#PARdon me, but…
Ok, Alan, you're in big trouble.
Scumbag, rat, devious dog, bad influence… This is all your fault.
You should have kept it a secret and should never have discussed it
publicly. You should have made up bad things to say and advised
everyone to stay away.
But NNNOOOO, you had to let me know how great the PAR was. You
exercised some sort of mind control over me, yeah, that's it, it's
not my fault. It's your fault I called and ordered this PAR for my
home 3D dungeon (with Saturday deliverly, no less). I rendered a
bunch of frames last night, installed the evil thing this afternoon,
and am now looking at the most fabulous real-time animation I could
ever have imagined.
It must be your fault I'll be ignoring my wife and kids, neglecting to
feed the dogs, forgetting to go to work, and never getting any sleep
again! You dirty dog – I thank you sincerely for your (and others)
recommendation on this great toy! When I got 3D Studio, I thought it
was the most fun I could ever have. I was wrong: the 3DS/IPAS/PAR
has to be it. After the torture of frame-by-frame to tape, this
thing adds a whole new dimension. Now I have to go into debt and buy
some more pentiums so I can render faster. (Can I blame that on you
too? <g>)
The installation went smoothly, frames transferred with no problem,
and the output looks great. I cannot tell the difference between the
PAR output and that from the ATVISTA, except for some minor
compression artifacting on broad, smooth gradients, and then only on
stills. I can't get the DPSPAR_I.PXP to work: the PXP loader reports
"Can't locate that program". ??? At the moment, I'm rendering
fields directly to the PAR from 3DS on the other machine and it seems
to be going smoothly. I didn't realize I'd be able to see each
rendered frame on the PAR video output as it was completed – a bonus!
Well, I've got to go now – it's my wife's birthday dinner outing
tonight. Let's see, at 1:57 per frame, 96 frames to go, if we hurry,
we can get back when… (just kidding, really!) <g> (Now, where can
I hide these boxes…)