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Looking for work in maui
Message #183236
I will be moving to maui september 16th for 8 weeks for my sabbatical. I would like to earn some extra money while I'm there doing part time work. I work for autodesk as a 3d modeler and animator. I am very proficient in the use of AutoCAD, Designer and…
Gregory, We just completed some animations on the america's cup for PBS, we managed to get some good looking water using a combination of sxps. I can't remember the settings, but I have them at the office, I'll email you a project file, and post it up here on the…
Melodie, You need to make put your ucs to the current view, ie front view. Make a block out of the front view, switch to the wucs, insert the block in a clean area of the drawing, explode it, then dxfout by entities by selecting the just exploded block. 3d…
Steve, like I told Ken, you should use the matrox driver that comes with the card, until vibrant comes out with a fix. Unfortunately, I have no idea when that will be. Yann Bertaud – MST, Autodesk.
You didn't specify the brand though. Is it an HP, Micron, Gateway, what? Just curious, Yann Bertaud – MST, Autodesk.
Well, first you need to run the acadrv.bat file. That batch file sets the environment variables, ie rcpadi and rdpadi. Then run the vibrant driver configuration. For main display choose RCPADI instead of VIBRANT, for render display choose RDPADI and for materials display choose RCPADI. When you exit the Vibrant…
We've changed the name of the group a few times, we went from IDL, to Visual Productions Group to Marketing support team. Yann
Is the board by chance in an HP vectra UX? If so, it is a known problem. As far as I know, the HP is the only machine that exhibits this problem with the MGA card. Even though the problem seems to be inherent to the HP, it is a…
I've got no idea, when there will be a fix. I'm not at all involved in that aspect here at Autodesk. Nik Grant should be able to tell us. He's in Product Support and is in contact with vibrant I believe. Yann Bertaud – MST, Autodesk.
Yup, I won, I started the fight right around the first of september, won right around the beginning of november. Got the machines in finally last week. It was well worth the fight. Yann Bertaud – MST, Autodesk.
>>I thing you're wrong on that point. I didn't really blame it on the hardware. I just thought that it was odd that the same exact card and driver works fine in my PCI bus micron but didn't in the HP. Everything is the same except that one is an…
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Vibrant + Matrox = FALSE
Message #143107
Interestingly enough, I'm having the same problem with our HP vectra XU90 machines. The same exact card works fine with our micron 90s. I would say that those HPs are the problem, however, like you said, both autocad and windows runs fine. Go figure. I spent a whole day trying…
I think that the ACAD forum would definitely have been more appropriate, since it really involves AutoCAD and Autosurf. 3d studio is only involved in the rendering aspect of this. In any case we'll keep this thread going in here. As to the lisp routine, I wouldn't hold my breath…
>>While your at it figure out a way to automatically get the diagonal edge between two faces to come in with the edge invisible. That is also part of my plan, basically what my routine will do is build a new mesh with either the 3dmesh command or most likely…
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Vibrant 1.0.5 p1 busted!
Message #134928
Tim, I agree with you, we have 5 gateways with the ATI mach 32s and none of them give us any problems. I use mine everyday and haven't had a problem with either the old driver and 3ds3 or the 1.05 driver with 3ds4 And to make it even worse,…
Aaron, I deal with autosurf models everyday and have found the same problem with the meshing algorithm. The only work around I can give you is to decrease your mesh density or display tolerance. By default the display tolerance is set to .005, setting it to a smaller number creates…
#Bones is cool
Message #131869
I just downloaded bones and did a quick test with it, it is really cool. I showed it our two animators and they loved it. It looks like the combination of using it with IK could make for some really fun animations. We've got a few cool ideas for it…
>>But that would sound too mean, and I don't want to be mean to you, because I was so mean to you on the phone the other night. I guess that that's as good as an apology as I'm going to get. I guess I can forgive you this time.…
>>Of course, there was that frog I found in my bed last night… Hmm, so should we analyze that dream. Since when do you fantasize about frogs? Dare I ask, what was the frog's name? Do you think that by kissing it, it will turn into a prince? It's okay…
Sorry, You are right, the test I did was so low res that it looked like it worked. When I redid the test last night at higher res, it didn't work. I have another idea which I tested and which works, basically you use face mapping to get the effect,…
#WF to Solid model fade?
Message #124404
Hey michelle, I'm doing fine, hanging in there. kinda tired today, went for a killer 20 mile mountain bike ride up in tahoe yesterday. Had a good wipeout too, broke my seat and bent my front sprocket. Great day. going back up next weekend for another ride on another trail.…
David, >>Uhhh, Yann, you can't morph between phong and wire. Unless I'm missing something. I don't think so though… Yeah you can, I did it before I replied to sergio. It work fine. Try it out. Yann
I'm assuming that the solid and wireframe model are exactly the same, if that is the case, you can morph the object from solid material to wireframe. Assign the solid material to the first object (object01), then assign the wireframe to the copy of the object (object02). In the keyframer,…
I've been doing some tests in the last couple of days comparing a p5-90 to a p5-66 and a 486/66. I rendered the antique car which I had done about 2 years ago. You can see a rendering of it here on the forum. It has a lot of autoreflecting…
COOL, Another OS/2 for/against thread. We gotta have one every couple of months. I'm not getting suckered into this thread again. Yann Bertaud – VPG, Autodesk.
