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Eric, Can you elaborate on what these messages are? Thanks in advance, -Marco
Darryl, Thanks, I'll be looking for them. -Marco
Darryl, I'd like to see some samples. Could you post some in the library here? Also, is there or will there be a way to create your own 3D actors or to import them. If not, this will be a significant limitation for professional use. What capabilities are there for…
Thomas, Thanks a lot for the response, this may help a lot. -Marco
Does anyone know if the Miro DC1 can capture the time code if it is not visually displayed? Thanks in advance. -Marco
Mark, Thanks for the response. -Marco
V editing for a school
Message #2290
Chris, Do you have a tel number for Cineworks? Thanks in advance, -Marco
David, I'm glad to hear of your treatment during your problems. One real measure of the quality of a company and it's products is not just how well the products work for everyone, but how well the company works when a customer has problems. -Marco
Tim, Thanks for the detailed and informative response. I'm off to try it. ;=) Marco
Tim, >> I hope you won't mind me responding to your message to Mike … No, I don't mind at all. Any help or clarification is always appreciated. I just hope Mike understands that, while I know from a developers point of view it may be a design flaw, from…
3.2 Interace
Message #3357
Mike, Perhaps I am confused here, but is there a way to just repeat my map without the 128 border? If the result is not seamless where my map butts up agianst the other side of itself, it's that way because I want it that way. If I want it…
#V editing for a school
Message #2236
I am working with my local school on setting up a computer based video editing system. The students are currently making videos using VCR's and "splicing" and have some cameras and VCR's. We would like expand our video lab and capabilities and are looking for recommendations and estimates of street…
John, Thanks for the info. -Marco
John, Thanks for the response. This forum will be an invaluable resource. -Marco
Wit, Perhaps you or someone could help me. I am helping to put together a few video editing systems for our local school. So, I am just starting to do a similar evaluation to yours. I am unclear on the use of some of the terms and the impact of…
Recommend a set-up
Message #1885
If you have a demo disk and literature on your products, I would like to recieve them. Marc Reinig System Solutions 3415 Merrill Rd Aptos, CA 95003 Thanks in advance, -Marco
Rick, Each time you log on, CIS updates a pointer to the number of the last message you have read so that you don't see old messages again. To see old messages, go to the OPTIONS menu and change the last message number to a smaller value. Your message is…
David, A program that runs under WIN32S is not a plain Windows program and requires a special set of extensions to Windows to be present. Thus you cannot run it under Windows without the extensions. I have heard that OS/2 does not yet support the latest version of WIN32S (Photoshop…
Vincent, Thanks for the response. This forum has been very informative. -Marco
Robert, Thanks for the response. I'll try the video. -Marco
Thanks for the brief tutorial. Can you explain what characteristics a hard drive must have to have an "AV class" rating? I am about to buy a >1G drive, probably SCSI-II. Thanks in advance and Seasons Greetings,
Michael, Do you have problems with any other programs? If his is the same as yours, do you mean DOS 6.2, mouse and driver, etc? or just the HW? Try running "CHKDSK /F" and DEFRAG (use the full option) on your drive(s) before you go and reformat. You might also…
GreG, A while ago, I sent Dave some FLC's that Imagine produced that DFV couldn't handle well. The latest version of DFV (1.1) handles them fine. I think my version of DTA is older (2.1.0), so maybe the changes haven't percolated down to the DTA code. I also just discovered…
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bit targa format
Message #651
GreG, I used the 8-bit Targa output format today and am having problems getting most graphics programs to read it. It is an image with a lot of blue. When I 24-bit Targa's and 256 color TIF's they are fine. But, when I generate 8-bit Targa's, almost everything see's the…
GreG, It would be nice if the particles could retain at least some of the color and/or attributes of the object from which they were particalized. For instance, if I map a simple image to a plane, particalize it and explode it, each particle should retain some of the color…
Mark, VRLI is a very good commercial product for creating landscapes. If you are more focused on landscapes then VistaPro from VRLI is an excellent decision. However, it is commercial and while not too expensive by 3ds standards, it is not cheap. I believe it can export DXF files. Fractint…
