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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Raydiosity and LightWave
Date: 21 Nov 1995 23:42:50 GMT
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We've got a copy of software at work called Lightscape which does highly
realistic radiosity in no time at all. It does exactly what you are talking
about, it generates the radiosity for a location once (takes a minute or two)
and then maps that data onto the surface geometry as an image map. This way,
after it's done rendering that one frame, you can rotate your room in real
time. You can also outout that image data to use as image maps in other
programs (if you've got a good programmer on staff). As far as Lightwave goes,
you'd have to cheat it with a bunch of fill lights (there was an article on
radiosity in Lightwave-PRO a few issues back).








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Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
Date: 22 Nov 1995 01:22:49 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>  In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gary Coulter)
writes:

>  >        I want to simulate the view through a fish eye lens <SNIP!>

>  Hmmm....  I think I answered this Saturday in a different newsgroup.  Anyway,
>  my idea was to create a perfectly reflective sphere and point the camera 180
>  degrees away from the scene but at the sphere. <SNIP!>

    What's the problem with adjusting the focal length?  After all, that's all
a "fisheye" lens is:  a lens with a very very short focal length?

    Is there something in the implementation that prevents this?  (If so, news
to me.)
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Subject: Anatomy Objects??
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Help!!

I need to find Anatomy objects for Lightwave (Amiga).  Specifically, I am looking for disarticulated
skeletal structures and a disarticulated circulatory system and musculature.

I have looked at the various software ads in Video Toaster User and found one batch of 25 objects.
However, I do not think that particular package will suit my needs (it appears that there are many
visceral  organs I do not need).

If you could guide me to a resource, I would appreciate it.

Please send e-mail.

Thanks in advance

Gary Sokoll


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From: [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart)
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Subject: WANTED: Cloud map for Planet earth
Date: 21 Nov 1995 18:52:40 -0800
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In a message dated 21 Nov 1995 19:16:18 [e-mail] writes:

C> Does anyone know where I could get my hands on a really hi-res spherical
C> cloud map for an earth-like planet (1.5k to 2k)? The ones that I have now
C> just don't hold up well in a closeup (too blurry and undefined). Any info
C> would be appreciated, short of painting one which would require an
C> ENORMOUS amount of tiny detail to get it looking like realistic cloud
C> formations.

     I used Forge and Essence's fractalcolor texture with a spherical
map setting at 1k x1k and it took 27 minutes on an old Amiga. If you've
still got one around it'll serve your needs. If you don't, give me a hail.
The maps look pretty good and you can layer additional textures to
simulate cloud depth within Forge (using their kinda alpha channel) or,
in Photoshop.
     I used the same maps for a long shot into the atmosphere and they
stood up pretty well.

 Cheers,

    Christopher

ps. Hey Glenn, yet another plug. When's a PC version ready? Bug, bug...


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From: [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: LightWave Tips and Tricks
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In a message dated Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19: [e-mail] writes:

G> Hi
G> I read in the LW newsgroup that you had put together a group
G> of assembled tips for LW.  I'm really a novice on INternet as
G> I use an old 286 Zenith at a Govmnt office and I'm not sure
G> of the protocol procedures,but, how do I receive this list
G> of tips? Sorry to ramble and thanks for your time.

     While the list is not assembled as any sort of manual, many
of the tips are in a tutorial format and provision has been
made for browsing as well as searches (through an admittedly
simple engine, whadda' ya want for free?). I'm afraid it's only
availiable through the WWW right now but you should be able to
view all through a non-graphical browser called "LYNX". I can't
mail it to you, it's BIG.

    Good Luck,

     Christopher

ps. The address of the site is in the tagline below,

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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: AVI problems with WIN95
Date: 22 Nov 1995 03:15:28 GMT
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[e-mail] (David Ballesteros Guillen) wrote:
>Hello to all, I'm a new user of Lightwave 4.0. The program is great,
>but I have problems trying to save AVI files in Windows 95. I tried
>copying the contents in the CD subdirectory  CONT32 (someone post that
>this runs) to my HD and I can't save AVI files too. Somebody save AVI
>files under Windows95? If the answer is yes, please e-mail me saying
>how you configured the Win95 and your Lightwave program.
>And there's go another question: Somebody knows how to make an .flc.
>The manuals say that you can do, but I can't find the option. Thank's
>

On installation LW 4.0 overwrites some key files in the Windows
directory that are necessary to save AVI's. The only solution I
know of (which has worked for perfectly for me) is to
do a complete re-install win95. This replaces the overwritten
DLL's and re-enables AVI saving. Don't forget to ad the .avi
extension when naming your animations, or they just won't save.
As far as saving .FLC's, I wouldn't know except that I think
it's only awailable for NT.
I hope the above is useful and that the problem works out.

-Andrew


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From: [e-mail] (Chris Hanson)
Subject: Re: Alpha Vendor of Choice: DCG Computers
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[e-mail] wrote:
: Hello All,
: I just want to tell you about my incredible experiences with a  great
: company that is selling DEC Alpha computers.  This company is DCG
: Computers and is run by Stephen Gaudet.
...
: You can contact DCG Computers at:
: 35 Otterson Rd.
: Londonderry NH  03053

: email: [e-mail]
: Voice: 603-421-1800
: FAX:   [phone]

: Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here within are the mine alone and
: not my company's.
: A happy owner of a new DEC Alpha System from DCG Computers
: email: [e-mail]


  I'll second Mr. Luther's recommendation. Steve Gaudet was willing to put
together a system comprising exactly what we needed for a good price. He
wasn't pushy or rude like ceratin other Alpha vendors I spoke with. More
importantly, he didn't try to sell me junk I didn't need.

  Buying our Alpha was like buying a clone. I liked it.

Chris - Xenon


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From: [e-mail] (Elfwork)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Would u be able to answer these questions???
Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:26:55 -0500
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In article <48q4q1$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(JBooth411) writes:
>First off, lightwave runs just as fast on 95 as NT. If you run the
screamernet shell...
> I think you'll find some other people on this newsgroup that agree with
me on this >(elfworks, for one)

Now where'd you get that impression?!? };^)>

I _DO_ agree!
(With exception for the PVR. WinNT allows it to create a virtual drive -
95 doesn't have the hooks in the filesystem to allow it [or something like
that.])

Erik Flom - ELF Works 3D Construction Co. (Est. 1992)

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Subject: Re: Windows NT and Lightwave
Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:29:34 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (candyman) writes:
>I have seen speed increases
>on the scenes I am making most right now on the 95 shell vs nt
>alone....btw wishing the alpha sn was on my box ..from the threads its
the
>ticket...

I DL'd the 95 shell for WinNT, but it seemed to take too much RAM on my
32MB machine. (And of course the PVR doesn't like it.....)
I'm starting to hear rumours of a WinNT 4.0.......

Erik Flom - ELF Works 3D Construction Co. (Est. 1992)

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From: [e-mail] (T0pJimmy)
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Subject: FS: Video-Animation Workstations
Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:56:38 -0500
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For Sale:

3 Amiga Video Toaster Workstations-

    VTW1:
        A2000
        1084s Monitor
        GVP 040/33 Processor
        16mb ram
        A2065 Ethernet card
        120mb HD & 40mb HD
        Video Toaster Board w/ 3.1 software
        $3100.00

    VTW2:
        A2000
        1084s Monitor
        GVP 040/33 Processor
        16mb ram
        A2065 Ethernet card
        202mb HD & 50mb HD
        Video Toaster Board w/ 3.1 software
        $3200.00

    VTW3:
        A2000
        1084s Monitor
        Progressive 040/28 Processor
        2mb Agnus chip
        32mb ram
        A2065 Ethernet card
        240mb HD
        1.2mb External Drive
        DPS PAR w\ 1.7gb HD
        DPS TBC IV card
        Video Toaster Board w/ 3.1 software
        $4600.00

I  will also throw in software for the first buyers.
I have 1copy of each title. First come first served
with choice of 3 titles per workstation:
    Axiom Anim Workshop
    Art Department Pro
    Adpro "Pro-Control"
    Morph Plus
    Dynamic Motion Module
    Pixel 3D Professional
    Image FX 2.0
    Personal Single Frame Controller
Ooops! I guess buyer #3 only gets 2 titles.

If interested e-mail me, [e-mail]


Jim Guyon
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Madness)
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>I did have the Newtek AVI option once but it's not there anymore. Which
>file contains the Newtek AVI plugin? I'm talking about Win95 here.

Well, for me its in the NEWTEK\PLUGINS\LAYOUT\ directory. its called NT_AVI.P
When you are in layout, go to options, add plug ins, surf to this directory,
and it should be there.


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Subject: FOR SALE: PAR Board, 1GB Hard Drive for it and 3d Studio v2
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:15:46 GMT
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Due to my financial Situation, I am forced to sell my Personal
Animation Recorder, and the 1GB Micropolis 2210A Hard Drive that goes
with it. Along with that, if you dont have an animation package I will
sell you 3D Studio version 2 to get you started.  The Par board is
NTSC format and will import TGA files and convert them and play them
at 752x480 24 bit in real time via Video cable, S-Video, or
MII/Betacam Component output.

If you have serious interest in purchasing it please e-mail me with an
offer and please... include your telephone # at which I can reach you
to dicuss it further.

Please e-mail me at [e-mail] or [e-mail]
or Telephone me at 306-931-3986.

Dion


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From: [e-mail] (Phillip Finch)
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In article <48u5eu$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Elfwork) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Elfwork)
>Subject: Re: Windows NT and Lightwave
>Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:29:34 -0500

>In article <[e-mail]>,
>[e-mail] (candyman) writes:
>>I have seen speed increases
>>on the scenes I am making most right now on the 95 shell vs nt
>>alone....btw wishing the alpha sn was on my box ..from the threads its
>the
>>ticket...

>I DL'd the 95 shell for WinNT, but it seemed to take too much RAM on my
>32MB machine. (And of course the PVR doesn't like it.....)
>I'm starting to hear rumours of a WinNT 4.0.......

If you haven't removed the New Shell, take a look at the system setup screen
when you boot NT. (Blue screen with processor type, RAM, etc)... With the New
Shell enabled, it should show that you're running version 4.0.

I would guess that the big change in the shipping version of 4.0 will be the
addition of the shell with its GUI and heirarchical file system. NT is too far
along to have any major fixes, and too new to be due for a huge overhaul.
Phil Finch ([e-mail])

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In article <48u39b$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart) writes:

>In a message dated Mon, 20 Nov 1995 21: [e-mail] writes:

>W> >Having worked with dolphins, I'd say John's advice is best: go look at
>W> >some footage of real dolphins. No matter how you decide to model, the
>W> >visual cues the viewer recieves from proper fin/tail/flipper movement
>W> >will impact believeability more than the quality of the model.


>W> Agreed.  I maintain that was one of the things that made Jurasic (sp?)
>W> Park's  animations so successful.  Great motions.



>     They watched footage of real dinosaurs?

I'll bet they watched footage of real lizards. Close enough...
Phil Finch ([e-mail])

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For sale;

Amiga 4000 /040 26 Meg RAM
XCaliber 040 Accelerator
Video Toaster 4000 Card
2 IDE Hard Disk Drives (1 Gig)
Golden Image Mouse
Keyboard

Sell to buyer with best offer.
E-mail back to this address.



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From: [e-mail] (FXMatte)
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Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
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I want to simulate the view through a fish eye lens (with around a 160
field of view) I could simply post-process the frames in say Photoshop,
BUT is there a way I can do this at render time using Lightwaves camera
settings, or something. Any ideas would be great ... Thanks in advance

Go to the camera panel and set the camera zoom factor to approx .233.
this gives you an appoximation of a 2mm lens.  And a 160 degree field of
view.

Because lightwave's camera can be set to any focal length with the zoom
factor setting you can go from impossibly long lenses to impossibly wide
angle lenses.

Hope this is the answer you were searching for.

Matt Merkovich
Area 51

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Screamer Net
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: Contrary to what the manual states, the install process did not create a
: subdir called Command, nor one called SN. I've never the less tried to
: follow the manuals instructions as to establishing where the command DIR
: is located with the LWSN.exe file via the SN panel, NOT initialize SN
: and exit LW and copy over the LW.cfg file.  When I run the commandline
: portion for LWSN.exe though, it starts but gets into a "Can't find job1"
: loop.  I have to Ctrl-C to get out of it.  Usually there'll now be a
: job1 file written.  If I try LWSN.exe again, I get a different error
: message or loop, but an ack1 file will be written.  Even so, ScreamerNet
: still isn't installed or initialized.

The manula does *not* state that. If you read carefully, you'll see that
it makes some assumptions about where you are placing it, but it does say
"Of course, make sure to replace the paths with your actual paths..." or
something very similar to that effect.

You will get a "Can't find job1" error if there is no jobs. This is
normal until you do an Init from the ScreamerNet panel (if the job files
aren't in the directory.)

JG

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: character eye movement
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:38:43 LOCAL
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In article <48rodr$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (PMshark) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (PMshark)
>Subject: character eye movement
>Date: 21 Nov 1995 00:34:51 -0500

>Hi!

>I'm trying some character animation for the first time.  My question is
>about simulating eye movement, ie., turns, blinks. pupil dialation, etc.
>What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I make a pupil object
>and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
>maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
>there an even better way?

>TIA

>PJ
>PJ
>[e-mail]
>Visual Designer

>"Look and you will find it--what is unsought will go undetected"
>SOPHOCLES

We use objects.  They are easy to resize and move while in Layout.  Make sure
you shape them correctly to geive good highlights etc.


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From: [e-mail] (RGarrison)
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Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
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In article <48s20g$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (William Teegarden) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (William Teegarden)
>Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
>Date: 21 Nov 1995 08:18:24 GMT


>>
>----->This guy better take some computer courses! CPU performance is
>far from clock
>>speed only. Well lets add 2+2, if a cpu with a lower clock speed can
>execute 5
>>instructions per clock cycle at half the speed of  a 300 mhz. DEC cpu
>at 1
>>per clock cycle at 300 mhz. which one is going to crunch the numbers
>faster,
>>Gee whiz? My advice for you is to read up on superpipelined cpu
>architecure. I
>>think your spending too much time under water so to speak.<----


>Well, I can only speak from experience about the performance of MIPS
>chips to DEC chips, and the DEC chips are hands down 2x faster at
>rendering identicle scenes than the current R4400 runnig at 250mhz.
>Since the R10k is expected to be about two to three times faster at
>floating point than it's predesessor, and the next generation Alpha two
>to four times faster than it's respectivly, it's easy to extrapolate
>that DEC will have the fastest rendering boxes out there for at least
>the next year.  Add one of the new OpenGL cards coming out now and the
>next few months to come, and you've got a nice setup, at a fraction of
>the cost of an comparable SGI.



>>

>>
>-->Why do these people insist the world revolves around LW? Too
>bad!<---

>What does LW have to do with processor speeds?  I don't recall stating
>that the world revolves around any particular package, you said that.
>If I wanted the best machine that would run the widest possible array
>of affordable software, I would buy a DEC.  Not many people can afford
>an SGI, not to mention the software.  While packages like Alias do
>offer many features not found in packages like LW, most people don't
>need that kind of functionality.  Besides, the header of this thread
>was "Which system should I go for to run LightWave??".  An SGI is NOT
>the best system to run it on, for a couple of different reasons.


>Aren't you the same guy who said earlier that the Indy was 50x faster
>than any PC?

>GT


Not quite! I happen to own Amigas, PC's and SGI's. My reply was in regards to
the gentleman requesting the best route  for purchasing a system to run
LW. I simply stated that I had the same choice awhile back and chose SGI simply
for an enormous amount of flexibility as compared to a comparably equipped
Alpha workstation. What more reason would somebody have to plunk down $15k
for a single machine to run a single program? This I do not understand? So the
only thing one can surmise at this point is that some people do not think that
life exists outside of LW. And this I find to be sad because they are missing
out on a world of oppurtunity. I had the same attitude towards SGI just like
everybody else until I could afford them of course. Picture the time when we
all had the same attitude towards PC's when we owned Amiga's. Well it's the
same thing here except that now all there are faster Alphas and PC's. The
Amiga still kicks both their asses in mutli tasking and smoothness of handling
graphics. Neither the Alpha or PC will ever compare under NT until these boards
get custom graphics chipsets like the Amiga or SGI. Until then they are just
fast business machines. As for the CPU's it's not just CPU speed that gets the
job done but also how fast the info get's to the CPU. The R10K will have
enough buffers to store alot of info right at the CPU, just like the speed
increase we all saw with the first Warp Engine . The SGI is much more than a
CPU running WindozeNT at 500 mhz. it also handles sound just like the Amiga
without all the 3rd party stuff. As for the graphics boards it doesn't matter
if they have Reality Engine performance, what are you going to run on it?
Please don't say LW and SI. By the time they catch up to where the Impact is,
SGI will still be that much further ahead. Whether you can afford one or not
 they still kick everyones ass and are simply the best and most stable
machines out there. Alphas are simply designed with server function in mind.



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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
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: >And soon Digital is going to release a software called FX32 that will
: >take INTELS 32bit apps and run it natively on ALPHA.

Does anyone have more info about this?

When will it be available and how much?


                                     -David Warner


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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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RGarrison ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Why do these people insist the world revolves around LW? Too bad!


Maybe because this is the LightWave newsgroup?  duh.


                                     -David Warner


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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave Mailing list PROBLEMS?
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Adam Ives Chrystie ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Are people having trouble sending messages to teh LightWave
: mailing ist? All my posts get returned as unknow email
: address..

Sorry for the downtime...webcom.com has been seriously fukt ever since they
moved all of their equipment on Saturday.  I've tried to get them to fix
the problem, but of course there's "nothing wrong" with their system...it's
just "the rest of the Internet can't find our new IP address yet".

I hope to have the mailing lists moved over to the new server by later
today (Wedsnday)....I will post more info when/if this move takes place
but everyone who is currently subscribed will be automatically moved over.

Again, my apologies to everyone who has been affected by this downtime...
my mailbox is filled with messages, but none of them are from the mailing
lists.  =(

                                     -David Warner



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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: How do I get on the lightwave newsgroup???
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Brian Bullard ([e-mail]) wrote:
: How can I get onto the lightwave mailing list ????

Well, as of right now the LightWave (and Video Toaster) mailing list is
pretty much dead in the water...the mail server webcom.com moved their
equipment this past weekend and messages have stopped coming through for
the last 36+ hours.  =(

I'm moving the mailing lists to a new server right now and will post
subscription info when everything is in place.


My apologies to all LightWave (and Video Toaster) mailing list subscribers!


                                     -David Warner



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From: [e-mail] (Nick China)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave on a Mac?
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Unfortunately, you can look forward to the Mac platform being crushed like
a bug by that behemoth, Microsoft. Why should NewTek waste their efforts?

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From: [e-mail] (Nick China)
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I spoke with a NewTek rep a week ago. He said that they have NO PLANS to
port Lightwave over to the Mac platform. I thought long and hard about
that and bought a Pentium 133 system. Lightwave 4.0....here I come!

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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Smith)
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Subject: Re: AVI LIMITS?
Date: 22 Nov 1995 09:45:56 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] ("Phil South") writes:
>
>I did have the Newtek AVI option once but it's not there anymore. Which
>file contains the Newtek AVI plugin? I'm talking about Win95 here.
>

Newtek Avi is in Plugins/Layout/Nt_avi.p. Just add it via the normal 'add plugin' requester.
When it's done the firsdt frame, it'll come up with the avi requester:

summary basically:

indeo codec: designed for pentium machines. Runs good with small size on quick machine

cinepak: good all round codec. good for computer anims, etc.

others: tend towards best for 'real life' digisted anims. Some only 8 bit: best stick with first two.

If they're looking blocky make sure it's set to 100% quality. You may like to try saving as
uncompressed and recoding into desired codec with videdit, bit since it'll utilise the same codec
I don't think you'll see any difference.

Stu

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From: [e-mail] (Jon Abbott)
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Subject: Q: Screamer net?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:40:52 GMT
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I'm thinking about buying NT Lightwave, and am interested in the
ScreamerNet side of it.  Perhaps some kind person could answer some
questions about it for me:

1) What do you need to use screamernet?  The name implies you need a
network.

2) If it does need a network, what protocol does it use?  Netbios, IPX
or TCP/IP?  Or does it do it the dumb way, by sharing files in a
directory - hence not needing a protocol.

3) If the protocol is Netbios can it use any port, or is it fixed?  If
it's TCP/IP does it use IP addresses or Domain Names?

4) Do the remote machines render complete frames, or can they be used
to each render part of one to speed things up?

