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>I wanted to love it, but cant I know just what you mean. Love it, hell, sometimes I can't even USE it! .mark
> as soon as 3ds is out for nt and does some splineing (next version)< Yeah, but that's what they told us last time, isn't it? ..mark
Are you saying that Real3D spline objects cannot be exported to DXF/3DS? I can do it on the PC version and it seems to work fairly well. ..mark
Hi, thanks for the input – i haven't seen the amiga version, but I think it is s'posed to be similar. here's a quick question. I'm trying to do an animation involving a series of collisions. to get the collisions to work more or less properly, I've had to turn…
#Real3D
Message #48093
Hi, I'm looking for users, lovers and haters of Real3D. Who uses it? What's good/bad about it. How do you get it to do its magic? Does anyone have any input? (Does anyone know any users of the PC version?) Thanks, .matk (oops – I mean 'mark')
#13620-
Byte articles on 3D
Message #13683
Congrats! ..mark
Mike, Wasn't meaning to suggest that people scan and _submit_ Escher's work to you — just that it is a great source of _inspiration_ and ideas about tilable art. ..mark
PMJI, but i recommend the works of (and about) M.C. Escher who really knew his tilable patterns. ..mark
Jason (aka 'Frank') Thanks for the pointer, but I needed someone who already had a class up and going. I found one at UCLA, tho. Thanx anyway. ..mark
Chris, Once, long ago when I was working on a different article, you hinted that some new stuff was happening with ER under Windows. Can you point me at anyone to talk to (hopefully in the next 40 minutes or so?) Any film schools, etc., using ER? TIA, ..mark
#Pro Work in Windows
Message #3910
Hi, I'm looking for Elastic Reality for Windows users who are doing 'professional' projects with it. Has anyone learned about ER in a class, film school, etc.? Any stories of 'plain old Joes' who've leveraged ER into a career in special effects? Let me hear from you. ..mark
>(the driver wasn't there yet, so I can't confirm if it really does)< Don't get me started about Diamond and drivers! ..mark
I believe that Matrox has one or more new cards out for the PC that support OpenGL. (The Matrox Impression??) ..mark
> Mark: Is that a nannna nanna naa nna?< Nope, I just cannot stand tutorials. I ran across a pile of manuals for an operating system the other day. About 12 books, and the only one still in the shrink wrap was the one marked: "READ ME FIRST!" > when…
> I'm working on the tutorials now, and am liking the program better< I never ran the tutorials. Maybe that's why I didn't have as many troubles with the program? ..mark
>Technically, a supportive guy< Do you make these up, or does your off-line reader make them up for you? Doesn't the pressure to be creative get to you sometimes? ..mark
I'm trying to put something together for one of my editors who's specifically looking for some name recognition. I know that most 'real' stuff is being done on SGI's … but I've heard that ER is doing serious work, even under Windows. Can I get particulars from you on some…
Were those guys working on SGIs? Is there anybody working with Pentium-class machines who (how can I put this delicately) I might have heard of? TIA, ..mark
>What about Z? Maybe to the default camera depth…Or far enough back that the entire object is visible…And how does this affect objects already in the view…< I'm not sure where to put it, Z-wise, but then I'm not quite sure where you put it now, Z-wise. If nothing else,…
#Don't get it
Message #2245
Nick, As I think I told you, I find VR/S3D/RL etc. to be about as easy to use as it gets _in_3D_modeling_and_rendering_. Unfortunately, the whole field is none to easy to approach for many. I, too, found it easy to cover the entire desktop in a clutter of windows until…
Hurrah! I have been having exactly the same problem in Photoshop! I'm going to suck down the new pointer right now. ..mark
>your article in December's PC Graphics and Video< Thanks, Steve, for the kind words. I do try. It was a little hard looking at the commercial tracers in the 150 or so words I had for each, but I tried to hit the high points that made that particular program…
>My idea for speed is through rendering farm rather than super fast single chip< It seems that you could put together a farm of used PCs cheaper than a farm of used MACs. Horsepower per dollar-wise. ..mark
>working for other people really sucks!< Ain't that the truth! ..mark
> Vance Gloster (vance@netcom.com) has created a 3rd-party product for procedurally constructing complex characters such as buildings. < Sounds cool. Who do i contact about it? ..mark
>too much aggravation and stress< I find nothing generates so much aggravation and stress for me as a couple layers of management telling me how to do my job.
