#Help!!!
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Hi everyone,
We need help with a few problems and wondered if anyone could help us.
First off: does anyone have any ideas on how to make Lantastic 6.0 work with
3D-Studio vers. 4? Once the drivers load for the network there isn't enough
memory left to start Studio. I'm using it in an environment where we are also
running Matrox Ani. Express.
Second: Is there a way to select and copy a group of Track dots in the
keyframer, then paste them as a group? We've got an animation with a
repetitive sequence–but it repeats with slight variations so the loop command
won't do it.
Third: An animation we're doing has small, tethered cars in it. They're moving
through a maze environment and are hooked to their "power source" by a tether.
The tether must stretch and shrink and bend around sharp-edged corners. Is
there a way to make an object like this? If it didn't bend I'd morph it, but
I'm stumped. Looks like we'll be drawing the tethers on 4,400 frames in
Animator Studio!!!
"Once the drivers load for the network there isn't enough memory left to start
Studio." You should be able to start 3DS with less than 300k of base memory.
Seems to me that if you're down that low, the Lantastic drivers are not
optimized. It's hard to believe that Lantastic would create a condition where
a fair number of programs would be struggling for resources because of their
drivers.
I don't have experience with the Lantastic drivers, but you might get someone
to upload their CONFIG/AUTOEXEC files for their setup.
1. Lantastic has very small drivers that by themselves wouldn't give you this
problem. Try running MEMMAKER in DOS 6, or switch to QEMM386 which does a very
good job allocating upper memory.
2. Depending upon your programming abilities, this could be an ideal task for
the keyscripter. Otherwise the Tracks/File Insert command might work for you.
3. Try lofting your tether as a single unmoving object, with lofted mapping
coordinates ON. Use a simple animated map (with a pattern moving from left to
right) to make the object appear to be moving.
– Dave
Martha,
<< Is there a way to select and copy a group of Track dots in the keyframer,
then paste them as a group? >>
Nope, but you could write a script.
Mark