5) Do you need to buy multiple copies of Lightwave for each machine on
the "net"?  Or is there come licensing scheme?

6) Does it require any additional programs to use screamer net, or
does it all come self contained?

7) Is screamer net within the main program, or do you have to run
another task in the background?  Or is it a seperate program, if so is
it DOS or Windowed?

8) How many remote machines can you have?

9) Does it make use of multiple processors?

10) If it does use multiple processors, does it assign full frames to
each processor, or part of each frame to speed an individual frame's
rendering time.

Thanks in advance.


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From: [e-mail] (DHeinlein)
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Subject: .obj output
Date: 22 Nov 1995 05:09:47 -0500
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how reliable are .obj files when imported into Wavefront?  Are mapping
coords lost...if I build t a specific parameter in Lightwave will it look
drastically different in Wavefront?  Email me for scoop.  Desperately
trying to avoid using Wavefront!!
[e-mail]
dheinlein

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From: [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
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Subject: Re: Would u be able to answer these questions???
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In article <[e-mail]>, Adam Ives Chrystie
<[e-mail]> writes:

>..and the long awaited anime shader..

Is this the one known as "Cel Look" or a separate plug-in?  Is this
commercially available?  The experimental version in Version 4.0 lacks a
bit in the control department.

-Marc

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From: [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
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Subject: Re: Would u be able to answer these questions???
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In article <48mvqd$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Jeff Jasper) writes:

>I think Meshpaint now supports Lightwave.

I believe MeshPaint is a stand-alone utility, and not a LightWave plug-in.
 It may handle LightWave objects, though.

-Marc

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I hope this helps everyone trying this- apparently, when you run
LWSN.exe as per the manual, you should see a DOS window and YOU
WILL see the message "Can't open job file
".......\Command\job1".DON"T WORRY - just go back to LW, hit the
Screamer Init button, initialize and VIOLA(pardon my french) you
should see the cpu ready (message window pops up). If you go
back to the DOS window, you should now see "Lightwave command:
wait".  It took me a lot of trial and error to find this out-
the SN DOS window message really threw me off and Newtek should
of mentioned this in the manual.  Now if I can only get Sparks
to work under SN(just got Sparks yesterday).

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From: Norbert Schneider <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Where to buy Lightwave 4.0?
Date: 22 Nov 1995 13:49:30 GMT
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The subject says it all, I think.
Does anyone know a company in the U.S. which sells
Lightwave _AND_ makes deliveries to Switzerland? (NewTek
won't do it themselves, they said I should contact a retailer -
of which I don't know any).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Norbert


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From: [e-mail] (John Sonedecker)
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Subject: FIRE!
Date: 19 Nov 1995 01:56:00 GMT
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Could someone please help me with finding a suitable background
material to film fire, smoke and such against. I assume it should
be black. Whats the best thing? I will be using a Hi8 camera and
digitizing it for use in LW.
Thank You,
-John Sonedecker

P.S. What substance makes the best "controlable(sp)" fireballs/explosions?

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From: [e-mail] (BobaFet787)
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Subject: total newbie ?
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uhmm... i kinda feel stupid, but how do you get LW PC to save? i have the
plugin installed and name the save file correctly and all but it just
doesn't save!

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From: [e-mail] (Gerald Poirier)
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In article <48u4kg$[e-mail]>, Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]> says:
>
>[e-mail] (David Ballesteros Guillen) wrote:
>>Hello to all, I'm a new user of Lightwave 4.0. The program is great,
>>but I have problems trying to save AVI files in Windows 95. I tried
>>copying the contents in the CD subdirectory  CONT32 (someone post that

>
>On installation LW 4.0 overwrites some key files in the Windows
>directory that are necessary to save AVI's. The only solution I
>know of (which has worked for perfectly for me) is to
>do a complete re-install win95. This replaces the overwritten
>DLL's and re-enables AVI saving. Don't forget to ad the .avi
>extension when naming your animations, or they just won't save.

NO NO NO !!!

Not a complete reinstall !!!

You can just EXTRACT the necessary files from the win CD.

If you didnt make the mistake of copying the files from the win_95 directory,
you need only extract
            avifil32.dll

and copy it to windows\system overwriting the one LW put there.

If, like I did , you copied these 1 1/2 years old files in the win_95 dir
of LW CD, then you must also extract these 3 files and copy them to windows\system
They are:
        msacm32.dll    msvcrt20.dll    msvfw32.dll

So you probably don't need to completely reinstall, unless of course all
else would fail... It sure worked for me, but it was a bit tricky, but
not really difficult. EXTRACT is VERY nice to have :-)

Just FYI.

Bye-Ya

Gege
    Gerald Poirier

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I personally push the 'LOAD' button..ya see the wizards who
made LW were just a wee bit dyslexic.  ;)

Adam

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[e-mail] (Jose Alvarez) wrote:
>We've got our storyboard almost complete, with the exeption of two
>shots that require us to show a fly through of the machine we are
>animating , showing how the air flows through the machine.
>We're not sure how to go about this at the moment.


        Without seeing the storyboard, I'd still like
        to comment...

        If you've got a path that you need to have
        wind traveling on, simply model a disc, or
        flat plane, the length of the path. Set a
        fractal noise transparency, and set the
        velocity accordingly.

        If you're in an open field, and want to simulate
        wind, and in view is a tree, for example. Set a
        fractal noise displacement map on the tree,
        with a velocity, probably on the X. Bend the
        tree with a couple of bones. For added effect,
        create a flat polygon that sits directly in front
        of the camera. Fractal noise transparency map
        and an equal velocity, will give you a "dusty"
        wind blown look.

        Good Luck... hope this helps.

        Dan Ablan
        AGA Digital Studios
        in The Windy City.
        http://www.mcs.com/~dma/home.html







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From: [e-mail] (Michael B. Comet)
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Subject: Re: LightWave FAQ(s)
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In a previous article [e-mail] said:

> any body have any goood FAQ's for me? please post...
>

        I am currently maintaining the FAQ for this group.
You can get the last copy #3 from: tomohawk.welch.jhu.edu  in the
/pub/LW/tips directory.  lwfaq3.txt

        It is also available off of my homepage on the web.
http://inswww.ins.cwru.edu/php/comet/LW/

        I am hoping to get the next version out during this
weekend sometime.  We will see.

        If anyone wants to help and send me stuff feel free.

mbc

--
| Michael B. Comet - [e-mail]
| http://inswww.ins.cwru.edu/php/comet/comet.html
| LW FAQ, 3D Graphics & Animation and more!

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From: [e-mail] (Lhoflinger)
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In my huble opinion and experience I would say check out the Micron
Millenia Plus 133mhz.
Lorenzo
LVH Productions

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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Raydiosity and LightWave
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Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]> writes:
| Can anyone tell me about raydiosity? I recently read
| an article on SGI's web site about CG newsrooms in which
| the only thing that wasn't computer generated in the
| newscast was the anchorman. A high-end SGI workstation
| would render the scene in realtime using motion-tracking
| data from the real cameras. The anchorman was filmed
| against a blue screen and composited against the "virtual"
| newsroom on the fly. Although I find this facinating,
| what really caught my attention was that this was
| made possible by raydiosity rendering. Ray-tracing (raydiosi-
| tracing?) was calculated only once, the scene broken down i
| nto surface-meshes (?) allowing the computer to render all
| subsequent frames with full shadow, reflection, and refraction
| in *real-time*!

Radiosity is a quite facinating topic and I wish I had more
time at the moment to answer the question.  Basically it's a method
for computing indirect lighting effects by figuring out the amount
of light scattered from each surface onto other surfaces.  The
process is iterative, with each iteration running in O(n^2) time,
where "n" is the number of light-scattering/light-receiving elements
in the entire scene.  Performance optomizations work on keeping "n"
low, usually by some form of adaptive subdivision.  Where the
lighting/color is uniform a single patch is used and where it is
non-uniform more patches are used.

If only diffuse scattering is used, the final result can be rendered
from any angle very quickly.  This is done by rendering the whole
scene without lights, and with all the surfaces in the scene luminous.
The shadows and scattered light are effectly painted on the objects
with texture maps.  Moving any object would require the whole scene
to be recalculated, but as long as it is static it can be rendered
from any angle without performing a single lighting calculation.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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[e-mail] writes:
| I have a model of a vehicle that uses co-planar polygons, the polygons
| that face in have the interior surface map, and the out facing ones
| have the exterior suface. When rendering with shadows turned on, the
| surfaces fill with noise (random shadow spots). Is there a solution
| other than scaling down the interior polygons.

This describes a bug that was present in version 3.5 which has been
fixed in 4.0.  Your only solution is to wait for 4.0 for the Amiga
(I assume you're using an Amiga since you have 3.5) or to move the
surfaces slightly apart.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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From: [e-mail] (CEVAnim)
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Subject: 1990 Honda Accord
Date: 22 Nov 1995 13:00:21 -0500
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We need a 1990, 1991, 1992 Honda Accord.  We can use both the interior and
the exterior.  Viewpoint doesn't have it.

Any ideas where to find it ?

Ed
[e-mail]
1-800-788-2382

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <48ud3o$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (FXMatte) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (FXMatte)
>Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 00:40:08 -0500

>I want to simulate the view through a fish eye lens (with around a 160
>field of view) I could simply post-process the frames in say Photoshop,
>BUT is there a way I can do this at render time using Lightwaves camera
>settings, or something. Any ideas would be great ... Thanks in advance

>Go to the camera panel and set the camera zoom factor to approx .233.
>this gives you an appoximation of a 2mm lens.  And a 160 degree field of
>view.

>Because lightwave's camera can be set to any focal length with the zoom
>factor setting you can go from impossibly long lenses to impossibly wide
>angle lenses.

>Hope this is the answer you were searching for.

>Matt Merkovich
>Area 51

In photography, the term "fisheye" generally refers to a wide angle lens that
generates large amounts of aparent distortion.  Vertical and horizontal lines
that do not go through the center of the image will appear curved.  You are
correct that LightWave easily creates a short focal length/wide angle lense.
However, LightWave also instists on keeping straight lines straight so you do
not get that "fisheye" effect by simply changing the focal length (zooming).

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Thompson)
Subject: Re: WireFrame Rendering slower than Realistic..WEIRD!
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>does wireframe rendering take longer
>than realistic color mode? is this a buggy??

Wireframes can potentially take longer depending on your image and
the camera settings. If you are using adaptive AA, every vector in the
wireframe gets detected and then rerendered. If their are very few
detected edges in the realistic mode and the speed is pretty quick on the
first pass, wireframe will likely be slower. Also note that many surfaces
that are hidden in realistic mode get rendered in wireframe because you
can see through all those wires.


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From: [e-mail] (Madness)
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>Now it works fine, thank you. But, I need to adjust the quality of the
>files. They are a little blocky. How do they do that?

your avi's look blocky or the ones that came with it do. if its the ones that
came with it, all you can do is rerender them with a different codec, but if
its your own, I suggest using indeo codec with compression quality at 100%. I
use that and they great. even when a 320x240 is blown up to full screen, it
still looks pretty good.



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From: [e-mail] (Madness)
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I The only solution I
>know of (which has worked for perfectly for me) is to
>do a complete re-install win95.

you dont need to reinstall win95. all you need to do is find a GOOD copy of
avifil32.dll and copy it back into windows\system. LW overwrites this file with
a corrupted version of the same.




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From: [e-mail] (Madness)
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In article <48rnom$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>I downloaded Babylon-5 mesh from Avlon, but when I uncompress it, the
>LHA.EXE tells me that the file contains nothing.
>
>Is this because the file was created in Amiga?
>I'm using PC.

Its because the copy of LHA you have for pc truncates or removes long file
names. Also, I would suggest getting the file from tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu. im
sure their copy is good.  as for the lha problem, find a copy of LHANT. its lha
for nt and doesnt cut filenames to fit the 8.3 dos naming convention. If you
use a version of lha for pc that does, then objects, maps etc that are in the
archive will be truncated, and, by doing so, youll end up with a lot of files
with the same name, when they are plopped into a dir, they will all overwrite
eachother. so instead of having 20 objects and 10 maps, youll have like, 2
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From: [e-mail] ((Kip) Louis C. Pesuti)
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Subject: Re: Q: BOOKS ON LIGHTWAVE?
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>On 16 Nov 1995, Generic Account 0084 wrote:

>> Hello.
>> I have access to a computer that have Lightwave 3D on it.  I would like
>> to learn to use it.  Is there a book someone could recommend?
>> I use 3D Studio... but would like to learn lightwave also.
>> Thanks..
>
>Besides the manuals that come with Lightwave, there are two books that I
>know of on the market for Lightwave.  One is called Lightwave on Location
>and the other is Published by Lightspeed titled, "THE FX KIT FOR
>LIGHTWAVE".   You can order the FX KIT FOR LIGHTWAVE by calling
>805-726-3545 or toll free if you are in the U.S. at 800-764-8696.  Price
>is $34.95.

Also, there "The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO", which is a compilation book of over
100 articles from past issues of LWPRO. Plus a CD-ROM with images, objects,
and utilities is included! It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995) It is
supposed to ship at the end of December.
John Gross-do I get a discount on my subscription for this plug?! ;)

Back to FX KIT OFR LIGHTWAVE: Manuel, I 'd like more info on this! I'll
email you my ...._@~mail address if want to send me a brosur...a broch...
uh, a flyer. ;)

>Manuel Coats
>LIGHTSPEED

-Kip
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Creative Visions)
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John Sonedecker ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Could someone please help me with finding a suitable background
: material to film fire, smoke and such against. I assume it should
: be black. Whats the best thing? I will be using a Hi8 camera and
: digitizing it for use in LW.
: Thank You,
: -John Sonedecker

: P.S. What substance makes the best "controlable(sp)" fireballs/explosions?

your little brotherr

hehe


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    I'm interested in the DPS PVR board and I was wondering about
something; do frames that are rendered in for example 3D Studio need
any special treatment or processing (like field-rendering) if they are
are an animation meant to be played on television? Can you simply
render regular .TGA files in basically whichever resolution you choose
and pass them on to the PVR which forms them into an animation
seqence?

    Thanks..

    Helgi Páll Helgason
    [e-mail]


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From: Rey Andrada <randrada>
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[e-mail] ((Kip) Louis C. Pesuti) wrote:
>Also, there "The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO", which is a compilation book of over
>100 articles from past issues of LWPRO. Plus a CD-ROM with images, objects,
>and utilities is included! It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995) It is
>supposed to ship at the end of December.
>John Gross-do I get a discount on my subscription for this plug?! ;)


where can I get this book ?

--

Rey Andrada


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From: [e-mail] (Phillip Finch)
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In article <48vib4$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Lhoflinger) writes:

>In my huble opinion and experience I would say check out the Micron
>Millenia Plus 133mhz.
>Lorenzo
>LVH Productions

One consideration is having an actual full-size PCI slot for the PVR card,
which a lot of the pro LWavers seem to prefer for their tape output.

I haven't gotten that far, myself. But I do seem to remember a thread on this
in the mailing list a few weeks back. It's a big card, and apparently there
are not a lot of motherboards out there that will accomodate it.


Phil Finch ([e-mail])

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In article <48u6cr$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Warner) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
>Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 03:45:31 GMT

>: >And soon Digital is going to release a software called FX32 that will
>: >take INTELS 32bit apps and run it natively on ALPHA.

>Does anyone have more info about this?

>When will it be available and how much?


>                                     -David Warner

 You can learn more about it at " http://www.windowsnt.digital.com" in
the press releases.

Frank
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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
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  Just to inform all DEC Alpha users about DEC's new translator software.
Enables you to run any Win95 or NT program on the Alpha. It's a translator not
emulator and is suposed to be quite fast. Looks like our troubles will soon be
over. You can learn more about it at " http://www.windowsnt.digital.com" in
the press releases.

Frank
[e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

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Can anyone with more LW knowledge than I tell me if it is possible to
place time code on screen within an animation?  And if so,  how please.  I
need a clock/counter on the anim screen but don't want to spend the time
to build each object for each frame.   Thanks for any help.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (RGarrison) writes:
[snip]

>Not quite! I happen to own Amigas, PC's and SGI's. My reply was in regards to
>the gentleman requesting the best route  for purchasing a system to run
>LW. I simply stated that I had the same choice awhile back and chose SGI simply
>for an enormous amount of flexibility as compared to a comparably equipped
>Alpha workstation. What more reason would somebody have to plunk down $15k
>for a single machine to run a single program? This I do not understand? So the
>only thing one can surmise at this point is that some people do not think that
>life exists outside of LW. And this I find to be sad because they are missing
>out on a world of oppurtunity. I had the same attitude towards SGI just like
>everybody else until I could afford them of course. Picture the time when we
>all had the same attitude towards PC's when we owned Amiga's. Well it's the
>same thing here except that now all there are faster Alphas and PC's. The
>Amiga still kicks both their asses in mutli tasking and smoothness of handling
>graphics. Neither the Alpha or PC will ever compare under NT until these boards
>get custom graphics chipsets like the Amiga or SGI. Until then they are just
>fast business machines. As for the CPU's it's not just CPU speed that gets the
>job done but also how fast the info get's to the CPU. The R10K will have
>enough buffers to store alot of info right at the CPU, just like the speed
>increase we all saw with the first Warp Engine . The SGI is much more than a
>CPU running WindozeNT at 500 mhz. it also handles sound just like the Amiga
>without all the 3rd party stuff. As for the graphics boards it doesn't matter
>if they have Reality Engine performance, what are you going to run on it?
>Please don't say LW and SI. By the time they catch up to where the Impact is,
>SGI will still be that much further ahead. Whether you can afford one or not
> they still kick everyones ass and are simply the best and most stable
>machines out there. Alphas are simply designed with server function in mind.



Can we agree on the following?  (In alphabetical order.)

Alpha - Fastest way to render LightWave frames on earth (if you get the faster
Alphas).  Calling it "just a fast business machine" is a bit of an
understatement.  However, there are limited native apps. and it is likely that
plugins will evolve for this machine more slowly.  Additionally, LW for Alpha
is more expensive than for either Amiga or PC.  The Alpha machine itself is
expensive, but since it would probably take 3-4 fast Pentiums to match it, it
can be economical if you have large or short time frame needs. The Alpha is
something of a one trick pony.  However, it has a pretty nifty trick.

Amiga - Has advantages in excellent OS and custom chipsets and that the
Toaster and Flyer use this platform.  Problem is that performance is lagging
and that the platform has a questionable future.  LightWave 4.0 hasn't even
been released for this platform yet (though I understand that some folks with
the latest Flyer software do have a beta or pre-release of LW 4.0)  It is also
relatively expensive.  Wire frame previews, some screen redraws and background
images work amazingly well on the Amiga despite its relatively underpowered
CPU.  There are 060 accellerators out, but they are new and raise the price.

PC - Considered by many as the best compromise platform.  Of course that means
it has many weaknesses as well as strengths.  LW runs under three different
OS's - Win 3.x, Win95 and Win NT.  The latter provided better multitasking,
but not as good as the Amiga.  NT is probably one of the most robust operating
systems available.  Has very good performance to cost ratio.  On a budget, a
120mhz 486 can get you by.  A fast Pentium is close to the speed of the
slower SGI's and Alphas.  A PC, however, has its roots as a business machine.
Even a Pentium does surprisingly poor on wireframe previews. The soon-to-be
released Pentium Pro will move it closer, but of course the "big boys" are
making faster workstations too.   The PC will probably remain third in speed
but might narrow the gap.  The PC has the greatest variety of hardware and
software available.  The PC's main advantage is and expremely good CPU
performance to price ratio and a great variety of software.  I'm pretty
sure its the only platform that offers a true portable.  Its the great
compromise.  If you want more rendering power, you can scale up somewhat
effectively by networking additional machines or using motherboards that
have multiple CPUs.  Its the great compromise.  It offers the most LightWave
power out of a low cost computer.

SGI - This is generally the most expensive computer that runs LightWave.
There is some overlap in pricing, but the fastest SGI is more expensive than
the fastest Alpha.  You do get something for that money though. The SGI is not
as fast as the Alpha, but is faster than the PC.  The SGI will run the
industry's leading edge software.  The very best in high end graphic software
is found here (for film and video work).  A lot of what you see on the
"big screen" is done on SGIs.  Some of these high end software packages cost
more than a P100 AND LightWave combined, so this platform isn't for anyone on
a slim budget.  In fact, it would be silly to by an SGI in order to only run
LightWave.  To do so, would miss the whole point.  LW is also more expensive
on this platform.

