#3DS3 Vibrant Driver
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I use 3D Studio version 3 on two workstations equipped with Hercules Graphics
Station Plus Twos. The Vibrant Graphics inline driver 1.0.2 P1 dated April 5
indicates a choice for 512×486, 24 bit render display mode in the setup menu
but still does'nt actually support it. Does anyone know when it will be
implimented? Both Vibrant and Hercules Tech Support have referred me to
Autodesk saying that it will be done when Autodesk gives priority to the task.
There are a lot of us 3DS users out here with these still very functional
boards. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. John Barrett
70062,3402
I'm very familiar with the status of the Herc 512×486 mode. The Vibrant folks
have been _trying_ to implement it, but it requires some bizarre initialization
code that has taken awhile to write. It's scheduled for the next incarnation of
the Vibrant drivers, which should be up here within the next month.
– G
You are right!
Basically, the 34010 doesn't support true-color, but the Hercules guys did some
weird hacks to get it work. In this mode, however, TIGA can't be used to do
the drawing. To implement this, we had to rewrite our TIGA VDC to take
advantage of a generic draw-code library we developed. This is still being
tested and we are working out problems created with other TIGAs. Once this
rewrite has been tested, the Hercules mode should fall out pretty easily.
Again, it is just a matter of time.
PS: We are shooting for Targa+ support in the next release.
Chuck Walbourn – Vibrant Graphics
Thanks for the clarification, Chuck. It's unfortunate that the 512×480 mode on
that Herc card is so non-standard and that you've had to do so much work to get
it running. Thanks for the extra effort too!
– G