This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Mike, try it without the IPAS- in the shaper, draw the glass with all the cracks where you want them. Extrude the plane as individual pieces with adjacent borders on all the cracks. Select the surface faces and map them with the desired material. Could probably use automatic reflection mapping…
#3ds project files
Message #196863
Have been meaning to mention this for a long time- in the next release, please separate the Project Load and Project Save buttons ! It' so easy to enter 3ds with a blank screen and unintentionally hit Project Save instead of Project Load. Bingo, you wiped out the file. The…
Hi Nick- The problem was memory conflicts with other devices. Solved, thanks to Dave- NAAUG. The conflicts only surfaces when large programs are installed. I booted with only necessary devices-CD drive and mouse, and Animator installed OK. Rudy
#Animator Studio
Message #171371
Dave, thanks very much- I followed your advice, booted with bare bones and AS installed just fine ! Rudy
#Anim Studio Installation
Message #171225
Trying to install Animator Studio from CD – installation fails and get following error messages: "Could not write file AIS.MVB " , (or sometimes other file name). Also " MS SETUP TOOLKIT API ERROR , FAILED: COPY FILES IN LIST- APPLICATION ERROR" , or, "DSHELL CAUSED GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT IN…
Angelo, thank you for the camera description- looks like a neat system- I'll try it out! I hope to be in MD (Annapolis) in late August- Rudy
#Camera Crane
Message #170007
Hi Angelo- I just caught the tail end of the thread on the camera crane- what is it ? It sounds fascinating ! Rudy
#ANI Pro won't run
Message #150336
Hi Jeffrey, I still have ANI Pro 1.0- never upgraded to 1.3…. Does this mean ANI Pro 1.0 won't run with EMM 386 ? Rudy
#ANI Pro won't run
Message #150118
Since changing from QEMM to EMM386, when trying to run ANI Pro the following message appears: "Phar Lap Err35: The 386 chip is currently executing in virtual 8086 mode under the control of another program. You must turn off this other program in order to use 386|DOS-Extender to run in…
3ds Couldn't create flic
Message #146633
Gary, freeing up more disk space solved the problem- thanks. Rudy
Gary, am using medium pallette and 320 x 200 res. I'll free up more space on drive and will let you know results- Rudy
Nancy, No big deal- I really like your books- keep up the good work ! Rudy
#3DS won't create flic
Message #146004
When I try to render a flic a message appears: "Can't create flic file". TGA files render OK. To make it more interesting the problem is intermittent- occasionally it will render a flic file. Am running 3ds4 on a 90 Mhz Pentium with 32 MB . Have approx 30 MB…
3ds Applied R4 diskette
Message #145816
Hi Nancy ! The new books are great, as always ! However, when I tried to install the diskette for the R4 supplement it unzipped all my archived files and filled up my 3ds4 directory with hundreds of files-. That'l teach me not to keep archived files there. Rudy
Ben, you probably have invalid shapes- they must be closed to go into the lofter- try selecting all the vertices and welding them. Then use Shapes\Assign\Check and see if theyr'e ok. If not continue to weld or even delte vertices until shepe is valid-
Merry Christmas
Message #143620
Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings y'all— Rudy
#Diamond Viper driver
Message #140033
Alan, thanks very much for your suggestion. I ran VPROMODE and set the monitor to VESA 75 and can now see AniPro again ! I called Diamond on 408-736-2000 a few weeks ago when problem first encountered bu was kept on hold for a very long time and they outlasted…
#Diamond Viper drivers
Message #139639
Since installing Diamond Viper SE card have been unable to display Animator Pro. Have loaded VESA driver that worked on my previous (Genoa) card but no joy. Diamond has not responded to my request (on their BBS). Can't reach them on phone or fax either. They obviously don't provide any…
#Wish list
Message #138139
The timing for these wishes is probably wrong, but here goes- Ever since R.1 I've wished : 1) that angle adjustments in the KF could be in .25 degree increments, as in the editor. 2) that objects could be unlinked during the animation. Keep up the good work and best…
#Blacker Backgrounds
Message #138137
How can I get really black backgrounds ? Am outputting to PAR and to Beta Cam SP, using super black (R.4) . Still, my backgrounds are not really black when compared to other (competing) animators' "hi end" tapes. This was pointed out to me by a video producer/ex-client…….. Would appreciate…
#Unwanted flying vertices
Message #92588
On one of my computers, when modeling in the editor, objects suddenly become corrupted- vertices suddenly "fly" off to different planes in or around the object. These vertices are connected to the object with edges. This only happens on oneof my computers, a generic 486-33 with 20 MB ram. I…
#DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE
Message #81975
I didn't catch the first part of your photogrammetry thread with Rick Miller- would you mind repeating the process to me ? Sounds very useful for us accident types.
