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Does anyone have any input on running disk compression utilities such as
Doublespace or Stacker in a LW 4.0 pre, Windows WG 3.11 environment?  Any
data loss problems. Performance issues?

On another thread, wasn't Mojo always nuts?!?  :)  (Disclaimer: No, I've
never met him. Comments based solely on perceived sense of humor derived
from short bio at the end of LW Pro articles. Satire intended as humor.
Please don't sue me.) Damn. When the disclaimer is longer than the joke,
what's the point! It's like trying to read the legalese at the end of a
car commercial in a 1 point font on an aging 13'' Samsung. "Say what?" :)

-P


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From: Manuel Coats <[e-mail]>
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Subject: DIGITAL FANTASIES: A lightwave animation tape
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:17:10 -0700
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Attention all you Lightwavers,

You've probably heard about the Digital Fantasies animation video my
company was working on which was to be a a tape full of animations
created completely in Lightwave.  I got a pretty good response from you
here on the interenet and infact you'll see a commercial for it on
Issue#1 of Lightspeed.  We are still a little skim on animations, but
I'll work with what I have if I must. This post is a final notice to
those of you who may not have seen earlier posts or who now have some
material you would like to submit for inclusion.  It would be a way to
show off your talents to others and prospective employers.  The tape will
be sold through our toll free order line and should be available shortly
in retail stores carrying Lightwave products.  You will get a free copy
of the tape when its all completed should you submit something to us.  We
will begin editing the tapes we have received in about 3 weeks, so please
hurry.  There are also some of you who submitted vhs copies and said  you
would send a higher end tape format as soon as we decided what we wanted
to use. I've sent your replies and now  I need to get those higher end
tape formats sent right away.  If you would like more information, please
e-mail me and I'll send you a detailed message.  The tapes will be
shipping next month, and to the many of you who have already submitted
something, you'll get your free copies in the mail sometime next month as
well.


Manuel Coats
Digital Concept Productions
Home of "LIGHTSPEED: The Video Magazine for the Lightwave Enthusiast"
800-764-8696 (orders)


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Are there any demos of lightwave around?

Thanks

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Center Object in Modeler shortcut?
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: > Is there a keyboard shortcut to center and object (Zero X,Y,Z) ?

: Hi Dan,  For a keyboard shortcut to center object use      a
: that single letter should do the trick.

Actually a centers the "view" around the object. I believe the original
post wanted to actually center the obj at 0,0,0. This can be accomplished
with the Center macro. If you are running LW PR on Inel, you will have to
wait for the final version.

JG

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From: [e-mail] (James Hastings-Trew)
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Subject: Re: Save transformed problems?
Date: 12 Jul 1995 20:47:22 -0300
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In article <3tv3lk$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Brenden Mecleary ) wrote:

> I set the cylinder to 100 percent morph, and when I render, the
> textures are warped properly, so I choose save transformed, and save
> the morphed cylinder (with the warped texture).  When I clear all the
> objects, however, and load up the transformed object, the textures
> aren't properly warped anymore!  I tried exiting Layout and entering
> again, but the same thing happened.  I thought that warping textures
> was one of the uses of save transformed?  I'm using Intel Pre-Release
> 4.0.  Does anyone know why this isn't working for me?  I have a feeling
> I'm doing something wrong :-)

Yes, you are doing something wrong. :) Here's the trick: When you have two
objects, one with the texture applied normally, and have that object's
geometry morphed into the shape of a second object, the texture will
stretch to fit the morphed geometry. If you save that as transformed and
reload it as a single object, then there is no morphed geometry -- and
hence no morphed texture either. It is the act of morphing the geometry
that warps the texture. Once you "freeze" the shape of the object and use
it without morphing then textures will act just like they do on any other
Lightwave object. Think of it this way -- by morphing object 1 100% to the
shape of object 2, and saving object 1 in that transformed state, you are
merely making a duplicate of object 2, and textures will act on that
duplicate just as they would act on the original object 2.

You really need to have both objects in the scene -- the distored one set
to 100% object disolve, and the "normal" one with 100% morph into the
distored shape. Then you will get the warped texture effect you are after.

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From: [e-mail] (Brad Grace)
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Subject: Re: Has Mojo Gone Nuts?
Date: 12 Jul 1995 23:45:23 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>[e-mail] ("Phil South") writes:
>
>
>>> Actually, I think they have. I think it was called -
>>>
>>> Star Wars: A New Hope.
>
>>Wasn't Star Wars originally called "Adventures of the Starkiller"? Has
>>anyone read the original script? God, it's appalling, and a testament to
>>the art of re-writing.
>
Starkiller was the last name before Skywalker was thought of.  I
believe the trilogy we all know is called the Adventures of Luke
Skywalker.  The next will be like the Adbventures of Obi Wan Kenobi or
something.

>I'm not sure on the name, but yeah reading the script, you can see how
it
>could have been your average VERY SILLY "B" sci-fi movie ... I'm not
so
>sure that a lot of the "bad" parts were shot, and then edited out.
this
>combined with the GREAT set work for the time, and the motion control
and
>models is what sets it apart.  one of the less commented on is the
>editing (lucas's wife i belive) I don't think that any other movie was

>cut with shots as SHORT before starwars, and they got faster and
faster
>in V and VI.
>
I remember reading that one of the partial full length rough cuts was
shown to a selected audience of Lucas's freinds and contemporates, like
Speilberg and Coppolla, and they all hated it with a passion.  When
Lucas came back with it re-edited and with the sound and other
post-production shots it was a much difference.  I think the main
improvements were the sharper editing and the addition of the sound and
soundtrack.

Brad

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From: Adam Ives Chrystie <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave
Date: 13 Jul 1995 00:30:59 GMT
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  You might want to watch TV shows like: Babylon 5, SeaQuest,
Adventures of Herculese, New Superman series..ICK!, Mantis,
RoboCop Series..and i think once in a while Star Trek Next
generation has used Lightwave...those shows use lightwave. But
as for hands on demo..you might want to call newtek and find
the location of a dealer.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
University Of California at Santa Cruz
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
Crazed LightWave'r
Oh shit, time for senior project! What 3D
program will I use? ;)
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[e-mail] (Dave Paige) wrote;

>When will the DEC Alpha NT version be available for shipping.

>Dave


The DEC Alpha NT version should be ready by July 21st.

Andy

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From: [e-mail] (DNAHELIX)
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Subject: Re: Object Hierarchy's
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To maintain groupings of polygons within an object for later selecting, I
simply give them a different surface name. This way I can re-select just
the polys I want at anytime.

John A Davis
DNA Productions, Inc.

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From: Adam Ives Chrystie <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Perception Prices?
Date: 13 Jul 1995 06:40:26 GMT
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About how much are teh Perception cards without teh hard
drives?

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Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
University Of California at Santa Cruz
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
Crazed LightWave'r
Oh shit, time for senior project! What 3D
program will I use? ;)
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Subject: intel version right mouse?
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I have a p100 with LW pre-rel.
and I cannot get the right mouse button
to do its duty, all I get is that crappy
windows menu thingy

arghg!

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: So when?
Date: 13 Jul 1995 12:51:41 GMT
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PMshark ([e-mail]) wrote:

:  When's the FINAL 4.0 LW PC going to be shipped?

Real Soon Now.

:  And, what differences from the pre-release might we expect?

Different bugs.
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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: The New perception card.
Date: 13 Jul 1995 15:53:26 GMT
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[e-mail] (J Eric Chard) wrote:

I babbled:
>>- Ships with Windows and WinNT MCI drivers, you can use Razor, Premiere,
>>whatever. Simultaneous audio recording with SB16, SB AWE32, TurtleBeach,
>>whatever sound card you've got.
>
>
>    Hmmmm, my registration card says "Send me in for your NT drivers", and
>    I saw no mention at all (I may have missed it) about sound cards in
>    my admittadly short perusal of the manual.  But I >did< look.

Yeah, I heard the NT drivers aren't quite finished...

On the sound cards, I'm just going from what I remember from the press release, or
possibly just the discusion here that followed the NAB unveiling. There >will< be full
audio/video editing soon, I mean, there better be, this >is< supposed to compete in
the non-linear wars isn't it?  I bought an AWE32 specifically for use with the PVR,
when I can afford it.

So, how is it? Are you waiting for NT drivers, or are you using it now?

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Subject: Re: DPS Perception
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[e-mail] (Stranahan) wrote:

>We have one, it's awesome.

Uhh, thanks for the insight Lee. Anything else you want to add, you
windbag.

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Darren Metcalfe
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Subject: Re: Star Wars
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[e-mail] (Fred Tepper ) wrote:

>And hey, why not go in and add motion blur to all the Harryhausen
>films.

Speaking of Harryhausen, has anyone wasted $ on Species yet? Pretty bad
movie. The monster effects (Giger) though, are very reminiscent of
Harryhausen, looks and moves like Medusa on (more) drugs. Although, at
least you could actually >see< the monsters in Sinbad. All this dark,
shadowy, foggy crap gets on my nerves. I'm sure it's supposed to.

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---------------------------
BTW, I seem to recall in earlier dicussions of the product that someone
out there had a beta version (Lee S.?). If anyone has seen one...any
comments?

------------------------

We have one, it's awesome.




_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan


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From: [e-mail] (GrPatton)
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Subject: LW 4 Pre Surface Properties
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Is their a way to copy properties from one surface to another in Layout?

Gregg P.

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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Alpha upgrades
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[e-mail] (J Eric Chard) wrote:
>>Just an idea. In what ways can you add an Alpha processor to an existing
>>NT system?
>>
>    1) Buy a copy of NT.
>
>    2) Wrap an Alpha around it.

Does this require the SMP, ZIF Socket, or the new SWP (Shrink Wrap Packaging) Alpha?

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From: [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig)
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Subject: Re: Plug ins for Windows lightwave
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John Reddington ([e-mail]) wrote:
> How close if at all are we of getting plug ins like Sparks, Dynamic
> Motion Module etc for the windows version of Lightwave?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | John Reddington    EMail [e-mail]                        |
The german distributor Cybersign told us that FiberFactory and Sparks will both
be available during this month in ther PC-version. Next month for the DEC/Alpha.

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From: [e-mail] (Michael B. Comet)
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Subject: Re: LW 4 Pre Surface Properties
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In a previous article [e-mail] (GrPatton) said:

> Is their a way to copy properties from one surface to another in Layout?
>

        I think the only way to do this is to take the surface
you want to copy.  Save it as a surface (.srf) file, then select
the one you want to copy to and then load up the settings from
the file.


mbc


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From: [e-mail] (Bessman)
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Subject: Re: cost of upgrade to PC LW 4.0
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In article <3tqt8h$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...

>>                Does anyone know the cost of upgrading to the Windows'
version
>>        of LW 4.0 from the Amiga LW 4.0?
>
>
>You actually have the 4.0 Amiga version?
>
       Aside from tongue in cheek remarks...:)  I have heard that the
upgrade across the platform is $600 or $700. (provided you are registered
with newtek as an amiga user.) I heard this a while ago so all bets are
off as to accuracy.  But, this might give you an idea....



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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
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+-- [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin) writes:
| I have a p100 with LW pre-rel. and I cannot get the right mouse button
| to do its duty, all I get is that crappy windows menu thingy.

