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#3DS on HP/XU 90c
Message #193177
I am having problems getting 3DS to work on my HP Vectra XU/5 90c. It has a Matrox MGA and 3DS says that an MGA was not found, error 2301. Any help here?
#Path question
Message #190570
I have some questions about using paths. If I want to use one path for an object in a given segment of frames and then use another path in a following segment, how do I do that? For instance, I have a box object and I create a circular path…
Yes, I do have internet access. The file is over 600K in size. How would you propose transferring it? I could also send it to you on floppy with a SASE if that would be easier. Thanks for the offer to convert it.
#reading .IGS files
Message #189900
I am working on a project and a portion of a model was done in a CAD program and given to me as an IGES (.IGS) file. I believe that ACAD will read this file and I could write it out as a DXF or 3DS file frm there except…
I am a new 3D Studio user and have found the following books so far: Inside 3D Studio, Release 4 Excellent – answers a lot of "why" questions New Riders Publishing 3D Studio Special Effects Gives a good range of real world examples and tricks New Riders Publishing Becoming a…
Windows 95 takes more control of the hardware than Windows 3.1 does. It sounds like what is happening is that you are trying to share the parallel port between a printer and your hardware lock. Windows 95 is probably blocking access to 3DS because it has assigned the parallel port…
Thanks for the replies. I spent a lot of time looking through the various manuals and just couldn't find the place where this is described! One of those things that was about to drive me crazy!
#adjusting path vertices
Message #176368
I am working through the tutorials and am currently in the one on morphing objects. On page 16-15 of the tutorial manual, it says "Using Path/Move Vertec, select the back end vertex of the path and use the spline contrl to curve the path." I can not figure out how…
#making tractor tracks
Message #176008
I am trying to do an animation of a tractor that has tracks rather than wheels. The tracks are a rubber material with big treads on them. I want to animate the tractor and part of this involves making the treads move around the track path. I have considered making…
#FLC files in Windows
Message #162802
Is there a way to play FLC files in Windows?
#Windows AVI output
Message #162070
Does anyone know of a way to output animations to a Windows AVI file. The best way that I can think of is to make BMP files and then create an AVI file from them. The biggest problem with this approach is the intermediate disk space requirements to store each…
probs on gateway P5100xl
Message #161853
I just recently upgraded to a gateway 200 p5-100XL system and am having one problem. During rendering, there is often a 30sec+ pause in the "Preparing materials" stage. It seems to be related to the CDROM somehow. Anyone experienced anything like this? Any ideas? For example, I made a sphere…