This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#PC Platforms for LW4
Message #97228
John, PMFJI, but is this the Pentium math bug you're talking about. I recently picked up a Pentium 90 to run LightWave when it's released and I've got a lot of interest in how it's going to be affected by the Intel bug. I was a little concerned that there…
Dan, I've heard of Autodesk's student prices for 3D Studio, but the one thing I've always wondered about is how do they know who's using what? I was under the impression that the student version had the same output as the full commercial version and that it had the same…
#Newton Gone!
Message #95039
Brent, I notice that there's a new ad in the November VTUser for a program called Impact. They seem to use some of the same terminology as the Newtons Law crowd did. (force fields, engines, motors, ect) It's even got a special introductory price. If it's the same people back…
LW Pro
Message #95038
It's a magazine. A little light on LightWave coverage but there's still quite a bit of usefull information there. They used to send you a free sample issue if you called and asked. Not sure if they're still doing that now that it's sold through stores but you might call…
LW Pro
Message #95037
Rick, The bad news is that they won't have any copies of it left. You should get them to put you on their list to be phoned when the new ones come in. They put one away for you so you don't miss it. By the way, I phoned Avid…
How do you find the speed of moving .TGA's through a nullmodem. I'm going to be picking up a PC in the next week or two and I'll want to hook it to my Amiga so I can use the PAR. I was looking through the latest Amiga World a…
Only 23 hours for a Vista anim? I assume you weren't using very high resolution. ;^) If you're using VistaPro rather than Vista 1.0 you can use a lower quality setting to speed things up. Try setting your polygon size at 2 rather than 1. Trees take a lot of…
#Toaster/PAR
Message #93530
Sorry to butt in here, What's Waterworld? Jeff H…
#TBC I, II, III, IV ?
Message #93529
Bob, If you're thinking of getting a DPS TBC my advice is to go for the TBC4. If you ever buy a PAR you'll be able to use the TBC4 to digitize video. None of the other TBC's will work for that. While you may not be planning on a…
#Commodore Sale
Message #168331
How long are they going to make us wait? With all the deadlines for selling off C= coming and going I think they should have a firm, set in stone, can't be delayed, has to be sold by date. I think that if they haven't settled this by January 1st,…
3D-ROM volume 3?
Message #92201
John, Is there another 3D-ROM in the works? I've been archiving some objects that have been floating around my hard drive for a while and posting them ot a couple of FTP sites. Some of them might be suitable for one of the Syndesis object disks. By the way, what's…
#Cobra 275 info
Message #92200
Erik, $3000 for the ShaBLAMM sounds pretty good. The only downside is that it's VESA card. I've been looking at Pentium systems. Do you know if there are plans for a PCI version? Better yet, do you have a phone number for the manufacturer? Jeff H…
The way I understand it is that the PC version of the PAR has more onboard ram and uses hardware to do the image compression rather than software. Apparently this makes it MUCH faster to save images to the PAR than the Amiga version. DPS has no plans for a…
One point of view is that there seems to be a lot of nebulas in Babylon 5. When you consider that nebulas can be hundereds of light years across you'd think that you'd see a cloud whichever direction you were looking if you were in an area with a lot…
If you've got Forge and Essence2 there's an easy way to make a nebula. Start with the cyclone texture and render out a grayscale image of it. This will be a transparency map. You should make sure that the cyclone size is smaller than the window so it will have…
I thought there was a press release posted here a while ago listing the price for any version of LW 4.0 at $995 and the upgrade fee from 3.5 to any platform at $150. I think they'd be making a huge mistake pricing LightWave PC at $2000. By the time…
#LW Pro still around?
Message #88793
John, What's up with LightWave Pro? It's almost September and the last issue I got was June. Did you guys follow Commodore down the tubes?
Bruce, Full height drives are about 3.5" thick and they are all 5.25" drives. Pretty much the only time you see them anymore is on multi-gigabyte drives. Most of the drives you are likely to be looking at are half height 3.5" drives that can be mounted in a floppy…
Polo, The Micropolis 2217A is an IDE drive and works fine with the PAR. The 2217AV is the SCSI drive. Jeff H…
Did you find the PAR software on Compuserve somewhere or did you have to get it from the DPS BBS? I tried to download version 225b from the DPS board but I can only get transfers of around 300 cps. (not sure if it's their board or just the phone…
In theory it doesn't matter what kind of video card you use with Windows. The problem is that a lot of theories seem to fall apart when you're using a PC. That's why I was hoping to find out what kind of card Allen is using. If there are any…
LightWave will run in a 10 meg PC? I don't think you can even render at medium res in a 10 meg Amiga with LW 3.5. I assumed that the PC would need at least 16 megs. (All the better for those of us on a budget) ;^)
Michael, If you can afford a PAR buy it. I've never talked to anyone who had one that was unhappy with their purchase. The PAR is one of the easiest ways to go for broadcast quality with no limitations on camera movements or images changing from frame to frame. Even…
I know about Windows being a resource pig. I suspect that the reason Newtek listed it as being compatable with Windows as well as NT is that Windows 4 (Chicago) was supposed to be available before LightWave. Of course with Windows 4 being delayed Windows NT might be the only…
LightWave won't run under Windoze 3.1 from what I've heard. You'll need Windoze NT or Windoze 4 (Chicago). Both are 32 bit operating systems that rather than DOS shells. That should allow LightWave to take advantage of the hardware it's running on rather than being hindered by a 10 year…
I've been looking into the speed differences between a 486-66 and a Pentium myself. If I remember correctly from the Intel benchmarks I've seen a Pentium 66 is supposed to be just under twice the speed of a 486-66. You can also get a 90mhz Pentium or a dual Pentium…
Mike, Isn't there also an upgrade path for the PC version included in the 3D Modeling Lab? Jeff H…
Any idea how much memory LW will need just to run? Also, I don't suppose you know what kind of video card Allen is using in his PC do you? I'm shopping for a clone and I'd hate to buy one with a video card that won't work with LW.
