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Lurker's Addendum, Stardate 23756.8 Just to prove to you that I really was confused by all this at one time (and still am) – I re-read my previous message after my second cup of caffeine and I realize I goofed – a 3 x 3 pixel "line" wouldn't accommodate all…
Guys, As far as the resolution question: The Stylus Color can print at 720 dots-per-inch (dpi). However, these dots can only be white (paper color), or 1 of the three ink colors plus black. Now we are trying to represent something like 17 million colors with just these 5 choices…
E-mail me a price on Yost #6 and let's do it! Dennis
Martin, > OK – I'll try to work that exercise into my schedule (let's see, my wife gets out of summer school in 4 weeks, then it will take me 4 weeks to catch up on all the other stuff I'm neglecting, so I guess by late summer I might…
I just got the Special Effects book and looked at your laser burn job – great effect! I have a stupid newbie question which I'm sure should be obvious to me, but which is not, so how about a hint: I don't understand why you had to fuss with a…
> I have found SCRAPE ink to be a very effective substitute for cloning if the background image is correctly placed! Hope this helps! Dennis
David, Ok, between you and Rich (other response) I understand – MAKE a MATERIAL from the plot – sometimes the answer is so simple that my peanut brain can't see it! thanks for the assist! Dennis
Rich, Thanks – between you and David (other response) I think I understand – I don't know why it never occurred to me to use the picture as a material – duh!! (Probably because I was just thinking about it at work and 3DS is at home, along with all…
P.S. I realize I might have given a wrong (and overly ambitious) impression of my needs. I do not necessarily need to animate the extrusion – what I really need is a still picture of the modelled component with the appropriate colored materials – a flyby might be nice, but…
#Extruding colors??
Message #173956
A question on a possible "weird" application of 3DS. I do finite element analysis of power plant components. One of the results that I obtain is usually a "pretty" color picture of the stress or temperature within the component. Typically the pictures are contours, with RED being the high stress…
Brian, I have some important new data on this situation: 1. My daughters chicken pox has scabbed up and I actually got to sleep thru the night last night! 2. Reviewing this thread in light of item #1, I believe an impartial observer would conclude that I get WAY too…
Okay, let's stand down from DEVCON1 My original message about the DXF file changes has disappeared from my FileCabinet. Now this has occasionally happened to me before and it has either been WINCIM, or my limited knowledge of WINCIM that has caused it. Because the msg disappeared and then your…
Well, what you say is certainly true, but I think you maybe are burying your head in the sand a little. The DXF format is not a 3DS format – it is an AUTOCAD format. Therefore, it's pretty obvious that what ACAD does determines what DXF does. It is pretty…
#OOps…no more DXF
Message #162724
PREVIOUS MSG FROM BRIAN:
Philippe, Dave Mason has put out a shareware utility, which I believe is called BUILDSV – you might try looking in the libs here, in the animation forum or in graphdev. I have used it and it works pretty good, although 640×480 flics with a lot of the screen changing…
PTLFJI (Pardon This Lurker For Jumping In), BUT, doesn't it seem that ADESK's decision to make ACAD r13 .DXF files not backward compatible might be the real bad guy here?? It sure seems right to me. Maybe Hash could be convinced to keep v12 DXF compatible output, but not add…
I gather you would recommend the Grand Vision Pro over the AiTech MultiProCTV, then. Do you have a source where I could get one? Also, have you seen the ADDA Technologies VGA Aver Pro, and could you compare to the GVP?
I am also curious about more detail – especially, I have learned that Illustrator doesn't use Truetype fonts at all (Adobe and MS are sort of competitors in the font arena, of course). I would also expect that Illustrator output might be pretty much aimed at Postscript stuff, which I…
#Thanks Alan Iglesias
Message #161117
Just a public thank you to Alan for "going the extra mile". Alan made up a VHS and a SVHS tape direct from PAR for me to evaluate. Considering that my local PAR dealer wouldn't do this even to try to sell me one, it's truly extraordinary that Alan took…
Now, don't be so shy, step right up and tell us what you think! (bg) I'm convinced to try out Illustrator – I don't have much to lose at this point except a rather large tumor on my harddrive. If Adobe takes as long to deliver Illustrator as they did…
#Illustrator vs Corel??
Message #160408
Dudes and dudettes, I recently got into the Adobe thang (g) by getting Photoshop 3. Along with it came an offer to get Illustrator cheap. I have had Corel4 for some time but most of it (Show/Move/Capture) is junk that doesn't even work. Given my finite disk space I prefer…
PMJI, I have to jump in here and chide Adesk for not having an XGA driver. Yes, I can call Panacea and for about $79 (I think), I can get an XGA driver that will allow me to run AAPRO or ANIPLAY, or AAPLAYHI on an IBM XGA (which there…
> Good one! Did you hear the one about the farmer's daughter and the traveling salesman. I have contacted my local PAR dealer LINK SYSTEMS NORTH CANTON, OH and they have said that they don't do stuff like this (demos), but if I send them a BIG check they will…
OK – e-mail me your address and I will send it on to you after I see it. Don't sweat the postage, I am so glad to get a look at this that in my euphoria I will spot you the charges. Dennis P.S. I am probably going to take…
Great – I will send you a package. I appreciate it very much. Since I would plan to distribute to "ordinary" consumers I would need to go to VHS, and it sounds like 1st generation VHS is my best bet. Dennis P.S. I read your e-mail first, before checking in…
Get a Demo Tape?
