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Darren Metcalfe ([e-mail]) wrote:

>: It's likely something screwy in my hardware but, since upgrading to NT3.51, I've
>: crashed it an average of twice daily. Netscape (v1.1N, 32bit), Eudora (v1.4.4,
>: 16bit), Winzip (16bit) and Notepad have all >completely< locked up the machine
>: recently. Feels like AmigaDOS 1.3.

I'm suspecting heat problems with my onboard IDE controller, it's hot in Oregon lately,
and I ain't AC'ed.  Anyone else running a ASUSTek PCI/I-P54TP4 motherboard? Any heat
and or IDE problems?

Thanks,
D.

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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Perception and Audio News Flash
Date: 20 Jul 1995 18:32:11 GMT
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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.

Jeric wrote:
    YOUCH!   I just KNEW I hated audio!

No shit. Does a $295 SBAWE32 count as a "cheap third party board" and therefore a total
waste of money and slot-space?

This almost smells like the NewTek Flyer "Approved" drive thing... Are they sure they can
get away with a $1000 audio card? What's so freaking special about it? Does DPS have
>any< background in digital audio processing?

Hmmm, I'm starting to rant, sorry.

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From: [e-mail] (SWild19276)
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Subject: Lightwave on SGI
Date: 20 Jul 1995 23:27:49 -0400
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Well, I just called Newtek to ask (again) about the status of Lightwave on
the SGI.  They just moved the release date back to "mid-August".

     Sigh...The wait continues...

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From: [e-mail] (Kris Georges)
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Subject: converting lightwave format => wavefront
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Hi, i want to convert lightwave object files to wavefront format.
any suggestions on how i can string together existing converters to
do this (or write my own if someone has the lightwave format spec)?

thanks,
kris


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Subject: Re: June LightwavePro
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In <3tu45l$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jeffrey C. Jones) writes:
> Has anybody received the June LightwavePro, and if so when did you get
> it.
> Thanks
>
> Jeffrey C. Jones
> [e-mail]


Yeah I did....about july 5th


Thomas



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Subject: Re: Exploding Shockwaves
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In <3tucj5$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Lloyd Eldred)
writes:
> 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've gone through it....I think it is a good tutorial with one execption: It
is almost impossible to read the numeric inputs in the screen grabs.  I went
through it & finally got it to work -- Looks pretty good (I even went back &
watched the opening sequence from ST6 ;-).  I am now messing with it further
by giving it thickness & morphing it into a vaugely doughnut shape.


Thanks for the article.



Thomas




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Candyman ([e-mail]) wrote:

: 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 ...

Ouch!  Expensive mistake.  You should have checked with NewTek first...the
version of LightWave for PCs will not work on the Alpha.

I'd suggest calling NewTek before you do anything else...explain the
situation to them and see if they can help you with a trade-in or something.


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                                      Event Horizon Graphics


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Subject: Re: Center Object in Modeler shortcut?
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From: [e-mail] (Thomas Healy)
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In <[e-mail]>, Mark Harmon
<[e-mail]> writes:
>
>
> >
> > 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.
>



NO!   This does not center the object as he asked (Zero x,y,z), this just
makes the object fit in all three views (Visually)


Thomas


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Subject: Polygon Problems
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POLYGON ERRORS:

Hey all,
I've been messing with the old trick of Subdividing a Plane into major
polygons and then applying a displacement imagemap of a topographical map
to it.  Everything seems ok but when I render it, I have "Gaps" of flipped
polygons.  They are random about the object.  They apear to be flipped away
from the camera.  I've saved the transformed object, loaded it into modeler,
and hit the old Align button, but it still has the gaps.  This is a pretty
high polygon count object, so I know I'm not getting wierd effects from the
displacement map....I'm stumped as to what I can do.  Any ideas??


BTW:  AMIGA LW 3.5 SA (patched)


Thanks in advance!


Thomas Healy


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From: [e-mail] (Michael Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: WTD: TBC IV & PAR
Date: 21 Jul 1995 07:14:58 GMT
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In <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Boolean Polygon) writes:
>
>If you have either of these for sale please email and
>let me know what your looking to get for it/them.
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Help!! I'm trapped in a .sig factory and can't get out!!
>
>CXC
this is what I am selling

tbc IV $650
PAR $1100
1 gig HD 350

or 2000 for everything



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From: [e-mail] (Michael Mitchell)
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Subject: windows nt 3.51 or 95???
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I want to get a new os and am  thinking of getting win 3.51 or 95? what
would be the best for LW and why, I also need to run MS Works and
pagemaker.. any help would be great!. thanks, Mike


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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
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In article <3ul91g$[e-mail]> [e-mail] () writes:
>From: [e-mail] ()
>Subject: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
>Date: 20 Jul 1995 09:52:48 GMT

>Here is my problem:
>I have 2 Amiga 3.5 stand alones. Now it is time to upgrade to 4.0 and time is
>runnig short. In the studio we have one pentium and a 486DX4 (in adition to the
>Amigas) Now it occures to me that I could upgrade to the intel 4.0, and probably
>be able to render FASTER than on the Warped Amigas. The delema is that we have
>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 stress

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


>Thank you for your thoughts.


>-Aaron

If your PCs in the studio have at least 16mb of memory,  I'd buy two copies of
LW for Intel.  You don't say what speed the Pentium is and I assume a 40mhz
040 in the Amigas? (or what kind of Amigas either), but I'd guess that the two
PCs combined will be able to render at least twice as quickly as the two
Amigas combined (I'm assuming the DX4 is a bit faster than either Amiga and
that the Pentium is 90mhz or better and a little more than twice as fast as
either Amiga).  So, for $300 you can TRIPLE (maybe more) your rendering output
(not a "slight" increase IMHO) and DOUBLE the number of available
workstations.

If you decide to get an Alpha later, you could probably sell each Intel
version of LW for around $500 (assuming the license is transferable - NewTek
told me that the old 3.5 and new 4.0 were separate licenses when I asked a
couple weeks ago - Of course they have misinformed others in the past, so you
might want to double-check) and still be able to buy one new copy for the
Alpha.

OR -

You could buy one Alpha version now (assuming you aren't simply dreaming about
the Alpha) and one Intel version.  Network the two PCs and run a little
render-farm using screamer net.  You would have one less workstation in the
short run (total of 3), but would save money in the long run and still have
the same rendering power (triple your current).  This plan depends on getting
the FULL version of LW 4.0.

Of course, there are tons of other possible factors, but that is my quick
analysis based on the info you gave.

I can't really say what you should do, but hope this is food for thought.



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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Candyman) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Candyman)
>Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
>Date: 20 Jul 1995 19:32:44 GMT

>                  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

Isn't a Pentium 64 bit?  I'm a bit out of step on PCs right now, but I'm
pretty sure the Pentium memory bus at least is 64 bit.  Don't the Alphas
use PCI slots (32 bit)?

>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 toa
>P100 yet the performance smokes it..n e way good luck

Am I correct to assume that a 166mhz Alpha would be roughly twice as fast as a
Pentium?  I don't have the LWPro benchmarks handy.

How much for the 166Mhz Alpha from Terraclips?  I can get 100Mhz Pentiums
(32mb ram, 1.2 Gb drive, 2mb video, 17" Mag monitor) in the $3150-$3500 range.
What configuration and how would I get current pricing?

Thanks
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Subject: Re: WTB: TBC IV
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                  From the jumbled mind of the Candyman

>I need a TBC IV.
>Thanks,
> John

I have a TBC IV as well as a Toaster4000 card for sale email me if
interested in either


       Those who perceive the as yet unnamed,are Vagabonds.


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In a message dated 21 Jul 1995 07:25:54 [e-mail] writes:

M> I want to get a new os and am  thinking of getting win 3.51 or 95? what
M> would be the best for LW and why, I also need to run MS Works and
M> pagemaker.. any help would be great!. thanks, Mike

     Neither. Buy NT. While the ram requirements ARE higher there are
a lot of professional apps that are/have been designed for it. There
are Mac "ramdoubler" type apps in the works too (at least for win '95),
I was rather suprised today..... shocked would be the better term.

                                       Christopher

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[e-mail] wrote:

: I have 2 Amiga 3.5 stand alones. Now it is time to upgrade to 4.0 and time is runnig short. In the studio we have one pentium and a 486DX4 (in adition to the Amigas) Now it occures to me that I could upgrade to the intel 4.0, and probably
: be able to render FASTER than on the Warped Amigas. The delema is that we have
: also considered selling every thing to get one or two Alpha machines.

