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If they can not see the writing on the wall, let them eat cake The best way is to make your own industry and define the rules. When the architects take notice you will have moved on to somthing like V.R. BTW I have found that the older architects seem…
You have to go were is money is. If the architects don't, What wrong with working with the owners. I did a lot of inerior design in my old job and worked only with the owners and found the relationship worked.
Yea, Image Alchemy from Handmade Software try "Go graphdev" if you can not find it here. Or if on the Amiga use ASDG's Art Dept Pro with Arexx .
From what I have seen a P90 is not going to help. I thought Autodesk was getting this coad from a company from London. I have been told that this previewer was very fast and thats what I expected. -Brandon
I just wanted you know that I am not involed with bones but just a fellow traveler on Asoft. Glad that reinstalling worked.. Re Digimation please ask David Avgikos as he can best explain. -Brandon
Try reinstalling the program and make sure that you pick the base of the object [parent] in the keyframer. I think if you pick the child it crashes. will do some testing… Your crash description sounds just like mine. So try another object. let me know. -Brandon
Alfonso, I like your Blob work, very nice… Please look at Bearva.zip [ Images #6] as I used it to model the animation the bear. -Brandon
Kevin, Good news…. New work on Bones will add a non morphing addition to the Ipazs. I would like all that find this a good addition to this to send support to Mr. Munkeby . Not one to give up I reinstalled the bones Ipaz and it works now. -Brandon
You have made my DAY! look for my check in the mail.
I do not want to damper the enjoyment of the new Bones Ipazs. But real Bones should NOT have morph targets. Lightwave Imagine Wavefront and others have "SMARTSKIN". Morph targets are not bones! Ipaz people, we need SMARTSKIN! I think Mr. Munkeby would concur.
Try Blobw.zip that's the name…
Their is a file on Asoft that converts dem to 3DS I think it called dem23ds you will not get the vistapro map to work well . but one way is to set the VP camera from the top view render it ,save the map and use it in 3DS.…
I think you could be right about this. we all want the best tools and some of us can get down right uptight [me]. My ideas and overviews have been voiced regarding Ipazs and now it is time to get back to work and push the software even more. Now…
Bill it looked ok to me.
That's a good way to make mony, let see now I upgrade to ver 3.5 for 300.00 and get 3 new Ipaz and core inprovements. now I pay another 300.00 to get splines, 300.00 to get Metaballs, 300.00 to get bones… this ALL sounds like a new Marketing blitz. I…
I have the Micron P90 and it runs very well. Micron tec people are nice too.
I must echo your statements I am very disappointed with Autodesk performance. And to rub salt in our wounds the road show was a disaster. the next time I what to learn how model in the 2d shaper I will look through the book! My boss was very "up" on…
Some of us are runnig out of money and with upgrades running 300.00 someone better do something. -Brandon
I feel that the Ipazs are a one time shot unless the Ipaz has a bug. a good example is lens flare, the quality of this Ipaz has not been upgraded. only gama and network changes. Now if I want a lens flare that looks good do I get it…
I too am worried about your last post. Could Autodesk people fill in the gaps?
This could be the start of very disturbing for users of Ipazs The need to get the code to market quickley because of competition will hurt us. I read that a upgrades of the Yost Ipaz would not be made. Now if I want Vapor to run faster and better…
HSC/Raytrace
Message #127873
Now that HSC has joined the IPAZ team, how about a KPT Bryce raytracing Ipaz This engine is wondefull if you have not seen it you should get it. WOW! could a Rev.4 Ipazs work like this? with this raytracing engine. -Brandon
I thought a post talked about Optimize removing coplaner faces with a setting of "one in the bais" or somthing . I too would like to know if this will work… -Brandon
Bill, some of the low end sortware has this too like Imagine and Lightwave. I think the idea here is that a bones or magnetism could be a better way of working with the models. And this could work with any polygon model.
