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Brian, How do I get the Vibbug.txt form? Wayne
Brian, With the system stripped, 3DS works with 64K colors in the material editor. This system has no problems with the rendering display set to 16M colors by 640 x 480. Wayne
Brian, I ran my system stripped clean as you suggested except I did include the mouse.sys driver in the config.sys. The system still locks up in the material editor with the vibrant driver set to 640×480 with 16 M colors. What do I do next? Wayne
> Brian, I was able to correct this problem with my system by changing the VIBRANT driver from 640×480 by 16M colors to 640×480 by 64K colors. My system does not lock up when moving the diffuse side bar in the Material Editor. What does this tell me? I'm using…
#Shadows in reflections
Message #175332
I'm discovering some inconsistencies in the way 3D Studio 4 creates flat mirror reflection maps when a shadow of a surface should be in the reflection map. The exercise consist of creating 4 cubes. Place 3 cubes adjacent to each other to form a right angle corner. Place the 4th…
#Flat Mirror Reflection
Message #175271
Anne, How do I address the Yost Group about inconsistencies in flat mirror reflection maps? 3D Studio seems to have a problem creating a reflection map when a shadow of a surface should be in the reflection. Wayne
Alan, I finally did get the cube to render with reflective surfaces thanks to all the help I got. The problem I had was my concept of how 3D studio should work rather than how it really works. I would be glad to talk to you. Wayne
Gene, Thanks for your help. I finally got the cubes to render with reflective surfaces. I thought 3D studio was a lot smarter that this. It does'nt make sense that it can only apply automatic reflections to seperated detached faces. It is smart enough to create six reflection maps with…
Greg, Do you have a phone number for New Rider Publishing? Thanks Wayne Leong, AIA
Christophe, I tried your suggestion by assigning the material to selected faces. I still get an opaque cube. I will uploand the file WAYCUBE.PRJ to you. I would appreciate it if you could make it work. This excercise comes from Paul Stevenson Oles, AIA book "Architectural Illustration". He is a…
#Inside 3D Studio 4
Message #174954
Greg, How do I purchase the book "Inside 3D Studio 4"? Does this book go into the inner workings of 3D Studio? I'm interested in comparing the algorithms used in 3D Studio to that used by a traditional architectural renderer and rules of photography. Thanks, Wayne Leong, AIA
Christophe, Thanks for the reply. I was able to correct the ray tracing shadow offset by adjusting the RENDER/SETUP/SHADOW/RAY TRACE BIAS to .05. The default was 1. I wonder if this has any affect on rendering time. I'm not successful in making the cubes reflective. The Material editor settings are…
#Mouse Lock UP
Message #174917
Anne, My mouse is locking up my system when I move some of the slide bars in the Material Editor like the diffuse light side bar. Any ideas on how to fix this problem. I using a logitech 3 buttom mouse. Thanks Wayne
Anne, The project file WAYCUBE.PRJ can be made available for the public. Thanks, Wayne
#Render Cubes
Message #174804
Jonas, I am comparing the capabilities of 3D Studio 4 with that of a traditional hand renderer and photography. The exercise involves rendering 4 cubes. In the 3D Editor construct 4 cubes. Place 3 cubes on a base adjacent to each other to form a corner or right angle. Place…
#Slides from TGA
Message #168181
Can anyone recommend a service company in the Santa Rosa or San Francisco area that can make slides from TGA or Tiff files. Thanks, Wayne
John Thanks for your help. I got it all together. I now evaluating the firmware upgrade in my DesignJet 650C. This will be the leg in my upgrade path to get the best possible photo realistic image out of my hardware and software. Look forward to the 3D Studio 4.0…
#Background resolution
Message #150886
Sysop, I am doing architectural rendering with detail in the background image. My background images start as 2.3 meg tiff files from a HP ScanJet IIC. In order to you the perspective preview function I have to rescale the background image usually to a TGA file. The rescale image however…
#3DS for Windows NT
Message #139346
Sysop When is 3DS for Windows NT going to be out. I'm planning on moving to Windows NT when ACAD is released for it. Also will 3DS for Windows NT make use of dual processors. Thanks, Wayne
3DS4 camera control
Message #134302
Can someone explain the relationship between screen resolution and the way the the camera control and match perspective works. Also the numbers on page 21 in the new features manual of 3DS 4 does not seem to be correct. Has anyone got those numbers to work.
#Orchid VLB
Message #48663
I'm having trouble rendering in 3dS. After one or two successful renders the computer crashes. The other problem I have is that my machine can't playback .FLC animation files. I have an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card with 1meg of memory. I have used several different drivers (Panacea, orchid, 3ds). All…
#HP Designjet 650c
Message #44302
Has anyone seen a 3D Studio rendering on the new HP DesignJet 650c color plotter. I would like to know if there are 3DS drivers for it/exit
#HP Scanjet IIc 3DS
Message #20462
Roger D, Great to find another HP Scanjet IIc user. It is great in the Window environment It supports million colors scanned images but I can't find the .TGA file extension when you create a file. I'm using the Deskscan software. Let me know how you are using it with…
#Texture Map/HPScanjet
Message #20279
Thanks for your info on texture mapping. I'm making progress. My next step is trying to create my own material library. I have a HP Scanjet IIc. The software that comes with it does not seem to support .tga files. If you know a any software that does please let…