I doubt that has anything to do with LightWave.  You probably have
Windows set up to give you a popup on the right button. Check your
system settings.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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From: [e-mail] (Ian Kemmish)
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[e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits) writes:

>Anyone have any info comparing Windows NT 3.5 with the new 3.51 version?
>Any improvements in LW rendering times, or better memory use? Is it worth
>$89? (Seems a bit steep for a measly one one-hundreth of a whole number
>upgrade... :)

NT 3.51 definitely breaks the Watcom debugger, so think twice
about installing it if you write your own code and use Watcom.

A source inside Microstuffed claimed that 3.51 fixed the terrible
problems that earlier versions of NT had with the disc cache
taking over the whole machine (I don't know if these will affect
LW rendering times, I'm only a casual reader of this group...),
but preliminary experimentation indicates that this claim is
false.

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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: modeling tips
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How do you model polygons which have smooth curved lines and straight
lines? I know you can make splines, and I know you can join dots, but how
do you make polygons which have both?

Say you sketch a wiggly line and the you want to close the ends with a
flat line? Or how about a UFO type shape, adamski style, which has a
curved dome at the top, a straight line for the turret, a curve for the
bottom dome and a straight line across the bottom.

So some of the curves are made with CTRL-P and others simply by making
two dots and hitting P. I dunno, I'm all out of explanations.

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From: [e-mail] (John Hileman)
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Date: 13 Jul 1995 21:57:55 GMT
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>>Anyone have any info comparing Windows NT 3.5 with the new 3.51
version?
>>Any improvements in LW rendering times, or better memory use? Is it
worth
>>$89? (Seems a bit steep for a measly one one-hundreth of a whole
number
>>upgrade... :)
>

  Well if windows NT 3.51 has 386 emulation like i've heard it does,
than it is well worth the $89.  386 emulation would make it compatible
with just about everything out there.  I have, however, heard that
fractal painter and fauve mattise (or however it is spelled) Still do
not work.  And, I've been told that Photoshop does work under 3.51.
  For thoughs who haven't relised it.... I am talking about Dec Alpha
systems running windows NT...   :)

[e-mail]
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 get a demo version (1 month limit) from them at ftp.process.com.

  How much does the commercial NFS software go for?


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John Foust ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Rotor) says:
: >
: >   I would estimate the time for a HW crack to be about a month after release.... it's not
: >too hard to disassemble the source-code and change a few things- for the good/bad pirates...

: Oh really?  Has LW/NT been cracked yet?  I'm still waiting.

...well then your not that well plugged in... I've seen both a DEC and Intell version cracked...


: >  - How about a 200 or 300 meg file filled with numbers resulting from a complex formula that
: >would be accessed each time you boot LW or Modeler boots.

: How about sub-$1 CDROM pressing costs, disc duplicators who don't ask and don't tell
: what's on the disc, and $25 writable CDROMs for $2000 CD-R drives?  Without the dongle,
: a wild-ass pirate could invest $1,500, dupe 1000 CDs inside of two weeks, then sell
: them out the back of their car trunk at a computer swap meet for $100 each, and
: walk away with $100,000 for a $1,500 investment.

...the Idea of a dongle is to stop casual piracy... a dongle does stop piracy in this case,
however, this is not an example of casual piracy, and this person should go to jail.  It's
far beyond the resources of any company to stop Bob-Novice from giving a copy to his friend,
who if he were a serious user would buy a copy anyway to have a manual and support etc... But
the type of pirates above, , along with guys who advertise in the paper for 'Any ZZZ Software
for $5 Disk' are and should be prime targets of law enforcement and companies...

ROT tracks are still difficult to duplicate...and I assume would cost equal to addign a
dongle- the difference is: No inconvenience to the user...

: >Dongles are expensive to produce and the code is like a flag to the potential cracker...easy
: >to spot!

: Show me how you plan to crack the Sentinel virtual device and all the LW code that
: calls it...

...Well, while I will not openly give a detailed step-by-step 'How to crack a dongle' lesson,
I will say that after reading your followup, I looked into LW code.  It took me all of about 2
minutes to locate and isolate the Dongle-Check routine in LW and Modeler.  About 20 minutes
later I had found the calls from Layout.  Modeler is probably using imbedding subroutine
calls to call the Dongle Check, which are much more difficult to find- but not impossible...
For a 30 minute invenstment I netted quite a bit of info, and I'm quite rusty at it... I
haven't looked at other peoples protection code since my days of writing protection code for the
C=64...





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From: [e-mail] (Brad Grace)
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J Eric Chard) writes:
>
>>    I think it's insane to think that Star Wars needs new effects to
>>draw an audience nowadays.
>
>    Just as long as they get rid of that friggin' step-reverse print
>    of the guy shaking his rifle after biffing Luke.  MAN, THAT BUGS
ME!
>
You mean that Tusken Raider shaking his Gaffi stick at Luke, just
thought I would clarify that for you.

Brad

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"Gene Z. Ragan" <[e-mail]> writes:

>    This is helpful, but the resizing seems to be relative. I was hoping to
>find a way to find the absolute size of an object and then tweak it from
>there. I would like to be able to select an object and then find out
>it's size and postion.


   Are you using the Amiga LW or one of the other ones? There is an Arexx
script out in the PD that will allow you to do just what I think your trying
to do. It's called "Absolute_Position.lwm" by Nir Hermoni, Israel
[e-mail]. Hope this helps!

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From: [e-mail] (Gunnar Klauberg)
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Manuel Coats ([e-mail]) wrote:

: > I don't like the classic, but I would like to see what he's going to do.
: > Old Star Wars looks dated, and many people of the younger generation will
: > compare it to other current films, and say it's old looking as well.
: > Besides, even those of us who are against it (modifying the film) are going
: > to see it anyway to see if the effects worked or not... you know it...
: > JC

: Even though I LOVED the whole trilogy, I think this is a smart move on
: Lucas's part.  I haven't been following this "Has Mojo Gone nuts thread"
: so I don't know if this has been mentioned, but by releasing a new
: updated version, he will peak interest in a LOT of younger viewers who
: were not around or old enough when the original movies hit the theatres.
: This will make the next trilogy a very anticipated movie by all viewers,
: young and old.  It seems like what I've been reading states that he will
: only be re-doing the effects of the movie.  It would seem to me that if
: he is going to tamper with the original anyway, why not just re-shoot the
: whole thing again with new actors (similar in looks) playing the parts,
: that way these actors can be used in the next trilogy... so that you
: don't have a 50 year old Han Solo trying to play the part, unless of
: course the next trilogy is SUPPOSED to take place sometime further into
: the future where the main characters are now aged.

Well, I thought that the three episodes are part 4, 5 and 6 ... so the next
parts to shot are the first three. But sure, this is a big Problem if you
just have a look at Harrison Ford now ;-) ...anyway, any new approach to
Star Wars will result in totaly new Movies.

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From: [e-mail] (Gunnar Klauberg)
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Well, yes I want to make water or any other liquid flowing out of a tube.
I didn't try anything yet, but my approach would be to use velocity on
textures that run along a somewhat bumpy stick. It then runs over a puddle.

Any better ideas/experiences?


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Manuel Coats ([e-mail]) wrote:

CLIP
: only be re-doing the effects of the movie.  It would seem to me that if
: he is going to tamper with the original anyway, why not just re-shoot the
: whole thing again with new actors (similar in looks) playing the parts,
: that way these actors can be used in the next trilogy... so that you
: don't have a 50 year old Han Solo trying to play the part, unless of
: course the next trilogy is SUPPOSED to take place sometime further into
: the future where the main characters are now aged.
:
: Manny

Lucas' plans have always been to make nine movies (this info comes only
from what I have read. I have no inside information). The first three
were to take place in the past, when Jedi Knights were thriving, or at
least, before they became rare hermits like Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. The
next three were set in what I guess we would like to call the present,
starting with Luke's involvement with the rescue of Princess Leia, and
ending with his finding out she is his sister, and the third trilogy was
to be set in the future, and I presume the focus will be Leia's children.

The only characters that were to appear in all nine movies were C3P0 and
R2-D2. (Evidently, they are the REAL main characters.)

So reshooting the whole movie with younger actors has to be the stupidest
thing I have ever heard of.

Of course, I can't wait to see what they do with special effects for the
re-release. (Personally, I would prefer they waste no effort on remaking
what is already out there, but spend the time developing the next
trilogy. I'd much rather celebrate Star Wars' 20th anniversary with a NEW
movie, not the old one.

Sean.


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  TRy a different mouse driver..try ibm pc os/2 or a different
microsoft driver..i had to do this with adobe photoshop.

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Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
University Of California at Santa Cruz
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
Crazed LightWave'r
Oh shit, time for senior project! What 3D
program will I use? ;)
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I use 3.51 N5..no problems. How do i create this disk cache
error??

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Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
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Crazed LightWave'r
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If you have either of these for sale please email and
let me know what your looking to get for it/them.
Thanks.

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CXC

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  I am looking for a program that will convert between 3D Studio mesh objects
(even DXF) and Lightwave objects.  If you have one and/ or know where I can
get ahold of such a program PLEASE let me know.  Thanks

 Ryan


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Gary Coulter <gary1> writes:

>    This may just be me but is Lightwave lacking a method of picking
>           individual surfaces / primatives within an object once they have
>          been combined into a single layer. I often construct models and
>       later decide to modify them only to find that its impossible to
>     reselect a component within a blizzard of polygons and CVs. I guess
>    i`m just used to using Alias (where you have dag-nodes) and Real3D
>    where all the surfaces, prims and curves are represented by a
>        construction hierarchy that can be edited / modified at any point.
>    Anyone got any ideas.


   The easiest way I've found to pick out predefined surfaces is to load
the object in modeler, choose polygon at the bottom of the screen, and hit
"W" on the keyboard which will bring up the stats window. You can then
scroll through the list of surfaces and choose the "+" button beside
the "with surfaces" field. At that point you can cut, rename, or what
ever you desire. Hope this helps!

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>  I am looking for a program that will convert between 3D Studio mesh objects
>(even DXF) and Lightwave objects.  If you have one and/ or know where I can
>get ahold of such a program PLEASE let me know.  Thanks

> Ryan

DEFINITELY!!!
PLEASE let me know too!

Could Newtek maybe do some kind of FTP posting of the LIO (alias
TIO;) convertor for registered LWPreRelease owners - kind of like the way MIT
does for  PGP at their FTP site (by issuing a password that allows access to
the directory)? As I remember, John Foust posted that the translator was
finished and in NewTeks' hands.

It's a MUCH needed utility.

T.C.

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Walter J. Turberville (III) ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I was sitting here working on scene version 22 of a collaborative effort and
: it hit me that it would be nice to have the ability to embed notes into a
: scene file.  This would be useful to keep track of revisions, transmit info to
: others and just to remind yourself what you were thinking about months or
: years later.  It could be added as a button on the Scene panel. This would be
: a pretty unusual add-in, but maybe it would be worth doing that way as an
: alternative to NewTek doing it.

: Just a thought.

Why couldn't you just write yourself a text file using a simple word
processor or a notepad and keep track of your projects that way? I know
it isn't quite the same as having the notes embedded in the file itself,
but it wouldn't cause that much extra grief to keep a little text file in
the same directory, called PROJECT NOTES or something similar.