There is overlap between different CPU performance on all of these machines.
Some Amigas are faster than some PCs, some PCs are faster than some SGIs and
some SGIs are faster than some Alphas.  And I am SURE I left out many features
and benefits of the particular machines listed.  This is an OVERVIEW (Note: I
said more about the PC because I know more about the PC).

The bottom line is that the best system for LightWave is the one that works
for you and helps you accomplish what you want.  The right decision will
depend on your individual circumstances.

So the correct answer to the above question is: "Gee - I don't know.  What is
your situation and what do you want to accomplish?"

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Q: Screamer net?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jon Abbott) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Jon Abbott)
>Subject: Q: Screamer net?
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:40:52 GMT

>I'm thinking about buying NT Lightwave, and am interested in the
>ScreamerNet side of it.  Perhaps some kind person could answer some
>questions about it for me:

>1) What do you need to use screamernet?  The name implies you need a
>network.

No network needed.  That is its primary intended function, but on a standalone
machine it provides batch rendering of multiple scenes and 20-30% faster
rendering.

>2) If it does need a network, what protocol does it use?  Netbios,
IPX>or TCP/IP?  Or does it do it the dumb way, by sharing files in a
>directory - hence not needing a protocol.

It uses files in a common directory.  I'm not sure I agree that that is dumb
though.  It makes the type of network used moot.  You just need to be able to
see a common drive/volume.  Seems smart to me.

>3) If the protocol is Netbios can it use any port, or is it fixed?  If
>it's TCP/IP does it use IP addresses or Domain Names?
See above.

>4) Do the remote machines render complete frames, or can they be used
>to each render part of one to speed things up?

Each renders a complete frame.  The control program passes out the frames to
render via the files mentioned above.

>5) Do you need to buy multiple copies of Lightwave for each machine on
>the "net"?  Or is there come licensing scheme?

Neither.  Screamernet, which is the render only module, is included with
LightWave.  My understanding is that you can use it on as many machines as you
want.

>6) Does it require any additional programs to use screamer net, or
>does it all come self contained?

It requires a control program.  LightWave's Layout will serve that function,
or you could write your own.  I have reviewed the six Screamernet commands,
and think it would be pretty easy to program a control program.  Screamernet
itself is a render module.  The only interface is through the above mentioned
files, and through the initial launch command that sets up the filenames and
paths.

>7) Is screamer net within the main program, or do
you have to run>another task in the background?  Or is it a seperate program,
if so is>it DOS or Windowed?

As above, it is separate.  It runs in a DOS shell, but I don't think it is
really a DOS program.  Under Win95, you can watch status info scroll by in the
"DOS" window but there is no such display under Win 3.x.

>8) How many remote machines can you have?

I'm not sure if there is a software imposed upper limit or not.  I know
the default limit is set to eight, but I think that can be changed.

>9) Does it make use of multiple processors?

I understand that it does, but have had no confirmation from someone who has
done that.

>10) If it does use multiple processors, does it assign full frames to
>each processor, or part of each frame to speed an individual frame's
>rendering time.

Full frames to each processor - or more correctly, to each Screamernet module.

>Thanks in advance.

It is my opinion that Screamernet is an extremely valuable feature of
LightWave.  It provides a very inexpensive to increase rendering capabilities.
I have in mind networking together multiple "render only" Pentium machines.
32mb P100s could probably be put together for around $2000 each.  Set them up
to boot to ScreamerNet.  Just a thought at this point in time.  I haven't
really thought through the economics.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> Ken Geary <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Ken Geary <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Screamer Net
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:33:39 GMT

>I hope this helps everyone trying this- apparently, when you run
>LWSN.exe as per the manual, you should see a DOS window and YOU
>WILL see the message "Can't open job file
>".......\Command\job1".DON"T WORRY - just go back to LW, hit the
>Screamer Init button, initialize and VIOLA(pardon my french) you
>should see the cpu ready (message window pops up). If you go
>back to the DOS window, you should now see "Lightwave command:
>wait".  It took me a lot of trial and error to find this out-
>the SN DOS window message really threw me off and Newtek should
>of mentioned this in the manual.  Now if I can only get Sparks
>to work under SN(just got Sparks yesterday).

Note:  I have yet to see a Screamernet window under Win 3.x.  I don't think it
is a display card issue since I have tried it on two different machines.
However, it does run. It is just invisible.


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From: Stephen Bailey <[e-mail]>
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PMshark wrote:
>
> Should I make a pupil object
> and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
> maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
> there an even better way?
>
> TIA
>
> PJ
> PJ
> [e-mail]
> Visual Designer

Keeping a pupil object aligned along the surface of an eye, especially in character
animation where you hope to have the ability to adjust the size/position of the eye in
its socket, is very difficult. If you can get the look you want/need, an image sequence
map will work. An added touch would be to create a transparent mesh just in front of
the eyeball (mapped with a pupil) and give it a reflected image map using world
coordinates. The map should have painted glints (white) on a black background. This
provides a subtle-to-nearly anime' glint in the eye, depending on the intensity you
choose.

Look for a tutorial describing this process in an upcoming VTU.

S.G. Bailey




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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: seaQuest cancelled
Date: 23 Nov 1995 00:36:43 -0500
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Don't know if everyone saw this, but we won't have seaQuest's writing to
kick around anymore...

Amblin  - you did your best!






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From: [e-mail] (RGarrison)
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In article <48u6f8$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Warner) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
>Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 03:46:48 GMT

>RGarrison ([e-mail]) wrote:

>: Why do these people insist the world revolves around LW? Too bad!


>Maybe because this is the LightWave newsgroup?  duh.


>                                     -David Warner

I use the program too! But I don't claim it as the end of all programs like
some of the people do duh!

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From: [e-mail] (Harry  Brown)
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     Amiga 2000 with RCS 68040 and 32 megs of 32 bit memory. Enclosed in
Bomac Tower case. Maxtor 1 gig hard drive. 2 Floppies. Flicker Fixer.
MegaChip 2000 with 2 meg Agnus Chip. ICD SCSI controller. Opalvision 24 bit
graphics card to display all those lightwave renderings. $2500 gets all or
make bid for components.


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From: [e-mail] (Randy Penn)
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I know many have had problems with this, but I don't remember how to
remedy the problem.  When I try to print on my HP Deskjet 660C with the
dongle plugged in, my printer doesn't function correctly.  But to use
Lightwave, I must have the dongle plugged in.  There must be a solution
to this problem, but I have bumped my head one too many times under the
desk plugging and unplugging the dongle to figure it out.  If anyone
could help me, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Randy


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>   [e-mail] (John Foust) writes:
>  In article <486rlg$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>  >Since many people who have the
>  >capability of >>creating<< plugins have little desire to go thru all the
>  marketing
>  >etc rigamoroll (sp?), certainly some fresh-faced MBA out there could be
>  starting
>  >a plugin publishing house for a substantial percentage.....
>
>  Yes, his name is David Avgikos, except he sells plug-ins in the 3D Studio
>  market, after he didn't make a living in the Amiga market.  :-)
>
>  And a "substantial percentage"?  On what?  Do I have to give my
>  "why software costs so much" lecture one more time?  Dealers live
>  on fixed mark-up over the price they can weasel from a software
>  developer.  If you're talking about complete *publishing*, then
>  you'll hand over ten percent or more to the programmer, and
>  need to come up with the capital for everything else yourself.

    Well John, I'm probably delusional about the number of people who have:

        1) the ability to write LW plugins
        2) the desire
        3) the gumption to actually DO IT.

    But , if in some fantasy world there WERE a lot of such people, surely
someone could figure out some way that everybody could make some money selling
them.

    But, maybe not.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <48vekj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (BobaFet787) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (BobaFet787)
>Subject: total newbie ?
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 10:12:19 -0500

>uhmm... i kinda feel stupid, but how do you get LW PC to save? i have the
>plugin installed and name the save file correctly and all but it just
>doesn't save!

Save what?  RGB images?  Scenes?

Between the two manuals, there are 26 entries under "Save".
I don't mind answering questions, but you have to show a little initiative or
at least explain what specifically you are having trouble with.



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From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
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Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
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>One consideration is having an actual full-size PCI slot for the PVR card,
>which a lot of the pro LWavers seem to prefer for their tape output.

 Hum..... (newbie PC question approaching), what is considered to be a "full-
 size" PCI slot? I just purchased my first PC and was planning to add a PVR
 soon. The PCI slots on my motherboard (Titan I think), are smaller than the
 ISA slots. I didn't realize that PCI slots came in different sizes. (fingers
 crossed)

 I M P A C T  I M A G I N G
 e-mail [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Robert Cohen)
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>Hi!

>I'm trying some character animation for the first time.  My question is
>about simulating eye movement, ie., turns, blinks. pupil dialation, etc.
>What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I make a pupil object
>and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
>maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
>there an even better way?

>TIA

As with anything else in Lightwave, there is not just one correct answer.  I
personally would not worry about pupil dialation unless the camera is going to
be close enough to see this minor detail.  In general, you should not create
any details that are not going to be easily seen.  as far as eye rotation, you
should save two identical objects, each with a unique name (Right eye / Left
eye).  Save them in the 0,0,0 position from modeler.  In Layout, FIRST parent
the two eyeball objects to the head object and THEN place them in the proper
position and orientation, and set your initial keyframe for each of them.  You
can go through the entire keyframing process with just ONE eye.  When you are
done, enter the motion control panel for the eye you set keyframes for and
copy the motion data out to a temporary file.  Exit the motion panel and
choose the other eye as the current object.  Enter it's motion control panel
and then load it the temp motion data you just saved.  This will match the
movements of the second eye to that of the first.

YOu could create an eyelid object(s) and go through the same process as
outlined above.  Use a bitmap for the iris and pupil color.  If you have
ImageMaster (Amiga) you can use the flair option to create a number of thin
streaks from the center point of your object.  Then create a black hole in the
center representing your pupil.  Save as a brush and import into Lightwave for
bitmapping.  try to use sphere bitmap option and tinker with your various
settings for tile size, texture size and such until you get what you are
after.

If you are bent on showing the pupil dialation, you should consider using a
morph target.  Create your eyeball object with a centralized and circular set
of polygons representing your pupil..  save out to two files (right and left).
Or, actually you can get away with creating just one and loading it in twice,
in which case, Lightwave will automatically rename the second object
{filename}2.  Now from modeler, select just the polygons which you have
designated as the pupil set.  Use the sizing option to create a slight change
in the its' size.  Save that object as {filename} morph target.  Set up your
morph targets from within the objects panel of layout and create the envelope
from within the morph panel.

Good luck.  If you have any questions, feel free to post me, but a message to
my personal email account will net (pun intended) you a faster reply ;)

HOpe this helps

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>A word of warning to everyone who is thinking of subscribing to the
>new Lightsmith magazine. I paid my subscription to them about 10 weeks
>ago and after countless emails to them I have received no magazine or
>any replies whatsoever. It seems like they have taken my money and
>done a runner. If anyone else has had the same happen to them please
>let me know or if Lightsmith themselves are LISTENING could you please
>own up as to what is going on !!!!!
>Don....
>:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((



If enough of you got burned by this (and I don't even know for sure that they
are indeed running off with your $$ ), you should all consider trying to get a
class action suit together.  This is what happened some year or so ago with
the then makers of the Newtons Law program that never came to be. Of course
the price invested may not be substantial enough to bother with.  What was the
subscription rate for this mag anyway ?

I recall reading something on the Lightwave Mailing List about this.  I think
someone said that they had finally reached someone and that they were
experiencing some type of long delay.  Whether this status has changed is
beyond me.  But with all of this negative publicity going on, they may very
well be sunk before even leaving their port ;(

This type of stuff really pisses me off, not because of the lost few dollars
on the product, but because it forces users to NOT support *new* companies and
thier efforts for this platform.  And this, in the long run, makes us all
losers ;(

Meanwhile, I guess we will all have to "tune into" the net to find out about a
product or mag BEFORE sending in our bucks.

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From: [e-mail] (Jason Hurdlow)
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Andrew Barnett) wrote:

> Hi All,
> recently the London TV network started showing AIRWOLF, only about
> 5 shows. And I always liked the program mainly because of the bitchin
> looking helicopter.
>
> Well I want to do an AIRWOLF object in LW as my first serious object
> project and I'm looking for pics, design drawings, ect anything that will
> help me. Please if U have anything that I can use please email me soon as
> poss.
>
> PS. views of the chopper from all angles would be excellent :)
>

The "Airwolf" Chopper was a Bell 222.  You can probably find a model of it
in a hobby store.  If you look you might even be able to find an actual
"Airwolf" model.  Then you buy a digitizer with VertiSketch(tm) and
digitize it.  Voila! instant Airwolf!


-Jason

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Hartt)
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My deskjet IIP with the dongle prints out black pages.
I phoned Newtek, and they told me it could just be that type of printer.
The only solution I came up with was getting another parallel port because
the dongle IS NOT TRANSPARENT!  It's just a pain in the ass.

Fustrated User

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Ronnie Norwood wrote:

>  Hum..... (newbie PC question approaching), what is considered
to be a "full-
>  size" PCI slot? I just purchased my first PC and was planning
to add a PVR
>  soon. The PCI slots on my motherboard (Titan I think), are
smaller than the
>  ISA slots. I didn't realize that PCI slots came in different
sizes. (fingers
>  crossed)

Ronnie, what you need is a "Full Length" PCI slot. This just
means that nothing can be blocking the card half way along it's
length (often the CPU or RAM).

If you plan to also add the PVR capture card, you will need two
"Full Length" PCI slots that are side-by-side.

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Brenden Mecleary )
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Subject: Re: AVI problems with WIN95
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>Hello to all, I'm a new user of Lightwave 4.0. The program is great,
>but I have problems trying to save AVI files in Windows 95. I tried
>copying the contents in the CD subdirectory  CONT32 (someone post that
>this runs) to my HD and I can't save AVI files too. Somebody save AVI
>files under Windows95? If the answer is yes, please e-mail me saying
>how you configured the Win95 and your Lightwave program.
>And there's go another question: Somebody knows how to make an .flc.
>The manuals say that you can do, but I can't find the option. Thanks.


    My friend, you have no idea how much I've complained about this.
Unfortunately, there are only work-around solutions, mostly due to the
fact that Elastic Reality decided to be assholes when programming their
HIIP plugins.
    For FLC files, you have to render out individual files (TGA, for
example) and then compile them using a program like Dave's Targa
Animator (DTA).  I know there was supposed to be a saver, and there is
even a flic.exe file in the plugins directory, but you still can't do
it straight out of LW.
    Now about the AVIs...I'll just include the information from a
previous post on how to get them working...

----------------------------------------
1. Place W95 CD-ROM* in drive. mine is e:
2. Open a Dos box.
3. "cd c:\windows\system"
4. "extract e:\win95\win95_08.cab avifil32.dll" and overwrite the
existing file.
5. Select the "HIIP-AVI32" plug-in under Layout.
6. Render a small Anim.
7. Bounce off the walls because it works.!!!
*-This also works with the disk version, you just have to find the
right disk.
----------------------------------------

    Note that this only works with HIIP-AVI32.  It will not work with
AVI16.  Also, if you don't want to open a DOS box, you can d/l some
nifty programs from Microsoft's webpage, one of which is called
CABVIEW.  Once installed, you can browse the CAB files as if they were
just ordinary directories and extract any of the files to wherever you
want.  Also, don't be surprised if you are rendering an AVI with
Newtek-AVI, and it quits on you.  That's right, the NT-AVI saver chokes
on lens flares, at least in Win 95.  Best of luck!

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From: [e-mail] (David Lumbers)
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[e-mail] (leelee) wrote:

>A word of warning to everyone who is thinking of subscribing to the
>new Lightsmith magazine. I paid my subscription to them about 10 weeks
>ago and after countless emails to them I have received no magazine or
>any replies whatsoever. It seems like they have taken my money and
>done a runner. If anyone else has had the same happen to them please
>let me know or if Lightsmith themselves are LISTENING could you please
>own up as to what is going on !!!!!
>Don....
>:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

Hi Don.  LightSmith DOES exist, but not yet the way I'd like it.  I
have received the first issue a few weeks ago and am waiting for the
second.  Apparently, there were some problems with mailing to the US,
but according to Brett Hardin, these are now cleared up.  I'm a bit
surprised that you still haven't received your issue yet.  Who have
you been sending your email to?  I sent a couple to Brett, and he did
get back to me fairly quickly.

David Lumbers.




Lumbers Graphics and Video.
Toronto.
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]


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In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Hoyin) writes:
> PowerPC Upgrades for A1200, A3000, A4000 & A4000T will be available sometime
> the last quarter of next year...
>

Hmm...

An advertising article of Phase 5 means in the MIDDLE of '96...

cu

Andrew




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Hello,

In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (robert hood) writes:
> The latest Select Solutions mailer quoted US$3000.  If accurate, I don't know
> how they plan to revive the Amiga line by producing such uncompetitive
> hardware at such unreasonable prices.  That type of marketing might work in
> Europe (of course, that's where Escom is), but not in the US.

Of course. In the US you need 200 million $ for advertising
to sell a guarranteed best-selling product like Win95...

Ah, come on: Do you really think Europe-buyers are so much
different than US-buyers? We don't have this kind of
nationalism here. (well, maybe with Japanese car's... :)

bye

Andrew




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Subject: Re: Lightwave on a Mac?
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In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
> An additional news item.  Heard on the radio that for the latest reporting
> period that MAC was now number one.  That's 13% of recent microcomputer sales.
>  Compaq has moved to second place with 12%, Packard Bell(?) is now third and
> IBM is fourth.

This are the US-numbers. Worlwide, Mac has 9%. But anyway:
it's really surprising in the last quarter: it was grown up
from the 2nd Quartal 1995 (7.4%) to 9% in the 3rd Quartal!
That's amazing for me (...and no, i DON'T have a Mac).
(source: Dataquest)

bye

Andrew



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From: [e-mail] (Eric Laguer)
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    I have LW 4.0 for the SGI Indy and need some more rendering power,
I've try to call Newtek for some technical knowledge but they were too
busy handling other calls.  If someone know a ftp site were I could get
the LWSN.EXE please let me know.  I have lwsn for the SGI but it is a
binary only for the SGI and I only have one SGI.  But we have 2 Pentiums'
and 2 Sparc 20's, It would be nice If I could use the ScreamerNetII on
the 2 Sparc 20's but I don't think lwsn is available for the Sun's, If
anyone has source code for lwsn I would be happy to port it for the Sun's.


                        Eric Laguer
                        [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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To run SN with Win95, I do the following:
I open up SN and add the scene file.
I go to the RUN command and type:
    C:\newtek\programs\LWSN.exe -2 c:\newtek\programs\job1
        c:\newtek\programs\ack1
A DOS window opens up to initialize ScreamerNet. It can either say init or
    can't open file. In EITHER case, leave the window open and return to
    LAYOUT.
If you had to message "can't open file...", hit the Screamer Init button.
Then hit the Screamer Render button and off you go. Minimize the LW screen
    and watch the progress in the DOS window.
When the render is complete, return to the LW SN panel and hit Screamer
    Shutdown, which will close the DOS window.

This works GREAT for me. It renders 30-300% faster than with Win95 and LW
    alone through the Render Automatic button.

Unfortunately, SN is not set up to automatically build the anims.
I have it generate 24bit targa files which I use to make a FLC file with
    DTA (Dave's Targa Animator, a DOS program).

All this works fine.

Good luck.

Don Hirschfeld
http://www.portal.com/~donrh    Check it out!!!

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From: [e-mail] (Wayne Paugh)
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Does anyone know how to create trails In Lightwave. I want to have some
characters fly across the scene and leave dissolving trails behind them.
Please E-mail if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance.
--
Wayne Paugh
Prodigy Softech

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From: [e-mail] (David Ballesteros Guillen)
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I have a friend whom use Lightwave as I. He tried to install it in 3
diferent computers under WIN95, and all with the same results. The
program installs well, but when he trieds to open the Layout, the
window open and close immediatly without any kind of error. (Yes, his
Sentinel Pro was installed too).

He has found  a partial solution. He can run the program launching it
from the Task Manager (windows subdirectory), but if he try to run it
from the Lightwav icon, the error continues. He changed his Lightwave
at our dealer, and the problem persist. Any idea?


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Subject: PVR and WIN95......
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 21:12:14 GMT
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I read a few days ago one or two post abut problems with PVR and
WIN95, I talked with a friend who has managed use it under WIN95.