#Imagine Upgrade
Message #88336
Mike, I was looking through the 3.0 Impulse newsletter. I'n not sure I understand the pricing for upgrading from the Amiga version to the PC version. What's the cost to go from 2.0 on the Amiga to 3.1 on the PC? Jeff H…
At this point there's no way to know how the PC version of LW will compare to the Amiga version since it's not released. However, VistaPro and Imagine running on a 486/66 seem to be about twice as fast as running on a 33mhz 040 from what I've heard. Real…
Amiga Bridgeboard?
Message #159786
Dale, I agree there would be some PC owners who would buy an Amiga emulator. The only problem is that they'd have to know about the advantages of the Amiga. Generally, people who know about the difference between the Amiga and the PC buy an Amiga in the first place.…
Which user group is this? More importantly, Where?
Jim, Look in VTUser I've seen a few companies offering Raptor rendering. Some are: Professional Animation Resources 615-889-4768 ACS Computer & Video 404-263-9190 Atlantic Digital Studios 410-666-8237 The going rate seems to be $20 to $25 per hour. I'm not sure about the first 2 but ADS can output to…
Thanks for spoiling it for me guys! ;^) (I thought those saucers in the 'DeathWalker' episode looked like late model decendants of the Jupiter 2)
#Lightwave-NT?
Message #87756
Scott, The Modeler is a bit hard to get used to. I used to really prefer Imagine's modeling abilities. Once I started using Modeler more I soon got used to the way it works and now I don't like going back to Imagine. Of course I got used to the…
SeaQuest DSV
Message #87755
I don't use Imagine much any more so I guess I don't need your aquarium object. I'm sure there are other people on this system that would find it somewhat usefull though. Unless you're saving it to go commercial it couldn't hurt to upload it.
A2000 040 cards?
Message #158787
What's available for Amiga 2000 040 cards? I've been thinking of getting an 040 card and it seems like the GVP 33mhz is about the only game in town. For a while the Fusion Fourty seemed popular but I haven't heard anything about RCS for a long time. I'd rather…
Lance, You have to change the config files. Look for a file called lw-config and load it into a text editor. There are the presets for the 4 buttons in the file requesters in that file. Just change them to match your system. You can use assigns for the paths…
Trent, Have you tried importing the 8 bit images LightWave saves as alpha images? I've got a jopb coming up in about 3 weeks that's going to require a lot of multi-pass rendering to do in a reasonable amount of time and I want to try to get all the…
Steve, "sw v. 2.16"??? Where'd you get 2.16? I was just on the DPS BBS and the latest version there is still 2.10. Any useful new features? I presume you're talking about the Amiga version of the PAR since you're trying to use it with LightWave. Jeff H…
#PAR and 8 bit images
Message #86258
Has anyone here gotten a DPS PAR to accept 256 color IFF's? Whenever I try to load an 8 bit image I get a requester that says it can only load 1, 8, or24 bit images. I've tried 8 bit images generated with LightWave (alpha channel), AdPro, and Brilliance and…
John, I read the story a long time ago. I wasn't sure if that's where the term originated though. If I remember properly they've been using them since the 50's. Not sure what they used to call them back then though. Jeff H…
Bruce, I've heard about multiplying your project time but in this case thing were going pretty smoothly. Till I hit that timing glitch that is. ;^) I've got a couple of ideas to try that may cut down accuracy slightly, but I might even be able to compensate for that.…
Laurie, Rick is correct about it being possible to move images from a PC to the Par-equiped Amiga using a Syquest or Bernoulli drive, however you shouldn't have to run the images through AdPro. The current version of the Par software supports Targa and SGI images as well as IFF.…
Danny, The anim editor will be a timeline editor where you will be able to define clips from various stills and animations on your PAR drive then assemble them into 1 animation. Kind of like using split, join, duplicate & rename functions in the PAR software only easier to do…
John, I'm not sure where the original name comes from, but waldos are what they call those mechanical arms that were originally designed for handling nuclear materials and other hazardous goods. The term's been around since the late 50's. Jeff H…
Erik, Just my luck about the accelerator. :^( Haven't heard anything about the new version of the Raptor. Gee, wouldn't it be cool if the market was flooded with original Raptors dirt cheap? After all, they WOULD be obsolete right? ;^) Jeff H…
Bruce, I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person. Music isn't my area of expertise. I seem to remember an article in Desktop Video World a couple of months ago that explained the royalty vs non-royalty issue and how to legaly add music to your videos. You might see if your…
Erik, What sort of accelerator are you selling? I've been thinking of upgrading my 2000. The chances of a Raptor in the near future is starting to look a little dim. Jeff H…
Danny, Seems I've hit a bit of a snag with the sound program. I'm trying to write the program in Cando and I can't even get it to count at 30 frames per second let alone play sounds. :^( Till I can come up with a solution to get more…
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