That way you could keep notes on OBJECTS in the object directory, notes
on IMAGES in the IMAGES directory, or what have you. It might take a little
discipline, but in time, you'll get used to keeping notes in the proper
directories. This way you could keep track of scene file names. I know
that by the time I've finished a complex scene there are 20 files named
"CREATURE.MOVE.TEST1" up to "CREATURE.MOVE.TEST20", and then
"CREATURE.MOVE.FINAL1" up to "CREATURE.MOVE.FINAL5" with many other names
in between. If I had just written a small text file in the directory, I'd
know that "...FINAL4" had an incorrect shadow in one corner of the set, or
that the objects I used were not the final ones, but stand-ins, etc...

Of course, I am preaching what I do not practice. I have done more than
20 TV ads with Lightwave, and I have NOT kept track of my scenes.
However, I have recently begun to do that since I have had to go back to
old scenes, and getting back into the mindset I was in when I created
them takes almost as much time as it would to re-create the scene file.

Sigh...

(But hey, if the NewTek guys want to put that in the code, well, I
support that fully!)


Sean.
(Sean Huxter)
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits)
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[e-mail] said:

>How do you model polygons which have smooth curved lines and straight
>lines? I know you can make splines, and I know you can join dots, but how
>do you make polygons which have both?

   You might try making a curve and then doing a Freeze to change it
to a polygon. Then you can go back in where you want the straight
parts and delete some points along a section of the polygon to give
you a straight section. You might have to then use Drag to get the
endpoints of the straight part where they're supposed to be.

   Or, you make small portions of the outline with disks or ovals
where you have a semi-constant rate of curvature, and then get rid of
the uneccessary points and make the polygon out of the rest.

   Or, you can always just create each point by hand. There are some
odd-ball shapes you can't do any other way.

   -Jim

James G. Jones
Nibbles & Bits
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Paolo Hutchison)
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I'm attempting to run LW4.0 on Win NT 3.50 and when I start it up, the LW
window pops up on the screen and then disappears, and when I run the
modeller it gives me an error message and refuses to run.

I have the Hardware lock drivers installed and if I run LW w/o the dongle
all together I get different messages from LW so I don't think it's the
dongle.

I have a Pentium 90, 40 meg ram and an ATI graphics card.

Help!

Thanks!

-paolo


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From: [e-mail] (Mr gloop)
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Saw Species.  ICK.  I thought that the end sequence compared unfavorably
with the Medusa sequence in Clash of the Titans.
Why use computer graphics at all for that sequence?
Very disappointing use of CGI for a supposedly 'major' film.
Richard Edlund is one of the greats . . . I wonder what happened?
Michael Berglund
Minnefex, Inc--------Specialty Props and Special Effects
"We're the Kids Your Mom Wouldn't Let You Play With."

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I recently purchased the pre-release version of Lightwave 4.0 for the
PC/ Intel Windows NT.  I apologize for this newbie question, but I have
looked all over the information provided for 4.0 and cannot seem to
find a way to import DXF or 3DS files.  Is this ability available now?
If so where do I find it?  If not available at this time will it be in
the final release?  Also I currently use trueSpace 2.0 to model my
objects(at least until I become more proficient in Modeler) and I was
wondering if there were any plans in future releases to import their
native objects.

Please don't flame!!!! Flannel undies go up in smoke with little
provocation :)

Jeff S. Haynie
Fourth Dimension Productions

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On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Stuart Ferguson wrote:

> re: digital fantasies tape
>
> I could send you a copy of my LW animation, "Titans Eternal," which will
> be shown in excerpt form in the Siggraph Electronic Theater.  It's 3:52
> with credits.  I would only only want to include it if your tape is being
> released after Siggraph, however.  Siggraph is August 7-11.  Cantact me at
> 415/493-6265 if you're interested.
>
>     - Stuart Ferguson

I don't think that would be a problem.  We will be editing approximately
the 1st week of August, then there is still the task of duplication,
sleeve art, etc.  We expect the shipping date to be August 15.  I'll give
you a call tomorrow to discuss this.  Thanks by the way!

Manny


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From: [e-mail] (kanep)
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Date: 13 Jul 1995 21:21:19 GMT
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>Yes, i've found their www page now..wow it is i think $495 for
>NT version and $81 for windows 3.1 version..hmm tempting to
>just buy yhe wiondows version...well when Windows 95 comes
>out..everything will be 32 bit and they will all have to lower
>32 bit prices.

And for $495 Black Belt _STILL_ doesn't give you a manual!!  It is all online
docs or you have to print them out!  Other than that, WinImages looks pretty
good.  Very nice fire/plasma effects.

>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
>University Of California at Santa Cruz
>Cinema/Video Major, Senior
>Crazed LightWave'r
>Oh shit, time for senior project! What 3D
>program will I use? ;)
>------------------------------------------------------------

     Kane            -------------------------------------------------
     Peterson       -- "Kane's World" World Wide Web Home Page:      --
                    -- http://www.mcs.net/~kanep/www/kanesworld.html --
     [e-mail]   -------------------------------------------------


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Wouldn't it be nice if there was a little "group" button
on the LW layout scene panel. You could shift click on some objects,
hit the group button. Then you could adjust the whole group's
motion (or have them all share one motion) or they could all have
the same envelope (for lights).  When you want to tweal the individual
ones just hit the "ungroup" button.
  I almost made an Arexx macro to do this very thing, but I could
not shift click, and it took to much saving and loading files.
(i also sold my amiga)
  Either way I think it would be a great feature, (and I don't think
it would be too hard to implement.

maybe somebody that matters reads this....

Sergio Rosas


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In article <3u07ja$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig)
>Subject: WindowsNT and NFS-mounts
>Date: 12 Jul 1995 10:19:22 GMT

>Hello!

>We just upgraded several PCs in our office to WindowsNT to run and demo
>LW on them. We now need a software-package which allows us to NFS-mount
>filesystems via Ethernet-TCP/IP from our Indys. TCP/IP-connection by
>themseleves work fine already but WinNT3.50 doesn't include a NFS-client

>Can someone help us out with a hint on this topic?

>Thanks!

Try NT NFS from Intergraph. Check their web site out at http://www.ingr.com

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In <3tsh86$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (PMshark) writes:

>
>O.K. so here's the same question asked for the hundreth millionth
time.
>Sorry, I missed the answer.
>
> When's the FINAL 4.0 LW PC going to be shipped?
>
> And, what differences from the pre-release might we expect?
>
>
>PJ
>[e-mail]
>Visual Designer
>
>"Look and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected"
>SOPHOCLES
I just purchased the pre-release for Windows NT 3.5 Intel and it is
awesome!  I spoke with a person named Dreux today at Newtek Technical
support and according to him the final release is slated to come out
mid August barring acts of GOD, war plague or pestilence.  IMHO the
pre-release rocks and I can hardly wait for completed version.

Jeff S. Haynie
Fourth Dimension Productions

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From: [e-mail] (Charles Sung Lee)
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Adam Ives Chrystie ([e-mail]) wrote:

: I use 3.51 N5..no problems. How do i create this disk cache
: error??

Hmmm, I think it was under 3.50 NT. I'm using an Alpha, and every 11 seconds or
so, Processor % on the performance monitor shoots to 100%. It is VERY irritating
when playing back previews and it probably directly impacts render times.

At least, that's what I think it is.

BTW, if you opt to get the update with manual addendum, the price is only $20.
(Still waiting for it, some people have ordered it from CDW, I ordered it from
Micro$oft Direct (800-709-3779)

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From: [e-mail]
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In article <3u4gdc$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits) writes:
> [e-mail] said:
>
>>How do you model polygons which have smooth curved lines and straight
>>lines? I know you can make splines, and I know you can join dots, but how
>>do you make polygons which have both?
>

create two points where the curve ends, make your striaght line, then create
two more points at the same position. Freeze and Merge Points...

voila!

alan Chan   :)
Vision digital



>    You might try making a curve and then doing a Freeze to change it
> to a polygon. Then you can go back in where you want the straight
> parts and delete some points along a section of the polygon to give
> you a straight section. You might have to then use Drag to get the
> endpoints of the straight part where they're supposed to be.
>
>    Or, you make small portions of the outline with disks or ovals
> where you have a semi-constant rate of curvature, and then get rid of
> the uneccessary points and make the polygon out of the rest.
>
>    Or, you can always just create each point by hand. There are some
> odd-ball shapes you can't do any other way.
>
>    -Jim
>
> James G. Jones
> Nibbles & Bits
> [e-mail]
> ___
> * UniQWK #5134*
>

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From: [e-mail] (Douglas Rudd)
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Subject: Re: cost of upgrade to PC LW 4.0
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[e-mail] (Bessman) writes:
>       Aside from tongue in cheek remarks...:)  I have heard that the
>upgrade across the platform is $600 or $700. (provided you are registered
>with newtek as an amiga user.) I heard this a while ago so all bets are
>off as to accuracy.  But, this might give you an idea....

I was offered my upgrade for $150 from 3.5 to 4.0 on the Amiga or pc. I went
with the Amiga version since I don't have a pc worth using LW on at this time
and the pc version will likely be discounted more than the Amiga version. I
wonder if the $600 figure you got is for the Toaster LW -> SA LW 4.0 upgrade?


Doug Rudd


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From: [e-mail] (Gunnar Klauberg)
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Subject: Lathe ... undocumented (?) feature
Date: 14 Jul 1995 14:40:45 GMT
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I just finnished a demo for one our customers. He was mostly interessted in
things I didn't worked with yet ... so it was quite interessting ;-)

Anyway "Lathe" has a feature which isn't documented. As we all know you can
use it for "spinning" curves around a center to make a cup or stuff like
that. Also doing only a portion of such object is possible. The difference
lies in the handling of the end. A cup has of course no ending polygons, but
a portion (spinned less than 360 degrees) has!

To my knowledge these end polygons are only omitted if the roation is
positive. That means, if the starting angle is smaller than the ending angle.
This means start of 360 and end of 0 with 16 sides gives you 17 sides
with a closing polygon on each end. In this special case you get two
antiparallel polygons on the same spot (0 degrees) and new points on
the same spot, too (which could be merged). But the feature is, that this
rotated object can be opened through what ever operation.

I guess this is a feature ... but I am not sure.

--
gunnar klauberg
[e-mail]        wer nuschelt der lügt!

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Windows NT 3.51?
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:   Well if windows NT 3.51 has 386 emulation like i've heard it does,
: than it is well worth the $89.  386 emulation would make it compatible
: with just about everything out there.  I have, however, heard that
: fractal painter and fauve mattise (or however it is spelled) Still do
: not work.  And, I've been told that Photoshop does work under 3.51.

3.51 does *not* have 386 emulation. Photoshop does not work.

JG

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:   You might want to watch TV shows like: Babylon 5, SeaQuest,
: Adventures of Herculese, New Superman series..ICK!, Mantis,
: RoboCop Series..and i think once in a while Star Trek Next
: generation has used Lightwave...those shows use lightwave. But
: as for hands on demo..you might want to call newtek and find
: the location of a dealer.

Don't forget Star Trek: Voyager. There is a lot of LightWave in there
that is hard to notice. Every Warp shot of the Voyager is completely
LightWave, for instance.

JGross
Amblin Imaging

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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
Subject: Upgrades, Trade-ups and Educational Discounts
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Here's what I've found out about upgrade offers and special deals.

