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SONY SVO-2000
Message #194062
Has anybody had any experience with the New Sony SVO-2000 S-VHS VCR? It looks like it might be a nice deck for recording PAR output but I would like to talk to somebody that's seen or used one. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 04-Oct-1995 @ 20:01:54 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO…
John: Good idea! I'll take a look at overshoot. Thanks Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 26-Sep-1995 @ 20:00:40 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Paul: There are a number of seperate objects, but the ones that cause the problem are big enough that part of them should be shadowed and part illuminated. The other complication is that the part that glows is jacketed by a pair of coaxial quartz tubes. Splitting them would solve…
#Glowing Think Ideas?
Message #192516
Hi: I'm working on a project at work where I'm modeling an inductively heated block of carbon that goes from cold (a semi-shiny black) to a brignt incandescent yellow color. I'm doing a morph from the black to an intermediate glowing red to the final yellow color. That works fine…
Dave: Thanks dave! I'll hit the FTP site tomorrow. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 13-Sep-1995 @ 21:13:23 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Dave: What's the internet address of the DPS FTP site? Thanks, Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 08-Sep-1995 @ 20:20:56 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Greg: Thanks, I got it! Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 01-Sep-1995 @ 20:14:39 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Greg: COuld you email me the same data for dumping TGAs to the PAR during network rendering? Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 30-Aug-1995 @ 20:11:28 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Greg: Thanks, good idea! Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 20-Jun-1995 @ 20:58:27 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Greg: No, not yet. I managed to get backed up to September of 84 but I haven't found anything readable since then. I'm going to call OnTrack and see what they say, but I've recovered enough to be hesitant to spend a lot to restore the rest – if there…
I can read backups from one backup package and not another so I don't really think that it is the tape. I think that it was just the Conner Tech support person's easy excuse. I'm now looking for some (NON-CONNER!) software. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 19-Jun-1995 @ 20:55:25 Using:…
Thanks! It turns out that I have backups using two different backup programs. (All on my evil not party-approved 3M DAT tape!) I can't read any of the tapes recorded with Conner Backup Exec but I can read the ones done on the Corel backup software! I was able to…
Greg: Just a word from painful experience: Try restoring from your backup drive before you delete the original files! I just did (and verified) a complete system backup before a major hard disk upgrade. I ended up losing almost all of the files on the hard disk and then finding…
Nik: Ok, let me know what you find out. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 09-Jun-1995 @ 21:31:21 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Nik: Thanks! I should have two copies, one at work and one at home. Same for 3D Studio. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 07-Jun-1995 @ 20:24:43 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Nik: I've got two copies registered – one at home and one at work – and I haven't seen an upgrade notice on either so far. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 05-Jun-1995 @ 20:21:38 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
#Animator Studio upgrade
Message #172913
Have upgrade notices for Animator Studio gone out to registered users of Animator Pro? I've got registered copies both at home and at work and haven't heard anything at all so far. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 31-May-1995 @ 20:57:44 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Don: Other than a couple of VHS VCRs I don't have a deck at home where my PAR is. I've been debating whether to get a relatively inexpensive recorder at home in a higher quality format, but I haven't decided on **which** format. As you suggest, I would normally dump…
Sure, that sounds good! Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 22-May-1995 @ 20:29:28 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
With only one animation as an exception, I am not under any non-disclosure restrictions with my work, so I can probably put together some samples. I'm not sure what the best format would be – maybe I'll just have you send me a blank VHS tape and I'll copy some…
I thought the same thing – a flipped normal or a missing face, but I couldn't find anything wrong with the faces in the area of the dark streaks. I assume that there **was** something wrong but I just couldn't find it. We've got a group at work that develops…
Chris Johnston is OK, but I'm not an architect. I'm a chemist, actually, but I'm also my group's animation and visualization specialist. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 19-May-1995 @ 20:44:09 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
Oh, yeah – I remember that now and I see no reason why you can't use it as a personal opinion. (The people at work are touchy about anything that sounds like an endorsement that has their name attached to it) Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 17-May-1995 @ 21:01:18 Using:…
I had a lot of trouble with the walls in my last walk through. They did not translate properly from ACAD 12 to 3DS my any method that I tried so I ended up remaking them in the 2D Shaper and Lofter. The walls imported from ACAD had black streaks…
There is a way to set up a loop in the keyframer which looks like it should work if you set it up right. I usually do my modeling in 3D Studio, but for complex models I use Acad. In general I would rather model in 3DS to avoid the…
Sure. What did I say? Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 15-May-1995 @ 20:55:56 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62