Exact same situation here...two Amigas, one with a Toaster, the other with
LW 3.5 Standalone.  I've been researching this situation since the end of
last year and the Alpha workstations are looking better every day.  If you
compare the price of a workstation with 64megs of ram to the price of a
Pentium with 64megs of ram, you'd be surprised how small the difference is.
(then again, you probably wouldn't be surprised!)

I still haven't ordered my upgrade, but my decision has been made and next
week I will order a copy of the Alpha version...I figure once I get the
software in my hand, I'll become very motivated to finally buy an Alpha
workstation.

I caution you to be careful when picking an Alpha workstation....the 21066
based systems are not much faster than a Pentium machine, while the 21164
systems are wickedly fast....21064 based systems are probably the most
affordable system with REAL Alpha rendering power.  I was very gung-ho about
buying a TerraClipse system, but real-world performance does not seem to be
all that impressive...they claim 3 times faster than a P90, but it doesn't
even appear to be twice as fast.

Good luck in making your decision and choose wisely!

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                                     -David Warner
                                      Event Horizon Graphics


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Subject: Re: nedd tbc?
Date: 21 Jul 1995 05:02:40 GMT
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John Sonedecker ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I was reading a review anout the new Perception card and am confussed. It made
: it sound as though I don't need a TBC to capture video, that it is already
: on the board. This isn't the case with the PAR. Anyone know if this is
: true?

You would need to purchase a daughtercard to make the PVR capture video...I
dunno if it's a TBC or not.  From what I've read, the quality of captured
video is MUCH better on the PVR with its daughtercard than the PAR with a
TBC-IV, but that's the whole reason for buying the PVR in the first place,
much higher quality output all-around.

--
                                     -David Warner
                                      Event Horizon Graphics


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Subject: Character Animation "plug-in" ?
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Often when I've asked about character animation either here or on a
3DS group I have been referred to Animation Master. I'm interested
in using Lightwave or 3Dstudio as a complement to Animation Master which
I use now, but wonder if LW is good enough for character anim on its own,
with IK etc. now, that's why I ask if people are doing char anim with it.

Well, I'm still going to get LW or 3DS, don't know which yet, but I
wanted to mention that if any of the users here are having concerns about
char animation, that Hash, the folks that make Animation Master are
releasing a new version of the package that is missing a few high-end
features. This version will cost $200. I've been told that it still has
the most popular animation features like IK and action overloading and
it's also supposed to have motion capture like the full version of AM.

I believe it's missing a post-compositing module which is new with the v3
release. Anyway, I think Hash is trying to get market share by doing
this, and the package is really not a scam or anything.

I still don't like the fact that AM has no plug-in support and no built
in effects like particles, lflares, and physics, but that's why I'm
picking up LW or 3DS :).

So, if any of you are having problems with LW for character animation
maybe this "low-priced" package could work for you as an expensive
plug-in for char animation. :)

Good luck.

-Steve C.

I've posted this msg to the other LW group and the 3DS group as well.

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Hello,
    Is there any way to scale the camera in Layout? I was just doing
the "Taming The Wave" tutorial in August VTU, and when I load up the
RandomStars object the camera seems to resize itself in proportion to
that object. As stated in the tut. my planet objects are 1 meter in Dia..
This makes it difficult to manuever the camera around reallisticaly(sp?).
What am I missing? Thanks.
-John Sonedecker

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From: [e-mail] (Gareth Collins)
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Alan,
    This is a sysquest mountlist that I got from the old Lightwave list a long
time ago - its for an 88mb cartridge that has been PC formatted; give it
a try.....

/* Mountlist Entry for Syquest 88mb, PC formatted
 *
 */
    Surfaces = 1
    BlocksPerTrack = 1
    LowCyl = 0
    HighCyl = 173455
    DosType = 0x4d534800
    BufMemType = 1
    Device = scsi.device
    FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
    Unit = 2
    Flags = 0
    Mask = 0x0ffffffe
    MaxTransfer = 0x00ffffff
    StackSize = 2000
    Priority = 5
    GlobVec = -1
    Buffers = 5
    Activate = 1



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In <3unv3a$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Sonedecker)
writes:
>
>Hello,
>    Is there any way to scale the camera in Layout? I was just doing
>the "Taming The Wave" tutorial in August VTU, and when I load up the
>RandomStars object the camera seems to resize itself in proportion to
>that object. As stated in the tut. my planet objects are 1 meter in
Dia..
>This makes it difficult to manuever the camera around
reallisticaly(sp?).
>What am I missing? Thanks.
>-John Sonedecker

Go into the options panel and set the grid size to something reasonable
(which depends on the size of the objects that you are going to use,
but 100 is pretty good), and the camera will scale up accordingly
(though the size is only important for the purpose of locating it, it
doesn't affect the image).  If you want to keep it from relocating, set
a keyframe for the camera before you load the stars, so the camera is
told "stay here".  If you don't set a keyframe, LW thinks "Ok, he wants
to see EVERYTHING", and will relocate the camera without asking you.


                                        Brenden Mecleary
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Lee,

My thoughts exactly; however, whenever I have said anything as such, I have
needed a fire estinguisher beside my news reader. The Amy Bigots weild large
flame throwers (I wonder if that is to compensate for a lack of size in other areas).




Brad Bowman
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] ("Phil
South") writes:
[snip]
>When I start the program I get an "Initialsation Failed" message, and
on
>Modeler I get an error 212. Anyone know what is going on? The Win95 is

>the new June build, and this might be the cause of the proble, I'm
using
>beta software on a beta operating system so I suppose I deserve
>everything I get!?!
>
>Please any ideas would be most gratefully recieved, as I am about t
>embark on some work and I can't run the darn program anymore...
>
>---
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Phil South <[e-mail]>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
>-------------------------------------------------------------

    Well, those errors are the ones that show up when the dongle isn't
found by Lightwave.  Lightwave can't find the dongle for one of two
reasons: the drivers aren't installed, or the dongle isn't plugged in
right.  Maybe the device installer in Win95 will have a driver for the
dongle (or maybe not :-)).   If not, try re-installing the drivers (not
LW, just the drivers on disk 3)


                                                Brenden Mecleary
                                                [e-mail]

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        Question about layout:

        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.

        Right now I go into top view and kind of guess the size
needed based on the grid size and object size.  However there is
no grid in side or front view.

        Is there some easy way to get size information?  Right now
I have been lucky in that I don't resize my objects after modeling
so I can use modeler to tell but it's kind of a hassle to go back
and forth.  Is there anyway to get a grid in all 3 orthographic
views?

        mbc

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In article <[e-mail]> Brad Bowman <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Brad Bowman <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 13:28:25 GMT

>Lee,

>My thoughts exactly; however, whenever I have said anything as such, I have
>needed a fire estinguisher beside my news reader. The Amy Bigots weild large
>flame throwers (I wonder if that is to compensate for a lack of size in other areas).

(sniffing the armpit ala kevin kline in "a fish called wanda") i say
"a**hole!!!":-)

we're not bigots,  just right:-)

greg


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[e-mail] (J Eric Chard) wrote:
>
>    I guess the thing to do is step back to NT 3.5 and see if that
>    solves it.
>
>    Bleah, I don't mind beta-testing applications (actually, I LOVE doing
>    that) but I don't want to beta-test an operating system.

I went to the Asustek home page and got v1.07 of the BIOS. I was running v1.03. Flashing a
BIOS is an extremely nerve-wracking procedure, completely zapping your machine in 3.5
seconds and then not being able to boot is not a good thing. Anyway, as it turned out, I
rebooted just fine, my BIOS settings were retained and I haven't crashed since. Phew.

Tip: If you're running an Asustek Triton Pentium with NT and have a Mitsumi IDE CDROM,
you'll probably run into the same problems I was having, the whole IDE system locks up
whenever it feels like it, NT >does not< like this, it was having to rebuild my FAT C:
drive on every boot up. Yick.

Another Tip: If you do update your BIOS, do a Shift (clean) boot to DOS first.

--
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Have you installed the WinNT version?

Initialisation failure is what you get when the dongle isn't in. The only
difference between the two versions on the disk is how they access the
dongle. The NT version is *forbidden* to access the dongle, so needs a
special NT driver installing which is hidden on disk 3. The other version
can "peek" the hardware directly.

The Windows 32s version should work fine (although, it doesn't need
Win32s installing because 95 runs Win32 executables directly)
 I have run Lightwave successfully on both pre-release builds of 95 with
no problems. - Well no problems apart from it crashing a lot. But that
ain't Window's fault.