    1. Stand-Alone Amiga LightWave owners can upgrade to any one
    platform of their choice for $150.  Aditional platforms are
    full price.

    2. Toaster owners can upgrade to the full 4.0 Toaster suite,
    including new switcher, CG, paint and LightWave for $550.

    3. Toaster owners can buy an additional copy of LightWave on
    any platform for $650.

    4. Owners of qualified 3D packages, including 3D Studio, can
    purchace a copy of LightWave on any platform for $650 in exchange
    for their manual cover.

    5. Educational institutions can purchance a single copy of
    LightWave for any one platform and get four additional hardware
    keys for $1300.  This get you five copies of LightWave for $260
    each.

NewTek should be contacted directly regarding any of the upgrades.
Authorized dealers can distribute educational packages.  I'm not sure
if you can get the trade up from dealers or not.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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In article <3u458f$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Hileman) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (John Hileman)
>Subject: Re: WindowsNT and NFS-mounts
>Date: 13 Jul 1995 22:03:59 GMT

> get a demo version (1 month limit) from them at ftp.process.com.

>  How much does the commercial NFS software go for?

It runs about $800.00 from Intergraph.

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In article <3u3li9$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Bessman) wrote:

>        Aside from tongue in cheek remarks...:)  I have heard that the
>upgrade across the platform is $600 or $700. (provided you are registered
>with newtek as an amiga user.) I heard this a while ago so all bets are
>off as to accuracy.  But, this might give you an idea....

They sent me a notice that I could upgrade my studio pro to lightwave
(competitive upgrade) for $750.

Shawn Joyce
[e-mail]
http://info.acm.org/~joyces/homepage.html

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From: Stefan Maehler <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Germany '95 - Alias Wavefront Usermeeting
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Alias | Wavefront Usermeeting - Einladung
             -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-


Sie sind herzlich zum 1. Alias | Wavefront User Meeting nach Wuppertal
eingeladen.
Viele Gründe haben uns bewogen, diese Veranstaltung ins Leben zu rufen:

   *  "Kommt und zeigt was Ihr macht"
   *  Kontakte zu Gleichgesinnten finden
   *  Anerkennungspreis der User Group (per Abstimmung)
   *  Ideen, Techniken und Informationsaustasch
   *  Vertraut machen/werden mit neuen Funktionen in der Software
   *  Für diejenigen, die es nicht nach LA geschafft haben: SIGGRAPH'95 News
   *  Vorstellung der neuen Software Alias | Wavefront
   *  Spaß, Spaß, und ... wieder Spaß!!! (es darf nicht steif werden)


Vorläufige User Meeting Agenda:
===============================
  Mittwoch, 20. September       Tagesthema: Einsteigen in Alias
                                ganztägiges Einführungstraining in Alias
                                (in kleinen Gruppen direkt am Computer)

  Donnerstag, 21. September     Tagesthema: Design
                                Alle Vorträge, Dsikussionen und Workshops
                                sind überwiegend auf das Thema Design
                 ausgelegt.
                                Am Abend findet die große UNITED WE PARTY
                                statt.

  Freitag, 22. September        Tagesthema: Animation
                                Alle Vorträge, Dsikussionen und Workshops
                                sind überwiegend auf das Thema Animation
                                ausgelegt.
                                (Wir sind uns natürlich dessen bewußt, daß
                                die beiden Tagesthemen sehr eng zusammen
                                gehören.)


Beitrag für das User Meeting:
=============================
       DM 100,- pro Teilnehmer

       DM 40,- für Studentische Teilnehmer
       (Kopie Studentenausweis beilegen)


Call for Presentation:
======================
Wir suchen Alias | Wavefront Anwender, die 20 - 30 Minuten über den Einsatz der
Software in der Praxis berichten und dieses anhand von Bildern und/oder Video
zeigen. Der Sprecher bekommt 50% des Veranstaltungsbetrages erlassen.

Bitte melden Sie Sich bis zum 21. Juli 1995 bei Alias Deuschland an:

    Alias | Wavefront
    z.Hd. Frau Knoop
    Karl-Weinmair-Straße 14
    80807 München

    Fax: [phone]

Ihren Beitrag überweisen Sie bitte ebenfalls bis zum 21. Juli 1995 auf
folgendes Konto:

    Konto 4407854
    Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal
    BLZ 330 500 00, Kennwort CoDe

Nach Ihrer Anmeldung erhalten Sie von uns eine Hotelliste sowie einen
Anfahrtsplan und weiter Infos.


Alias-Einfuehrungstraining
==========================
Einen Tag (20. Sept. 95) vor dem User Meeting findet ein " Einführungstraining"
statt.

Das Einführungstraining in Alias bietet die Möglichkeit, den Umgang mit
verschiedenen Grundfunktionen im Bereich Modeling, Rendering und Animation
zu erlernen.

Alle Teilnehmer arbeiten individuell am Rechner. Ein Trainingsskript in
deutscher Sprache wird jedem Teilnehmer ausgehändigt.

Die Veranstaltung findet statt am:

   o 20. September um 9:00 Uhr im
     Gebäude P.09, (Gebäde P, Ebene 09) Terminalraum 3
     Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20
   o Mittagspause 12:00 - 13:00 Uhr (belegte Brötchen und Getränke
     vorhanden)
   o Ende der Veranstaltung gegen 16:00 Uhr
   o Gebühren (kostendeckend): 500,- DM

Nähere Informationen erhalten Sie direkt bei
    Prof. Dr. Nadin Tel.: [phone]
        und
    Herrn Mähler Tel.: [phone] oder 3294 .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Göcke, Stefan Mähler


P.S.
Diese Einladung ist natürlich auch als URL verfügbar:
<A HREF="http://www.uni-wuppertal.de/Alias/usermeeting/>
     http://www.uni-wuppertal.de/Alias/usermeeting/
</A>

--
Stefan Maehler


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From: [e-mail] (PalaBart)
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Subject: Re: Bones and smoothing questions...
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Bones do influence along their whole legnth.  The problem is that ALL
bones in an object influence (to some extent) the ENTIRE object.  Soooo,
what may be happening to you is that bones that are stationary are keeping
the limb from moving the way you want it to.  Try turning on limited range
for the stationary bones (in the torso and head) and for the bone(s)
moving the limb.  This can be tricky so you'll have to experiment.

Bart Palamaro
Dark Horse Productions
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From: [e-mail] (Mark Couch)
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Subject: SLIDE OUTPUT SOURCE HELP NEEDED
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I am looking for someplace that will output my JPEG files to SLIDE. I'd
prefer BBS/modem transfer, and COD payment methods. Fast turnaround time
would be helpful too.. Any suggestions? Please e-mail me if you can help.

Marc



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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: 3DS --> Lightwave converter???
Date: 15 Jul 1995 01:40:50 GMT
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[e-mail] (Tom Coleman) wrote:
>>  I am looking for a program that will convert between 3D Studio mesh objects
>>(even DXF) and Lightwave objects.  If you have one and/ or know where I can
>>get ahold of such a program PLEASE let me know.  Thanks
>
>> Ryan
>
>DEFINITELY!!!
>PLEASE let me know too!
>
>Could Newtek maybe do some kind of FTP posting of the LIO (alias
>TIO;) convertor for registered LWPreRelease owners - kind of like the way MIT
>does for  PGP at their FTP site (by issuing a password that allows access to
>the directory)? As I remember, John Foust posted that the translator was
>finished and in NewTeks' hands.
>
>It's a MUCH needed utility.
>
>T.C.

Another reason I didn't sell my Amiga... besides the point. I wish NewTek was
upgrading LW through ftp and bbs the way they've been doing with the Flyer. They may
not realize it but it's the little stuff like image and object converters, modeler
macros etc. that get in the way of making LW PreRelease <useable>.

On to something helpful... There is one windows based utility I'm aware of that will
at least read DXF and LW, don't know if it writes either one though, TrueSpace.

I hope John Foust got a good deal with NewTek and I wish him much success with
Interchange, sounds like something the market needs very badly.

--
Darren Metcalfe
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From: [e-mail] (DanMorvec)
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Subject: Lightspeed: I got mine.
Date: 14 Jul 1995 21:45:43 -0400
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I just recieved my LIGHTSPEED video magazine today. Overall, It's a pretty
good effort.

I hope they will index future tapes with a small corner time code for
easier reference searching.


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From: [e-mail] (RememWhen)
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Subject: Re: So when?
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Well, I hope they add the ability to use a surfaces "normal" as an option
for axis selection when mapping.  It would've made a recent animation go
much smoother in the object-creation stage.  (DGMW, I love Lightwave, yet
some functions of a klunky Symbollics 3650 I used to create with seem to
solve some animating problem easier).

And a question about upgrade price for folks who recently sunk $$$ into a
full Flyer system.  Is the Amiga LW4.x to be a FREE upgrade?  [perhaps in
the form of new FLYER CD-ROM]  I keep reading about this $695.00 special
offer price and I was under the impression that if you took the jump to
"Flightspeed" with Flyer 4.x that you WOULD get Amiga LW4.x free when it's
released?

Am I wrong?  or have I just been buried in work and not been paying
attention?

Paul Tracy,
Remember When Video Services

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From: [e-mail] (John Hileman)
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     Ok.  I'm going to try to make this as simple as I can. I've asked
this question before, but I can't seem to get the results I need.

     OK...  Here is the process.

    1.  I render out a sequence of images of a human walking.  He
is walking in a 64 X 64 pixel box, and he is on black.

    2.  I bring the rendered frames into procontrol, and use adpro
to convert the images to a 256 color dpaint pallette (already created
in dpaint).

    3.  I then bring the images into dpaint as single brushes and
paste them in a 64 x 64 box.  Here is the tricky Part -->  these
brushes will be used in a game where the black will be transparent.
So, the edges around the human have to be cleaned so that there won't
be dark colored dots around the man as he walks.

    Now... Lightwave apperently blends the edges of the humanoid
in lightwave with the black background.  If the background was grey...
I would have grey colored dots around the human.

      Ok.... Things i've tried.

    1.  I've tried turning off antialiasing.  This helps, but
there are still dots.  And, the quality of the rendered man is
significantly worse without antialising.

    2.  I've tried alpha matte.  This also helped, but there were
still some dots, and at 64 X 64 every pixel counts.  The alpha
sometimes erased essential pixels that made up the picture....


    Please... Please ... HElp... I am so tired of cleaning up images.

[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
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Subject: Re: Doublespace, Stacker, etc.
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Greg L. Kimnach) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Greg L. Kimnach)
>Subject: Re: Doublespace, Stacker, etc.
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:21:07

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
>(Paul Godley) writes:
>>From: [e-mail] (Paul Godley)
>>Subject: Doublespace, Stacker, etc.
>>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 17:32:04 GMT

>>Does anyone have any input on running disk compression utilities such as
>>Doublespace or Stacker in a LW 4.0 pre, Windows WG 3.11 environment?  Any
>>data loss problems. Performance issues?

>these programs are not lossy compression schemes.  if they were, any of your
>*.exe files would not work.  so it is safe to conclude that lw generated
>models/scenes should not be affected by doublespace or stacker.  performance,
>now there is a beast of another nature.  (when i used stacker on my ibm-clone,
>i didn't notice a significant loss in performance; only a slight decrease.
>no, i don't have windows-lw, i'm an amy/toaster/flyer user)

>hope this helps....

