This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Larry, I looked for a "steps" setting in Keyframer and saw none — did I miss something? I tried changing the shape steps in Shaper before importing it to Keyframer, but I always ended up with five keys per curve… Donald Newlands BRW, Inc.
Larry, When you import a spline from the Shaper or from the Lofter to the Keyframer, you always get FIVE keys ("steps") per curved segment … Why? Is there a way to change this? It's a problem for us when we have to smoothly traverse long, twisty paths quickly and…
#Keyframer "Path Steps"
Message #196859
Hi, I have some very long paths with lots of curves to import from the 2D shaper to the keyframer… Keyframer seems to always put five keys on every curve, which means that my tracks are all jammed up with keys and can't be smoothed… Is there a way to…
Stephen, Thanks! It could be any of those things! I'll check them out! Donald Newlands BRW, Inc.
Jonas, Thankyousomuch! That sounds like the ticket! Donald Newlands BRW, Inc.
Dave, The path is parallel to the top view and banking is turned off… One extra piece of info — the "funnies" have been happening after running Tempo.KXP on the object. Hmm, I wonder if follow doesn't like the info that Tempo embeds in objects… Now, something more dramatic: running…
#Follow Funnies
Message #196700
Hi, I have this problem every 6 months or so… an object that won't FOLLOW it's path!!! Key 0 looks OK, so I hit follow and whowa! — all kinds of funny rotations! The book sez, set frame 0 and follow sets the rest… so why the goofiness? Could it…
Hi Dan, I found a solution to my DOS client / page fault woes… It turns out that all of the machines that were crashing were using the Windows for Workgroups DOS client – files dated from 1993 – when I used the DOS client that came with NT 3.51…
Judy, Actually, the faults have been happening under HIMEM/EMM386 on one machine and under QEMM on another… The machines are otherwise identical. We haven't used Qemm since we got rid of our Targa+… At the time, I found Qemm was slightly faster than Himem on some machines, and also had…
Chris, Thanks for the clear step-by-step info! Donald
Ralph, Thanks — I'm pretty sure that must be what's happening… I haven't tried them "clean" yet — they're other people's workstations that I'm pulling in as slaves. I'll let you know what works! Donald
Dave, Thanks for the clarification! Donald
Ralph, Thanks! — I haven't seen a page fault in a long a few years, but the last time it happened, that was exactly it. –Donald
#Page Faults — Micron
Message #193694
I'm having page faults on two Micron P120's when rendering very large images… There seems to be enough space for the machines to swap into, one is configured with HIMEM/EMM386 and the other with QEMM, both are setup with Vibrant's generic VGA, both are running Microsoft's network drivers, and both…
Making 3DS work in NT&95
Message #193691
Yeah! It looks like we'll be working with 3DS "Classic" for awhile — it's the only thing that's keeping us from migrating completely to NT. -Donald
Jobs: Visualization
Message #193014
BRW, Inc. seeks to fill two new positions in its Portland, Oregon office: 1) Visualization Intern 2) Visualization Consultant These positions require landscape/architecture/urban design experience, strong DOS/Windows computer skills and demonstrated enthusiasm for design and computer graphics. The Consultant position requires professional 3D Studio, AutoCAD and/or paint experience. Salary is…
LEVEL 5 seeks work
Message #193011
Hey Paul, Would you consider moving to Portland, Oregon? 🙂 –Donald
David, There is a driver that works from inside 3DS (Image Print?) but I haven't heard anything really good about it — but it does the job. If you plan to be sending a lot of images to your plotter, I would strongly recommend a JetDirect card so you can…
#Wall Command
Message #176385
I have been a good user this year, therefore: * I wish for a wall command in the 3D Editor that will allow us to draw walls with variable and / or fixed widths and heights. * I wish for a polygon command in the 3D Editor that will allow…
Hi John, What are you running it on? How does it feel? — Is the airbrush as fast as the DOS version? Thanks, Donald
Dave, Oh well — it sounds like the quality will be good enough that we could just feed that old PAR output back into the PVR and not loose much… On the other hand, if we invest in a PVR, we'll probably become so quality-concious that we'll want to upgrade…
Dave, We are building a pretty substantial library of video and animation clips in ANI format… Will the PVR import ANI files from PAR? Thanks, Donald
David and/or Jamie, What is the latest version of Razor? Thanks, Donald
David, I'm not sure if this will help your specific PAR/Lantastic problem, but we found that when the Par drive loads to the same drive letter on our workstation as a drive that is in use locally on our server, files transfered to and from that server drive will be…
Theo, Thanks for the WARNING! -Donald
