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>> I search ( IPAS3, Disk Nr.6 from the Yost Group), if you can help, please contact me. What do you mean ? Geoff
FREEWARE IPAS FTP
Message #195924
Check out the description of FTP.ZIP in the IPAS section. Geoff Coope
#3DS BOOKS
Message #195572
Can anybody reccomend a good book for creating effects in 3DS 4 ? Thanks Geoff.
Fussy
Message #195570
Have you noticed the little white pixel in the top left corner of the forum logo 🙂 Geoff
>>This doesn't have anything to do with a bungee-jumping caveman, does it? Both your >>flics are the same resolution and same number of frames, right? I'm asking because >>you started with 45 frames, but if you rendered frames 0 through 45, then you've now >>got 46. If you re-render your…
Thanks, I'll try it. Geoff
Thanks Geoff
Thanks, Thats what I need. Geoff
#.FLC File size changes !
Message #195206
I have created several animations using Video Post all of which vary in size. One animation has a 200K'ish background image and an overlay animation of about 900K. The final rendering is about 2.5MB, yet I have managed to create the same animation at about 1.6MB not knowing what I…
Chroma keying !! Sounds intresting. I'll have a look into it. Thanks for the response. Guess What…. I have another question 🙂 I am trying to get the boss to buy animator pro, which to my distress he won't. Do you know of any good reasons to have animator/studio pro…
#Why Buy Animator Pro ?
Message #194879
I have just been given the job of editing a few .FLC files. I said we should buy Animator Pro, the boss said we should use our existing tools. Can anybody help me point out that Animator Pro is worth buying. What does it offer to .FLC files that 3DS…
Hi Stephen, It took about 4hrs to complete. (45 frames worth of magic wand and fine editing). I used Micrographics Photomagic which proved excelent at the magic wand. I have another question 🙂 Would it be possible to render a scene using anti-aliasing on a blue solid background then completely…
Thanks Stephen, I better get the coffee in 🙂
#Video Post Problem
Message #194133
Hi I have a 640×480 FLC animation of a bungee jumping caveman (45 frames). The screen starts of completely black then the caveman appears at about frame 5 at the top of the screen, falls to the bottom, waves his arms then flies back up off the screen. The original…
Thanks Brian. Geoff
#FLC Compression
Message #191747
What compression method is used in the Autodesk .FLC format ? Thanks Geoff Coope
Overlaying Animations
Message #190791
Thanks for the reply Jonas & Yost Group. I have found various packages available to perform "Blue screening" on animations. If I wanted to create a screen saver in windows with random animations appearing over a bitmap with transparency I would need WIN G and a library of C++ functions…
#Overlaying Animations
Message #190624
I did'nt really explain myself enough Jack. I dont want to use video post. Eg. I have a bitmap of the stars at night. I have four small animations of space ships which don't move but you can see the thrusters burning (animating). I want to overlay the space ships…
Overlaying Animations
Message #190586
How can I overlay my animations onto any still bitmap. ? Thanks for any advise Geoff Coope
Sob… Ok Geoff 🙂
Thanks for the info. Geoff
Thanks. I need to upgrade my memory (got 8MB) Geoff
#Page Faults ?
Message #189523
I get thousands of page faults displayed in the status panel. What are page faults ? Thanks for any reply. Geoff Coope
Good Luck Geoff
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Check out Elephant.ZIP Geoff
Check out ELEPHANT.ZIP Geoff
Hi Ralph. Want to be amazed… Yes…. Great… Download Elephant.ZIP Info is in README.TXT. within the zip Geoff
Is the target the same as the original. ( I know it sounds daft but it could be 🙂 ) Are you giving the morph object enough frames to morph into the target ? Geoff
Can you send me some info on your speedy animation playback cards. Thanks Geoff Coope
Nick. I tried to get some books at the local library. I used there micro film machine and searched for animation. Suprise… There were loads of books 3D studio as well. It costs about 60p to get the books posted from various librarys in the country to your library. There…
Hey, I have created my elephant (: I will upload the gif soon. But don't laugh it's my first attempt at modeling instead of logo animation. I'm quite proud of it actually. Geoff
Thanks Ralph. I'll check it out Geoff
Hi Ralph, Can you upload the Tim Hitchings Engine so we can evaluate it. Thanks Geoff
Thanks Ed
Thanks Alan
Thanks Ralph. PS. Do you have the source code for 3DPC 🙂
#Elephant Model
Message #183388
I have just set myself the task of creating an elephant in 3DS 4. I can create the trunk, tusks, legs and ears but have come to a complete halt at creating the head. The head has indents for the eyes and various bumps for the skull. What would be…
#C++ & aaplay.dll
Message #181751
Hi All We are having problems trying to use the FULL SCREEN option of the aaplay.dll. If the FULL SCREEN option is on and you start your screen saver, mouse clicks are recognised but mouse moves are not. Any Advise ? T.I.A Geoff Coope Borland C++ V4.x AAPLAY.DLL Windows enviroment
I got told the US version sells the ASL as seperate items, whereas the UK version is all the items, hence the cost. Geoff.
Thanks Brian, Geoff Got my E-Mail.
Hi Brian, Got a few problems with the ASL. 1. How can you get rid of the dialog box which appears when you access the aaplay.dll. (the AUTODESK ANIMATION PLAYER FOR WINDOWS dialog.) As we are creating a comercial product we don't want it to display this box. 2. When…
Thanks for the message, a bit late tho as we have just purchased the ASL. Geoff Coope
We have descovered that the error was in the AAPLAY.LIB. We had to recreate it, using Borland C++ 4.2. The sample demo compiled and linked fine with no errors. You might want to check this out as an incompatability with the ASL and Borland C++ V4.2 Thanks Geoff Coope
keith,
Hello the Yost Group. While your here, could you please advise me on some good IPAS add ons for designing company logos, special effects etc..? Can anybody advise me why when I try and link one of the sample programs supplied with the ASL in C++ we get about 17…
Hi Steven. I thought it would be a good idea for Autodesk or someone like yourself to put out a monthly mission to its blood thirsty users. Like, Who can create the best water fall scene in 3DS without any IPAS routines and keep the size under 500K. A bit…
Thanks Steven Geoff PS. What is your experiance in 3DS
#Slinky Anim ?
Message #179241
Ok, I've pulled all my hair out now !!! How would you create a slinky using morph targets. The problem I had was getting the Bottom of the slinky object to lift off the floor. * | / \ | | / ^ \ | ——————– The * is half…
PHEW, Just paniced for a second then. Basically we want to write our own C++ program to display FL? files using any libraries available. The AAPLAY.DLL seems to be the one people are using. What we want to avoid is having a runtime lib, we would prefer to create our…
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