>greg

The version of DoubleSpace that came with MS-DOS 6.0 caused some problems when
used in conjuction with SmartDrive.  However, the general concept has been
very safe in my personal experience.  I have been using some type of disk
compression on different machines for the last three years.  I use a PC that
has used DR-DOS 6.0's Superstor program for about three years now and no
problems.  I run DoubleSpace on my portable because disk drives for
it are relatively expensive.  Depending on the particulars, I/O can actually
improve with compression software.  The fact that processors are much faster
than disks makes this possible.  A compressed disk can be read faster, because
the read pulls fewer physical bytes.  Real world experience for most people is
that the performance is about the same.

Do a defrag and a scandisk before compressing a disk.

Always back-up.  You should be doing this anyway.

Don't compress until you start to get low on drive space.  The software
drivers take up precious DOS upper memory.

Drives are cheaper than two or three years ago.  If you aren't comfortable
using the technology, buy extra drives instead.
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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
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Subject: Re: Notes in Scene Files?
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In article <3u20hr$[e-mail]> sean@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Sean Huxter) writes:
>From: sean@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Sean Huxter)
>Subject: Re: Notes in Scene Files?
>Date: 13 Jul 1995 02:31:23 GMT

>Walter J. Turberville (III) ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: I was sitting here working on scene version 22 of a collaborative effort and
>: it hit me that it would be nice to have the ability to embed notes into a
>: scene file.  This would be useful to keep track of revisions, transmit info to
>: others and just to remind yourself what you were thinking about months or
>: years later.  It could be added as a button on the Scene panel. This would be
>: a pretty unusual add-in, but maybe it would be worth doing that way as an
>: alternative to NewTek doing it.

>: Just a thought.

>Why couldn't you just write yourself a text file using a simple word
>processor or a notepad and keep track of your projects that way? I know
>it isn't quite the same as having the notes embedded in the file itself,
>but it wouldn't cause that much extra grief to keep a little text file in
>the same directory, called PROJECT NOTES or something similar.

You could and in fact, that is what I did shortly after my post.  It is purely
a matter of user convenience and portability.  BTW, for those of you using
Notepad in Windows, if you put  .LOG  as the first line of text in a text file
and open it in Notepad, Notepad will time and date stamp it each time you open
it.  This can be useful for log/journal entries.

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Subject: Re: LW 4 Pre Surface Properties
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In article <3u3dpc$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (GrPatton) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (GrPatton)
>Subject: LW 4 Pre Surface Properties
>Date: 13 Jul 1995 11:23:24 -0400

>Is their a way to copy properties from one surface to another in Layout?

>Gregg P.

I don't know of a direct way, but I just save the "source" surface as
temp.srf, select the "target" surface, and then do a load surface (it will
default to the surface you just saved.)  It isn't as quick as a copy, but it
is still pretty quick and simple.  I just keep re-using and overwriting
temp.srf as needed.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
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Subject: Re: Star Wars
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In article <3u3goi$[e-mail]> Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Star Wars
>Date: 13 Jul 1995 16:14:10 GMT

>[e-mail] (Fred Tepper ) wrote:

>>And hey, why not go in and add motion blur to all the Harryhausen
>>films.

>Speaking of Harryhausen, has anyone wasted $ on Species yet? Pretty bad
>movie. The monster effects (Giger) though, are very reminiscent of
>Harryhausen, looks and moves like Medusa on (more) drugs. Although, at
>least you could actually >see< the monsters in Sinbad. All this dark,
>shadowy, foggy crap gets on my nerves. I'm sure it's supposed to.

>--
>Darren Metcalfe
>[e-mail]

Saw it.  It has two redeaming features.  The "hitman's" lines were pretty
funny at times and while the nudity was admittedly gratuitous, it was at
least well cast.



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From: Morgan Price <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LW 4 Pre Surface Properties
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[e-mail] (GrPatton) wrote:
>Is their a way to copy properties from one surface to another in Layout?
>
>Gregg P.


You have to save the texture and reload it into another surface.
Lightwave makes this easy as the last surface you saved/ loaded is
already there when you re-load it.  I use an "s" as a temporary surface
for that (saves getting lots of copies of old surfaces in my surface
directory).

I would be nice, though, if you could just double-click on one of the
surface spheres and have it insert its surface parameters into the
cureent surface (hint, hint)

Morgan Price
Priceless Productions
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (TheTruth)
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In article <[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Paul Godley) wrote:
>Does anyone have any input on running disk compression utilities such as
>Doublespace or Stacker in a LW 4.0 pre, Windows WG 3.11 environment?  Any
>data loss problems. Performance issues?
>

Stacker and Doublespace (Drivespace) are nutorious for buggy data storage.  I
never had a problem running the original MS release of Doublespace with DOS
6.0, but I knew alot of people who did.  Generally, if disk compression
routines screw up, they screw up big.  If they don't screw up, the most you'll
see is a fairly decent chunk of memory dedicated to their drivers.

With the falling prices of hard drive storage, your probably better off just
buying a small drive.  Doublespace, in actuality, will only give yopu about
30% more space.  That same amount of space (say ~350Mb for a 1Gb drive for
example) can be picked up for less than $100 mail order.

Brian
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I am selling my amiga PAR, 1 git HD and TBC IV $2000

e-mail if interseted

thanks, Mike


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From: [e-mail] (Frank Aalbers)
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Subject: Preview and memory problems
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The LW4.0 Prerelease on my Pentium 120 and Stealth 64 2Mb VRAM has a
problem with previews . In a 256 color mode it will not show the preview ,
if you go to another mode with more colors than 256 it works OK but I can
only make previews of maximum 100 frames .

Is this problem going to be solved with the prerelease version ?

I use W3.11 for workgroups and got 32 Meg .

In the scene-screen I have 21 Meg RAM of working memory . When I start a
scene that can render on a A4000 with 16 Meg , the PC starts to swap like
hell . Why is that if I got 21 Meg left ?

I just began to work on a PC . That's why all these questions . :-)

Thanks in advance .

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From: Angelito So <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LW - WinNT - Problems
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Hi there,
        I have this problem too. I have a p90 with 32 megs of ram but am
running win95 beta (build 490). I tried insalling both the windows3.1 verion
of light wave and the NT version. I can't load the NT drivers for the
dongle. The dongle is installed correctly. I am pretty sure it is not win95
because I tried installing LW on my 486-33 with 20 megs of ram, running
windows for workgroups 3.11 ang get the same results as I get with win95.
        Basically when I run modeler win95 says the program has done an
illegal instruction and terminates the program. LW on the otherhand brings
up a window and then closes it immediately.
        I tried the NewTek Support BBS and found nothing to help me get this
thing working. Please Help!!!!
                                -Lito-
                                [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Paolo Hutchison) wrote:
>I'm attempting to run LW4.0 on Win NT 3.50 and when I start it up, the LW
>window pops up on the screen and then disappears, and when I run the
>modeller it gives me an error message and refuses to run.
>
>I have the Hardware lock drivers installed and if I run LW w/o the dongle
>all together I get different messages from LW so I don't think it's the
>dongle.
>
>I have a Pentium 90, 40 meg ram and an ATI graphics card.
>
>Help!
>
>Thanks!
>
>-paolo
>



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From: [e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Animating an "infinity" symbol...
Date: 15 Jul 1995 10:19:21 -0600
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>>Help! Could someone suggest a way to animate a film strip (ribbon) moving
>>in the shape of an infinity symbol ( figure eight )...
>
>You'll have to make a film strip object first with MANY vertical segments
>(Y axis) and then tripled.  This is the object you will map a texture
on.
>Save it.
>
>The tricky part now is to BEND and TWIST this object into a figure 8 loop,
>but thru much trail and error and reloading the original flat object or
>successive saved stages, you'll soon have what you need.
> ...etc...

   Here's something that makes creating these type of morph targets a bit
easier: Rail Extrude a 2-point polygon (for the example of a film strip)
along a curve to create your morph target. Then do a normal (straight)
extrude of another two-point polygon with the *SAME NUMBER OF SEGMENTS*.
   Strangely enough, the two objects will morph just fine. Saves all that
bending and twisting jazz. :)
   This also works for normal polygons with more than 2 points, of course.

   Some pitiful ascii-art illustrating the idea:

   *       _______
   |      /       \ <- curve  ______\
   |_____/         \         /      /       = Rail Extrude (Morph Target)
   |                \_______/                 (Or Multiple Rail Extrude)
   |
   * <- 2-point poly

   *
   |
   |________________________________\       = Normal Extrude (Source Object)
   |      (Direction of extrude)    /         (same # of segments)
   |
   * <- another 2-point poly

   -Jim
   James G. Jones
   Nibbles & Bits
   [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Subject: F/A-18 Hornet model
Date: 15 Jul 1995 16:48:50 GMT
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I've just posted the F/A-18 Hornet model that folks had been asking for
to the tomahawk site. It's currently in /LW/incoming/objects but I assume
it'll be moved to the regular objects directory soon.

The filename is fa18.zip

If you can't get it from tomhawk the pleas e-mail me and we'll arrange to
get it to you some other way.

Enjoy!

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]


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From: Manuel Coats <[e-mail]>
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On 11 Jul 1995, Lloyd Eldred wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>      Those of you who get LWPro may have seen my article on exploding
> shockwaves (a.k.a. the Praxis explosion from Trek 6) in the current issue.
> You probably will need to have read it for the rest of this message to
> make any sense.
>      I have a question about something the editors added to the end of the
> article. Effectively it said that instead of breaking the ring into
> 10 or more radial elements, each with its own surface settings that
> vary, one could use Texture falloff.

That initial setup of your shockwave seemed corret enough.  Some while
ago I saw a neato shock wave on a demo tape and then re-created my own.
Instead of selecting layers though (which is time consuming and
unneccesary) is to use falloff percentages and change your texture center
so that the shock wave starts off bright and almost solid looking (High
energy) at the beginning and then fades out to black on the inner ring.
You can even add a 2nd thinner ring and parent that to the 1st ring  as a
trailer type shock which looks pretty good.

To be fair, I saw the original shockwave on Dean Scotts demo tape and I
then went on to modify it from there.  You can see Dean's Demo tape in
it's entirety by picking up Lightspeed #2 (in about 3 weeks).  I don't
know if this would just be plain repetitive, but if enough people were
interested we could throw a short blurb (tutorial) in issue #4 on
creating a really nice high end looking shockwave with a few twists.

Take Care,

Manuel Coats
LIGHTSPEED
(orders) 800-764-8696 or 805-726-3545


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From: Joe Clasen <surfrjoe@deltanet>
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Subject: VTU Article Suggestions
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We are researching an article for VTU about getting started in the
animation business. We are asking Lightwave Luminaries like yourself to
respond to the following questions:
1) What one piece of advice would you give to someone just starting out
as a  Lightwave animator?
2) How did you get started doing animation?

If you could, please respond to one or both of the questions. If you
would be willing to be interviewed by telephone please Email me. This
article will appear in the November issue of VTU. Thanks very much!



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From: Colin Cunningham <[e-mail]>
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When I was at Robocop: The Series about a YEAR ago, our version of Lightwave
had the glow function. I don't see what the big problem with it is.

