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#Advanced Media
Message #171686
I was wondering if anyboby has any information on Advanced Media Inc. This company moved to California last year to do training and development on 3-D Studio. I think it was even purchased by Yost or somebody?? Just interested because the stock prices are now about 19cents per share and…
Jeff, According to the Targa+ Reference Guide: Standard Interlaced Display Resolutions 1024 x 768 24.00 KHz 800 x 600 30.00 KHz 756 x 486 15.734 KHz 640 x 480 15.734 KHz 512 x 400 15.734 KHz 512 x 486 15.734 KHz Another place shows Addrssable Resolution – – NTSC 1024…
Willow VGA-TV GE/O 4sale
Message #126070
I have a Willow Peripherals VGA-TV GE/O video card for sale. This card allows NTSC in and out. It is a full size 16 bit Super VGA board that performs all VGA functions and allows output video or S-video. It also provides genlocks and overlay capability when connected to an…
Targa/Diaquest 4 Sale
Message #126004
I have a Targa +32 and Diaquest DQ-232 software (used to control a Sony EVO 9650) for sale. The board is in perfect condition. It was used in a 486-66 for approximately 6 months. I would prefer selling both the Targa and the Diaquest together. I may be interested in…
#HELP ! MEMORY FAULT
Message #90785
I am having a BAD day. Trying to get the Lantastic network runing and can't. I pulled all the net card out. Copied my original config.sys and autoexec back to the root, and started 3DS3. I get a message: Abnormal program termination:Memory protection Fault CS:EIP0057h:00007FBBh and then it kicks me…
Don, well John Ellis also responded with the same information. We have a consensus . Now I am wondering how I would sequence my frames, including the titles and fades. I am not too worried about that now as I just tell the sequence the in point and I can…
JE Thanks for the reply. I guess I should go ahead and bite the bullet. I always hate to spend the money but I love the results. JL
#PAR – SLOW MOTION TOO ?
Message #88023
Questions for everyone: I routinely do real time vehicle motion to show the trajectories of automobiles during collisions. I presently use a Sony 9650 Hi-8 to record (single frame) and I always do a couple of slow motion sequences. These sequences are usually done in six frame copies to tape.…
I hope R4 is a few months away – I just paid off R3 and I hate to be a generation behind, … JL
Thanks Paul, I will check it out. jl
#VisLab Animation Sftwr?
Message #76287
I saw an article recently on a simulation/animation software package developed to run on SGI platforms from Engineering Animations, Inc. in Iowa. I would like to talk to anyone who is familiar with the package and/or is a user. It looks interesting, but I don't know much about it or…
Thanks Greg 😉
Gus, That may be a good start. Most of the time we are trying to reproduce the conditions from several years back. We often have photographs to work from as well as NOAA information on sunrise, temperature/dewpoint… But I am not satisfied we are doing things as wellas possible. The…
Greg, PMJI, but what the heck is a PAR? JL
#Replicating Light Conds.
Message #76015
We are often called upon to produce an animation of an outdoor scene, a road or highway, where one question is – what did it look like to the drivers and witnesses? I am trying to determine the best way to replicate the ambiant light conditions. I can place the…
#75138-
Optical Drive-Which One?
Message #75818
Scott, Thanks, I will.
Real Maxwell, I got in middle of this thread. We do forensic work with a specialization in traffic accident reconstruction. We have used 3DS in court to show the jury our reconstruction, driver views, etc. It is necessary to describe in some detail how to go from raw data to…
#XtraDrive Software- Use?
