This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Michael, email forthcoming. Input is from Vista DEM format, details of which will be emailed, and output is IFF HAM and Turbo Silver Object. Clint P.S. A terrain editor will be forthcoming in the not too distant future.
John: OK, got a little more data. The Landscape file contains an array (258,258) of elevations. There is a scale value which defaults to 30 meter increments for the X and Y coords. The DEM data from USGS is at 7.5 meter increments, but at that resolution, only a small…
John: The limit is with the data. If you had data from an electron microscope formatted in Vista DEM, you might be able to treat the XYZ coords as aangstroms or something nearly that small and render objects at a molecular level. You basically have to make sure that your…
To clarify how flexible the camera positioning is, you can set the X,Y,Z position down to the meter (though is meaningless below 7 meters), and you can set bank, pitch and yaw(?) (the three angles that specify what actual direction the camera is pointing, and is being held.) This allows…
Karl: We began shipping last Monday. I'll email you details. Clint
Don: It is available as of last Monday. Sorry, I can't say more without sounding commercial. Clint
Karl: This thread was an announcement for Vista, our new Landscape generator. It generates at highest resolution 133000 polygons, and can take USGS DEM data or randomly generated fractal data as input. You can save the fractal input as a DEM file if you want to keep it. You can…
Jeff: Thanks for the info! I'll look into it. Don't worry, I expect Vista to be around for quite awhile, and our philosophy is to never be satisfied, and try to keep making it better. Clint
Lou: I think Susie already has, but I'll check to be sure. Thanks, Clint
Ray: Currently uses 320 x 200 HAM. This was best we could do and still work on a 1 meg machine. A version that requires more memory and generates 500000 polygons and 320 x 400 is being looked at. Clint
True, but the Grand Canyon is one I want to see. Clint
Kevin: My brother lived in Colorado for more than 10 years, and I don't think it would take too much arm twisting to put that at the top of the list. Clint
Kevin: You can set any camera and target position up to 16000 meters apart. Settings are on one meter increments, but we are using 7.5 meter data, so that's the real limit on resolution. I'll put Colorado on the top of our list of data to obtain. With a stock…
Bill: I'll post an announcement whenever we get more data available. Yes, we are looking into a CD-ROM version for displaying 'flight paths'. Our data is USGS with our own header info (for coloring etc.), so reading their CD-ROM direct could have problems. We will send this header info to…
#New Product Announcement
Message #35057
Kevin: Later tonite I'll upload some IFF HAM landscapes produced with Vista. They are definitely pretty to look at. Clint
Jim: We are in the process of tracking down data for Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, and some of the moons of the outer planets. Clint
Kevin: We (VRLI) are in the process of obtaining additional USGS data for interesting areas within the US, around the world, undersea data, and planetary data for Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars and several satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. We will have disks available within 60 days I expect, and…
#New Product Announcement
Message #35035
New Product Announcement! ————————- Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc., publishers of Distant Suns, proudly announce the release of Vista. Vista is a unique landscape generation program which can use United States Geological Survey Digital Elevation Mapping data to produce realistic looking 3 dimensional landscapes. It produces output either as IFF HAM,…
New Product Announcement
Message #109181
New Product Announcement! ————————- Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc., publishers of Distant Suns, proudly announce the release of Vista. Vista is a unique landscape generation program which can use United States Geological Survey Digital Elevation Mapping data to produce realistic looking 3 dimensional landscapes. It produces output either as IFF HAM,…
Tomas, I am confused. I'm not sure what this thread is in reply to, and I don't remember making comments on anything related. Sorry, I don't have any 3D females for you, no matter what you might be willing to pay.
That might be possible. Will the Amiga Developers Assn have a formal newsletter? I may be getting ahead of myself. If any of the aforementioned people are listening, please add your $.02.