Glyn Williams

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>
> M> I want to get a new os and am  thinking of getting win 3.51 or 95?
what
> M> would be the best for LW and why, I also need to run MS Works and
> M> pagemaker.. any help would be great!. thanks, Mike
>
>      Neither. Buy NT. While the ram requirements ARE higher there are
> a lot of professional apps that are/have been designed for it. There
> are Mac "ramdoubler" type apps in the works too (at least for win '95),
> I was rather suprised today..... shocked would be the better term.
>
 Err, 3.51 is NT.

        I would agree. If your main use of the machine is Lightwave then
NT will give you better memory management and faster rendering times -
providing you have a sensible amount of RAM in the machine: 16M or more.
        NT also will run Photoshop OK which perversely will not run under
95.

        Be aware that NT will not work with.....
                                A lot of games (although Doom will work!
Blast while you render!!)
                                Any sound board which isn't called
Soundblaster
                                Some Graphics Tablets
                                Cheap GDI style printers.

        The version of NT3.51 also comes with a nice add-on; a Win95
front end. This newer GUI is a big improvement over the old Windows GUI.

Glyn Williams



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Is it possible to mount an Intel WinNT Hard Drive with crossDOS on the
Amiga? I'm real sure that this question was asked some time ago but I
can't remember, sorry. I know windows uses the standard MS DOS
formating is WinNT's formatting different?

I'd like to know if I can do this in order to render on a P100 then
single frame back through the amiga.

Thanks.

Jeffrey C. Jones
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>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Candyman)
>>From: [e-mail] (Candyman)
>>Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
>>Date: 20 Jul 1995 19:32:44 GMT

>>                  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
>>>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

>Isn't a Pentium 64 bit?  I'm a bit out of step on PCs right now, but I'm
>pretty sure the Pentium memory bus at least is 64 bit.  Don't the Alphas
>use PCI slots (32 bit)?


    yes they have both pci and eisa slots ..as far as i know the pci
bus is not the limitation on the speed of the alphas but the emulation of
an x86 machine through NT is...

>>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 toa
>>P100 yet the performance smokes it..n e way good luck

>Am I correct to assume that a 166mhz Alpha would be roughly twice as fast as
>Pentium?  I don't have the LWPro benchmarks handy.

Benchmarks for alpha compared to intel are gross..like apples comparing to
oranges..the only true test in my opinion is a render of a sample frame..

>How much for the 166Mhz Alpha from Terraclips?  I can get 100Mhz Pentiums
>(32mb ram, 1.2 Gb drive, 2mb video, 17" Mag monitor) in the $3150-$3500
>What configuration and how would I get current pricing?

call terraclips at 714 447 3587 it is comperable but i dont feel like
typing it all

>Thanks
>_________________________________________________________________
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
says...
>
>Are there any good spline patching tutorials out there?

    Try Lightwave Pro Volume 1 , Number 2. (December 1993) if you can
still get it, or its available in the UK.

        Bessman



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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
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>
>Are there any good spline patching tutorials out there?

    Try Lightwave Pro Volume 1, Issue 2.  (December 1993)
That is, if it is still available, and you can get it in the UK.


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:   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...

You are correct. Only moving the goal will affect the IK.

JG

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Oh dear, problems problems... I've been running Lightwave quite happily
on my p90 using Windows 3.11 and Win32s, but now I've installed Win95
Beta and the program won't work. I tried re-installing it, but the same
thing happens. It's funny but when I installed the program on another
Win95 machine, it was easy and I wasn't asked for the drivers for the
dongle at all, but this time I was. I have no idea how to install the
drivers and I have no idea what is causing the problem. Does this mean I
have to go back to WFW 3.11?

When I start the program I get an "Initialsation Failed" message, and on
Modeler I get an error 212. Anyone know what is going on? The Win95 is
the new June build, and this might be the cause of the proble, I'm using
beta software on a beta operating system so I suppose I deserve
everything I get!?!

Please any ideas would be most gratefully recieved, as I am about t
embark on some work and I can't run the darn program anymore...

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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.  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?

I've had some really weird ones, where a perfectly round sphere has
picked up some errors in the point orders or something, making big holes.
Obviously a sphere was quite easy to fix, as I just made a new one about
the same size and replaced it, reloading the texture to it, but what if
it had happened on a space ship or more complex object? I don't get it,
sometimes it happens and other times not. What's the deal?

---
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Phil South <[e-mail]>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
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> 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.

Presumably this would also work if you have a metal barn door type lamp
with a glass cover over the front of it?

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> If you are using CrossDOS to access the PC disks, you need to turn on
> the
> text filtering options in the CrossDOS commodity to convert CR/LF <->
> > LF (it
> also handles those Control-Z EOF markers that DOS uses).

Ah! Now that sounds like the problem right there...

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Does anyone know what kind of SIMMs I can put in this GVP SCSI+RAM card I
have in my 2000? Could I just use the RAM in my old PC?

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Are there any good spline patching tutorials out there? If not can anyone
explain to me how it works, because I've seen a lot of talk about it
being a good way to make nice curvy organic shapes.

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>       Bleah, I don't mind beta-testing applications (actually, I LOVE
doing
>       that) but I don't want to beta-test an operating system.
>
>       :^P

As a new Win95 beta user, I fully know what you mean. :?(


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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
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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.

Yes, Amigas suck because they are long overdue for a new OS, and PCs suck
because they just got one but it's the same as the Amiga OS of
yesteryear. Isn't life strange???

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Manuel Coats <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Has anybody else run into a problem where all of a sudden any scene file
>you had saved will no longer load correctly?  When I try to load ANY
>scene file, it tells me it cannot find object "so&so" in directory
>"so&so" even though the object is exactly where it is supposed to be. The
>same thing happens with image maps.  If I manually click and replace each
>object and image, then save all objects and the scene file, it will load
>okay the 2nd time around.  This has really annoyed me!  Even, the
>standard scenes that come with Lightwave will not load up now... and
>everything was fine a couple days ago.  Any ideas short of possibly
>reinstalling the lightwave software to see if that fixes anything?
>
I had this happen recently too, on a Pentium running NT.  My best guess
is that the first time you load objects / images etc.  The default dirs
do not happen.  If you cancel then try again, Lightwave puts you into the
right directory.  Anyway, if you don't, I think Lightwave stores the
whole dir path and when you next load the scene it STARTS in the default
path (eg D;\newtek\objects, then looks for the whole path again (eg
d:\newtek\objects\newtek\objects) and can't find the directory.

  Always try cancelling the first time, oh and by the way I have never
had this problem on the Raptor 3 (I think it could a slightly later
version?)



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In a previous article "Richard M. Einhorn" <[e-mail]> said:

> Whomever called me back about this... gave me such a pitch...
> I thought I was buying a HOUSE!
> I did not feal comfortable dealing with this company.
> If you have better luck... please email me!

        I would also be leery about this.  Notice they say you'll make
3-5K but later down specify:   3K in merchandise   or something like
that....ie: you probably get to keep the software you demo maybe?

mbc

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>In article <[e-mail]> Brad Bowman
>>From: Brad Bowman <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
>>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 13:28:25 GMT

>>Lee,

>>My thoughts exactly; however, whenever I have said anything as such, I have
>>needed a fire estinguisher beside my news reader. The Amy Bigots weild flame
>>throwers (I wonder if that is to compensate for a lack of size in

>(sniffing the armpit ala kevin kline in "a fish called wanda") i say
>"a**hole!!!":-)

>we're not bigots,  just right:-)

>greg

 hmm how many platforms can you say You work on? HMm?

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In article <3uorps$[e-mail]> Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]> writes:
[snip}
>Another Tip: If you do update your BIOS, do a Shift (clean) boot to DOS first.

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

Minor correction/addition:  Its a Left-Shift to plain or clean boot.


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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Candyman) writes:

[snip]
>>Am I correct to assume that a 166mhz Alpha would be roughly twice as fast as
>>Pentium?  I don't have the LWPro benchmarks handy.

>Benchmarks for alpha compared to intel are gross..like apples comparing to
>oranges..the only true test in my opinion is a render of a sample frame..
[snip]

The LWPro "benchmarks" ARE based on 5 different sample frames.  I have the
issue today and unfortunately there is no 166 mhz class Alpha in the test.
The slowest Alpha was Carrera Cobra (21064-200 mhz) and it ran about three
times as fast as a Pentium 100.

Thanks for the phone number.


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Any suggestions as to where the best place to mailorder lightwave from is?
One place I called said Newtek frowned on large mailorder places from selling
their wares.
Thanks,
Dan.