He said to me that you must install the PVR card, and install MS-DOS
like if your computer were new, that it's with nothing in your hard
disk. Then install WIN95 over MS-DOS. Not install WIN 3.1 or 3.11
before, but you will need the first disk of WIN 3.1 or WIN 3.11 to
install WIN 95 without other windows installed, you will ask to insert
the disk at certain moment during install. Then install th PVR
software. He said that it works and he installed TWO PVR with this
method.

I hope it can be useful.

David Ballesteros Guillen
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Harv R Laser)
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Subject: Re: PIXELPRO 3D
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Axiom Software's Amiga products: PixelPro 2, AnimWorkshop 2, and
Wavelink (but not Wavemaker) are now owned by AntiGravity
Products in Santa Monica, CA.

Wavemaker, a former Axiom product (in its first incarnation) has
been a product of Radiosity since version 2 was released
earlier this year.

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From: Nik Belajcic <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Inventor or IGES to Lightwave
Date: 23 Nov 1995 22:41:29 GMT
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John,

Having read your post I would like to add a few words myself. Are there
any plans to provide some way of importing/exporting at least geometry
from Bentley Systems' MicroStation CADD software. I do not know if you
are familiar with it, but it has very powerful features (eg. NURBS,
object referencing, material definitions, radiosity raytracing, etc.). A
major pain for all of us who use it for more than just CADD is that
presently the only way to export geometry is through DXF. MicroStation
also supports IGES, but neither LW nor Interchange (I think) does. There
is a module for exporting to Inventor but it is available only for SGI
version of MicroStation, so it is of little help to 99% of users who run
it on PCs. Given its popularity, power and steadily growing user base I
think there is a good case to provide some translation facility, - if not
directly from native format, than at least through IGES so that NURBS and
other non-polygonal geometry is not lost to DXF.

Regards, Nik Belajcic.
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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson)
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Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 95 23:44:38 GMT
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In article <48u4fo$[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Alan Chan ) wrote:
>In <48tu19$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>
>
>>    What's the problem with adjusting the focal length?  After all,
>that's all
>>a "fisheye" lens is:  a lens with a very very short focal length?
>>
>>    Is there something in the implementation that prevents this?  (If
>so, news
>>to me.)
>
>Focal length in LW is not exacto superduperxactly the same as a real
>lens. Try rendering a frame with a wide angle, you'll find your edges
>on objects at the periphery of the frame are still straight, as opposed
>to a curving edge on a real lens.
>
>AC
>

I just did a quick test, basically build yourelf a simple lens and stick it in
front of the camera. Set refractive index to 1.3 or so (play around for the
amount of effect you want) and trace refraction - voila! - curved edges (OK
mine were curving the wrong way cause I used a flattened globe, but the
principle works. Just make a concave lens instead of a convex one - get a box
and boolean subtract two flattened globes from each side.)

A bit of playing around should get you there.

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW problem startup
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:57:32 LOCAL
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Goor) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Paul Goor)
>Subject: LW problem startup
>Date: 21 Nov 95 20:58:09 GMT

>Anyone run into a problem in LW intel where every time you try

>to start LW you get either a 212 error or about one second of

>program then crash?  I have no printer on port. After several tries

>it works.  Modler gives 212 error layout just won't work.

>Thanks

>Paul Goor

>[e-mail]
>

I believe others have solved similar problems by changing their parallel port
form EPP or ECP to Standard in their CMOS settings.


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From: [e-mail] (BigFatCHUK)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: 3DS, tS, etc ----> LW4.0 PC
Date: 23 Nov 1995 18:41:45 -0500
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Hey is anyone else haveing a problem loading LW's .3ds files in 3DStudio?
They load but I can't get the smoothing to work on the meshes. Even after
loading I try to do autosmooth and the surfaces are still faceted. If I
export .DXF and inport DXF in 3dstudio it's fine.
chuck

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From: [e-mail] (BobaFet787)
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Subject: total newbie ?
Date: 23 Nov 1995 19:47:28 -0500
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let me clarify that last question, how do i get LW PC to save my
animations? i have the HIIP plugin installed and give it the name and
choose the type but it still does not save...any help will be
appreciated...

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From: [e-mail] (DanLag)
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Subject: Re: Time Code on screen?
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As a matter of fact, there is a way to put time code as well as some text
comments on a layout preview.. Unfortunately, it's a macro on the Amiga
version. (I say unfortunately because I'm assuming you're using the PC
version of Lightwave) We are in the process of converting the existing
macros, (aka PowerMacros) into equivalent 'plug-ins' for the PC.
Availability and release dates are still up in the air. So if you'd like
more information, please feel free to email me...

Dan
CineGraphics

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From: [e-mail] (Elliot Bain)
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Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
Date: 24 Nov 1995 03:02:21 GMT
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In <48vlns$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>

>I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's
pretty
>cool except for the ceiling and the floor.
>

>    Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency
noise
>problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight would
be
>appreciated.
>
>**********************************************************************
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>
High levels of AA and soft filter are the only things that seem to help
this situation. Instead of procedurals, maybe slightly blurred maps
might help. I've always had this problem using brick wall textures....

I know this doesn't help much, but...

Elliot Bain

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From: [e-mail] (Tank Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Windows NT and Lightwave
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 03:57:24 GMT
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[e-mail] (John Gross) wrote:
>DOF.lws           9m35s (575s)  (NT - 9m17s)
>Raytrace.lws      1h16m15s (4575s)   (NT - 1h14m18s)
>Textures.lws      3m44s (224s)   (NT - 2m43s)
>ZBufSort.lws      9m37s (577s)   (NT - 6m32s)

My times:
Scene        Win 95        WinNT        WinNT
        48 megs        24megs        48 megz

DOF.LWS    9m56s        8m30s        8m29s
TEXTURES.lws    4m4s        2m39s        2m39s
Zbuff.lws        10m42s        6m20s        6m19s

By my calculations those are measureable and important increases in
speed.  Since most of the mundane work of the video industry doesn't
involve ray tracing, the speed increase is nearly 2x as fast for most
jobs, at least in my experience.


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From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
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Subject: Re: Alpha Vendor of Choice: DCG Computers
Date: 23 Nov 1995 23:56:06 -0500
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Here! Here!  I'll third that!

Steve worked with me when I founded NekoTech.  He's got a great
work ethic, well connected, and probably the most experienced
technically sound individual around, both for UNIX and WinNT!

Probably the single most key attribute about Steve is he is
"make-it-happen" kind of guy.  Steve always was and is an
advocate for the customer.

I've always been an advocate for Windows NT and for the DEC Alpha.
Steve's an excellent representative for both.

Bruce Faust
Founder of Carrera Computers and NekoTech
"I make Alpha pervasive by starting new companies!"

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From: [e-mail] ((Kip) Louis C. Pesuti)
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Subject: Re: Q: BOOKS ON LIGHTWAVE?
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>[e-mail] ((Kip) Louis C. Pesuti) wrote:
>>Also, there "The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO", which is a compilation book of over
>>100 articles from past issues of LWPRO. Plus a CD-ROM with images, objects,
>>and utilities is included! It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995) It is
>>supposed to ship at the end of December.
>>John Gross-do I get a discount on my subscription for this plug?! ;)


>where can I get this book ?

Directly from Avid Media Group, Inc.: [phone]

>--

>Rey Andrada

-Kip


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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: lightwave mailing lists
Date: 24 Nov 1995 02:03:16 GMT
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John Reddington ([e-mail]) wrote:
:
: How do I subscribe to the lightwave mailing lists?
: Thanks.

Well, right now the mailing lists are dead in the water and sinking
fast.  WebCom.com (old mailing list server) is just not responding
anymore and my attempts to QUICKLY move the mailing lists over to the
new server (garcia.com) have failed miserably.  Damn these people that
dare to stop working on Thanksgiving!!

I have to tell you that the beanbaw.demon.co.uk server has been a
nightmare for me to deal with...I used to receive 100-200 mail delivery
error messages A DAY from a number of *.demon.co.uk addresses!  I don't
want to have to deal with that again, so I don't think I can allow anyone
with this kind of address to subscribe again until they figure out why
mail can't be delivered properly to their address.


                                     -David Warner



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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: Lightsmith - where are they ???
Date: 24 Nov 1995 02:12:55 GMT
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> A word of warning to everyone who is thinking of subscribing to the
> new Lightsmith magazine. I paid my subscription to them about 10 weeks
> ago....

I'm still waiting for the first issue and I subscribed at least 3 months
ago....I spoke to Brett or Chris or someone through e-mail AND on the
phone and was assured a couple of times that my copy of the first issue
was on it's way, but it did not arrive.  I'm not gonna waste anymore
money calling Canada to find out what's going on...my next call will be
to my credit card company in the hopes of getting the subscription charge
removed.

What a pain in the ass.  >:-(

                                     -David Warner


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From: [e-mail] ()
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Subject: Lightwave available on CD...?
Date: 24 Nov 1995 09:06:30 GMT
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Can someone tell me if Lighhtwave 4.0 is available on CD
in the UK...?

Thanks in advance


--
Cliff
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Dongle/printer problems
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In article <4915do$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Randy Penn) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Randy Penn)
>Subject: Dongle/printer problems
>Date: 23 Nov 1995 06:47:20 GMT

>I know many have had problems with this, but I don't remember how to
>remedy the problem.  When I try to print on my HP Deskjet 660C with the
>dongle plugged in, my printer doesn't function correctly.  But to use
>Lightwave, I must have the dongle plugged in.  There must be a solution
>to this problem, but I have bumped my head one too many times under the
>desk plugging and unplugging the dongle to figure it out.  If anyone
>could help me, I would appreciate it.

>Thanks,
>Randy

1) If you have a spare slot, get a second parallel port.  They don't cost much
for a PC.

2) A switch box.  Or better yet, one of those integrated cable/switch boxes.
I use one on two of my machines to bring a parallel port to the front for
attaching dongles, tape backups and file transfer cables.  It would come in
handy for Zip drives (parallel port types) as well.  I "glue" the switch
portion to the side of my CPU box so that the parallel port faces forward (I
use that spongy double stick mounting tape).  Its low-tech, but its functional.




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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <4907it$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: PVR question...
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 00:21:24 GMT



>        I'm interested in the DPS PVR board and I was wondering about
>something; do frames that are rendered in for example 3D Studio need
>any special treatment or processing (like field-rendering) if they are
>are an animation meant to be played on television? Can you simply
>render regular .TGA files in basically whichever resolution you choose
>and pass them on to the PVR which forms them into an animation
>seqence?

>        Thanks..

>        Helgi Páll Helgason
>        [e-mail]

Field rendering is not required but is desireable at times.  It has more to do
with the types of motions in the animation.  When we have scenes with objects
that move quickly in a horizontal direction, field rnedering helps a lot.  But
this is the nature of video, not the PVR.

The PVR will autosize (at least the Win 3.x software will) images so that
any resolution is acceptable.  However, a 720x480 image is optimal and the way
to go for the highest quality results.



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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: FIRE!
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In article <4906ve$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Creative Visions) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Creative Visions)
>Subject: Re: FIRE!
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 22:07:42 GMT

>John Sonedecker ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: Could someone please help me with finding a suitable background
>: material to film fire, smoke and such against. I assume it should
>: be black. Whats the best thing? I will be using a Hi8 camera and
>: digitizing it for use in LW.
>: Thank You,
>: -John Sonedecker

>: P.S. What substance makes the best "controlable(sp)" fireballs/explosions?

>your little brotherr

>hehe

Uh - he said "controllable"!  Most siblings do not exhibit that quality.  I,
of course, cannot attest to the pyrotechnical attributes of the typical
younger brother.



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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: character eye movement
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In article <[e-mail]> Stephen Bailey <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Stephen Bailey <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: character eye movement
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:56:33 +0000

>PMshark wrote:
>>
>> Should I make a pupil object
>> and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
>> maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
>> there an even better way?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> PJ
>> PJ
>> [e-mail]
>> Visual Designer

>Keeping a pupil object aligned along the surface of an eye, especially in
>character
>animation where you hope to have the ability to adjust the size/position of the
>eye in
>its socket, is very difficult. If you can get the look you want/need, an image
>sequence
>map will work. An added touch would be to create a transparent mesh just in
>front of
[snip]

>Look for a tutorial describing this process in an upcoming VTU.

>S.G. Bailey

>Stephen Bailey

Why is this difficult?  We parent the pupil to the eye and find it is pretty
easy.  We have only worked with very cartoon-like eyes so far, but it works
for that.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
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In article <48vlns$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 17:13:32 GMT

>(This was supposed to go to the mailing list, but the list is down.)

>I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's pretty
>cool except for the ceiling and the floor.

>        The ceiling is supposed to be a variety of suspended acoustic tile.
>Since it is essentially a grid, there's a great opportunity for moire problems.
> The cross pieces are moire'ing like hell (of course) as they get further from
>the camera.

>        This effect is ameliorated slightly by the use of grey fog to cut
>contrast away from the camera.

>        The other problem is mainly in the floor, but also in the "acoustic
>tiles" of the cieling.  There are textures applied to both to simulate the
>acoustic look of the tiles, and I'm using a slight bump map on the floor to
>attempt a coarse looking carpet as one would find in an office.  Both of these
>surfaces exhibit a lot of pixel dance as the camera moves, although I've
>minimized the contrast in the fractal noise color map of the tiles.

>        Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency noise
>problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight would be
>appreciated.

>*****************************************************************************
>** [e-mail]                     |  Synergy Graphix & Animation   *

Have you tried increasing the anti-aliasing that you are using?

If you have and that has not helped, how 'bout trying 2x or 4x dither and/or
animated dither.  The animated dither should introduce some random noise that
should help to break up these patterns.  I think these dither options are new
for 4.0.  I haven't used them myself, but the manual's description makes me
think it could help.

You might try the Soft Filter as well.  But that may have too strong of an
effect for your taste.


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FX!32 from DEC
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
>Subject: FX!32 from DEC
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 06:58:42

>  Just to inform all DEC Alpha users about DEC's new translator software.
>Enables you to run any Win95 or NT program on the Alpha. It's a translator not
>emulator and is suposed to be quite fast. Looks like our troubles will soon be
>over. You can learn more about it at " http://www.windowsnt.digital.com" in
>the press releases.

>Frank
>[e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

The WWW pages says mid 1996 for release.  It is currently being tested.  No
price listed which always scares me.  Also, the WWW pages describes the
software as using translation AND emulation techniques.  16 bit application
compatibility will be acheived by using Insignia Solutions SoftWindows
product.

They said, "The result will be that in 1996 Alpha
system users will be able to access all their Windows applications as if they
were using an x86 system. For Win32 applications, performance will be
comparable or better than on x86 systems."

That is pretty ambiguous, but since they said "or better", it may produce
Pentium-like results which would be pretty acceptable.



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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Targas-2-QuickTime--HELP!
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Debabelizer is a Mac program, several hundred dollars.

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
Date: 24 Nov 1995 07:33:17 -0500
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You know - 150 Mhz P6 machines are here (basically) and look VERY
cool.....

Dell has one complete with 32 megs RAM, (a good minimum), Win NT, 17", 4
meg Number 9, 2 gig HD for under $5000


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From: Bob Lindabury <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: networking- Amiga to PC
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Harry Benjamin Gibson wrote:
>
> arno ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : Has anyone networked a Amiga <-> PC using ethernet?
> : If so what software are you using.
> : -We have 3 Amigas with EN LAN-DFS(?) and a PC running Windows NT3.5,
> : all have ethernet cards in them. Any help would be great.
>
> I plead guilty here. I am running AmiTCP-Demo, with AmiTCP-samba on the amiga
> side (with an A2065) and WinNT 3.5.1 with an Intel Express on the pentium side.
> FTP works great, Samba works PC<-amiga only (no client) Telnet has been a
> nightmare. Telnetd doesn't work and invaribly crashes the whole thing.
>
> Ben Gibson

A more likely scenario is that Samba is crashing the whole machine.  I run basically
the same setup here (win '95) and I can do everything without a hitch except run
Samba.  When I start the clients on the Amiga side, I get enforcer hits galore until
my machine finally crashes.  Samba is far from being usable for any length of time.

Telnet and telnetd seem to work fine for me.  I'm running AmiTCP 4.2 registered.  I
called the Interworks guys about NFSd and found out that it's not going to be
released any time soon.  Seems they don't have the people to support it and they
feel it will be a support nightmare.

-- Bob Lindabury
[e-mail]                 The NEW Graphics BBS
http://www.graphics.rent.com           Main line: +1 908/469-0049
ftp://ftp.graphics.rent.com                   Piscataway, NJ USA
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From: Bob Lindabury <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LightWaved 3D On-Line
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:04:26 -0400
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D. L. Smith wrote:
>
>                         LIGHTWAVED 3D ON-LINE
> Now running on Excalibur Software.
> Now you can connect using slip, PPP or regular modem.
> All callers will receive a free 15 day guest account.
>
>         ---------------FEATURES----------------
>
> INTERNET:
>                 HTTP://WWW.SWOL.COM/LWD3D/LW3DHOME.COM
> MODEM:
>                       28800 DIAL UP 510-228-0886
>
>                 Lightwave - 3DStudio - Imagine - CDRom
>                Textures - Backgrounds - Tips and Tricks

Don,

The above web address is incorrect.  It should be:

    http://www.swol.com/lwd3d/lw3dhome.htm

Also, you can further shorten that address by naming your home file
index.htm instead which will allow your main URL to be:

    http://www.swol.com/lwd3d

Most servers default to index.html when no HTML document name is
given and since you're using a PC server, I imagine that would
default to index.htm instead.  Just a bit more triva, you can also
put index.html in each directory so if you had an objects directory
under your main html docs directory you could use a URL as in:

    http://www.swol.com/lwd3d/objects

And the index.html document in that dir would be served.  Just a
couple of HTML server tips.  Back to your regularly scheduled
program.. <grin>

-- Bob Lindabury
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From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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How do I view low-res lightwave animations on the toaster? Thanks

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Subject: rendering
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I am using lightwave 4.0 on a pentium 75 mhz with 72 megs of ram.
Does any one know a way that I can render x amount of frames foward
and x amount backwards so that they meet in the middle and cut
rendering time in half? I can render two sepereate animations at the
same time, but the way I would like to I believe would be a little
more convienient. Thanks. Mike.      [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Purdie)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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Its that time of year again... does anybody know a good source of some
Christmas style objects... the big guy, reindeer, elves etc... cartoony
in style preferred.

Tx..


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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: Lightwave AVI Problem-SOLUTION...
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> The problem is Lightwave installs a different version of a DLL over a
> Windows 95 version of the same file, causing the AVI save to not work
> under Windows 95.
>
> Here's the solution:

etc.

What doesn't work under Windows95 is the Newtek AVI requester which
enables you to select different codecs. (It works under NT which is how
come I got it working now!)

:?)


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Subject: Re: LW problem startup
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> >Anyone run into a problem in LW intel where every time you try
> >to start LW you get either a 212 error or about one second of
> >program then crash?  I have no printer on port. After several tries
> >it works.  Modler gives 212 error layout just won't work.
> >Thanks
> >Paul Goor
> >[e-mail]
>
> I believe others have solved similar problems by changing their
> parallel port form EPP or ECP to Standard in their CMOS settings.

Yep, I killed myself for weeks over this, and the best minds at NewTek,
DPS, Premier VIsion etc couldn't save me. Then some bright spark on this
list mentioned something about setting CMOS parallel port to normal and
my life has been fun ever since. :?)

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> My deskjet IIP with the dongle prints out black pages.
> I phoned Newtek, and they told me it could just be that type of printer.
> The only solution I came up with was getting another parallel port
> because
> the dongle IS NOT TRANSPARENT!  It's just a pain in the ass.
>
> Fustrated User

The PC dongle is fine, it's just the Amiga one which is a pain.

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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Subject: Re: Photoshop Images to Light Wave
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If you are using a PC, the image format of choice is really TARGA.
It is no problem to import targa images to Lightwave from most programs
which support 24 bit images, like Photochop, Picture Publisher,
Photostyler, etc. Few programs know what IFF is.

Don
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From: [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig)
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Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
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David Warner ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : >And soon Digital is going to release a software called FX32 that will
> : >take INTELS 32bit apps and run it natively on ALPHA.

> Does anyone have more info about this?

> When will it be available and how much?

According to the DEC-press-releases it'll be bundled with WindowsNT 4.0, scheduled
to be released by the mid of '96.


