This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#Materials not in animatn
Message #96837
HHHEEEELLLLPPPP! I've got an EXTREMELY frustrating situation, and I don't know what to do about it!! Basically, I can apply materials to an object, and render a still of it, and it looks great. I can create the animation in the keyframer, and again can render a single frame, and…
John, Looks like I've got a busy few days ahead! Ta, RAC (at 20:23 BST 06-Apr-94)
John, This is exactly the stuff that I'm trying to do! If you consider an aileron, it's swept up by the dihedral and swept back by the wing-sweep, so its hinge-line has got NO relation to any x/y/z axis – and then there's the one on the other side as…
Marion, I'm in *I'm not sure what you mean but I'll try it* mode! It takes a bit of translating of what I think 3DS thinks is an object, and now calling it an element! I think the fact that we both have these problems, and that the ways around…
Marion, is certainly the key here! When I consider most man-mad structures, most of them use hinge-lines inherent in the structure, so what I'm after is something sort of built-into the structure I create in 3DS, to mimic these! I'm getting p******d off trying to rotate a flap or a…
Jonas, A couple more for your list … 1) being able to specify text to be a specific font-size. At the moment the definition is purely the y-height of the text, and so varies dependon on whether what you're typing does/does not have ascenders or descenders. 2) rather than having…
#VP3 Tips
Message #35097
John, Thanks for the info re Session-DEM,it works great, AND simplifies my Startup.Scr! To All, if you missed it, In VP3, to set up a complete starting environment, even including things that STARTUP.SCR _can't_ set up, set up VP3 as you want it to be at startup (trees, clouds, palette…
#VP3
Message #34799
Clint, It's arrived! My upgrade to VP3 arrived today, and was installed within 30 minutes of getting home! Works great – nice product, thanks for the service. Question re Startup.Scr – is there any way of setting/clearing the GrMode commands EnableScreen, Enable8Bit, Enable24Bit from the Startup.Scr ? I'd like to…