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From: [e-mail] (Brenden Mecleary )
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Thomas Healy) writes:
>
>POLYGON ERRORS:
>
>Hey all,
>I've been messing with the old trick of Subdividing a Plane into major
>polygons and then applying a displacement imagemap of a topographical map
>to it.  Everything seems ok but when I render it, I have "Gaps" of flipped
>polygons.  They are random about the object.  They apear to be flipped away
>from the camera.  I've saved the transformed object, loaded it into modeler,
>and hit the old Align button, but it still has the gaps.  This is a pretty
>high polygon count object, so I know I'm not getting wierd effects from the
>displacement map....I'm stumped as to what I can do.  Any ideas??
>
>
>BTW:  AMIGA LW 3.5 SA (patched)
>
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>
>Thomas Healy
[snip]

    Try tripling your surface in Modeler (under "transform" in the
"polygon" panel).  What I think is happening is that your polygons are
more than three sided, and the displacement map is making the polygons
"non-planar", which means that all the points in it do not lie in the
same plane.  When Layout comes across one of these, it has problems
rendering it.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.  I had the same
problem making cliffs out of a flat plane for a beach scene, but
tripling solved it, because when you triple, it turns the polygons into
three point polygons, which CANNOT be non-planar, so it is really a
useful tool.

                                                Brenden Mecleary
                                                [e-mail]

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John Sonedecker <[e-mail]> writes:

>    Is there any way to scale the camera in Layout? I was just doing
>the "Taming The Wave" tutorial in August VTU, and when I load up the
>RandomStars object the camera seems to resize itself in proportion to
>that object. As stated in the tut. my planet objects are 1 meter in Dia..
>This makes it difficult to manuever the camera around reallisticaly(sp?).
>What am I missing? Thanks.
>-John Sonedecker


 What you need to do is change the grid size in the "display" menu.
But if you change back to the default of 1.0 (I think) it'll take you forever
to paddle your way across the galaxy to your planet. SO, I suggest using the
keyboard shortcut "[" & "]" to increase or decrase the grid size. For example
a extremely large grid size will allow you mouse your way to the planet much
faster than a small grid size. But once you get to the planet with that large
grid size you'll need to bump it down considerably ( [ ) so the camera will
be easier to handle while near the smaller object (planet). Hope this helps.

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[e-mail] (Thomas Healy) wrote:
>In <[e-mail]>, Mark Harmon
><[e-mail]> writes:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Is there a keyboard shortcut to center and object (Zero X,Y,Z) ?

>NO!   This does not center the object as he asked (Zero x,y,z), this just
>makes the object fit in all three views (Visually)


    If working with Amiga LightWave, use the center Macro,
    usually set to the F1 key.  Or, F2 key for center on axis.

    Dan



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> ... (or write my own if someone has the lightwave format spec)?

Look in ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/lw/lwsdk for a description of the LW
object file format.  Last I checked this wasn't the most recent version,
but all it lacks is info on some of the newer surface attributes.

- Ernie


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From: [e-mail] (Shawn)
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Subject: P.C. PAR Card For Sale
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I have a few month old N.T.S.C. PAR card for sale with a 850 mb conner
drive( works at the highest quality) for sale.
I am asking $1800.00 for both.

Please Email me at [e-mail]

Thanks,

Shawn Verne


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

>:   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...

>You are correct. Only moving the goal will affect the IK.

>JG

   OK now correct me if I am wrong but if the goal is parented to an OBj.
and that obj moves wouldn't that in essence make the goal moving?? :)


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-> >Plus, it seems as though Foundation and Amblin are already using
-> glows >and haven't had any problem with them.
->
-> Possibly they have no problems with them because they have a
-> half-dozen 275MHz Alphas to render on, I've heard that Glow is
-> tediously slow. This may have changed, or it may be the reason for
-> the waffling. Everyone's gonna try it and then scream "Lightwave is
-> dog-slow, buy 3DS!".
Glow does take some time, but because it is an image post process, it
doesn't take as much time as re-rendering a lens flare on each
anti-alias pass. I'd say that it probably adds about 20% to rendering
time, which can actually save time over using lens flare or multiple
transparent objects to simulate glow.

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>RandomStars object the camera seems to resize itself in proportion to
>that object. As stated in the tut. my planet objects are 1 meter in Dia..
>This makes it difficult to manuever the camera around reallisticaly(sp?).
>What am I missing? Thanks.

The problem is that Layout RESIZES the Grid as well making 1 meter
movements impossible until after putting the grid down to 1 to 5 meters
again from the Options menu and then repositioning your camera, ugh.

Instead, load the stars up FIRST, reset the grid, reset the camera to
0,0,0,
then load in your planets and move them into position, the camera
remaining
FIXED at 0,0,0 initially.  THEN make your camera motion path.

Dean

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In article <3um6hi$[e-mail]> Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: WindowsNT and NFS-mounts
>Date: 20 Jul 1995 18:16:18 GMT

>[e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:

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

>From the web sites, www.ingr.com and www.process.com, one package (single
>user license) is $400, the other (single user license) is $295. Sorry
>can't recall which is which. I've dl'ed both but have yet to try either.


This is  $400.00 for the client only which allows you to mount on the PC
only and not export, provided there is a server on the network exporting. The
ideal setup would allow you to export your DPSPerception drive onto your other
systems and render directly to it . If you have client only on all systems
then you have no network, one has to be able to export to the others.

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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: converting lightwave format => wavefront
Date: 22 Jul 1995 08:49:13 GMT
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[e-mail] (Corsa) wrote:

>>lightwave object files to wavefront format.

>    Pixel 3D Pro and Syndesis Interchange Plus both do this...both are
>    Amiga programs, although I believe Interchange is now available
>    for Windows...is this correct?

It's not quite shipping yet, and it's doubled in price to $495.


--
Darren Metcalfe
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Is there an IK tutorial online anywhere?

-----------------------------------------------------------
Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
University Of California at Santa Cruz
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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
Date: 22 Jul 1995 09:16:38 GMT
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Brad Bowman <[e-mail]> wrote:

>My thoughts exactly; however, whenever I have said anything as such, I have
>needed a fire estinguisher beside my news reader. The Amy Bigots weild large
>flame throwers (I wonder if that is to compensate for a lack of size in other areas).

I (almost) never respond to this stuff, although I do try to sneak in as much pro-Amiga
rhetoric as I can. I do not flame people for having their own objective or subjective
opinions.

If it wasn't just a computer Brad, I'd be pissed about being called a bigot.

However, that is my dick in that "other area" so I will take offense.

The PC is an analogy of BigDickFastCarFlashyClothes. The Amiga is an analogy of
JustDickSkateBoardBlueJeans. Who's compensating Freud?

--
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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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        Announcing a new Computer Graphics Web Site

        Please checkout my new WEB page "Discount Don's 3D Gallery" at
http://www.portal.com/~donrh.
        I have examples of my early Imagine raytraces and sample frames
of Lightwave animations done on the Amiga. You will also find interesting
links to other computer graphic and misc sites. If you are a Intel Lightwave
user, be sure to link to real time tutorials on Lightwave. It's way cool.
        This is my first try at a web page and it is still under construction.
Please sign the guest book before you leave.
        Thanks.

                Don
                ([e-mail])


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[e-mail] (Stranahan) wrote:

>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.

I guess I have seen some pretty fanatical Amiga users, yes. But
please, if anyone treats their computers like "sacred holy relics", it
is the Macintosh users. I always get the feeling they think they exist
on some higher plane, where we all would be if we just weren't such
stupid, unwashed heathens. When they chime in to one of the platform
discussions, I feel like the right wing Christians are knocking at my
door with some bibles and pamphlets. I want to close the curtains and
hide in the closet.

And they're always whining here cause they can't have Lightwave, but
can you even imagine the outcry and negative reviews over Lightwave
not having a "Mac-like" interface? (Which, as we all know, would be a
true blessing!)

Nextwave



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From: [e-mail] (Michael B. Comet)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: windows nt 3.51 or 95???
Date: 21 Jul 1995 19:57:13 GMT
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In a previous article [e-mail] ("Glyn Williams") said:

>         I would agree. If your main use of the machine is Lightwave then
> NT will give you better memory management and faster rendering times -
> providing you have a sensible amount of RAM in the machine: 16M or more.
>         NT also will run Photoshop OK which perversely will not run under
> 95.
>         Be aware that NT will not work with.....

        I just installed 95.  Photoshop comes up with a warning
(actually win95 generates it) the first time saying it may not run right.
Other than finding out Kai Power Tools don't run in photoshop (they work
in photostyler) it runs fine.  I decided to go with 95 because I still
need all that DOS compatibilty for older programs and games.

        Most people I talk to though agree NT is a better choice.

mbc
I went with 95 not NT.