I've done a couple of building walkthroughs with 3D Studio. I can't think of any other program that I've seen on an Intel-based system that I would rather use for this kind of work. Most of what I do is animated illustrations of equipment – I did a couple of…
Patrick: I use Autodesk's 3D-Studio for the majority of my work. I do a little with Animator Pro, and I've played with POVRay a little. I like 3D studio a lot, and I consider it to be well worth the $3000 or so that it costs (list) but you really…
IPAS wish
Message #167737
I've got an IPAS wish for the Yost group (and anybody else that's interested!) I would like to see you put out a CD ROM that contains all of your IPAS routines in encripted form along with demo images and some of your free IPAS routines. If I could call…
Michael: I'm not sure, but it sounds something like the field order is backwards. It is normal for the stills to be jumpy because the fields are rendered 1/60 sec. apart – the second field is a view of the model at 1/60 sec later than the first frame (assuming…
Brian: Thanks. I'll give them a call. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 10-Apr-1995 @ 21:18:48 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.6
Mark: I've tried to copy all of the texture maps around to all of the net machines, but I couldn't swear that the flicker dosen't follow one machine or another. I'll have to look at the individual frames and see if I can make any sense out of it. If…
#3DS Upgrade
Message #163599
I just got a flyer today from Autodesk on their FTP-able upgrade to ACAD R13. Is the 3DS upgrade available through the Autodesk FTP site? If so, how do you do it? Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 07-Apr-1995 @ 21:09:41 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.6
Thanks, I'll go look at the mesh again. I suspect that this is an artifact of a boolean operation, either in 3DS or AutoCad since it shows up in exaclty the same position on both the first and second floor. I'll go hide everything but those walls and go play…
Paul: The people at work like the melting building too. The killer with this is that the building isn't a project for a client – **my** research group was going to move into it! Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 05-Apr-1995 @ 22:53:51 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.6
Bob: Had I realized the extent of this project before I started rendering it I might have rendered all the Targas to the PAR resolution instead of the Targa resolution and then brought it all home and assembled it on the PAR. One of the biggest problems that I had…
Thanks, I'll look at the field ordering setup. I never had any problem laying the targa files to tape or rendering directly to the par, just in importing the series of .TGAs to the PAR. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 04-Apr-1995 @ 21:17:39 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.6
Bob: Interesting idea… I did a lot of the original drawing in Autocad and did have a lot of trouble with the DXF import – missing and flipped faces, etc. Visual link didn't work either – all it imported was the layer with the doors on it! I don't remember…
Greg: Thanks, I'll try it. I thought of rendering to the PAR and dumping it to the 3/4" tape, but there are a few problems with it: I'm using my home machine as an extra rendering station while the two networked machines at work render along. I end up with…
#Stripes and flickers
Message #162644
I'm working on a large project (It fills my 32 MB of RAM and uses about 30 MB of swap file) and I've noticed two things. On the outside of my building I've got two dark stripes that seem to follow the edge of a face that goes from the…
#A PAR Question
Message #162643
I rendered a whole set of frames out to Targa files recently. They were field rendered to 512 X 486 24 bit files and, just to get an idea of the timing, I assembled then on my PAR to look at the segment. (The original files won't go on my…
Mike: OK, your problem does not seem to be the same as mine. I never ran this model under R3, so I don't know if I would have had the same problem, but it seems to be sensitive to the size of the swap file. I have another cpu card…
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#Render Lockup
Message #159584
Mason: I'm in **my** biggest project and I get similar results, except that I get an apparrantly bogus memory parity error on frame 2 or 3. Usually, if I hide some of the more complex (but not currently visible) parts of the model, it usually renders OK, but it will…
David: Thanks. That sounds a little strange – I don't see how the presence of a position key stuck in the end of an animation could affect the shadows in the beginning. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 09-Mar-1995 @ 21:20:06 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.5
Paul: Thanks, I'll try it. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 09-Mar-1995 @ 21:16:39 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.5
Bob: Thanks, I've been rendering in pieces anyway, partly to allow a section not to swap to disk if it doesn't need to. My 486 at work crashes often enough anyway that I get to restart it every day or so anyway! Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 07-Mar-1995 @ 21:35:24…
But the only objects that move, except for the camera, is a pair of elevator doors that move around frame 1100 out of 1200. Before that there is nothing in the model that moves, and no animated texture maps. There **are** some hide keys. Chris – Chris Johnston, Written 07-Mar-1995…
Greg: Thanks. I figured that you would be the place to come to to ask about PAR software! Thanks for the advice on the CD-ROM and MO drive on the net. I've **have** been throwing all of my 486 and above machines at my current project. In fact, I've been…
#Network Render design
Message #158317
Among a couple of 486 DX2/66 machines that I use for rendering (and model development) I've got an old 386DX/33 machine with 8 MB of memory. It obviously isn't useful for rendering, but I was wondering about the practicality of putting my PAR and Magneto Optical disk (and probably a…
Bob: I'll have to look at SHADOW-BIAS-ABSOLUTE and see what effect it has. The windows don't have automatic reflection maps, but I've noticed that any transparent material really slows down the rendering time. I'll look at raytraced shadows, but I don't want to change the shadow setup now that I've…
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