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As long as we're discussing Animation Master, could someone email me any
information they have about the ware? Contact numbers, feature lists, URLs
or numbers for a nifty free video, whatever... I've heard both good and
bad things about this 'ware, and would like to take a closer look at it.

Thanks in advance!

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Constant Particle Stream
Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:40:50 -0500
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In article <4derif$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
writes:

>Anyone know how to generate a constant flow of particles from a single
>point or small area.  This is for sparks in cutting a logo out of metal.
>
>Is this process made much easier with Sparks or Particle Storm?
>
>Thanks

    Actualy, it's very easy without sparks. Simply make your object as you
want it to end (Ie: all particles out), load it into layout, at frame 1
make the scaling .0001 on all axises, and make it 1 on the last frame.
You'll have to play with the motion curve to get the motion to be even,
which can be a little tricky, but it'll work fairly well. It won't actualy
be continous, but if you make your object right it can last as long as you
need it too...

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From: Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
Date: 16 Jan 1996 17:50:05 GMT
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Jeff Jasper <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Adobe LightWave.  Just an opinion.
>
>Not Adobe! Lightwave would become an ungodly pig of a program and
>would probably get a Mac look to it to boot. What about KAI Lightwave?
>
Or maybe AmigaTech will get its hand in there- they are getting very
cosy (or want to be) with NewTek (like more meetings in one month than
C= ever did since '89)
-This gleamed form one of the NewTek people at the WOA/Toronto Dec. 95
Zoltan



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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FS: SGI Indigo w/Lightwave
Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:50:04 GMT
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In article <4dcgj9$[e-mail]>, "Gene Z. Ragan" <[e-mail]> writes:
>Indigo R3000 33MHz IP12
>56 MB RAM
>300MB Internal/650 MB External
>16" Monitor LG1 Graphics
>IRIX 5.3
>Lightwave 4.0
>
>Good machine for modelling, ScreamerNet
>
>$3200.00
>
>

Jeez, that's a good price for someone, the ram alone is worth 1400 pounds plus!

Stu

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From: [e-mail] (Steven Johansen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: How to get backgrounds..LW4.0(PC)
Date: 16 Jan 1996 23:53:40 +1100
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[e-mail] writes:

>[e-mail] (Ray Dyer) wrote:


>> I have Lightwave 4.0 for the IBM-PC...is there a way to put a background in?
>>I see it in one of the menus..but when I click on the Background bar it keeps
>>saying (None) ..all the time..thanks greatly!

>First load in any image.Then go to the effects menu,and hit image
>compositing,then background image.
>Hope this helps you

>Wayne

If he couldn't figure that out himself he's wasting his time using
Lightwave at all.

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Constant Particle Stream
Date: 16 Jan 1996 06:44:00 -0500
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I've not seen all the options out there, but Particle Storm seems VERY
good...



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


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From: matt nothelfer <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:50:31 GMT
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Ouch.  You ask for a lot...so much to go into on a newsgroup...you know what though?
I think your best route would be to buy one of those training tapes.  The Esentials
of Lightwave (?) or something like that.  I'm not sure, but I think if you tried to
have someone explain this to you over a post, you'd just end up getting more
confused.  Or, I could be wrong and somebody'll type a concise, clear, and helpful
message.  Regardless, try the Lightwave Essentials tape.  It'll help ya out.


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From: [e-mail] (Gavin JE Heron)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: _VW_BUSES_(Kombi's) (Hippie-wagons :)
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help!

i am in desperate need of a model for lightwave of a vw split screen bus or any other type of kombi.

if you have one, or even know where i could possibly get one, PLEASE mail me:

[e-mail]

THANKYOU IN ADVANCE :)

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Mpeg savers for Razor
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:08:03 +0100
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I'm looking for an Mpeg savers for use with Razor from In:Sync.

If you have any idea where to find it, you welcome.

Pg. Switzerland.

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Object floating on water
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:27:16 +0100
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I'm trying to do an object floating on water. I have a subdivided water
object on which I apply displacment map as wave. I want my object (this
could be a boat or a can or anything that could float) floating on the
water.

How can I do to have this object follow the exact wave of the water ??
The only way I found is to move my object separate from the water ! Very
long and boring ! Is there a way to do moving this object both with the
water wave ??

Thank you for your incoming answer !!!

PG. Switzerland.

