This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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To regis Imagine in no form is Public Domain, it has been offered by several magazines but that does not make it PD. Mike Halvorson President Impulse
ron I appreciate the fact that you use Imagine and look forward to your future comments. However as Greg suggested you have some lack of knowledge along the line of the problems you are having. While CIS is a great format, I suggest that you drop us private mail in…
Jim I dont scale things once I finish them , I just move the camera around and set the Y axis to get the effect I need. Mike
Stephen NO this is how big it CAN get and no larger, outside that figure and nothing happens. You could save some memory but you might increase the rendering time to something real slow, so just set the value to 0.. As for making things small, this is not a…
Jim The world is 16285 units in all directions unless in the Action editor you have set the size of the world to something else, on the other hand if you leave it at 0 then Imagine will use what it needs and not bother with the rest of the…
Jim Dah, I dunno, maybe the ray trace is making the glass objects disappear for some reason, try putting a ground under them and give it the checker board texture, this way you will have some depth to whats going on, other wise send us the file and we will…
#99508-
Spline weirdness!!
Message #99909
Charles Ahhh, in the words of Bevis and Butt head, I dont know what you mean, send the file or someting a bit more illustrative than the written word, you know all that 1000 words stuff and a picture and then an animation, help I'm twisting, Im twisting, Im gnitsiwt….…
Image Conversion
Message #98047
Tis the problem, do it in 24 bit not 8 bit and use the Histogram functuion or find edges command in Photoshop, it does a nice job, then just fill in the areas that you want black, save it as a 24 bit image and away you go.
Theo What program are you using to make the Tif files Are they 24 bit plus an alpha chanel Did they come from a Mac program give me more details and I will be glad to help Mike
Albrecht Yes you can upgrade to the Amiga Constant Update for $100.00 In order to do the same with the PC the costs is $300.00, this is only for regsitered users, Hope this helps Mike
Mike I doubt that Imagine 2.0 will work with the 64 but graphics card that you have, it seems that this card makes some very different calls to the vesa standard, I could go into this in detail but I think it is unwise due to the possibility that someone…
Daniel Yep, but I still dont know why you would do that, all you would have to so is exturde the model reduce the second set of points and there you have the inside if that is what you wanted, but I am sure you knew that anyway, I must…
Blaq! As they say, knowing not if it is true, but, Ignorance is Bliss Mike
Dave, you will get 3.2 in a couple of weeks so dont worry, some very cool stuff is in hand. Mike
#Digimax?
Message #97139
Daniel INSIDE, what do you mean, inside is in most cases not abvailable to any digitizer, except Xrays and NMRI of course it aint that but it does do a great job on the outside. Mike
Charles Nope you could make shinny things with Refelect it takes more work and shinny is just a bit less work, it is that simple, maybe you were looking toooo hard for something that was not there, I realize your scrunity might be warranted but the answer is maybe too…
C The shipping charges are $10.00 USD for all four or as many as you will get depending on when you join., 3.2 shall ship pretty soon, so you might order soon and not get 3.1 you will get instead 3.2 then 3.3 and so on all of the features…
Mr. Payton Our system and the way it renders does not have to be compiled as you suggest, it rips on the pentium, Now as for the bug, I suppose it is possible that it could show up, but as of yet, we have several pentiums in house, we have…
Dave dont have Alias, your right, it costs too much, but if you can get a screen shot with some explanation, send it to me and we will see what we can do. Mike
#STAGE/Upgrade
Message #2166
David I guess the add clone thing assumes you want the object in another layer than the one you are working on, I guess. We also make the best and lowest cost 3D digitzer in the world, you can buy one for $500.00 but the supply is limited and the…
Chad You can buy Imagine direct for $300.00 under our Competitive upgarde program, just drop us a note and we will fill in the details for you. Mike
Dave Yep I agree, we are working on the whole merge thing right now. Mike
Dave There is a bonesubgrp menu time., select the axis and then the item in the last menu, it will show you by name what is where and who owns who. Mike
Impulse Imagine 3.1
Message #95263
Ash It sounds to me like someone who does not have Imagine 3.0 and now has 3.1, the new features are explained in detail in the readme file, so I am a least puzzled, seems no one else has any problems, Oh and thank you for your kind comment regarding…
upgrades?