Terry, I haven't tried it, but the option is there in the software! –Donald
Dov, We've been using Access PC for the Mac to read DOS Syquest disks, but switching to Mac-In-DOS has made our lives a whole lot simpler. With Mac-In-DOS we can give Syquests to any Mac user, not just the ones who have Access PC. Access PC was also difficult to…
Brendan, I had the same thing happen recently… it told me that it needed 1000+ minutes to optimize I only had 480 minutes until my project was due… I hit optimize anyhow, and it took as long as I would have expected without the "estimate" — about five minutes… –Donald
David, According to John Ellis, you can setup the PAR as a "non-DOS" drive under Lantastic and access it across the network. -Donald
David, We just spent an agonizing 2 weeks imagining how great it would be if our PAR board worked on our Lantastic 6.0 network with Pyros' PAROUT… I can now report that it works incredibly well, provided you do a few things: You cannot have the PARDRV assigned to any…
John, Thanks for the suggestion! I noticed the fan arrangement on one of our Gateways too. I also just saw an ad for "PC Power and Cooling, Inc. (800) 722-6555 in PC Mag. that sells cooling systems for PCs. They have some cheap card fan units and they also sell…
Don, Having the ASHOW forum up will really make a big difference! Finnally we can start to look at what we have been talking about! However, there is still a lot of work to do, getting things ready for "habitation". Stay tuned! Look for uploads in the ASHOW forum in…
Sanford, > There is a WinCIM spell checker in the WinCIM Support Forum (FREE)! There are also tools there for managing your filing cabinet, printing threads and an interesting one for composing messages in Word for Windows. –Donald
Sanford, Paul did an incredible job using IK of making your roach climb the Autodesk "Empire State" building in his demo tape! –Donald
Don, ————————————————– Thanks! I'll ask Sanford K. ————————————————— If you were to condense and simplify the Charter what would you propose? I am thinking that the Charter needs to address: a) The StudioCity Mission (the essence of your Preamble) b) Rights (copyrights and commercialization) c) Government (voting, jobs, etc.) Separately,…
Don, Hi! Right now, Sanford and I are trying to pull together a beta Studio City "Release Package" including: a) revised and simplified Charter b) City Plan c) Modeling Standards d) StudioCity Newsletter If you would like to help out in any of these departments, please respond here or drop…
John, This hardware installation hell has just given me a short fuse! It would be kinda nice to have a "real problem", like a regular problem that has a "real solution"… I was really hoping that y'all would jump back at me in chorus with a one line fix! –Donald
Gary, !!!False Alarm!!! I'm not sure what I was seeing anymore… There may have been same-named files from a previous render in the same dir… but I coulda' swore I checked the names and dates!?! Thanks, Donald
Paul, Saturday would be fine! -Donald
John, Thanks for the encouragement! -Donald
Yup, we were JPEGing to re-compress in PAR — it was the only thing we could do — lots of frames, little time, little space… -Donald
John, I'm pretty sure that the compression level is the same on all the machines but I'll sure check… (I've had no reason to change it!) It makes me wonder if the compression level dialogue when net rendering JPEG files is just a formality…. (sigh!) Well, as soon as we…
Paul, > The TBC IV is built like the PAR — it is a pretty heavy-duty board — I don't think you would want to try bending it! –Donald
Paul, > Do you know where we could get such a product? We have a Pentium box that we'd like to put our Targa+ out to pasture in. Unfortunately, the motherboard(?) of this box was not designed with full length ISA cards in mind: the ISA slots are blocked by…
#JPEG size changes…
Message #151854
Hi, We just ran out of space and decided to give JPEG a try on a long animation run. Funny thing is that about 1/3 of the files are about 1/4 the size of the rest: 50k vs 200k. We are rendering the project on four machines, and I haven't…
Sanford, That would be nice… I was just thinking that the "Space Port" or the "Park" could be places to cluster portals… –Donald
Greg, Thanks! Sounds great! We'll check it out! Does it still come in a baggie? -Donald
#Ndump –> PAROUT
Message #151610
What is this I heard about a super Ndump replacement? We have barely gotten Ndump out of its ziploc baggie and now there is something better coming out? -Donald
We have been looking at Matrox Impression boards for dual monitor support… I have used a Targa boards for this purpose for six years:) but we don't need the $$ video output of these boards. -Donald
Angela, Many thanks for the detailed reply! There seem to be a lot of encouraging signs on the horizon! Did you see last months' New Media Age cover on 3D hardware? I put a "3D Accellerator" in our 1995 budget, but it looks like Summer or Fall before we'll have…
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