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From: John Reddington <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:35:01 GMT
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Can I make a suggestion. If anyone feels a post has come from a pirate
(rightly or wrongly) can they just please ignore it and prevent the
long tedious arguments over the wrong doing of pirates. No one ever
says anything for or against that we haven't all heard before. Please
just don't take the bait and ignore them, they'll soon get the message
and it will save bandwidth.

Just a suggestion :-)


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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
Subject: HIIP patch
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I just read the Lightwave Pro December issue and John Gross says that a
patch to sort out the HIIP problems should be available on-line soon. Is
it?

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Hi Guys.


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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:02:16 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>, Jeff Jasper <[e-mail]> writes:

>Not Adobe! Lightwave would become an ungodly pig of a program and
>would probably get a Mac look to it to boot. What about KAI Lightwave?
>
>

     Ohh, Kia's power lightwave.. Hmm, Allen/Stuart/Kai, an interface team
to tangle with..

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From: (Ken Mayfield)[e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Avid (Mac-based) and  dumping animation files from an Amiga 2000
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>   From: David Koegler <[e-mail]>
>
>Second question:
>
>So, if a Power-Mac-based, turnkey Avid system costs from $25,000 to
>$30,000, is there something out there of similar quality, without the
>disappointments of a Flyer, for a better price?
>
>The Avid interface looks beautiful, is intuitive, looks like lots of fun,
>but the price is frightening. However, when I look at the cost of going
>to the Flyer, by the time I get done, my costs will be around $20,000, so
>paying up to 50% more for all the added features may be worth it.
>
>Comments or advice from anyone?

    The Avid has become a de facto standard non-linear edito,
 and they are also developing the OMFI standard; and yes, the interface is
beautiful.

    Because of these reasons and the upgradability, I'd spend the
other frightened %50 more and jump in (then learn what tax breaks are
available ;)

    Owning or having Avid experience places you in good stead with
many film and video clients, and the user support is pretty good, too.

            All of my observation and opinions on the Avid
and using Lightwave with it come from a year of experience, so take it as
you will.

                -Ken Mayfield
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From: David Rogers <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio,comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Animation Master 4 Features!
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> Martin Hash's Animation (MHA), I'll be happy to forward a miniFAQ that
> I've written on the currently available v3, which I will be updating soon
> to include the features from v4 once they are totally finalized.









Please forward a copy of the mini FAQ to me.


                       Thank you
                        David Rogers

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
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In article <4dd1d6$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Thomas
Lageraaen) writes:

>Please explain to me step-by-step, as i said in the subject I bought
>Lightwave v4.0 private, and got no manuals.
>
>

    Don't you mean you got lightwave v4.0 pirate, not private? No manuals?
Please...

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Pennello Lite doesn't WORK.
Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:09:12 -0500
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     You'll have to delete the lines from your Lw.cfg that refer to
pennello and use add plugin again, that'll fix it..

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I'm looking for good settings for a seawater!!!
Please help me!!

Reply to: Danilo Bucca <[e-mail]>

byebye
                                                        Danilo Bucca

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From: [e-mail] (DJazz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Live action PAR video into Lightwave ?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 19:51:59 GMT
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I'm mind boggled.  Could someone tell me how to dump live action PAR video into
Lightwave..

thx in advance


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From: John Reddington <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Cracks, Pirates & Bullshitters
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I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting pretty tired of
listening to the same old for/against piracy argument that seems to
spring up every time someone asks for a crack or help with something
that proves they don't have a legitimate copy.

I'm as pissed off with the whole piracy thing as everyone else who
shelled out for the software but why don't we just ignore these pleas
from pirates and save bandwidth. No one is saying anything for or
against that we all haven't heard many times before. And lets not kid
ourselves here. We are never going to convince someone with a pirate
copy that they are doing wrong and that they should bin it or go buy a
legitimate copy. Likewise, you guys out there with cracked copies
aren't likely to convince someone with a bought copy that what you are
doing is harmless. And you aren't likely to get much help here either.

If they get no response then they will most likely get the message that
no one is fooled and piss off to alt.comp.pirates or something like
that.

One suggestion I saw which might be useful to legitimate users is
attached below.

>If you're a legal, registered user, then here's a novel suggestion:
>upload your real name, address and the serial number of your copy of
>whatever (If you are a real user, then you shouldn't have a problem
>with this, should you?)

>Otherwise, quit bullshitting us.

