This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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John, PMJI, I've been told the 2217a's need at least one inch of space on all sides because of severe overheating problems. I was told that another manufacturer's drives once got so hot the solder melted off some of the connections. The drive for bigger drives is leaving us open…
Hi Dennis, That does sound like one of the hard disks I had the pleasure of taking delivery of. What it turned out to be was a bad spot on the hard disk. It showed up in the middle of an animation. Once I optimized, it was in the middle…
Paul, Along with what Dean's suggestions were for keeping the printer clean, I found that the Fargo Primera and Primera Pro both are dependent upon composition. If you've got a long horizontal line, like a rain gutter, window frame, etc., when the printing process passes over that area I'm surmising…
Paul, Thanks, I already own a DQ422, but if you have a price in mind for that 4Mg ATVista, email me a note. Roger D.
Dean, I've had both the Fargo Primera and the Fargo Primera Pro. Perhaps I could impose on you to share your cleaning procedure. Roger D.
John, Thanks. I actually was able to recover most of my data off the first drive by wrapping it up in plastic and setting it between two Blue Ice cooler ice packs. (Don't try this at home…I did make sure that no humidity was able to leak into the bag…
Greg, Flash, update!! Yesterday, I received my 4th hard drive. Despite the fact that it's another rebuild, this one appears to be holding its own. Now I suppose since I just typed that, it's doomed to blow, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. How is your modem? Roger D. P.S.…
Greg, Yeah, but what do you know about your FedEx person? Roger D.
Jamie, Thanks. I just wish it was somebody else telling it though. Nah, I don't really wish that on anybody. To answer your question, it's a 486 system, a normal Gateway AT/XT desktop case. The PAR disk was in the lowest blank, right below a dual floppy and CD Rom.…
Dave, Believe it or not, you got the abbreviated version. The long version could have qualified to run along with Dave Barry's better stuff. Still trying to keep a good attitude. Hardware! Yucky, pooey! Roger D.
Gary, Thanks for the empathy. Yes, 3D Studio, as usual, just keeps plunking along. I also hope the hardware gods smile upon me in the new year. Roger D.
Thanks, Cal. Couldn't quite go so expensive this time. Hope to find something better than the Colorado I just bought, but money's tight at the moment, Christmas and all. Roger D.
Thanks, James. I couldn't go quite that expensive. I picked up a Colorado Trakker which will fit in at least in the short term with some of the service bureau work I do here, dyesub prints, and out to video. Have a good New Year. Roger D.
Mark, Hope your Christmas was good. The tree was not a great one, but it passed in what I was doing. Hope it worked out for you. Roger D.
#Not up to PAR
Message #143804
Just thought I'd share what I've done on my Christmas season. I picked a DPS PAR up about 6 weeks ago and had difficulties getting it to initialize from the getgo. After about a month the Micropolis hard drive quit spinning up when the machine was warm. So I called…
Dangerous…good could encompass an awful lot. I have one. Looks ok full frame, just don't get too close. Here it comes! Check your email. Ho, ho, ho Roger D. P.S. You'll need a path to grnfol.tga. It's on the CD
#XMAS Lights
Message #141493
Yost & Company, At some point did Xmas get left by the wayside? I haven't tried to use it in quite a while, but I was doing one of these proverbial Christmas card things, and found that mine no longer applies red, green, yellow, and blue to the lights. I…
Backup
Message #141492
After just having gone through a week of pure hell with a PAR system I need a better system for backup. Anybody have any suggestions or preferences regarding large capacity tape drives, DAT drives, etc. I'm hoping for something external. Every bay is full in this box. I'm also hoping…
Bill, I'm very much in awe of the skill level and expertise some people have been able to achieve. You and a few others have created some really nice looking images using the traditional techniques you've mentioned. But you can tell by the number of requests for that email that…
#Error Message
Message #137889
A friend of mine, an instructor at a local technical college, called me today. He's having a bit of trouble getting 3D Studio to work on his classroom machines. These puppies are all networked together somehow, I think it's Novell. They're trying to load the software each time off a…
Brandon, That one's easy. Help one of their competitors take 4 or 5 good jobs away from them. I say 4 or 5 because it may take them that long to catch on to what's going on. Even if the people doing the work know it, it'll take management even…
Paul, I'll tell you what, I'll show you mine if you show me yours. I'll send you a chunk of what's on the drive at the moment. I wouldn't call it a demo tape at the moment. It's about 30 seconds of stuff. Only a couple pieces of it are…
Paul, Sorry to hear about your Sanyo. If you're going single frame at 512 x 486 to SVHS then you would probably consider the output of the PAR to be an improvement. It also has the added flexibility of not only coming out s-video, but also betacam/MII/component which would give…
My experience with architectural visualization, at least regionally, is that the PAR is a sufficient, if not superior quality to what people are expecting or even hoping for. I wouldn't worry for your type of application. But of course that is a generalization, and I'm not necessarily familiar with your…
David, Is your fireball more IPAS related? You can get some really cool effects that way. I usually try to accomplish things as conventionally as possible, but a rotoscoped fire definitely has a different feel. Yeah, there's always a million ways to do most of this stuff. Regarding the PAR,…
No, it was just my system. I finally tracked it down last night. Now I'm at least back to where I was a week ago. I have been able to render my regular stuff at night, though. I know one could say that this was my fault, but in my…
Jonas >> No_Not One_ leg,foot,arm or hand keys till Frame 131!
