This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Peter, A prj file basically retains anything you've created in any of the 5 odd modules off 3dstudio. Regards, Peter Kroko
Keith, Does it take Pro-e files in it's native format? Regards, Peter Kroko
Mick,
Bruce, First you need to render the fram at a high resolution, maybe 2000×3000. With a good tif file there are scads of service outfits that can creat a Lasermaster, Novajet, inkjet, etc, etc poster. Regards, Peter Kroko
Mick, I did some work for a company that was in bed with a company called TMM TMM had a remarkable compression system based on fractals. I had 1.5 minuets of really nice video(320×200) , with sound! taking up only 4 megs. Don't know what became of the outfit or…
Greg, To be honest, I don't know. Maybe someone else here can pipe in. For the things I have been doing I didn't see a compelling reason to upgrade though for many I know there are handsome rewards. For me I just can't wait to ditch this dos box and…
Tim, Indeed they pale in comparison. My only admiration for them is that they seem to accept my Pro-E models without a whole lot of fuss and I am therefore able to use a divergent set of products across various OS's and provide tooling ready models, really nice images, CNC'd…
Alan, Thanks for the reply. > Ya I got a feeling It'll be MAX '96 .
Peter, I did a project for Mclellan Air-Force base in sacremento which required the best of everything. We found that an image of a reasonable pixel count, output to a 4"x5" transparency than enlarged to photograghically to a big photograghic print was indistingable from a real photographic print because the…
#DEC PC's
Message #190355
Alan, I've got a DEC xl 560 with the interchangable daughter card. I've contemplated upgradeing the D-card for an alpha but I'm waiting to see if 3ds is going to come in an alpha optimized version anytime soon…any word? Also wonder if the alpha would have any advantage over a…
Gary, > This is not the best way to go about it. A 3ds model has an accuracy of .01 or thereabouts. For any real product, a model with an acuracy to twelve decimal places is required. Your model may serve as an undelay to produce accurate data but it…
Peter, Do you realy need that sort of resolution? I'm curently output 2×3 foot poster on a LaserMaster dodad with excellent result from file3300x2400 pixels with excellent results. From 3 feet away you can't tell its not a photograghic print. 3ds r3 has a render region thing but it seems…
Chuck, Thanks for the tip! I'm actually not sure if I have the stl "module: or not. Regards, Peter Kroko
Scott, Do it all the time. But I must add in a pretty round about fashion. I Iges out from Pro-E. Iges in to Autosurf. Iges back out. Iges into Autocad and back out in dxf form to 3ds. (simple eh?) It actually works quite nice if you set it…
John, Facinating, How bout a checkerboard teapot with spherical "Michelon" snowmen chess figures on it…in space! Peter Kroko
Win-g, open-gl, Matrox
Message #181909
I just read a reveiw of a new $400 buck matrox board witch among other things is apparently capable of near real time rendeing with a program having the appropriate windows hooks (NT, Win95/6 etc). Wondering if anybody knows if 3ds NT will take advantage of these pertenant rendering engines(open-gl,…
Win-g, open-gl, Matrox
Message #181909
I just read a reveiw of a new $400 buck matrox board witch among other things is apparently capable of near real time rendeing with a program having the appropriate windows hooks (NT, Win95/6 etc). Wondering if anybody knows if 3ds NT will take advantage of these pertenant rendering engines(open-gl,…
3ds5/nt and Alpha
Message #181364
Robert, The alpha daughter card is about $3000. As for dual pentiums, I thought the only way to really take advantage of them was if you were multi-tasking. That is only one chip could operate on agiven program. Regards, Peter Kroko
Hey Martin!
#3ds5/nt and Alpha
Message #181024
Will the next NT version of 3ds be optimized for a DEC Alpha. If not, would there be any advantage to having a 233mhz NT Alpha box over a 133mhz pentium?
What the eheck, It's gotta be a thrill!!! Congradulations!!! Regards, Peter Kroko
Jeffery, Yuo touched upon a point I' grappeled with before. That is hoe to get iregular shape lights, espsecially when they reflect of the surface. As a student of design who spent many hours trying to give renderings (ala markers, colored pencils, etc) "punch" I would argue that you will…
G- Thanks, I stumbled on that one… By the way, check out the November issue of Computer Graphics World… Regards, Peter Kroko
#Disappearing faces ???