Just a suggestion :-)


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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Avid (Mac-based) and  dumping animation files from an Amiga 2000
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Sam Marrocco <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Regarding getting LW renders over to AVID:

>Here's what I do:
>Render the frames as TARGA uncompressed individual files. Then, assuming
>you have some type of ethernet connection between machines, use Fetch 3.0
>(public domain) on the Power Mac to bring the files across to the AVID
>machine. I'm not sure if the AVID reads targas or not (think it does). If
>not, use Debabelizer on the Mac to convert them to something the AVID
>will read.

Avid will not import targa files directly but will import PICT files
directly. So there you go.

Dave



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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:05:51 GMT
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Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:
>What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
>won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
>Marco
>[e-mail]
>Thanks in advance

Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Fractal Painter, and maybe Picture
Publisher. I was a hard-core Amiga user a couple years back,
but nothing on the Amiga ever compared to Photoshop. Check it
out sometime.

Andrew Weiler
http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html


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From: Lance Gray <[e-mail]>
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Anyone know a decent price for places selling (2) 9 gig Seagate
Elites already in a tower???  For use with the Video Flyer....I have 6gig
right now from my purchase of a year ago when the flyer came out---and
now I'm looking to expand my system to 24gigs total!  Lowest price per
drive I've heard of is $2300.

    Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!


Lance  <><
Empire Productions Inc.
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (DavidH1734)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE: Virtual Visions announces
Date: 16 Jan 1996 17:16:35 -0500
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>Virtual Visions, Incorporated, a software engineering and computer
animation
>firm based in Littleton, Colorado, announced today the commercial
availability
>of its premier software product, BML(tm).

Hi Bob,

Congrats on a job well done! Good luck!

Dave
CineGraphics

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Holinski)
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I've been trying to get into the Newtek FTP site using WS_FTP32. Every time I
try I get an error. If I use Netscape I can get in, but I find it a little
clumsier than WS_FTP.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong.


Jeff H...


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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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AmigaTech has far less of a marketing clue then even current NewTek...

Adobe - good marketing.

Metatools (the Kai company) - great marketing, very cool company, KICK-ASS
demo crew.

However, I doubt a company switch is likely any time soon much.

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


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Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin)
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Subject: Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave
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On Jan 16, 1996 04:28:00 in article <Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave>,
'[e-mail]' wrote:

>
>>  Integrate Layout and Modeler in one program.  You can then work
directly
>>  on your scene, and modifications to objects can be done without having
to:
>>  save object, jump back to Modeler, reload the object, modify it, save
it,
>>  jump to Layout, replace object.
>
I think the gui's are too crowded as they are,

PLEASE NEWTEK don't integrate them!!

besides it is a nice safety net and we must keep in mind that object
creation (modelling)  is a fully separate task than anim'ting objects,

The brilliance behind layout is that it is a studio shoot situation,
and myself, coming from a cinematography and lighting background
I find it particularly helpful.

(with the new nt shell ala '95 its just a click of a button to switch from
one to the other.)

my 2 cents

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From: [e-mail] (Eric A. Quiroz)
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Subject: Quicktime VR
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:23:55 GMT
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Is anybody using lightwave to render frames for Quicktime VR?  If so,
what camera settings are you using.

You can reply to this message or e-mail at [e-mail].

Thanks.


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From: [e-mail] (Sean Huxter)
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Subject: Re: Telnet??
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[e-mail] (Christopher Stewart) wrote:


>In a message dated Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21: [e-mail] writes:


>E> it would be IDEAL for me to telnet to the NewTek bbs instead of paying
>E> the long distance call from Dallas!

Agreed. So once you have telnet working (I use it all the time) how
would one connect to the NEWTEK BBS through it?

I have an account on the BBS (or did once) but haven't accessed it for
a long time because of long distance charges.

Sean Huxter
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Chuck Durham)
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Subject: Re: Pricing on non PC platforms
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[e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) wrote:

>In article <4cv2ed$[e-mail]> [e-mail] () writes:
>[snip]
>>  BTW I still don't have 4.0 of LW for the Amiga
>>   but feel that under the circumstances the wait while frustrating is
>>   justifiable.
>>
>>  -bill
>>

>I could be wrong, but LW for all three platforms was supposed to ship more or
>less simultaneously sometime in early 1995.  At least this is how I remember
>the original Siggraph announcement and subsequent reports.  It has been a
>while now, so my memory could be wrong on this.  It is now early 1996.  What
>exactly is the justification?

