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From: Michael Sippel <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Photoshop Images to Light Wave
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>The final fixed HIIP stuff that will be included in the patch from NewTek
>will allow LW to save out alpha channels in 32bit Targa files.
>
>JG


Anybody heard when the patch will be available?

Sip


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From: Michael L Weiss <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Collision Detection
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Ed,

    I really like IMPACT! from dynamic realities.

    their order number is 800-944-5520.

    I have done some nice animations. one had 131 spheres colliding.

    Michael L. Weiss
    [e-mail]

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From: Steve Axtell <[e-mail]>
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Subject: SUGGEST a video capture board
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I am looking for a lower priced video capture board that can take video
off of a hi8 camera and can be used with Lightwave to create some lowres
video composites for CD ROM stuff.  Any suggestions?  Am I correct in
thinking that the high end PVR is overkill for the cdrom and internet
quality?  Thanks.  Ax



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Subject: Re: Photoshop Images to Light Wave
Date: 3 Dec 1995 04:43:48 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (MarcMylar) writes:
>  I thought I was doing something wrong when I couldn't get 32-bit TGAs out
>  of LightWave (Win 3.1).  Does IFF format support embedded alpha channels?
>  I need a way to overlay animations over video.
>
>  -Marc

    TMK, there is no support for embedded alpha channels in IFF --- however,
since Allen is basically the 900 lb. gorilla re:IFF  (at least, IMHO) there is
no reason (but time & inclination) he couldn't just implement them himself --
what, maybe 3 companies would have to support it?  (NewTek, ImageFX, and what?)

    Better would just be compressed TGA with alpha -- then you'd be able to
talk to the rest of the world.

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From: [e-mail] (Tony Lisanti  Totowa)
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Subject: VTU's mistakes...
Date: 6 Dec 1995 16:03:50 GMT
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 I've noticed in the Jan issue several mistakes in VTU's articles.

 1) Article on the return of the amiga stated the 1200 has been #1 in
europe for the last 7 years. It hasnt even been out for 7 years!

 2) The openining Editor's column stated the Amiga 4000t came with 8mb
ram and 1gig hard drive for 2700$. Thats wrong. Its 6mb and 540mb if
memory serves me right.

 3) the Interview with Petro has 2 errors First it states Amiga 4000T
whas one configuration, then the next paragrah they state the amiga 4000T
has another configuration.

4) Other Articles and Distributor ADS shwo the stock amiga from AT with
several different configurations, 6mb,8mb 540HD,1GIG HD, (not really
VTU's Fault)

 In all I noticed 5 different "Stock" amiga 4000T's. Looks like they were
in a hurry this month. So who's right? Hard to say looking at this issue.

Tony
DigiSoft Inc.


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In article  [e-mail] (Don)
Subject: Incompatible MSVCRT20.DLL - need help!!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Don)
Subject: Incompatible MSVCRT20.DLL - need
>help!!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 07:02:04 GMT

>When I try to run LW I get the following error: "This ver of MSVCRT20.DLL is
>not compatible with win32s."  What gives??  I have the dll, and the newest
>win32s - v1.30.  Am I missing the correct runtime lib?

>Help!!  ...or direct me to the best place for it.  Thanks

Maybe its the NT version?  I am running win32s v1.30 with no trouble.  Check
for the file on your CD and make sure you are running the correct copy.


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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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--------------------------
I'm sure that if LW was used for such a high profile project, I would
have heard of it.
--------------------------

This assumes NewTek has a marketing department - there are Toaster effects
in Casino, too, and Space : A & B got very little LightWave press (stories
where LW is mentioned), and and and and

It just makes me sick. Sorry.


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Check out the home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 07:27:29 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Frank Aalbers)
Subject: Object Replace Plug-In
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It seems like the Object Replace Plug-In is only on the Intel 4.0
rev.A CD and not on the rev.B CD . I just checked because we have
both.

The one from the rev.A CD works OK !

Frank Aalbers

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From: Wayne <[e-mail]>
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Subject: **PC-WINDOWS95-Version Wanted**TRADE!!!!!S-VHS**
Date: 3 Dec 1995 13:22:50 GMT
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Give me your Lightwave Version 4.0 on CDROM and I
will give you for a,

"Panasonic AG-450 S-vhs Camera,w/all of the extras!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have a ton of Amiga Hardware and Software!! Lets make
a Deal!!



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Subject: Re: Need a Windows compatible .jpg viewer
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[e-mail] (Marcus Ward) wrote:


>>I'm looking for an application that will run in Windows that I can ftp off the
>>net that will let me view/convert .jpg files.  Any ideas?  I'll need location
>>and directory (and filename obviously).  Thanks very much.

>If you have a web browser, or access to one, find Graphics Workshop for
>windows.  It doesnt do any editing, but is a KILLER graphics viewer. I can
>hardly believe that it hasnt been mentioned here.  It will view almost every
>file type under the sun, do conversions, sizing, adjust channels, etc. And its
>shareware. If I thought everyone here would benefit from it, I might even try
>uuencoding it so everyone here could try it out.  Let me know if this would be
>an acceptable idea.

I prefer LView, it's smaller and faster...



























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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: AVI's that don't stutter
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 21:26:35 LOCAL
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In article <[e-mail]> Dick De Jong <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Dick De Jong <[e-mail]>
>Subject: AVI's that don't stutter
>Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 03:26:19 -0800

>Am I missing something or do all AVI playbacks stutter unacceptably to
>judge an animation's motion?  I've tried playback through Premiere and NT
>itself.  At its best, the jerkiness is Keystone Cops quality.  Is there
>some magic setting or should I just bite the bullet and buy a PVR?

I'm pretty sure that AVIs play back at 15fps.  How smoot they play back seems
to be a function of the size of the AVI, how much memory you have, how fast
your CPU is, how fast (PCI, VESA or ISA) your video card is, and what OS you
are running.  My P100 running Win 3.x with a Diamond Stealth PCI does AVIs
fine, my DX4-100 with Win95 and a Thunderbolt Vesa card does just as well, my
DX2-66 with Win 3.1 and a no-name ISA video card is horrible.  You can also
usually set your AVI player to skip frames if it falls behind or to play all
frames.  The first setting can cause jerkiness while the second setting slows
everything down and sacrifices correct timing.

To get true 30fps on the P100, I started using CMPEG to create MPEGs instead
of AVIs.  That worked OK, but the image was smaller and of marginal quality.
I have some sample MPEGs on our studio's WWW page if you want to see for
yourself.  I think they may be set to run at 15 fps though.  Get the PVR if
you can justify the expense (and if you have a full length PCI slot).


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In article <49v11l$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>blah blah

And I forgot to mention installer programs.





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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LightWave 3D V3.5 *** For Sale ***
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 21:37:44 LOCAL
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Andrew Barnett) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Andrew Barnett)
>Subject: Re: LightWave 3D V3.5 *** For Sale ***
>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 19:27:28 GMT

>In a msg dated 29-Nov-95 22:16:04, JBooth411 was yapping about Re: LightWave 3D
>V3.5 *** For Sale *** (Amiga Stand Alone Version).

>*>>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:
>*>>
>*>>

>*>     This is illegal.

>How is it illegal.


><sb>
>Nuff said,
>                              Andrew Barnett

I talked to NewTek about this a few moons ago and the fellow I talked to said
that the Amiga 3.5 SA program was transferable but not upgradeable.  Actually,
he said that he was 90% sure that it was.  The PC upgrade was a cross-platform
upgrade and AFIK actually "spawns" a new license.  Just as the Toaster to PC
"upgrade"  spawns a new license.  The difference, is that the Toaster retains
the ability to also upgrade the Toaste software (and it cost more for that
privilege as well).

I'd like to know for sure what the LW 3.5 SA status is, but when you call
NewTek and get a 90% sure answer - what are ya gonna do?  To answer my own
question - I guess write a letter - and hopefully get a WRITTEN firm response
that you can attach to the software manual, license etc.

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From: [e-mail] (Mathew Mower)
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I am looking for a video Toaster 2000 card.  The original, not the Toaster
4000.

It can be working or not (I'll repair it if need be) and does not need to
include the software.

If you have one you'd like to sell, please respond via E-mail.

Thanks

Matt Mower
[e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 02:25:05 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Frank Aalbers)
Subject: Path-function bug in Modeler
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Hello all !

Maybe this was mencioned allready here ...

There is a bug in the Path-Extrude and Path-Clone function of
th Modeler Intel 4.0 rev. A and B .

The Pitching and Banking data of every keyframe is used negative when
using this function .

If a keyframe has a rotation value of H=10 P=10 B=10 it will perform
that Path-function with the values H=10 P=-10 B=-10 .

I can arrange it by scaling the Pitch and Bank values in the
Motion-Graph with -1 to make them negative .

Dont know if this is a known bug ...

Frank Aalbers

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Pager
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In article <[e-mail]> Bruce Branit <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Bruce Branit <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Pager
>Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 02:37:49 -0600

>Has anyone heard of a the following program:

>If for any reason whatsoever, your render in LightWave should
>shutdown unnaturally, short of a completed render; Your modem will
>dial a pager number for you to let you know.

>It seems like it should be a pretty simple set of events to set up.
>Could this be achieve with a simple DOS batch program?

>Bruce Branit -- FryeAllen
I have thought of this too.  Under NT, this is probably a decent scheme since
NT is pretty crash resistant.  However, under Win3.x or Win95 what happens if
the entire machine locks up.  A better method might be if the program sent out
pages at intervals confirming that everything was OK.  The page could include
the rendered frame count as well. This would be horrible for overnight
rendering though.  Anyway, what would be a central question is what do you
use to determine a locked session?

I have used Procomm Plus to do similar things not related to LightWave.  It is
easy to write a simple script for it, but I don't think it would be too
efficient in memory usage or CPU cycles taken.  You might be able to do it
with a DOS batch program but I am concerned about how many CPU cycles it might
eat up also.  Ideal would be a win32s compatible program that would allow you
to set options as mentioned above.

A bigger question is whether the added "security" is worth adding the extra
running program which may cause a problem itself.  I haven't crashed a
rendering session yet, so I am not particularly concerned at this time.


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From: [e-mail] (Frank McMahon)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave AVI Problem-SOLUTION...
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>Well it doesn't for me.  I can save AVI files after reinstalling the
>avifil32.dll from the Win 95 CD, but it does not give me the option
>of a codec or any compression settings.  Also is there a way to
>compress Targas after lightwave renders them.
>
>Ted

Install the "NT" driver...not the 3.1 one.

Frank McMahon


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David Ballesteros Guillen wrote:

> 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've installed PVR's in two machines under Win95 and had no need to go
through any of that.  Just popped them in, adjusted some PCI IRQ
assignments (PVR is happier on some IRQ's than others - I can probably
dig up an email from DPS to support that statement), installed the
drivers, and everything works perfectly.

Steve

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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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To save FLC animations from a sequence of Targa images try a program
called Dave's Targa Animator out of a Dos shell.  I am not aware of where
it is located on the Internet.

Good Luck.

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In article <49m7b5$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Marcus Ward)
writes:

>>P-100, 32 meg, ATI Mach 64, and Win 3.1.
>

I don't know if this is a response to my previous post, but the shoe
fits...

>How much video memory do you have on that card. I have a buddy that had a
one
>meg pci card, and the video looked like crap until he upgraded to a 2 meg

>card... (dont think ati sells any 1 meg cards, but who knows.)

I have 4 MB of VRAM on the card, and I running at 800x600 at 65k colors,
so I don't think this is a problem.  I could try reducing the color depth,
I suppose.

>Have you tried selecting the indeo 3.2 compression codec and setting
>compression quality to 100%? that's what fixed my problems...

I would, but I don't get a codec requester dialog.  At some point, I'm
going to give up and use another program to convert TGAs to AVI, if
necessary.

Thanks for the effort,
Marc





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In <4a0bhn$[e-mail]> Archie Jones <[e-mail]>
writes:
>
>     You were right about the non-planer polygons but I am
>still having problems with the metaform function.  This is what
>I do:
>
>1)  After my rough model is constructed I select all non-planer
>polygons and triple them.  At this point my model has no
>non-planer polygons.
>
>2)  I then apply the metaform function to the model.  Now my
>model looks the way I want it to but is full, and I mean real
>full, of non-planer polygons.
>
>    If I now triple the polygons again I end up with an
>unacceptable number of polygons.  Is there a way to use the
>metaform function without producing more non-planer polygons?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Archie Jones
>


Don't triple your non-planar ploys until you have finished metaforming
your object.  Tripling at every interation only adds uneeded
complexity.

GT


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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Bug with image sequence...
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Wanna B 3D ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hello,
: When rendering out an animation with an Image sequence,  after 15 or 20
: frames layout will halt with an error requester "Can't allocate RGB
: buffer."  Then it will kick out of the rendering.  I also notice that it
: is not getting rid of the preveious images, it basically fills up my ram
: with a bunch of unwanted images all the way to 0k!  When I spoke to Newtek
: a few months ago, they said they are aware of the problem and they would
: have a fix soon.  Until then, I will have to render out my 15 or 20 frames
: at a time.  REAL PRODUCTIVE!!!  Where can I get this bug fix?  Is it
: available yet?

