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Rondude ([e-mail]) wrote:

| >Can someone explain, preferably better than the manul, just what World
| >Coordinates are, and where you might use them.  Thanks.

| Try this: Make a map of three color bars stacked horizontally, lets say RGB
| and load in layout.

A good example, here is a quick qualifying note.

Normally, when you move an object, any texture maping follows it, the
way you would normally expect things to behave.  World coordinates are
usefull for such things as windows, simple water effects, and an easy
way to make the surface of an object dissapear (in whole or in part)
against it's background.  (In simple cases, front projection mapping is
easier, and more reliable)


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In a conversation with NewTek tech, they confirmed that a toggle-less,
interface-less version of Lightwave will be included with the release of
LIGHTWAVE 4.1.  This software can be installed on any machine that meets
Lightwave specs and will do nothing but render scene files for you.


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From: Christopher McDonell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Amiga: keeps on rollin'
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On 16 Aug 1995, Darren Metcalfe wrote:

> [e-mail] (J Eric Chard) wrote:
>
> >    So it's flashing, flashing, flashing, so's I whap it a good one across
> >    the top.
> >
> >    Boots right up.
> >
> >    AMIGA FOREVER!
>
> Cool. Sounds a bit like either a loose ROM, a loose cpu card or a loose drive cable.
> My 2000 lived for 4 years with one screw in it (top middle rear), every once in
> awhile I'd pop the top and reseat anything I could get at. Preventative maintenance.
>
> --
> Darren Metcalfe
> [e-mail]
>
>
>
>
(Quickly checking to see how many screws currently in his 2000)

When I had my GVP 030 50MHz card, I used to get a flashing yellow screen,
(usualy right after I transported it to a live shoot) so I was always
popping of the top and reseating the cpu card.  One screw in the back held
on the lid.  Nowadays I feel so secure with my fusion forty (Knock on
silicon) I have actualy put two more screws in!  It still refuses to boot
occasionaly (dark grey screen, no drive light), but a powerdown always
fixes that. (Hardboot with steel toes!) My 4000 works fine don't know why
I mostly use the 2000.  Doh!

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Hansen)
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Subject: Win32 Errors
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:21:25 -0800
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I'm getting Win32 Errors while rendering the more complicated scenes that
come with LW pre-release 4.0.  I run Win. 3.1 on a 486 with 24 Mb of RAM.
I'm using the Win32s that comes with LW.

I've struggled with this for a couple of months now.  Have you seen this
problem before?

Thanks,
Kevin Hansen

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From: [e-mail] (Dan Bloomfield)
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-> It will be possible to buy a bunch of old 486s and put in 8 megs of
-> RAM on each of them.  The 486s will do nothing but sit and
-> render....you dont need to put gobs of memory.  You can have a "big"
-> Alpha or Pentium and a bunch of lowly 486s to do quite a bit of the
-> dirty work.
I'd be interested in knowing why you think you'd only need 8 megs of ram
to render. True you save a little ram by not running the LW interface,
but in my experience with ScreamerNet each machine needs to load the
entire scene, objects, images and all, and therefore needs almost as
much ram as the host machine. Besides, if you're running Windows NT the
OS alone needs more than 8 megs. You might be able to render simple
scenes with 16 bit Windows but with a crippling speed penalty, and
forget about anything complicated unless you want to render almost
entirely in virtual ram, and lose all the speed benefits of a render
farm.

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From: [e-mail] (Dan Bloomfield)
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Subject: Re: What is World Coordinates?
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Date: 18 Aug 95 21:04:00 GMT
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-> In contrast, when a texture is mapped onto a surface, it is mapped
-> using the internal coordinates of the object; the coordinates
-> specified when you model something in Modeler. For instance, if you
-> build a cone in Modeler with the tip of it at 0,0,0 in Modeler,
-> surface textures will be mapped with the tip as the center point for
-> the texture. If, however, you specify World Coordinates as a surface
-> setting, surface textures will be mapped from the 0,0,0 point of
-> Layout.

-> Alan Chan
-> Vision Digital
You neglected to mention that textures with world co-ordinates turned on
do not move with the object, so that it's main use in my experience is
to cause a texture to move through a moving object but stop moving when
the object stops. Example: the shark object only "swims" when it is
moving because it's displacement map has world co-ords turned on.

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson)
Subject: Earth globe maps for image wrapping
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 14:15:30 LOCAL
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Hi
Anyone know where I can get a good detailed map of the Earth for wrapping
around a globe?

I've got a couple of fairly low res ones, but I'd like a nice detailed
photo-realistic one, about 2000 to 3000 pixels resolution.