>The way things have gone, NewTek will gain one more PC license from us than we
>planned and one less Amiga license.  We are still waiting for the Toaster
>Upgrade which may come even later than the Standalone Upgrade - or did we miss
>the mailing somehow?  Anyway - the point is that we are likely to skip the
>Toaster Upgrade and add another Pentium.  Meanwhile Amiga based animation work
>is somewhat crippled compared to PC work.  It would be nice to have the two
>tools "in sync" as far as rendering features.

>Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
>Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
>http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
>Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!


It's becoming very redundant on all the newsgroups on the subject of
software companies missing release dates.  Most, if not all companies
that develop software for commercial and internal usage have missed
deadlines and release dates.  It will continue regardless of how much
people complain.

Hash, Inc put it well when they said "Graphics are hard,  Programming
is harder".  Particilarly the development of a 3D graphic design
program, very math intensive and complex.  It is bad enough to work
out all the bugs and "features" that happen on one platform, let alone
to develop a cross-platform application.

To the point:  it's a useless complaint, planning is an effective tool
to help meet objectives and to set stages of work-in-progress, but
usually does little for realistic time estimates.

Chuck Durham
Imaginative Entertainment
http://www.xspot.com
http://www.imaginative.com



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From: [e-mail] (Chuck Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW Pro December issue?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 07:06:26 GMT
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[e-mail] (Paul D. Godley) wrote:

>Is the December or January LW Pro out yet? The latest one I have is the
>November issue (Modeler Mysteries on the cover). If Dec/Jan are out yet,
>what's on the cover. Maybe I've just misplaced and forgotten it.

>Thanks,

>-Paul
>---
>I N F I N I T E   M O M E N T U M
>[e-mail]                  PO Box 51637
>http://www.wp.com/momentum          Durham, NC 27717

I have just recieved the December issue a few days ago.  So they are
apparently shipping it out.  This is my first issue though, and from
what I have been hearing on the group they often need reminded of the
fact that you subscribe to the magazine and they should therefore send
one to you, but I have not been a subscriber long enough to verify or
deny these statements.

Chuck Durham
Imaginative Entertainment
[e-mail]
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http://www.xspot.com



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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Object floating on water
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[e-mail] wrote:

>I'm trying to do an object floating on water. I have a subdivided water
>object on which I apply displacment map as wave. I want my object (this
>could be a boat or a can or anything that could float) floating on the
>water.

>How can I do to have this object follow the exact wave of the water ??
>The only way I found is to move my object separate from the water ! Very
>long and boring ! Is there a way to do moving this object both with the
>water wave ??

What might work is to creat a null-object, give it the same
displacement map given to the water object, then parent the floating
object to the null object. Haven't actually tried this but it should
work.

Dave Paige



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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: 2d picture to 3d lwo
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[e-mail] wrote:

>Does anyone know how to convert a 2d picture intoa lightwave 3d
>object, on the P.C.?
>I used to do that on the Amiga with Pixal 3d Pro.
>Thanks in advance, Shawn

Polyform is what became of Pixel 3D Pro for the PC.




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I understand that the two above named magazines sometimes deal with
Lightwave.  Does anybody have an e-mail address to whowever handles them?

Thanks.

MC


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|>From: [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin)
|>Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
|>Subject: Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave
|>Date: 16 Jan 1996 15:40:58 -0500
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|>On Jan 16, 1996 04:28:00 in article <Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave>,
|>'[e-mail]' wrote:
|>
|>>
|>>>  Integrate Layout and Modeler in one program.  You can then work
|>directly
|>>>  on your scene, and modifications to objects can be done without having
|>to:
|>>>  save object, jump back to Modeler, reload the object, modify it, save
|>it,
|>>>  jump to Layout, replace object.
|>>
|>I think the gui's are too crowded as they are,
|>
|>PLEASE NEWTEK don't integrate them!!
|>   They don't have to. On the Amiga You can run both import/export
 objects from and to layout. Really a nice setup if I may say so. It
 really makes it nice when you select several layers at once and export
 them all to modeler as a single unit. This is also handy when it comes to
 surfacing objects. If you import the object from layout the surfaces come
 with it.

 -bill

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Constant Particle Stream
Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:02:01 -0700
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In article <4dfc9k$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (ReplicaTch) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (ReplicaTch)
>Subject: Re: Constant Particle Stream
>Date: 16 Jan 1996 00:15:32 -0500

>>> Anyone know how to generate a constant flow of particles from a single
>point or small area.  This is for sparks in cutting a logo out of metal.

>Is this process made much easier with Sparks or Particle Storm?

