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Due to compiler issues we were not able to access the 16-bit AVI DLLs under NT. We recently solved that problem but it won't show up until the next major product release, probably early summer. Thus, you won't be able to generate or play back animations when using Simply 3D…
>>Any time I try to use the Animation player(or try to run the CD Demo for that matter) on the new machine, I have to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the blue Windows screen, then select continue (by hitting enter rather than another C-A-D) to be able to see…
>>It looks as if separate strips of material have been randomly applied to each facet
Dear Dr. Cheung: Visual Software has several CD libraries of clipart objects, and is producing additional volumes every month. The Architectural and Business ClipART libraries each sell for $39. My salesperson insists that I tell you that if you upgrade from Simply 3D to Visual Reality for the special price…
>>When I apply a solid-color material and select smoothing for the object, the object renders smoothly, as expected. However, when I try to apply a marble-like material from the Textures and Materials CD, the facets become visible
>>I started using simply-3D in the hopes of incorporating 3-D rendered images into a design for a html home page. Can these images be viewed under WWW browsers such as Mosaic or Netscape?
Jinny: Look at the words from the orthographic (top, front and side) views to discern if it is a lens setting issue. If it is due to lens settings, zooming the lens and moving it away from the object will reduce the effect. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Jeremy: The safest thing to do is to install our stuff, then re-install the codecs that come with the video card. Not efficient, but certain. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Chris: >>When I take the floor object (floor.ged) or the ground object (ground.ged) into one of my own projects, they display as a point or not at all.
Simply 3D does not have drawing capabilities. You'd have to upgrade to Visual Reality, which includes a complete 3D modeler. Nick Josephs Visual Software
>> Will the NT version run on Win-32S
Send in your registration card to get on the upgrade list, and be sure to indicate an NT preference. When the Visual Reality 1.5 upgrade goes out later this month, we'll make sure you get the NT version.
David: Sorry about the late reply. >>should I buy S3D from Tiger for about 39.90, or would it be better to buy direct from you
>>Make sure that you have excluded A000-C7FF from your memory manager.
>>640 X 480 is the default resolution for the Renderize Live portion of VR
Yes, you're registered. The upgrade will begin shipping next week, but please be patient as we have an entire registered user base to get to. Note to all users: If you sent in your registration card, you _will_ receive the upgrade. Nick Josephs Visual Software
>>The problem appears to be with Corel 4 running under Windows 95 – the same conversion with Corel running under WFW 3.11 works just fine.
>> Is this an S3D problem with 65K color or just a video card/driver problem?
You may need to break the 4 cones up so that there is a separate object for each cone. Then use the cylindrical or spherical mapping and I believe you'll get the desired effect. Do you know how to break the object up? Use the Select Toolbox to assign a…
Previous versions of Visual Font did not support the extended ASCII character set. That is changed in the latest version of Visual Font, which is going into production as I speak. Nick Josephs Visual Software
>>Do you guys have any wireframes (.GED, .DXF) files of humans or animals?
>>I bombed out before I could even get into lesson 1 of the tutorial
Chris: If you'd like to upload a problem file in the CDR file format I'd be happy to look at it for you. Pls send directly to my mail address 74431,3611. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Jim: Yes, the new version will work fine on the GPT 4MB. However, if memory serves me right the GPT has its own animation codecs, so to generate animations you'll need to re-install the animation drivers from ATI after installing Visual Reality. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Hi Denis: Sorry noone ever got back to you. Ray will contact you tomorrow (Feb-08) concerning your needs. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Thank you for the offer to beta test Simply 3D for Win 95. We have been testing extensively through our own Win 95 beta program. >>…use it with my Designer3.1
Chris: Which AI output choice did you try in Corel 4? Nick Josephs Visual Software
>>I've been experimenting with a Valentine idea
Hi Dennis: I'm pleased your pleased. You're saying your Page Fault in module [unknown] errors went away when you changed video cards? Very strange; usually if a card is the culprit its driver is named in the error (e.g. …caused a GPF in module [MY_VGA.DRV]). Which resolution / color depth…
Hi Ewin: You must have an 800×600 256 color display to run Visual Reality. If it detects less it won't run. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Chris: I'm forwarding your msg to Brain Edgin, who knows more on the Corel side than I do, You'll hear from him soon. Meanwhile, have you centered the object in the view after loading it into Renderize Live EZ and creating a view? Nick Josephs Visual Software
Changing to WFW would not have a huge effect on the operation of Renderize. Nick Josephs Visual Software
The '486 SX does not have a math coprocessor. Unfortunately, that is a must for running our software. There is no way around it. Nick Josephs Visual Software
I'm sorry, you've posted in the Visual Software section. We don't support Quicktime for Windows, so I'm unable to answer your question. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Dennis: It might be a resource issue. How much RAM and swap do you have? What version of Windows are you running? Nick Josephs Visual Software
The Visual Reality product is an application. The CD demo is not the same code, and it is a sight and sound presentation. In other words, no the problems that the demo has on your system would not appear when using the software. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Just to beat this lighting thing to death: Jinny's right that Brian's right that less is more with lighting. And it is a lot like video lighting in that you can't rely on ambient light to help you out. In many shots can achieve the desired effect with 2 or…
Ryan: I'd love to have a look at your OS/2 configuration files for running VR, if every you have a moment to upload it to my mail address 74431,3611. Thanks. Nick Josephs Visual Software
The performance improvement realized when upgrading from 8 to 16MB RAM is due in great part to the fact that you can now afford a larger smartdrive cache, so now you have faster access to the swap file on your hard drive. Nick Josephs Visual Software
After deleting resources, save the file, exit and restart to clear memory. That way you're sure things are clean. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Alias Upfront is a modeling application. It is compatible with Renderize Live through the DXF file format. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Dear Wally: Congratulations on your recent purchase of Visual Reality >>Will I be charged for the upgrade to 1.5 since I just purchased it. I'm concerned about this.>Have any books been published on your product?
Jinny's right that one should save early and save often. However, note that deleting resources does not necessarily free up usable memory, so that's not a guaranteed way to avoid the ignoble out of memory msg. Nick Josephs Visual Software
Bill: Additional RAM speeds things up. Additional swap increases the amount of resoureces available for rendering. How much RAM, how much swap do you currently have? The order in which one does things determines how quickly memory fills up. Thus it's difficult to say exactly what could have caused you…
Hi Rob: You need to map the "background" image onto an object that serves as a backdrop. Load a flat object (you can use "ground7.ged" from the tutor\tutor7 directory, add it to the view and position and scale it as desired behind your text. Create a material that uses the…
>>About RAM would it be better to go to 16 megs ram or a video card with 4 megs vram.>If I move up to VR I will need the 4 vram megs
>>If you buy directly from visual software are you automatically registered?
As noted in my response to your inquiry to my mail address, all registered VR users will receive the upgrade automatically. All registered VR users please rest assured that we have you in our database and you will receive the upgrade. Nick Josephs Visual Software
The entire line for smartdrive should read: [drive]:\[directory]\smartdrv.exe 1024 1024 For example: C:\dos\smartdrv.exe 1024 1024 Nick Josephs Visual Software
>>Most error messages open with unknown block or something like that
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