This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#16758-
animated fire
Message #17254
Hello Gary, We completed the IPAS routine for NURSERY before AEC and it is shipping with the product. Keith.
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Message #17253
Aaron, Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Have been in Dallas for a week at the AEC systems show. I have worked with fractal rocks myself and would like to achive some thing that is much closer to each type. Should be able to represent a fully 3D…
Jeff, The answer is at hand. QuickSurf can do your volumes, sections and profiles as well. The latest version will allow you to add break lines and has added a trianglated grid surface to match those break lines exactly. With break lines you can still get our smoothed surfaces for…
#16205-
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Message #16374
Aaron, I liked your spline patch discription for Doug. I feel that AutoCAD surface handling really stinks. I don't know anyone who can make use of it. AutoCAD was not designed to be able to handle entities that require the complex linkages that spline surfaces require. As I stated in…
#16216-
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Message #16373
Bruce, No, not yet. I had the idea in mind when I started but I needed to just get the mature trees working first. The most likely upcoming features will be a yet more detailed version, animated trees, refined seasonal control to animated over a full year, a true aging…
Seth, Rain? It would be most likely more realistic to try rain as an AXP. The bounding box for the rain could be linked to the camera thus making it as small as possible. You would have to have alot of frames to get the right effect. Sounds like a…
#16266-
#gif targa viewer
Message #16371
Martin, I have VPIC40 and it works great. I don't know if it is in a library but it is on our BBS. Happy Canyon BBS 303-759-3598. Keith.
#15777-
Business proposition
Message #15974
Vladimir, I know of a transplanted fellow countrymen who is very fluent in 3D Studio here in the states. He may be able to be of some help. You can reach Ed Schreiber at 303-759-1024. Keith. P.S. Be forwarned, by your reference of your country being closed to Americans I…
#15842-
Render Anamoly
Message #15973
Robert, Phar Lap is funny in that it only sees one type of memory at a time. If you have EMS and XMS it will see and use all of the EMS but not any of the XMS. I would assume that if you have a XMS driver loaded, it…
#15820-
#Road and Highway Design
Message #15972
Ken, I fail to see how you produce an actual surface in 3D Studio with DXF polylines by using a scaning service. True, scaning the map is fast and cheap but creating an actual model by hand from that data can be very difficult. If you do model construction which…
Close Jack, right shoulder and generally a group effort. Keith.
#15254-
Animator not Pro!
Message #15392
I think the question was fairly put. If we are so unsure of the product then then why do defend it so heavily. The simple facts are: The platform is inexpensive. The operating system is stable, common, small, fast and not pretty. The software is very good although by no…
Wayne, Well said! As always the Microsoft maketing machine will far out reach the software developers (Sell them what they want, give them want you got). As Microsoft has ignored 32-bit computing it can only be surmised that it will be some time before they eventually come around to support…
#15279-
Animator not Pro!
Message #15390
James, True, it will really slow you down if you need to reboot to different operating system. I have in the past used Windows, OS/2, MOS386 and Deskview. Each of these required more setup time, more adjustments, slowed down my overall productivity and eventually became shelfware. I really do like…
Dave, Yes, it is a convertable demo. Later this week a 3D Surf converable demo will be placed on the BBS as well. The ADS version has been heavily overhauled to make use of the faster ADS interface as compaired to the advanced version. All of the surface generation features…
#13666-
3D Trees
Message #13706
Shawn, You should have a printable manual included with the download. Which version did you download? If ADS 4.X then: You need release 11 (or 12) of AutoCAD 386. Once copied to your hard drive simply load the menu. If Advanced 3.X then: You need release 10 of AutoCAD 286…
Martin, Yes, QuickSurf does drape objects on a surface. The ADS version drapes faster than most users could perform a move command. The secert to draping is having the surface already in memory. I intend to include a drape feature in 3D Surf, although I have added it yet. From…
Dave, No, the ADS version of QuickSurf has not been uploaded. It is available for downloading from our BBS at 303-759-3598. We have been real disapointed in the response for the ADS version as most AutoCAD users seem to be staying with version 10. The ADS version is roughly 10…
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#3D Trees
Message #13539
Gregory, Contact Scot Susmann at 1-800-252-1024 for product information and shipping. Keith.
#13499-
Allocation Error! (AHHH)
Message #13538
Michael, Invalid Handles tend to occure with bad data pointers, which would point what Jack said an ADI driver problem. It is difficult to understand why this would be a problem during a save. Save your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS then strip a new version to only those items required to…
Roger, I have been following your thread on the 3DS import problem. I have not used ASG's package but would bet that the window symbols are blocks and were created using mostly lines. Lines do not convert in to 3D objects. I will take a look at the drawing or…
David, I have been running Ani Pro with HIMEM.SYS from DOS 5.0 since DOS 5.0 was released without any problems. The HIMEM.SYS from Window 3.1 also works if not better but the old HIMEM.SYS from Windows 3.0 will not work at all. I suggest you double check the version of…
Mike, Phar Lap provides a true 32-bit operating environment which means 2 raised to the 32nd power or 4 gigabytes of directly addressable memory. With the virtual memory manager, the "memory" can be either RAM or hard disk. Although with the very archaic bus design on the PC the paging…
Rick, You could add a surface on the road surface with the full skid marks mapped on. Then add a second surface on top of the skid marks with a repeat of the road mapping. Then move the covering road surface along the road as you need to uncover the…
Norbert, You can download the QuickSurf ADS demo program to use with your Acad 11. The QuickSurf demo program has a terrain generator built-in. The program can be downloaded from: Happy Canyon BBS 303-759-3598 Keith Seifert P.S. Might want to check out the landscape GIF's on the board as well.