>Thanks <<<

>Much, much, much easier.
>In fact, I personally don't know of a way to do it otherwise. But then
>again, I am pretty dim.

>Keith Lango
>Director Mac 3D Development
>REPLICA Technology
>"Affordable, Quality 3D models"

I haven't done it, but if you can't get Sparks or Particle Storm, you might
try using a clip map that cuts a cone or similar shaped object up into little
sparks.  This would be a black image with a bunch of randomly sizes and
placed spots(or is that white with black spots - if you get it backwards
there is an inverse or negative option that will make it dots instead of
holes.  Then set a velocity along its length to get the motion.  You could
morph the object or use bones to make an arc.  You could use a fractal
displacement map with some velocity to get some randomness to the motion of
the "sparks".

Its just a theory, but it might work.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Scremernet batch rendering
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:48:01 -0700
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In article <4dfa5o$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Wanna B 3D) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Wanna B 3D)
>Subject: Scremernet batch rendering
>Date: 15 Jan 1996 23:39:20 -0500

>Greeting fellow users!
>I'm having a problem seeting up my 1 computer to batch render files under
>screamernet.  Any help would be appreciated...
>I set up an icon to set my computer up  as node 1, then launch lightwave.
>when I initialize SN, it says one computer available.  I click o.k. it
>loads the scene and my hard drive is going gang busters.  I look and it
>says under the status that it's waiting for the computer to render.  In
>actuality, my computer has convieniantly crashed!  I hit ctl+alt+del and
>get this msg. "no free file handles cannot load command, system halted."
>I have to reboot.
>Anyone, anyone....
>Thanks very much,
>Frank Chiappetta
>[e-mail]

>            Frank Chiappetta

What OS are you running?  These details help.

My wild-ass guess is that you might be running Win 3.x.  If so, you might try
increasing the value of your FILES= statement in the config.sys file.

If I am way off and you aren't running Win 3.x, look in your Operating System
documention under file handles and see what they have to say.  I am unfamiliar
with NT and just getting experienced under Win95 and I know little about how
multiple open files are dealt with under either of these.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: [e-mail] (RoGeR JoHaNsSoN)
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Subject: Re: Animation Master 4 Features!
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I asked about this a few weeks ago, but got no reply. All this talk about
how great AM is has made me curious... I want to see what it's like, so...
is there a demo version available? If not, why?
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No Microsoft products were used to create this message.
Unfortunately, other people at the company I work for use Microsoft
products every day and for some reason want to keep doing so, so in
case I should say something bad about MS, consider this a disclaimer.
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From: [e-mail] (TPeirce9)
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Thanks for the responses and tips.

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Holinski)
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Subject: tomahawk FTP site ???
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 03:55:41 GMT
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Anybody know what's up with the tomahawk FTP site? I haven't been able to get
into it for a while. Has it moved or (shudder) shut down?

Jeff H...


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From: [e-mail] (James Jones/Nibbles and Bits)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: HIIP Targa 32 works. Surprise, surprise...
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   Sorry if this has been mentioned before...

   The Targa32 HIIP saver now works. (LW rev C patch, of course.)

   BUT, you have to delete all the HIIPSAVE.p lines from the LW.CFG file
and reinstall the plugin from the Options panel in LW.

   Then, just use the Save RGB button (with Targa32 selected) and both
the RGB and alpha will be saved to one Targa32 file. (Save Alpha does NOT
have to be on.)

   Yet another item that the rev C installation and readme file fail to
address. (Why does NewTek go to the trouble of fixing these things and
then botch the install...?)

   Also, the new HIIP IFF.EXE no longer expands less-than-24-bit files to
24; can't say the same about the BMP.EXE, TIFF.EXE... etc.

-Jim

James G. Jones
Nibbles & Bits
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From: [e-mail] (Carp3D)
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Subject: NEWTEK FTP ????  THIS BLOWS
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Sorry to have to use such strong and loud type but this is getting out of
hand. I haven't been able to get on to newteks FTP site for some time now.
 How can such a successfull computer hardware and software selling company
have such a flakey FTP site?  Any Comments?!?!?!  Anyone
Anyone.......Voodo economics...

Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
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From: [e-mail] (David Warner)
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***********************************************************************
*                                                                     *
*       Digital Concept Productions is pleased to announce the        *
*                 LightSpeed Animation Contest - 1996                 *
*                                                                     *
***********************************************************************

    - As of January 16th, there is over $10,000 worth of prizes!! -


* The deadline for contest entries is April 1st, 1996. (no fooling!)