This is a bug with Microsoft. NewTek is preparing a patch that will make
LW clear memory in a different manner (one that actually works!). THe fix
will be distributed when finished (my guess would be b-4 Xmas for sure...)

JG

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Archie Jones ([e-mail]) wrote:
:      I'm having some trouble with metaform in Lightwave for
: Windows.  I have a human figure that was constructed using
: metaform.  When I render it without shadows everything looks
: fine.  Turn shadows on and I get little black spots and lines
: all over the figure.  Other shapes in the scene that didn't
: have metaform applied look great with shadows on or off.
:      Any suggestions on how to eliminate this artifact?

After metaforming check for the following:

-unmerged points
-points with no polygons
-2 point polygons
-unified polygons
-non-planar polygons

JG

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Hi dear,

I'll make no bones about it: the best advice I can give you, if you
want to solve your problem, and many others also, is to change
Windows for OS/2 or even better... to buy a Macintosh.
Proverb of the day: "To know which side one's bread is buttered"...
Cheers!

Boris

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>Hi out there!

>I'm experiencing problems with Lightwave 4.0, when I try to render my
>picture the computer works for a while and everything seems to be
>alright but then nothing happens!! The computer doesn't hang but my
>picture is not shown!!

>I'm really a newbie to Lightwave but would appreciate all help I can
>get!


I use Lightwave on the AMiga (3.5) so I don't know if this is the same, but on
my system, it will render the first segment, jump to the background image
(which is the color version) and remain on that screen til done (unless I
force the screen back to the b&w one...  The color screen will seem to hang,
but in fact it is just waiting for the next segment to be dumpted to it...

Next time, you may consider just watching it for a while longer to see if the
second segment ever makes it there ;))

good luck



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:     TMK, there is no support for embedded alpha channels in IFF ---
however, : since Allen is basically the 900 lb. gorilla re:IFF (at least,
IMHO) there is : no reason (but time & inclination) he couldn't just
implement them himself -- : what, maybe 3 companies would have to support
it?  (NewTek, ImageFX, and what?)

:     Better would just be compressed TGA with alpha -- then you'd be able to
: talk to the rest of the world.

The final fixed HIIP stuff that will be included in the patch from NewTek
will allow LW to save out alpha channels in 32bit Targa files.

JG

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Cohen)
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Subject: Re: DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW ??????????
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>DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW where I can get some cheap or FREE
>software that will convert a sequence of Targa of IFF files to an
>AVI or QuickTime movie file ???

>I know that someone out there has an answer and if you include the
>FTP site or WEB address I might give you 1,000,000 DOLLARS.

My guess is that if you have not found it on Aminet, then it does not exist.
Try downloading the entire Aminet index (about a meg and a half).  This way
you can do your searching off line ;)

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From: [e-mail] (john enger)
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Bill Leonard ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>, Studer Andreas 3132
: <studer> wrote:
: > Hello,
: >
: > [e-mail] (Nick China) wrote:
: > >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!
: >
: > BTW this is not fair against Mac's, cause it is not the full truth.
: > NewTek don't support PowerMac's cause they don't HAVE PowerMac's. They
: > would LOVE to have a Mac product. This hears incredible? But it's the
: > truth. Let us imagine, what for problems they have at the moment...
: >
: > (No, i don't have a Mac. I own a PC and an Amiga...)

: And to add to that, NewTek claimed to be "in talks with Apple right now,
: with nothing concrete" about Lightwave Mac.

: I believe it will come to the Mac sooner than anyone thinks.

: There's just too large of a market to ignore, especially such a
: graphically dominant market.

Here's a thought for you... Lightwave is definately being supported on the
Amiga past v4, and the Amiga is moving to PowerPC at the end of '96...
What's more, Amiga Technologies and Apple are apparently having a bit of a
chat. Draw your own conclusions...

BTW, I saw Lightwave 4.0 running on an alpha at the Computer Graphics Expo
in London... V. nice... (great show from Premier Vision & Brad form NewTek BTW!)

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William Teegarden ([e-mail]) wrote:

: >> > I do not think LW was used in 007 Golden Eye.
: >>
: >> Yep it was Lightwave -
: >>         If you like, I'll dig out the name of the production company
: from
: >> the report in SFX. Lightwave was also used to produce the helicopter
: >> missiles and missile contrails.

: I'm sure that if LW was used for such a high profile project, I would
: have heard of it.  I would like to see the article though.  What do you
: think JG?

It *was* Lightwave. At least, thats what I was told at the Computer
Graphics Expo in London...  :^)

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>   [e-mail] (MarcMylar) writes:

>  >    Better would just be compressed TGA with alpha -- then you'd be
>  able to
>  >talk to the rest of the world.
>
>  OK, is there a specific setting in the Record panel (or elsewhere) which
>  allows this?  I've been able to get 24-bit TGAs, but they don't contain
>  alpha channel.

    No.

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Glyn Williams wrote:
>
> > I do not think LW was used in 007 Golden Eye.
>
> Yep it was Lightwave -
>         If you like, I'll dig out the name of the production company from
> the report in SFX. Lightwave was also used to produce the helicopter
> missiles and missile contrails.
>
> Glyn Williams - Particle Systems

  Yea, that would be GREAT! Thankx!

Adam Chrystie

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edit your newgroup list before replying back to this.
take COMP.GRAPHICS.APPS.LIGHTWAVE off this thread. We don't
stupid OS avocacy war here.

Jeff


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I live in Germany and wold like to subscribe to Lightwave Pro mag, but
i don´t have the adress. Can anyone post it here plz..




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Will the NT version of Lightwave run under Windows 95?

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     You were right about the non-planer polygons but I am
still having problems with the metaform function.  This is what
I do:

1)  After my rough model is constructed I select all non-planer
polygons and triple them.  At this point my model has no
non-planer polygons.

2)  I then apply the metaform function to the model.  Now my
model looks the way I want it to but is full, and I mean real
full, of non-planer polygons.

    If I now triple the polygons again I end up with an
unacceptable number of polygons.  Is there a way to use the
metaform function without producing more non-planer polygons?

Thanks in advance,

Archie Jones


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 Tell me how to veiw and decode


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Could someone please email to me a location where I can ftp the software
The Graphics Workshop and/or LView Pro ???

I need a program to work with my Konica Picture Show disks.....seems they
are not in true JPEG format and the pictures come out upside down.  I
need a program such as the Graphic Workshop that will allow me to rotate
the image and export it to another program.

Email would be best for me as I don't regularly check this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance for any help someone can give me.


Judi


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From: [e-mail] (A Lugones)
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URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm

<<Will a Power Mac with a 88MB Syquest be able to read a PC formated 44 or
88MB disk?>>

There is a program for the MAC called "PC Access."  This program is
designed to read PC formated Syquest disks.  Look for it in a Mac Catalog
or in the back of a Mac Mag.

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From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
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>       Although, I'll agree that the learning-curve is steep (can we say
>vertical?), it is not MUCH more than Lightwave.  I say this because the
>developers are working very hard to make the interface much more
>intuitive... as of v3, it is already much more usuable than v2.

Well, I used to be a staunch R3D advocate, but I bought a Toaster to
do video work with and started using Lightwave, which I now use almost
exclusively (though I still have R3D2 kicking around). I've never had
a problem learning complex programs and interfaces, as I come from a
programming background, and R3D posed no problem for me (except for
errors in some particle tutorials printed in my manual). But I can
get stuff done faster in LW, and everything works much faster. R3D
is very powerful and eats up less RAM than LW, but it takes me too
long to get any real work done.

I must say, though, R3D3 looks cool. (Never used it, though).

(This message is based on R3D V2.49, not the latest V3.something)

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>     I'm having some trouble with metaform in Lightwave for
>Windows.  I have a human figure that was constructed using
>metaform.  When I render it without shadows everything looks
>fine.  Turn shadows on and I get little black spots and lines
>all over the figure.  Other shapes in the scene that didn't
>have metaform applied look great with shadows on or off.
>     Any suggestions on how to eliminate this artifact?

Not owning the PC version, I am not sure if this is a bug, or an error in your
modeling, but the first thing I would try is merge points from modeler.  Could
be that the lines you are seening are the seams of the polygons..


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From: [e-mail] (Robert Cohen)
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Subject: Re: SUGGEST a video capture board
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>I am looking for a lower priced video capture board that can take video
>off of a hi8 camera and can be used with Lightwave to create some lowres
>video composites for CD ROM stuff.  Any suggestions?  Am I correct in
>thinking that the high end PVR is overkill for the cdrom and internet
>quality?  Thanks.  Ax


Hi Steve,

Why not just look for a used PAR.  With many upgrading to the PVR, people are
just about giving away their PAR's...  In terms of the quality being overkill,
I am not quite sure I understand what you are trying to do....  But if you
want to retain the most quality, even if you bump it down to ECS displayable
formats, I would think that to grab full video resolution and downgrade it
with a quality converter (such as ADPro) would yeild better looking images
than scanning it in at a lower resolution with an inferior system...

Good luck


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From: [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart)
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In a message dated Wed, 6 Dec 95 08:20  [e-mail] writes:

N> NAME: Andre
N> I see that there are several new LightWave tips listed in the
N> index, however, whenever I try to reach any of these new tips,
N> I get the message that the URL is not found. I just wanted to
N> make you aware of this, in case you weren't.
N> Also, I wanted to thank you for having this collection of tips
N> available, I am just starting out with LightWave and I find
N> this collection to be a very good resource for me.

     You're welcome. The only reason some of these are missing is
the upgrade going on. While it is complete within my system I
don't have enough online time to upload it in one day (the site
is getting BIG). Check back in a couple and all will be peachy!

Christopher

ps. I'm going to have to remove the tip-to-tip browsing function
    as the maintence time for it is getting out of hand. Do you
    use it a lot? My thinking is that the index and search
    engine should be enough. I'm going to post this message to
    the list and newsgroup to get more feedback (FYI).

Glad you're getting something out of it..

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>I have 4 MB of VRAM on the card, and I running at 800x600 at 65k colors,
>so I don't think this is a problem.  I could try reducing the color depth,
>I suppose.

I doubt its your color depth, thats exactly the same screen size and color
depth that I am using.... have you tried getting the latest drivers for the
card? I noticed that mine doesnt refresh as fast if I run the stock drivers...

Hope Im at least pointing you in the right direction....


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From: [e-mail] (emmanuel olympia)
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I have a mitsumi fx-001d 2x cd-rom for my pc, will lightrom work on that.
I was thinking I could transfer the files from my pc to my amiga if it
worked. thanks

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everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the animation
always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

Emmanuel Olympia

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From: [e-mail] ("Glyn Williams")
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Adam Chrystie writes...
> > > I do not think LW was used in 007 Golden Eye.
> >
> > Yep it was Lightwave -
> >         If you like, I'll dig out the name of the production company
> > from
> > the report in SFX. Lightwave was also used to produce the helicopter
> > missiles and missile contrails.
> >
> > Glyn Williams - Particle Systems
>
>   Yea, that would be GREAT! Thankx!

The production company was The Magic Camera Company - with the main
protagonists Alan Marques and  Steve Begg  - both of whom seem to have
worked for some while in the British special effects business.

The rendered stuff used Lightwave  - and included a lot of the space
footage as well as the missile contrails and two MiGs.
The article also talks of the Matador system (a paint / composite system)
running on SGI.

Glyn Williams - Particle Systems Ltd.

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>everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the animation
>always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

Field rendering renders each field differently, so that animation
comes on a field-by-field basis rather than a frame-by-frame basis.
This won't look right unless you play back your anim interlaced
and a full 30fps (25fps PAL).

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Date: 5 Dec 1995 15:15:18 GMT
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 I've had the same problem.  It seemed very random after a few hundred
frames.  I'm not sure what the problem is for sure but I thought it might
have been another computer writing to the common drive at the same time.
Maybe not ?


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 PF> You need to order it directly from Lightspeed at:

 PF> 800-764-8696 (Orders only)

 PF> Price is $40 plus shipping.

 PF> I like the book. It's mainly a collection of tutorials, not a
 PF> comprehensive treatment. There's some overlap w/some of Alan's
 PF> recentLWPro articles ("volumetric lighting', e.g.) but it's still very
 PF> handy to have around.


Hello Phil...

Would you have a telephone number with an area code for these guys?  Calling
from Canada and its not available.  Another U.S. company that doesn't want
our business...


<ICS>



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Hi Judi,

Please give ThumbsPlus a try.  It is an amazing Windows viewer/converter
that supports many file types including jpg.

The newest shareware version of ThumbsPlus (2.0e) is located at our web
site along with the 32-bit beta of ThumbsPlus:

http://www.cerious.com

Please let me know if you have any questions about ThumbsPlus.

Regards,

  Laura

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <49l5hd$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David L. Campbell) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (David L. Campbell)
>Subject: Re: need help w/ Par(beginner)
>Date: 30 Nov 1995 20:51:56 GMT

>Walter (Jay) Turberville ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: You can render directly to the PAR on the Amiga.  We NEVER do that though.
>: Maybe we are just too conservative, but in a world where you can buy 1 gig
>: hard drives for $250, why takes extra chances by introducing an additional
>: piece of software/hardware to foul up.

