This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Mr. Sussman 🙂 I'd *love* to add The Sculptor to that list, but I don't currently own a copy, nor know anyone who does. The Sculptor program I'm talking about is the one produced by the folks who produced Blob Sculptor DOS. Is The Sculptor ipas available yet? Bob Weil
#Meatball spectacular
Message #196918
Stephen – Will do. We've decided to make it a "meatball spectacular" – we're also going to feature discussions of Metareyes Metaballs, and the Blob Sculptor ipas (if available). Bob
Stephen – So far, I only have one speaker locked down. Sanford Kennedy, who had the roadrunner model on a recent cover of 3D Artist, will be showing Organix, the new meatball modelling tool from Digimation (and Video International??) Hoping to get another presenter to round out the show. If…
Stephen – Does the Micron use the Triton 2 chipset?? My meeting went well – I covered World Builder in some detail, and an outside guest came in to show Blob Sculptor 2.0a for DOS. I also learned that a version is in the making for 3D Studio "Classic" (R4),…
Help! SMP or RAM?
Message #196664
Stephen – "Getting ready" to order the Micron dual 133. Price has come down $500 over the last month – waiting for another $500 or so to come off with the introduction of the dual 150 MHz. Will probably make the jump December or January. For tax purposes, January will…
Martin – I thought that was a public announcement! (Isn't this where we do those things?) The new OCIPUG meeting area is at 1520 Brookhollow Drive, Suite 38, in Santa Ana California. Coming north on the 405 from the 405-5 "Y", you would take the 55 (Costa Mesa freeway) north…
sanford – I believe that it will be either Alfonso or "the other one. . ." As a reminder, we're meeting this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. I don't know if you've been to our *new* location – if not, drop me a note or call me at (714)548-6164 for directions.…
Jonas – Thanks for the timely information. VRML export is *exactly* what I needed for a current project – 3D Studio scene out to Quick Time VR. Bob Weil
Zsolt – The rates for creating a web page. Boy, that's a tough one – it's kinda like trying to give the rates for doing an animation, etc. . . really hard to do without knowing the scope and time to be spent. There are distinct hourly rates for graphics…
sanford That would be great! We need somone for the November meeting. I'm convering World Builder this month, and a guy is coming in to do the Blob Modeller (shareware). I thinks it's actually one of the developers. Let me know "for sure" so I can lock it down, and…
warren – Is that the Caligari VRML package? Bob Weil Envision Graphics
sanford – some great ideas here. think i might steal one or two . how you been doin'? do you have some time to talk to my November 3D Studio User's Group meeting? Pick your topic. Third Saturday. (I'll bring the beer). send me a note (gee, it is easier…
Jason – It must be fate. (or is it fatal?) I happen to do web pages in addition to 3d and 2d print work. I do the graphics and copy (as needed), and my partner does the HTML and cgi scripting (generally in Perl or C). We can give you…
Harley – Thanks for the input. It comes at a good time in the decision-making process! Bob Weil
Harley – I'm thinking of buying the Micron 133 SMP, with NT pre-loaded. Sounds like a real 3D Max machine! What is the "debacle" you refer to? Is something "not as advertised?" – aside from the long leadtime? TIA Bob Weil
#Ani Pro/DOS Screen Caps
Message #192925
Ed – Saw your recent articles on A Pro in Planet Studio. I am doing a review of another piece of software for them, and I needed to know what software utility you used to do screen captures from within Pro. This would need to be usable in other DOS…
Dennis – You need a line in your autoexec.bat file that reads: set screengrab=yes But I forgot the hot key within Studio . . . :-
Dennis – How absolutely prescient of you. Of course I intended the effect all along – knowing that the perception would differ from the reality ;->. BTW – where on the Internet did you find this flic? Was it up on the NOAA site? Or? Bob
Terry – GTBOSTANU ;-]. (Good To Be Of Service to a New User). Bob
Terry – You're absolutely right – the globe is spinning the wrong way. I just refuse to accept reality as its presented to me . Besides, what better way to "sign" it so I could follow how its used? (Actually, I had no idea – shows you how geologically challenged…
NT fonts
Message #189320
John – Good point on fonts – its no longer text in Photoshop. If it were Pagemaker, however, that would be a different story. I have used Fontographer to translate between font formats, but the results are not ideal. I've also found that conversion of truetype fonts to .ai format…
#Spinning Globe & Clouds
Message #189086
Lee – Per your request, I've loaded a project file into the Mesh/Project Files library here. It is a 1 meg zip file containing a project and all required materials to render. It's a globe I used on a recent project. The name of the file is Globe5c.zip, and it…
Mike – I finally got a PERSONAL word direct from the lead developer, via the Internet, who seems to recall where our conversation went wrong. He assures me of the same. Good news! And ditto what Martin says, about seeing a demo version that people can explore. . . Bob
Ralph – Just checked the TV schedule, and I don't the special scheduled for the coming week – I'll check next week. Bob
Oleg – Perhaps I was talking to someone who had no idea of what they were talking about, although they did mention that alot was learned and used in the development of games. Maybe his English was worse than he thought, and for certain, my Russian is alot worse than…
