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I could perhaps answer some of these questions… >>>>1. We are using models created with Autodesk 3D Studio 3.0 and animating them with Cyberspace. When reading in the 3d Studio objects, they loose their bitmaps (texture maps). Can anyone tell me how to get the 3d Studio texture maps to be recognized or to program my own texture maps.<<<< The display classes that ship with CDK Rel 1 did not include support for texture maps directly, although the capability exists to write your own with the use of the texture calls that are provided. The Future Vision Technologies Saphire Board uses them to achieve texture mapping with the CDK display class they provide with their board. They are the only ones I know of that provide a CDK display that supports texture mapping already using Rel 1. You could certainly create your own, as they did. Just for the record the new 3DS reader in Rel 2 does support reading in the textures from 3DStudio and they are supported in at least the WinG display that comes out of the box. The Rendermorphics CDK class can also handle textures under Rel 2, but you have to purchase the library separately. >>>>>>>2. I have used 640 x 480 x 8 bit and 640 x 480 x 24 bit VESA output successfully. I would like to also support 320 x 200 x 8 bit standard VGA output. How can this be done?<<<<<<< The only publically available ways to do this that I know of are in our Virtual Environment NAVIGATOR Tools. There are two possible display solutions at 320 X 200…. We provide MGMCGA.EXE (a TSR) that allows the standard CDK VESA display to output at 320 X 200 X 8 bit mode. We have also created another display class for CDK Rel 1 which is called MGVGA. It can be run at both 320 X 200 X 8 bit and 640 X 480 X 8 bit mode in wireframe, hidden wireframe, shaded, shaded with colored wireframe, and shaded with black wireframe modes. It also supports wireframe, flat, Gouraud and Phong shading modes. It is a bit faster than the CDK VESA display and avoids the dithered look for 8 bit shading. It is a standard CDK Rel 1 display which inherits from CyDisplay3D (that's the Rel 2 base class name, but it think it was the same in Rel 1 wasn't it? It's late….) Textures are in the works, as always….it seems….WE have them up in our lab, but it's not released yet. Still some issues to resolve. Just can't get to it all. >>>>3. Will the newly released Cyberspace 2 for Windows NT produce executables which can run under other platforms, such as Windows 95 or WFW 3.11? <<<< It is currently stated to support Windows 3.1 with Win32S, WFW 3.11 with Win32S(I'm pretty sure they officially say this one too <g>), Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 3.5. It runs with Win32S so Windows 95 should work but I haven't seen it yet. I hope this is a little more information. Let us know if we can do anything more to help. Angela Pate – MicronGreen (904)376-1529

Hi Jeff, << CDK questions.. >> Tell Jeff I say "Hi." He worked for me at Genigraphics in the '80s. rick mascitti