--
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Colin Cunningham                             EMail: [e-mail]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures           HTTP://www.coredp.com/index.html
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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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Subject: Re: The New perception card.
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On 17-Jul-95 12:38:06, Stranahan ([e-mail]) wrote:

> Well, I'm guessing (pure speculation, frankly...I've not talked to the
> people I know at DPS about this) that the idea was that were already a
> ton of cheap (+-$300) CD quality audio boards with all kinds of neat
> bells and whistles. There was also software for editing like Premiere
> and Razor. The PVR fills the gap by providing the video I/O for a
> non-linear system.

> _____________________________________________
> Lee Stranahan

At the DPS booth at NAB, they were recommending the Turtle Beach card as
being a good choice since it had options to lock the audio very accurately
to the PVR video. The Razor demonstration was using the T.B. card. They
said it will work with other sound boards, but some of the cheaper ones
would not lock well to the video.

Didn't get away from your demo station in the booth too much, eh? One of
the disadvantages of _working_ vs _attending_ the show, I guess... ;-)

JC


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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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On 14-Jul-95 11:34:28, pilot ([e-mail]) wrote:

> In article <3u458f$[e-mail]> [e-mail]
> (John Hileman) writes:
>>From: [e-mail] (John Hileman)
>>Subject: Re: WindowsNT and NFS-mounts
>>Date: 13 Jul 1995 22:03:59 GMT

>> get a demo version (1 month limit) from them at ftp.process.com.

>>  How much does the commercial NFS software go for?

> It runs about $800.00 from Intergraph.

Ugh. I'll stick to ftp, then. Using DaFTP on the Amiga to handle the
transfers is pretty easy, it's a 100% graphical ftp client.

Anyone know of a GUI ftp client that will run on an Alpha/NT? I
tried a Windows client that actually worked, but refused to show more than
8.3 filenames, so it was useless under NT.

JC


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From: sean@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Sean Huxter)
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John Gross ([e-mail]) wrote:
: : Why couldn't you just write yourself a text file using a simple word
: : processor or a notepad and keep track of your projects that way? I know
: : it isn't quite the same as having the notes embedded in the file itself,
: : but it wouldn't cause that much extra grief to keep a little text file in
: : the same directory, called PROJECT NOTES or something similar.

: Much better idea IMHO, as you do not have to open every
: object/scene/image file to read your nots. BTW, when working on
: productions where the client is making changes, keeping notes on the
: scenes, etc. is damn near mandatory, for when they go back to earlier
: versions.

: JG
: (FWIW, I like keeping my notes in a real notebook)

Yes. I start a new lined pad with each project, and anything, (and I mean
ANYTHING, including doodles, phone numbers, ANYTHING) that I think of
while I'm doing that project, goes into that pad. Then the pad gets
stored in the file folder for that job. Sure makes it easier to regain
the mindset.

Sean.
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From: [e-mail] (Chris Hartt)
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Bill Boyce writes:

>I purchase an early version of sparks, and it never worked (claimed LW
wasn't >running).
>$200 down the tubes. Does anyone know where I can get an upgrade? I know
it >has changed
>hands but to who, where, and is it worth having??



Nope it never did work because newtek changed the pointer location for the
AREXX port...  so Tim had to recode SPARKS a little so that it did work...
he explained this to me when I phoned him...  That's what you should do, if
you version doesn't work I'm sure that Tim will upgrade you version of
SPARKS to one that works at no cost... he did for me :)

Chris

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Hartt)
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Bob writes:

>I have a NTSC Personal Animation Recorder for the PC made by DPS
>It has Beta CAM,SVHS and composite outputs.
>Pars are being used to output animation for Babylon 5, Hercules,
>and SeaQuest.

Ummm... no... these shows use the PAR boards for play testing... PAR is not
broadcast quality... I own one and the production houses in Vancouver,
Canada, all use digital betacam with Avid or something similar... they will
laugh at you if try and compete with them with a PAR!

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From: Dan Ablan <[e-mail]>
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[e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III)) wrote:
>I have had few problems moving scene files from the Amiga to the PC.
>However, when I recently went the other way (PC to Amiga), I had significant
>problems.  It appears that the problem is caused by the different way that the
>PC and the Amiga handle ends-of-lines in scene files.  When I load a PC scene
>file on the Amiga I end up with a little "box" character (I'm assuming its a
>LF or CR) on lights and null-objects.  This does not go away after saving the
>scene on the Amiga.  In fact, when the scene is reloaded, it seems to cause
>problems with parenting and I am getting a "infinite parenting loop" error
>that did not exist previously.  It seems like I need a simple utility (AREXX
>script?) to search and replace the correct ends-of-line.  Any ideas?  Any
>similar experiences?
>





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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Perception and Audio News Flash
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OK, just to show that I WAS purely speculating....I was wrong about DPS
letting the cheap third party boards handle audio.  DPS has new ads out
showing THEIR audio solution, which has four stereo pairs of audio out, is
-designed- to work with video (and the PVR), and will cost about $1000.


_____________________________________________
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From: [e-mail] (DScott5663)
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Subject: Re: Lens Flare ?
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(Dan Bloomfield)  writes:

>Turn off the cast shadows attribute of the dome lens while making sure
>the reflector has cast shadows turned on. Objects with cast shadows
>turned off will have lens flares shine through them even when you have
>fade behind object turned on, which is what you would want in this case
>rather than glow behind object which works independent of shadow casting
>options.

Thanks, Dan.  JG suggested Fade Behind, too.  I was able to get the effect
I was after by moving the flares outside the dome and making manual
motions
and envelopes to get them to parallax align with the rotating inner
reflectors.

Appears to be the hard way, but I didn't know that the shadow buttons had
any
effect except when trace and/or shadow maps are used, which this anim did
not
have.

Dean

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From: [e-mail] (Dan Bloomfield)
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-> >This may just be me but is Lightwave lacking a method of picking >
->     individual surfaces / primatives within an object once they have
-> >      been combined into a single layer. I often construct models
-> and >   later decide to modify them only to find that its impossible
-> to > reselect a component within a blizzard of polygons and CVs. I
-> guess >i`m just used to using Alias (where you have dag-nodes) and
-> Real3D >where all the surfaces, prims and curves are represented by a
-> >        construction hierarchy that can be edited / modified at any
-> point. >Anyone got any ideas.
->
-> The easiest way I've found to pick out predefined surfaces is to load
-> the object in modeler, choose polygon at the bottom of the screen,
-> and hit "W" on the keyboard which will bring up the stats window. You
-> can then scroll through the list of surfaces and choose the "+"
-> button beside the "with surfaces" field. At that point you can cut,
-> rename, or what ever you desire. Hope this helps!
In earlier Amiga versions of Modeler holding down the alt-key while
doing a save as would save all layers as they currently existed. The
resulting object could be re-loaded into it's original layers, but not
into Layout. This feature is missing from the pre-release 4.0, but will
hopefully re-surface with the release version.

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From: [e-mail] (Gunnar Klauberg)
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Subject: Re: DPS Perception
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[e-mail] wrote:
: Does anybody know what RGB images it imports/exports?

As the FAQ says TGA, BMP, SGI, ILBM ... didn't tried yet ;-(

: Is the NT software available yet?

Nop.

: What drives are recommended?

Micropolis AV's

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From: [e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie)
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Any LightWave users in Santa Cruz, California?
Please email me if so.

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From: Des McPherson <des_mcpherson@cl_63smtp_gw.chinalake.navy.mil>
Subject: Alpha->A2000 HD Question
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We are puchasing a Flyer and Alpha and would like to render on the Alpha
and port the files over to the Flyer.  The current plan is to use
removable hard drives and just move them back and forth.  The question
is, can an A2000 recognize a hard drive that was formatted on an Alpha(I
would assume it would be FAT).  Is there software drivers for the A2000
that can read such a formatted SCSI disk, or is another solution more
practical.

Thanks in advance,
Des



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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Chris Hartt) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Chris Hartt)
>Subject: Re:*********** For Sale Personal Animation Recorder for PC..
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:57:54 -0700


>Bob writes:

>>I have a NTSC Personal Animation Recorder for the PC made by DPS
>>It has Beta CAM,SVHS and composite outputs.
>>Pars are being used to output animation for Babylon 5, Hercules,
>>and SeaQuest.

>Ummm... no... these shows use the PAR boards for play testing... PAR is not
>broadcast quality... I own one and the production houses in Vancouver,
>Canada, all use digital betacam with Avid or something similar... they will
>laugh at you if try and compete with them with a PAR!

Yes - its the age old issue of what is or isn't broadcast quality.  I'm sure I
have read where the PAR has been used for final output that was broadcast
nationally.  I have also read that you are correct that the PAR is not used
for final output on the above series but are used for testing.  Broadcast
quality from a signal standpoint is (someone correct me if I goof)
quantifiable with electrical signal standards.  From an image standpoint (how
much JPEG artifacting is OK for instance), however, it is very subjective and
not quantifiable.  I think the PAR is up to the task from a signal standpoint.
 The image quality varies significantly enough that there are varying opinions
on whether the actually image is acceptable.  I have found that the various
NTSC specific composite artifacts tend to hide many (though not all) of the
PAR's shortcomings.  Stuff that is VERY obvious when monitored using Y/C and
especially Component outputs becomes obscured when viewed as composite output.
Everything broadcast today becomes composite at some time before broadcast.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.

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If you have CygnusEd, you have another option:  replace carriage return
characters with nothing.  Enter Ctrl-Amiga-M in the first field of the
replace requester, and leave the second field empty.

- Ernie


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: I've heard so much conflicting info on glows.  First it's in, then it's a
: plugin, then it's in again, then it's a plugin.  What is the problem?
: Certainly people want glows.  I know personally I am sick of trying to
: find ways to simulate glows with flares and other tricks.
: Plus, it seems as though Foundation and Amblin are already using glows
: and haven't had any problem with them.

OK, here it is.... Glows were originally added as a "plug-in test", Since
the PI architecture wasn't completely there, Allen hard wired glows in.
(Sure came in handy for the Voayger nacelles!). Glows were taken out of
the pre-release version, because they were intended to be placed in teh
plug-in pop-ups since they really are a plug-in. NewTek has decided,
however, to place them back out on the interface since they are cool and
for whatever reasons they have. Yes, Glows do take time, but on fast
machines it's not so bad. Surface Glow will be part of the deal for the
shipping versions.

JG

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-> And a question about upgrade price for folks who recently sunk $$$
-> into a full Flyer system.  Is the Amiga LW4.x to be a FREE upgrade?
-> [perhaps in the form of new FLYER CD-ROM]  I keep reading about this
-> $695.00 special offer price and I was under the impression that if
-> you took the jump to "Flightspeed" with Flyer 4.x that you WOULD get
-> Amiga LW4.x free when it's released?
Yes LW 4.0 is a free upgrade for Flyer owners, assuming you can wait
long enough for it to be released.

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Des McPherson (des_mcpherson@cl_63smtp_gw.chinalake.navy.mil) wrote:
: We are puchasing a Flyer and Alpha and would like to render on the Alpha
: and port the files over to the Flyer.  The current plan is to use
: removable hard drives and just move them back and forth.  The question
: is, can an A2000 recognize a hard drive that was formatted on an Alpha(I
: would assume it would be FAT).  Is there software drivers for the A2000
: that can read such a formatted SCSI disk, or is another solution more
: practical.

: Thanks in advance,
: Des

Why not just network the two. Thats what I've done between my Alpha and
my Amigas, a MAC, and a Pentium.

