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Jonas, Thanks for the information. We'll check it out. Eric and Ian Eiger Software
#153459- #Sound with 3D Studio??? Message #153658
Jonas, Thanks for the compliment! I saw the Bones-Pro IPAS sample animation you recommended — the one with the "monster." It was impressive! Eric [Eiger Software]
Check out the latest verion of The Movie Machine (MOVIE.ZIP) in the Utilities library. It includes bug fixes and an improved user interface. Have fun! Eric
Sound with AA Pro??? Message #153447
Check out the latest version of The Movie Machine (MOVIE.ZIP) in the Utilities library! It includes bug fixes and an improved user interface. Have fun! Eric
#131230 Animations in Windows Message #131325
Brian, But the $1 has to be paid up front and in cash! Actually, you might want to try out MOVIE.ZIP in the Utilities library. It might save you some work. Dieter (for Eric)
#113916 MOVIE MACHINE Message #114087
Stephen, My Movie Machine can play any .wav file: stereo, mono, 8-bit, 16-bit. However, it cannot change the "location" of the sound in stereo space. In other words, there's no way you can coordinate the volume of a sound between each speaker. Yet. (I have to wade through a pile…
#113557- #MOVIE MACHINE Message #113681
Stephen, I'm glad you got it working under OS/2. Thanks for your order! If you have any suggestions for my program, let me know. I'm working on an upgrade now. Best regards, Eric
#113220 MOVIE MACHINE Message #113506
Stephen, While I didn't specifically design the Movie Machine to run under OS/2, I'm surprised it crashed. It is written is Visual Basic which is supposed to run under OS/2. However, in the program, I did make a Windows API call, SNDPLAYSOUND, that might not be supported under OS/2. OS/2…
#105812 Great program! Message #105835
Steve, Thanks for your wonderful recommendation! I'm sure Eric will be delighted when he reads your message (he's currently on vacation but I'm forwarding your message to him). Thanks again and best wishes, Dieter (for Eric)
#105724- #Autodesk MCI driver Message #105833
Stuart, You might want to download MOVIE.ZIP from the Utilities library. It allows you to loop animations, script them together, and assign background MIDI files as well as .WAV files to individual frames in each animation. Hope this helps, Dieter
#103870 movie machine Message #104007
Nik, I agree. I only need to find the format of AVI files. I think I'll look for a book on that stuff. Eric
#103631 #movie machine Message #103785
Yes, I found out more about AVI today. I will need to make a conversion program from my MVE format to Microsoft's AVI. Later, I may be able to incorporate AVI-in and AVI-out commands, but that's in the future. For now, The Movie Machine doesn't support AVI format.
#103328 #movie machine Message #103782
Steven, As you suggested, I added the speed control to the registered version. Eric
#103462 #movie machine Message #103591
Mei-Tien, I'm not quite sure what you need to do but I think you want to know my .MVE file format. The file begins as follows: Animation file name (.FLI or .FLC) Music file name (.MID) After that I have a long list of frame numbers referencing WAV files. If…
#103328 movie machine Message #103380
Steven, As I mentioned in my reply to your mail to me, I do plan to add animation speed control and several other features to my next release. I glad you like the program. Thanks for the compliment. Eric
#103082 animator vbx Message #103123
All you need to do is set the animation's play property to 0. Example: Animation1.Play = 0 Eric
#103068 Sound for FLI/FLC's! Message #103122
Thank you! This is my first program I uploaded. Actually, I'm planning to port it to Visual C++ and add more effects and functions to it. Let me know if you have any ideas that I could add to the next release. Eric
Sound for FLI/FLC's! Message #102929
Check out my program, MOVIE.ZIP, in the Utilities library section! Eric
Sound for FLI/FLC's! Message #102928
Check out my program, MOVIE.ZIP, in the Utilities library section! Eric
#102230 Animator VBX Message #102379
Brian and Nik, Thanks for inviting me to come on here. I can't spend too much time here though. Eric
#102241 Animator VBX Message #102378
Paul, Yes you can, but when it switches from one animation in the script to another, the frame will be reset to zero. Eric
#102193 #Animator VBX Message #102377
Mei-Tien, Yes, you need to know the frame position. It will never be exactly synchronized but very close. Use VBPLAY.VBX that comes with the Animator Player for Windows. Eric
#101997 #Animator VBX Message #102150
Hi Brian! I am up here and I answered most of Paul's questions. Eric
#101790 #Animator VBX Message #102149
Paul, SoundDelay is a custom property that you can specify how many milliseconds from the beginning of an animation you want a sound to begin playing. You can't get vbplay.vbx to delay the sound since the sound functions are built in and can't be modified or replaced. If you want…
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD February 24, 1992 10:39 PM
Myron, Hope you're getting the information you're looking for. As you can see, the folks who use AutoCAD are very loyal to a great product. It's making them money for their CADD investment. So how you plan to use CADD will quite naturally determine what you decide to purchase, whether…
#34068 Saving Xref Settings Message #34111
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD February 22, 1992 2:49 AM
Dennis, It was a Godsend to us in the Training department! For Brad, a respite, I'm sure . Dieter
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD February 19, 1992 9:45 PM
Myron, You certainly shouldn't have to buy AutoCAD on any platform sight unseen! Although AutoCAD is not available mail order, there are a number of Autodesk Authorized Dealers who would be happy to demonstrate the product for you and answer your questions. You won't even have to go through the…
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD November 25, 1991 11:48 PM
Jake, I don't remember that, but Levinson is very big on following through on a marketing plan, evaluating it only after perhaps 6 months or more. Guerrilla Marketing is an excellent book for small businesses. Very practical! Dieter
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD November 24, 1991 11:50 PM
Marco, Try this on your original drawing. At the command prompt, type in UCS and press the Enter key twice. This will align the movable User Coordinate System (often used with 3D) with the fixed World Coordinate System. Next, enter the PLAN command. This will align your viewing direction so…
#21740 Spiral Spring Message #21805
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AME November 24, 1991 11:25 PM
Ian, If you need the mass properties of the spring under varying conditions, you might still be able to approximate it with AME close enough for your specifications. Of course the best approach would be to sweep a circle along a path but AME will need to support NURBs before…
#21585 ACAD Message #21691
David, Mike's AutoCAD dealer should be happy to help him get a network authorization code even if he doesn't immediately buy another copy of AutoCAD from him . The dealer will need to charge a service fee, however, to cover costs. Dieter
#21669 #ACAD for Xenix Message #21690
Bill, Autodesk does not plan to produce any more releases of AutoCAD for SCO Xenix. The good news is that AutoCAD Release 11 for SCO Unix has just been released by our QA department for shipping. We also plan to support an SCO Unix version of AutoCAD Release 12. Dieter
#21658 #Spiral Spring Message #21676
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AME November 23, 1991 11:06 PM
Ian, At this time, AME cannot create swept solids through a parametric path, even with API. This means that you can only roughly approximate the spring. You could do this by using the 3dpoly command, feeding it calculated points. You could create a circle at each vertex normal to the…
#21516- #Cadalyst or Cadence?? Message #21675
From: Dieter Schlaepfer [Adesk Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoCAD November 23, 1991 10:33 PM
Ken, Excellent suggestion!! I read "Guerrilla Marketing" also and give it my highest recommendation. One point Levinson makes is that you have to keep up your marketing program probably six months before you can make an accurate assessment of whether the program was successful or not. Many people give up…