#Light Wave
Message #759
>Know`s anyone at what date Light- Wave for PC`s is on sale?< They're saying by Xmas. ..mark
>20.000 $ < Well, then, POV-ray and Moray are definately your ticket. Unless that decimal is supposed to be a comma, and you're ready to spend $20,000, in which case you need you a Silicon Graphics workstation and some _real_ software! 🙂
> full screen animation of something like a fractal generation program < Have you played with fractint? It can do no end of interesting images, and is very popular for generating backgrounds, background animations, and so on. ..mark
>Wondering if we are related< Where is you at? Any relatives down around Oklahoma/Georgia way? ..mark
#Raytrace Animations
Message #597
Both HASH and Imagine have been ported over from the Amiga, as has Real3D. What kind of animations did you have in mind, and how much money do you have to spend?
>great tool for that kind of work is Adobe Premiere< Any idea as to the $$ ? TIA, ..mark
>I understand the dongle, I just don't particularly like it.< The Dongle only works, IMO, as long as almost nobody uses it. Imagine the back of your PC if you had three programs that needed Dongles, or five? Would they work together? Would you want that kind of stack stickin'…
#Rotoscoping
Message #1609
Nick, Does Visual Reality have a way to render an animation in front of another, pre-existing animation? For example, let's say I render a fly-by of a landscape in VistaPro, so I have a series of .TGA frames. Now I want to bring them in, one at a time, to…
> Maybe creating a .FLI or .AVI file. < Daves Targa Animator is a popular shareware program that will allow you to paste together images to produce an FLI. (I don't remember if it does .GIFs, tho….) ..mark
>Am looking for program to uncompress zipped files for windows–thanks!< I flat out LOVE WinZip : Nico Mak Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 919, Bristol, CT 06011. I know its around here, perhaps GO MSWIN. It's shareware so you can try before you buy. It will act as a shell for…
>Is there anyway to move animations on your computer to a video in a VCR?< YOu can do it with an add-in card. These ten to fall into two categories: cheap ($200) and crappy, and good and expensive ($800-$1200). Depending on what it is, how big, etc., you can also…
>3DS REALLY needs spline modelling…Almost had it this time 'round< are you referring to R3 or R4? I thought R4 was s'posed to _have_ spline modeling.
>in the Northern Exposure case, there was a live dog< Was that the one in the cab? It was purty kewl. >not a plug-in< SIGH – I'm doing an article on plug-ins and was hoping I'd get to play around with ER. What's the PC/Windows release date, etc? What's the…
>our technical support people (who use WINCIM) can see it,< I'm using CS Nav and it ain't there for me. ..mark
>the advantages to 3-D Studio is its expandability.< There's a minor industry of add-on software around 3DS, as well. But…. they are very _proud_ of 3D$. ..mark
>The upgrade price from Simply 3D to Visual Reality is $349.00.< Oops, and I just bugged you about that in another message. Thanx. ..mark
>Looking forward to the next time you put me in my place< Hey, I know this doesn't qualify, but have you noticed that your renderer is pretty darned fast? I was looking at another product (which shall remain nameless) and noticed that it was very slow. To see how slow,…
>Elastic Reality (a 2-D warping, morphing, animation, compositing, etc system)< Tell me more about this product and how I use it with my other modeling software. Is it a plug-in? A seperate program that reads DXFs, or what? Thanx, ..mark
>interesting and accurate review of Visual Reality < Um, that means they liked you, right? ..mark
Nick, Thanks for your reply to my problem of the disappearing object. Now, like those knocking sounds the car makes until you take it to the garage, the problem has disappeared. I'll try to reproduce it and let you know the specifics. It was not that I was rotating it,…
#Upgrade?
Message #1501
Is there a special upgrade price from Simply 3D to Visual Reality? ..mark
#Moving objects
Message #1470
Nick, I've just gotten your Simply 3D product. Looks very cool. I'm having a strange problem, tho. I've made a 3d object from a 2d picture, so that the matte color is transparent, using the built-in make 3d object function. When I try to move this guy, tho, it seems…
>3D Studio Release 4 or Caligari Truspace< What kind of rendering/animation are you doing? How much money do you have to spend? Is ease of use, power, quality of output, cost, etc. the most important thing to you? ..mark
>I am interested in putting together a short media presentation using the media player for windows. What I need to know is what software would be best to link a series of slides together and to perhaps edit some of these slides.< Have you see presentation graphics programs like Harvard…
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