Dave



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From: [e-mail] (TRANCE 360)
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Subject: Need a model of an SL-1200
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if you have a model of a technices sl-1200 turn table or know where one is
i would most appreciate it, thanx.

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From: [e-mail] (J Eric Chard)
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Lee wrote:
>OK, just to show that I WAS purely speculating....I was wrong about DPS
>letting the cheap third party boards handle audio.  DPS has new ads out
>showing THEIR audio solution, which has four stereo pairs of audio out, is
>-designed- to work with video (and the PVR), and will cost about $1000.


    YOUCH!   I just KNEW I hated audio!



>Lee Stranahan
>

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>
>Bob writes:
>
>>I have a NTSC Personal Animation Recorder for the PC made by DPS
>>It has Beta CAM,SVHS and composite outputs.
>>Pars are being used to output animation for Babylon 5, Hercules,
>>and SeaQuest.
>
>Ummm... no... these shows use the PAR boards for play testing... PAR is not
>broadcast quality... I own one and the production houses in Vancouver,
>Canada, all use digital betacam with Avid or something similar... they will
>laugh at you if try and compete with them with a PAR!


    I don't care if they laugh, as long as they fork over the dough.

    While the PAR is not a perfect solution, since it does exhibit
    significant JPEG artifacting in certain circumstances, the fact is
    I've always been able to avoid those circumstances, and my clients
    have been very pleased, and the post houses very impressed.

    Digital betacam is still pretty rare around here.  I'm surprised to
    hear it is so prevalent to the north.

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From: [e-mail] (John Aquilina)
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Ernie Wright ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Jay Turberville wrote:

: > I am curious if Visual Basic can be used to make plug-ins for LW.

: No.  VB can't be used to make dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), which is
: what plug-ins are under Windows.  But it should be possible to write
: plug-ins (in C) that can be called by VB programs.  Obviously this isn't
: something many casual VB programmers will want to tackle.

: - Ernie

I believe there is a product called Visual DLL that allows you to create
DLLs from Visual Basic as well as EXE files.  I think it is supplied by
the company of the same name.

John
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From: [e-mail] (TRANCE 360)
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does anyone know of any ftp sites that have macros for modeler.
If you have a toaster and a way to output your anims I have some arexx
scripts to generate some twisted animation using toasterpaint. e-mail to
[e-mail]




                 [e-mail]




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are there any of you out there???

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
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: : And hey, while we're repeating old information...it does appear that all
: : versions of LightWave 4.0 will include a Render Only version for people with
: : more than one machine...these Render Only programs will only work on

: I've heard enough conflicting information on this issue than I can
: process.  I wish I knew for certain what the deal was on this because it
: will certainly help determine whether I stick with the Amiga (and go with
: my 2 machines) or go with 1 faster clone (since multiple licenses to
: render on multiple machines is not cost-effective).

Here's the poop (AFAIK BTW)...
Every version of 4.0 will ship with a stand alone ScreamerNet render
program that can be controlled by the Copy of LightWave. LW can run
either original ScreamerNet or the new improved ScreamerNet II. Orig SN
is designed for backwards compatability with render engines that are
networked and do not share any drives. This mode, however is really
outdated by SNII which will work on any computers that can share drives
and is much preferred because the nodes load and save scenes directly to
shared drives rather than ftp'ing through the Amiga control machine.

If you buy the Amiga version of 4.0, you receive the Amiga render node,
Buy the Intel version and receive the Intel node, etc. You can run the
ScreamerNet render software on up to 1000 machines, all controlled by
one machine running one copy of LightWave.

ScreamerNet control is open to third party, so you can have a program
that could control a render farm and not have to worry about tying up the
one version of LW you have.

Cool Tip: You can run SN on a single machine and batch render LW scenes.

That's the twuth thwwpppppppp

JG


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: >I have had few problems moving scene files from the Amiga to the PC.
: >However, when I recently went the other way (PC to Amiga), I had
: >significant problems.  It appears that the problem is caused by the
: >different way that the PC and the Amiga handle ends-of-lines in scene
: >files.
:
:    There may be other, better, solutions, but I've been using a
: shareware text editor called "Textra" to load each PC scene and save
: it with the proper Amiga end-o-lines. (It has a button allowing you to
: save a file as either Amiga-formatted or PC-formatted.)
:    Since I've started doing this, all my scenes load OK on the Amiga.
:    Textra is around most ftp archives... I think I saw it on wustl for
: example.

If you have CED, there is an option to Strip the CR in the block of
selected text. Select all and do this, and it is fixed...

JG

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From: [e-mail] (Candyman)
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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

>We are researching an article for VTU about getting started in the
>animation business. We are asking Lightwave Luminaries like yourself to
>respond to the following questions:
>1) What one piece of advice would you give to someone just starting out
>as a  Lightwave animator?
>2) How did you get started doing animation?

>If you could, please respond to one or both of the questions. If you
>would be willing to be interviewed by telephone please Email me. This
>article will appear in the November issue of VTU. Thanks very much!



  1. Buy a very good coffee machine *8-)


  2. Buy a box and start workin.


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I know that DPS, has made conversion utilities for   .AVI files to play on the
PAR.   My question is how does the PAR deal with the sound in my .AVI files?
Does it somehow interface with my soundblaster, and play back the sound
as it plays the animation?    Or does it just simply ingnore the sound?
Same question for the Perception.
  (by the way i'm not talking about captured video w/ sound, instead just
cgi animations w/ soundtracks)

Sergio Rosas


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  To get the size of your object..

go to a surfaces menu..click on texture map..like planar

click on automatic sizeing..

now look at texture size and texture center..this should be the
dimensions of your object and it's center point..(which is
determined in modeler when you save the object)

Distances are measured in Meters in Layout.

I'd love to help with the rest..but i am no layout guru
yet..then again..I'm no modeler guru..Hmmmm BONK!




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In article <3uj4qm$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael B.
Comet) writes:

>I am setting up textures on my objects and am trying to
>figure out sizes for the textures etc..etc...  ie: How long of
>a falloff I need for certain textures to have them fade across
>the length of the object.  Is there some easy way to get size
>information?

Whysoytanly!

For the desired surface, simply go into any of the attribute channel
Texture panels (T button) and the default texture type will be Planar.
Now just click on the Automatic Size button and then the Texture
Size button (after saying OK to the auto size warning msg) and
write down the EXACT size in meters of that surface and use them
to do the calcs.  Then just click on Remove Texture to exit the
panel so that it is left active for that surface.  Now this assumes
that the surface extends the length of the object.  If it only occupies
a couple polys in the middle or end of the object, for instance, then
only that portion of the object will be measured.  Also, if a sruface is
a semi-circular ring of polys, then the Auto Size under Cylinder Mapping
will return dimensions as if the ring were complete, IOW the diameter
of an arc segment.

Dean

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I have a 32 meg 60 ns. simm from H Co. lifetime warranty for sale.
Perfect for Warp Engine or Pentium system.

WAVELENGTH
1050 E. Southern Ave. F-5
Tempe, Az. 85282
602-967-4344
Web page: www.primenet.com/~pilot

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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

 Hmm always seem to get caught by the little thing.. I was going to add a
p100 to my existing setup..had to do some renders for a deadline so I
bought it and installed it in a buds pentium..good investment right?

Dunno, after deciding to go with an Alpha and dropping all my cash I think
hmm not really optimized code is it? now I have doubts as to whether the
intel pre release will run on my coming alpha ...


If NOT and I am boned, are there any dealers out there who can give a good
tradeup/in price on the alpha version? Again as I am running a deadline
(are not we all?) doing the hopefully unneeded trade out ASAP is hoped
for.





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iiOn 18 Jul 1995, Candyman wrote:

>                   From the jumbled mind of the Candyman
>
>     Since there are safe area views for pretty much everything from
> the camera to the fog radius, etc.. why not one that would show the area
> of influence a bone exhurts..that would speed up the  process for me
> anyway
>
>
I'll add my name to that request.

Steve Nevins


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From: [e-mail] (hardbyte/mystic)
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hello guys.

i'm searching for people who want to write articles about lightwave.
like tutorials how to use the modeler or the layout itself.
also stuff like hints & tips.

so please let me know if you are intrested it's for a magazine called
'SCENE TALK' it's a diskmagazine.(some of you know it!!)

ok let me know if you are intested in writeing somthing

write it to:       [e-mail]

thnx again and cu l8er!



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We need computer literate people that want to make money running Demo Seminars
for our  NEW 3D GRAPHICS MODELING software.   Must be a self starter, you work
from your
own office.

We provide 1 week of free trainning at our office in Westlake Village, Ca.

We will help you with your office expenses up to $500/month.

We will provide you with leads, leads, leads,  more than you really want.
We run ads in your local newspaper.   We provide $1000/month ad budget.

You put on Demos 3 nights/week and all day saturday.  You will make $3k
-$5K/month.

You must have a 486-66 with 8meg of ram and a SVGA monitor, laser printer and
modem..

THERE IS NO INVESTMENT ON YOUR PART.  JUST A WEEK OF YOUR TIME.
AT THE END OF OUR TRAINING PROGRAM, WE PROVIDE YOU WITH $4K IN
INVENTORY.

For more info:

email: [e-mail]
http://www.webcom.com/~3d-art/

or Call Kevin McLaine
3RD Dimension Technologies, Inc.
818-865-8210 for a FREE Video Tape of an actual seminar.


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 I recently started a small animation business and invested in a p90
lightwave which I operate out of my home. I have been allowed "until
recently" to download the frames through my tape backup into a video
toaster at work and from there single frame them to betacam sp.
Because of a political situation at work I am no longer allowed to
put my personal animations to tape at work. I am looking for some alternatives.
I have seen ads for companies who will take rendered data and put it to tape.
However I cant seem to find one. Can anybody recommend such place and
how much would a fair cost be? What type of storage medium would I have
to buy? Right now I have just been using a  portable Colorado 250 tape backup.
I know a lot of people use exabyte drives but that is way out of my league.
What about a zip drive?
 thanks for any info you may give

Brad Prosise

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I need a TBC IV.
Thanks,
 John

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I can send you some cool images that have been printed in Video Toaster
User, and Amiga World, if you're interested.........

Tell me where to ftp/e-mail the files...

Thanks,
Erik Flom - ELF Works 3D construction Co.

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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

>:     Since there are safe area views for pretty much everything from
>: the camera to the fog radius, etc.. why not one that would show the area
>: of influence a bone exhurts..that would speed up the  process for me
>: anyway

>OK. You got it.

>JG


  not yet, not for this project..btw is it just me on this one..I have
parented my goal in the IK setup to another object..once I do this the IK
doesn't take effect unless I actually move the goal and then the ik setup
snaps to it..still saving time but there is a lot more keyframe making
than one would like out of IK...


       Those who perceive the as yet unnamed,are Vagabonds.


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From: [e-mail] (Candyman)
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Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 19:32:44 GMT
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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

>Here is my problem:
>I have 2 Amiga 3.5 stand alones. Now it is time to upgrade to 4.0 and time
>be able to render FASTER than on the Warped Amigas. The delema is that we
>also considered selling every thing to get one or two Alpha machines. We
>could upgrade to Alpha and continue to use the 3.5 on the Amigas `til we sell
>them, then set up the Alpha . AAHHHHHH! I wish NewTek had not put a time
>limit on this upgrade deal. The timing isn't right for us. Should I go for
>the Intel, get a slight speed increase at the expense of massive amounts of
>MS induced stress or Get the Alpha version, wait, then suffer MS induce

>soothed by an ultra-geewiz 61124 processor; Or, get the Amiga 4.0 and
>to work in comfortable (but not as screamming fast) Amiga-Land?