--

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
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    Hi all...

    very sorry if this has been covered before....

    P120, 32M EDO RAM, WFW 3.11, LW 4 pre-release.

    Lightwave Scene menu reports:

    ABOUT  Free Memory: 17.3M (RAM) + 103.8M (pa

    My question is:  I seem to be missing > 10 Megs of RAM
    (according to Lightwave)  is this a bug?  Does LW really not
    'see' all of my memory?

    Also, what the heck is "103.8M (pa" ?????

    103Megs of page memory???


    Lastly, a very simple wireframe preview causes one of my system
    tools to warn me that I'm getting low on system resources
    (which I find _very_ hard to believe) and then LW usually
    seems to hand in some manner.

    Another bug?


    Are there any work-arounds for these problems?

    Thanks,

    -Mike-

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
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    Is is this one, or comp.craphics.pacakges.lightwave????

    Thanks,

    Mike

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From: [e-mail] (Thomas M. Schaefer )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Lobby NewTek for Links to 3rd Party Sites
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     Don't you think it would be great if NewTek would
have a WWW page with links to related 3rd party products?
Not only would this make their web site more useful, but
it would demonstrate continuing 3rd party support for
their products.

    Call Bob Anderson at NewTek and tell him you'd like
this.

    Please note that due to contining service problems
at Earthlink Network, my e-mail address has changed to:

[e-mail]

Tom Schaefer
Strategic Video
Producers of the Frequent Flyer Video Clips(r)
"Stock Video for the Digital Age"

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From: [e-mail] (Justin Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Robo JR.....where?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 14:54:00 GMT
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On 17 Jul 95, Richard spoke up and said:

Ri> I think one of the back issues of VTU did an article on the Robo Jr.
Ri> anim.  Among other things they told how he did the pouring oil effect.

I asked this some time ago, but never received much of a response:  does
anyone know where the Robo Jr. anim can be seen (on tape)?  I've been
wanting to see it ever since the "teaser" pieces that NewTek threw into
one of their demo tapes.

         Justin Barrett - [e-mail] - 1:350/401
    Free Spirit Productions   -   Northland Cable   -   Peninsula College

 * Q-Blue 2.1 *

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From: [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart)
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In a message dated 22 Jul 1995 18:53:47 [e-mail] writes:

R>  Is is this one, or comp.craphics.pacakges.lightwave????

     It's comp.crumpets.pancakes.lightrays

  Serious discussion regarding the toasting, warming and
cooking of various bread products, their composition and
various tricks and tips. Of course those who would
discuss other snacks frequent the area providing no end
of killfile fodder......

                              Christopher

--------------------
"I wish there was a knob on the TV to            Christopher Stewart
turn up the intelligence. There's a knob           PRIMORDIAL SOUP!
called `brightness', but it dosen't work."      Graphics/WWW/Animation
--> [e-mail] <--> http://www.IslandNet.com:80/~dretch/ <---



* Offline Orbit 0.73c *

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Can't find "XXXX" object in directory XXX
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Morgan Price ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Manuel Coats <[e-mail]> wrote:
: >
: >Has anybody else run into a problem where all of a sudden any scene file
: >you had saved will no longer load correctly?  When I try to load ANY
: >scene file, it tells me it cannot find object "so&so" in directory
: >"so&so" even though the object is exactly where it is supposed to be. The
: >same thing happens with image maps.  If I manually click and replace each
: >object and image, then save all objects and the scene file, it will load
: >okay the 2nd time around.  This has really annoyed me!  Even, the
: >standard scenes that come with Lightwave will not load up now... and
: >everything was fine a couple days ago.  Any ideas short of possibly
: >reinstalling the lightwave software to see if that fixes anything?
: >
: I had this happen recently too, on a Pentium running NT.  My best guess
: is that the first time you load objects / images etc.  The default dirs
: do not happen.  If you cancel then try again, Lightwave puts you into the
: right directory.  Anyway, if you don't, I think Lightwave stores the
: whole dir path and when you next load the scene it STARTS in the default
: path (eg D;\newtek\objects, then looks for the whole path again (eg
: d:\newtek\objects\newtek\objects) and can't find the directory.

:   Always try cancelling the first time, oh and by the way I have never
: had this problem on the Raptor 3 (I think it could a slightly later
: version?)



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From: [e-mail] (John Zambrano)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Mounting Intel WinNT Hard Drives
Date: 22 Jul 1995 23:16:45 GMT
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In article <3uoutc$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jeffrey C. Jones) says:
>
>Is it possible to mount an Intel WinNT Hard Drive with crossDOS on the
>Amiga? I'm real sure that this question was asked some time ago but I
>can't remember, sorry. I know windows uses the standard MS DOS
>formating is WinNT's formatting different?
>
>I'd like to know if I can do this in order to render on a P100 then
>single frame back through the amiga.


NT can format a drive in the standard MS DOS format, or in the NTFS format
which is not compatible with MS DOS.  Getting the frames back into your
Amiga is going to depend on how the drive is formatted and whether or not
CrossDos can read NTFS formatted drives.

John.

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From: [e-mail] (John Zambrano)
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Subject: Re: The New perception card.
Date: 22 Jul 1995 23:39:11 GMT
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In article <3ugdpa$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Crookshank) says:

>
>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.
>

Which Turtle Beach card are they recommending? (T.B. makes more than one sound card).

John.

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I have 32 megs edo ram but use windows Nt 3.51 ..never had
that problem. Layout crashes frequently though.

I had no troubles with windows 3.1

that 103 is page memory.

after loading NT I have about 12 megs ram free for layout.


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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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John Zambrano ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <3ugdpa$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Crookshank) says:

: >
: >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.
: >

: Which Turtle Beach card are they recommending? (T.B. makes more than one sound card).

: John.

Tahiti I believe.

Dave


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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
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Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 01:17:39 LOCAL
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In article <3urb26$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>I guess I have seen some pretty fanatical Amiga users, yes. But
>please, if anyone treats their computers like "sacred holy relics", it
>is the Macintosh users. I always get the feeling they think they exist
>on some higher plane, where we all would be if we just weren't such
>stupid, unwashed heathens. When they chime in to one of the platform
>discussions, I feel like the right wing Christians are knocking at my
>door with some bibles and pamphlets. I want to close the curtains and
>hide in the closet.

I really don't mind religious fanatics coming to my door any more (as long as
they don't wake me up).  I always thank them profusely for their
thoughtfulness and concern, explain that I have no religious beliefs
whatsoever and wish them a nice day.  I insist that they keep their
literature because it would only be wasted on me.  It never takes more
than 2-3 minutes.  I think I am going to start dealing with people who talk
about their pet computer platform with religious fanaticism the same way.  I
think its best for everyone that way.  Its hopeless for you to get them to see
the truth.  They generally mean well.  So I'll thank them and send them on
their way.  I'll leave it to reality to burst their bubble, if they ever find
themselves confronted with it in a way they cannot ignore.  I have more
important stuff to do.


_________________________________________________________________
Walter (Jay) Turberville   |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
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Subject: Re: Intel version problems...
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In article <3urhdl$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Powell) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
>Subject: Intel version problems...
>Date: 22 Jul 1995 18:52:37 GMT


>        Hi all...

>        very sorry if this has been covered before....

>        P120, 32M EDO RAM, WFW 3.11, LW 4 pre-release.

>        Lightwave Scene menu reports:

>        ABOUT  Free Memory: 17.3M (RAM) + 103.8M (pa

Well, DOS eats some memory - so does Windows - so does SmartDrive.  And, of
course so does LightWave which you have obviously loaded in order to see the
menu.  Besides all that, I think Stuart mentioned some time ago that the
information isn't all that accurate anyway.  He said something disparaging
about how Windows handles memory in some brain dead kind of way.  I'm
guessing he is right.

>        My question is:  I seem to be missing > 10 Megs of RAM
>        (according to Lightwave)  is this a bug?  Does LW really not
>        'see' all of my memory?

>        Also, what the heck is "103.8M (pa" ?????

Page memory - or virtual memory - or some people will refer to it as a "swap"
file.  Windows will pretend you have a whole bunch of memory by substituting
disk space for RAM (semi-conductor) memory.  Its great for getting by and
avoiding memory shortages, but it does slow things down when you dip into it.

>        103Megs of page memory???


>        Lastly, a very simple wireframe preview causes one of my system
>        tools to warn me that I'm getting low on system resources
>        (which I find _very_ hard to believe) and then LW usually
>        seems to hand in some manner.

>        Another bug?