* First, second, and third prize packages will be awarded to winners in
  the following categories:

   1. Best Logo Animation - anims with any sort of company logo or text.
   2. Best Compositing - anims that mix digitized video with LightWave
                         generated imagery.
   3. Best Character Animation - anims that feature animated characters.
   4. Best Short Story - anims that emphasize the telling of a story.
   5. Best General Animation - anything not covered above.

* The following prizes will be awarded in each category:

   1st Prize Package:
   ------------------
      1 year subscription to LightSpeed Video Magazine
      1 year subscription to LightSpeed companion disk
      The FX Kit for LightWave (book by Alan Chan)
      Volcano Music Buy-Out CD
      Particle Storm - Dynamic Realities
      WinImagesNT - Black Belt Systems
      Fiber Factory - MetroGrafx
      Scene Machine (PC) -or- WaveMaker 2.0 (Amiga) - Radiosity
      12 hours of rendering time on a Raptor workstation - LumaQuest
      Universal 3D CD-Rom - Dedicated Digital Imagery
      LightRom3 - Graphic Detail

   2nd Prize Package:
   ------------------
      1 year subscription to LightSpeed Video Magazing
      1 year subscription to LightSpeed companion disk
      The FX Kit for LightWave (book by Alan Chan)
      Volcano Music Buyout CD

   3rd Prize:
   ----------
      6 month subscription to LightSpeed Video Magazine
      6 month subscription to LightSpeed companion disk

   - One EXTRA SPECIAL prize package will be awarded to the
     BEST contest entry.  Prizes will be announced soon!

* There are no time limitations on the length of animations submitted.

* All animations must be created primarily with LightWave3D.

* Animations MUST be submitted on one of the following formats: S-VHS,
  3/4", 3/4"SP, or BetaSP.  Sorry, no VHS!

* As many as five entries may be submitted on one tape, but each entry
  must be clearly marked with the following information:
                        Category:
                    Entry # of #
          Animation Submitted by:
             Contact Information: Phone #
                                  E-mail Address
                                  Mailing Address

* Videotapes will not be returned, unless accompanied by self-addressed,
  postage-paid packaging.

* Prize packages will be awarded in the form of product vouchers issued
  by participating companies.  It will be the responsibility of contest
  winners to collect these prize packages from participating companies.

  LightSpeed and the participating companies are not obligated to provide
  prizes that will be compatible with your computer system, although every
  attempt has been made to select prizes that will work on many different
  computer platforms.

* All winning entries will be included in a compilation videotape that
  will also include other contest entries.

  By entering this contest, all entrants agree that they will provide a
  signed release which will allow Digital Concept Productions to reproduce
  their animations in the "LightSpeed Animation Contest - 1996" compilation
  videotape.

* Contest finalists will be notified by phone, e-mail, or regular mail.
  Upon notification, finalists will have 5 days to return a signed release
  or they will be disqualified from the contest altogether.

* All animators that have work appearing in the compilation videotape
  will receive a free copy and will also have their name and contact
  information displayed in the closing credits.


Entries should be sent to:
                          LightSpeed Animation Contest - 1996
                      c/o Digital Concept Productions
                          2763 West Avenue L
                          Suite 172
                          Lancaster, CA  93536

If you have any questions, contact: Manuel Coats ([e-mail])
                                or: David Warner ([e-mail])


---------------------> Participating Companies <------------------------

Particle Storm and Impact! contributed by: Dynamic Realities
                                           21800B Doral Road
                                           Waukesha, WI 53186
                                    Phone: [phone]
                                      FAX: [phone]
---

WinImagesNT contributed by: Black Belt Systems
                            Building #2
                            398 Johnson Road
                            Glasgow, MT  59230
         Sales & Marketing: 800-852-6442
       International Sales: 406-367-5513
                       FAX: [phone]
                       BBS: 406-367-2227
                    E-mail: [e-mail]
                            [e-mail]
                            74774.3106 - Compuserve Contact Number
---

Fiber Factory contributed by: MetroGrafx
                              625 Newton Drive
                              Lake Orion, MI 48362
        Orders, Info and FAX: [phone]
---

Scene Machine and WaveMaker 2.0 contributed by: Radiosity Software
                                                3970 North Victoria Street
                                                Shoreview, MN 55126
                                         Phone: [phone]
---

12 hours of rendering time contributed by: LumaQuest
                                    Phone: [phone]
---