>Thank you for your thoughts.


>-Aaron


   hmm just to let u know that your not alone ..recently I went through a
similar dilemma..after lots of searching and non sleep. I decided to keep
the we amiga and sell off the toaster card and tbc iv..as for what I added
well lets just say IMHO that going alpha over intel is the way to
go..64bit all the way accross with room to upgrade to the speed all
animators need/want as soon as they can afford...btw talk to the people at
Terraclipse..Mike, Michelle and Don are all animators and know what our
needs are ..the price on their 166Mhz alpha workstation is comperable to a
P100 yet the performance smokes it..n e way good luck





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From: [e-mail] (Candyman)
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Subject: Never send out your work
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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

> I recently started a small animation business and invested in a p90
>lightwave which I operate out of my home. I have been allowed "until
>recently" to download the frames through my tape backup into a video
>toaster at work and from there single frame them to betacam sp.
>Because of a political situation at work I am no longer allowed to
>put my personal animations to tape at work. I am looking for some
>I have seen ads for companies who will take rendered data and put it to tape.
>However I cant seem to find one. Can anybody recommend such place and  how
>much would a fair cost be? What type of storage medium would I have to buy?
>Right now I have just been using a  portable Colorado 250 tape I know a lot
>of people use exabyte drives but that is way out of my league.  What about a
>zip drive?
> thanks for any info you may give

>Brad Prosise

         IMHO NEVER send out your work..not only depending on client
confidentiality issues there is the copyright deal..Face it cpyright laws
are heinously lacking in this area and the whole issue of this was done
with LW versus 3ds (i.e the viper arguement etc..)..As far as putting your
anims to tape looking at a par or perception would be better than sweet
talking someone with an Sp deck into doing oh 1000 or so edits per deal.:)

    For now if you are in a pinch you may also try to rent non linear
suite time and do the file conversion to a playable anim on whatever
format.downside is you would be paying suite time just to do the
conversion and digitize.

       Those who perceive the as yet unnamed,are Vagabonds.


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Stranahan ([e-mail]) wrote:
: The Amiga is probably comfortable to you because it is familiar, and the
: fun world of PCs is less familiar. I'd suggest getting familiar with the
: PC - they suck, but then all computers suck...they just suck in a
: different way then the Amiga.
:
:
: _____________________________________________
: Lee Stranahan
:

Umm...wow that's a really broad statement. I would almost think it an
irresponsible statement. I have been working as a PC hardware & s/w
technician for many many years now, and have always felt a relief
when getting home and booting up my Amiga, with a comfortable,
convenient OS, and enough multimedia hardware and software development
options to still do a lot more, at a lower cost than anything I could
spend to do on a PC platform. It is true that the PC technology has
in fact been catching up in the past couple of years, but it would still
cost me so much money to get a Pentium to do a lot of the things I do
here on my Amy 4000. There's a lot of video/audio & multimedia hardware
options out there for Amy that a lot of typical Amy users don't even
know about, and still use the machine for its convenient multi-tasking
and etc. Truthfully, its really not fair to compare the platforms, I
think they are both very different and obviously shine better depending
on what your angle is. But the Amy DOES NOT SUCK. Its a wonderful machine,
and shouldn't really be compared. If you want brute force and speed and
have an application like LW where that is your main concern, then maybe
something else would be better, but I would have to heavily consider
whether the amount of speed increase from an 060/50 to a Pentium,
for ONE or 2 apps, is really worth trading in everything else I do
and like. For me, its an easy choice. Besides my Amy's I also have PC
technology I use and work with. I could spend lots of money to try an
do some of the same things on the PC (I have 2 Toasters/etc. and run
production), but why? Its really better to have the best of both and
use them together, but jeesh a PC is no replacement for the Amy unless
all you wanna do is render LW. For me, I'd sell of my PC stuff and shoot
for a Dec Alpha, but I wouldn't trade in the lot of it all. I'd try to
use the best of what each platform has to offer and incorporate them
all. If Escom really does do anything reasonable with the Amy then maybe
people will begin to echo their feelings of the past when everyone was
so thrilled, and seems to have forgotten.
--
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CXC

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In a previous article [e-mail] (DScott5663) said:

> For the desired surface, simply go into any of the attribute channel
> Texture panels (T button) and the default texture type will be Planar.
> Now just click on the Automatic Size button and then the Texture

        Thanks.  A couple of other people suggested this as well.
Another person recommended making a few grid objects.  ie: add a
flat cube with a specific size and number of segments and load it in.
Under the objects panel you can set it to render it's edges and then
even when you render you can see the grid.

        Thanks to all!

mbc

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The Amiga sucks. PCs suck. Macs suck. All computers suck.

If you don't see the problems with the Amiga and you use one, I can only
assume you're completely biased and are just pretending to be stupid.

Here's a quick list..
- no networking support
- flicker problems
- problems with large drives
- expensive
- on-board video limitations
- very limited software selection

Now, I know Amiga sneebs will jump up and down and cry and scream. Please
save it. I could make a very long list of what's wrong with PCs and Macs,
too. But PC users don't treat their computer like a sacred holy relic,
unlike some Amiga users.

There are lots of things you can do better and easier on the PC then on
the Amiga. And the future is NOT the Amiga - the magazines and developers
and most users are GONE and not coming back, kids. Who is left? Basically,
NewTek and the related companies. And who knows how long NewTek will have
Amiga support? They've already announced a PC product and will be shipping
final PC LW any day now.

If you want to advise people against PCs, great. I think they are a pretty
safe bet.


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan


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From: [e-mail] (Brad Grace)
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J Eric Chard) writes:
>
>>>From: [e-mail] (John Sonedecker)
>>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>In the past I have used Symbolics machines for animation and they have
>>>this nifty little feature called "Stencil". Its not related to Lightwave's
>>>. This thing would flatten and trace an orthoganal view into an
>>>integrated paint program on a Hi-Res monitor as an Alpha channel. Than
>>>you could paint a map over the"Stencil" and the image map would fit
>>>perfectly on the model when applied. I have been able to do this very
>>>crudely using Windows Clipboard to do a screen capture and then load
>>>that into my paint program and crop it until all I have is awireframe
>>>picture of my model. Then I make an Alpha channel of it and then paint
>>>over it that way. This is very tiresome. Does anyone know of anyother way
>>>to accomplish this or a way to refine what I am allready doing? Just ask
>>>if you need a more indepth description, i'll try. Post or e-mail.Thanks
>
>
>    Hmmmm, this seems pretty simple.
>
>    First, put a long lens on your camera.  200mm should work fine.
>    400 even better.  The object here is to flatten your perspective
>    of the object.
>
>    Load up your object.
>
>    Place your camera such that the object fills your view tightly.
>    Alternately, or to refine the fit, use Limited Region to box the
>    object.
>
>    Render the frame.  Use your favorite paint program to do whatever
>    it is you crave, and remap it with Automatic Sizing.  Voila!
>
>    If you just want to get an OUTLINE of your object to paint on,
>    duplicate your object in modeler, assign the default color to
>    ALL the polys, and render on black with a high ambient light level.
>
This is much more work than what he initially said, the screen capture thing works
wonders.  I select the surface I want to paint in Modeller, shut off points and
normals, so all I see is a wireframe with the areas I want to paint in yellow, here
you have to make sure you have all the landmarks you need or any other bumps or knobs
on the mesh so you can see them to paint them, or to add rust, etc.  I then enlarge
this on the screen to the size I think I want the bitmap texture and I capture it
using Corel Capture, capturing the whole screen.  I then go into Corel PAint and past
the bitmap and crop it pretty close to what I actually need.  I save the bitmap as a
name I can easily reference, but I also include in the bitmap name the
way the bitmap is to face, ie, X, Y, or Z.  I started to do this and it
speeds me up alot.  Then I go into Photoshop and load the mesh bitmap
capture and make it a bottom layer and have it about 10 percent
transparent, just so I can see it enough to draw over it.  When I am
done painting, I crop it exactly to the mesh so it is boxed tightly,
and I merge the layers and viola, you have your bitmap, and it is
pretty exact also, I can easily add rust streams to the smallest of
bolts, and it always comes out in line.
I usually capture in bunches, and paint in bunches to save the hassle
of always switching over.

Brad



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From: [e-mail] (Digitix Publishing Int.)
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Subject: Dutch LightWave Art Gallery
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 07:51:13 GMT
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Hello Wavers all over the World.

I'm planning to start a Dutch LightWave Art Gallery on the Internet,
to show the Dutch people what this program is capable of.
And now I'm looking for artwork to fill it. Anybody who wants to have
a free entry with picture, name (eventually company name) and location
sould send me his entry with that info. To get a uniform idea I would
prefer JPG, 640x480. So, if you think that you should support this,
just send me the best stills you've ever made...:)


Rgrds.

J. Schlaghecke
Digitix Publishing International
[e-mail]


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From: Joe Clasen <surfrjoe@deltanet>
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Subject: Re: VTU Article Suggestions
Date: 20 Jul 1995 02:04:02 GMT
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We use ground French Roast as snuff.

The road of a thousand frames begins with one poly,eh?



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From: "Richard M. Einhorn" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Casino Objects
Date: 20 Jul 1995 16:51:56 GMT
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Does anyone have casino objects & maps?
One armed bandit
Black Jack Tables
Craps
Roulette (no articulation required)
etc.

Thanks in advance!
respond ASAP to [e-mail]



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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LW plug-ins and Visual Basic?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:53:54 -0400
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John Aquilina wrote:

> Here are more details of the product that allows you to create DLLs from
> Visual Basic.  The product is called Visual DLL 1.0a the company supplying
> it is called Simply Solutions.  The bad news is that it costs $249, a 32-bit
> version is planned for release in 1996.

Unfortunately, unless this adds important C-language facilities to VB
(calling functions through pointers, for example), it still won't work.

- Ernie


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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 12:52:41 -0400
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The Amiga is probably comfortable to you because it is familiar, and the
fun world of PCs is less familiar. I'd suggest getting familiar with the
PC - they suck, but then all computers suck...they just suck in a
different way then the Amiga.


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan


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From: [e-mail] (John D. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: PAR, Perception and AVI's
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sergio Rosas) writes:


>I know that DPS, has made conversion utilities for   .AVI files to play on the
>PAR.   My question is how does the PAR deal with the sound in my .AVI files?
>Does it somehow interface with my soundblaster, and play back the sound
>as it plays the animation?    Or does it just simply ingnore the sound

It does either; using the windows driver "par-vcr" one can associate a sound
(wav) file with an animation/video clip. As well, there are now codecs that
enable the use of Premiere.

>Same question for the Perception.
>  (by the way i'm not talking about captured video w/ sound, instead just
>cgi animations w/ soundtracks)







>Sergio Rosas



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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: WindowsNT and NFS-mounts
Date: 20 Jul 1995 18:16:18 GMT
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[e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:

>>>  How much does the commercial NFS software go for?
>
>> It runs about $800.00 from Intergraph.