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From: [e-mail] (Equinox II)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: RE: AVI to MOV, etc. converters
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On occasion, people have been asking for converters, from AVI to MOV, or
back, or to MPEG, etc.  I went looking myself on the web and here's the
best resource I've found so far:

http://www2.ncsu.edu/bae/people/faculty/walker/hotlist/graphics.html

It's a real extensive list of links to converters of all types, for all
platforms.  If it's not on this list, you'll probably have to program it
yourself.  Enjoy.
--Brian
Equinox Images, Inc.
http://users.aol.com/equinoxii/

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From: [e-mail] (Walter J. Turberville (III))
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Where to find LWSN for the PC's
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In article <492kqn$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Eric Laguer) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Eric Laguer)
>Subject: Where to find LWSN for the PC's
>Date: 23 Nov 1995 15:16:23 -0500

>        I have LW 4.0 for the SGI Indy and need some more rendering power,
>I've try to call Newtek for some technical knowledge but they were too
>busy handling other calls.  If someone know a ftp site were I could get
>the LWSN.EXE please let me know.  I have lwsn for the SGI but it is a
>binary only for the SGI and I only have one SGI.  But we have 2 Pentiums'
>and 2 Sparc 20's, It would be nice If I could use the ScreamerNetII on
>the 2 Sparc 20's but I don't think lwsn is available for the Sun's, If
>anyone has source code for lwsn I would be happy to port it for the Sun's.


>                                                Eric Laguer
>                                                [e-mail]

You need to purchase an Intel version of LW to get the Intel version of SN.
LW will ship only with the ScreamerNet module for the platform purchaced.

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[e-mail] (David Warner) wrote:

> I have to tell you that the beanbaw.demon.co.uk server has been a
> nightmare for me to deal with...I used to receive 100-200 mail delivery
> error messages A DAY from a number of *.demon.co.uk addresses!  I don't
> want to have to deal with that again, so I don't think I can allow anyone
> with this kind of address to subscribe again until they figure out why
> mail can't be delivered properly to their address.


Arrgh no, please no.

:(

I've never experienced trouble recieving mail from the list, so that
leads me to believe that I'm getting most of th traffic. Is the mail
being bounced by the local machine (eg, beenbaw.demoon.co.uk) or is it
bounced by the mail server (eg, post.demon.co.uk) ?

I'd rather read the list than the group as the quality of the info seems
to be a better. Not saying ppl on the newgroup are useless :)
I think it's to do with s/n ratio...

Love & Life,


G.
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        Gareth Edwards, Leeds, UK.  <[e-mail]>

   FUTURE LOVE PARADISE: http://www.cis.yale.edu/~ariedels/seal.html

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <48to5q$[e-mail]>, Colin Cunningham
<[e-mail]> writes:

>We've got a copy of software at work called Lightscape which does highly
>realistic radiosity in no time at all. It does exactly what you are
talking
>about, it generates the radiosity for a location once (takes a minute or
two)

   So what happens if a light moves?

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From: John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Networking WInNT to Mac
Date: 24 Nov 1995 20:51:36 GMT
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[e-mail] (Bill Leonard) wrote:

>Just use AppleTalk!  NT ships with it, and is easy as hell to use.  I'm
>not sure if you need more security than that, but the FTP service that
>ships with NT sure wont give you any of that either.
>
>If you need any help, let me know.  We just put a few NT workstations on
>the network and probably are going thru what you will soon be enjoying..
>er.. yeah.

Sounds like you're way ahead of me, and have got some tricky stuff
working, so I've definitely got some questions for you.

I've set up an NT Server machine to speak AppleTalk, and it's working
perfectly, with both NT Workstation and Macintosh machines able to
connect to it. However, the Macs can't see the NT Workstation
machines, and they can't see the Macs. According to the online
documentation, this seems to be how it's supposed to work.

Your message seems to imply that I should be able to get a more
peer-peer setup working between the Workstations and the Macs.

If so, can you let me know how ?

I've tried installing the AppleTalk software on the Workstations (from
the Network control panel), but it doesn't seem to make any difference,
the only machine that both types of computer can talk to is the NT
Server machine.

Thanks,

John.



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From: [e-mail] (Gary Coulter)
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Subject: Modeler Startup Error
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Hi Everyone, can anyone offer me some help / advice .......

System 486DX2-66 12M/B Ram with 1gig drive  Running     Win95

I have been running both modeler and layout on exactly the same
system for about 3 months, then yesterday it just stopped working.
Basically when you click on the Modeler icon (on the desktop)
Modeler loads-up, once its updated the screen it simply quits
automatically, no errors no nothing ... I`ve done the following .....

Re-installed Lightwave from CD.
Re-installed Windows95 over Lightwave.
Re-Installed the hardware key drivers

Removed and re-placed the dongle, with the dongle removed I
get a <Need hardware Key Error> so I guess the dongle is working.

I understand that PCs are tricky beasts at best, but before I delete
my whole system and just install windows and LW I thought I would
just ask to see if anyone has come across anything like this before.

Thanks for any help ...... -Gary-


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From: [e-mail] (Randy Penn)
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Subject: Re: Dongle/printer problems Also!
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>>The PC dongle is fine, it's just the Amiga one which is a pain.

I don't know about the Amiga dongle, but the PC dongle is NOT fine.  If I
plug my printer into the dongle, the printer will no longer work, and I
think that BLOWS!


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
>Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
>Date: 23 Nov 1995 15:22:46 GMT

>>One consideration is having an actual full-size PCI slot for the PVR card,
>>which a lot of the pro LWavers seem to prefer for their tape output.

> Hum..... (newbie PC question approaching), what is considered to be a "full-
> size" PCI slot? I just purchased my first PC and was planning to add a PVR
> soon. The PCI slots on my motherboard (Titan I think), are smaller than the
> ISA slots. I didn't realize that PCI slots came in different sizes. (fingers
> crossed)

> I M P A C T  I M A G I N G
> e-mail [e-mail]
> http://www.teleplex.net/ImpactImaging

Back in the Olden Days, PC expansion cards extended from the back panel of the
computer case (where you screw it down) all the way to the front of the case.
All of the Amiga cards we have do the same thing.  However, it didn't take
long for manufacturers to start making shorter cards.  LSI chips made that
pretty easy.  Anyway, the "full-length" PCI slot does not refer to the actual
connector, it refers to the physical space available.  A PVR is a "full
length" card (its long - 12-14" as I recall).  Many motherboard/case
combinations have components that will interfere.  Some motherboards have CPUs
and fans that get in the way.  Some cases have drive bays that do the same.

Something else to consider: In my case, there is no physical support for the
non-screwed-down end.  I don't think this is a good thing if you are going to
transport the card while it is installed.  I added physical support to that
end.


Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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Phoenix, Arizona .......................................................

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Subject: Re: seaQuest cancelled
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 95 23:09:17 GMT
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> Don't know if everyone saw this, but we won't have seaQuest's writing to
> kick around anymore...
>
> Amblin  - you did your best!
> _____________________________________________
> Lee Stranahan
> Check out the home page!
> URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm
>

Sometimes.
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                      -=Fred=-


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Subject: Re: Targas-2-QuickTime--HELP!
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Phil South ([e-mail]) wrote:

: > Try Debabelizer. It converts anything (graphic formats) to anything!
: > It's
: > alot cheaper than Premiere and more reliable.
: > jct


: Prices? Availability?

Here, now, Mac, Sgi, no PC or NT. Price?: about $200

-Aaron

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From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
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I just installed a new gig drive for my toaster system and when I use the
file requester in Lightwave, I see the old hard drive settings, is there
anyway to change the buttons to show my new hard drive partitions. Thank you.

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Hello,

I just installed my Par and Seagate gig drive.  but after installing the
par software and going into the par software, it gives me a window saying
hardware failure, check drive or something like that.  I don't think it is
the drive since I have used it before for the par and it was working fine.
But, just in case there is something wrong with the drive, what type of
hard drive can I buy.  I will definitely buy an IDE gig drive or higher
but does it matter which brand.  If I stay with Quantum, Seagate, or
Conner, or micropolis, is this a safe bet?

P.S. do you know what may be causing the problem with my Par drive?

Thank you

Emmanuel Olympia

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: shadow problem (matt harter)
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[e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson) wrote:

>[e-mail] writes:
>| I have a model of a vehicle that uses co-planar polygons, the polygons
>| that face in have the interior surface map, and the out facing ones
>| have the exterior suface. When rendering with shadows turned on, the
>| surfaces fill with noise (random shadow spots). Is there a solution
>| other than scaling down the interior polygons.

>This describes a bug that was present in version 3.5 which has been
>fixed in 4.0.  Your only solution is to wait for 4.0 for the Amiga
>(I assume you're using an Amiga since you have 3.5) or to move the
>surfaces slightly apart.
>--
>    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
>        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
>         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

thanks Stuart,

I am actualy running version 4.0 rev A on a pentium box under win95.
Is it possible that they fixed this feature in rev B? I have worked
around it for now by adding thickness to everything, but I would still
like to keep the polygon count down by using back to back faces.

Matt Harter            [[e-mail]]


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Does anyone have a cool trick for moving a series of railroad cars
down a curving track? It would be nice to use one path to control the
postion and rotation of each truck, as well as have the two ends of
the car follow the trucks. To make it just a little more complicated,
the streetcar that I need to animate has three trucks and is
articulated in the middle.

Matt Harter            [[e-mail]]


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Subject: Moire' patterns and high frequency noise in render -Suggestions?
Date: 25 Nov 1995 01:04:58 GMT
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OK, this is a repost, because of the recent ML probs, and 'cuz I didn't get any
good suggestions.......<8^(

>I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's pretty
>cool except for the ceiling and the floor.

>        The ceiling is supposed to be a variety of suspended acoustic tile.
>Since it is essentially a grid, there's a great opportunity for moire problems.
> The cross pieces are moire'ing like hell (of course) as they get further from
>the camera.

>        This effect is ameliorated slightly by the use of grey fog to cut
>contrast away from the camera.

>        The other problem is mainly in the floor, but also in the "acoustic
>tiles" of the cieling.  There are textures applied to both to simulate the
>acoustic look of the tiles, and I'm using a slight bump map on the floor to
>attempt a coarse looking carpet as one would find in an office.  Both of these
>surfaces exhibit a lot of pixel dance as the camera moves, although I've
>minimized the contrast in the fractal noise color map of the tiles.

>        Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency noise
>problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight would be
>appreciated.

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From: Colin Cunningham <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Raydiosity and LightWave
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[e-mail] (JBooth411) wrote:
>In article <48to5q$[e-mail]>, Colin Cunningham
><[e-mail]> writes:
>
>>We've got a copy of software at work called Lightscape which does highly
>>realistic radiosity in no time at all. It does exactly what you are
>talking
>>about, it generates the radiosity for a location once (takes a minute or
>two)
>
>   So what happens if a light moves?

     Simple, I don't know if they CAN move. The software was only developed for
architectural walkthroughs and has VERY limited animation features. If however,
they would liscence their renderer to other company like Side Effects (PRISMS)
or ALIAS, they'd have something, but as it stands, the software's pretty
useless for a company like ours that only does FX work (we've only got a
temporary liscence). However, I must say that it's the finest quality render
output I've ever seen in my life.
--
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Colin Cunningham                             EMail: [e-mail]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures           HTTP://www.coredp.com/index.html

"Snake Plissken? I've heard of you. I heard you were dead!"
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From: Colin Cunningham <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightsmith - where are they ???
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I wouldn't bother with LightSMITH. I wrote an article for the first issue (was
there a second?) and not only have I not been paid for it, I haven't even
received my copy of the first issue which I was assured would be at my place
months ago. I'm willing to call it a loss and start writing for Lightwave-PRO
again. I just feel sorry for anyone who actually subscribed.

--
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Colin Cunningham                             EMail: [e-mail]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures           HTTP://www.coredp.com/index.html

"Snake Plissken? I've heard of you. I heard you were dead!"
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From: [e-mail] (Nate)
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Subject: How to import 3DStudio Objects into LightWave PC version?
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Hello,

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to import
3D Studio Objects into LightWave 3D 4.0 for Windows.

Thanx,
Nate
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: character eye movement
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>  >Hi!
>
>  >I'm trying some character animation for the first time.  My question is
>  >about simulating eye movement, ie., turns, blinks. pupil dialation, etc.
>  >What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I make a pupil object
>  >and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
>  >maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
>  >there an even better way?
>
>  >TIA
>
>  As with anything else in Lightwave, there is not just one correct answer.

    Indeed.  I might point out that of the various ways outlined, the ones
that include creating geometry for the iris/pupil are going to be a LOT easier
to line up and preview in Layout, whereas the image map solutions are going to
have to be rendered at some level to see what's happening.  Plus, I've always
found it to be a LARGE pain in the ass to try to time image SEQUENCES to specific
animation frames if there's a substantial offset.

    This is the kinda thing where motion paths for image maps would be
EXTREMELY helpful, but that's a drum I've been beating for five years now.  Perhaps
there's a possible plugin solution.

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Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
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>   [e-mail] (Alan Chan ) writes:
>  In <48tu19$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>  >    Is there something in the implementation that prevents this?  (If
>  so, news to me.)
>
>  Focal length in LW is not exacto superduperxactly the same as a real
>  lens. Try rendering a frame with a wide angle, you'll find your edges
>  on objects at the periphery of the frame are still straight, as opposed
>  to a curving edge on a real lens.


    So, that would be, "yes".   >:^(

>  AC

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From: [e-mail] (Frank McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Photoshop Images to Light Wave
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>If you are using a PC, the image format of choice is really TARGA.
>It is no problem to import targa images to Lightwave from most programs
>which support 24 bit images, like Photochop, Picture Publisher,
>Photostyler, etc. Few programs know what IFF is.

Few programs except...Lightwave. IFF is the format the hundreds of included
textures and maps come in on the CD-Rom.

Frank


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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[snip]

>The first 100-500 manuals printed seem to be more likely to slip
>pages than the later ones. This problem seems to have been fixed
>although the crude binding might be the trade off you are noticing.

>As far as the content. Its nice to here compliments from you guys.
>We worked really hard on them.

>Bruce Branit -- FryeAllen

Yep, the binding on mine looks like it is held together by a hefty amount of
glue from a "hot-melt" glue gun.  But the pages are staying in.

So are you folks going to migrate all that well compiled information into a
Windows Help file?  :^)

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.getnet.com/studio522/ |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Phoenix, Arizona .......................................................

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From: [e-mail] (Frank McMahon)
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Subject: AVI Lo-res????
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Pretty strange...

No matter what resolution I render out an AVI at (640 x480) or whatever, it
comes out a blocky, what looks like, 320x240. Same deal with the AVIs on the
CD. I have a P-133 w/16 meg and a ATI WinTurbo card. Any suggestions?

Frank


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

>OK, this is a repost, because of the recent ML probs, and 'cuz I didn't
>get any good suggestions.......<8^(

   Picky, picky...

>  Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency
>noise problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of
>sight would be appreciated.

   Three more possibilities:

   1. If you use an image for your texture(s), blur it out a bit
with an image processing program. (Like having antialiasing turned
on for the image map, but with greater effect.)  (Helps some, but
not much.)

   2. Render in High Res and scale it down with some program that
does *good* (and I mean *really* good) scaling, e.g.: ADPro. (Helps
a *lot*, but painful in the rendering time dept.)

   3. Try high motion-blur, just for laughs.

   -Jim

James G. Jones
Nibbles & Bits
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Steve Bowie)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
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On 22-Nov-95 17:13:32, jeric wrote the following:
>(This was supposed to go to the mailing list, but the list is down.)

>I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's pretty
> cool except for the ceiling and the floor.

>       The ceiling is supposed to be a variety of suspended acoustic tile.
>Since it is essentially a grid, there's a great opportunity for moire
>problems.
> The cross pieces are moire'ing like hell (of course) as they get further
> from
>the camera.



I have had a similar problem using grid for ceiling tile- actually two
problems:

1- I was unable to set the grid size low enough to approximate a 1" grid
size....anything in that small a decimal size would not work (if i remember
correctly, it reset to a higher value, or crashed or something...sorry, it's a
few months back).  However, the width I arrived at being about 3-4 inches
effectively wasn't really all that noticeable.


2- Missing horizontal 'tracks' at random spots at some distance from the
camera....this is as seen on screen, not just in print.  This is fairly
annoying, and I don't think it can just be due to the proper rendered width of
the track being too narrow to be represented by the minimum 1 pixel, as some
lines further do show.


I'd be quite interested in any comments made concerning this matter.

TIA.



Regards,
Steve
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Triffon)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Alpha 21064a MB FS
Date: 25 Nov 1995 03:49:59 GMT
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We currently have an overstock on the carrera cabriolet motherboard with a
a 300mhz AXP 21064a.  The price includes power supply and 2 meg cache.  This is
the latest and greatest 21064 model form Carrera.  1 only @ $4000.00 USD


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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Targas-2-QuickTime--HELP!
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>>Debabelizer is a Mac program, several hundred dollars.<<

On second thought, it may be on the PC too now.

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From: [e-mail] (ReplicaTch)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
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>>>>>>   The PCI slots on my motherboard (Titan I think), are smaller than
the
 ISA slots. I didn't realize that PCI slots came in different sizes.
(fingers
 crossed)    <<<<<<

The actual pin slots are all the same size for PCI. What differes is the
board's overall length. Some PCI boards are a bit shorter than others.
Whether you have room for a full length PCI card depends on your MB
configuration (Triton should be fine) and your case size. If you have a
mini-tower, it might be tight. Most mid and full towers do OK, i think.

Keith
Replica Technology

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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Subject: Re: How to import 3DStudio Objects into LightWave PC version?
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Just load the .3ds object into Modeler. It will read them. Save them
as LW objects.

*********************************************************************
Don
********************************************************************
Hello,

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to import
3D Studio Objects into LightWave 3D 4.0 for Windows.

Thanx,
Nate
[e-mail]

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From: Tim Eissinger <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: FS: VT4000, Warp, PAR, CD Rom system
Date: 25 Nov 1995 05:06:42 GMT
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VT4000, Warp, PAR, CD ROM System for sale:

Amiga 4000 with MacroSystem's 4040 Warp Engine,
18 megs of memory and 850 meg WD hard drive
Warp Engine has the SCSI kit, connected to an NEC 3XP external CD ROM
drive.

Newtek's Video Toaster 4000, with Lightwave 3.5.

DPS Personal Animation Recorder for the Amiga, with
Micropolis 1.7 gigabyte hard drive.

NEC 3D MultiSync Monitor with Sync Strainer Connector.

Included in the system package is AD Pro 2.5, Morph Plus, MaxDos 2
(For connecting to MAC SCSI and floppy drives), Deluxe Paint IV AGA,
plus the Texture Heaven CD and Light Rom CD's 1 & 2, ...and maybe a
few other toys if you twist my arm!!

Package price is $4950.  I will only consider system offers for the time
being, but may consider breaking it up if there is no movement on the
system in the next week or so.

If interested, please leave e-mail at:  [e-mail]

Tim Eissinger


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I have the following for sale or trade for a pentium 100 or 120
system::::

Amiga 3000 w/ 2.1 18i megs of ram
120 meg conner
120 meg maxtor
170 meg conner
770 meg scsi2 lightning quantum
Warp Engine 040/45.5
 wll sell whole system for 2000.00 w/ software or trade for a nice
pentium 100 or 120 system....Please call or leave mail for complete
lists of software..( I Have it all!)
916-484-7943
916-483-5105 ask for Brian Bullard



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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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Subject: Re: Q: BOOKS ON LIGHTWAVE?
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Rey Andrada (randrada) wrote:

: >"The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO"
: >It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995)

: where can I get this book ?

You must place your order with Avid Media Group before 12/15/95 to
purchase the book/CD for $24.95...after that it will cost you $39.95.
Call 1-800-322-2843 to order.

                                     -David Warner


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From: [e-mail] (Alan Chan )
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In <495pkf$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>Does anyone have a cool trick for moving a series of railroad cars
>down a curving track? It would be nice to use one path to control the
>postion and rotation of each truck, as well as have the two ends of
>the car follow the trucks. To make it just a little more complicated,
>the streetcar that I need to animate has three trucks and is
>articulated in the middle.
>
>Matt Harter            [[e-mail]]
>

Try doing the motion for your engine, then saving the motion file out
and loading it onto your trucks, and doing a Shift Keys (you'll have to
experiment to find the proper number of frames to shift per car).

You might also try using the Align to Path function, depending on how
your train has been modeled.

AC


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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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The LightWave and Video Toaster mailing lists are up and running again!