Universal 3D CD-Rom contributed by: Dedicated Digital Imagery
                                    770-426-7427
---

LightRom3 contributed by: Graphic Detail
                          4556 South 3rd Street
                          Louisville, KY 40214
                   Phone: [phone]
                  E-mail: [e-mail]
---

LightSpeed subscriptions, The FX Kit for LightWave, and the Volcano Music
Buy-Out CD were contributed by:  Digital Concept Productions
                                 2763 West Avenue L
                                 Suite 172
                                 Lancaster, CA  93536
                         Orders: 805-726-3545 or  805-764-8696
                           Info: 805-726-3546
                            FAX: [phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Yeh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Gunshot effect
Date: 17 Jan 1996 08:19:38 -0500
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  I've shot a scene (with 8mm camcorder) where a guy is
shotting a gun.  How can I use Lightwave to create a
quick "flash" from the nozzle and maybe a little smoke
as well?
--
"The truth is out there..."
        - THE X-FILES
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Yeh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Lightwave flying duck?
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  Here's what I need in a scene (shot with 8mm camcorder):

  A guy walks into his apartment and sees a duck flying around.
Like most people, I don't have access to ducks, so I'm going
to use Lightwave to generate it and then composite it with
my live footage.

  Anyone have any suggestions on how to make the duck look and
move as real as possible?  Perhaps I can find a duck object
somewhere?

--
"The truth is out there..."
        - THE X-FILES
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:58:17 -0500
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I'll make a non-PC suggestion - anyone out there with a Mac, get
Specular's Texturescape - it ROCKS...

Basically, it makes tilable textures that are resolution independent
because they are based on EPS shapes...and it can make incredibly
realistic looking textures...

I've been a bad little webmaster lately, because a LOT is going on, but
check my wbe page this weekend and I should have a review, with pics, of
Texturescape...part of STATIC, my new online zine for multimedia
creators...


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


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:37:02 -0700
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In article <4dfalj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Powell) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
>Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
>Date: 16 Jan 1996 04:47:47 GMT



>        To all concerned:

>        I'm writing this message to hopefully close this sad affair and
>        restore harmony, such as it is and such as it might last, to
>        this group.

>        I have proposed a truce with Jay, and as part of that truce
>        I have offered to take back the venting (read: fire and brimstone
>        flames) that I directed at NewTek in my original post.

>        The flames I directed at NewTek were unreasonably harsh and
>        uncalled for.    For this I apologize to NewTek, especially
>        those responsible for the legitimate practice of dongling
>        Lightwave, and also to any readership here that might have
>        taken offense to said flaming.

>        My grumpiness over a dongle failure should have not spread to
>        the net.

>        I promise to never let it happen again (unless they loose my
>        dongle while they are fixing it, and I never get it back :-)

>        Jay and I have both agreed that under other circumstances, we
>        would very likely get along much better (and in fact have).

>        Regards to all,

>        Michael Powell

This is true.

Normally, I go to some effort to give the benefit of the doubt to people
AND to behave politely regardles of the situation.  I didn't manage to do
that in my respons to Michael's original post.  Impolite behavior is not only
unpleasant, it is pretty damn unproductive.  I think we proved that with this
thread.

One of the problems with communicating over the internet is that we lose a LOT
of the clues that are available during face to face or even voice to voice
communications.  Its a fine line between between BEING a jerk and being
extremely irritated and frustrated by hardware or software that has failed at
the worst possible time or some equally damnable situation.  I should have
figured that out by this time.

I don't make New Year's resolutions.  I figure that what is good for a year is
generally good for much longer that that.  I will re-double my efforts to keep
my posts polite.  If I cannot,  I'll hit the DISCARD button.

While I still disagree with what Michael posted, I also disagree with my
calling him a "rude jerk".  I could have made my point without that comment.
So, for that Michael, I am sorry.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: [e-mail] (Brian Ross)
Subject: Re: Animation Master 4 Features!
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David L. Campbell ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Justin Northcutt (justin) wrote:
: : I spoke with someone at MH and they said they are in the process of "tearing"
: : the online help out of the program and converting it into some type of
: : text/manual.  They said they were thinking of possibly posting it onto their
: : ftp site.  You may want to call them for sure, sorry, don't have the number
: : handy.

: Sigh.  I'm genuinely happy that they want to do something about it, but
: when I was complaining about the doc issue on the A:M/MHA mailing list,
: I tried to be very clear that the media was less of an issue than the
: quality and comprehensiveness of the written material.  This was the
: opinion of many people on the list.  If they just take the same old
: stuff and put it on paper, that still won't solve the problem, IMO.