>>Please forgive me for being so quick to judge. I don't know if I can do that. You might have to buy me a beer or two next you're at Autodesk. Yann PS: I still haven't figured out why it's not capitalizing or adding [Adesk] at the end. Looking at…
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New 3DS'er in town
Message #101983
Picky aren't we? I didn't realize that I hadn't capitalized my name. It's weird, the "Adesk" part doesn't show either. I'm going to have to check my wincim settings. I've got one for 9600 and another for 14.4 but they should be the same for my name. Go figure??? Yann…
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Balthasar's Nightmare
Message #101285
I don't need to, I get all the software I want here at Autodesk. Besides, I hate school. I'd much rather make money. (I'm a capitalist, so SUE me) I only work so that I can support my windsurfing habit along with rest of my "big toys for big boys"…
>> HW locks are virtually crying to be cracked So basically you are saying that laws are meant to be broken. If there is a law, it is crying to be broken. I don't think so. >> it's not like stealing your car Yeah, right. That's exactly the same. If…
>>let's just be friends Aaaaargh, kiss of death. I hate those words. Yann
Guys, get a life. This thread is great. I'm still waiting to read more of michelle's romance story. Does the guy become so depressed that he reformats his one gig drive and installs all the different word processors out there? Yann "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." Bertaud.
The one gig of ram won't do you any good, since it seems that dos can only access 64megs. We just got a DEC pentium with 198 megs of ram and we can't access any more than 64 megs. We've tried QEMM and now we have problems with r3 crashing.…
Mike, See my previous email in answer to your questions. Yann
Mike, I'd be interested in helping you out a bit. Give me a call on the 18th. I'm going on vacation tomorrow for a week and won't be back till the 18th. I'm sending you my number via private email. If you want you can send me your current project…
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#Mirror lake
Message #95741
Mike, I work in the Visual Productions group here at Autodesk, our charter is to create drawings and renderings for use in brochures and ads. I do most of the AutoCAD drawings and renderings that go into the brochures. However we are always looking for stuff from customers. I'm a…
Thanks for the info. I'll file it away for future reference. I'll call walter about the 94 integra. Was it digitized so that Acura could use CG for an upcoming ad? Or did you guys just decide that you wanted to have that has part of you model suite. This…
I think all of us here on the forum would like to know. What would it cost to have a car digitized assuming it hadn't been already? How long would it take is the other question. You guys haven't digitized a 94 acura integra GSR lately, have you? Just curious…
>>1. Is there a way to import WITHOUT haveing to SOLMESH in acad first? (Takes SOOOOOO long.) Afraid not. However you can reduce the time it takes by solmeshing a bunch of solids at a time instead of all solids in one shot. I have a lisp routine somewhere that…
Your customer is making it harder than it needs to be. All he needs to do is configure AutoCAD to use the RHEXPORT plotter driver and specify GIF as the file output. He can then plot any view he wants to a gif file in AutoCAD at any resolution he…
Does the iges file contain actual mesh info or does it contain surface info? Where did the file come from.? What Iges translator do you have? You need the IGES 5.1 or 5.2 translator. Tell me which one you have and I'll try to walk you through the steps of…
The translator that I'm talking about is made by Autodesk for use inside of AutoCAD. Most likely, they (the AutoCA guys) are using the IGES 4.0 translator. Have them talk to their dealer about getting the IGES 5.1 translator. You should post this message on the AutoCAD forum (GO ACAD)…
Or you can turn off Casts Shadows in the object attributes dialog box. Yann Bertaud – VPG, Autodesk.
Richard, I could have sworn that I answered the exact same question a couple of days ago, I just can't find the response I sent. Anyway, here goes; 1st, what version of AutoCAD? I'm assuming you have r12, if so, you need to get the IGES 5.1 translator from Autodesk.…
You forgot to ask for the end to world hunger and war. Yann
Are you saying that you had problems importing IGES files containing nurbs surfaces? If so, what version of AutoCAD are you using. Also, what version of the IGES translator are you using? To get the nurbs surfaces into AutoCAD you need r12 and the IGES 5.1 translator. I've taken a…
Jamie Clay, my boss, did the exploding farm house. He did some animation tests of it too. Actually, that was how he got the still, he would animate the whole thing and then choose a frame which looked good, then render that particular frame in highres for the ad. The…
I have an ATI ultra pro in my machine which will run in 24 bits at 800×600 in windows. It's much better than the atvista or targa since they are both fairly low res. The ATI will also run at 16 bit at 1024×768. Basically you should look for a…
>>Adding the dongle before the printer takes up an extra 2 inches of my deskspace by pushing my computer away from the wall. My plotter is far from my desk so I use 2 parallel cables hooked end to end, however since I need both my 3ds and asurf locks,…
Yeah, we got some cool stuff in the lab. A couple of pentiums, some video gear. That's cool to work with, but believe it or not I try to have a life outside of work. I would much rather be windsurfing or bike riding, playing my stereo, driving a fast…
>>*Sheesh* Paul. Do you have enough toys, or what? You can tell the difference between the men and the boys by the price of their toys. I guess that makes paul a Super Man . BTW, don't let that go to your head Paul. I wish I had a $115k…
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