Is there such a thing available on the Net. If not where can I buy one in
Australia?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: [e-mail] (Jrmdd)
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Subject: Tomahawk  ftp site
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All you lightwavers out there - check out ftp://tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu
It's a neat site for lots of LW stuff.

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From: [e-mail] (Alan Chan)
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In article <Pine.SV4.3.91.950818191136.377D-100000@cello>, [e-mail] says...
>
>For those of you who didn't make it to Siggraph, there is a new Lightwave
>book we are releasing very shortly written by Alan Chan.  THe book is
>very well written and covers how to set up some very popular scenes.
>It's called "The FX Kit for Lightwave" and is even spiral bound for easy
>referencing.  It's over 300 pages and just a few of the chapters cover

I'm blushing.....  :)

Questions and queries are welcome. My new server should be able to handle the email
without crashing regularly....


Alan Chan
Vision Digital
[e-mail]


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Does anyone else have a problem loading PS fonts into the new TPaint?  I'm
usisng Version 4.04 of the Flyer and I can't load any fonts in TPaint.  As
soon as I click "make brush," I get a guru.  Tech support didn't have much
to say other than recommend that I upgrade to 4.04 which I did with no
luck.  I suspect it's some kind of configuration problem, as LW loads the
fonts fine.  Any ideas?

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From: [e-mail] (Stephen J Gaudet)
Subject: Re: Q: does the DPS PAR work for Alpha?
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Stephen J Gaudet ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hello

: Can someone tell me the truth, does DPS have a PAR board that works for
: Alpha?  I'd like to hear from people that are using it now.  Any news,
: comments, good, bad, whatever.

Correction I was refering to the PVR.

Thank you,

 Steve
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From: [e-mail] (C J)
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Subject: Windows 95 & LW
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Has anyone else tried using LW with windows 95...  Just finished
installing Windows 95 on a P100 with 20meg of memory.  It seem to
render slower then Win3.1 did.  But is more stable on Windows 95.  Any
suggestions on setting ect....

Chuck


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From: [e-mail] (Dan Bloomfield)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave 3.5SA Upgrade Deadline Extended
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-> Well... is 4.0/Amiga going to be out by Aug 31?  That's a pretty
-> critical point to know.
->
-> I know these things:
->
-> 1. I will not buy the upgrade before it exists.
-> 2. I will not pay full price for version 4.0.
As I understand it, that is only the deadline for upgrading to the PC
version's (Intel, MIPS, Alpha). The deadline for the Amiga version is
September 31st, based on a current estimate of when that product will
ship. If the release date slips I presume the offer will be extended
again. If you use a credit card to order there is no reason whatsoever
to delay. You will NOT be billed until the product ships. Think of it as
a free deposit.

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From: [e-mail] (Dan Bloomfield)
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Subject: Hope this will work now .
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-> Finally they told me everything is OK to SEND my messages to this
-> group . I allways could receive messages but my replys didn't came
-> through . So I hope this is fixed now.
->
-> Could somebody please reply to this to see if I actually get in ?
-> Thanks in advance and sorry for the troubles ...
->
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Hi Frank. It was very nice to meet you at the Wavey's and
congratulations to you and Grid Productions on the three Wavey's you
won. Your stuff was awesome.

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From: [e-mail] (Cathy/Thad Beier)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Blast, Mushroom Cloud Suggestions/Techniques Wanted
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In <[e-mail]> Ernie
Wright <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>Francisco X DeJesus wrote:
>
>> The mushroom cloud in "True Lies" was very nicely done, but it's
probably
>> too small to use for comparison.
>

Jamie Dixon and I worked on the blasts for both True Lies and
Fat Man - Little Boy.  We were both at PDI at the time, but have
since started our own little company.  Jamie was the effects
supervisor/animator, and I was the programmer.

Fat Man was the first blast that we did.  We used a particle system
of blobs, with some fire mapped on to it.  The fire was a lot of
fun, DreamQuest shot some huge blobs of MAPP gas in their parking
lot late one night, and we scanned the high-speed film that they
shot.  Blobs are not the right tool for the job.

For True Lies, we used a cloud renderer.  The renderer that I wrote
would render thousands of little cloudlets.  Each cloudlet was
defined as a 3D texture volume, with color and density defined at
each voxel.  These are raytraced, sort of like Jim Blinn's
Lighting Participating Media (or something like that) paper in
Siggraph '82 or '83.  For True Lies, I had to add local lights,
adding a bright light to the center of the roiling cloud mass
really added that malevolent look.

Jamie did a great job, I think, comping in something brighter
(and closer!) than the sun into a daylight shot.  Someone else
mentioned that the actors did not respond to it...that was the
whole joke!  Geez.

Jamie collected a lot of good bomb material.  If the FBI ever
raids his bookshelf, he's got some explaining to do.