>Uhh, by using an intermediary disk, you *are* introducing an additional
>piece of hardware (the disk) and software (the PAR importer) to foul up.


>David.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>David L. Campbell                          "The comfort you have demanded

Perhaps I should have been more clear.  I was talking about introducing as
few variables as possible "while rendering."  I thought that was obvious from
the context of the posting, but I was clearly incorrect.

A system hard drive is probably the safest type of device to render to.  It
does introduce an additional step OVERALL, and of course you still need to
activate the PAR software at some point.  However, if the PAR
software/hardware combination goofs up after rendering, you are not forced to
re-render.  You have the original frames safely on the hard drive.  If it
goofs up during rendering - your rendering session could easily be trashed.
And there is no backup.

Semantics and other fine points aside, it IS safer to render directly to a
hard drive and then import the files.  It is also somewhat more expensive and
does consume more (though not a great amount more) time.

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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4] How can I copy a surface and paste it onto another?

        There is no actual cut and paste operation.  However you can
save the surface you want, select the new surface and then load the
previous settings into place.  The usual way to do this is to select
the source surface and then to save the surface to a name such as
'temp.srf'.  Then select the target surface and load temp.srf.
-----------------------------

There is no error here, but thought you might want to know that I find it
easier to name these "temp" surfaces aaaaaaaaa.srf.  This way, they show up at
the top of the file list which is really only an issue if some other surface
has been loaded previously, or when doing the save surface portion.  Also,
this tip works for motions, fade envelopes etc.

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

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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (philip d massimi) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (philip d massimi)
>Subject: Need a Windows compatible .jpg viewer
>Date: 2 Dec 1995 02:11:06 -0500


>I'm looking for an application that will run in Windows that I can ftp off the
>net that will let me view/convert .jpg files.  Any ideas?  I'll need location
>and directory (and filename obviously).  Thanks very much.

>Please send me e-mail.



>        Phil Massimi

Try Lview Pro.  You can find it in my ftp directory (see my .sig) right now.


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Scene Machine - what's the deal?
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In article <49nplh$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jeff Atlas) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Jeff Atlas)
>Subject: Re: Scene Machine - what's the deal?
>Date: 1 Dec 1995 20:47:45 GMT

>   First get either win NT or win 95.  I had nothing but problems with
>lightwave processes and plugins under win 3.1 and 3.11.   And screamer
>net soft ware does not run at all under 3.1.  win 95 may use a bit more
>memeory to start, but what is left is used much more efficeintly.

I ignore all the HIIP plugins in LW, so I can understand if you had problems
with that.  All else seems OK though.  Screamer net DOES work under Win 3.x.
The problem is that the DOS window is non-existent for some reason.  But rest
assured, that the software is active.

I think Win 95 manages memory better though.  When you add long filenames and
better multitasking to the picture, it is probably a better OS for LW than Win
3.x.  If you run the system monitor while rendering, you may be surprised to
find that Win95 only "locks" about 2 mb of memory.



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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FX!32 from DEC
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:12:31 LOCAL
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In article <49mgmv$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Ottmar Roehrig)
>Subject: Re: FX!32 from DEC
>Date: 1 Dec 1995 09:08:47 GMT

>Walter (Jay) Turberville ([e-mail]) wrote:
>> 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

>As far as I have heard FX!32 will be included with WindowsNT 4.0. So there
>is no need in stating a price...

>--
>Ottmar Roehrig
>dcp, design+commercial partner GmbH  | Internet: [e-mail]

It is great that it will be included.  My hat is off.  However, they should
make sure they got appropriate credit by including that information on their
WWW page.  Or perhaps I missed it.

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On Sun 95-Nov-26, [e-mail] said:
 j> Network information:
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 j> Subject: Re: Trails???
 j> Message-ID: <498unl$[e-mail]>
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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

 j>
 j>     Here's an OLD trick:
 j>
 j>     Load your PRECEEDING RENDERED FRAME as an image sequence, that is,
 j> the same one you are saving with an offset of -1, and composite it with
 j> the current frame as a foreground with some degree of transparency.
 j> (This is how we used to achieve "motion blur".)
 j>
 j>     Pretty tricky, eh?  >;^)
 j>
 j>     By defining different levels of transparency you can adjust the
 j> length of the trails.  With envelopes (hey, sonny, we didn't have them
 j> in the OLD days!) you can even do slicker tricks.
 j>
 j>
 j> *****************************************************************************
 j> ** [e-mail]                     |  Synergy Graphix &
 j> Animation   * ** Welcome to Seattle, have a latte'!      | Technical
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From: [e-mail] (Gaven Eogan)
Subject: Re: Metaform problems
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In <4a0bhn$[e-mail]> Archie Jones <[e-mail]> writes:

>     You were right about the non-planer polygons but I am
>still having problems with the metaform function.  This is what
>I do:

What have you got the flatness limit set to? It defaults to 30, I think,
- you should set it to about 5 and then check for non-planar polygons
again, this should select a lot more polygons as being non-planar.


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: RE: need help w/ Par(beginner)
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Theodore Terranova) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Theodore Terranova)
>Subject: Re: RE: need help w/ Par(beginner)
>Date: 1 Dec 95 22:59:55 -0800

>Maybe DPS does deserve a thank you for their initial creation of the
>PAR board, but I paid thousands( not a couple hundred) of dollars for
>the PAR and the drives it requires.  This is definitely cheaper then
>rendering to a single frame VCR, but PAR invented the product set the
>price, which is not cheap relative to my computers overall price, and
>I paid it.  I bought this card Six months ago and now am without
>support for WIN 95.  If this was a $200 board I could understand it
>but for the money I paid DPS, I expect at least a years worth of
>support and upgrades for the product.  Just because DPS created a
>great product does not excuse them from their responsibility to their
>many customers and from selling a successful product and then
>abandoning it.  Now that the PVR is out they don't seem to care about
>the PAR owners.  I personally feel that this is not the way a company
>retains continued consumer support and I do not plan to support or
>"THANK" DPS in the future.

>TED


So, before spending "thousands" of dollars on the PAR, you called DPS to make
sure they were going to write software to support it under Win95?  If that
were important to me, I sure would have.  I wouldn't be making public
statements of being abandoned if I hadn't.  DPS is one of the few
companies that actually seems to do what they say they will do.  They even
tend to do it WHEN they say they will.  That puts them head and shoulders
above other companies.  I'm not sure how valid it is to slam them for not
doing what you assume they will do.  If DPS promised Win95 support, this would
be a different story.  Maybe they did.  I just haven't heard anyone say so
yet.  Software for the PAR isn't necessarily as straightforward as writing a
new display driver.  I suspect it is more complex and time consuming.  How
much time and money should they invest to support the PAR on a NEW operating
system with the benefit of producing good will but no income?  It does not
appear to be as simple as incremental enhancements and bug fixes.

I agree that it is VERY unfortunate that DPS chooses not to supply software
for the PAR under Win95.  It may even be a mistake from a business/customer
relations standpoint.  I just don't think their decision calls for the "FY"
comments or claims of abandonment.  I know they updated the PC and Amiga
software to use the newer faster Quantum Fireball drives this year.  They may
not be ADDING the support you want, but they do not appear to be abandoning
the PAR.

I think all PAR owners who are dissatisfied with DPS' decision should write
DPS and complain.  Give lucid reasons why they should add the support.  Who
knows,  they might change their minds.

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From: [e-mail] (Viet Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: 3D Objects for professionals.
Date: 5 Dec 1995 18:18:41 GMT
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Along this thread, I'd like to get some responses on people's
experiences with Viewpoint.  I amin the process of submitting
a few of my objects to them.  Having a heck of a time doing it
over the WWW browser.

WHat about royalties.  Are you guys getting rich from your
objects? :-)

-Viet


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From: Kai Groshert <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave Pro
Date: 5 Dec 1995 20:15:15 GMT
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[e-mail] (John Gross) wrote:
>Sykes ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
>: I live in Germany and wold like to subscribe to Lightwave Pro mag, but
>: i don´t have the adress. Can anyone post it here plz..
>
>LightWavePRO
>
>Avid Media Group
>1308 Orleans Dr.
>Sunnyvale, CA 94089
>USA
>
>408-743-9250
>408-743-9251 FAX
>800-322-2843
>[e-mail]
>
>Jgross
>editor, LWPRO
>

You can also subscribe at VIDEOCOMP in Germany. They distribute LWPro
in Germany at about the same price if you count all the money-transfer
fees to the US.

I can look up the address if you want, don't have it here right now.
(btw. they are the ones who also distribute Scala & Lightwave in Germany)


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Hello lightwave friends;
I need to animate the writing of the word Coca Cola using a sparkling wand. Can anyone suggest
how I can go about it?
Your help is greatly appreciated. I am also new on this Internet as most of you are.
 Is this the proper place to ask this question or should I go elsewhere?
Thank you
Gerry Robichaud.




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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW and Win95
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In article <4a0jqm$[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (toonman) wrote:
>
>Will the NT version of Lightwave run under Windows 95?

yes - it's an Intel version actually

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From: [e-mail] (Emiliano Stesinach)
Subject: ALPHA 166 mhz is slower than  pentium 133 with lightwave
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Hi!

I own an alpha based machine (166 mhz, noname board) .. i rendered the
texturee.scn with all traces on,antialias low,8, no preview of rendering,
and it took 2.39 seconds to get it solved with a memory buffer of 4 megs
(2 stepsrendering) ...
In a 1333 mhz gateway 2000 pentium with windows 95, it took 2.29 seconds
(10 seconds less than the alpha )

ARGH ! what's going wrong here ?
I should sell quickly my alpha platform ? or there is any change to
make in order to gain speed ... by the way the pentium has 16 megs of ram
but the alpha has 32 megs of ram, with NT3.51

Enrique Avalle
[e-mail]

p.d. I called newtek and was told that final release of lw 4 for alpha
is on christmas wih a little of luck (...??!!)

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From: [e-mail] (dARK)
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Subject: TARGA TO AVI
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Is there a Targa to AVI program anywhere on the net ?



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From: Steve Axtell <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: AWESOME Cover of VTU!
Date: 6 Dec 1995 01:35:28 GMT
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Congrats to Steve and the Will Vinton Studios Blue M&M cover.  It looks
awesome.  I can't wait to read it. Ax

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For Sale:

Mips R4400 motherboard.
150 Mhz internal, 75 Mhz external
expanded external cache (512k or 1mb?)
will sell with or without memory (currently 32Mb)
onboard ethernet card
works great with WinNT

perfect for cross platform NT development, or fast processing.

send e-mail if interested to:
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (William Leventry)
Subject: Object_replace plugin !
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Hello Wavers,

Could someone who has the Intel Rev A CD pleeeeeze email me the object
replace plugin? I have REV B ;(

I need this thing yesterday, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


William Leventry
[e-mail]
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jthe computer works for a while and everything seems to
be
>alright but then nothing happens!! The computer doesn't hang but my
>picture is not shown!!
>

>Johan Söderberg
>
>

If you mean you'd like LW to render to screen (not file) make
sure Show Rendering is selected in the Options panel.

Andrew Weiler


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Here's a thought for you... Lightwave is definately being supported on the
Amiga past v4, and the Amiga is moving to PowerPC at the end of '96...
-----

This makes no difference - it's an OS thing, not a chip thing...here's a
counter thought - LW being supporting on the Amiga still lessens the
chances of a port...


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From: [e-mail] (Bjørn Melbye)
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Subject: Re: Amiga<>Win95 networking problem
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 03:34:30 GMT
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fredie@churchill (Fredie.Layberger) wrote:




>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.

I've used WS_FTP32 for a long time, works exellent against the Amiga
here, lists directories and all.




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


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From: [e-mail] (Frank Aalbers)
Subject: Re: Bug with image sequence...
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Wanna B 3D ([e-mail] (Wanna B 3D)) wrote:

 WB3> When rendering out an animation with an Image sequence,  after 15 or
 WB3> 20
 WB3> frames layout will halt with an error requester "Can't allocate RGB
 WB3> buffer."  Then it will kick out of the rendering.  I also notice that
 WB3> it
 WB3> is not getting rid of the preveious images, it basically fills up my
 WB3> ram
 WB3> with a bunch of unwanted images all the way to 0k!  When I spoke to
 WB3> Newtek
 WB3> a few months ago, they said they are aware of the problem and they
 WB3> would
 WB3> have a fix soon.  Until then, I will have to render out my 15 or 20
 WB3> frames
 WB3> at a time.  REAL PRODUCTIVE!!!  Where can I get this bug fix?  Is it
 WB3> available yet?

If you are using IFF or Targa sequences you can use the original
loaders of LW by deleting the IFF.EXE and TGA.EXE files of the HIIP
Loaders directory . This way it will not use the HIIP loaders which
are buggy but it will use its own internal loaders Which work fine .

See ya !

