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#LenzFX

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#185088From: Erick PangilinanAug 14, 1995 11:09 PM
I have LenzFX….is it possible to render on a machine with LenzFX settings without the Hardware lock? even if the settings are already saved on a machine with the HW lock and just moved to a machine to render? When is Inferno gonna be released…how much is the upgrade?
#185236From: Neil W. BlevinsAug 15, 1995 4:48 PM
I was told by digimation that the inferno would be released Sept 15th. – Neil 102226,3566
#185344From: Michael BassierAug 16, 1995 2:47 AM
PMJI: what the hell is INFERNO? I know LenzFX and Lumina but don`t know nothing about INFERNO. Michael
#185417From: Neil W. BlevinsAug 16, 1995 12:11 PM
Inferno is the upgrade to LenzfX, which will do all that LenzFx does plus it will do explosions plus a few other goodies that Digimation won't tell me yet. Sorry about the confusion. – Neil 102226,3566
#185559From: Michael BassierAug 17, 1995 1:46 AM
Ah, I see. Thank you very much for the information. Do you know how much the upgrade price will be and when it will be available? Michael
#185656From: Neil W. BlevinsAug 17, 1995 4:22 PM
It will come out Sept 16th, but as to the price, I don't know. I bought my copy recently and they are sending me a free upgrade. See ya… – Neil 102226,3566
#185283From: Roy BakerAug 15, 1995 9:20 PM
Erick, yes you can render a LenzFX scene without a hardware lock. Just set up your animation in VP and send it to your NETQUE. You can then take the lock off and put your machine into slave mode. Roy Baker.
#185728From: davidAug 17, 1995 11:03 PM
no lens fx does not work with field rendering, so don'y bother
#185732From: Roy BakerAug 17, 1995 11:19 PM
david, I am aware of the absence of field rendering in LenzFX, but not all animations go out to tape. I have talked with Digimation and the field rendering fix is almost finished. Even without field rendering LenzFX is still a must have Plugin. Roy…
#185839From: Ernie JacksonAug 18, 1995 10:57 AM
>> I have talked with Digimation and the field rendering fix is almost finished. << I talked to two of the Digimation people at SIGGRAPH. One told me what you heard while the other told me that it wasn't gonna be possible _ever_ because of some sort of incompatibility w/ the internal workings of 3DS. I wonder what the _real_ truth is? – ej
#185930From: Roy BakerAug 18, 1995 8:43 PM
>> I talked to two of the Digimation people at SIGGRAPH. One told me what you heard while the other told me that it wasn't gonna be possible _ever_ because of some sort of incompatibility w/ the internal workings of 3DS. I wonder what the _real_ truth is?<< Maybe Digimation can jump in on this and solve the mystery. David?
#185987From: Ernie JacksonAug 19, 1995 12:19 PM
>> Maybe Digimation can jump in on this and solve the mystery. << Let's hope so they may be waiting for Inferno to come out first tho. – ej
#186060From: Jim LammersAug 19, 1995 8:47 PM
>>I talked to two of the Digimation people at SIGGRAPH. One told me what you heard while the other told me that it wasn't gonna be possible _ever_ because of some sort of incompatibility w/ the internal workings of 3DS. I wonder what the _real_ truth is?<< One fact that should be taken into account is that Yost IPAS disk 1 is a collection of lens flare, glow and blur routines that all work *perfectly* with fields, not to mention networks, etc… The frame/field information is there for the IPAS programmer if he/she wants to take advantage of it. Jim
#186216From: LEE STEELAug 21, 1995 5:54 AM
Wonderfully put Jim! I'm putting a check mark in your collumn.
#187066From: James Coulter[Mindscape]Aug 24, 1995 11:48 AM
Say, has anyone had any luck using the Alpha buttons with Aura in LensFX? I've never tried them until recently and I can't seem to get _any_ results whatsoever. For example, create a simple sphere and try to place an aura around it by referencing the Alpha channel. I tried every combination of buttions (involving alpha) and none produced an arua around the sphere. Am I missing something? — James — Choreo Motion —
#187080From: LEE STEELAug 24, 1995 12:45 PM
I haven't tried this and from what I am told Aura still doesn't work right. I would post a message to David Avgikos and see what he has to say about this. Lee
#187087From: Jim LammersAug 24, 1995 1:11 PM
>>Wonderfully put Jim!<< Thanks, Lee. But, lest I come off as too hard on LenZFX, I must point out that I own and use LenzFX. I think it's a terrific IPAS, and worth the price. I always keep my effected scenes simple, render with alpha and recomposite and I have not had any problems at all. It produces some dynamite cinematic effects unavailable any other way. If my flare is moving across the screen quickly, I render 2X the frames and fieldify it myself, and that gets me around any stroby problems with frame only rendering. Reading back, I think I perhaps sound too negative about a first generation IPAS that is extremely good. I don't want to always focus on the flaws… Jim
#186891From: Harley HugginsAug 23, 1995 4:20 PM
Excellent point! Maybe once they fix LenZFX they could use the acquired knowledge to fix another Digimation IPAS – Magic. Harley