Message #95044
Laurie Give the office a call at 1 800 328 0184 and they will take care of you Mike
Mark I heard you called, sorry I was very busy with digitizers and two different salesmen, not puckers, just wierdooohs, ah, slang for dumb shits. Sorry, maybe next time we will get a chance to chat. Mike Ps enjoy the software, I do and I hope you will Cheers
Mark Call me at 612 425 0557 and I will gladly take your order. And for the life of me I have no idea what a PUCKER is, but I have my ideas and thoughts, hmmm. I will wait by the phone for you call, it gets lonely here so…
Mark No problems here, public messages are just fine. Dont feel ripped off, you have the most current version of Imagine If you wish to be on the service program that allows you to get four versions of the software from May of 94 to May of 95 the last…
Pete All is well on the midwestern front, and yes we are working on a real "real" alpha, more on that later, around Jan I think Mike
Pete I saw an this gear once and then someone was standing over me with a small bottle of some rude smelling stuff, I guess it had something to do with the price tag, so I have assumed that the majority of the user base, (almost all of it) would…
Walt The logitec device is not worth the money spent as a device for entering points in 3D space. The problem is much more agrivating than that simple solution, I have one of those 3D mice, its cool but far from something you would or could use with Imagine. We…
Dave, Sure, Comp upgrade is $300.00 Mike
#Ami Imagine 3.1
Message #93444
Steve, Sure call anytime, your customer number is on the label of the Newsletter and we take Visa and MC. Mike
Stephen No, the pc version is a stand alone product, the cost to you to buy 3.0 for the PC no matter what version of Amiga Imagine you own is $200.00 then the constant update is $100.00. Consider that the street price of Imagine 3.0 is around $450 to 500…
Andrey Why, you can do this with particles and acheive the same as explode or fireworks with the particle effects, try it, it works great. Mike
Paul No I have not, and I doubt that we will be getting one, so move slowly and make sure that they read TIF or TGAs or something after the fact so that it wont create a problem. Let me know what you find out. Mike
Pete Most of the time the good stuff stays hidden, I think the loudest voices are often the ones that have the most negative things to say, not to insinuate that you are being negative but you hardly ever see good news on the TV. I suppose it is the…
Blaq ! Thanks for you comments and help, this is what this is supposed to be a forum for ideas, exchange and a sense of team. Thanks for being a good quarteback, I think that a light is always better than a scream. Mike
Pete Sure, we are doing that now, funny you should want that. I must also admit that it will be much easier than done with film, I know I have worked on several movies where the process of cutting mattes was very time consuming and lead to major delays as…
Pete, I dont want this thing to denegrate to a name calling situation, but, I can assure that DPS could have done the whole thing differently, and to assume that there is something special about the hard drive connected to the PAR is wrong,. It could be anything they wanted…
Erik The problem is a DPS problem, its simple, while our interface may be quirky it has been so for 5 years, nothing new in that comment. The DPS problem has been a problem that they knew about and ignored, we until recently did not even have a board to…
Jim I suppose it can be done in software, but this whole thing of field mode is new to us all, or at least to Imagine, I am sure you can appreciate that we are learning right along with you. I will mention this situation to the gurus and get…
Michele Please contact Larry Halvorson at FAX number 612 425 0701, he will be glad to make a review copy available to you. Mike
Jim What do you mean, see things your way, there is no your way there is only the way that works, there are only a few users of the PAR card, and as such we will stive to fix the problem that DPS is ignoring. Its also good to see…
Erik The other problem that eveyone forgets is that the PAR does not know how to Cache, so our file format could be easily read if not valid it could wait until it gets valid, this would be trival on thier part. We will indeed be writing a temp file…
Pete, We understand, and it is also a bit more complicated than you know. I am sorry you lost work but it seems completely absurd that you would have done so. There is a simple way around the problem for now. Make the images and save them to a different…
James I dont think you get the point, we know the problem does exsist, no matter what LW or DPS does, and while it seems that everyone has become a programmer, the way our code works, is not so easy and as some have said TRIVAL to change, if it…
Erik Thanks for your comments, as always its like eating a sweet tart with glass on it, the insides are most likely worth the effort. You idea is interesting, I wished it had worked. DPS has had Imagine for two years, they have know of this problem form the start,…
Jim Here is the problem, no matter what they tell you. First, we make an iterim file, that is not ILBM or any other kind of file that DPS can read, so they have a time out waiting for the file to be done to thier specs,. we dont do…
Daniel I am sorry that you are with out the ever present cash to move to the next level. The only way we have of servicing our client base is through this barbaric exchange of funds. A program that costs less would be no program at all, as such it…
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