Frank Aalbers


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From: [e-mail] (Patricia Beals)
Subject: accelerators
Date: 7 Dec 95 19:23:11 -0800
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If a pentium with 72 megs of ram is a good work horse for lightwave
what would be a good video accelerator? I am currently using a
Stealth 64 w/2megs and the redraws in layout are annoyingly slow.
Thanks,
Mike
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Marco Sederquist)
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Subject: best explosion times???
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What's the best time in frames for a particle explosion? I've tried
30 frames from 0 size to fade out as it reaches  the 30th frame but it
seems to long and what about polygon sizing? how long should that be?
The scene I'm making shows 3 space crafts in pursuit of 20 others. One
ship shoots destroying a "evil" ship and then they pursue the last one.
at the end they shoot the last "evil" ship and the "good" guys and the
camera fly through the cloud of the destroyed ship. I've tried this about
5 differnt ways and can't get the timing right for the  explosions.
Somebody please help... :( Thanks in advance.. :)
marco
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
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Subject: ADVERT: Advice on VT4000 price, other Amiga and PC stuff for sale
Date: 7 Dec 1995 16:57:01 GMT
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I'd like some assistance finding an acceptable street price for a
used Amiga 4000.  It's a slow model, the 68030 25 Mhz, prized by
buyers of the Warp cards to accelerate it to 040 speeds.

It has a Toaster 4000 card, which some people assure me is still in
stock and current selling at some dealers for the price of $2000.
The system has 2 meg chip RAM and 16 megs of fast RAM, for a total of
18 megs.  It has two 120 meg IDE hard drives, the usual HD floppy,
keyboard and mouse but no monitor. One person bid $2000, an otherwise
wise dealer told me that was far too low, and someone else suggested
a price of $3000 would be fair.  Who is most correct?

And on with the other items for sale:

Syquest 44 meg removable media drive, SCSI internal, 5.25 inch 1/2
ht, with three blank cartridges.  Guaranteed to work on PC, Mac,
Amiga.  $200.

16 meg of RAM for PC, as (4) 4 meg 30-pin SIMMs, 70 nsec. $600.

Wangtek 2 gig DAT tape drive, model 6200, SCSI internal, 5.25 inch 1/2
ht, $300

Matsushita CD-533 2x CDROM, SCSI internal, 5.25 inch 1/2 ht, $100

Seagate ST31200N SCSI, 3.5 inch 1/3 ht 1.0 gig HD, $225

Conner CFP1060S SCSI, 3.5 inch 1/3 ht 1.0 gig HD, $225

(2) Toshiba MK538FB SCSI, 3.5 inch 1/2 ht 1.2 gig HDs, $260 each

Ultrastor 34F VLB fast SCSI host adapter with disks, docs. Best offer.

Supra 9600 v.32/v.42bis external modem, $60 OBO

Practical Peripherals 9600 v.32/v.42bis external modem, $60 OBO

OS/2 Warp v3, unopened box including Bonus Pack, $75 OBO.


Amiga hardware:

Amiga 4000/68030/25, two 120 meg IDE HDs, 18 megs RAM, 68881 FPU
daughterboard, Toaster 4000, HD floppy, keyboard, mouse, no monitor.
Very light use.

Hydra Ethernet card, $100.  Driver, no docs.

CBM 2065 Ethernet card, $100.  Driver, no docs.

Commodore 2232 7-port serial card, 19.2 kbps max, with seven cables.

Pristine "RoboCity" posters from early Amiga days, $20 each OBO including
UPS shipping in mailing tube.


No price?  Any reasonable offers accepted.  Always willing to haggle
or swap!  Shipping negotiable.  Mastercard/VISA accepted.

John Foust
Syndesis Corporation
235 South Main Street
Jefferson, WI 53549
[phone]
[phone] FAX



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From: Gareth Edwards <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Metaform problems
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[e-mail](William Teegarden) wrote:

> Archie Jones <[e-mail] writes:

[snip]

> Don't triple your non-planar ploys until you have finished metaforming
> your object.  Tripling at every interation only adds uneeded
> complexity.

I tend to rough out a pre-meta model. Then apply the metaform with the
polygons set to qaudranglular in the options menu. When performing the
final metaform (it could be the first!), I set the polygons to automatic.
That way, all non-planar qauds are automatically tripled.

Hope that helps you save some time.

Love & Life,


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

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From: [e-mail] (THX1138871)
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Subject: HELP!!! flyer drive unvalidated!!!!
Date: 6 Dec 1995 02:25:48 -0500
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Can anyone help with a fix.....

This is apparently a problem they have a fix for but I can't remember how
to do it.

Thanks in advance

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Harlock)
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Subject: Re: everytime I turn field rendering on, anim jitters
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In article <49vt9v$[e-mail]>,
emmanuel olympia <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the animation
>always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

Unless you play back your animation at exactly 30 FPS and on an NTSC
video monitor, you will see the interlacing effect of field rendering.
Also, if you look at a still frame, you will see the same thing.

Otherwise, if you're doing everything right, it should look much smoother
with field rendering than without.

You didn't mention anything about what you were playing back your animation
with (wether or not it's NTSC video or PC AVI animation, for example)

>
>Emmanuel Olympia
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From: [e-mail] (DAN BLOOMFIELD)
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Subject: Re: need help w/ Par(begi
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 > Walter (Jay) Turberville ([e-mail]) wrote:
 > : You can render directly to the PAR on the Amiga.  We NEVER do that
 > though.
 > : Maybe we are just too conservative, but in a world where you can buy
 > 1 gig
 > : hard drives for $250, why takes extra chances by introducing an
 > additional
 > : piece of software/hardware to foul up.
 >
 > Uhh, by using an intermediary disk, you *are* introducing an additional
 > piece of hardware (the disk) and software (the PAR importer) to foul
 > up.

The main reason you do NOT want to render directly to the PAR drive, is
because if the system should crash before you tell the PAR the anim is done,
you will lose everything that was rendered.


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Archie Jones wrote:
>
>      I'm having some trouble with metaform in Lightwave for
> Windows.  I have a human figure that was constructed using
> metaform.  When I render it without shadows everything looks
> fine.  Turn shadows on and I get little black spots and
lines
> all over the figure.  Other shapes in the scene that didn't
> have metaform applied look great with shadows on or off.
>      Any suggestions on how to eliminate this artifact?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Archie Jones


Have you checked the object for 1 & 2 point poly's?

Brett Tribble

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I am planing to buy an ASUS dual Pentium Board with two 133 Mhz CPU´s. Has somebody experiences
with dual systems.- And are there any performance tests???
(NT 3.51 )


Thanx for help

Norbert f. Bayer

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From: [e-mail] (Theodore Terranova)
Subject: Re: RE: need help w/ Par(beginner)
Date: 1 Dec 95 22:59:55 -0800
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Maybe DPS does deserve a thank you for their initial creation of the
PAR board, but I paid thousands( not a couple hundred) of dollars for
the PAR and the drives it requires.  This is definitely cheaper then
rendering to a single frame VCR, but PAR invented the product set the
price, which is not cheap relative to my computers overall price, and
I paid it.  I bought this card Six months ago and now am without
support for WIN 95.  If this was a $200 board I could understand it
but for the money I paid DPS, I expect at least a years worth of
support and upgrades for the product.  Just because DPS created a
great product does not excuse them from their responsibility to their
many customers and from selling a successful product and then
abandoning it.  Now that the PVR is out they don't seem to care about
the PAR owners.  I personally feel that this is not the way a company
retains continued consumer support and I do not plan to support or
"THANK" DPS in the future.

TED


.You can render directly to the PAR on the Amiga.  We NEVER do that though.
.Maybe we are just too conservative, but in a world where you can buy 1 gig
.hard drives for $250, why takes extra chances by introducing an additional
.piece of software/hardware to foul up.

.Also, I understand that a LOT of PC PAR users are really upset at
DPS for not
.providing support for the PAR under Win 95 and I agree that DPS
should provide
.that support.  However, be aware of two things.  The PVR is supported under
.Win95 and it does not allow (AFIK) direct rendering to the PVR.  So Win
.95 support for the PAR may not solve the above problem.  Also, please
.remember that DPS really broke ground in a big way by creating the
PAR and now
.the PVR.  These are very affordable devices that have made putting computer
.generated animations to video tape (at a reasonable or high quality)
MUCH more
.affordably than in the past.  Your "FYDPS" should also include a "thank-you"
.DPS - IMHO.

._________________________________________________________________
.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

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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: OS/2 & LW
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> Why isn't there ever any mention of LW running on OS/2?
> Isn't it better (ok so it looks shite) than WIn95 and is FULLY
> multi-tasking????

I would not even think of running Lightwave under OS2. Win95 is plenty
multitasking enough thank you, and it's compatible with any other
programs I might like to run.

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From: [e-mail]  (Pete Rittwage)
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Subject: Re: VTU's mistakes...
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> In all I noticed 5 different "Stock" amiga 4000T's. Looks like they were
> in a hurry this month. So who's right? Hard to say looking at this issue.

The machines we just got last Friday came with 6M RAM and a 1G Fujitsu SCSI2 hard disk.  It has 2 video slots,
5 Zorro2/3 slots, and 4 PC/AT slots.  It also has IDE built in, and will take 16M on the motherboard using either
4 or 8M SIMMS.  The only strange thing is that is lacks an external floppy drive port unlike any other Amiga.

Everything seems to work fine including the Flyer.

EMail me if you want more info since this is a LW and not a Toaster newsgroup.

Pete Rittwage
ACS Computer & Video


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From: [e-mail] (Corey Betka)
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In article <4a32v4$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>fredie@churchill (Fredie.Layberger) wrote:
>
>
>
>
>>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.
>

    That ls -lA error makes it sound as if you have a hacked version of
WS_FTP32 that will display all files in long format, which is what the -lA
means to the FTP Server. I don't know how you are connected to the Amiga
(TCP/IP Network, I'm assuming) but you have to make sure that the Server you
are running on the Amiga will support that instruction. If not, you could try
CUTEFtp or some other older FTP Client, Like an old version of WS_FTP.

                    How this helps,
                    Corey


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Lview is good.
But, try a program called
VuPrint. Lots of cool features.

DA




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

> Don't triple your non-planar ploys until you have finished metaforming
> your object.  Tripling at every interation only adds uneeded
> complexity.

        Hmmm, I may have to check but I thought the metaform function
wouldn't work on polygons with greater than 3 points?  I have always
tripled before metaforming...though I usually have errors with missing
polys and such afterwards (ie: there are holes in my object due to
missing polygons).

        I really hope metaballs get added.  I have played with the blobs
program and would love to see something like that implemented in LW
modeler.  I have found the metaform function not to smooth things out
as much as I would like (unless you do tons of metaforms resulting in
a too high a polygon density).

        mbc

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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Buchanan)
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In article <4a5gcv$[e-mail]>,
Mark Midolla <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Well, anyone know when its coming out ?
>I placed my order in July. Its been a long time.

Same here. June I think. Stu Ferguson says all the coding is done and
that he doesn't know what is holding up the release.

Sheesh! Get it together NewTek!

Matt


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Hi,
   I want to convert some of my Arexx scripts to plug-in's for the Intel LW.
  I've read through the docs of the LWSDK and I was wondering which C/C++
  compiler should I get or which would work best (Microsoft Visual C++ Version
  ???? or Borland C++ Version??? ). Would the MS Visual C++ 1.52 package ($99)
  work for me?
    Maybe I don't need to write C code, the LW Reference manual states that
  "The IBM-compatible platforms utilize Rexx and C macros". In this case
   where can I get a windows version of Rexx that would work.
            Thanks, Sam Arriola
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In a previous article [e-mail] (Phillip Finch) said:

> I like metaform, but it's not an all-purpose solution. Metaballs is one
> alternative, but some true spline capability--or at least automatic
> patching--would be even better.

        Yes now there's a cool idea I haven't thought of.  Having
modeler auto patch an entire spline object for you rather than
having to select each curve in turn etc..etc....  That would be
great.

mbc

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Yeh)
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Subject: ** PVR Question **
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  I've got some quick questions:

  How many IRQs does the PVR need?  How many does the daughter capture
board need?
  Has anyone had any difficulties setting these up on their PCs at home?

  Thanks for the help!!

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Yeh)
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  I'm looking to buy a capture board that can capture live video (from
8mm camcorder) and output it AND Lightwave animations to VHS.  I have
heard great things about both the Q-Motion and PVR, but the PVR plus
daughter capture board is a little out of my price range.

  How good is the Q-Motion at outputing Lightwave animations to VHS?
What would be the best way to do this?  If the PVR is a much better
way to go, I will save up the money to get it, if that is what is
recommended.

  My system:  Pentium 90, 40 Mb RAM

  Any help would be great!!

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From: [e-mail] (Chao Chen)
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The reason that you're getting bad performance from the Alpha is two-fold:

1) You're running at slow clock speed.  Most Alphas now run at least at
   233.  266 or 275 is what most people get.

2) You have a different Alpha processor than most people.  The processor
   that comes on the Noname motherboard is the 21066, the LCA or
   Low Cost Alpha.  That is *not* the 21064 that most people run with.
   The 21066 is the cheap version of the 21064 with PCI logic (and some
   other misc stuff) built in.  The 21066 is simply not as fast as the
   21064 at the same clock speed.  As a matter of fact, fast Pentinum
   machines can probably beat the 21066 also.

To gain speed, you should get rid of the 21066 motherboard and upgrade
to a 21064 (EV4) or 21164 (EV5) based motherboard.