Mark, Try FRACTINT, runs on multiple platforms, it's free, absolutely the best fractal program available bar none. Go GRAPHDEV and check out the fractal libs there. -Marco
Oops, Must have blitzed through the socket part of your message. Sorry for the tutorial ;=) -Marco
David, One word of caution. The next time you add a chip to the mother board add a socket and plug the chip in the socket after you are done. Soldering the chip directly can damage them through heat or static discharge. They can also die after you insert them…
David, The fact that your adapter causes problems with OZCIS is a strong indication that you have either address or interrupt problems or both. I think you are on the track of the solution. -Marco
David, Some questions: 1. Did you have a CD driver loaded before on another controller, or have you just loaded it with this one? 2. Does it work with other programs and just not with Imagine? 3. Did you just add EMM386 or another memory manager to be able to…
Thank you, Thank you, thank you. I deal in scenes with hundreds of objects and I never made the connection! !!!! -Marco
Chris, You can do it. I have seen people buy the motherboards in the form of adapter cards and use them. Each card has a complete motherboard on it (RAM, CACHE RAM, BIOS) the bus is used to access common functions and therefore would potentially require special software to keep…
Phil, I checked out Winged.jpg. Nice work! Where can I get Corel3 on CD for ~$60? -Marco
Rick, Don't know much about PS or the conversion algorithm, but I would have assumed that one shape overlapping another shape would convert to just that. Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check out Corel 3. -Marco
Phil, Will do.! -Marco
Mike, I did a 30 frame animation of two identical hand.bon objects side-by-side closing into a fist. In one I had the spline interpolation box checked, in the other, I had it unchecked. I couldn't see any difference between the two. What does that box do anyway? -Marco
David, > You have a state "open" and one "closed" (hand is a fist) and morph > between them. Position the camera so that you see the hand from the > side and watch the anim. You will see what I mean. I don't. I see the fist closing in…
Rick, I don't have Corel, I do have about 40 Type 1 fonts from various sources. Imagine has problems with most of them (>30). My other programs that use PS like them. The ability of Corel to create type 1 fonts out of shapes and export them sounds handy. Do…
Philip, OK, elegant. Hmmm, Well, how about making one piece of wood with extrude, using your moulding cross section (any shape) and extruding along the length axis. Cut four pieces with 45 degree angles using slice, if you want diagonal corners where the boards meet, so the shape will match.…
Phil, How about creating it out of 4 simple rectangles (put together like you would pieced of wood) to form the outline of the frame. Extrude that along the axis to give it depth. The object will then have square corners. -Marco
3.0 internal error
Message #85604
I am using 3.0 PC and getting an "Internal Error" at the end of any animation I play in the Project Editor. The animation seems fine, but I still get the error. Any idea what is causing this? Thanks in advance. -Marco
David, After considerable help from GreG T and others I tried hand.bon and it works for me. Here's what I did: It comes with two states DEFAULT and OPEN. 1. Select DEFAULT state. 2. In Select Object (IMPORTANT) mode select the axis at the end of a finger. 3. Press…
Erich, I have used the same thing but I found item 10. needed to be done in the group mode (r-a/1) not the object mode. At least, I couldn't make it work right with object mode. ;=) Also, GreG clarified that, for morphing animations between states, you should not use…
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Imagine 3.0/BONES
Message #85391
Harry, > I could articulate the bones, but the bones update function did not > give me any results. Bones update only works when you have selected the group parent. > Also, I found myself constantly losing the original DEFAULT state > position. Whenever I tried to set the state…
Mike, Re: Working under Chicago. Wonderful! -Marco
Mike, > At the present time, No, however it does seem that Imagine will be > able to run under the new windows code named Chicago. There are > numerous reasons why it cant, mostly due to the memory we need to use Could you clarify that for me. I…
In terms of the Staging files, I never gave it a thought. I think I have only one version. I didn't save anything under a different name, I just went to Action, clicked Save as if I had changed something, then went to Stage and proceeded normally. Good luck, -Marco
David, I had problems with using my 2.9 files with the new 3.0 files. Crashed my system. The response I got was, ". . . continue old work on 2.9 and start new work on 3.0. Maybe there will be a converter in the future, no guarantee." Unfortunately, I was…
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