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This is my third year doing this – I assist the CIS Crafts Forum here as their 'graphics support'. Somewhere around September, the Crafts Forum announces the swap and we post guidelines for mailing etc. To date, I've gotten fiber items – weaving, tatting, crochet, knitting etc., some polymer clay…
Ok, will send – thanks.
#Amiga 500 Power Supply
Message #173585
Sounds like a good deal and I'd take it. How much mileage does it have on it ?
I'm sorry I couldn't help.
This is the last thing I can think of. Are you sure you are using ImagineFP not regular Imagine ? Like I said my version of Gigamem is older and the requestor to in Gigamem Prefs to select the program to use isn't very informative once you've selected it. It…
Try to get better lighting. If you can borrow some lights you will be surprised at the difference. Cropping out the background is not the same as having little or no background. I mean, if you can do it, you should eliminate the copy stand photo grey or the white…
I'm not sure if they are but you can BROWSE the library in AmigaTech for VIRTUAL MEMORY and see what you get. My 500 has MMU with a 3rd party accelerator – Gigamam works fine for me.
I forgot if you've said that you have MMU.
Just for fun … I've noticed there are a few PD (?) and shareware virtual memory utilities in the Amigatech library. Why don't you give one of them a download and see if you can get it going ?
This is so bizarre ! You should be able to get this going. Are you an Internet subscriber for Imagine ? I'd ask there and I'd ask a bunch of times. There is no reason I can figure that it would not work for you. Are you creating the partition…
I'm not sure what you mean by "camera lighting" – are you talking about camera floodlights for still photography ? That would be very good light indeed. There are fancy copy stands one can buy that accommodate four bulbs. Maybe you could mess around and get more lights even if…
This was a long time ago but I called the company that supports Gigamem in this country to ask about problems I was having with the product. (wish I could think of the company name – Innovatronics ?? ). Anyway, Imagemaster and DPaint ask for and use additional memory in…
ImageMaster will clean out those stray pixels for you. One thing I would suggest is that you experiment more with better lighting on the copy stand if you are using Digiview. They used to recommend fluorescent light but I never got good results with that. I use at least 2…
Hmm…, what does the Amiga Workbench report before you start any rendering – amount of Chip and Fast Ram. This is just a guess but it is acting like it isn't recognizing your entire swap file as the virtual Ram. How large is your partition ? Do you delete what…
Are you using a partition or a swap file ? I never could get the swap file to do anything. Are you saying the computer dies because you have no memory at all left and you get hung or what ?
Keep trying different things, you'll get it.
I have a very old version of Gigamem (2.1) and I don't think I've tested it on Imagine 3.0. It did work with 2.9. Here is what I have in the Gigamem prefs: menu, I have an entire partition set up as 'SWAP' ( I think I have 40 megs…
Well, you can say that but my modem line is the main phone line. So if it takes an hour to upload, it takes an hour. Then there is no guarantee that the baud gremlins won't eat it before it all gets here.
I looked in the library and it isn't there – the one in the magazine was called "Fandancer".
I UL'd a very poor version of it up here. It has a lot of horizontal lines which moire when I rescale the image from the 7 Meg size. Now to think of it – nay – I have the almost one meg Jpeg around here. The node I call…
"Labyrinth of Time" is a CD-Rom based game for MS-DOS and the Mac. I think I've seen ads for it in MacWorld etc. The article says it is also on the Amiga but having no CD rom or gaming interest, I never thought to investigate. Don't ask me how the…
I don't know if you get this nerdy publication, but if you are a member of IEEE you might get the IEEE member publication, "Comptuer Graphics and Applications". My artwork made the back inside cover but there is also an interesting feature article by Bradley Schenck. Looks like he is…
Do you think Michael actually has a 'bones' version of the Humanoids ? Maybe I'm getting confused between the Toaster version and the Imagine version. Hmmm.
Yes, works real well like that – just remove everything except the face from slightly above the eyebrows to a bit below the chin.
Ooophs… mime mask as in mime not mine or mine mask.
