This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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New effects?
Message #72971
Brad, What effects, Please expound to your hearts content, are you talking FX or Textures or what. While other software products are spending more time on making more effects, they spend no time making the software faster, and eaiser to use. I realize that this may be a hard pill…
Fraser, No if you buy 2.9, 3.0 is free. You can until 3.0 is release buy the upgrade for $200.00 until 3.0 ships, it is a competitive upgrade after is ships, 3.0 will be $700.00 Alpha support is in the works for 3.0 Mike to order call 1 800 328…
INdeed you are becoming one of those things that you speak of. It EASY to do, you just are not spending the time to get the job done,. Dont blame on the software what you dont want to learn, I can make great looking wood, but who know you probably…
David, I dont wear a tie, and it does look as though Imagine will ship at the end of Feb, but from your comments we may hold the shipments to the Euro market until November or December. Now for the features. I dont think you have mastered 2.9 and things…
James, It also sounds like he does not have enought memory, make sure that he checks that first, Imagine is getting bigger and as such requires more resources than before, This is do to the Undo buffer allotment and the gerenal situation of loading the computer to run Imagine., I…
Tony, Once upon a time when I actually went to school, a English teacher chewed me out becuase in my term paper I used the word GOOD and ALOT. He asked on a scale of 1 to 10 where does good fall on that line, is it 8, then is…
3d scanner and more?
Message #72315
Dave, You will see! Mike
Jim, I am sorry, I did not get that message, I will check into the problem, I used a bunch of Ts last night and they all seemed to work fine. Whatever we will look into it an try and find the problem. Mike
Imagine file format
Message #72107
Adam We will release the total file format for objects and textures as well as FX when 3.0 ships. Mike
Brad, Geez you got me., I guess if I had that problem I would just make the T. You might also try using a less res picture if you are using the Import Image command, if not and are using PS fonts, I will send you a good t. Wierd…
David, Market share. Which market, todate we have sold over 300,000 copies of Imagine on the AMiga. I trust that this figure compares well with 3DS. I would also make note that while there are not numerous 3rd party products here is a list of some off the top of…
Adam, Just a quick reply, you are correct that there are some absuridities with the reference from one computer to the next. At most important point is this., We converted Imagine to the PC so that the AMiga users would be able to use it on a lower cost faster…
Daniel,. That is the million dollar question, and I have no real answer except to say with in the next 60 days, I think, dont quote me on that, The delay has to do with things that are hard to do and more difficult to make easy to use., I…
Ed, Sounds very cool to me, Good Job. Mike
Peter, Try ANYTHING, I have found that the coolest stuff that I have done is when I just try some dumb thing and it turns out to be very cool. Mike
Vance, We are doing fine,. and I dont know but it should not be more than another sixty days, GAWD I hope. Mike
\Tony, TGA file format is hosed,sorry, do your work around, when 3.0 ships this will be fixed. Mike
Ed, Apply the Lensflar texture to a plane. Then set it to have two states, make the object tiny and then big for the second state. MOrph the states where you want a sparkle, do it quickly and it will look great. This is not a lensflare but a sparkle,…
Peter, What you want is a fog object that does not exsist. That is a object which will allow you to apply fog and have it tail off in a random way. We are working on it, looks good for 3.0 Mike
Bruno, Disks are sent, sorry for the mixup. Mike
#Imagine 2.9+Spectrum
Message #71521
Darron, Gosh, I think the problem is that GVP is very prolific and in most cases when they have introduced a new product we dont get one and there is some time before we realize that there is a problem. I assume that GVP might be aware of the problems…
#solved problems!