Their addresses have been changed to [e-mail] and
[e-mail]

If you were subscribed to the mailing lists before Monday, you should be
receiving messages from them now because I just moved the list of current
subscribers over to the new server.

If you would like to subscribe, send e-mail to [e-mail] and in
the body of the message, type: SUBSCRIBE LIGHTWAVE username
                                      or
                               SUBSCRIBE LIGHTWAVE e-mail address

A digested version of the mailing lists is available too...after you've
successfully subscribed, just send e-mail to [e-mail] and in
the body of the message, type: SET MAIL LIGHTWAVE DIGEST


If you have any problems getting subscribed, just send e-mail to me and
I'll give you a hand...or two...

                                     -David Warner



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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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Subject: Re: AVI LIMITS?
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The NewTek AVI plugin does work once (and it looks much better than the
HIIP 32 output).  If I render the same scene in the same Layout session
the resulting AVI file will not play.  The HIIP plugin will make more than
one AVI in a row but the pixelation renders it problematic.  Two
questions:

-Is there a way to render consecutive NewTek AVI's (Cinepak, Indeo etc) in
one Layout session?  Now even a blank scene wont render twice.

-Or is there a way to reduce the pixelation in the HIIP-32 AVI output?


______________
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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: LW Plug-ins?
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What plug-ins are currently available for the PC version of LW?

What are planned? How do you write a plug in?

And... what about Scarecrow's brain?


Thanks muchly...

Silver



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From: Will Weems <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Best Hardware for LightWave?
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Greetings.  I've just returned from Comdex, where I was completely blown
away by LightWave and its abilities.  I went to Comdex planning to
construct a Mac-based animation system, but that is out the window now.
Needless to say, if I'm going to run LW, I need a good machine to do it
on.  At the show, the NewTek people were doing a demo on a WindowsNT
machine with 64Mb RAM, and it smoked.  I'm looking at three
possibilities: 1) a machine running Windows95, 2) a machine running
WindowsNT, and 3) a machine with a MIPS Risc chip.  In all three cases
I'm tending towards a NEC machine, as they are supposed to be very
reliable.  Does anyone have any imput in this subject?

There have been a few postings dealing with hardware, but they didn't
really answer my questions.  Part of my concern is availability of
software for the machines. I know the MIPS is pretty speedy, but how
much software is out there for it?  I'll be putting this machine on an
ethernet LAN with lots of Macs.  Would the MIPs machine be difficult
about that?

I would greatly appreciate any imput.  You can either post a response
here, or email me directly at [e-mail].  If you were feeling
really wacky, you could also visit our web site at
http://www.avamedia.com/avamedia.

Thanks.  Will



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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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John Sonedecker ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Could someone please help me with finding a suitable background
: material to film fire, smoke and such against.
:
: P.S. What substance makes the best "controlable(sp)" fireballs/explosions?

Check out the newsgroup rec.pyrotechnics....you should find the answers
to your questions there, along with tips for pulling this off SAFELY!


                                     -David Warner


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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Does LW have metaballs?
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In article <48ssur$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Michael D. Blechner) writes:

>Does LW have metaballs modelling and animation, either built-in or via
>a plug-in?  If so can anyone provide details of its functions or even a
>comparison with the 3ds metaballs plug-ins?  Thanx.

    There is currently no metaballs modelling for lightwave (other than
blobs, a metaball program that outputs .lwo files). However, I think
you'll find that metaform does alot of what metaballs modelling would do.
Metaform is a subdevide techneque that organicly smooths the verticies it
creates. You can model a very basic shape and metaform it once or twice to
get a very detailed mesh..

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: WARNING: ADVERT (was Re: Q: BOOKS ON LIGHTWAVE?)
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Rey Andrada (randrada) wrote:
: [e-mail] ((Kip) Louis C. Pesuti) wrote:
: >Also, there "The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO", which is a compilation book of over
: >100 articles from past issues of LWPRO. Plus a CD-ROM with images, objects,
: >and utilities is included! It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995) It is
: >supposed to ship at the end of December.

: where can I get this book ?


There is a special Expo offer on this book available until December 15th
for $24.95. After that, it is $39.95. YOu can get more info about it from:

Avid Media Group
1308 Orleans Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

408-743-9250
FAX [phone]
800-322-2843
[e-mail]

John Gross
editor, LWPRO

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
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: >8) How many remote machines can you have?

: I'm not sure if there is a software imposed upper limit or not.  I know
: the default limit is set to eight, but I think that can be changed.

1000. If you hit that limit, I'd be very interested in talking to you....

JG

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Time Code on screen?
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Jrmdd ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Can anyone with more LW knowledge than I tell me if it is possible to
: place time code on screen within an animation?  And if so,  how please.  I
: need a clock/counter on the anim screen but don't want to spend the time
: to build each object for each frame.   Thanks for any help.

Currently, the best that you can do is use the Data Overlay feature which
will record a frame number on screen.

A clever plug-in programmer should be able to create a timecode generator
that would imprint a time code mark on a frame....

JG

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Where to find LWSN for the PC's
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Eric Laguer ([e-mail]) wrote:
:     I have LW 4.0 for the SGI Indy and need some more rendering power,
: I've try to call Newtek for some technical knowledge but they were too
: busy handling other calls.  If someone know a ftp site were I could get
: the LWSN.EXE please let me know.  I have lwsn for the SGI but it is a
: binary only for the SGI and I only have one SGI.  But we have 2 Pentiums'
: and 2 Sparc 20's, It would be nice If I could use the ScreamerNetII on
: the 2 Sparc 20's but I don't think lwsn is available for the Sun's, If
: anyone has source code for lwsn I would be happy to port it for the Sun's.

LWSN is not shareware. If you want to run it on your Pentiums, you will
need to buy LightWave for the PC. NewTek may offer ScreamerNet packs, but
you'll have to talk to them about that....

JG

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From: [e-mail] (V Teahan)
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Stranahan ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Don't know if everyone saw this, but we won't have seaQuest's writing to
: kick around anymore...

: Amblin  - you did your best!

We still have you though :)




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: URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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From: [e-mail] (Sean C. Cunningham)
Subject: Re: Raydiosity and LightWave
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JBooth411 ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <48to5q$[e-mail]>, Colin Cunningham
: <[e-mail]> writes:

: >We've got a copy of software at work called Lightscape which does highly
: >realistic radiosity in no time at all. It does exactly what you are
: talking
: >about, it generates the radiosity for a location once (takes a minute or
: two)

:    So what happens if a light moves?

You gotta recalculate the whole system.  Same thing if you move an object
because the radiosity engine is calculating all the diffuse reflections
between all the surfaces in the scene.  Even the surfaces you can't see.

If you have access to a Sun, SGI, HP, NeXT or Alpha (OSF1, not NT) you can
also get ahold of BMRT (Blue Moon Render Tools), a Renderman compliant
renderer (from Larry Gritz, now with Pixar) that does not only radiosity
but raytracing.  Very slick, and doesn't seem to be tooo much slower than
Pixar's prman, which isn't very slow at all (until you start doing
overlapping transparencies).

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From: [e-mail] (Phried Phucker)
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On Sun, 19 Nov 1995 12:57:10 GMT, [e-mail] (Jeff Jasper)
wrote:

>>I have a quad-Pentium-133 on order. It doesn't count, but it will have
>>128MB RAM, and something like two six gig drives. The price was a bit
>>over $40k. I hope LW4.0 will run beautifully because I have six
>>animators who will be cranking out on it.
>
>Lightwave doesn't support SMP. I think you can use the extra CPUs as
>slaves for screamernet though.
>
>>BTW, the guys at PIXAR are incredibly jealous. After all the work on
>>Toy Story, we could have done it twice as fast. Disney is just upset!
>
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! yeah...
>
>Jeff
>
Where in the hell does one acquire $40,000 ???


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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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The NewTek AVI plugin does work once (and it looks much better than the
HIIP 32 output).  If I render the same scene in the same Layout session
the resulting AVI file will not play.  The HIIP plugin will make more than
one AVI in a row but the pixelation renders it problematic.  Two
questions:

-Is there a way to render consecutive NewTek AVI's (Cinepak, Indeo etc) in
one Layout session?  Now even a blank scene wont render a working AVI
twice.

-Or is there a way to reduce the pixelation in the HIIP-32 AVI output?

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From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
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I just bought my Par and installed everything.  Everything works fine
except when I try to output my Lightwave animations to the Par, it just
doesn't make it.  I read the manual and still don't get it.  For those who
have a PAR or knows, can you pls. tell me what settings in the Record
Options I should use.  Should I use the save anim file or the save RGB
image. I am using 3.5 version by the way.  I would like to render in
medium res w/ low/medium antialias, can you tell me what I need to do in
LW to render this out. Thank you. I appreciate your help.

Emmanuel Olympia

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> Adam Ives Chrystie <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Adam Ives Chrystie <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: total newbie ?
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:20:35 +0000

>I personally push the 'LOAD' button..ya see the wizards who
>made LW were just a wee bit dyslexic.  ;)

>Adam

I understand this only happens under Win95 and the "wizards" didn't write
LightWave for Win95.  I don't recall who said so, but I understand that
Microsoft implemented the File dialog boxes somewhat differently under Win95.
hence the LOAD/SAVE problem.


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HI all,
I just got my PAR board for my Amiga and am trying to use Translate to output
an image sequence into LW as a sequence texturemap.


I've been able to get individual frames from a sequene ce to be recognized in
LW but not a whole sequence.  Is there a certain way to name the sequence to
be recognized (like ANIM.0 or ANIM0XXX, or whatever)?

thanx for any help!

Josh Tsui

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emmanuel olympia <[e-mail]> writes:

>
>I just installed a new gig drive for my toaster system and when I use the
>file requester in Lightwave, I see the old hard drive settings, is there
>anyway to change the buttons to show my new hard drive partitions. Thank you.


yes, go into LW-Config and change the drive names.  LW doesn't automatically
recognize new drives.

Josh Tsui

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <48tu19$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Fish Eye Lens with LW4
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 01:22:49 GMT

>>   [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>>  In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
>(Gary Coulter)
>writes:
>
>>  >        I want to simulate the view through a fish eye lens <SNIP!>

>>  Hmmm....  I think I answered this Saturday in a different newsgroup.  Anyway,
>>  my idea was to create a perfectly reflective sphere and point the camera 180
>>  degrees away from the scene but at the sphere. <SNIP!>

>        What's the problem with adjusting the focal length?  After all, that's
>all
>a "fisheye" lens is:  a lens with a very very short focal length?

>        Is there something in the implementation that prevents this?  (If so,
>news
>to me.)
>*****************************************************************************
>** [e-mail]                     |  Synergy Graphix & Animation   *

Well maybe we have a semantics problem.  I understand "fisheye" to mean
something different than merely wide-angle.  "Fisheye" lenses will show
vertical and horizontal lines (that do not go through the center of an image)
as curves.  Some "fisheye" lenses show a full 180 degrees vertically and
horizontally.  These specialized lenses produce a circular image on the film.
 I believe the distortion is due to the spherical nature of the optic and the
flat nature of film though I am not sure.  LightWave makes perfectly straight
lines perfectly straight regardless of where they are located in the image.
Very un-fisheye-like.

Anyway, I understood the post to be looking for an effect where the straight
lines do curve when they do not pass through the center of the image.

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From: [e-mail] (Phillip Finch)
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
>Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
>Date: 23 Nov 1995 15:22:46 GMT

>>One consideration is having an actual full-size PCI slot for the PVR card,
>>which a lot of the pro LWavers seem to prefer for their tape output.

> Hum..... (newbie PC question approaching), what is considered to be a "full-
> size" PCI slot? I just purchased my first PC and was planning to add a PVR
> soon. The PCI slots on my motherboard (Titan I think), are smaller than the
> ISA slots. I didn't realize that PCI slots came in different sizes. (fingers
> crossed)

Uh, sorry, my fault.

The slots are standard size, AFAIK. The critical factor seems to be the
clearance *behind* the slot.
Phil Finch ([e-mail])

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Subject: Re: Dongle/printer problems Also!
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[e-mail] (Chris Hartt) wrote:

>My deskjet IIP with the dongle prints out black pages.
>I phoned Newtek, and they told me it could just be that type of printer.
>The only solution I came up with was getting another parallel port >because the dongle IS NOT TRANSPARENT!  It's just a pain in the ass.

I don't know if it will help, but have you downloaded the 5.1 dongle
drivers ? These are supposed to fix some problems with the 5.0 drivers
on the LightWave CD-ROM.

Also, if you have a modern Pentium motherboard, have you set the
parallel port to 'compatible' rather than 'bi-directional' or
'ECP/EPP' ?

Hope this helps,

John.



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From: Will Weems <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave Mailing list PROBLEMS?
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Yes.  I've tried several times, and have yet to have one go through.
Could it be that the list no longer exists?

Will



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Au contraire! I have had GREAT success with LW 4.0/Intel
in creating water surfaces, especially rapids, streams,
etc.  Yes, use fractal bumps for a object displacement
map (with velocity), but add to that a bump map using
the crumple texture, also with some (low) velocity. Great
stuff!

george deierling ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Have been trying for quite some time to model a lake -
: but had no real success so far - I mean a believable
: realistic lake (or ocean) surface. Has anybody else
: tried to do this? What is your experience?

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From: [e-mail] (Ed Hoffmann)
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Subject: LightROM3 - get it!
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I just got my LightROM3. It is awesome! I have bought LR 1
and 2 before it, and Micheal Meshew has done it again. 4500+
objects, Imagine/3DS/Sculpt/Real3D objects, some 820 great
textures, Toaster wipes and CG fonts, 3D landscapes, and an
entire CDROM with DEM files! Well organized, and will save you
loads of download time from the net. I have had a small
problem with changing the content directory, but that is the
only noticeable flaw I have found. Anyway, the disk has:

Graphic Detail
4556 South 3rd Street
Louisville, KY 40214   USA
502.363.2986 Voice/FAX
[e-mail]

I think it is $49.95 + shipping through 12/31.

Note: Just a happy owner, blah, blah,...
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Well to let you know about NEC, I just bought a P133 a "Ready 9542"
and it smokes with Lightwave. Very good machine so far, I have had it
only a few weeks.

Let me know what you decide.

John Mark Roquemore
net: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Randy Penn)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PAR sequences in LW
Date: 25 Nov 1995 22:19:57 GMT
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I don't know what version of LW you have (3.5, 4.0 etc) but I know under
3.5 you must load the sequence into LW as <NAME.>.  If you are using 4.0,
I believe you must type <NAME..> in order for LW to call the sequence
<NAME.>.  I hope that makes sense.  If not, let me know and I will try to
be more specific.

Randy


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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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Sorry for the repeats above--that's AOL for you.  Anyone can answer the
questions?

Thanks//

______________
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Gary Coulter) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Gary Coulter)
>Subject: Modeler Startup Error
>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 21:47:21 GMT

>Hi Everyone, can anyone offer me some help / advice .......

>System 486DX2-66 12M/B Ram with 1gig drive  Running     Win95

>I have been running both modeler and layout on exactly the same
>system for about 3 months, then yesterday it just stopped working.
>Basically when you click on the Modeler icon (on the desktop)
>Modeler loads-up, once its updated the screen it simply quits
>automatically, no errors no nothing ... I`ve done the following .....

>Re-installed Lightwave from CD.
>Re-installed Windows95 over Lightwave.
>Re-Installed the hardware key drivers

>Removed and re-placed the dongle, with the dongle removed I
>get a <Need hardware Key Error> so I guess the dongle is working.

>I understand that PCs are tricky beasts at best, but before I delete
>my whole system and just install windows and LW I thought I would
>just ask to see if anyone has come across anything like this before.

>Thanks for any help ...... -Gary-

You haven't reconfigured your parallel port recently have you.  I have heard
that people have troubles tunning through EPP and ECP type parallel ports.

Also some people have had problems with IRQ conflicts.  Have you installed
anything new lately.

Lastly, Win 95 doesn't need any hardware key drivers.  Those are only needed
for Win NT.  Maybe you should un-install them?


Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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Phoenix, Arizona .......................................................

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: rendering
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Patricia Beals) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Patricia Beals)
>Subject: rendering
>Date: 24 Nov 95 03:15:20 -0800

>I am using lightwave 4.0 on a pentium 75 mhz with 72 megs of ram.
>Does any one know a way that I can render x amount of frames foward
>and x amount backwards so that they meet in the middle and cut
>rendering time in half? I can render two sepereate animations at the
>same time, but the way I would like to I believe would be a little
>more convienient. Thanks. Mike.      [e-mail]

I don't quite understand.  Do you have one machine or two?  Were you
considering running two instances of Layout?  If you do, each instance will
render about half as fast.  You won't gain anything in speed.  If you have two
machines, I suggest you get a couple of network cards and use Screamernet.

I'm not sure if you have one long animation that you might split in two, or
two separate animations.  Either way, the fastest way to get it rendered on
one machine is still to use Screamernet.  You do not need a network and SN
seems to get things rendered about 20-25% faster than Layout.  Screamernet
will also allow you to load up multiple animations and render them in a batch
- one after the other.


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From: [e-mail] (Ulfers D)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Error while loading LW NT help!
Date: 25 Nov 1995 18:39:18 -0500
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I've just intalled Windows NT.  While upgrading LW 4.0 with the NT version
the
System Guide says to install the hard lock driver by selecting "Ulisted or
Updated Driver" by inserting the last floppy of the install set (but the
cdrom was the install). Would I use "d:\" for the CDROM and where is the
driver located on the disc?

Also, If I try running LW or Modeler, I receive an error "This version of
MSVCRT20.DLL is only intended for Win 32's" and will not load.   I
installed
the NT version. What's going on?  Any help would be appreciated.

Many Thanks!,  Dave

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From: [e-mail] (Marcus Ward)
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Subject: Re: AVI Lo-res????
Date: 26 Nov 1995 00:32:10 GMT
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>No matter what resolution I render out an AVI at (640 x480) or whatever, it
>comes out a blocky, what looks like, 320x240. Same deal with the AVIs on the
>CD. I have a P-133 w/16 meg and a ATI WinTurbo card. Any suggestions?

Install the NT_AVI plugin and rerender using a different video codec. I believe
this is covered in previous posts. And also the various qualities of each
codec. (thanks to whoever posted that)


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From: [e-mail] (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
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>       This effect is ameliorated slightly by the use of grey fog to cut
>contrast away from the camera.

>       Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency noise
>problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight would be
>appreciated.

If you have the time, use AntiAlias in High. That was the best I could do with
a similar problem...

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Where can I get samba for the amiga. I do not have my amiga hooked up
online.

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Randy Penn <[e-mail]> writes:

>I don't know what version of LW you have (3.5, 4.0 etc) but I know under
>3.5 you must load the sequence into LW as <NAME.>.  If you are using 4.0,
>I believe you must type <NAME..> in order for LW to call the sequence
><NAME.>.  I hope that makes sense.  If not, let me know and I will try to
>be more specific.
>
>Randy

I am using 3.5 at home.  I'll try out your suggestion, thanx

Josh Tsui

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Subject: Re: Trails???
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[e-mail] (Wayne Paugh) wrote:
>Does anyone know how to create trails In Lightwave. I want to have some
>characters fly across the scene and leave dissolving trails behind them.
>Please E-mail if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance.
>--
>Wayne Paugh
>Prodigy Softech

Try making a single-point poly (particle) version of your logo
and have it follow just behind your logo's motion path. Set
particle blur in the effects panel to a high value. Good luck,
hope it works.

Andrew Weiler

URL www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.com


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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: FLIC support in 4.0?
Date: 24 Nov 1995 02:47:51 GMT
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I have Lightwave 4.0 for WIndows NT, 95 etc .  Is there any way to save the output as a .flc (FLIC) file.  You know
the old 8 bit Autodesk format?  This format is a must for creating animations which run smoothly on PCs and MACs.
I do a tremendous amount of animation for instructional computing at our University which requires playback on a
standard computer.  AVI and Quicktime just look horrible and are usually too large in size to be useful.    I realize
that there are HIIP plugins for just about everything else but I did not see any for FLIC.  The Manul DOES indicate
that FLICS can be saved on the PC version of Lightwave.

 I am getting up to speed with this enjoyable program and will probably use it for many projects considering I also
have Softimage for the SGI and 3ds rel 4.   Each program has its own strengths and I believe Lightwave does
many things more simply than either of the others I mentioned.

Steve Schram
Stony Brook University

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Subject: Re: total newbie ?
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>let me clarify that last question, how do i get LW PC to save my
>animations? i have the HIIP plugin installed and give it the name and
>choose the type but it still does not save...any help will be
>appreciated...