Message #154897
OK – I am still trying to figure out if I should get 3DS, a PAR, and a SVHS deck to output animations to video. I would like to get a tape which would show me the quality which would be obtainable with this setup, as no amount of words…
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I am still a little unclear about a couple areas though (I hate it when I don't even know enough to know what questions to ask!) I think I didn't represent the "chain with the weak link" properly. I meant it as: PC…
#Vid Newbie ?
Message #151442
Dudes and dudettes, Being a total Vid newbie I have some questions. I'm doing AniPro with aspirations of eventually graduating to 3DS. I am already creating anims in AniPro that won't play without tearing on a PC, so obviously I need to go to video. I plan to go the…
LCD Overhead Projectors
Message #151246
I have discussed this ASTOUNDing problem with Gold Disk and here's what they report. You have to have the latest version, which I believe is v1.5b. You can get the patch here on CIS (find Gold Disk). Unfortunately, ASTOUND will only accept .FLC as "alternate video format". You can open…
FL? to ACT converter???
Message #147554
I have recently purchased ASTOUND! by Gold Disk for doing whiz-bang presentations. The truly ASTOUNDing thing is that the manual says that it only supports the animation file formats native to the Gold Disk animation products. It turns out that they have patched it so that .FLI/.FLC files can be…
Thanks for the info – I will pass this along to the "bean counters" who are making the REAL decisions!
LCD Overhead Projectors
Message #144754
My office is considering purchasing an LCD Overhead Projector to put computer presentations on the big screen. There seems to be a LARGE range of prices of equipment available. Does anyone have some opinions about which LCD projectors are good/bad/worse/to be avoided. Or even better, does anyone know of a…
Actually, I found a TSR in the IBM forum that puts the XGA board into a VESA mode, but it isn't "really" in VESA mode, in that it doesn't handshake, so ANIPLAY thinks that it has a 640×480 VESA mode, but when it tries to initialize it the XGA board…
Thanks for the info – it looks like buying drivers from Panacea is the only option, but since the presentation is in 9 hours, I guess wifey will be using the overhead projector! Dennis
I DL'ed the file and XGA is conspicuous by it's absence. It looks like this attempts to patch the VESA extensions for VGA cards. It even has a long list of VGA cards that it works with. Unfortunately, XGA is not EVEN VGA – it is completely different, so I…
#XGA + ANIPLAY.exe
Message #144437
I created a great presentation for my wife in AniPro (gee, I don't really think it looks THAT similar to the tutorial, 🙂 ). At her office they have a PC hooked up to a giant TV in the "presentation room", so we thought no problem. Unfortunately, they are a…
OK – thanks I know to look thru all my 3.5" disks anyway. Dennis
v1.3a update
Message #144027
OK – I'm an idiot – if I admit it now can I get some help??? I upgraded to v1.3a a while ago (months, a year, I don't remember). Now I have had a disk crash and I am having to re-install AniPro. I only seem to have one set…
OK – I'll try the DIR solution. Sounds like I ought to visit the MSDOS forum and see if there's an updated MSCDEX also. Thanks guys! Remember: Everyone is born left-handed! You become right-handed after you commit your first sin 🙂
Drive Not Present?
Message #142781
I have a Sony 33A CD drive with the Sony controller, (it's drive E:). DOS and WINDOZE find it fine – I can go to that drive, do a directory on it, run programs on it, etc. However, when I get into AniPro it doesn't seem to know that the…
OK, thanks! I'm surprised you still pay people to track discontinued stuff! Dennis
#MM Explorer
Message #140031
I have MM Explorer and AniPro – obviously I don't have much need for MMExplorer. I was thinking of giving MMExplorer to my brother – do I need to do a registration transfer thing or is that all N/A since it's a discontinued product? Thanks for any info! Dennis
LOTUS Screen Cam trans??
Message #856
Our West Coast office has made a little demo up using LOTUS Screen Cam, which they want to "tweak". Does anyone know of a format converter which could transfer the Screen Can movie into a more standard format (like .FLC or .AVI) that I could edit with my animation software.…
Lotus Screen Cam Convert
Message #135212
Our West Coast office has done some demos with LOTUS Screen Cam, which they would like to "tweak". Does anyone know if someone has cracked the proprietary LOTUS format, like to convert the screen cam files into something that I could edit in AniPro?? Any suggestions are welcome. Dennis P.S.…
One-line-itis
Message #123928
Ed, Sorry it took me so long to reply, but the semester has begun, and I don't get much "lurking" time anymore. This has been an interesting thread – I wouild like to heartily second someone's recommendation of CODE COMPLETE as an EXCELLENT "how to do it right" programming book…
Ed, I've had a chance to take a quick look at the POCO – assuming that your question in particles_orbiting of why does G==1 work is NOT rhetorical, I thought I'd respond: Basically, the stable orbital velocity can be calculated from the eqns for centrifugal force on the orbiting particle,…
Ed, C is a very powerful language, but it is also very easy to write very cryptic code. In fact, some people have said that in the hands of some people C is a read-only language. I am an engineer and also a programmer. Before coming to my current (small)…
Ed, I would like to throw in ONE MORE programming style comment – a lot of people like to keep everything to 80 columns or less so that they can print the file and not be missing a lot of stuff that's off the right sid of the paper! I…
Dude, E-m me price and let's talk!
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