#Flickering screen
Message #66878
Hi gang, it's me again- problems seem to come in bunches. Since using Rel.3 (which I is great) I experienced episodes of screen flickering when un hiding objects by name in the keyframer. THe screen would flicker in muted pastel colors for several seconds- quite pretty, actually. I thought I…
Rendering crashes
Message #66875
Brian, thanks for your message- actually the model I was rendering was a simple little flying logo with no maps, just a few materials and the Hilite IPAS which turned out to have been theculprit. The rendering always crashes atexactly the same frame, (234) with the same strange error message…
rendering crashes
Message #66874
Tom, I thought my problem was alsodue to having all drives compressed and I uncompressed one for the swap file. But no, the culprit appears to be the Hilite IPAS ! Each time I renered with theIPAS thecomputer crashed with that strange message- when I omitted the IPAS it did…
rendering crashes
Message #66873
Martin, I tried several fixes, have now pinned down the problem- the cause of the crash during rendering, always on the same frame (!) appears to be the Hilite IPAS. After 6 series of renderings, that was the common factor. And it was a simple little flying logo with no…
Strange problems
Message #66712
Martin, I'm using Stacker and all my drives are compressed. I will uncompress a drive for swapping. Will also check on conflicts-just installed Net Lite . Thanks, Rudy
TGA rendering problems
Message #66627
Bob, thanks for your message- I thing R3 is supposed to recognize bitmaps in any order- VP recognized the IFL. Rudy
3DS3 problem
Message #66622
Mayday ! While recording my 300 frame animation from disk via VP the process was interrupted at about frame 230 with the following message: "No RAM for bitmap". The Memory used showed an astounding 31040 plus 50884 swap ! All this just to record previously rendered bitmaps- obviously something is…
Strange error message
Message #66602
Tom, I read your message of 12 Nov- yesterday and today I got the same strange error message after my computer crashed during rendering- "Cheap stack dump etc.." Please see my message to All- Did you ever figure out your problem ? Rudy
#Interrupted rendering
Message #66601
Yesterday I was rendering a series of 300 TGA's to disk. When I returned to my computer I found the screen scambled and the following message: "Cheap stack dump linked in=> no dump Aborting…" The rendering stopped at frame 234. Today, the exact same thinb occurred- I decided tomake some…
#3DS3 challenges
Message #66461
Greg, yes it was a memory problem- after much tweaking we managed to get network running. However, the network (Novell Netware Lite) won't recognize most drives on other machine-(2 machines)- from either one to the other. Strange- it could be a Novell problem but they have not yet thought of…
corrupted TGA file
Message #65513
Greg, Thanks for the info on the IPAS's- I will fax your shop tomorrow and request a catalog of all your goodies. Rudy
corrupted TGA file
Message #65511
Martin, Thanks for your suggestion-it sounds like a good way to solve the problem of bad TGA's and I'll try it. Rudy
#corrupted TGA file
Message #65261
1 I was recording a 3900 frame project with Video Post. About 200 frames from the finish the project was aborted witht eh message " "Can't find file D0503.TGA"; I also could not view that particular TGA file; obviously it got corrupted. Is there any way to check a series…
Finding image files
Message #59498
Gary, thanks again for your help- the problem certainly was related to the map/image paths, anyway its finding the files now ! I have the MAKEIFL program and use it a lot. IFL's didn't seem to make any difference. Rudy
3ds
Message #56391
Occasionally, (and that's too often) when trying to render a TGA file to disk I get the dreaded message : "Can't create image file"….. It usually turns out the 3DS file is somehow corrupted. Any thoughts/suggestions on how to avoid this- ?
#smoke
Message #55115
Hi John, Thanks for your advice on smoke- I have the smoke IPAS and will try working with it some more to get it right- Regards, Rudy
#smoke
Message #55114
Dear Alan: Thanks for your advice- I have the smoke IPAS and will work with it some more- Rudy
#/exit
Message #54505
Sb. 3DStudio Fm:Rudy Mantel 72302,743 To: All I wish to show an accident as follows: A truck is coming down a long hill; looking ahead the road will climbn up another long hill. The driver sees smoke from a grass fire. The truck starts to climb the hill, runs into…