If youre talking about what I think youre talking about, I think you are having
problems saving AVI's becuase of the avifil32.dll problem. check back about,
oh, 40 articles, I believe the header is re:avi limits. read all those, we must
have posted the answer 6 or 7 times.



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>What doesn't work under Windows95 is the Newtek AVI requester which
>enables you to select different codecs. (It works under NT which is how
>come I got it working now!)

Thats wierd, becuase it works under mine, thing is, you have to have a good
copy of avifil32.dll in the directory to even install the NT_AVI plug in. I ran
into this last night, becuase my hd fried, and had to reinstall. I couldnt add
the NT_AVI plugin till after I had a good version of avifil32.dll. Wierd, huh?

Madness


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From: [e-mail] (Frank McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave AVI Problem-SOLUTION...
Date: 26 Nov 1995 06:12:09 GMT
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>What doesn't work under Windows95 is the Newtek AVI requester which
>enables you to select different codecs. (It works under NT which is how
>come I got it working now!)


Actually the AVI New Tek driver works perfectly under Windows 95. Running
Lightwave under Windows 95 just go to the CD into Plugins/Layout and install
the plug in. When you select render a requestor comes up with various
compression options.

Frank McMahon


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
Date: 26 Nov 1995 05:33:24 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Elliot Bain) writes:
>  In <48vlns$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>  >
>
>  >I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's
>  pretty cool except for the ceiling and the floor.
>  >
>
>  >    Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency
>  noise problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight would
>  be appreciated.
>  >

>  High levels of AA and soft filter are the only things that seem to help
>  this situation. Instead of procedurals, maybe slightly blurred maps
>  might help. I've always had this problem using brick wall textures....
>
>  I know this doesn't help much, but...

    Well, no, but thanks anyway.

    The one time I used Soft Filter it was SO very soft that it was unusable.
Perhaps I'm using it wrong.  It (was) just a toggle, no parameters, so what could
go wrong?

    Just FYI, some other poster described a product called WaveFilter which
implements a fast version (approximation?) of DOF, which would work.  I'd use the
native LW implementation, but I don't have enough time before the deadline.

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Subject: Re: Windows NT and Lightwave
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>   [e-mail] (Phillip Finch) writes:
>  I would guess that the big change in the shipping version of 4.0 will be the
>  addition of the shell with its GUI and heirarchical file system. NT is too far
>  along to have any major fixes, and too new to be due for a huge overhaul.

    What?!  Its multitasking sucks!  There's PLENTY that can be fixed in NT, if
"fixed" means "improved to 1990 Amiga standards".

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Subject: Re: Trails???
Date: 26 Nov 1995 05:42:13 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Wayne Paugh) writes:
>  Does anyone know how to create trails In Lightwave. I want to have some
>  characters fly across the scene and leave dissolving trails behind them.
>  Please E-mail if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance.
>  --
>  Wayne Paugh
>  Prodigy Softech


    Here's an OLD trick:

    Load your PRECEEDING RENDERED FRAME as an image sequence, that is, the
same one you are saving with an offset of -1, and composite it with the current
frame as a foreground with some degree of transparency.  (This is how we used to
achieve "motion blur".)

    Pretty tricky, eh?  >;^)

    By defining different levels of transparency you can adjust the length
of the trails.  With envelopes (hey, sonny, we didn't have them in the OLD days!)
you can even do slicker tricks.

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Does any one know how I can use my PC to render scenes created on my Amiga
without buying another copy of LW.

       Many thanks.....Mark


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From: [e-mail] (Alan Chan )
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Subject: Re: Projection Lights
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In <[e-mail]> Bruce Branit <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>Todd LeMoine wrote:
>
>> >>  >creating what would be in essence a "projector" light in LW 4.0

>*Make sure you are tracing shadows with your projector light.
>
>*Make sure the polygon your image is surfaced on is 100%
>transparent, with the surface normal facing your light, and Color
>Filter on!
>
>*Lastly, make sure that the ground surface the light is being
>projected onto does have some diffuse value.
>

Also make sure that the plane on which your image is mapped on is not
too small or extremely close to the light, or you will get a funky
'digitized' look on your projected map..

AC


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Modeler Startup Error
Date: 25 Nov 1995 19:31:18 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Gary Coulter) writes:

>  Basically when you click on the Modeler icon (on the desktop)
>  Modeler loads-up, once its updated the screen it simply quits
>  automatically, no errors no nothing ..

[snip]

We ran into this recently with one of our systems...layout worked fine but
modeler would exit immediately without warnings. After much experimentation
we swapped dongles with another system and it was fine. Sounds like it
might be your dongle.

-Eric G.


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From: [e-mail] (Phried Phucker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Where to buy Lightwave 4.0?
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On 22 Nov 1995 13:49:30 GMT, Norbert Schneider
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>The subject says it all, I think.
>Does anyone know a company in the U.S. which sells
>Lightwave _AND_ makes deliveries to Switzerland? (NewTek
>won't do it themselves, they said I should contact a retailer -
>of which I don't know any).
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Norbert
>
Look in the magazine "Video Toaster User" it is VERY good


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In <48fpuj$[e-mail]>, Generic Account 0084 <masc0084> writes:
> Hello.
>
> I have access to a computer that have Lightwave 3D on it.  I would like
> to learn to use it.  Is there a book someone could recommend?
>
> I use 3D Studio... but would like to learn lightwave also.
>
> Thanks..
>



Read the manual.  Pretty good way to learn it.  Also there are some hints &
tips at the ftp site: Tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu (Pub/lw/tips) and there are a
few books out just for LW.  Pick up an issue of Video Toaster User, look
through the ads.

Thomas

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From: [e-mail] (Dreamin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: LightWave 3D V3.5 *** For Sale *** (Amiga Stand Alone Version)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 09:43:43 GMT
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Hi All!

I'm selling my other version of LightWave 3D because I went to the
Intel version.  This version isn't "UPGRADABLE" to any other version
of LightWave 3D.  With that in mind I'm looking for offers in the $195
area.  That includes everything that came with LW when purchased,
except for the regestration card!  If interested E-Mail me at:

[e-mail]

Since I went Big Blue I have some other software/hardware to sell.
Below is a list:

DCTV (Amiga NTSC Version)              - $175
Montage 24 (Amiga No VT needed!)   - $195
Montage PostScript Module                - $  75
ImageMaster (Amiga Ver. BlackBelt)    - $  40
Amiga RGB to VGA Connector            - $  10
Scenery Animator (Amiga Ver.)             - $  35
ProVector (Amiga Ver.)                         - $  75
Amiga Vision Authoring System            - $  35
DevPac (Amiga Machine Lang.) V2     - $  25
X-Specs 3D (Amiga ver. - Haitex)         - $  75

Below is a list of books I have that have never even been read!

Abacus - Advanced System Programmer's Guide for the Amiga (vol 7) -$15
Abacus - Amiga System Programmer's Guide (vol 6)         -$15
Abacus - Amiga Disk Drives: Inside & Out (vol 9)              -$15
Abacus - Amiga Graphics Inside & Out (vol 13)                 -$15
Abacus - Amiga C for Advanced Programmers (vol 11)     -$15
Abacus - Amiga C for Beginners (vol 10)                           -$15
Abacus - Amiga Machine Language (vol 4)                       $15
Bantam - The Amiga DOS Manual                                    -$10
Compute! - Compute!'s Amiga Programmer's Guide          - $10
Compute! - Learing C Programming Graphics on the Amiga   - $10
Mastering Toaster Technology                                      -$25

That's about all I have left....If interested just reply via E-Mail!


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: LW - tip wanted (stars in warp sceme)
Date: 26 Nov 1995 13:59:13 GMT
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Hi all

I am stuck on a problem with lightwave 4.0

Summary:I have just completed a battle scene (ametureistic I might add) in
space involving 2 spaceships, ship no1 swings round ship no2 and fires a
missile at it. Ship 2 then explodes and then ship1 swerves to aboid the blast
and then shoots off into warp... ( a flash is seen in the distance (lens
flare) which symbolises the ship going into hyperspace).
I also have a star field in this scene...

I would like to improve on this by making the camera follow behind the ship
and when the ship enters hyperspace I want to make the stars strech some how
making ti look something like starwars and others....

This project is for my computer animation task at my highschool (or collage as
others may call it.) I am in my final year at school and hope to continue on
into university with animation....

Also 2 other things:

1. I would like to know if it is possible for an object to start in for
example frame 150 instead of always starting in frame 0, Or if it is possible
to  make the object invisible until frame 150.

2. I would also like to know if it is possible if I can make an image in the x
axit (the ground) so I can then make a ship take off from a runway or
something like that. I know that I can make background images but this is no
good because it is along the y axis.....

I am sorry if I have explained things poorly.

I  would be greatful if anyone could help me with these problems


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From: [e-mail] ("David Mccandless P")
Subject: Re: Time Code on screen?
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> Can anyone with more LW knowledge than I tell me if it is possible to
> place time code on screen within an animation?  And if so,  how please.
>  I
> need a clock/counter on the anim screen but don't want to spend the time
> to build each object for each frame.   Thanks for any help.

Premiere 4.0 for the Mac has a 'Burn Timecode' plugin. It's possible a PC
version may be kicking around somewhere.

David

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave Mailing list PROBLEMS?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 15:52:19 GMT
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In article <48vhos$[e-mail]>, Will Weems <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Yes.  I've tried several times, and have yet to have one go through.
>Could it be that the list no longer exists?

No doubt there has been a response already but what the heck.  Webcom's lack
o' service recently made David make a server change faster than he wanted.
The Lightwave mailing list is now once again live and active thanks to the
efforts of David Warner and the folk at garcia.com.

To subscribe, send e-mail to [e-mail].  In the body of the message
include:

subscribe lightwave

If you want to get on the digested list, send (to the same address) the
following in the body of the message:

set lightwave mail digest

The mailing lists are now being handled by ListServer rather than MajorDummo.
:)

Messages go through faster now.  :)

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From: [e-mail] (Stefan Boberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Windows NT and Lightwave
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 16:03:36 GMT
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[e-mail] wrote:

>>   [e-mail] (Phillip Finch) writes:
>>  I would guess that the big change in the shipping version of 4.0 will be the
>>  addition of the shell with its GUI and heirarchical file system. NT is too far
>>  along to have any major fixes, and too new to be due for a huge overhaul.

>    What?!  Its multitasking sucks!  There's PLENTY that can be fixed in NT, if
>"fixed" means "improved to 1990 Amiga standards".

  You mean 'improve' as in: remove crash protection, multiprocessor
support and hardware independence? AmigaDOS is nice in many ways, but
unfortunately it's rather dated. I have extensive experience with
both, and prefer NT. I miss the assigns, links, long paths, and proper
shell windows (resizable with scroll-bars) though.

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From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Best Brand Computer for LW PC NT
Date: 26 Nov 1995 20:48:21 GMT
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>Uh, sorry, my fault.
>The slots are standard size, AFAIK. The critical factor seems to be the
>clearance *behind* the slot.
>Phil Finch ([e-mail])

 Ah... thanks for the clarification!

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From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Syquest Drivers for the PC
Date: 26 Nov 1995 20:48:22 GMT
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Does anyone know where I can get drivers for my 88meg Syquest drive? Thanks!
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From: [e-mail] (Gerald Poirier)
Subject: Re: Which system should I go for to run Lightwave??
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) says:
>

>Can we agree on the following?  (In alphabetical order.)
>
>Alpha - Fastest way to render LightWave frames on earth (if you get the faster

>Amiga - Has advantages in excellent OS and custom chipsets and that the
>
>PC - Considered by many as the best compromise platform.  Of course that means
>
>SGI - This is generally the most expensive computer that runs LightWave.
>
>So the correct answer to the above question is: "Gee - I don't know.  What is
>your situation and what do you want to accomplish?"
>

I have to agree on your compromise.
When you want to IMPORT images for background or textures (homemade ones), PC is the cheapest and
easiest way to find hardware-software.

Same when you want to use other software to complement your LW uses... say Photoshop or even
freebies...

And of course... you can do your taxes and run Flight Sim on the PC... :)

Bye-Ya !
    Gege

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From: [e-mail] (Patricia Beals)
Subject: fiber factory on lightwave
Date: 26 Nov 95 21:47:12 -0800
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I have two Metrografx programs. Fiber Factory and Sparks.
Sparks loaded fine and runs well. Fiber Factory works well on modeler
primitives, however, when I load an object into modeler, I get an
error message "could not add control". I have contacted Metrografx,
they said they were in the process of compiling a win95 version and
would get it out to me.  Any ideas on how I might be able to give it
the controll it is looking for while I am waiting?
Thank you
Mike Beals
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Marco Sederquist)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: AVI Lo-res????
Date: 27 Nov 1995 00:32:52 GMT
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In article <495u61$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Frank McMahon) says:
>
>
>Pretty strange...
>
>No matter what resolution I render out an AVI at (640 x480) or whatever, it
>comes out a blocky.

The problem I think is not anything with your computer or what res.. you render
out in it's  the fact that the only thing you can render out at in Win 3.1
is Video for Windows .AVI which produces block (like crap) video. You need
to use WinNT to be able to use the other compression options, such as
Cinapack..etc.

I have the same problem and am about to upgrade to NT in the next couple
of days.
Marco
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW: Moire and high freq noise problems--photorealism
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In article <498u74$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] wrote:
>>   [e-mail] (Elliot Bain) writes:
>>  In <48vlns$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>  >
>>
>>  >I'm working on a photo-realistic animation of an office.  Everything's
>>  pretty cool except for the ceiling and the floor.
>>  >
>>
>>  >    Any suggestions on how to avoid these moire and high frequency
>>  noise problem in surfaces that are fairly tangent to the line of sight
would
>>  be appreciated.
>>  >
>
>>  High levels of AA and soft filter are the only things that seem to help
>>  this situation. Instead of procedurals, maybe slightly blurred maps
>>  might help. I've always had this problem using brick wall textures....
>>
>>  I know this doesn't help much, but...
>
>    Well, no, but thanks anyway.
>
>    The one time I used Soft Filter it was SO very soft that it was
unusable.
>Perhaps I'm using it wrong.  It (was) just a toggle, no parameters, so what
could
>go wrong?
>
Another thought on soft filter may be to render at higher resolution and scale
the images down. The soft filter probably (I haven't checked this) has a fixed
pixel width for its softness. If you can afford the render time, rendering at
double resolution and scaling back down should half the effect of the soft
filter. It will also give you better antialiasing. The big killer might be
time.

Good Luck

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Syquest Drivers for the PC
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 01:58:21 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood) wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get drivers for my 88meg Syquest drive? Thanks!
> _______________________________________
>| I M P A C T  I M A G I N G            |
>| e-mail [e-mail]          |
>| http://www.teleplex.net/ImpactImaging |
> ---------------------------------------
>

Try http://www.syquest.com and follow the links.

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Thompson)
Subject: Re: Q: BOOKS ON LIGHTWAVE?
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:39:08 GMT
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In article <490mn7$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>: >"The Best of LIGHTWAVEPRO"
>: >It costs $24.95 US.(until Dec. 15, 1995)

Not that this will likely influence your purchasing decision, but if you
are hoping to find any of my past articles (over a dozen), you won't
find them in this book. Since I see many references to my past articles
on the LW list and here, I thought you should know this.
     *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
     *           Mark Thompson                  [phone]    *
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From: [e-mail] ()
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FIRE!
Date: 27 Nov 1995 07:06:47 GMT
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John Sonedecker ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Could someone please help me with finding a suitable background
: material to film fire, smoke and such against. I assume it should
: be black. Whats the best thing? I will be using a Hi8 camera and
: digitizing it for use in LW.
: Thank You,
: -John Sonedecker

: P.S. What substance makes the best "controlable(sp)" fireballs/explosions?

--I always shoot fire in my back yard, at night, with the sky as my BG. By
the time you stop down enough to keep the flames from being totally white,
the stars no longer show. You could also use Duvetyn (that black material that
stage curtains are made out of) just make sure it far enough away that it
doesn't catch on fire. You can order all kinds of fabrics from
Rose Brand. There number is [phone] THey also sell fog juice and
stuff like that.

-Aaron


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From: [e-mail] (DAN BLOOMFIELD)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: character eye movement
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 17:47:00 -0400
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 > I'm trying some character animation for the first time.  My question is
 > about simulating eye movement, ie., turns, blinks. pupil dialation,
 > etc.
 > What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I make a pupil
 > object
 > and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of
 > image
 > maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
 > there an even better way?

Yes there is a better way. In Modeler make a sphere for your eyeball.Then
turn the sphere on it's side so that the round polygons at the top are
pointing along the z axis. Select and give these polys the pupil surface and
then save your eye object. Now select the points along the perimeter of the
pupil and use the stretch tool to make them bigger, smaller etc. Save the
eyes with different pupil sizes as morph targets and use morph evelopes to
control the pupil size.


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From: [e-mail] (DAN BLOOMFIELD)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Screamer Net
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 17:47:00 -0400
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 > Contrary to what the manual states, the install process did not create
 > a
 > subdir called Command, nor one called SN. I've never the less tried to
 > follow the manuals instructions as to establishing where the command
 > DIR
 > is located with the LWSN.exe file via the SN panel, NOT initialize SN
 > and exit LW and copy over the LW.cfg file.  When I run the commandline
 > portion for LWSN.exe though, it starts but gets into a "Can't find
 > job1"
 > loop.  I have to Ctrl-C to get out of it.  Usually there'll now be a
 > job1 file written.  If I try LWSN.exe again, I get a different error
 > message or loop, but an ack1 file will be written.  Even so,
 > ScreamerNet
 > still isn't installed or initialized.

The Command directory setting in the ScreamerNet control panel must be set
to the same directory that the command directory in the LWSN command line
points to. As far as I can tell the working directory in the LWSN command
line for it's program item must also be this directory.


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From: Michael Osmolovsky <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Bckgrd Image Seq Bug?
Date: 27 Nov 1995 02:29:25 GMT
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I suspect this issue may have been posted previously, so I
apologize in advance.
After loading a backgound image sequence into LW 4.0 final/Intel,
I encountered some strange problems with how virtual memory was
acting on my machine.  The paging file just kept getting larger
and larger until I got a "low on virtual memory" error message,
and after clicking OK several times LW would crash.  The scene is
not very large and there is more than adequate RAM to render out
each scene without paging.
After sleuthing around a bit, by using the performance monitor I
was able to determine that the page faults were exclusively
occurring when LW was loading in the background image for each
frame at the beginning of the rendering for each frame.  This
would cause the size of the page file to increase slightly each
time, but the memory would not be released at the end of each
render.  The end result was that after a certain number of
frames, the maximum paging file size would be exceeded.  By
making my initial paging file larger, I was able to delay the
onset of the problem, but the end result was always the same.
I thought that the problem might be due to the fact that I was
using targas as the background image sequence, but I used IFF
with the same result.  This is more than just annoying, it is
making some of my work impossible to do!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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Subject: Re: character eye movement
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:52:29 +0000
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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:
>
>
>
> Why is this difficult?  We parent the pupil to the eye and find it is pretty
> easy.  We have only worked with very cartoon-like eyes so far, but it works
> for that.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Walter (Jay) Turberville   |[e-mail]  [e-mail]

During our R&D phase for M&Ms, we found that using actual geometry for the pupil became cumbersome,
mostly because the pupil would find a way to cut into the eye. This happened more often when the eye
geometry was changed (bulged, etc.). The curve of the eye surface would change, and whatever pivot point
we chose for the pupil would be inaccurate, causing the pupil to lose its ability to track evenly over
the curvature of the eye. The asymetrical shape of the M&Ms' eyes was also a factor. Given these
restraints, we opted for image maps.

Given a fair distance from the camera, these restraints may not come into play. The various closeups, as
well as the large pupil size of our characters, meant that any sinking of the pupil into the eye object
was intolerable.

I could see using geometry for the pupil if it was a part of the eye object. Changes would be
accomplished using an object morph.

Suggestions are, as always, much appreciated.

--
Stephen Bailey

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Subject: Re: AVI Lo-res????
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:55:36 +0000
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Marcus Ward wrote:
>
> >No matter what resolution I render out an AVI at (640 x480) or whatever, it
> >comes out a blocky, what looks like, 320x240. Same deal with the AVIs on the
> >CD. I have a P-133 w/16 meg and a ATI WinTurbo card. Any suggestions?
>
> Install the NT_AVI plugin and rerender using a different video codec. I believe
> this is covered in previous posts. And also the various qualities of each
> codec. (thanks to whoever posted that)

As an added tidbit, AVI users should check out www.intel.com. In the multimedia/video/developers section
(can't remember the exact name) is documentation as well as software for installing the latest codec from
Intel (Indeo 4.??). Additions to the codec include a settings panel that gives you options for
transparency mapping, keying, etc. Instructions for use with Premiere 4.0 are available. It's worth a
look-see.

