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PAR w/HD & TBC IV
Message #215492
DPS Amiga PAR w/1Gig Micropolis 2210A IDE and 2.52 software, CVE cable & manuals. DPS TBC IV time base corrector and video capture for the PAR. PAR ……… $1295 + shipping & COD charge. TBC ……… $595 + shipping & COD charge. Buy both of them for $1795 & I'll…
PAR w/HD for sale
Message #214844
DPS PAR w/1Gig Micropolis 2210A IDE and 2.52 software & manuals. Price: $1395 & I'll pay shipping and insurance. Please reply to me through EMail or call at (770) 795-9271 evenings, (770) 429-3056 days. – Mark
#Toaster 2.0 for sale
Message #214843
Video Toaster 2000 card w/2.0 software. Price: $850 (obo) & I'll pay shipping and insurance. Please reply to me through EMail or call at (770) 795-9271 evenings, (770) 429-3056 days. – Mark
WANTED: PC PAR
Message #209944
If you have one you'd like to sell, please EMail me. Thanks.
Perfect Sound
Message #208982
I have a Perfect Sound 8-bit audio digitizer for sale with software and manual. Perfect condition…. $35 including shipping. Please EMail me if interested. – Mark.
3000+PAR+Toaster
Message #208841
I am selling the following 3000/PAR/Toaster setup and software: A3000 Computer: 10Meg (2M chip), 'Bigfoot' 200Wt power supply Quantum 50 MB SCSI, Quantum 240 MB SCSI, Connor 200 MB SCSI OS 2.04, Keyboard, Mouse (no monitor) DPS PAR w/1Gig Micropolis 2210A and 2.52 SW Video Toaster 2000 card w/2.0 SW…
#DCTV For Sale
Message #208840
DCTV w/software version 1.1. Works great! $120+shipping. Please EMail me if interested. – Mark.
Suresh, 1) – There will be some quality loss if the images keep changing. This is unnoticeable to me – but I've got pitiful eyes. (b) – You would place the images back into a different anim on the PAR and then split up the original and replace the old…
I've paid for my PAR with ONE JOB! And I had some money left over! The eye-opening anim I produced with the PAR got me my next job – which paid for the TBC IV in one shot – this allowed me to capture two video sequences in real time…
Apparently not much. I was under the impression that it was about 3K but John Stetzer says he paid 2K.
I have a PAR, Toaster and TBC IV in my machine. The PAR is the most awesome piece of personal computer hardware I've seen in years. I wouldn't get the Sdeck if I were you. The PAR can output component video to MII – a better format than S. If…
Yes, DPS also makes an IBM version of the PAR. But it's not the same card as the Amiga device. Therefore, buying the Zorro version is just that… an Amiga only device. You'd have to purchase the IBM card (about twice the price) if you wanted to use the PAR…
OK… I'll compile the list tonight and send it on. After re-reading my post I feel I might have been too harsh. Cinemorph is a cool program and I couldn't bear the thought of using Morph+ or ImageMaster's morphing thing for the upcomming job I had. I knew Cinemorph was…
Wow… Remove ALL of the local curves (about 5 so far) and then reset them with the exeption of the two I want to remove? Hmmm… sounds like something is needed here. Thanks for the info… Here's my opinion for what it's worth: I think Cinemorph could be a powerful…
Thanks GVP Tech, I appreciate the speedy response. Please see my comments to Kermit.
Cinemorph
Message #81175
I seem to be having some problems with Cinemorph and was wondering if someone here could help…. How can I delete just a few points from a local point grouping? Selecting delete local points deletes them all! What? 40 hrs of work down the tubes? This progam doesn't seem to…
Morph Pricing
Message #39029
I need to do a morph for a commercial. I was wondering if anybody could give me a ballpark figure on what a morph of this type might cost if I were to contract a production company to do it. It is a full motion morph lasting about 2 seconds.…
I have no clue Paul. I typically pull in mono bitmaps of 150dpi or so. I only have 10Meg and I'm running a 3000. 14 hours?
Your most welcome. It so happens that I had to do some Pixel-ing the same night I posted the message. I was reminded of just how frustrating it can be.
James, I might be of some assitance here… after spending many hours with Pixel Pro producing 10 logos from BW scans… I've found some tricks that make the program very useful. First, import the monochrome bitmap into Pixel Pro with smoothing, beveling, etc OFF! You will then have an object…
I'll try that and I really appreciate the speedy response. BTW, of course you can use the question in your column. That would even be kind of cool.
#LW Help: Visible Lights
Message #66105
I'm having a bit of trouble and I hope someone here can help me. (I'm still using LW 2.0…) I would like to setup a light that is visible in the rendering. Every time I place a light in view, the objects it illuminates are fine but the light itself…
MakeAnim7
Message #32558
When I convert my DCTV anims to ANIM7 via MakeAnim7… my anims are converted to a 'short word' format. It's still ANIM7 and flies by comparison, but I think I could get more speed with a long word encoding. The frames are 752 x 480 x 4 planes. I think…
Jim, thanks a lot for the golfball upload. I rendered it and it looks quite good. I'm not going to use it, however — the dimples aren't very dense (as you mentioned). I'm going to go the bump map route. I build nice pic of dimples. Now all I need…
That's pretty expensive for an object. Don't you think?