Chao

Emiliano Stesinach ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hi!

: I own an alpha based machine (166 mhz, noname board) .. i rendered the
: texturee.scn with all traces on,antialias low,8, no preview of rendering,
: and it took 2.39 seconds to get it solved with a memory buffer of 4 megs
: (2 stepsrendering) ...
: In a 1333 mhz gateway 2000 pentium with windows 95, it took 2.29 seconds
: (10 seconds less than the alpha )

: ARGH ! what's going wrong here ?
: I should sell quickly my alpha platform ? or there is any change to
: make in order to gain speed ... by the way the pentium has 16 megs of ram
: but the alpha has 32 megs of ram, with NT3.51

: Enrique Avalle
: [e-mail]

: p.d. I called newtek and was told that final release of lw 4 for alpha
: is on christmas wih a little of luck (...??!!)

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From: Brett Tribble <[e-mail]>
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RedwoodA wrote:
>
> DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW where I can get some cheap or FREE
> software that will convert a sequence of Targa of IFF files to an
> AVI or QuickTime movie file ???
>
> I know that someone out there has an answer and if you include the
> FTP site or WEB address I might give you 1,000,000 DOLLARS.
>
>
> -John

I know that you can do BMP to AVI with _Video_for_Windows_.
I don't recall whether it would do TGA's, and it definitely
would NOT do IFF's. It was available from Microsoft's FTP site
directly (was this a screw up?) about 18 months ago. You should
also try checking Yahoo or one of the other search engines for
this, I recall finding several sites with related software...

Brett Tribble

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From: [e-mail] (Gerald Poirier)
Subject: Light-Rom 3 contents (correction)
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I stand corrected.

I mentioned in a previous post that LR3 had all the contents of 1 and
2 plus a lot more. In fact it's more like it has all the LW objects of
1 and 2 plus 2800 more... AND lots and lots of other stuff.
So it's not only 1 and 2 and a 3rd CD. Here is the message that
corrected my mistake:

......................................
Just saw your message on the Lightwave newsgroup about LR3 & I have to
correct you. I never told you that everything that was on LR1 & LR2 is
on LR3! What I said was that LR3 had all the Lightwave objects from
LR1 & LR2 plus an additional 2800 new Lightwave objects. Your post
gives the impression that if you already have #1 & #2, buying #3 will
only get you one new CD-ROM of material when that is wrong!

Michael Meshew
Graphic Detail
4556 South Third Street
Louisville, Ky. 40214
[phone]    voice & fax
1-800-265-4041   toll free order number
[e-mail]

......................................

Sorry about that.
Gerald.

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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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When running the latest NewShell Preview on NT3.51,
Netscape2.0b3 will not launch from a shortcut, and there is no
icon in the directory... When running LW4.0revB the TaskBar (I
think) is causing the CreateKey, DeleteKey Etc. buttons on the
bottom of the screen to _not_ be drawn, what's up?

I've never used 95 so I'm real green with this interface, any
tips/caveats? Please email direct or reply to c.g.a.lightwave, I
don't get around the NT groups much.

Thanks,
D.

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    I was wondering if any one would like to see my demo tape and let
me know if it is good or not.  I would send you a copy of the tape and you
can just E-mail me your comments.
                    Please send me E-mail for more info.
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From: [e-mail] (Sykes)
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[e-mail] (emmanuel olympia) wrote:


->everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the
animation
->always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

->Emmanuel Olympia


You only need field rendering if the animation is going to be played
from the tape. With render fields you can get wery smooth motin
expecialy when you have slow moving objects in jour scene.

Sykes


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From: [e-mail] (Phillip Finch)
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In article <4a497f$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael B. Comet) writes:

>In a previous article [e-mail](William Teegarden) said:

>> Don't triple your non-planar ploys until you have finished metaforming
>> your object.  Tripling at every interation only adds uneeded
>> complexity.

>        Hmmm, I may have to check but I thought the metaform function
>wouldn't work on polygons with greater than 3 points?  I have always
>tripled before metaforming...though I usually have errors with missing
>polys and such afterwards (ie: there are holes in my object due to
>missing polygons).

Metaform will prompt you to subdivide polygons >4 points.

It's easy enough to do. Unfortunately, the metaform operation doesn't have a
lot of effect on those densely tripled areas. In my experience, you're better
off starting over.

>        I really hope metaballs get added.  I have played with the blobs
>program and would love to see something like that implemented in LW
>modeler.  I have found the metaform function not to smooth things out
>as much as I would like (unless you do tons of metaforms resulting in
>a too high a polygon density).

True.

Metaform really has to be planned from the start. The shapes ought to be
simple, and you have to leave plenty of room for the edges to be "pulled in."
If you tie down the corners with tight intersections, you're just multiplying
polygons without much effect.

I like metaform, but it's not an all-purpose solution. Metaballs is one
alternative, but some true spline capability--or at least automatic
patching--would be even better.


Phil Finch ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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Subject: Re: ** PVR/Q-Motion Dilemma **
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In article <4a4hto$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Jeff
Yeh) writes:

>  How good is the Q-Motion at outputing Lightwave animations to VHS?
>What would be the best way to do this?  If the PVR is a much better
>way to go, I will save up the money to get it, if that is what is
>recommended.

     I have a q-motion, and a friend has a PVR. You get what you pay for.
The q-motion works for previews and basic VHS stuff, but it drops frames
and has low quality compared to a PVR. If you can get the PVR, do it. If
you don't plan on doing video work (I do games development) get the
q-motion, as for basic capture and playback it's pretty good for an ISA
board.

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From: [e-mail] (David Sammons)
Subject: Character Creation: Mouth?
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Ok I'm trying to make a character, an animal, I can model the head, body
and limbs with no problems, what I cant seem to do is make a decent
looking mouth, so when making a character what is teh best way to create
a mouth?  Do you someone try to model it in when you make the head and use
bones?  Ro is there some magic boolean opereation that will get rid of
the seams?
thanks

if anyone needs to see what I'm trying to add a mouth to look at my web
page under

http://www.oswego.edu/~sammons/docs/gallery.html

(its the one called Xil)
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Making a character (again) My objects body is using bones, but the eyes
(eye-lids and pupils) are parented objects, when it turns it head the
eyes fall out of the side, is there any way to fix a parented assembly
unto an object so that the bones dont cause it to lose aligment?

I'm using lightwave 3.1

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <49vp7i$[e-mail]> "COMUNICACION SOCIAL DEL EDO. DE SONORA" <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: "COMUNICACION SOCIAL DEL EDO. DE SONORA" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Clip Map Problem
>Date: 4 Dec 1995 21:29:22 GMT

>Hello, I'm having problems using clip map and texture map at the same
>time.

>i.e. I built a single sided box,then loaded it into Layout, and then I
>clipped a B/W image that is supposed to be the shape of a logo that is
>already loaded. That image of the logo is 256 colors and texture mapped
>into the box.

>At this point, it seems to be o.k., but when I render (med. res.
>antialiasing low) the object renders o.k. at the first segment, and when
>LW is rendering the second segment, it appears to be ok but when the
>image is displayed to the screen, the second segment appears to be
>blurred. Why?

I really don't understand what you are describing.  I assume you have a box
made of single sided polygons.  A clip map applied to the box should "cut" a
hole all the way through the box.  That means that there would be a hole in
the front and back.  Is that what you are seeing?  Perhaps your "blur" is
really the two holes overlapping.

I don't see where the image map fits in.  Is it mapped in the same position or
is it in a different position?

Other thoughts.

Any time you are having problems, eliminate variables one at a time until the
problem goes away.  In this case, you could eliminate the image map or render
in a single segment (I doubt the trouble has anything to do with rendering
segments, but this would prove it one way or the other).

Another strategy I use is to perform the same type of "process" in a simpler
arrangement.  In this case, I would try a single square polygon.


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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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:
>
> 4] How can I copy a surface and paste it onto another?
>
>         There is no actual cut and paste operation.  However you can
> save the surface you want, select the new surface and then load the
> previous settings into place.  The usual way to do this is to select
> the source surface and then to save the surface to a name such as
> 'temp.srf'.  Then select the target surface and load temp.srf.
> -----------------------------
>
> There is no error here, but thought you might want to know that I find it
> easier to name these "temp" surfaces aaaaaaaaa.srf.  This way, they show up at
> the top of the file list which is really only an issue if some other surface
> has been loaded previously, or when doing the save surface portion.  Also,
> this tip works for motions, fade envelopes etc.
>

One trick I use is to put an exclamation mark '!' as the first char. of the
surface name... (ie: !test.srf) This also puts it at the top of the file list &
lets me give informative names when I am working with numerous surfaces...



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From: eric couratier <[e-mail]>
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Antonio Quesada Hervas wrote:
>
> Please!
>  I use win 3.11 with win32s but my MSVCRT20.DLL is damaged, and
>  Lightwave 4.0 refuses to load... Could anyone e-mail me that dll?
>   Please...
>                           Thank you!
>
> --
>
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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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Subject: Re: AVI Lo-res????
Date: 1 Dec 1995 22:12:21 -0500
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Stephen Bailey wrote:
>>>Remember to save the scene BEFORE choosing the NT-AVI saver,
or else it'll crash everytime you go to save an AVI, even after
re-starting LW and reloading the
scene.<<<

Do you mean save the scene in progress, render the NewTek-AVI, exit LW,
run LW and reload the scene file?  And do it repeatedly for every test
animation?  Is it actually effecient?  What if you are in the process of
adjusting or experimenting shaders?--all the altered objects would have to
be saved too.

My "solution" is Dave's Targa Animator out of a DOS shell in Windows NT,
like with pre-release.

Anyone know when we may see a fix from NewTek??  Do they aknowledge a
problem?


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>>
>> > I do not think LW was used in 007 Golden Eye.
>>
>> Yep it was Lightwave -
>>         If you like, I'll dig out the name of the production company
from
>> the report in SFX. Lightwave was also used to produce the helicopter
>> missiles and missile contrails.
>>
>> Glyn Williams - Particle Systems
>
>  Yea, that would be GREAT! Thankx!
>
>Adam Chrystie



I'm sure that if LW was used for such a high profile project, I would
have heard of it.  I would like to see the article though.  What do you
think JG?

GT



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From: [e-mail] (Bryan Ewert)
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Subject: Re: LightROM3
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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,

How much of LightROMs 1 & 2 are duplicated in LR 3?

One of the things I was a little disappointed about was finding quite a few
items in LR2 that I already had on LR1.

---
Bryan Ewert                      Member of the Amiga Users of Calgary
JUUL: Animation, Ltd.                  Internet: [e-mail]



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From: [e-mail] (Bill Leonard)
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Subject: Re: Mac Syquest question
Date: 6 Dec 1995 18:40:50 GMT
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In article <4a3kqb$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (A
Lugones) wrote:

> URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm
>
> <<Will a Power Mac with a 88MB Syquest be able to read a PC formated 44 or
> 88MB disk?>>
>
> There is a program for the MAC called "PC Access."  This program is
> designed to read PC formated Syquest disks.  Look for it in a Mac Catalog
> or in the back of a Mac Mag.

Actually, you don't need a damn thing for the Mac to read those disks.
Since System 7, the Mac has come with "PC Exchange" which, among other
things, allows the read/write capability of DOS/Windows, OS/2, and ProDOS
formatted media.

Bill Leonard
[e-mail]
______________________________________________________________________________
                               cyber.lab g.f.x.
  3D Animation * Modeling * Special Effects * Station ID Packages * Pre-Viz

                                 407.425.5722
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Subject: RE: Need Help
Date: 7 Dec 95 02:58:22 -0800
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Sparks by
Metrografx
sold by Tech Animations for $210
[phone]
ask for Mike Cortese

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From: [e-mail] (Guenther Koch from Italy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: please read this: logo / trade mark wanted
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 21:22:30 GMT
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Hello everyone from Italy.

Do you want to help and encourage an open minded young men (I just am
24 years old) then please continue reading this:

I would like to make by own business (of course with Internet). I am
just young, rather poor as so much people on the world and do not have
the money to hire a professional graphical studio.

I know that on the world there are lot of talented and frustated young
boys and girls (just as me), whose dreams are the same as mines
(doing/opening a own business).

So all you good, young and open-minded graphic-artists and designers
with a lot of tons of excellent ideas which nowadays you can not
realise because you study or do not have the possibility to publish
your work (of art) give me a chance:
design a cool, internet related logo/trade mark (maybe also an
animation); my concern probably will be named "Internet solutions" -
please also include these sequence of letters in your creations, and
send your works to me as an E-Mail.

My mailing-sw supports fully MIME, so please bomb my provider with
tons of material. It would be nice for me having a great logo (I am
not an artist and graphically-talented), do not hesitate to contact
me.

Maybe, when I will some earn money, the winner of this "virtual
competition ;-)" will become an award. Also, encourage my projects -
becoming indepent is one of the greatest steps in my just so young
life. I won't become poorer that just I am, and becoming indepent can
also result a very hard work to recover (if I fail what I do not
hope).

Thanks a lot and hope to get a lot of cool things (let your fantasy
play). You do a good thing and give me a better starting change
supporting this request.

