#VR in Belgium
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>at least we are 3 know regulary visiting this forum
Make that four !
Since Yesterday I am visiting this Forum to.
Got myself an offline reader.
Maybe a chance here to introduce myself.
I am a 22 year old student of the Institiute of Visual
Communication te Genk, Belgium. Here I study MEDIA.
I am using 3D Studio now for about a year and I love it.
Extually I am planning to make my graduating project with it.
(yes I am graduating this Year).
Other intrests of me are Cd-rom and interactivity.
Greetz
Danny Tollenaers
Lanaken
Great,
Well I'm visiting this forum for nearly 2 years know and it is the forum I
visit most on Cserve.
I have 2.5 years 3DS experience, and use it mainly for architecture.
I'm 28, I've just finished a promotional folder for creating Photorealistic
Images and animations for others mainly in the building sector.
So far I mostly used it on own projects with the exception of some for others,
however I haven't done promotion for it until recently.
If you are intrested and need some help for your graduating project I might be
able to add something concerniing the importance of Visualisation in
architecture.
Maybe we should talk dutch.
Christophe Van Oyen
Brugge
Hello Christophe,
Are you active as a professional user of 3D Studio or at a semi-prof / hobby
basis ? I understand you do architectural visualisation, right ? Is it a big
market in Belgium ? Where can I situate it, at the desktop level or way up with
the high-tech people ? I know some guys from TRIX who also do some
architectural walktroughs, they work with SGI.
>If you are interested and need some help for your graduating project I might
be
>able to add something concerning the importance of Visualisation in
>architecture.
I appreciate this and will remember this offer, thanks !! I think I can use all
the advise I can get. Yust have to make a concept because I really don't know
what I am gonna make. A little fantasy ride, a visualisation or a more
traditional animation ? I have to make a decision very soon. There is also a
possibility I can make the animation interactive on CD-I. The disadvantage of
this is MPEG.
If you are interested I keep you in touch.
Greetz
Danny Tollenaers
Lanaken, Belgium
Hello Danny,
Well it all started as a hobby but it is slowly getting more then that.
I regulary do still images for others although we have a good working
architectural bureau ourselves. I heard of TRIX but do not know anyone, and I
only work at the desktop level using PC's, if animations are needed I can use 2
Pentiums and 486/66 at this time. I do not plan to go to SGI at this time, and
probably never why should I if my results for architecture are great. If you
want I could send you my promotional pamphlet showing some of my work, it is
just about being printed this week, and this is the first promotion I make for
my Visualisation, so far the work I got was through relations.
I'm curious what it will result to???
Problem with architectural Visualisation is cost it is really to expensif at
this time to make for houses, larger projects are in reach.
I'm slowely trying to diversify to other regions then architecture, however it
is still an unknown process to many people.
For Animations in architecture I currently use a PAR. I have used a second hand
Targa+ 32 for making two animations last year. However if I need ATVista
quality I go to a service bureau in Gent, same if I need a large network
capability, our usergroup currently lets say since 3 weeks we have 10 Pentiums
networked and setup so 3DS can be used with it.
We have a workshop next week 8 March on Visualisation. I will be presenting
some stuff there. Autodesk will show Animation Studio if all works out, we will
have some dye subs from tektronix available etc… We are rendering an
animation at the moment that I will place on my PAR this weekend.
The only thing really is you never have enough disk space, I've got 4.5GB at
this time from those aboot 1.7 is dedicated for the PAR, and for backup I use
MO and DAT DDS2.
Well I'm certainly intrested in staying in touch,
Well, you are right. It is certainly not necessary to have a SGI to make good
things. You could do everything (and maybe more) right on the desktop level. I
think it's gonna be a tough business for SGI en partners. I see you are
equipped well, a PAR a rendering plant, storage capabilities… We certainly
have to stay in touch :-))) About half a year ago I switched from Amiga to PC.
Sold my overbuild A500 and bought myself a Pentium, and until now I love the
PC. Bit by bit I expanded, got 32 Megs know, a SyQuest 270 storage media and
the necessary software to do it. A few days ago I finished my first serious
project. It's one off my three graduating projects. This was a promo for the
Institute of Visual Communication itself. I succeed to morph 5 persons quite
well with Elastic Reality and combined some animations from 3DS on it. Looks
very good, even if I have to say so for myself ;-). The big problem was
getting al this to Betacam. This time I was lucky and got some facilities, a
Mac with a Digital Magic Video card. Something like the PAR but much more
expensive and so far as I heard also better. You can hook up to six SCSI disks
on it for storage. This one had three disks of 2 Meg containing a total of 18
minutes maximum quality video. Digital Magic is available in different
environments, fully digital, component and composite. The big disadvantage I
had was transferring my Targa files from DOS to a MAC Hd. Some DOS SyQuest
could be read by the MAC OS 7.5 but others didn't. I still don't know why.
Lucky I had MACSEE for the PC so I hooked up a MAC disk on my PC an transferred
it that way. I still had to do some tricks with Norton disk doctor to get all
of my files on the Digital Magic but in the end I succeed, Pfwww ! You were
talking about a user group. Is this a user group for 3D Studio itself or more
for the architectural business ? If you want you may send me you're promotional
pamphlet which you created. I am very curious about it.
Danny Tollenaers Smeetsstraat 10 3620 Lanaken BELGIUM
Hello Danny T.
I missed the beginning message you posted and I would like to see it if you
could direct me to it. I have assumed from what I have seen that you are
intertested in VR for architectural visualization. I invite you to look at some
software available in the CDK section of this Asoft forum. I am very interested
in hearing your feedback. The NAVSUM.ZIP file is a text file describing an
interactive software package called the Virtual Environment NAVIGATOR, based on
Autodesks CDK that reads in DXF, 3DS files and also runs inside of AutoCAD (in
the ADS version). The NAVFlY.zip (dos) and NAVFLW.zip (Windows, with textures)
files contain free flyers for 3D models. (Dos only supports DXF, but Windows
has both). I recommend working with the Windows version if you use 3D Studio.
It is a really fun tool, if you are working on creating low polygon models for
faster real-time motion and interaction.
There is also an interesting GIF there rendered in 3D Studio, of a model of a
skyscraper created by Sanford Kennedy.
I hope you are succesful and if you have the time to let me know what you come
across, I would be most appreciative. I would be happy to reciprocate.
Angela Pate
MicronGreen, Inc.