That would be great, Jim. Let me know when you upload it.
That won't help much paul. Actually creating a pattern to wrap is not much of a problem… wrapping it around a sphere is. It's just as much of a problem as you would have if you tried to do what you suggested. Cutting the cover off the ball would not…
Jim, I mapped the entire picture (after patterning the brush).
Ah, yes. I've done that. The wrapping is the problem.
It's tough to recognize a pattern on the ball. I've made one similar to the way you describes a week ago. I was a repeating pattern that eventually formed what seemed to be five dimples surrounding one dimple. Multiples of these were sandwiched inbetween the spaces in the original 6…
John, The 'Polar to Rectangular' operation in Photoshop sounds like it would solve the problem perfectly. But I don't have Photoshop. It is a PC product? Who makes it? ZSoft? If anybody knows how I can acheive a 'Polar to Rectangular' image operation with Amiga based progs, let me know.…
Luke, 'The only real problem I ran into was getting the right number of spherical mapping multiples for the dimples.' Did you solve this? If so, and you still have a copy of the bump map, I would be interested in it. E-Mail me if you have it. Thanks, Mark.
Jim, I saw the metaballs article as well. That technology sounds pretty cool. I don't think the Amiga platform will see any metaball modelers any time soon. It would seem that spline and polygon modelers are too different in nature to accomodate a metaball addin. In other words, a modeling…
Nathan, Your suggestion won't work properly. Making the dimple the single dimple is simple enough… Creating many of them in one map to be wrapped spherically is the problem. Also, take a good look at a golfball as Jeff suggests. There are no clean rows of dimples. The dimples are…
Well, the bump map looks OK. I used ProFills to make a seamless map. The only problem is that a planer mapping distorts the image along the sides of the sphere. The spherical mapping distort it around the poles (causing the same number of dimples around the equator to appear…
Thanks John. I beleive you're saying that I should make one dimple in DPaint and pattern that across the sphere in LW… right? Or should I make one dimple, pattern that in DPaint to create many bumps, and then slap it on the sphere? I guess I'll try both. Thanks…
I'm not quite sure what you mean, Jeff. I'll look at that pic and get back with you. Thanks for your comments.
Golf ball
Message #58007
Does anyone have any tips on how to model a golf ball in LW2.0? Those little dimples are killers! The ball will be seen close to the camera and it may or may not spin – so I don't think any sort of mapping is in order… But if someone…
Ed, what kind of output does it support? Composite – yes, S-Video – yes, but how does it output to MII? Is the 500M HD the minimum recommended size? Will it fit in my 3000 (is it a super-fat board?) Is there anything else you could tell us? I got…
Well, about the Toaster upgrade prices… I try not to be bitter… I get the feeling the poker game dropped low enough for me to get into it… Now I've got a good hand and can't keep up with the betting! Since I'm just an animator and don't want to…
Vance, the kind of anims you describe are much more complex than my test. This leads me to one conclusion… There's something I'm missing. I'll try some other anims and slap in CPUblit. Thanks, for your input.
I guess the '040 would explain your speed. About your suggestion that I purchase a T4000… no thanks. I currently have a T2.0 crammed in my 3000 – not without problems, though. My soft-edge transitions don't work very well and if I restart the toater SW after my machine has…
Vance, I too have a 25MHz 3000 and can't seem to get that kind of speed. The animation I was experimenting with only had motion in it's lights (thereby creating movement across the centered object) but the camera and background were stable. I have 10Meg, 8 of which are static…
Well, I got Viewtek and it works great. Too bad ANIM7 still doesn't cut it for speed. I attempted a 4 bitplane, hires overscan DCTV anim with small deltas… My 3000 still could not approach 30fps (ANIM7 got me closer at about 20fps). I guess the poor-man's solution to SFR…
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#ANIM7
Message #30306
How do I 'just do it'??? Is this an ADPro option? If so, where? Tell me, please, oh tell me…
#ANIM7
Message #30289
I'm having a little trouble here. I've heard that the ANIM7 format could be PLAYED on an A3000 at higher fps that ANIM5. — I thought that ANIM7/8 were AGA formats only. Can anyone clarify this for me? If ANIM7 is possible on the A3000 (using DCTV HiRes 4bp) can…
ANIM7
Message #57246
I need some help here. I've heard that ANIM7 will play on my 3000 at higher fps than ANIM5. I thought ANIM7/ANIM8 was AGA only. What's the deal and does ADPro support the ANIM7 format? Any clues / clarifications would be appreciated.
I'm interested in your DCTV… Is the V1.1 SW the latest? If not, how old is it? Is the HW in good shape?
Stock A2000 for sale!
Message #93923
I have an Amiga 2000 I would like to sell. 1 Meg Agnus, dual NEC floppies, 1.3 ROMs, keyboard, AmigaDOS 1.3 and other misc software (nothing really worth mentioning). All equipment is in original boxes, documentation, etc. Priced to sell at $399.00 — You pay shipping and COD (from GA)…
Well, the problem with my Toaster and 3000 was the power supply – just like eveeveryone suggested. I swapped my 135 Watt PS with my brother's 135 Watt PS that was in his 3000 (no Toast) and it worked fine. The component tolerances in my PS must have combined to…
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