Bye for know,

Yours Guenther Koch
E-Mail: [e-mail]
URL: http://194.177.110.101/me.htm (only a beta version of my photo -
excuse me ;-)



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From: [e-mail] (DAN BLOOMFIELD)
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Subject: Re: Morphing Surfaces
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 > I can't seem to morph two surfaces attributes in Lightwave 4.0.  I've
 > read the manuals several times and thought I had all the required
 > settings but no luck.  My result is that both objects(same number of
 > points) end up in all key frames to have the same texture-no morphing.
 > I had Morph Surfaces" turned on for both objects and set the morph
 > target for object 1 to object 2.  I  also made object 2 full 100%
 > disolved.  What am I missing here?
 >
 > Another question is how can you copy an object in Layout and save the
 > surface for the new object.  Many times I need the "clone" of an object
 > but when I apply a surface to it the source object also changes to this
 > new surface.  This is quite frustrating.  The only way I was able to
 > get
 > the new object was to go back to Modeler and save out the new object
 > with a newly defined "surface name".
 >
 > Thanks
 > --
 > Steven I Schram
 > System Administrator
 > SUN SPARC SERVER 1000 SYstem
 > life.bio.sunysb.edu

Did you set a morph envelope from 0% to 100% over some number of frames? If
so, does the morph target have a different surface name? If it doesn't both
objects may have the same surface settings. To clone an object in Layout so
that it has a different surface, use the rename surface button in the
surfaces panel to give the original object a different surface name.Then
instead of using clone, just re-load the object with the original surface
name from the hard drive, and save the first object with a different name.


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From: [e-mail] (DAN BLOOMFIELD)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Users Group Meeting
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The Florida West Coast LightWave User's Group will be meeting this
Saturday the 9th of December at 2 PM. Meetings are held at Computer
Video Associates, 9125 Hwy 19 N, in Pinellas Park across the street from
the Wal-Mart. The group meets every 2nd Saturday of the month and all
LightWave users, or persons interested in obtaining LightWave are
welcome to attend.

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Subject: I need help with a survey please
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Hi every one, I really need a favor.

   If you could answer the following Q's for me an send them to MY email
address ([e-mail]) so the replies don't get to much on this
server-I hope that I will get enough!!

   My name is Adam R.T. Smith and this is for a project at my college
where I am in my first year of Graphic Design.  The project entails a
survey of peoples ideas of what colours suit the emotion or geeling one is
trying to get accross. Our emotion is horror.

   Here are the questions:
1.name

2.age

3.sex

4.country

5.a) What colour best represents the following to you (please use the
corresponding letter for the corresponding pure hue of the colour wheel-
yellow(y), yellow/orange(y/o), orange(o), red/orange(r/o), red(r),
red/violet(r/v), violet(v), blue/violet(b/v), blue(b), blue/green(b/g),
green(g), green/yellow(g/y) Black(k), grey(gr)

b)what image do you associate each of the following (both answers on same line
    (e.g. v-devil) "v" fore violet and "devil" for the corresponding image.

1)darkness                    9)fear                  17)deprivation
2)evil                       10)terror                18)needing
3)death                      11)psychoticness         19)wanting
4)pain                       12)sadism                20)nightmares
5)hatred                     13)helplessness          21)mudered
6)disease                    14)weakness
7)sickness                   15)starvation
8)blood                      16)dehidration

c)what are the three most prominant colours of horror?

6)describe quickly your idea of the worst torture

7)describe quickly the image that comes to mind when you think of war

8)describe quickly the image that comes to mind when you think of murder

9)describe quickly the image that comes to mind when you think of nightmares

Thanx
Adam Smith    [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Koren)
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[e-mail] (Chris Golchert) wrote:

> My call to NewTek, I was told that it should be out in two to three
> weeks...

Sure, but that's what they said when I placed my order many moons ago.

  - steve

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From: "Jeffrey D. Hoffman" <[e-mail]>
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Safe Harbor Computers, one of the best authorized NewTek
dealers now has a web site!

http://www.sharbor.com

Check out their site and their fantasic prices!


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From: [e-mail] (Frank Aalbers)
Subject: Re: Alpha channel creation in 4.0 PC
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Michael W. Towe ("Michael W. Towe" <[e-mail]>) wrote:

 MWT> Hi Folks,

 MWT>     I am trying to create an animation with one object to be overlayed
 MWT> to
 MWT> video. I an trying to make a transparent background thru the use of an
 MWT> alpha channel. So here is the question. Do I need to render both the
 MWT> 24
 MWT> bit RGB frames and the 8 bit alpha frames and them composite them into
 MWT> a
 MWT> 32 bit TGA ?????

It all depends on how you are going to do your compositing ...

Easyest way is doing this directly in LightWave .

If you are doing it with a videocard are compositing in a studio ,
best thing is to render the Alpha in 24bit and save it together with
the rendered files on the videocard (like for example the PVR) .

So it all depends on how you are going to use the AC .

8-bit format is used to do compositing directly using the AC frames .

Frank Aalbers


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Subject: aplpha275 redraws crawl
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    Anybody out there with a 275 raptor and an older version of the stealth 64 (the 4meg, non piggy-backed version)?  If so, have you experienced the
following:
    all redraws in lightwave (and animation master, for that matter) are
unusably slow when the computer is in a higher color mode than 256.  I don't
think the problem is the same one reported as being caused by the program
itself.  I am running the release version, and this is driving me crazy.
I ahve a pentium with a 2meg card which runs circles around the alpha in screan redraws. (as i have said, not only in lightwave, but in animation master
as well)
    any help, commiseration, etc, would be much appreciated, as i am not
able to get my work done (especially with that pesky morphing bug.  How did
that one slip by?)

thanks
    jonathan

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Subject: DXF Converter
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k, maybe im a numbskull, but i seem to remember a time when lightwave could
import/convert dxf files.  Whats the deal?  I can't find a way to do this, even in the release version.  Is there something I am missing? (like a clue?)
Are there any converters out there in shareware?

thanks
    jonathan



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Andrew Weiler ([e-mail]) wrote:
> >the computer works for a while and everything seems to be
> >alright but then nothing happens!! The computer doesn't hang but my
> >picture is not shown!!
> >
>
> If you mean you'd like LW to render to screen (not file) make
> sure Show Rendering is selected in the Options panel.

If you're using 4.0, go to the Record panel and select Full-size Window
from the Render Display list.  This will display your image in the exact
size you've chosen under Camera *after* it has finished rendering (using
Show Rendering makes the render take longer).

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Virtual Visions Inc.| Power attracts pathological personalities.  It is not
1.303.989.4191      | that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the
                    | corruptible.  Such people have a tendency to become
[e-mail]    | drunk on violence, a condition to which they are
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From: linu$@ns1.flinet.com (James Rathgate)
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Subject: Re: everytime I turn field rendering on, anim jitters
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emmanuel olympia ([e-mail]) wrote:

: everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the animation
: always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

You hafta turn "Reverse Fields"(I think that's what it's called...it's
in the same menu as Field Rendering. Hope this helps.

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From: [e-mail] (Nigel Critten)
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Subject: Work
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Hi,

Well to cut a long story short I'm looking for paid work, examples of my
work in LW can be found on http://192.72.242.25/Nigel/Nigel.html I can
handle most things from Flying Logos to film/tv work.

please reply by email

Thanks
Nigel.

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From: [e-mail] (CompuPix)
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Subject: 100meg HD $50.
Date: 7 Dec 1995 02:38:29 -0500
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I am posting for a friend. Please do NOT Email me. Call the number below
if you're interested.

New QuantumPro 100 HD 100 Megs SCSI $50.00

He's in a bad way and needs the cash.

717-336-6623 ask for Dick.
Jeff Willoughby
CompuPix

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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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John Foust wrote:

> And I forgot to mention installer programs.

Which, apparently, are difficult enough as it is...

Y'know, there's a *third* MSVCRT20.DLL for 95.  Version number 2.0.000,
just like the 3.1/Win32s version, but it's 6K larger.  Heheheheheh.

- Ernie


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From: [e-mail] (Hazen)
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    Does anyone know of any sites which carries a selection of
backgrounds that'll be used as borders for pictures to fill the spaces.
I'm just interested in expanding the collection that I got.  I've
tried the 'web creating' pages and their selection of backgrounds but
they simply give it in a little 3" x 3" square and unless there is a
program out there that'll automatically piece um together it'll be a
little tedious to do it manually.


Thanks


Hazen


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From: [e-mail] (Quantum Chicken)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PAR / AD516 / A4000cpu cards / A500 / CD32 FOR SALE
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David! I would like to know if you still have any of the A4000
motherboards available as of this posting, and if so could I purchase
one?  I work for a church in the Austin, Texas area and am looking to
upgrade our A2000 to a A4000 so that we can take full advantage of the
animation ability of our Toaster 4000 hardware.
Please respond A.S.A.P.

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From: [e-mail] (MICHAEL C. LING)
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Subject: Re: Character Creation: Mouth?
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On Dec 08, 1995 02:33:07 in article <Character Creation: Mouth?>,
'[e-mail] (David Sammons)' wrote:


>Ok I'm trying to make a character, an animal, I can model the head, body
>and limbs with no problems, what I cant seem to do is make a decent
>looking mouth, so when making a character what is teh best way to create
>a mouth?

Watch some cartoon animals in action. Check out Disney's Robin Hood. And
then make your character's head in clay; this will help you understand the
head in 3d.

> Do you someone try to model it in when you make the head and use
>bones?  Ro is there some magic boolean opereation that will get rid of
>the seams?

metaform?

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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: Software to generate .AVI from .TGA stills?
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> It is not a coincidence.  It is the Win32s version almost for sure.  If
> you download the latest Win32s from Microsoft, I think both will
> coexist nicely for you.

That's if you can actually get in to Microsoft.com at all, it's usually
pretty busy.

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        Webscape Home Page http://www.webscape.co.uk
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From: [e-mail] (Saiyad Abdul)
Subject: LW animated meshes in games
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Is anyone aware of any way to save multiple iterations of a mesh in an
automated fashion?....I am working on object meshes(characters) for use in a
real-time game...I planned to break the characters into probably about 12
parts(eg. upper arm, lower arm, upper torso, lower tors...etc) and then
group and animate in Layout. Is there any way to save all grouped objects
in one shot(maybe even as a new object)....I know by saving each object in the
hierarchy as a transformed object I can accomplish what I want but this
would just be a pain considering the amount of tweaking that will be
involved before the characters would be perfected. Any help would be
appreciated...


If the above was confusing this what I want to do in nice broken english :)

1) build the chunks of a guy in modeller
2) group chunks into a guy, and animate in Layout
3) save animated chunks/guy as sequential separate objects or preferrably
   one new sequential object(eg guywalk01.lwo, guywalk02.lwo)

Is this possible? Have I missed something really simple(I do that
sometimes :))......Please, Please help me and save my clicking finger from
RSI due to hitting to save transformed too many times....

PS. If it can't do this does anyone know of a plugin that might, or
would anyone be interested in a plugin that would?

Sai

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Is there a way to deselect and then select a new rest position for a
bone? thanks.

emmanuel

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From: [e-mail] (Bill Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Mac Syquest question
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Frank D.
Cocke) wrote:

> I'm posting this question again because I'm getting conflicting answers.
> Can a Mac using OS 7.5 with PCexchange read a 44 or 88MB Syquest disk. The
> local Mac dealer says it can, I've gotten other replies say say it can't.
> Who's right, has anyone done this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Frank
> [e-mail], Home Page-http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank

I believe I replied to you before on this.. IT CAN.  Don't listen to
anyone that doesn't use a Mac on this question.. they'll deny it because
they don't believe it could be that easy to just pop in other media
formatted by other systems.

And PC Exchange is part of the system software!  Imagine that!  Listen to
your dealer.

Bill Leonard
[e-mail]
______________________________________________________________________________
                               cyber.lab g.f.x.
  3D Animation * Modeling * Special Effects * Station ID Packages * Pre-Viz

                                 407.425.5722
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From: [e-mail] (Carp3D)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW4.0 for WIN95  - Stability ???
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This Is weird because now I am having problems with lightwave and win95.
I used lightwave 4.0 on a couple computers at work which lw3d was in
originaly installed under win3.1 and then upgraded to 95.   now on my own
micron p133 I am getting a reoccuring "program must be shut down error".
most strange.....
Has anyone had problems with lightwave installed onto a computer with
win95 allready installed?...
Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
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Subject: Re: Need The Graphics Workshop or LView Pro
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Judi <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Could someone please email to me a location where I can ftp the software
>The Graphics Workshop and/or LView Pro ???
>
>I need a program to work with my Konica Picture Show disks.....seems they
>are not in true JPEG format and the pictures come out upside down.  I
>need a program such as the Graphic Workshop that will allow me to rotate
>the image and export it to another program.
>
>Email would be best for me as I don't regularly check this newsgroup.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help someone can give me.
>
>
>Judi
>
Try one of these
http://werple.net.au/~margaret/tools.htm
http://cwsapps.texas.net/image.html


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

>I am currently working on a "fly-in" sequence in Lightwave for
>Windows NT.  In this shot, the camera flies over the ground
>for a distance, and then turns its nose (pitch) unpwards, as
>it climbs into the sky.  I am using a matte painting
>of a landscape as the background.  While the camera is flying
>level with the ground, I can use the composite background
>feature in the effects panel to composite the painting into
>the scene.  However, once the pitch of the camera changes,
>this is no longer effective because the background painting is
>pin registered to the camera, and so the hozizon is suddenly
>floating in midair!
> ...etc...
>Any ideas or suggestions?