Thad Beier
Technology Development
Hammerhead Productions


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Mojo ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Finally got on the net, so whoever wants to bitch at me can finally do
: so to my smiling face :-)

Hey cool!  Welcome to the newsgroup....now I can ask you the one question
that has been consuming my conscious thoughts:  Is Elvis really dead?  =)


--
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From: [e-mail] ()
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Subject: Re: Networking Amiga and PC
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[e-mail] wrote:
: In article <41i03e$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Lumbers) writes:
: >From: [e-mail] (David Lumbers)
: >Subject: Networking Amiga and PC
: >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:39:12 GMT

: >Hi All,

: >I'm thinking of setting up a small network to link my Amiga 3000,
: >P100, and DX33 so that I can xfer image files between them, and maybe
: >even try out screamernet for rendering.  PC ethernet cards are cheap,
: >but what cards do people use for the Amiga?  Just quickly looking
: >around, they seem to be about 6 times the price (around $400
: >canadian).  Anyone have any suggestion as to where I might find a
: >little cheaper card??

: >Thanks.
: >David Lumbers,
: >Toronto.
: >David Lumbers - Lumbers Graphics and Video.
: >Email: [e-mail]

: I suggest using the Hydra card for the Amiga since it is the easiest to
: configure. Look in the Amiga for sale newsgroups.


I hope this isn't considered misuse of this group. I just so happen to
have a three HydraNet cards for sale. $300 each.

-Aaron Estrada
  [e-mail]

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Subject: How to envelope lens flares?
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How would I envelope lens flares so they will appear at frame 20 and
disappear completely at frame 30? I'm just trying to create a flash
effect.

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> >How would I envelope lens flares so they will appear at frame 20 and
> >disappear completely at frame 30? I'm just trying to create a flash
> >effect.
>
>
>       Since Lee already answered this, I'll take this potshot:
>
>       If you know "envelope", doesn't that kinda answer the question?

Click the E button next to the light value, you get a graph. Insert a key
frame at 20 and another at 30. Set the value at frame 0 to 0%, at frame
20 make it 100% or whatever, and at 30 make it 0% again.

Is that enough?

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Subject: Re: NEWTEK BLOWS IT AT SIGGRAPH!!!!!!!!! THE SHMUCKS!
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> ----------
>  I just care about where Stuart and Allen go, being only interested in
> LW.
> Since you are also dependent on LW, don't you wish good things for
> Newtek?
> -----------

Couldn't Lightwave find a home with Play Inc if things went really wrong?
:?) Just a thought.

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You can create MPEG and FLI and AVI from Image FX, I think.

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> Realistically, the flash would white out the whole frame.  The light
> seems to come from everywhere, and by the time that dies down, the
> fireball is a dull glow inside a cloud.  I can't recall seeing an
> actual lens flare in any of the old above-ground footage, although I
> could be wrong.

A 1000% lens flare whites out the screen pretty good.

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The envelope would go

FRAME           VALUE
0                        0
20                      0 (Turn LINEAR on)
25                      100
30                      0


This would make the flare invisible for the first 20 frame, then it would
flare up to 100% and back off by frame 30


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan


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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: LWPRO Magazine?
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JBooth411 ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Yes, I can see why you might want just Lightwave pro, but the article I
: was refering to was one by Mojo about switching to the PC platform from
: amiga - not something a non-amiga owner would be interested. So they
: should have just left that article in VTU and not printed it in LWPro,
: besides, out of a nine page 'zine I'd like to see only articles that are
: about LW. Not about the differences in amiga's and PC's. I think most
: people are aware of that, and can learn the differences without paying
: aprox. $1 a page to find out.

If memory serves, That article first appeared in LWPRO. Also LWPRO has
had 18 pages each since the second issue (Dec, 93).

JGross
editor. LWPRO

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Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]> wrote:

>[e-mail] (Glenn Saunders) wrote:

>>Some people want to move files from PC to Amiga too--as unlikely as it seems.

>Not unlikely in my case. Partly because I'm unfamiliar with some PC apps and
>partly because I _know_ what the one I have can't do, I send images from my PC
>to my Amiga every day. LW scenes tend to go the other way though. ;)

Yeah Like Batch Processing... How does one take 600 frames through
photoshop any way???
John Donlevie
Road-Ease, Inc
Phila. PA
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Glenn Saunders ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Are any of you annoyed with the way LWPRO disks are setup?

