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Impression+ Driver 4 MB
Message #139316
I am looking for a vibrant 3ds (Rel.4) driver for the Matrox Impression+ with 4 MB. Does anybody know if this is available? Thank you.
#Spea Vibrant Drivers
Message #132579
When trying to configure 3ds (rel 3.0) with Spea Mirage P64 or Mercury P64 3ds always tells me that my graphics board doesn't have a s3-chip. I think I have an old version of the drivers (maybe for the older 32bit boards). Where can I get a new version. Or…
#jpg-Converter wanted
Message #118215
I rendered a lot of frames in JPEG and i would like to make a flic-file before recording them. I have got a program which produces flic-files out of gifs. Does anybody know if there is a (public-domain) program which converts jpeg to gif or jpeg to fli?
Aufnahme Comp.animation
Message #116778
>Hallo Holger, >ich antworte in deutsch und kann deine Animation auf professional-S >(SVHS) oder VHS Basis uber VideoMaschine ubertragen, wenns nicht >zuviel ist, einfach so. MOSER Multimedia, Pf 1509, 52139 >Wuerselen/Aachen, >02405-72073 >Grus Matthias Moser Danke fuer Dein Angebot, aber augenblicklich sieht es so aus, als ob mir das jemand…
#Render Fields and vblur?
Message #115764
Is it true that you shouldn't use vblur.ixp when rendering fields?
Thanks for all the reply's. The Spea-Setup-Routine modifies autoexec.bat so that there will be a program (don't know it's name) be executed after booting. Well, the routine appends the statement to autoexec.bat, and when the last statement in autoexec.bat is "3ds" or a menu-programm for example, the spea-program won't be…
#Spea V7 Mirage-Vibrant
Message #114627
I just got a Spea V7 Mirage VLB, but I don't get 3ds run anymore. Configuring with 3ds vibcfg tells me there is no S3-Chip?!? The only resolution where this message doesn't appear is 640×400. But when starting 3ds I get the messsage "display too small". Has anybody got similar…
Aufnahme Comp.animation
Message #113813
Sysop: Please don't delete this message, it's for the german 3ds-users. Ich wuerde gerne eine 3ds-Computeranimation auf VHS aufnehmen. Kann mir irgendjemand behilflich sein bzw. das fuer mich tun? Wer hat Erfahrung mit diesen Motion JPEG Karten von Fast bzw. miro DC1??
Thanks for your reply, but: America is too far away for me to download meshes by modem (I live in Germany). Could you put some of your bike-meshes on any FTP-Server?
a couple of it? I found one mesh, a harley-davidson like one. Could you tell me where there are more ? thanks
motorbike mesh
Message #96717
Does anybody have some motorbike-meshes (public domain) or can anybody tell me where to get some?
1) 10 , but: The index could be larger and better organized. Last thing I couldn't find: Tag/Untag. 2) This would be very helpful and could save much time. On-line help was the only thing I really missed until R3. 3) Meanings of the buttons, especially Render-Setup, -configure, Create-Lights, Track-info…
#Tag/Untag
Message #90545
When selecting objects by name, you can select several objects by typing their first characters an click on tag. I would like to select Object01, Object02 and so on but not Object01.copyxx, Object02.copyxx etc. Does anybody know how to use tag to do this? Or where this function is described…
#3DSR3 bugs
Message #90544
Are there any known bugs in 3DSR3? If so, is there any kind of collection I can download, or will a bug-fixed version be released in near future? Is there a version of 3DSR3 compiled for 486 ? I only know the 386-version.
3ds and Novell Dos 7.0
Message #90543
John, I don't have Novell Dos 7 but I would like to buy it. But I should know if 3DS runs as a task on it, as I don't like to uninstall N7 every time I use 3DS, so I am looking forward to your answer. regards, Holger
User Meeting Frankfurt
Message #87325
Deutsche Worte im Autodesk-forum, damit habe ich schon nicht mehr gerechnet. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass ihr euch kennt; gibt es sowas wie einen "german user club"? Falls nicht, koennten wir gerne einen gruenden. Oder einfach versuchen, auf irgendeine Art zusammenzuarbeiten, vielleicht eine Animation oder sowas? Wer Interesse hat, schickt…
Dubious autodesk methods
Message #87324
> I know software and hardware is more expensive in Europe. I (Germany) don't know if this is true, you may tell me what you pay in the USA for this: 3DSR3 : 4000 $ 4 MB Simm : 200 $ 486/66 Mainboard VLB: 650 $ Compaq XE 560: 4200…
#Video-Post batch-render.