Message #71190
David, Yeah, Your file worked on my machine. I would like to know what you found that you had to change it might help in the future with other problems. Imagine 3.0 is just around the corner, be patient and learn all you can from 2.9 it will make you…
Upgrade
Message #71189
Dom, Jan Jackson is a great person, I wish that we could have hired her to work with Impulse. Her skills with the magazine were impressive. I miss her and those days that are now tilled ground. Colorfull can mean so many things, I hope I make up good and…
#Upgrade
Message #71078
Dominick, The ADA (Amiga Developers Association) Met its demise quietly about two years ago. I was President for a year and then another group of individuals took over. They attempted to make an impact, but I think that both them and speaking only for myself I think that we all…
Upgrade
Message #71022
John, Current version is still 2.0 to upgrade will cost $100.00/ We are shipping 2.9 an interim version until 3.0 is done the cost for this upgrade from 2.0 is also $100.00/ Total price to get real current $200.00 Mike
Vance, Got the font. No I dont use gigamem, I used it once and my drive went south to Aruba, I am sure I did something wrong, I just bought more memory and the problems I was having went away. I have talked to a few who use it and…
Edgar, RGB is very mathematical and programmers by nature like it. CMYK is a printing set of colors many times based on Panatone colors or other makers of inks. RGB is what most video users relate to while CMYK is used as I said by printers. The ultimate result of…
Vance, Sure do it., but I doubt we can use it unless we find the maker and get a realease/ Mike
Peter, Yes to the objects and we are trying to find a font or two, with no luck at the moment. Mike
Charles, Thanks, just a quick note,. when you export the objects form the Spline editor the hard edges are already set, of course you can make any changes you want but they are already there., Just a note. Happy Holidays Mike
Vance, OK now for the cool stuff, In the detail editor, Join the letters and make one object now play with the axis placment and Twist, Bend Shear and Taper that logo in a state system, then animate the states as a morph, it will know your knickers off. The…
Brad, I look at what I render and my eyes giggle, it looks great. Make sure that you are running a vesa driver if you are using a DOS program to show these things. I look at the 24 bit images under windows in Photoshop 2.5 I dont even have…
Christopher, It is indeed not easy to use, this may be the overall problem with 3D, I know of no one 3D software product that can meet the requirement of EASY. You will have to choose one and then make yourself a great student of that product, then and only…
Steve, One caution, I dont know what this board does, but if the software gets confused your project will most likely go bye bye. As for the interface it will remian at 640 by 400 for the time being. I realize that the computer is capable of more we just…
Brad, TGA might be a bit broke, try doing the same in Tif format, also I have noticed that I must use a 24 bit paint program to view the image, when Imagine displays 24 bit files it does not know if you board can do that or not. So…
#Imagine 3.0
Message #70837
Vance, We have left nothing out, the flower has just not reached full bloom. Sometimes I worry like you that the flower may take forever to bloom, there is so much to simulate, an entire universe. I fear we may never see the full blossom but we can watch. Good…
Morphing with Imagine
Message #70782
BraD, See my letter to your directly. Mike
Matt, I am always amazed at the level of hostility on the part of some people. We dont consider anyone second class, and espcially not Light Wave users. The deal with the UK magazine is for the PAL user that is correct. We have had however a standing offer to…
Brad, It might be a hassel but its an even greater problem with making the software do this. Consider this, Each point of an object has a number or a name. It also has a 3D address in 3D space. If you are missing one from one object to the…
Steve, The interface runs at 640 by 400 or 480 on the PC. Any bigger at the moment and the time for redraw would be absurd. Next year we will look into this whole mess and see if we can work something out. Mike
2.9/OVsn fix?
Message #70710
Tony, I took your comments in the spirit that they were given, I did not think that you were complaining. I also appreciate your support, it does seem that you have to work a bit harder around the toaster user, Lightwave is a fine product and compares well to Imagine.…
Imagine CD
Message #70709
Ottmar, We think the manual will satisfy even the most particular user, however it will be some time before the manual will be translated into German or French. I hope that helps. And I am sure that we have to make a great GUI as well one with out the…
#OBJECT WANTED
Message #70668
christopher, At the sake of sounding foolish, why not make it in Imagine, I have the series on disk took a look and it dont look to hard. Mike PS if you dont have Imagine, we can make a comp upgrade for you from Lightwave. Mike
HELP!!!!!!!
Message #70651
EDGAR, Geez I sorry but it does seem that there is no way that you can make those changes, the project would have to be sent to us and we can probably fix it but there is too much stuff that has to be done to tell you how to…
Vance, Once you order 3.0 you get 2.9 and then when we are done with 3.0 you will get it free. Yes the Image that you have was done with Imagine 2.9. Very cool. Mike
Mat, Here is the deal with the Retina Board. We have one of the early boards and it seems that there is a different version than what we have. Although there are a few of these boards around we have not gotten a rush of requests to deal with this…
Tony, We are aware of the bugs and with the help of the users we have found others that we were not aware of. I should state that our goal is to make great software that is as bug free as possible. I know that sounds like a cop out…
Vance, Yah shure, lefse is shoe leather for the gods. Living in Minnesota I dont have to do anything Norsk it goes with the territory, cold and snow and snowblowers and four wheel trucks and Viking boats and big swords and furry hats and tall perfect female type people, although…
Chris, Ah no never did, Should I ? I hate potato bread, geez. Great names for your boys, dont know how I got Mike its close to Vike, Oh well. Mike
David, Dont get mad, just figure out what you did since the last time the software was working, something is wrong and in most cases it is the pc not the software. You might send us a file containing all of the infor of the project you are working on…
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