations. It's a video digitizer, high-color output adapter and paint software. DIGITIZER: DCTV has an RCA Video In jack, and will digitize an image from a camera or paused VCR in about 10 seconds. Some consumer VCRs have…
[ continuation ] If you're on a budget, Amiga hardware and especially software tend to be more affordable than PC equipment. At the high end, there's less difference between the animation throughput of a 486 compared to an Amiga 4000, but for low-budget projects, a $500 Amiga will run circles…
Stephen, The Amiga 1200 is a wonderful multimedia delivery platform. It displays SVGA-like graphics at a surprisingly fast clip, is fully multitasking, and has built-in stereo sound. With hard drive but no monitor, it's around $600. When coupled with a program called AmigaVision, it can control a laserdisc player. Add…
[ continuation ] left corner. On the main screen, change the perspective settings so that the angle step is 30. On the numeric keypad: press Enter and Shift-7. Your text will be slanted. Stamp the pointer at the bottom of the screen, at a position where the brush will be…
Chris, Since you mentioned public domain, I'll assume your budget approaches zero. Here are some low/no-cost solutions: LETTERMAN-TYPE TOP 10 LIST: If I remember correctly, the Top 10 list "pops" items abruptly onto the screen. You can duplicate this with DPaint! Starting from scratch, load your background and add one…
Joe, could you mail me a copy if you get a reply? I'd like to tinker with automatic Supergen control myself. Thanks! Blaq!
Brad, Victor Osaka is a Los Angeles-based 3-D artist and designer. He founded Turbo SIG for users of Turbo Silver, which became the 3-D Art Forum when the group's mandate was widened to users of non-Impulse 3-D software. He can be reached at (213) 398-7649. I got this number from…
David, but on the Amiga, Imagine supports 24-bit display via the Firecracker24 and Opalvision boards. Blaq!
Yeah Jerry, you could sell the old tape at the new price. Since you make them yourself, you could certainly whip up a copy of Amiga Gang I if and when you get a request? Blaq!
Point taken about the need to redo my changes with each upgrade that comes along: that's why I want to create an ARexx program to recreate the changes if I install a newer version of IM R/T. I can visualize the kind of formatting errors which will occur if I…
And I must add, for non-version 1.06 owners, that this concept of "saving" vs. "rendering" is well explained in the new introductory material. Anyone who upgrades and reads the new docs is in for a serious shock.
This is actually for Mike: like Jeff, I'm totally enamored with the new Quick Edges option! Redraws are incredibly fast, yet I can quickly create a set of quick edges which will still give me a decent idea of what my object looks like. For example, with the Pick Edges…
Mike, actually, I opened the Imagine package at 7:30 PM, and this list was typed up at 11:00 PM, after a couple of hours of doodling in Imagine. (I noted new features as I read them) Your addendum was just perfect, by the way. Not a real manual, but certainly…
Wayne, when a european magazine says a program will run on "all Amigas", it's safe to assume they mean "all PAL Amigas" and any NTSC compatibility should be considered a bonus. Blaq!
Peter, why do you say that Impulse's low-price Imagine 2.0 means that conscientious users like you and me are subsidizing Imagine pirates? Just the opposite: I would think that the status quo, where Impulse is losing out on mega sales, is where we're subsidizing pirates. Impulse's offer will lure many…
#Imagine 3.0, uhhh…
Message #68525
[ continuation ] As expected, Imagine feels a whole lot more like Lightwave now. Even if such niceties as Bones and Kinematics aren't available yet, what _is_ there is more than enough to play with for many, many moons. I'm sure you have many questions, but for now, it's time…
Imagine 3.0, uhhh…
Message #68524
[ continuation ] ACTION —— -ASSOCIATE: Forces a "slave" object (e.g. the camera) into a fixed distance and angle from a "driver" object (e.g. a rollercoaster car). Much easier than creating separate motion paths or fiddling around with track objects. -LAYERS: Each actor lives in a layer (0-99); many actors…
Imagine 3.0, uhhh…
Message #68523
[ continuation ] (your "base object"). You then deform it, change its attributes and/or move its elements if it's a hierarchy. The new object is called a "state"; for example, "sitting man", "standing man" and "man with raised hand and big nose" are states; the third state also incorporated some…
#Imagine 3.0, uhhh…
Message #68522
..well, not quite. (WARNING: this message is one big spoiler! If you don't want to spoil the surprise when you receive Imagine, don't read this!) What I got was Imagine 2.9. Yep, Impulse has yet some more delivery problems. Not all bugs have been squashed, so they have released an…
Ben, I would like to write an ARexx macro that will change all font references in my Imagemaster ApAssist docs, so that text is displayed in Courier 13 and up. (That tiny, non-proportional Topaz 8 is one of the things I hate the most about my Amiga!) Before I undertake…
one thing I noticed about ApAssist is, when clicking on "Back Navigate" and the "document visist list" comes up, you should be showing the _end_ of the list, not the beginning. I thought the feature didn't work before I noticed the slider was all the way to the top. Since…
Paul, "I hate it when the leader is longer than the demo." That mirrors one of my old computer animation jokes, most relevant if you rewind back a few years when computer animation reels were an event, a curiosity shown once a year at some repertory theatre or engineering school…
I want the external drive! I'll add $5 to compensate for postage to Canada, making it $45. Please send me your address in E-mail. At last! My CDTV will finally have the drive it needs to boot up as a Parnet server! And not a moment too soon: had the…
John, If you need to preserve line formatting in part of your message, as in that columnar price list, start each line with a period. This flags CompuServe not to reformat that line. Blaq!
Don't forget Gold Disk's Video Director. It raises the hair on the back of my neck when Amiga support, which used to be mentioned in 8-pt. type in their ads, has now totally disappeared. You'd think our computers were some kind of disgusting, mutant plague!
I'll be there Friday, Saturday and maybe Sunday. It feels wicked blowing a vacation day on WOCA, but you only live once, right? And I'd probably lose my Nerds Of North America membership if anyone heard I stayed at work that day. I hope everyone will be wearing some kind…
your interests may lie in sci-fi models, but if your goal is to _sell_ your models, consider the following: the vast majority of sci-fi users are hobbyists, like you, and they won't pay for objects. Your shareware experiment has shown that. People who do video for a living, however, will…
Andrew, If your original scan is dithered, presumably using 16 colors, blurring it would not necessarily bring out all 255 shades. Remember, Garbage In, Garbage Out. One thing you could do is run Imagemaster's Dynamic Range operator on the entire image; this will stretch your image's contrast to range from…
Peter, I don't mean to be rude, but… you're using a multitasking computer, remember? Couldn't you simply load up Imagemaster, as I did, and precisely document the steps needed? Usually, your short replies are to the point, but in this case it's a mishmash of "I believe that…" and "I…
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