No bug.  Windows has a rather small amount of heap memory set aside for things
that are beyond my current understanding (I think of it as being analogous to
the Amiga's Chip Ram, but I'm sure that is full of innacuracies).  Anyway,
previews eat up this "heap".  No amount of RAM added will help.

>        Are there any work-arounds for these problems?

There is a program called RAM doubler that does attack this problem
specifically, but I found it slowed down LW rendering and made my system
somewhat more unstable.

I think Windows 95 will increase the amount of available "resources" (heap),
and I don't even know if it is an issue with Win NT.  I suggest you get Win NT.


>        Thanks,

>        -Mike-

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>         I just installed 95.  Photoshop comes up with a warning
> (actually win95 generates it) the first time saying it may not run
> right.
> Other than finding out Kai Power Tools don't run in photoshop (they work
> in photostyler) it runs fine.  I decided to go with 95 because I still
> need all that DOS compatibilty for older programs and games.
>
>         Most people I talk to though agree NT is a better choice.

Am I right in saying that NT is more memory hungry than 95?

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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter J.
Turberville (III)) writes:
>
>In article <3urb26$[e-mail]> [e-mail]
writes:
>
>>I guess I have seen some pretty fanatical Amiga users, yes. But
>>please, if anyone treats their computers like "sacred holy relics",
it
>>
>I really don't mind religious fanatics coming to my door any more (as
long as

>
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>_________________________________________________________________
>Walter (Jay) Turberville   |[e-mail]  [e-mail]


Simple way to deter religious fanatics from knocking on your door -
Draw a chalk outline of a body on the walk outside your door and
scatter some religious pamphlets around.  Works like a charm :)

Jeff S Haynie
Fourth Dimension Productions

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> Windows NT can read regular FAT(File allocation tables) hard drives but
> can also format the drive with its own version ntfs,I think, which
> allows it to use the extended file names rather than the limit in
> Windows 3.1.

> Jeff S. Haynie
> Fourth Dimension Productions

Not actually so.
 NT is able to use FAT and NTFS volumes.
 FAT is the same system as Dos/Windows, but NT uses a workaround which
allows long filenames which are visible to NT applications. In DOS they
appear as unique but meaningless 8.3 file names.

When running NT,  FAT is actually faster, and provides more backward
compatibility (for instance you may want to use Image Alchemy to change
all TGAs to JPeGs).  NTFS has a few benefits like allowing individual
files of have different access status.

Glyn Williams

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Searching for a Lightwave skull object but can convert it.  Have a small
budget available for an accurate model (not quite enough coin to afford a
commercial object, figures).

Thanks,
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On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Brad Bowman wrote:

> Lee,
>
> My thoughts exactly; however, whenever I have said anything as such, I have
> needed a fire estinguisher beside my news reader.


Why, Mr. Bowman whatever did you do before Lightwave was available for
your platform. You sound like one of the students that got a discount on
3DS and now work for a big company's department that has Lightwave.

I can't recall you contributing anything that has been of a helpful
nature. Of course, I admit that I soon learned to delete your post
without reading them.

Reading this was the result of pressing d after reading the message pior
to yours, instead of i for index.


The Amy Bigots weild large flame throwers
 (I wonder if that is to compensate for a lack of size in other areas).
>
Well it seems you've no lack of balls, so your's must be to compensate for
lack of brains.
 >
 Steve


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Well,
I know that grouping is not yet available for us with 20 or more lensflares in
a scene.
But if you are using LW on a PC here is a trick.
Windows comes with a little macro maker called recorder.

It records every action you make from the time you start to the time you stop
it.  (mouse cliks, and keybord entries)

So let's say you want to change the flare intensity of 30 lights.
Just open the recorder on top of LW lights panel/flare panel, ans start
recording.
then press the down arrow, enter the new intensity.  then hit alt-tab to
choose the recorder now you can play back the macro you just recorded in a
loop! just stop it when it gets to the last light.

It's not quite grouping, and without Arexx on the PC, this is the next best
thing.  If you get creative you can even do things you could never do w/ arexx.
i have to admit though, it is a little clumsy way of doing it.  But it saves
you some time.

Sergio Rosas
.




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Matt Perry wrote:

> Is there a place where I can get the specs on the LightWave motion curve
> file format?  I need to exchange motion data (for camera and objects)
> between SoftImage and LightWave.

Get out your pencil.  LW motion files are ASCII text files that look some-
thing like this:

LWMO                 < this is a LW MOtion file
1                    < version 1
9                    < each key is defined by 9 coordinates
2                    < there are 2 keys (can be any number)
0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 1 1   < x y z heading pitch bank x-scale y-scale z-scale
0 0 0 0 0            < frame-number linear tension continuity bias
0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 1 1   < x y z heading pitch bank x-scale y-scale z-scale
15 0 0 0 0           < frame-number linear tension continuity bias

The linear flag is "1" if Spline Controls/Linear is turned on for that
keyframe and "0" if it's off.  I don't happen to know how SoftImage
interpolates motion, which will of course have an effect on how much
the motions look the same in the two programs.

- Ernie


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On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Justin Barrett wrote:

> On 17 Jul 95, Richard spoke up and said:
>
> Ri> I think one of the back issues of VTU did an article on the Robo Jr.
> Ri> anim.  Among other things they told how he did the pouring oil effect.
>
> I asked this some time ago, but never received much of a response:  does
> anyone know where the Robo Jr. anim can be seen (on tape)?  I've been
> wanting to see it ever since the "teaser" pieces that NewTek threw into
> one of their demo tapes.
>
>          Justin Barrett - [e-mail] - 1:350/401
>     Free Spirit Productions   -   Northland Cable   -   Peninsula College
>
>  * Q-Blue 2.1 *
>
>
Right after the article appeared, the fellow that did Robo Jr. was on
FIDO net. I'm sorry I don't remenber his name. Either he or someonelse
would send you a copy, if you sent a prepaid tape.

It, not only, was Robo Jr, but the whole show that was aired on the FOX
Affiliate in, I believe, Detroit. He explained how he developed the story
line, created the SFX and music.

He then had a Gala Premier at the Fox Theater with a dozen or so kids. It
was great. He's a real HAM.

Sparks was kinda developed and use for Robo Jr. So the author of Sparks
(again bad with names) might be able to give you a hand, if he's not to busy.

Steve


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Phil South ([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.

: Yes, Amigas suck because they are long overdue for a new OS, and PCs suck
: because they just got one but it's the same as the Amiga OS of
: yesteryear. Isn't life strange???

This is how I feel also!!

-Aaron


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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J Eric Chard) writes:
>
>>>
>>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 an
>d
>>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 o
>r
>> knobs
>>on the mesh so you can see them to paint them, or to add rust, etc.  I then en
>l
>>arge
>>this on the screen to the size I think I want the bitmap texture and
I capture
>>it
>>using Corel Capture,
>
>
>    Well, my process has the advantage of not having to find a
screen
>    capture utilitiy if you don't happen to have one.
>
>    Which, for example, to my knowledge I do not.
>
ARe they that hard to find, I have a couple of freinds I hipped to this
idea and they had no problem finding a screen capture utility, and it
wasn't Corel Capture.


Brad


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Stranahan ([e-mail]) wrote:
: 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
Well, I've been networked to a bunch of Pee-Cees for quite awhile now.  Hmm.
I guess I've been dreaming for 3 years now
: - flicker problems
Picasso II = heaven
: - problems with large drives
Hmm, again I've been running a 1.6G, 1.0G and a 1.89GB for awhile.
: - expensive
Looked at an Alpha Lately?
: - on-board video limitations
Oh yea?  Like what?
: - very limited software selection
Ive got all the software resources I need to do the job.

: the Amiga. And the future is NOT the Amiga - the magazines and developers

Gee, with statements like that by those who bailed out on it, its no wonder.



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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J Eric Chard) writes:
>        Well, my process has the advantage of not having to find a screen
>        capture utilitiy if you don't happen to have one.

>        Which, for example, to my knowledge I do not.

>>
>>Brad
>>

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I'm not sure if this applies, but in Windows (not sure about NT) the
PrintScreen button copies the screen contents to the clipboard.  So basically,
all Windows users have a screen capture built in.  This may not apply to you,
but I figured it bears repeating for those out there who are unaware of this
feature.

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In article <[e-mail]> Ernie Wright <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Intel version problems...
>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 05:58:46 -0400

>>> Lastly, a very simple wireframe preview causes one of my system
>>> tools to warn me that I'm getting low on system resources
>>> (which I find _very_ hard to believe) ... Another bug?
>>
>> No bug.  Windows has a rather small amount of heap memory set aside for
>> things that are beyond my current understanding ... Anyway, previews
>> eat up this "heap".  No amount of RAM added will help.