now I am getting cold feet the woman that you are working on is very good! but I think that skin is a little hard to work with now. I know that a kinemation smart skin/bone is the way to go. I hope that all mesh Ipaz programs will work…
Thanks I will give it a try. Brandon
One of the reasons I dropped "Skin" was that I could not use any of my 3d meshes I have made in "other" 3d modeling programs. this sounds like a work around. do you just use the old model a refrence and reloft it? and what do you need the…
your welcome
3DS/DXF/Alais
Message #127021
We have not had to many problems loading 3DS DXF to Alais or Wavfront. Make sure that your object normals are faceing out and you have names to your groups so you can assign materials quickly. I have had some smoothing errors with Alais but were fixxed quickly. -Brandon
Yes, this is what I need the Poco for. I don't need optics for the anim cells as I use the sprite tool with stream on. But is good to have… I will send down a cell to show you the problem I have. Thanks -Brandon
I was told that the p90 will only be 10% slower than the screamernet and lightwave will network to only the 90 for the IBM version . I wonder how fast it will run compared to my 68030. if it is slow no go… -Brandon
I am on the way…
That is in response to the Amiga OS as haveing a Dos Shell [not used on the Mac] and haveing windows [like the Mac] the question is could anyone port the Amiga OS to dos? Yes I know who would whant to ect ect.. But I know a alot of…
will do….
David I called you Mike sorry about that I am need of some sleep… -Brandon
Mike Thank you for your help! I will give this a try but it looks like having a custom Poco would be better, as I stamp down animated cells over background plates. the last animation was 350 frames each with animated cells moving all over the place! [lots of darn…
Sounds good I like the way you use mats with the program it opens up a lot of options. I am useing it on a animation now _brandon
I have the Kurta tablet and it will only work with setting #2 I have it boot up to speed #6. But must change it to #2. thought you should know.. A very nice product and haveing some fun with it. -Brandon
Thats right to stamp down a cell and have only 2 or 3 pixels get the smoothing of the outer eage. It should be for optics and sprite pasting. regarding $ I will have to pass it buy my Producer can you Email a aprox price that it would be?…
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#POCO Beta testers wanted
Message #124715
David- I have this need for a Poco… and thought I would see if you think it is a good idea. when I stamp a brush it would be nice if the eage of the cell was smoothed but not the inside. Dpaint has this but not Ani. I think…
I have the same problem with my Kurta tablet. It will only work with mouse speed "2" not a big deal I just set mouse speed to two in the user settings -Brandon
No I have not had to use the mac in production The Amiga had the best of windows and dos too bad we can't port the OS or can we? Brandon
Well if only the mac OS had a dos shell like the let say like the Amiga. I think I could have one at work. I like a windows like OS but I find my self useing the shell even in Unix. -brandon
I called HSC and the port will be out for the PC in 5 months. This program is the VERY first time I had MAC envy. I have seen some very nice renderings made with the MAC, but I can not stand the OS or the have a nice day…
Have you seen "Brice" the Vistapro like lanscape generator for the MAC? the Render is truely fantasic! I think the more we think we have the best the more we are going to be let down. It is our job as artist to push the software and hardware to new…
Sounds good, I do like my Kurta and it came with Dabler. Now only if I could get Dabler to run on my Micron 90. It runs ok ont the 486.
Well it funny when it [Kurta] was on my 486 having two drivers loaded was the only way that I could get it to work with Windows. But now with my Micron 90 I only use the Kurta driver and it work's very well. -Brandon
Sorry- the Kurta mouse driver. I have the MS dos driver installed too but I do not point to it. I Installed the MS dos driver first so I could use it as a backup mouse. and then the Kurta driver. -Brandon
Yes very good reference! -brandon
Wow you are asking a lot of VERY good questions. This setup can be Very expensive and is in the experimental stages now. I think the best way is to have a moition capture service do your work for you. I am working with Wavefront's Kinemation and it works very…
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