: The real problem is fucking Bill Gates who somewhere along the line
: decided that MS-DOS should change from the / to the \ character for
: directories.  The LWPRO disk is a 720K MS-DOS disk seemingly created for
: LW 4.0 prerelease.  This baffles me since to date it's just that, a
: prerelease!  So is LWPRO assuming that everyone is running beta-test
: software?  There is no mention of the fact that the scene files are full
: of this:
: OBJECTS\FOUNTAN.LWO
: bullshit and that for Amiga users (the only people who to date have an
: OFFICIAL version) have to do a search and replace on scene files to
: reverse the slashes before they become usable.

: I think I hate the reverse slash even more than the 8+3 limitation.

I may have made a mistake when converting scene files to the disk. LW4.0
will be able to read a scene file with slashes in either direction, and
if I set up the scenes on a beta Amiga version, I could see why they may
not be readable on a 3.5 and earlier version.... I will have to check to
confirm but that may be the problem.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

JGross,
editor, LWPRO

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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I was going to get Win95 because at Siggraph, one of the modelers there
said it was FASTER than on Win3.1. If it's slower, forget it.

Don

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The PAR card is great but you will be paying $1000 more because you need the
PAL version.    $2700 US for the PC-PAL version.

I just completed 10 animations for Australian Broadcasting and they required
PAL so I asume, you need PAL also.

Marc Dole 603-659-7778 Alpha Lightwave Animator * Amiga Re-Animator * Flyer
Pilot * AVID Media Composer 1000 junkie

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> If anyone needs to purchase ADPro's Abekas drivers now, I think they better
> familiarize themself with the letters S.O.L.  =(
>
> --
>                                      -David Warner
>

All you have to do is email your problem to [e-mail] and they will
give you an answer within the day.

BTW   Tell them everything about your system, it will help expediate things.
They told me last week that version 1.3 of the driver is being worked on.


Marc Dole 603-659-7778 Alpha Lightwave Animator * Amiga Re-Animator * Flyer
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In article <41jctt$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mojo) says:
>
>Finally got on the net, so whoever wants to bitch at me can finally do
>so to my smiling face :-)

So, Mojjy-wojjy, have you indeed "gone nuts"?


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In article <41hahh$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] () says:
>
>Jim Quaschnick ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: I haven't heard much talk about this, and am wondering if anyone else is
>: experiencing the same thing I am.  I'm running 3.5 Lightwave on my Amiga, and
>: 4.0 beta on my PC.

Well, you're running two different versions of the program.

I certainly hope they're different.


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In article <41j25c$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (R S Rodgers) says:
>
>I'm not going to pirate Lightwave.  I'm not going to cheat and use it on
>multiple machines (that's what netrender is for!).  I'm not going to give
>away copies on the sly.  All I want to do is avoid playing insert/remove
>games with a hardware dongle, so, if (when) I buy LW, can anyone say whether a
>dongle-remover exists?

Yes, but by the simple act of asking for a crack, you help fuel
the demand for a crack.  You make some cracker think that it would
be worthwhile to do it - mostly so they can charge their friends
for it.  Eventually, the cracked version leaks out, and then
thousands of people might never purchase LightWave.

>(Hope this is not a verboten topic.)

Of course it is!

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In article <[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld) wrote:
>I was going to get Win95 because at Siggraph, one of the modelers there
>said it was FASTER than on Win3.1. If it's slower, forget it.

One thing is for sure!  Win95 is MUCH slower for rendering than NT!  I was
shocked when a 25 minute render under NT went on for 50 minutes under Win95!
HOLY COW!  The only saving grace was that I could at least do some internet
stuff while it was doing it's thing (which may have added a few minutes but
after 25 minutes (and that was with NT doing the small preview window and
Win95 NOT!), I didn't care.  :/  Now that NT 3.51 service pack 1 has
stabilized NT a bit and the new update to the Win95 is also more stable, I'm
jumping over to NT again.  :)

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>      I've not tried this, but it seems to me it should work in theory.
> Try creating an anim sequence in Dpaint or some such of a white line
> that dissapears from left to right over the # of frames you need it to.
>  For example, in 30 frames, frame 1 would be the full white line while
> frame 30 the bar would have wiped away.
>      Now, using that sequence as a transparency map, you should be
> to make the stem seems like it is burning away.

Would it make sense to make it a clip map?

Phil (in not thinking too clearly mode...)

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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: PAR under Windows 95
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Well I've got my WIndows 95, but will me PAR still work if I install it?
Anyone tried this yet?

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    Okay, we have some animation projects coming up that just may
    involve more rendering than we can handle. Does anyone here have
    any experience with some Raptor Renering Services? What kind of
    rates are typically charged? I have a PAR for output, so I'm looking
    mainly to have the frames rendered, then sent back on an Exabyte
    tape.

    So, what's the hourly rate on, say, a Raptor 3 with that cool new
    300 MHz 21164 in it???

    Thanks!

    Eric Elliott
    The Rendering Plant, Inc.


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