>Bug.  This should be fixed in the final.  (LW pre-release is using about
>240 bytes of GDI local heap per frame, and in Win 3.x there's only about
>32K of this to go around.)

>- Ernie

I'm not a programmer, so I won't argue the point.  I guess I have simply
gotten used to dealing with this shortcoming of Windows over the years.



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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] ("Phil South") writes:
>From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
>Subject: Re: windows nt 3.51 or 95???
>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 10:17:33 GMT

>>         I just installed 95.  Photoshop comes up with a warning
>> (actually win95 generates it) the first time saying it may not run
>> right.
>> Other than finding out Kai Power Tools don't run in photoshop (they work
>> in photostyler) it runs fine.  I decided to go with 95 because I still
>> need all that DOS compatibilty for older programs and games.
>>
>>         Most people I talk to though agree NT is a better choice.

>Am I right in saying that NT is more memory hungry than 95?

Yes.  NT wants 12M.  Not sure about 95, but it must be 8M or less.  All
accounts I have seen so far show that 95 beta is slower at rendering LW frames
than NT.  NT is the OS of choice unless you simply cannot afford it.  I intend
to be on it by the time NewTek releases the "for real" version of LW 4.0.


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>
>
>>>>
Ido not know which version of ALIAS you guys have or what SGI you have but it has been my experience that the only advantage the SGI software has over
LIGHTWAVE IS the fact that you can model and preview in near real time! With an INDIGO EXTREME you can even change textures and image maps in real time for
your client! Since SGI's are expensive and the cheapest program that realy is above LIGHTWAVE (ELECTROGIG) costs 8000 bucks it may still be another mans
ballgame but the fact remains that LIGHTWAVE still has a way to go before you compare it to the big boys. I love LIGHTWAVE but it still comes up just a few hairs
short of incredible online modelling.


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I know this is probably obvious, but how do you create single point polys
in LW4 Intel without the use of the POint->polys Macro?

regards

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Gee whiz guys, can't we all just get along??   ;-)

If you're an Amiga owner and you're still happy with it, then fine...don't
worry, be happy.

If you dumped your Amiga system recently and you thank Allah (or whoever)
every day that you did, then fine...congratulations on successfully making
the transition.

If you have no life, lots of time on your hands, and don't mind living in
debt up to your double-chins (like me!) then clear out a space on your
computer desk(s) and add another machine to the pile.  I can't wait until
I'm able to network my Amigas to an Alpha and render images out to my
Vectrex!!

--
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Torger ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Is anyone out there using MacroForm? and is it worth 200 bucks?

Yes and yes!  I've only had it in my hands for 3 days now, but I like it a
LOT....look for a full review on issue #3 of LightSpeed.

--
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Jeffrey S. Haynie ([e-mail]) wrote:
: >I really don't mind religious fanatics coming to my door any more (as
: long as
: >
: >(Stuff deleted)
: >_________________________________________________________________
: >Walter (Jay) Turberville   |[e-mail]  [e-mail]

: Simple way to deter religious fanatics from knocking on your door -
: Draw a chalk outline of a body on the walk outside your door and
: scatter some religious pamphlets around.  Works like a charm :)

(...hating myself for contributing to this waste of bandwidth, but...) I
found it best to just invite them in and ask them, "Have you considered
Amway Products?...". Works like a charm, too!

: Jeff S Haynie
: Fourth Dimension Productions
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From: [e-mail] (Rotor)
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  I've got PhotoShop running on my Amiga 3000! For those of you who have an Amiga and have not
seen ShapeShifter you gotta D/L it! (From Aminet)... For a $40 registration fee (which is
optional...as you can run the ShareWare version fine...just is a little slower) you get a
VERY solid Mac emulator.  I got a used GVPSpectrum card for $200 and an extra 4MB of RAM (now
have 12MB) and now can run PhotoShop in 24bit- AND IT RUNS ALMOST AS FAST AS OUR QUADRA!

  PhotoShop is the most incredible image manipulation software! (Not batch processing like
ADPro though :( )  Between PhotoShop and Fractal Design Painter there's narry a texture you
can't create!  I also just ordered FD Poser, a utility that lets you position Human figures
easily to create 'poses'- It's my hope that, as it exports DFX files, I can use the poses as
morph targets to move human figures in LW!  - not I'm trying to save up for RanderMan!



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> Is the hard drive format under WinNT the same as it is under DOS.
> I'm wondering because I would like to use an P100 NT box to render to
> an external Hard drive, then use cross dos on the Amiga to lay the
> images to tape.
>
Yes,
        NT can use a variety of disk formats, including DOS's FAT (File
allocation table) method. Also NT cheats and allows long file names in
FAT if you wish to do so.

Glyn Williams



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>>- expensive
>
>Well, I can't really argue with this one. Hopefully this will change
soon.

Escom have just announced their first Amiga products will be in the shops
in September. First up to the bat is the Amiga 1200 some 50UKP *more*
expensive than it was under Commodore.

Hmmmmm

Glyn Williams

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[e-mail] (Michael Powell):
( Is is this one, or comp.craphics.pacakges.lightwave????

    comp.graphics.packages.lightwave is slated to be rmgroup'ed by 21 August.

                                            Steve <[e-mail]>

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I am planning to buy a used SGI with WaveFront... I am wondering how easy
it would be to exchange 3D objects with my Amiga running LW 3.5 and my
SGI running Wavefront?  Will Pixel3D do it?  InterChange?  How much do
these cost these days?  Will I be able to keep all the surfaces,
heirarchy, etc of the objects or will these be lost during conversion?

Or is there a better way of doing this I may have overlooked??

Thanks much..

PS.  Will the SGI be able to read PC formatted 1.44Mb disks or ?? What is
the best way I could swap files on the two machines??

thanks again.

suraj


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Is the hard drive format under WinNT the same as it is under DOS.
I'm wondering because I would like to use an P100 NT box to render to
an external Hard drive, then use cross dos on the Amiga to lay the
images to tape.

Thanks

Jeffrey C. Jones
[e-mail]

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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Candyman) writes:

>>(sniffing the armpit ala kevin kline in "a fish called wanda") i say
>>"a**hole!!!":-)

>>we're not bigots,  just right:-)

>>greg

> hmm how many platforms can you say You work on? HMm?


>       Those who perceive the as yet unnamed,are Vagabonds.

hmmmm....let me see.  at home it's my amigas (ks40.61/wb 3.1) and a dx2/80
(warp).

at work sparc station ii, apollo, the occasional mac, and my own "personal"
piece-o-shit gateway2000 dx2e.

i r enjinear and  i must use many platforms and op-sys's :-)

that is all,
greg

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From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Monsarrat)
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                      Art Design / Modelling Wanted
                        for Computer Game Company

      Second Nature is a PC games company in Providence, Rhode Island,
      which is about to release an (our lawyer stopped us from saying
      more) entirely new kind of computer game. We are looking for
      one or two full time employees ASAP for art design and modelling
      in Lightwave, to help out our current three artists. Applicants
      should have their own computer and experience in PC or Amiga lightwave.
      The ideal applicant would enjoy fantasy roleplaying genres and
      the type of art that goes into such a game.

      Because we're a new company, we're offering not only money, but
      also stock in the company for motivated self-starters. This is a
      great opportunity to own a piece of a rising star, and work on a
      state-of-the-art project.

      The company, having been founded by computer hackers, has a
      great work environment. Unfortunately, we can only accept people within
      driving distance of Providence.

      For more information, call Second Nature at 508-252-3915.

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Steve,

If you had read my previous posts you would realize that I have been an Amiga
user since 1987. I have been doing 3-D since Sculpt Animate was first released.
I guess that means I have 8 years experience with the Amy. I also have been
trained on the Genegraphics 3-D software as well as Imagine and LW. I use the
Video Toaster for editing as well as the MiroDC1 card on the PC for AVI editing.
I am the one who recommended my department getting the Amy and the Toaster
system four years ago. My computer illustration work has won two honorable
mentions in Corel's design contest and I have won third place in the now defunct
Amigo Times animation contest. My animations have appeard in AT&T satellite
broadcasts that have been seen by AT&T employees worldwide. I own an Amiga 500
at home and have an accelerated 2000 complete with Toaster and tons of graphic
software. I have been using LW since version 2.0 on the Amy and gladly jumped
ship when it was released on the PC. As far as being a student, I have a degree
in Commercial Art Technology and a started a filmaking degree but pulled out due
to the expensive nature of the courses.

