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crashing with 64 megs
Message #195752
Anyone I have a render farm of 5 pentiums, 3 of which have 64Mb RAM and 2 have 32Mb. I have an animation that is networked rendered that uses about 26Mb RAM and 3D Studio is crashing intermitently on the systems that have 2 x 32Mb simms whereas the systems…
This problem also happend to us. Any tools which require the colour used for selecting faces (user..view..align) for example. I also fixed this by going back to 256 colours -Phil
Vista Pro and 3ds
Message #189516
Hi. I use 3ds ver4 and Vista Pro v3 (Windows) and would like to export the flight path from Vista Pro to use in 3ds. I know I can go from 3ds to VistaPro via a VUE file but can it be done the other way? Phil..
#Shadow problem
Message #186745
Gary I am uploading a file (shadows.3ds) in the project/meshes area that I am having a major problem with. The shadows are complete on frame 191 and truncated on 192. This happens with both ray traced shadows and shadow mapped shadows. It is a small part of a major architectural…
#Lighting Problem
Message #185602
Gary, "When Attenuation is off, the omni light casts light of equal intensity in all directions, regardless of the distance from the light to the object" If this statement from the 3ds user manual is correct, why is it so difficult for me to get an even light in a…
#Un-wrap the world
Message #179247
A client of mine has asked for an effect!!. The old spinning globe un-folding into a flat map. I have got quite a few nice images to use as texture maps for the spinning globe. But how do I un-fold it to show a complete world map. Any thoughts would…
Thanks for the idea, I think that is the best idea so far and I shall try it when I get a moment. What I decided to do eventually was a less detailed dark wooden frame.
Thanks for the suggestion. But I really need it to be very ornate with scroll bits on the corners and in the centre top & bottom. I could try bump mappping a texture on to it but the angle we are looking at the frames is very acute and I…
#Gilt picture frame
Message #170024
Has anyone created a gilt picture frame. The sort that would house one of the old masters in an art gallery. I need one pretty urgently so if anyone can help with donating one to a worthy cause or any tips on how to construct and texture one I would…
#animated air molecules
Message #169134
Can anyone help with a problem I am having trying to recreate the way that air molecules move when transferring sound. e.g. when a drum skin is hit the air molecules in front of the skin space out and as the skin comes back the molecules compress causing the molecules…
Thanks for the quick response. 5 machines: 2×486 dx50 (32mb) 2×486 dx66 (32mb) (one of these has the PAR) 1×486 dx66 (16mb) Avarage rendering time varys from 30 secs to 15 mins per frame. And the PAR usually misses the last few (4 – 10) We run Novell Lite. Thats…
#ParOut
Message #163325
Greg, I have a small problem with Parout.ixp which I have recently bought from Digimation, they passed my over to you for tech. support. Parout wrks like a dream, (no more coming into work early to watch 375 frames of animation load into my PAR). The only thing I cannot…
Thanks for that idea, but I already have an MPEG playback card (videologic) and it was really software that I was looking for. -Phil
PAR TO MPEG
Message #154942
Can anybody tell me the easyest way to create an MPEG file for use on an MPC from live action captured on our PAR. -Phil.
I also have a few 928 movie cards and when I first installed them, I could not get the S3 928 vibrant driver to give me 65535 colours, (the screen just kept going green and blank!!), but I found a soloution to this quite by accident, after I had installed…
David Thanks a lot for that suggestion. We hadn't thought of that. That will work excellently. Alan
David Thanks for your reply, unfortunatly we do need 32 bit files only, I wonder if there is a util that will enable us to join the 24 bit and the 8 bit together ?? -Phil
Thanks for the quick response, I actually remember reading that message a while ago. I think that the effect that I am after is a bit simpler than the one you explained. I only need to blur the 3d model and the asscoiated matte. I would like to keyframe the…
#Video Post – alpha ?
Message #137625
Gary, I am having a few problems using video post. What I want to do is render a 3ds scene in video post and then do a pull focus on the camera do obtain my effect. Not a problem so far (blur.ixp) , but I also need to blur the…
Yes, I want to record YUV onto the Betacam and monitor in RGB I didn't really want to put a transcoder in the equation.
#PAR or Targa 2000
Message #136152
Can any body tell me if their is a main difference between the T2000 and the PAR, I have seen both boards in demo situations but I still don't know which one I want to get. I know the differnce in resoloution, that makes little difference to me and I…
Thanks for the help. It seems to have solved the problem.
