#Shell to Animator Pro
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What do I need to do to make a quick jump to Animator Pro from inside 3DS3? I
know there is a pull-down to shell to DOS. Can I make a similar pull-down to
go to Animator Pro?
Thanks.
/* What do I need to do to make a quick jump to Animator Pro from inside 3DS3?
I know there is a pull-down to shell to DOS. Can I make a similar pull-down to
go to Animator Pro? */
I just went through this myself recently. 🙂
What I did was first of all go to the 3DS.SET file and there's a section where
you can define the user programs… this literally allows you to see Animator
pro as an option in the Programs pull-down… slick.
I put COMMAND.COM in the 3DS directory… IPG manual talks about this. I kept
getting a Phar Lap error until I removed HIMEM.SYS from CONFIG.SYS. There's
probably a toggle to be set to avoid having to do this, but it's not the
easiest thing to find in the manuals and I still haven't found it. See if this
works. Good luck. -dave
Thanks for the reply guys.. Dave, if I remove HIMEM.SYS from my config file,
how will this effect anything else anywhere else on my system. I don't know
that much on the technical end of all of this. Also, I downloaded the
3dshel.txt but can not quite understand where I need to go the set the
-maxvcpimem variables.
Thanks again.
/* Thanks for the reply guys.. Dave, if I remove HIMEM.SYS from my config
file, how will this effect anything else anywhere else on my system. I don't
know that much on the technical end of all of this. Also, I downloaded the
3dshel.txt but can not quite understand where I need to go the set the
-maxvcpimem variables. */
Before we get into Phar Lap Memory Manager's configuration, just try the
recommended steps of copying the COMMAND.COM file from your DOS directory to
your 3DS directory, AND edit the 3DS.SET file where the USER progs section
is… put in:
;————————————————————————– ;
EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
;————————————————————————– ; ;
Place external programs below. These appear in the "Programs" menu. ; You can
have up to 14 user programs now, and they can be a mix ; of .EXE, .BAT, .KXP,
and .PXP files. Note that 3D Studio must be ; invoked by 3DSHELL.COM for
external programs to have enough memory ; to run. Also note that programs need
to have explicit path names ; including the .exe, .pxp, or .bat extender for
3dshell.com to be able ; to find it. Note that COMMAND.COM must be in your
3DS directory for ; .bat files to run. Also note that you must read the
CFIG386 section ; in the Installation Guide regarding Phar Lap switches that
need to ; be set in order to shell out to other Phar Lap applications, such ;
as Animator Pro. Finally, note that you can pass arguments to .exe ; and .bat
files. For example: ; USER-PROG9 = "c:\norton\lp.exe d:\froon.txt","LP Froon"
will execute ; Norton Utility's LP program, causing it to print the file
d:\froon.txt. USER-PROG1 = "c:\ani\ani.exe","Animator Pro" ;USER-PROG2 =
;USER-PROG3 = ;USER-PROG4 = ;USER-PROG5 = ;USER-PROG6 = ;USER-PROG7 =
;USER-PROG8 = ;USER-PROG9 = ;USER-PROG10 = ;USER-PROG11 = ;USER-PROG12 =
;USER-PROG13 = ;USER-PROG14 =
and use the supplied 3DSHELL.COM to start 3DS up instead of the usual 3DS.EXE.
Okay? Should work. If it doesn't, we'll experiment a little more and then play
around with memory manager. As far as HIMEM.SYS being removed, (actually you
can just REM it out)
rem device=c:\dos\himem.sys
in your CONFIG.SYS file, all it does it disable the ability to go into Windows
and do DOS-provided memory management. A lot of people have a CONFIG.SYS file
for HIMEM.SYS and non-HIMEM.SYS applications. All you need do is either have a
CONFIG.WIN and a CONFIG.DOS file to copy as CONFIG.SYS (automated by a batch
file is sweet) or just remove the REM when needed.
Phar Lap configuration documentation is rather scarce in AniPro. Good luck.
-dave
James,
<< shelling out of 3ds to Ani Pro.? >>
See pg 46-47 of the Installation Manual for R3. Also, download
3dshel.txt from the "what's new" section of the libs.
jonas[adesk]