As far as the Amy Bigots weilding large flamethrowers, your last post just
proves it. Before you go off half-cocked maybe you should find out who you are
trying to flame.

So Steve, lighten up. There are better things to be angry about like the Bosnian
war or the current administration. But being so defensive of using a particular
machine is a bit ridiculous.



Brad Bowman
Technical Consultant and 3D Animator - AT&T Global Information Solutions - Dayton, Ohio
If you think your job is boring, you probably need to upgrade your software
The Views Expressed by Me are Not Neccessarily the Views of AT&T (Mine are Cool)



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Soundcards compatible with the Windows Sound System will also work.



Brad Bowman
Technical Consultant and 3D Animator - AT&T Global Information Solutions - Dayton, Ohio
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The Views Expressed by Me are Not Neccessarily the Views of AT&T (Mine are Cool)



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In article <3umlrf$[e-mail]>,
Stranahan <[e-mail]> wrote:

>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..

Yeek.

>- no networking support

*cough* What do you mean by that? You can ftp AmiTCP 4.0 right off of Aminet.
Plus there's other TCP/IP stacks like AS225. Or Amiga-only oriented networking
on the cheap systems like ParNET.

>- flicker problems

Even using the shitty onboard video you can get 640x512 non-interlaced.
But then why would you stick with the onboard video? Get a 64-bit gfx card
like the Piccolo SD64 or CyberVision 64.

>- problems with large drives

The OS device drivers are limited to 32-bit block numbers, which creates
a 4 gigabyte limit. There's a 64-bit patch though that lets you use bigger
drives.

>- expensive

Well, I can't really argue with this one. Hopefully this will change soon.

>- on-board video limitations

So don't use the on-board video. Use a graphics card. Save the on-board
video for use with a genlock.

>- very limited software selection

Depends on what you consider very limited... :-) I don't think I have even 1%
of all the software for the Amiga.

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

Cuddling up with Bill Gates is always a safe bet. He's rich and he rules the
world.

Yet somehow I can't bring myself to align myself with him. I think it'd leave
me feeling rather hollow and cheap.

---

James Sellman -- Idaho State University           | "Lum, did you just see
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In article <[e-mail]>, Stephen
Nevins <[e-mail]> wrote:


> > On 17 Jul 95, Richard spoke up and said:
> >  I think one of the back issues of VTU did an article on the Robo Jr.
> >  anim.  Among other things they told how he did the pouring oil effect.
> >

It was VTU. OCT-NOV issue of 93.



> On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Justin Barrett wrote:
>
> > I asked this some time ago, but never received much of a response:  does
> > anyone know where the Robo Jr. anim can be seen (on tape)?  I've been
> > wanting to see it ever since the "teaser" pieces that NewTek threw into
> > one of their demo tapes.

It is heavily copyrighted.  NewTek was limited by what the author would
let them do. I'd suggest trying to contact the author. It may be available
somewhere, but I've not seen it. I'd be interested tho.

<<<<=======================================================================
    Richard Norman                              [e-mail]
      AMIGA --- Amazing Multitasking Interactive Graphics & Animation
          Amiga Networking FAQ   /pub/aminet/docs/help/anetfaq.lzh
                          Inputs appreciated!
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>> ... and I capture it using Corel Capture,

> Well, my process has the advantage of not having to find a screen
> capture utilitiy if you don't happen to have one.
>
> Which, for example, to my knowledge I do not.

Just FYI, everbody has one under Windows.  Hit the PRINT SCREEN key to
copy the entire screen to the clipboard, or ALT-PRINT SCREEN to copy
the active window.

- Ernie


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In article <3uto97$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Suraj Gulrajani) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Suraj Gulrajani)
>Subject: Exporting from LW to WaveFront
>Date: 23 Jul 1995 15:01:59 GMT

>I am planning to buy a used SGI with WaveFront... I am wondering how easy
>it would be to exchange 3D objects with my Amiga running LW 3.5 and my
>SGI running Wavefront?  Will Pixel3D do it?  InterChange?  How much do
>these cost these days?  Will I be able to keep all the surfaces,
>heirarchy, etc of the objects or will these be lost during conversion?

>Or is there a better way of doing this I may have overlooked??

>Thanks much..

>PS.  Will the SGI be able to read PC formatted 1.44Mb disks or ?? What is
>the best way I could swap files on the two machines??

>thanks again.

>suraj

You can export DXF from LW and you can also use IC PLUS which I use. Be warned
that they do not always trun out as you expect but for the most part it works
pretty good. The only problems I have seen are with Imagine objects. Your best
bet  for file exchange is networking. I am using PCNFS for NT3.5 to transfer
files back and forth between my Amiga, Pentium and Indigo2. ANd of course I
have NFS for the Amiga as well.


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I think overt flamewars like this are useless.  The concern, however,
which I feel is valid, is that it won't take long before the Amiga is
"ghettoized" by the throng of cloners who will soon (if they aren't
already) dominating the scene.  Like some kind of warped Cthulhu
allegory, the machine that had it first may be disrespected by the
machines which now have it and run it faster than even an 060 Amiga can
do.  I don't mind the occasional clone-based thread, but I don't want it
to come to the point where someone starts asking Amiga-related questions
and gets shat on by the new majority of Cloners.  Respect should be paid
for the platform which originally popularized the software all these
people now enjoy on their own platform.  Anyone who decides to continue
to use LW on the Amiga (and certainly if nothing else, the Toaster/Flyer
hardware is a valid reason to do so) should not be stigmatized or made to
feel uncomfortable.


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Does anyone know how to get macros? What site has modelling macros
for LightWave 4.0 PC? NewTek won't release Final Version for another
month. Am I the only one on the PC lost for macros? Thank-You


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Subject: Front projection mapping
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subjebject: Front projection mapping


 Hello,
   I got LightSpeed this past weekend. After viewing the tape I loaded
the tutorial for front projection mapping and it was fine. However
 when I try to do Front projection mapping my planes created in modeler
 never seem to match the pic in Layout. Is there a specified resolution
 works best for this type of mapping ? I have been in the habit of generating
 hires images for years, could this be my problem ? I import
 thr pic in modeler, carefully apply the points, export it to layout and
 it is always very small in all demensions.

 -bill.
BTW I liked LightSpeed but would of rather had Dave Warners Scens files on the
 disk as opposed to the Vorlon object.

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From: Adam Chrystie <[e-mail]>
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there is one plugin on the tomahawk site...don;t have the
address infront of me now.
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Adam Chrystie [e-mail]
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
University Of California at Santa Cruz
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From: scorpio@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Rob K. Williams)
Subject: 3D Artist
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Does anyone know much about a magazine called 3D Artist?  I'm thinking bout a subscription but would like to know a little more
about the magazine.


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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: INTEL, Ami, or Alpha?
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> Gee whiz guys, can't we all just get along??   ;-)

(snip)

> If you have no life, lots of time on your hands, and don't mind living
> in debt up to your double-chins (like me!) then clear out a space on
> your computer desk(s) and add another machine to the pile.  I can't
> wait until
> I'm able to network my Amigas to an Alpha and render images out to my
> Vectrex!!

Agreed. I now have four machines on my desk, a Pentium, a 486, a A2000
and a Mac IIsi. What's the problem with liking more than one machine?
Everyone complains about their machines, it's a part of being into
computers to do what you do.

So, let's quit this machine-ist crap before we lose the thread.

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Phil South <[e-mail]>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: LightWave PC Macros, Where? How?
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> Does anyone know how to get macros? What site has modelling macros
> for LightWave 4.0 PC? NewTek won't release Final Version for another
> month. Am I the only one on the PC lost for macros? Thank-You
>

No, I'm pretty cross about not being able to centre things in the
modeller screen too! :?) Seriously are there going to be any macros
available for the PC in the near future? At the moment I'm having to do
the macro stuff in LW 3.5 on the Amiga dn port it across, which could get
a bit dicey as I  then have a notional limit of 720k on object size. (The
size of a PC disk. Okay sure I could link up TWIN and send them down the
null modem cable, but that's not a perfect solution, ie. it doesn't work
the whole time.

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Phil South <[e-mail]>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
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My name is Roberto Hradec.
before all, I have a terrible english... I'm sorry...

I am very interesting on your PAR-PC, but how we can
negociate it?

I am a credit card VISA.

You mail-me the board?

[]'s
Roberto Hradec
Brasil
São Paulo - SP



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maybe?

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Subject: DPS Par board wanted for PC, Please!
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Hello,

     Is anyone selling a DPS Par card for the PC. I want a used one
in new condition. If you live close to Vancouver; Please E-Mail me
regarding this board. Thank-You