Message #71357
Once again, in trying to beat the system and get more than I paid for, I have come across the XtraDrive 3.0 disk compression software. I have read many threads on this forum about Stacker and DoubleSpace, but I have not seen anything about this XtraDrive software. So… is anyone…
How to Model Fire
Message #62728
Hello to all, I know I have seen it out here somewhere before, but now that I need it I can't find it (so what's new). I need to show the ignition and complete burning of an automobile consumed by a gasoline fire. I could sure use some help and…
#Frame Recording Sequence
Message #47423
From Laurie Marshall: We have a problem that we can not solve. We used to be able to record from any frame number to any other frame number in a sequence of image files. We moved our office a month ago and now when I tell 3ds to record from…
John Sounds good. I paid $1,000 for my software to control the 9650. Keep us informed on your new "products". James
I have a client who is putting together a team … Evan, We are using 3DS with AutoCAD R12 to do visualization and animation of motor vehicle collisions and products related work. I have one full-time animator who has experience in Wavefront and 3DS. At the present time we are…
—>I can't get the 9650 to display any menus. Bailey, there is a trick. The menus will not show up using the S video cord. Use the LINE OUT connection on back of the 9650 and the menu will appear. James
—-I've been asked to assemble a 3D Studio system for video animation. But is the best hardware and software configuration? A DX2-66 works best in my opinion. Also spend all of your money on memory and disk space. I would recommend a minimum of 40meg memory and 300+ disk space.…
—->I need to get a 13" TV Monitor to use with 3DS I just bought a Sony PVM 1390 for the same setup as you have. I am happy with it and would recommend it. James
#41348-
DAT DISK DRIVE
Message #41438
—> Why spend half an hour at the keyboard and CRT when all you want to do is one little single frame insert edit ? Put the .TGA file up on the screen of the I have been so busy with this, I don't know if I replied or not.…
Yes sometimes you look so hard to see the problems they become transparent. Thanks for your awakening . James
Thanks for the reply, I am a little paranoid about software (or hardware) devices that compress, stretch, tangle… all of my months of hard labor, sweat and frustration. But… I do not like buying disk drives if I don't have to. James
#batch problems
Message #40846
In a foolish attempt to not have to come in to work over the weekend I played around with a render batch file. After figuring out what parameters I needed and multiple false starts, I finally got things working perfectly except for one thing. The resolution of the targa image…
#Disk Drive Compression
Message #40845
I need (as always) more space on the drive. Does anyone have experience with stacker or DOS6 compression and 3DS. I loaded DOS6 compression on my other machine and one of my simulation programs will not read the files now. James.
John Landis I don't know where you live, but I would sure buy you a beer right now. We were just flat stuck. I guess I should have read page 50 of the small manual better. Maybe the "note" should be in 24 point. Anyway it now works!!! We are…
#Can't record from 3DS
Message #40362
Gary To clarify our previous question about not being able to record: EQ: 486/66 local bus, 3DS V2.0, Diaquest DQ 232, Sony EVO-9650. 1) View image – goes to targa frame buffer and looks good. 2) Diaquest works to record TGA file outside of 3DS using ANITAPE. 3) 3DS never…
#3DS, Diaquest, Targa+
Message #40356
Our setup here is 3dstudio v 2.0 on a 486 with 40meg of memory, a Targa+ card and DiaQuest DQ- 232 controller,SONY EVO-9650. David, I saw one of your previous notes and I was wondering if you could posibly help with our similar setup. 3DS's "record-to-VTR" function appears to not…
#Render Problems
Message #40355
Our setup here is 3dstudio on a 486 with plenty of memory, a Targa+ card and DiaQuest 232 controller talking to a SONY EVO-9650. Help Please!!! PROBLEM: 3dStudio's "record-to-VTR" function appears to not be working correctly. This function does not load images into the frame buffer. It does however, control…
#flickering landscape
Message #37751
We have an animation which features two vehicles coming towards each other on a road at night. The only lights in the scene are the vehicle headlights. The problem is the road shoulder and the surrounding green grass areas are flickering/changing colors as the vehicles move. Is this due to…
#Drivers for ATI MACH 32
Message #37656
Help! I have a ATI Mach 32 local bus video card with 2mb. The card was installed by a local computer dealer in my 496-33 local bus system. I am rendering at the lowest resolution (default settings?) and I am sure the system has more capability. My dealer is 1/help!!…
#3DS to video help
Message #36754
We are trying to find out the best way to put our 3DS animations onto video tape and edit them once they're on tape. The equipment we are thinking about is SONY Y EVO-9700 for editing, SONY EVO-9650 for single frame recording, along with DiaQuest DQ-232 and Targa +32 board.…