--
Stephen Bailey

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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >  >Hi!
> >
> >  >I'm trying some character animation for the first time.  My question is
> >  >about simulating eye movement, ie., turns, blinks. pupil dialation, etc.
> >  >What is the best and easiest way to do this? Should I make a pupil object
> >  >and parent it to the eye ball and animate it, or would a series of image
> >  >maps with different pupil sizes and positions be the way to go.  Or is
> >  >there an even better way?
> >
> >  >TIA
> >
> >  As with anything else in Lightwave, there is not just one correct answer.
>
>         Indeed.  I might point out that of the various ways outlined, the ones
> that include creating geometry for the iris/pupil are going to be a LOT easier
> to line up and preview in Layout, whereas the image map solutions are going to
> have to be rendered at some level to see what's happening.  Plus, I've always
> found it to be a LARGE pain in the ass to try to time image SEQUENCES to specific
> animation frames if there's a substantial offset.
>
>         This is the kinda thing where motion paths for image maps would be
> EXTREMELY helpful, but that's a drum I've been beating for five years now.  Perhaps
> there's a possible plugin solution.
>
>

An upcoming VTU should contain a (hopefully) helpful tutorial discussing these exact hurdles for
image-mapped pupils, and ways to ease the pain.


--
Stephen Bailey

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Stovall)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: FS Sony V-5000
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 22:31:20 +0200
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Sony V-5000 for sale!  Kept in pristine condition and comes with 5
batteries, (three of which are new).  This unit has just been refurbished
with new heads, and has a had a complete re-alignment and cleaning. I've
used this on many important projects for the University of Oklahoma  (no
it isn't a student camera!)  and the quality has been phenominal!  Used
for myself only! Taking the best offer (as long as it's reasonable!) :)

Email back for more info, or to make an offer!       [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: LightROM3 - get it!
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Ed Hoffmann ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I just got my LightROM3. It is awesome! I have bought LR 1
: and 2 before it, and Micheal Meshew has done it again. 4500+
: objects, Imagine/3DS/Sculpt/Real3D objects, some 820 great
: textures, Toaster wipes and CG fonts, 3D landscapes, and an
: entire CDROM with DEM files! Well organized, and will save you
: loads of download time from the net. I have had a small
: problem with changing the content directory, but that is the
: only noticeable flaw I have found. Anyway, the disk has:

I agree. It is very well done. Reading the instructions, it says that you
need to change your CD ROM drive letter to L:. After doing this, your
scenes will load just fine....(after you change your COntent Dir to L:\)

JG

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Error while loading LW NT help!
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Ulfers D ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I've just intalled Windows NT.  While upgrading LW 4.0 with the NT version
: the
: System Guide says to install the hard lock driver by selecting "Ulisted or
: Updated Driver" by inserting the last floppy of the install set (but the
: cdrom was the install). Would I use "d:\" for the CDROM and where is the
: driver located on the disc?

Go to the WinNT directory (on the LW CD) and run the setup program that is
appropriate for your system (eg X86setup.exe). Wheen you get a new window
up, go to the Install menu and choose Install. This will install the
Sentinel Driver. The system guide is no longetr correct. I think this may
be mentioned in the Readme file.

: Also, If I try running LW or Modeler, I receive an error "This version of
: MSVCRT20.DLL is only intended for Win 32's" and will not load.   I
: installed
: the NT version. What's going on?  Any help would be appreciated.

Find that file and see if its properties (File Manager) are set to
include Read Only. If so, change it, and then copy the same file from the
WinNT directory.

JG

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Michael Osmolovsky wrote:

> ... I got a "low on virtual memory" error message ...

Might be the dreaded Microsoft C runtime bug:  the free() that doesn't.
A LW fix is in the works.

- Ernie


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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Please send me working  lw.cfg and lwm.cfg (Lightwave files)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:24:42 GMT
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My config files got trashed. Would somebody send me a copy of theirs
so I could rebuild them?  (For LW 4.0 PC )

Thanks.


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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: need help w/ Par(beginner)
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In article <496sel$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
>Subject: need help w/ Par(beginner)
>Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:51:01 GMT


>I just bought my Par and installed everything.  Everything works fine
>except when I try to output my Lightwave animations to the Par, it just
>doesn't make it.  I read the manual and still don't get it.  For those who
>have a PAR or knows, can you pls. tell me what settings in the Record
>Options I should use.  Should I use the save anim file or the save RGB
>image. I am using 3.5 version by the way.  I would like to render in
>medium res w/ low/medium antialias, can you tell me what I need to do in
>LW to render this out. Thank you. I appreciate your help.

>Emmanuel Olympia


You should set save Targa or IFF to the hard drive DDR. The PAR will grab the
file and pack it into an animation file on it's hard drive DDR. I use an Amiga
PAR but I would think the setup would be the same. Be sure the PAR software is
set to save anim and not stills.

Frank
[e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: my file requester in LW shows wrong hard drives, how come?
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In article <495krt$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
>Subject: my file requester in LW shows wrong hard drives, how come?
>Date: 24 Nov 1995 23:35:25 GMT


>I just installed a new gig drive for my toaster system and when I use the
>file requester in Lightwave, I see the old hard drive settings, is there
>anyway to change the buttons to show my new hard drive partitions. Thank you.

You need to edit your LW-config file and just replace which ever button line
ex. "FileReqPreset1 DH0 DH0:" to the drive letters of your new drive.

Frank
[e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
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Subject: Re: what type of hard drive can I use for my PAR?
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In article <495l22$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
>Subject: what type of hard drive can I use for my PAR?
>Date: 24 Nov 1995 23:38:42 GMT


>Hello,

>I just installed my Par and Seagate gig drive.  but after installing the
>par software and going into the par software, it gives me a window saying
>hardware failure, check drive or something like that.  I don't think it is
>the drive since I have used it before for the par and it was working fine.
>But, just in case there is something wrong with the drive, what type of
>hard drive can I buy.  I will definitely buy an IDE gig drive or higher
>but does it matter which brand.  If I stay with Quantum, Seagate, or
>Conner, or micropolis, is this a safe bet?

>P.S. do you know what may be causing the problem with my Par drive?

>Thank you

>Emmanuel Olympia


I've had this happen when I connected the cable from the hard drive to the
PAR card backwards. When you start up your computer see if the PAR hard drive
light stays on. If it does, that is your problem.

Frank

[e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

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RGarrison ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Why do these people insist the world revolves around LW? Too bad!


Maybe because this is the LightWave newsgroup?  duh.


                                     -David Warner


Thank you. I'm glad someone filnally realized that!
-Sam Marrocco

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From: [e-mail] (robert hood)
Subject: New BML/RT revision available!
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A new revision (1.0b3) of the BML/RT run-time script interpreter is available
on my anonymous FTP site.  This new revision corrects a number of problems,
most noteably consecutive invocations generating a GPF.

BML/RT is a special run-time version of the BML scripting plugin for
LightWave Modeler, which is currently in Beta test.  This special version
of the plugin will only read/execute "compiled" versions of BML scripts
(generated by a special script compiler that I currently have in development).

I have compiled all BML scripts that are currently available on the same
site, and they reside in the same directory as the plugin.  That directory
is:
        ftp.netcom.com:/pub/bh/bhood/plugins/BML-RT

While some of these scripts are available as "hard" plugins at the same
location, some of them are new scripts, such as my particle motion generator
sparticl.bmc, and Brian Hoffman's new AlignOrigin script, alignorg.bmc.

The run-time version of BML ("BML/RT") is FreeWare, and can be distributed
without restriction.  THIS PRODUCT IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY; USE AT
YOUR OWN RISK.  It is currently under development, but seems to work well.

Once again, this plugin WILL NOT EXECUTE BML SCRIPTS.  It will only process
and execute compiled versions of these ascii text files, and many have been
provided.

Enjoy!
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Subject: Re: Need Help w/ installing LW NT
Date: 27 Nov 1995 08:07:28 GMT
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I had a similar problem when I loaded NT and Lightwave.  I've already dumped that data from my
brain.  I can tell you to call tech support (leave a message, they do call back) they're the ones
that gave me the solution.  It is worth it to run LW on NT, so don't get too frustrated.


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On Fri, 29 Sep 95 14:11:58 -0700, in comp.graphics.apps.lightwave you wrote:

>> system has 24 megs, when I load up LW it tells me I have about 9 megs
>> free
>> (this is with an empty scene, nothing loaded at all!!!)  If I switch
>
>Things may not be quite as bad as they look. A while back Allen Hastings
>noted that the free memory readout didn't work very well and that they were
(snip)
>I usually just ignore the readout and go by how often it uses virtual
>memory when it renders.

I don't think so, because I have observed the memory going down when I load a
scene, then not going back up when I clear it, and it starts using virtual
memory when the memory indicator says "0".

I was hoping there was some sort of setting to fix this, but I couldn't find
one or anything about it.  The beta did not have this problem.
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From: [e-mail] (Jim Cable)
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Date: 27 Nov 1995 03:48:58 GMT
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Anybody have an FTP site for LHANT.  I need a version of lha that supports long
file names on a Win95 machine.


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From: fredie@churchill (Fredie.Layberger)
Subject: Amiga<>Win95 networking problem
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Summary: Problem networking an Amiga with Win95 system
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Okay, I've finally gotten my Amiga4000 Flyer system networked
to my PC. I can ping from either to the other and I can FTP from
either to the other, but I can't get Samba to work. When I launch
Samba nmb and smb, it puts up a requester asking for volume ETC.
Where should ETC be assigned to make it work? I've tried assigning
it to AmiTCP:samba and to AmiTCP:samba/etc but that doesn't work
since my Amiga drives do not show up on the PC.

Also, is anyone using WS_FTP32 to ftp with the Amiga? It's a great
program, but I can't get it to list the files in my Amiga directories.
All I get is a message that says "ls -lA: Operation not supported by
device." I can list Amiga files using the ftp that comes with Windows95,
but WS_FTP32 will not list anything. Everything else about WS_FTP32
seems to work fine.

Thanks...fred



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From: Cad Resources S/B
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Subject: Investment & Multimedia job offers - Malaysia
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Cad Resources S/B is currently involved with other
Malaysian-based organizations in the planning & development
of a Malaysian Multimedia Theme Park. Cad Resources is looking
for dynamic people and investors who are able to work & contribute
towards the implementation and construction of the multimedia theme
park. Cad Resources opens its invitation to people from 3D-animation
developers to Senior Management level. All interested candidates should
e-mail all resumes, biography or company profile to
 "[e-mail]"

Cad Resources is also open to suggestions or any recommendations on
what other events/programmes/ideas that the Multimedia theme park
should have. For further details on the theme park project, please
contact Arthur Gan at 603-244-6900 (Malaysia).


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From: [e-mail] (Bjørn Melbye)
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Subject: Re: LW 4.0 rev B Layout BUG?
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[e-mail] (David Ballesteros Guillen) wrote:

>I have a friend whom use Lightwave as I. He tried to install it in 3
>diferent computers under WIN95, and all with the same results. The
>program installs well, but when he trieds to open the Layout, the
>window open and close immediatly without any kind of error. (Yes, his
>Sentinel Pro was installed too).

>He has found  a partial solution. He can run the program launching it
>from the Task Manager (windows subdirectory), but if he try to run it
>from the Lightwav icon, the error continues. He changed his Lightwave
>at our dealer, and the problem persist. Any idea?

He should check his parallell port, possibly buy an additional card
for the dongle. I experienced similar problems on my last machine, and
I have heard similar stories from 3dS users.


     Bjørn Melbye
     e-mail: [e-mail]
     www:    http://mother.idg.no/~bjornm/


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From: Michael Haegele <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: FLIC support in 4.0?
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Dear Steve
If you hear something, please let me know, too...

thanks...

Michael Haegele


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Dear Steve
If you hear something, please let me know, too...

thanks...

Michael Haegele


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From: Bob Lindabury <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Photoshop Images to Light Wave
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To: Frank McMahon <[e-mail]>

Frank McMahon wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
> >
> >If you are using a PC, the image format of choice is really TARGA.
> >It is no problem to import targa images to Lightwave from most programs
> >which support 24 bit images, like Photochop, Picture Publisher,
> >Photostyler, etc. Few programs know what IFF is.
>
> Few programs except...Lightwave. IFF is the format the hundreds of included
> textures and maps come in on the CD-Rom.
>
> Frank

Adobe Photoshop 3.0 supports IFF.

-- Bob Lindabury
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From: Chuck Furlong <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 3 Point to 4 Point polygons?
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Is there a way to convert 3 point polygons (ie 3DS stuff) to 4 point polygons
for rendering in Lightwave?

ChuckF



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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Screamer Net
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: The Command directory setting in the ScreamerNet control panel must be set
: to the same directory that the command directory in the LWSN command line
: points to. As far as I can tell the working directory in the LWSN command
: line for it's program item must also be this directory.

The LWSN program doens't care what the config fiel it reads says for the
Command Directory. That line is only for the controlling version of
LightWave to use as the default when it starts up. You're correct when
you say that the command directory that the SN panel is looking must be
the same directory LWSN looks at (where you specified the job and ack
files to go to in the command line).

The Working Directory in the LWSN icon is the directory that you wish
LWSN to read a config file from. LWSN Needs to know what the Content
Directory is (which it gets from the config file) plus, any plugins that
you may be using in your rendering have to be listed in the config file
for SN so it knows where to find them (including HIIP savers)

JG

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From: "Stephen J. Gaudet" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Best Hardware for LightWave?
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Hello Will

Might I suggest you drop MIPs.  The processor is dead on arrival and like
you pointed out, no applications.  However, if you check out the Dec Alpha
systems I believe you'll be happy on price and performance.

Furthermore, Digital will be releasing a new product called FX!32.  This
product will run all your Win 32 apps that are not presently ported to
Alpha at 70% true Alpha speed.  Can Intel match this...nope.

Cheers,

 Steve
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Subject: Re: Lightwave on a Mac?
Date: 27 Nov 1995 14:14:27 GMT
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[e-mail] (Nick China) wrote:
>Unfortunately, you can look forward to the Mac platform being crushed like
>a bug by that behemoth, Microsoft. ....

I've heard that one for about ten years now (Microsoft, IBM...blah,blah,blah)



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> The WWW pages says mid 1996 for release.  It is currently being tested.  No
> price listed which always scares me.  Also, the WWW pages describes the
> software as using translation AND emulation techniques.  16 bit application
> compatibility will be acheived by using Insignia Solutions SoftWindows
> product.
>  _________________________________________________________________
> Walter (Jay) Turberville   |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
> Phoenix, AZ                |http://www.getnet.com/studio522/
> Studio 522 Productions     |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
> ............................|ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber



..To your concern over the pricing of FX!32

FX!32 will be distributed FREE to end users in mid '96.




Pat Hart
Digital Semiconductor
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Gaven Eogan)
Subject: Re: 3 Point to 4 Point polygons?
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In <49chbs$[e-mail]> Chuck Furlong <[e-mail]> writes:

>Is there a way to convert 3 point polygons (ie 3DS stuff) to 4 point polygons
>for rendering in Lightwave?

>ChuckF

Well if you have Pixel 3D Pro then you can run a model through the
polygon reduction function which will try and join adjacent flat 3 point
polygons into polygons up to size Max Points which defaults to 200! You
could reduce this to 4 if you wanted to.
Unfortunately the version I have doesn't load 3DS models for some
strange reason!!! :-(


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[e-mail] wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I am stuck on a problem with lightwave 4.0
>
>Summary:I have just completed a battle scene (ametureistic I might add) in
>space involving 2 spaceships, ship no1 swings round ship no2 and fires a
>missile at it. Ship 2 then explodes and then ship1 swerves to aboid the blast
>and then shoots off into warp... ( a flash is seen in the distance (lens
>flare) which symbolises the ship going into hyperspace).
>I also have a star field in this scene...
>
>I would like to improve on this by making the camera follow behind the ship
>and when the ship enters hyperspace I want to make the stars strech some how
>making ti look something like starwars and others....
>
.........
>
>1. I would like to know if it is possible for an object to start in for
>example frame 150 instead of always starting in frame 0, Or if it is possible
>to  make the object invisible until frame 150.
>
>2. I would also like to know if it is possible if I can make an image in the x
>axit (the ground) so I can then make a ship take off from a runway or
>something like that. I know that I can make background images but this is no
>good because it is along the y axis.....
>

For your warp effect probably the most effective method would
be to make a circle of single-point polys, also called
particles,and move them quickly toward the camera as the camera
follows the ship through it. Set Blur Length in the camera
panel to a fairly high value and turn Particle Blur on. Set the
surface value of the particle to a high luminosity and turn
glow on. Be sure to set the glow radius in the effects panel
on. this should give a nice "Trek" look.

In response to your second question, the simplest thing to do
to "ghost" an object, i.e., make it useen to the camera, but
have still have it in the scene is to set the object dissolve
in the objects panel to 100%. By using an envelope you can make
that object become visible or "fade in" at any frame you want.

Regarding your third question, you would want to make a large
square polygon extending into the +z and +x axes (in other
words, flat) and map your ground or runway image onto it as the
surface color map (set the projection to the Y axis).
I hope the above was helpful.

Andrew Weiler

URL www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html


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From: [e-mail] (Bjørn Melbye)
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Subject: Re: LHA File?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:40:40 GMT
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[e-mail] (Theodore Terranova) wrote:

>I downloaded an LHA file for LW but can't open it.  Could someone
>tell me what type of file an LHA is and if LW or modeler will open it.

>Thanks  Ted

LHA is a compression program, similar to PKZIP, and it has been a very
popular program on the Amiga-platform. You need LHA.EXE to pack it
out, it shouldn't be too hard to find on an ftp-server.




     Bjørn Melbye
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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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Subject: Re: LightROM3 - get it!
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JG Writes:

I agree. It is very well done. Reading the instructions, it says that you
need to change your CD ROM drive letter to L:. After doing this, your
scenes will load just fine....(after you change your COntent Dir to L:\)

JG

***************************************************************************
How does one do this on a PC? I tried the Assign and Subst commands
without any luck. I'm using Win95 which assigns the next available drive
letter. With Win3.1, I could change the letter in the config.sys.

Don

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From: [e-mail] (Wes Parham)
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Hi-Ho.  I am in the process of animating  some sky-writing and want to
see if anyone has some good alternatives for doing it in LW.
  At present, I'm planing on employing my dusty copy of Imagine 2.0
and using the GROW effect.  This will allow the word to be written out
easily behind my 'aeroplane'.
  I also have LW 3.0 at my disposal and am more comfortable with it's
output and reliability.  Automatic writing doesn't seem to be
possible.  I've read the tutorials which emply an animated clip map,
but the word is rather long and I want it in cursivem which means many
curves.  So the questions run as follows:
    Tolerably painless automatic writing in Lightwave?

    A decent looking end result with wispy, cloudlike letters in LW?

    Does 4.0 have any new ToYz for doing suh a thing?
Thanks a million:

/*        Wes Parham                       Athens, GA           */
BTW: respond via private EMail and fast!  How would you do it?


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In article <[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Theodore Terranova) wrote:
>I downloaded an LHA file for LW but can't open it.  Could someone
>tell me what type of file an LHA is and if LW or modeler will open it.
>
>Thanks  Ted

LHA is an Amiga compression file - similar to zip, tar, etc. I believe there
is a PC version of the LHA archiver somewhere, maybe check some FTP sites that
also cater for Amiga files.

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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Subject: Re: LW4.0 glow effect bug???
Date: 27 Nov 1995 18:21:41 -0500
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In article <499i2k$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Daniel Rodriguez)
writes:

>I have a problem using the Glow effect rendering images from LW4.0
>(pc version) to a DPS digital video recorder. Look at this: If i render
>my objects with an aura created with the Glow effect and then i render
>this scene using fields options the glow effect renders in a inverse
>order that objects does!. Then i obtain a stroboscopic effect in the
>glowing aura i gave to my objects. I've tried the Inverse fields order
>option but stills the error.
>
>                What am i doing wrong?, thanks.

    Nothing, glow doesn't work with field rendering because it isn't
processed untill after the entire frame has been rendered. Hopefully this
will be fixed soon.