   If the content of your BG painting allows, you could make a
clip-map, or better yet, a transparency-map (nicer edges), that
shows only the non-sky portion of the painting (buildings,
mountains or whatever) -- and then map both images onto an
appropriately-sized polygon positioned to appear like the background.
   Use the background gradient controls to make the sky.
   Then, when your camera goes vertical, the background painting
will stay put as the sky comes into view.

   -Jim

James G. Jones
Nibbles & Bits
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (robert hood)
Subject: BML run-time for the Alpha!
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I have posted the DEC Alpha version of the BML run-time plugin to my
anonymous FTP site:

    ftp.netcom.com:/pub/bh/bhood/plugins/BML-RT/bml-rt.Alpha.p

This version of the BML run-time plugin is intended only for the DEC
Alpha-based platforms.

Please be aware: THIS PLUGIN HAS NOT BEEN TESTED!  The platform on which
I re-compiled the BML sources did not have LightWave 4.0 Final installed,
so plugins could not be installed and tested.

Because the Windows NT operating system employs little-endian byte ordering
on all platforms on which it runs, scripts compiled on any BML-supported
platform will operate with the run-time plugin on any platform without re-
compilation (i.e., script compiled on the Intel platform will function on
the Alpha without modification).  This means that the existing compiled
scripts in the BML-RT directory should work as-is on the Alpha platform
with the Alpha-based run-time plugin.

SPECIAL THANKS goes to Chris Hanson at Questar for giving me time on his
DEC Alpha to recompile BML.

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Bob                         ^(===)^
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Virtual Visions Inc.| Power attracts pathological personalities.  It is not
1.303.989.4191      | that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the
                    | corruptible.  Such people have a tendency to become
[e-mail]    | drunk on violence, a condition to which they are
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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
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Date: 7 Dec 1995 20:39:00 -0500
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In article <49t1qg$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (RedwoodA)
writes:

>where I can get some cheap or FREE
>software that will convert a sequence of Targa of IFF files to an
>AVI or QuickTime movie file ???

LightWave 4.0 has a plug in to do that.
Otherwise, I Believe Win Images/Morph will do that  $99

Let me know if you would like more info.
Don James
The Computer Room
2760 S. Havana St.
Aurora, CO  80014
[phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)
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For Sale:(US FUNDS)

Toaster Oven Tower: (for A4000's only) Perfect for Flyer owners! This
is the Daddy of all towers featuring a 300 watt switchable power
supply, MHZ led display, power and Hard disk lights, 2 floppy bays, 4
3.5" LPS drive bays, 5 5.25" drive bays, 2 fans (One in the PS and
one mounted in the lower front section behind cooling vents on the
front panel), 11 card slots, additional slot card when combined with
the 4000 mother board gives you 4 Zorro slots, 6 PC style slots, and
1 video slot, keyboard and mouse extensions, IDE cable, Floppy
extension cable, 5.25" Floppy adapter, power cable, male to female
power cable to add an additional external piece to your power supply
such as a monitor, plenty of internal drive power cables, assembly
screws, all in a metal RF enclosure thats 26 1/2" tall, 18" deep, 8
1/2" wide and sitting on casters two of which are lockable. Manual
and all drive bay front covers included. (EXCELLENT condition) $600

Video Toaster 4000: 3.0/3.1/3.5 upgradeable to the latest Toaster and
LW software for $500 (I think was NewTek's last upgrade policy). All
disks, manual and addendums included and in original packaging.
(EXCELLENT condidtion) $1300

GVP SERIES II Impact SCSI/RAM card: Software and manuals all in the
original packaging. (EXCELLENT condition)         $150

Everything mentioned here is not only like new, but includes every
little piece that was shipped with it when I bought it.

Send replies to [e-mail]





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From: [e-mail] (edreams)
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>Hi dear,

>I'll make no bones about it: the best advice I can give you, if you
>want to solve your problem, and many others also, is to change
>Windows for OS/2 or even better... to buy a Macintosh.
>Proverb of the day: "To know which side one's bread is buttered"...
>Cheers!

>Boris

Boris, while I have nothing personally against OS/2 and even use a Mac
professionally at times, why are you posting this to a Lightwave news group?
Neither platform has a version of Lightwave for it.  And probably won't for
some time.  Not flaming, just curious why you're cross posting to so many
un-related groups.

Scott


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From: [e-mail] (edreams)
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>I am Ian Merle, a 7th grader in Boca Raton, Florida.  Please help me complete
> my science project by answering my Internet E-Mail Survey. I chose this
>topic  for my project because no one really knows who is using the Internet,
>and I  would like to find out.  Please email to me  <[e-mail]> the
>following:

>YOUR AGE:    1-25___       26-35___      36-45___      46-55___    56+___

>SEX:     MALE___               FEMALE___

>CITY:__________    STATE/PROVINCE:_________  COUNTRY______

>If there is more than one Internet-using person at your address, please send
>a separate email reply for each person. I will post the results of the survey
>back  here when completed.

>Thank you for helping! Ian Merle


Age -- > 24
Sex -- > Male
City - > Atlanta, Ga, USA

Hope this helps...

Scott..


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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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Sam Arriola wrote:

> I want to convert some of my Arexx scripts to plug-in's for the Intel
> LW. I've read through the docs of the LWSDK and I was wondering which
> C/C++ compiler should I get or which would work best (Microsoft Visual
> C++ Version ???? or Borland C++ Version??? ). Would the MS Visual C++
> 1.52 package ($99) work for me?

Microsoft Visual C/C++, any version from 2.0 on (not 1.52).  In theory
you should be able to use any C compiler capable of creating NT (32-bit)
DLLs, but LW itself is compiled with MSVC, so this will give you the
least trouble.  (I use Watcom, which is $300 cheaper and makes better
code, but I've had to deal with several minor incompatibilities, one of
which requires a couple lines of assembly language.)

> Maybe I don't need to write C code, the LW Reference manual states that
> "The IBM-compatible platforms utilize Rexx and C macros". In this case
> where can I get a windows version of Rexx that would work.

Rexx on the PC is a LW scripting solution that hasn't happened yet.  Bob
Hood is developing a script interpreter/compiler called BML.  I don't
have the BML Web info handy, but Bob can be reached at [e-mail].
I've also been thinking lately that interesting things could be done
with Visual Basic 4.0 but haven't had a chance to look into it yet.

- Ernie



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From: [e-mail] (Edward Stutz Jr.)
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Enrique,

I don't use Lightwave, but I do have experience on running 3D programs
on the Alpha platform.

Check to see if Alpha/NT is paging out to disk. 32mb of RAM may not be
enough for a RISC Alpha system. My 21066/233 idles with 34 mb free of 64
available. (NT uses RAM to support paging to disk)

Try using a more complex scene for testing. The Alpha may be faster.

What size and speed of cache are you running?

Ed


Emiliano Stesinach ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Hi!

: I own an alpha based machine (166 mhz, noname board) .. i rendered the
: texturee.scn with all traces on,antialias low,8, no preview of rendering,
: and it took 2.39 seconds to get it solved with a memory buffer of 4 megs
: (2 stepsrendering) ...
: In a 1333 mhz gateway 2000 pentium with windows 95, it took 2.29 seconds
: (10 seconds less than the alpha )

: ARGH ! what's going wrong here ?
: I should sell quickly my alpha platform ? or there is any change to
: make in order to gain speed ... by the way the pentium has 16 megs of ram
: but the alpha has 32 megs of ram, with NT3.51

: Enrique Avalle
: [e-mail]

: p.d. I called newtek and was told that final release of lw 4 for alpha
: is on christmas wih a little of luck (...??!!)

: --
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Lightwave Animators:
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Emiliano Stesinach - Enrique Avalle    AMIGA 4000/040/40 mhz/ALPHA AXP
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: GSI Expert:
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Martin Pazos    ESRI APPROVED CONSULTANT
: --------------------------------------------(Mvdeo, Uruguay, South America)-


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I have noticed the same thing.  We have a 275 from Carrera
here at work with a 4mb Matrox card.  Anything other than
256 colors crawls.
My 133 Pentium at home the the 4mb ATI card redraws very
fast even in 16mil colors.  Go figure...



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From: [e-mail] (Corey Betka)
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Does anyone have a working LWMFONTS.TXT file for the text plugin for the
Modeler? I have been trying to figure it out, but have been stumped so far.
Also, what directory should it be in, as the docs for the plugin don't say.
Thanks in advance.....Corey


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From: [e-mail] (Greg L. Kimnach)
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In article <4a99uq$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sven Hennig) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Sven Hennig)
>Subject: ---Please Read This---
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 12:05:06 GMT


>Hi,
>I just wanted to give you the chance to earn some money in a very easy
>way.......<<DELETED rest of this>>

sven, send me $100us and i'll let you know of an easier way to make alot of
cash:-)

greg

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[e-mail] (Mark Midolla) wrote:

> Well, anyone know when its coming out ?
> I placed my order in July. Its been a long time.

<sigh>

Tell me about it :(

Someone said they'd heard that 'before the end of November' was the latest.

Nov '96?

:~(

Love & Life,


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

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

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From: [e-mail] (A Lugones)
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Subject: Re: Mac Syquest question
Date: 7 Dec 1995 15:51:22 -0500
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<<I'm posting this question again because I'm getting conflicting answers.

Can a Mac using OS 7.5 with PCexchange read a 44 or 88MB Syquest disk. The

local Mac dealer says it can, I've gotten other replies say say it can't.
Who's right, has anyone done this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
---------------------------------

I've used "AccessPC" on the Mac and I know it works.  I've never tried it
with PCExchange only.  I should give it a try.  AccessPC lists for 89.00.
It would be nice if PCExchange works.  You can save some money.

Alexander Lugones
Vantage Point, Inc.

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From: [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
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Subject: Re: 640x480x256preview renders blank?
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In article <49sik1$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Wanna B
3D) writes:

>I running LW 4.0 final release for intel.  When I render out an animation
>preview at 640x480x256 res my wireframe/bounding box dissappears!!!  Is
>anyone else having this same problem?

I had a similar problem, and when I downloaded the latest drivers for my
ATI Mach64 graphics card, it went away.

Hope this helps,
Marc

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From: [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
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Subject: Re: AVI Lo-res????
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In article <4a14ni$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Marcus
Ward) writes:

>I doubt its your color depth, thats exactly the same screen size and
color
>depth that I am using.... have you tried getting the latest drivers for
the
>card? I noticed that mine doesnt refresh as fast if I run the stock
>drivers...
>

I downloaded the ATI drivers a couple months ago.  Versions: ATI Desktop
1.56, Flex Desk 1.50, Date: June 8, 1995.

These drivers actually solved a problem with wireframes disappearing in
animation previews in LightWave.  Since your configuration is the same as
mine, I wonder how the ATI card or drivers could be the problem.  However,
these systems are getting so complex, that one small, overlooked detail
causes all number of headaches.

>Hope Im at least pointing you in the right direction....
>

I don't know.  At some point it becomes counter-productive to pursue
problems like this which have a work-around.  Besides, a majority of my
work with this stuff involves TGA image sequences anyway, not AVI.

Thanks anyway,
Marc

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From: [e-mail] (Jrmdd)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: will Lightrom work on my PC CD-ROm
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Yes, I have LightROM 2 (still waiting for 1) and it works just fine on my
PC also.

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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: everytime I turn field rendering on, anim jitters
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In article <49vt9v$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (emmanuel
olympia) writes:

>everytime I have field rendering on in the camera menu, the animation
>always comes out jittery.   Why is this? thanks,

A single frame SHOULD look jittery because you are seeing the two
different fields that make up the frame.  If the moving animation is
jittery, Perhaps whatever is doing the animating is recording the fields
in reverse order.  i.e. B, A, D, C, F, E  etc.
Good Luck,  Don

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
>Subject: Re: LightWave 3D V3.5 *** For Sale ***
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 21:37:44 LOCAL

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
>(Andrew Barnett) writes:
>>From: [e-mail] (Andrew Barnett)
>>Subject: Re: LightWave 3D V3.5 *** For Sale ***
>>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 19:27:28 GMT

>>In a msg dated 29-Nov-95 22:16:04, JBooth411 was yapping about Re: LightWave 3D
>>V3.5 *** For Sale *** (Amiga Stand Alone Version).

>>*>>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:
>>*>>
>>*>>

>>*>     This is illegal.

>>How is it illegal.


>><sb>
>>Nuff said,
>>                              Andrew Barnett

>I talked to NewTek about this a few moons ago and the fellow I talked to said
>that the Amiga 3.5 SA program was transferable but not upgradeable.  Actually,
>he said that he was 90% sure that it was.  The PC upgrade was a cross-platform
>upgrade and AFIK actually "spawns" a new license.  Just as the Toaster to PC
>"upgrade"  spawns a new license.  The difference, is that the Toaster retains
>the ability to also upgrade the Toaste software (and it cost more for that
>privilege as well).