Message #131451
I am trying to do a close up fly through of a circut board I built. The board looks fine at a distance but close up on my fly through the nearest faces to the camera seem to dissappear ( you can see right through to the backround). And no…
Kurt, is 30 pin for the old (486 style) m-boards or will it work in your basic pci pentium? Peter Kroko
Phil,
Phil, You may have put your finger on it. the surface(s) are as flat as can be however, I have the material asigned to both sides of the board (a circut board.) Maybe what Ill try is assigning the material to one side and mirroring the part so my material…
#refelection map position
Message #118467
I'm having a problem with flat reflection maps that I've had before but in my current pordject is more pronounced and begging of a solution. Ive create a material with a "flat" reflection map and assigned it to just the face of the faces of the part of interest (a…
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Greg, "Please stop by!" Will do… Thanks, Beleive it or not I got a second place for last years christmas card too, 3d Studio been berry berry goot to me! Regards, Peter Kroko
Pyros sells sales group!
Message #109205
Greg, Good for you. You gonna stay at the same location? Been meaning to stop by Regards, Peter Kroko
cHUCK Thanks I'll be giving it a whirl. Regards, Peter Kroko
Viper and 3ds3 problems
Message #102744
Thanks for all the advice! My virtual cup runneth over… Peter Kroko
Chuck PCI. I'm leaning the new Cserve navigator and didn't realize I'd gotten a responce from you…and whent ahead and posted another "help" message. Disregard if you bump into it. Peter Kroko
#Viper and 3ds3 problems
Message #102153
Ive got a DEC 560 xl that came with a diamond viper. the vibrant drivers that came with 3ds3 don't have see the card at the address it apparently resides at. The vibrant error message says its supposed to reside at some other address and there appears to be no…
#Cool 3ds stuff
Message #101385
Heres a couple of things I think would be pretty nice to have in 3ds: 1)Though you can make you meshes visible in the shaper, a)Allow for the snaping to its (the meshes) verticies from within the shaper, or; B)Actually allow lines making up a mesh to be extracted directly…
PCI Viper not VLB Viper
Message #101337
Chuck, Ya although there are no jumpers or anything to change it on the card. Oddley I seem to recall running the some DOS utility that said the card was at D000 or at least part of it was. This address however didn't work either.
#PCI Viper not VLB Viper
Message #97859
Chuck > Ya, windows works fine… even NT does. Got any ideas on a work arounds?. Regards, Peter Kroko
I don't understand, DM = Deutch Marks? Regards, Peter Kroko
Chuck, Since you have responded to a previous like question here I thought Id quiz you. I just got a dec 560 with a VIPER PCI card installed. I also have installed the updated driver availabe in this forum. When I try to fire up 3ds (configured for the viper)…
Diamond VIPER 4-sale
Message #97212
Diamond Viper, brand spankin new, super fast true color graphics card. PCI interface. Um…fun for the whole family!? make me an offer Peter (714)838 7747
Angelo, So thats why they went under? All the mags had rave reveiws and I thought it worked great so I could never understand why they went away. Mines qwerky as all get up but I quite like it …just never liked being stuck with products from defunkt companies. The…
David,
david, I generally run 3DS at that resolution and then save targa files at higher res. No point of looking at everything that high all the time though>> Ya I guess it depends alot on how you work and what it is your working on. I wind up doing alot…
Hey David, Hows it goin… Yikes, pretty far from the 24x1024x768 I'm getting with my old TIGA (don't laugh) Opta Mona Lisa. My images are mainly still and pretty detailed so I like res and color … anyway… Regards, Peter Kroko P.S. Did you catch a peek of my stuff?
David,
John, Does that mean it won't work at all? or just not at its full potential. How bout windows and NT? does it have and generic or Vesa vga capbilities ? Regards ,Peter Kroko
John, Does that mean it won't work at all? or just not at its full potential. How bout windows and NT? does it have and generic or Vesa vga capbilities ? Regards ,Peter Kroko
Vibrant & Viper?????????
Message #84260
John, Does that mean it won't work at all? or just not at its full potential. How bout windows and NT? does it have and generic or Vesa vga capbilities ? Regards ,Peter Kroko
David, Personally I find ispiraration and creativity from such little surprises Peter Kroko
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