Andrew – Don's right "on the money" with how Micropolis is handling things. I currently have two Micropolis 2217a drives, and my advice is to keep plenty of cool air blowing on these drives. They COOK. Ever since I added an internal fan to service the drives, they run cool,…
Ralph – I got it at the Computer Marketplace (I think it's called) that shows up every four weeks at the Los Angeles fairgrounds in LA. It's a large event, with perhaps 400 vendors. My copy appears to be legit (I hope), and unopened. bob
Aleksey – Stoli would do it for me too! Am I imagining that you said this program was a training ground for your next group of programmers? (It's certainly possible – they weren't pouring Stoli, but it sure was good – ) And you still haven't confirmed a development path…
Ralph – The lead programmer said that they tried for some time to find a way to effectively export materials – but that became impossible to do easily when they decided on a "smart" procedural method for creating geometry such as grass and palm fronds. Perhaps in another life. .…
Alan – Great idea! The first-ever (I think) plug-in product lobby! How do we go about it? Bob
NT fonts
Message #188707
Wouldn't want to do that. Truetype fonts are still anathema at service bureaus for print work. They don't want to have anything to do with them, since they choke their imagesetters. In addition, programs like FontMonger don't convert the hints that are built into the font. My work as a…
Mike – Then again – he may have wanted to sound nonchalant – thinking this was a standard western marketing move – in which case, I fell for it! Bob
Mike – He was speaking English, although I did want to try my Russian out on him – but he kept switching back to English (must be a comment on my quality of Russian) What he specifically said is that it was literally a year-long exercise by a group of…
Serge – I'll give that a try – although the tutorial seems to say differently – see page 132 of the tutorial – "edge to face" is indicated for the table top since "the table is one large face." Is this incorrect? In any case, using the settings shown in…
Don – Thanks for the clarification. I made an incorrect assumption based on the way I saw the new product positioned. rw
Greg – Duh! I've seen the four volume set in stores – I don't know what I was thinking. Sounds like it is worth plunking down the nickel [?] – is it current enough with 3.51 to be useful? Thx Bob
Mike – That's interesting – because I heard something entirely different from the Russian head of development for the product. He seemed to suggest that WB was an experimental product, for which there is currently no firm development path, and whose market potential is unknown. He said the code behind…
Gus – I'm next door to a SCE plant, and I've covertly run an extension cord over the fence to get power for the Alpha ;-). bob
Greg – Good to hear from you, old buddy. And where might I find a copy of this NT Resource kit (other than the obvious "Call Microsoft" answer). TIA Bob
Ralph Thx for the info. I'll watch for the special again, and see if I can get you a straight dub. Want it on s-vhs if I can manage it? Regards, bob
Steve – By the way, I recommended both products highly. DPS now has a new system to replace the PAR that produces even higher quality output for the same money. Bob
Steve – If you have access to back issues of 3D Artist Magazine, it was in issue #18. It is the MUST HAVE magazine for 3Ders, in my view. Contact Bill Allen at ballen@3dartist.com, or at (505)982-3532. If you are unable to move forward in that direction, I can probably…
Lee – Perhaps I'll upload a project file zip with all the materials and a single rotation of he globe to the library under meshes. Probably sometime this week. Bob
#3ds Web Page Pays $
Message #187831
Nancy – Love to take advantage of your offer. I just wrote an article reviewing Meshpaint, which unfortunately has not made it into 3D Artist, and I'm just finishing a comparative review of DMM and Key Factory. An article of mine appeared in 3D Artist a couple of months back,…
Virtuosity screening
Message #187825
Stewart – Just now seeing this message – it should be noted that your work on the "lens" in the animation seen in Lindenmeyer seen was most effective. The morphing SID heads at the end of the the "laser" beam were engineering by Martin Foster during some blurry late-night sessions…
R – Greetings, Ralph! If you didn't see the V. documentary on HBO, I can send you a copy. BTW, when did you make the jump to NT? I just purchased NT (I think I got a good deal at $120), and I'm about to install it. That is, until…
#Alpha/Cray renderers <g
Message #187820
Martin – I'll sell you my SMP Alpha – just bought a used Cray. 😉 How are things, Martin? Bob
#Transparent Clouds Map?
Message #187818
Lee – Coincidently, I just completed a globe with swirling clouds for use in a multimedia project I'm working on. These are several good globe maps on the Internet – several of them orthorectified for placement on a sphere. Seamless clouds may be made in Photoshop using the offset filter,…
Alec – Ditto – and I have the 1.8 version. In the tutorial, the dropping balls do not make contact with the surface (requiring that I manually shift the paths). Serge – am I doing something wrong? Pls advise. TIA Bob Weil Envision Graphics
>Seriously, I've never seen anything in VistaPro that could touch the quality of WB. Personally, I'm going to hold out for Bryce in 3D for NT (which will have the added benefit of being less than half the cost, I suspect) rw
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