>I'd like to know for sure what the LW 3.5 SA status is, but when you call
>NewTek and get a 90% sure answer - what are ya gonna do?  To answer my own
>question - I guess write a letter - and hopefully get a WRITTEN firm response
>that you can attach to the software manual, license etc.

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

For what its worth, I called NewTek tech support yesterday and asked about the
transferability of LW 3.5 SA after it has been "upgraded" to the PC.  The guy
I talked to wasn't sure, but thought it was OK.  He put me on hold and
verified the status by asking their CEO.  Yes, you can sell your "upgraded"
3.5 SA as long as the "hardware" (the dongle) goes with it.

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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In article <4a0bhn$[e-mail]> Archie Jones <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Archie Jones <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Metaform problems
>Date: 5 Dec 1995 02:41:59 GMT

>     You were right about the non-planer polygons but I am
>still having problems with the metaform function.  This is what
>I do:

>1)  After my rough model is constructed I select all non-planer
>polygons and triple them.  At this point my model has no
>non-planer polygons.

>2)  I then apply the metaform function to the model.  Now my
>model looks the way I want it to but is full, and I mean real
>full, of non-planer polygons.

>    If I now triple the polygons again I end up with an
>unacceptable number of polygons.  Is there a way to use the
>metaform function without producing more non-planer polygons?

>Thanks in advance,

>Archie Jones

I think step 1. is unnecessary.  Tripling non-planars at this step doesn't
buy you anything.  You just need to make sure you don't have any >4 sided
polys.  I assume that in your last step, you are only tripling non-planar
polygons.  If that is true, then skipping step 1 is the only thing I can think
of that may save polys.  (assuming you aren't creating two sided polys
unnecessarily).

Metaform is nifty, but it DOES increase the polygon count by quite a bit.

Actually, there is another option.  Perhaps all areas of your model do not
need metaforming.  You can metaform selectively - as long as it is appropriate
to your design.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <49ve9i$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Johan Söderberg) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Johan Söderberg)
>Subject: Render Picture!
>Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 18:18:32 GMT

>Hi out there!

>I'm experiencing problems with Lightwave 4.0, when I try to render my
>picture the computer works for a while and everything seems to be
>alright but then nothing happens!! The computer doesn't hang but my
>picture is not shown!!

>I'm really a newbie to Lightwave but would appreciate all help I can
>get!

I don't have the manuals in front of me, but isn't this stuff in there?  I
don't mind helping folks out, but this is basic.  If you don't do SOME
reading, no amount of help here is going to really matter.

 >Thanx

>Johan Söderberg



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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: Re: DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW ??????????
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> Graphics converter loads all sorts of formats and can save out in
> QT format. It is shareware, but the unregistered version is
> fully functional.    OK now you owe me a million dollars.

Any chance of a URL where this wonderful program can be found?


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From: [e-mail] (David Ingebretsen)
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Subject: Re: ADVERT: Advice on VT4000 price, other Amiga and PC stuff for sale
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John Foust ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I'd like some assistance finding an acceptable street price for a
: used Amiga 4000.  It's a slow model, the 68030 25 Mhz, prized by
: buyers of the Warp cards to accelerate it to 040 speeds.

deleted...

: No price?  Any reasonable offers accepted.  Always willing to haggle
: or swap!  Shipping negotiable.  Mastercard/VISA accepted.
:
: John Foust
: Syndesis Corporation
: 235 South Main Street
: Jefferson, WI 53549
: [phone]
: [phone] FAX

So John. Does -this- mean you are dropping your Amiga support ? :)

--
David

David M. Ingebretsen             *** Binary Illusions / 3D Physics ***
[e-mail]            ***       Animation and more      ***

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From: [e-mail] (ReplicaTch)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW and Win95
Date: 8 Dec 1995 21:07:16 -0500
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Here's a weird one. We can't get any preview anims on Win 95. No problem
with WWG 3.1, but no previews for 95. (We've tried all kinds of screen
resolution configurations-nuthin')
Anybody have any ideas, thoughts, condolences? ;)

Keith Lango
Replica Technology

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: ALPHA 166 mhz is slower than  pentium 133 with lightwave
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In article <4a52nl$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Chao Chen) writes:
> The reason that you're getting bad performance from the Alpha is two-fold:
>
> 1) You're running at slow clock speed.  Most Alphas now run at least at
>    233.  266 or 275 is what most people get.
>
> 2) You have a different Alpha processor than most people.  The processor
>    that comes on the Noname motherboard is the 21066, the LCA or
>    Low Cost Alpha.  That is *not* the 21064 that most people run with.
>    The 21066 is the cheap version of the 21064 with PCI logic (and some
>    other misc stuff) built in.  The 21066 is simply not as fast as the
>    21064 at the same clock speed.  As a matter of fact, fast Pentinum
>    machines can probably beat the 21066 also.
>
> To gain speed, you should get rid of the 21066 motherboard and upgrade
> to a 21064 (EV4) or 21164 (EV5) based motherboard.
>
>
> Emiliano Stesinach ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : Hi!
>
> : I own an alpha based machine (166 mhz, noname board) .. i rendered the
> : texturee.scn with all traces on,antialias low,8, no preview of rendering,
> : and it took 2.39 seconds to get it solved with a memory buffer of 4 megs
> : (2 stepsrendering) ...
> : In a 1333 mhz gateway 2000 pentium with windows 95, it took 2.29 seconds
> : (10 seconds less than the alpha )
>
     ^
     +---------- thats 0.10 seconds

Not only the stuff that Chao mentioned above, but maybe you should try
rendering a more complicated scene.  If I'm reading your figures correctly,
there is a difference of 10 one hundredths of a second.  Which could be
expained by the difference in loading a program on a RISC vs. CISC processor.
RISC is a little slower.

Steve Luther

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From: Daryl Stultz <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: ALPHA 166 mhz is slower than  pentium 133 with lightwave
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Here's a message I got from the folks at Carrera who make the
Cobra machine, It outght to help you understand...

********SNIP**************
Daryl,

thanks for writing.

The reason why the Teraclipse is not as fast as Cobra, or other compatible based workstations:

Check out the June issue of Byte magazine. Our founder, Bruce Faust, wrote an article that says that "all RISC chips are not created equal".  Although the Teraclipse is an Alpha, the Alpha chip used is the model 21066.  The 21066 is 64-bit, has a 64-bit
e
xternal logic interface to main memory and cache.  This chip was designed to compete with the Intel Pentium processor. So, to keep the cost down, Digital decided to keep the Pin count of the CPU within reason.  (Both the Pentium and Alpha 21066 have less

than 300 pins.
Whereas the 21064 Alpha CPU that we, as well as Digital, Aspen, NekoTech and others use, have 431 pins.  The 21064 has a 128-bit interface to cache and main memory.)  The address lines to and from the Teraclipse processor are 64-bit, multiplexed to main
m
emory and cache.  So, when a lot of sequential activity occurs such as read. . .(cache envoked). . .read. . .(cache hit). . .read (cache hit), write. . .(cache flush), performance is basically on par with the fastest Pentium.  However in a Random activit
y
. . .read (envoke cache). . .write (flush cache). . .read (cache miss, go to main memory many wait states), then the 21066 operates effectively like a 90 Mhz Pentium.
A 21064 on the other hand has 128-bit external logic and a non-multiplexed address to and from cache (ECC) and main memory (parity).  So when the following occurs:
Sequential:
Read. . .(Envoke cache). .Read . .(Cache hit). . .Write (cache Tagged due to 128-bit data path). . .Read (cache hit). . .<so, this is expected to work similar to 21066.

However, in a random access:

Read. . .(envoke cache). .write. . .(Cache Tag). . .Read (cache hit due to 128-bit data path). . write (cache hit, because of cache tag) . .read with exception (error exception handled due to ECC - Error Correction Code). . This this is more efficient th
a
n the 21066 Alpha CPU.
So, although the Teraclipse uses an Alpha CPU, and it is a good design, the architecture from the processor is not as powerful as the 21064 based system. A 21066 operating at 233 Mhz is slower than 21064 operating at 166Mhz!!  Thisis due to architecture.

So a $3,995 Teraclipse runs about 1/2 the speed of a Carrera Cobra 200C priced at $4,995.  Check out the June issue of LWPRO.

-Carrera Computers, Inc.
1-800-576-RISC
"Putting on the RISC for Windows NT and Lightwave"

*******************SNIP*********************

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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Flyer Hard Drives: Any Suggestions?
Date: 7 Dec 1995 20:34:46 -0500
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In article <49senc$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Tyler Livingston) writes:

>My Father bought a flyer about 3 months ago.  He has yet to buy
>any Hard Drives for it.  He is looking for inexpensive drives for
>it.  Are there any?  Do you have to buy the ones recommended by
>NewTek?
>
>    He will be using the flyer at only SVHS and 8MM quality.
>I heard that there could be some fall-out with a non-recommended
>drive.  Is this true?  How bad is the fall-out?

There are several parameters that the drives must have to run smoothly,
such as transfer speed, access time, and cache size.  Very few drives have
the 1 MB of Cache that's needed for non-linear video.  Without it, you
will either get stuttering playback, or the inability to capture the
footage in the first place.
NewTek is getting away from recommending drives.  Instead they are
including a DriveSpeed utility with the Flyer software upgrades, that will
allow you, or your dealer, to test new drives.  Here are the best current
drives available, and the cost through The Computer Room, Colorado's
leading Toaster/Flyer Dealer  (Over 40 Flyer systems sold and installed).

Video Hard Drives  (Two required for A/B Roll Editing)
Figure approximately 5 minutes of broadcast quality video storage per
gigabyte.  All hard drives are certified to be in compliance with NewTek
specifications, and carry 5 year warranties.
2 Gigabyte, Seagate Barracuda                  $ 1000
4 Gigabyte, Seagate Barracuda                        $ 1500
4 Gigabyte, Quantum Atlas (Not Empire!)          $ 1725
9 Gigabyte, Seagate Elite     Rev 4304                  $ 2550

Hard Drive for Audio (Required))
1 Gigabyte Fujitsu SCSI Drive                          $ 350

Let me know if you would like more info.
Don James
The Computer Room
2760 S. Havana St.
Aurora, CO  80014
[phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Viet Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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In article <4aaqnn$[e-mail]>,
ReplicaTch <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Here at Replica Technology we're developing new object libraries for
>release in the early spring for Lightwave on the Amiga, SGI & PC. What
>we're wondering is: How many LW PC users are still using Win 3.1 with it's
>DOS naming conventions? We don't really want to have to go 8.3 for
>filenames. This poses such a pain for 95, NT, SGI and Amiga users. I'm
>guessing that most LW users on the PC are running Win 95 or NT. Is this
>true? Do we have to dwell in 8.3 hell for another release?
>No OS wars, please. We've had enough of that crap around here. Just some
>feedback on the amount of Win 3.1 LW users out there.
>
>Thanks,
>Keith Lango
>Replica Technology

Yeah, my shop has gone Win95/NT/Amiga environments.  I too am sick
of the 8.3 convention.  Had to live w/ it for 3 years in the PC world...
sux!

On a related issue, you I got 20MBs RAM on my 486 but w/ Win95 and LW
I only have about 2MB RAM left after I boot up the apps.  What gives?
All I got is LW running.

-Viet


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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: SUGGEST a video capture board
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In article <4a08gq$[e-mail]>, Steve Axtell
<[e-mail]> writes:

>I am looking for a lower priced video capture board that can take video
>off of a hi8 camera and can be used with Lightwave to create some lowres
>video composites for CD ROM stuff.  Any suggestions?  Am I correct in
>thinking that the high end PVR is overkill for the cdrom and internet
>quality?

Yeah, probably.  The Fast FP/S 60 does a very nice job for around $900
Let me know if you would like more info.
Don James
The Computer Room
2760 S. Havana St.
Aurora, CO  80014
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Christopher Stewart ([e-mail]) wrote:


: ps. I'm going to have to remove the tip-to-tip browsing function
:     as the maintence time for it is getting out of hand. Do you
:     use it a lot? My thinking is that the index and search
:     engine should be enough. I'm going to post this message to
:     the list and newsgroup to get more feedback (FYI).

I agree...kill the tip to tip browsing...I use the index......Just my 666
cents worth...L8ay

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From: [e-mail] (John Sonedecker)
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In article <[e-mail]>, Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]> says:
>
>When running the latest NewShell Preview on NT3.51,
>Netscape2.0b3 will not launch from a shortcut, and there is no
>icon in the directory... When running LW4.0revB the TaskBar (I
>think) is causing the CreateKey, DeleteKey Etc. buttons on the
>bottom of the screen to _not_ be drawn, what's up?
>
>I've never used 95 so I'm real green with this interface, any
>tips/caveats? Please email direct or reply to c.g.a.lightwave, I
>don't get around the NT groups much.
>
>Thanks,
>D.
>
>--
>Darren Metcalfe
>[e-mail]
>
>"I met myself in a dream, and I just wanted to tell ya,
> everything was all right, I'm beginning to see the light."
> - Lou

I'm not sure, but try "pulling" the task bar down. Like interactively
resize the window.
-John Sonedecker

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