VRLI Moving
Message #97022
This is to let everyone know that Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc, Engineering offices are moving from Atwood, California to Santa Maria, California. Our (714)-524-1190 phone will be out of service beginning Saturday 7 april 1990. I will post our new number as soon as it becomes available. I am posting…
Larry, Yes, I know, but I posted here, because I felt that what developers want, the techies will be happy with. I was afraid that if posted in the more general 'hot news and rumors', we'd end up with another AmigaWorld. Clint
#Developer Magazine
Message #96928
There has been a lot of talk about what happened to Transactor, and who is going to pick up the slack. Rather than bemoan the unfairness of the fates, let's see if we can define what it is that we really want, how much we are willing to pay for…
Jack: Rather than write a book about this, I'll try to keep it simple: Amiga has more sophisticated graphics co-processors and a multi-tasking OS, both of which can greatly aid in graphics and animation development and replay. The ST has a superior audio setup (you need add-ons to make the…
John: Look in LIB 16 of Amigatech. Clint
Andrew: This won't be much help, but… I use Lattice and am quite happy with it. As a compiler writer myself, I gripe alot about the code produced by both Manx and Lattice, but really both are quite good. I have friends that swear by each of them, so I…
Don: When I asked at the devcon, I was told that you cannot use 1.4 on a 1000. You also need 1 meg of ram in first auto-config spot. Clint
Mark: What would you like to do with your Amiga? Welcome to the Compuserve Online Amiga Club. We're available at the oddest hours you can imagine. We're also as local as your CIS node. Clint
Alan: You probably will want a 2000 or 2500 series. Unix is supposed to be available or nearly so, but I doubt that the 500 can carry the load. There are alot of controllers that support ST-506 although the trend seems to be towards SCSI. Clint
Tim: Memory wise, I found the Spirit board quite reliable. I also used the 'Wedge' (made by a canadian company, don't remember name) to allow me to plug a PC controller onto the Amiga bus. For further hacking there is the LUCAS/FRANCES 68020/4meg 32 bit ram setup and the Rejuvenator…
Eet: And it drives Mike Roth banana's to know that you are using it. Clint
Eet: Since you are merely a figment of my overactive imagination, you can call yourself anything you'd like. Clint
Eet: Something non-disclosed? OK, you are not really from the 5th planet from Sirius, you are from the second planet from Betelguese. (Oops, there goes the neighborhood.) Clint
Greg, Around here it's Pizza and Dr. Pepper. They have saved many a late night. Clint
Betty: And I forgot, in addition to the board game, the computer game of Life. 🙂 Clint
Mike: My own reaction is that we will be developing under 1.4 as soon as it is stable enough. We need our software to be able to run under 1.3 for a while yet, but probably won't worry about 1.1 or 1.2 compatability any more. C= offers upgrades cheaply enough…
Greg: Actually, those are termites. You can't get true developers away from their machines long enough to find the woodwork. Introduction: We are Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc. Page 2-5: We are developing for the . Being under non-discloser sure limits the available adjectives. Actually we publish Distant Suns, and are…
Life is: 1) A cereal 2) A Game 3) A magazine 4) Lurking somewhere around Section 10 The answer could amaze you!
Kevin: As far as price goes, what you really get is about $300 – $400 back on your Amiga 1000. That's not bad, but you might get more from someone more sentimental to the 1000. The floppy will plug into the back of the 2000 the same way it plugs…
Conrad: If what you want can be expressed by 256 different characters, you can use the font editor to create your own font. The Japanese Kanji character set is a 16 bit character, and will need alot more ingenuity to make work. To be honest, I wouldn't tackle such a…
Jay: I would be using it for DTP, mainly producing user manuals. I put together the Distant Suns manual using PageStream and a 640 x 400 monitor, and I would love the additional real estate. I will certainly be looking into it as soon as I can allow my self…
Jay: Actually, I've been eyeing the Moniterm for quite some time for DTP applications, but it'll be awhile before I can afford it. It sounds like C= themselves let a bit of the cat out of the bag at AmiExpo, and once part of the cat is out, the rest…
Jay, Not a lawyer, but was concerned that you might have forgotton that this is an Open forum. I don't want C= to have any reason to lean on CIS. One of your statements began "In 1.4 there is…" which could lead others to believe that you were speaking authoratatively…
Darkin: Currently there is NO publically available information on the 3000, even as to whether or not it exists. The Panasonic is not one of the printere currently officially supported under the 1.3.2 version of the OS, however that is no guarantee that it will not work with one of…
Jay: At best, the above belongs in Hot News and Rumors. ALL developers who have 1.4 are under non-disclosure, so ANY information that is floating around belongs under a Rumor heading. Clint
Eet: Make that would not publicise… I never said I could type. Clint
Eet: We just got to make sure you Extra-Terrestrials know your proper place. Actually I figured that you would have used Altair to slingshot on your way in from Antares. That would have made you an Altair user. But then, you probably would publicise being a Betelgeuse user either. Clint
Homer: Welcome and well met! If you loved the expense of an Amiga, just wait til you get your CI$ bill. Stop by over in CO most any evening or night and say HI! Many of us are old Altair users (got mine in January of 1975) and have let…
Wayne: Welcome aboard! Come join us in CO any evening or late night. Get WHAP! for your messages, it'll save you enough so you can spend it in CO. Clint
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