#network rendering
Message #134281
I have a problem with network rendering giving me false information. i.e. telling me machines are running when they are not, machines have failed when they haven't, entries are complete when they are not etc. etc. etc. Our network is working fine using Novell Lite to link 5 systems together.…
#explode – duration
Message #124003
Gary, I am having a nightmare this evening, it is getting late and I want to go home, I know that the problems I am facing this evening will still be there tommorow morning to ruin what would otherswise be a good day!!!! I am using your explode IPAS routine…
#wireframe
Message #112117
I have created a 3ds mesh of a tent (a flat based triangular prism) and I need to first see it as wireframe and then as wireframe with solid sides. I am having a problem that if the two shapes occupy the same 3d space you get the wireframe lines…
Thanks for the suggestions James. I havn't had a chance to try anything out as yet. 7 June. Alan
Jack, Thanks for the reply. Phil
It was a flag in the 3ds.set file that changes from r2 transparency to r3 Phil
Thanks for the soloution, it works a treat, but does anybody know if the problem will be solved in the future?? Cheers. Phil..
light rays
Message #105042
I have created a model that requires light rays that stream through a metal grill. I have tried several methods such as additive transparency boxes, cylinders etc. None of which give me an acceptable result. The scene itself is quite dark and needs a sort "Close Encounters" ethereal light. Can…
#Opacity map – problem
Message #105041
Greg, We have come across a strange problem within 3ds r3 and that is that when using opacity maps to either fade in or out objects or even just to put a logo on an object , the transparent area (black) does not becom fully transparent, it leaves a slightly…
Thanks for the information, I've had no fax as yet but I am still waiting. The license fee you mentioned if I wanted to distribute our work on CD-ROM using your player , what kind of $$ are we talking?? Phil
Sounds to good to be true, I have a few simple questions, does the compressed file need a special player to play the animations, if so is the player free to distributed with graphics that we create ??. Is there any UK distributers or do I get from your self.…
lighting samples
Message #92605
I am looking for examples of the new projected bitmap and other similar lighting effects, I have a client who is interested in shafts of light etc. I have not got time do do any examples myself but I am sure somebody must have some really good pieces of work…
There is very little difference in hardware, an extra IDE drive and thats it, but I was talking to somebody yeserday who suggested that I run VISTALD GENLOCK.OUT before entering 3ds3 which I did, and for some reason, the problem has gone away (for now) I have no idea why…
No I havn't, when I got r3 I used the latest version of RDPVISTA but it completly slowed down everything that happend on my VGA!! I eventually swapped to the driver VistaH to get round this problem. Do you think the latest version will still have that side effect on…
#video post Vista prob.
Message #91289
Help , I have 3 3d Studio systems, all running on the ATVISTA , 2 on 50mhz machines and one running at 66mhz, on one of the 50mhz machines when I render in Video Post, my vista goes nuts!!!, after the render and the processing is done, the images is…
Steve, Thanks for your reply, but I don't have any of the software you mentioned, what I want is something like Graphics Workshop which is public domain and cheap !!
#FLC > AVI
Message #85859
I am looking for piece of software that will convet FLC files into windows AVI files, is it possible and is there any problems that people may have come across doing the same thing.
#flic > quicktime
Message #82239
I am looking for a util to convert a flic into a Quicktime Movie or a PICS file on the mac. Is there such a program???
reflection mapping
Message #81216
Can anybody help me sort a problem I am having in creating a chrome or gold surface within 3ds3, I always end up with a gathering of the reflection in places I don't want !!. I have tried reflection flip in system options, and that doesn't have the required effect,…
Just an idea, when we want to outline our text in 3ds we use the bevel tool in the lofter then select the beveled edge and change it's colour to form the outline. Hope this helps Phil.
Thanks for the "PIG" files and sorry, I have not got back to you sooner. Unfortunately, the job is now not going ahead and we will not be needing the pig. Thanks for your time anyway and if anything else like this comes up we will give you a call.
rotation problem
Message #70523
Has anyone had problems with rotating objects in the keyframer. If a rotate is applied to an object and then you pull through the timeline the object does not rotate at all. This was a problem that we have experienced many times on earlier releases and is still a major…
#File Deleting Problem
Message #68045
HELP ME !!! I am losing a lot of valuable data from within 3d Studio, it seems that whenever I view an images from within 3ds that is on a network drive, it erases it. Why Why Why… It used to do the same thing from within 3ds r2 but…
landscape creation
Message #67808
I need to create a mountain range that tapers to sea level at all of the edges. I have looked at the fractal generators (also Kaoslandscape on the CD-Rom) but these all create a surface that is fine as long as you do not see the perimeter, where there is…
Thanks to Grahame from Magic Lantern, we seem to have pin pointed the problem, we decided to change from using the vista VDPADI and went onto using VistaH and that cured our speed problem. We were using a Trident VGA card. Thanks to all who tried to help.
Greg, Grahame, Thanks for your quick reponses, as regards to memory managers, I am currently running without any memory managers installed whatsoever and my problem is still around. When I first go into Studio and do a "?" it says I do not have any SWAP files or page faults…
#3DS R3 Help Me!!!!!
Message #65446
We have a problem with the configuration on 3D Studio Release 3. We are running on two 486/50 Mhz with 32Mb of RAM. We have tried running on DrDOS 6.0 and we are presently running on MSDos 6.02. The system is networked with Novell lite. When we load 3D Studio…
#tileable sand texture
Message #64976
does anyone have a tileable texture of sand or sand dunes for applying to a mode model of the holy land.? any help greatly appreciated!! Alan
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