I spent 2 hours on the phone this afternoon with my dealer and he spent another good amount of time going back to Autodesk several times this afternoon. He only has the pre-release version of the software as yet, and was unaware of its exact operation. We went through methodically…
I disagree about the output that the Fast Preview comes up with when you make a flc. It's very grainy, with totally screwed up palettes. With the plain old preview make, on any old generic run-of-the-mill video card, you can make a preview using every other frame, and play it…
#Comparisons Needed
Message #132920
I'm having some problems with IK, possibly on my system. I'm not sure yet. Several things aren't working properly. Anybody who's got R4 up and running, first of all, what frame rate are you getting out of Fast Preview? Secondly, when working with IK and the stairs file as per…
I ended up with a case of insomnia last night. I woke up at 4:00 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. I took both fire files I mentioned earlier, worked on them a little, shrunk them down, applied them to a mesh. I rendered it to the PAR, and…
I'm glad it's working out for you, but I am curious how it can be of much good if you can't get some reasonable idea of motion and how it relates to final output speed.
David, I think up in the libraries there's still a flc file named fire2.zip. You could take that into Animator Pro, clip it down a little bit using animcels and apply that to a cylinder with lots of blur, and like Gary says, glow if you've got it. Stick that…
Play80, I think, was the most recent flc player that Trilobyte wrote while doing research on players for their CD ROM. It did a real good job identifying video cards and using VISA compatibility. I think it's still in the libraries. I don't think they're supporting it anymore, but it'll…
I'll go back and work on my knock-kneed man in my spare time, whatever that is. But I've come across something else when I tried the stairclimbing block guy. When set up to follow, the hands and feet only followed the dummy boxes after he turned the corner. Is there…
I noticed there was no real official response to the question about preview speed. It would seem that our observations aren't too off base. So I guess it falls in the same category as the browser. Likely candidates if your hard disk is getting full. Yeah, Minnesota has been playing…
The offending mesh came from Viewpoint. I think they'd get mad at me if I gave it away. I got your update. Thanks much. I'll try to get a reproducible situation for you. Morph targets may not be the best solution, but it's definitely a start. If you can get…
I can send you a check. Pick the amount and add glue, and you've got wallpaper. You have any particular good deals going this week or something?
#IK Problems
Message #132126
I'm having a devil of a time with a walking skeleton. Using paths for the footsteps, I don't seem to have enough flexibility to have this thing take a couple dozen steps and get into a car. So I'm using the follow object process having the feet follow dummy boxes,…
Thanks for the excellent birddogging. I found this puppy just a few hours ago myself and am going to mail a check in tomorrow a.m. Definitely a very useful tool. I took the default skeleton and with just a little bit of rearranging and scaling, applied it to a human…
Guess that explains it. Thanks for the help so far. Roger D.
Peter, If you spot any more of those, post them. I always find it helpful to know when there's a boobytrap waiting for me when working through new docs. Roger D.
Dean, Thanks for bringing that up. My wife is sitting here reading over my shoulder and she mentioned this came up at school today. Just out of curiosity, how much is one of those little printer diapers? Roger D.
Sam, What I mean by joint parameters is in IK (Inverse Kinematics) in R4, you can define joint parameters, i.e. what percentage they can be rotated on X, Y, and Z axes. I was just wondering what level of mobility each vertebrae would have in comparison to the ones next…
Donald, Got the replacement Pro last Friday. I did my best with it, but I have yet to accomplish anything that surpassed my regular Primera. I'm still under their free 30 day money back thing, so I think I'm going to return it and just pick up a regular Fargo,…
#R4 IK
Message #131543
Jonas, While it's on my mind, there are a couple of typos I found so far in the manual. Page 87, #4, has you clicking on the wrong thigh. A warning might be in order for people to leave out the curtains in the Randy the Egret animation, or that…
Marc Hi. How long after a save?? Look at the PRJ.BAK file? Roger D.
Dean, Did you see my message to Chris? Is this your first Fargo printer? I'll definitely agree the wax thermal output is much better. My dye sub output looks the same, though. Do you do much wax thermal, or mostly dye sub? I don't do much wax thermal, so I'm…
Chris, I picked up a regular Fargo with the photorealistic upgrade about half a year ago. My experience with it was very good. When they announced the Pro, I sold my regular Fargo and ordered one. I don't if it's the one I got, or what exactly, but to be…
James Ripple.pxp not Waves.pxp Roger D.
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