I guess E.II has the Plasma – it has a lot of parameters so you can make it as bold or subtle as you choose. You know what would be neat ? – maybe using only part of the Humanoid face like a Mime mask but make it almost transparent.…
That sounds great. BTW, do you have Essence ? I think Plasma would look great there – especially if you could fade it out so that the base color of the face would show through. How about cutting off the Imagine cow's horns and make them into boar teeth ……
Actually, you can go over to Graphdev and get it yourself. I'm pretty sure it is in the library as it accompanied a file he uploaded there. I guess he is doing Imagine PC support there – so maybe you could chat it up. I guess you can get the…
Peter, just a thought, but did you ever read Greg T.'s tutorial on making animated snake-goat eyes with Imagine ? I kept a thread of it from the Internet Imagine feed but I guess there is an explanation in GraphDev. This is what the evil wizard needs. He was using…
I've been with Imagine since it was TurboSilver. I've seen Lightwave up close and have played with it. Certain aspects of Lightwave make putting a scene together faster. OTOH, Imagine 3.0 has more stage control so this is less an issue. To tell you the truth, I think any of…
I don't understand it – but everytime *I* call – he answers the phone. Must be my luck. I never call before 12 pm PST as they are programmers, right ? BTW, I've been exploring the update that I got for Essence II and the "sorta-Alpha Channel stuff" that can…
Don't give up ! Even with an order form ( I have Essence I & II), it took about three weeks to get Forge to me. You might try it E-Mail, "spworle@netcom.com".
I guess I wasn't paying much attention to that date – 2003. We should have it by 3003 if we have anything at all :). I live in Oregon and the poor old wild migrating salmon is going the way of the dodo. People who have fished the Rogue for…
I would think that by 2003 – most edible fish stocks would be raised in farms possibly far inland using synthetic ocean salts etc. Fish raised in ocean environs are prey to parasites etc. and make for very irregular fish. I'd bet there would be large indoor tanks with lighting…
It doesn't cost anything to enter the contest. I wasn't so sure about sending my pictures on a Syquest and ever getting the cartridge returned. However, they have an animation entry and I don't know how you'd send that on disks. They welcome removable media. I just didn't want to…
#Bit.Movie '94
Message #41510
I entered the Bit.Movie '94 contest in Italy many months back. I finally received the promised show catalog that all entrants get. I would very much recommend that anyone doing computer animations, computer art or renderings enter this contest. The catalog is fantastic – beautifully printed and very interesting to…
Next?-Not, but what ?
Message #82934
Yo, Ben, I read just part of message here – something about migrating to RISC – which operating system ? I'm waiting to see what PC land comes up with – post Pentium – with the PowerPC chip. I'd like to keep my 'comfortable' software for the next generation and…
I think I could havegotten Japanese down if I'd had more of an immersion approach. I got sidetracked with the writing and reading it part. My eyes started to cross after the first five hundred characters
My wretched attempt at 'Intensive Japanese' at Berkeley summer school was shadowed by this gentleman who already had his masters in Korean. He gave me a bit of an introduction to that language – NOT ! I only lasted two weeks in Mandarin. Maybe flashcards would help. The same guy…
Where are those Korean flash cards anyway ? We might need them .
I think you're going to like it – it is much nicer than 2.9. Worth the wait but I'm glad we had 2.9 in the mean time.
I called and talked to Tim. I got a time frame from him as to when I could expect the child etc. Interesting conversation – what to buy for my next 'Amiga' :), modern dance and complex motion paths, dressing the people etc. I'm surpised that my Imagine disks got…
Guess I'll have to gim him a call direct. I bought the package from him – full price – not mail order so I guess I expect more.
How about a dog – surely you can work out the walk cycle for the hound from Hell ? BTW, have you heard when and if the Humanoids are going to get revamped for 3.0 ? I bought mine in anticipation of the 3.0 release. It has been so long,…
Something is wrong. You should have had it by now. Better call Impulse. That postman has some dynamite anims by now and you are missing out !
Whoever the postman is – well maybe he had an Amiga :). Great gift idea.
Hmm… just glanced at the Internet feed and somebody else in the big apple state hasn't their Imagine yet either. It is probably in some mail carrier's apartment with the other 20 years of undelivered mail.
I think my theory is correct. I got my box as "Margaret Loland" today. Oh Impulse, will they ever get it right ? They had my name correct last time. I've done tons of data entry so I really am sympathetic but still… I have these nagging doubts. Manual looks…
I'm waiting too. My theory is that they started the Amiga people with last name "Z" as the beginning and went forward. It is only a theory.
Well I guess there is order out of the chaos of TKD schools anyway. Actually my major interest in the TKD is in the movement aspect. I got stuck watching my daughter do her gymnastics class which happened to meet in a partitioned gym. The TKD class met on the…
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