Message #86658
Is it possible to render video-post from the command-line? As far as I know, this isn't possible, but this is really hard to believe.
#3ds and Novell Dos 7.0
Message #86657
Does anybody know if 3D-Studio runs as a task under Novell DOS 7.0 ? I think DOS 7.0 doesn't take so much CPU-time and memory as Windows does (btw: Windows runs as a task…)
Abekas-recording
Message #78696
I would like to record some targas rendered by 3D-Studio on videotape using the Abekas. There is a special format needed for this, somewhat like YUV. Does anybody know if there is such a converter for MS-Dos (or Windows) and if, how to get it?
Building a group…
Message #73807
Gary, welcome to our group. What do you mean by "What's the word on the group?" The name of our group? This is not decided yet. You can see some suggestions at "Building a group…" in the forum. There is also a questionnaire (under "Building a group questn.") which you…
#DEC Alpha-Workstation
Message #72997
Thanks for your response. I talked to Ralf Brugger (Basel, do you know him?) and he told me that Autodesk spent a lot of time and manpower trying to convert 3ds files to be rendered by RenderMan. But this seems to be too difficult, especially lights couldn't be converted accordingly.…
#IPAS-Sourcecode
Message #72996
I just bought the Developers Kit and would like to have some examples of source code. In Libray 1 I found a lot of IPAS-routines (compiled) and flics, but no sourcecodes at all. Could you tell me some files containing source ?? Thank you.
IPAS-Sourcecode
Message #71631
We would like to write own IPAS-processes. In our 3D-Studio-manual we read that there are sourcecodes of IPAS-examples available. Could you tell us how to get them?
the aim of our group is making a high-quality animation. Until now we are about 15 people. You are welcomed to our group, as you could do things others can't or don't want to do. Especially writing a story for us would be highly appreciated (see my last letter at…
#Building a group…
Message #70169
I received the questionnaires from some of our members and I would like to tell you something about the answers: 1) Most of our members live in USA. I live in Germany another one in Sweden. 2) 40h/month can be spent at average. Together this will be about 400-500 hours/month.…
Robert, I am a student at the "Fachhochschule Furtwangen" (a kind of university) in Furtwangen, Germany. They bought 13 Alpha-Workstations (OSF/Motif) and a server with 512 MB Ram to run Sap R3 on it. R3 is a realtime-system for every part of an enterprise (bill of costs, stockpiling, sales etc.),…
#DEC Alpha-Workstation
Message #69623
I have got access to more than 10 Alpha-Workstations (160 – 250 MHz) running DEC OSF/Motif. Does anybody know how I can use this cpu-power regarding 3D-Studio (RenderMan for example)? I would be very happy about any kind of answer!!!!!!
Thanks for your reply. I would like to do the following: All people who are interested write a short note about what they want to do. After collecting all ideas we discuss what will be realised in the animation. Some could do the modelling, some work with the keyframer, and…
#Building a Group…
Message #68416
Everybody who has ever worked with 3D-Studio knows that it is very time-consuming to write really good animations. I have seen many animations created with 3D-Studio, for example on the world-creating CD and on many other CDs and video-tapes. Many of them were good, but they didn't show what is…
Thanks a lot!!! Holger
#Cork-Screw animation
Message #67497
I saw an animation at a fair, in which there was shown a cork-screw with a square over it, moving from one side to the other. Within the square, you could see a part of the cork-screw rendered as wire-frame. The part of the cork-screw outside the square was rendered…
#Ipas-Processes
Message #67158
we would like to write our own IPAS-Programs in C. Can you tell us what we need to do this? Are there any informations or examples available via CompuServe?