Amazing.  Haven't they heard of technical writers and
software documentation specialists?

--
____________
Brian Ross  \__________________
[e-mail] \_______________
http://sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca/~bross        \______________
Dept of CompSci, Brock U, St Catharines, Ont, Canada  L2S 3A1 \  Carpe carpum.

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From: [e-mail] (William A. Mendez )
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Subject: Re: Constant Particle Stream
Date: 17 Jan 1996 06:41:37 GMT
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To all,


What are the differnces between Sparks and Particle Storm? Also Which
of the two have more functions.


Will Mendez

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Where in Internet i can see all or almost all plug-ins available for
LW4.0? Thanks.


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From: [e-mail] (Ken Geary)
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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
Date: 17 Jan 1996 06:13:55 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>, John Reddington
<[e-mail]> writes:

>Can I make a suggestion. If anyone feels a post has come from a pirate
>(rightly or wrongly) can they just please ignore it and prevent the
>long tedious arguments over the wrong doing of pirates. No one ever
>says anything for or against that we haven't all heard before. Please
>just don't take the bait and ignore them, they'll soon get the message
>and it will save bandwidth.

    Ahh, but bashing them is sooo much fun..


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From: Farzad <[e-mail]>
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Subject: ??Scanning Question??
Date: 17 Jan 1996 13:20:00 GMT
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Hi,

I scanned in a 2d picture. Then I wanted to load it in the LW. i knew it
wouldn't work, but I gave it try...it didn't work!

Do you know how can I load a 2D picture in the LW and then play around
with it in Modeler?


Thanks

-Farzad
[e-mail]
http://www.geopages.com/SiliconValley/1323



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From: [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Anim to Video
Date: 17 Jan 1996 02:06:12 -0500
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Major snipsy
>
>
>Please don't laugh at this question <G>...has anyone tried using a PC
>to Video encoder?  They cost less than $500.  They're not as pro as
>the PAR but it's a start, isn't it?
>
>Chris
>
>

A video encoder won't play back animation -just a single frame!

you still need a way to move 60 flds per sec of an animation file
at atleast 640 x 480 lines every 2 fields or 30 fps.??

You would still need a single frame recorder or some such.

atleast an mpeg card but those are pretty crappy for video.

but if you dont care about artifacts and color smearing an mpeg \ encoder
combo
would be the way to go.  or an mpeg card with a cheap ntsc encoder on board


good luck

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From: [e-mail] (Ron K)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: memory usage for LW4.0 on PC?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:44:07 GMT
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I had LW on AMIGA and loved it, and a friend got recent 4.0 for his
Pentium.  He is having problems with lack of ram.... but he has 16
megs!    Is this low for LW?   After he loads in a sample scene there
isn't enough ram to do much more then a 5 frame preview...
it appears from the info that software gives that its only using the
640k conventional ram????    it doesn't mention his EMS or extra
ram...    also he did manage to get it to actually render without a
out of ram error (one small object) but it only rendered in a small
winow in what looked like less then 256 colors (he's running in a
ultra hi res display in 64 thousand colors?  doesn't it render to full
screen like my amiga version did?   We're both really confused.




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Subject: Lightwave/Toaster 4000 for sale
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I'm selling my VIDEO-TOASTER 4000 complete with full docs and
Lightwave 3.0   asking  1200.00 or best offer.  I sold 3 of my amigas
and no longer have a need for the toaster.  (once my prized
procession!)  I can't believe I'm parting with it, but I have moved on
to other interests.   The 4000 works in 2000, 2500, 3000, 4000
machines...   email me if interested.

perfect shape/working order.



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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Cracks, Pirates & Bullshitters
Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:21:42 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
> We are never going to convince someone with a pirate
>copy that they are doing wrong and that they should bin it or go buy a
>legitimate copy.

Here I disagree.  I believe that most pirates have enough brains
and moral sense that *eventually* they will stop pirating software.
That's why I think it is beneficial to show them the error of their
ways.

- John


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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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Subject: Re: Telnet??
Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:52:24 GMT
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On 17-Jan-96 04:56:19, Sean Huxter ([e-mail]) posted:

> [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart) wrote:


>>In a message dated Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21: [e-mail] writes:


>>E> it would be IDEAL for me to telnet to the NewTek bbs instead of
>>paying  E> the long distance call from Dallas!

> Agreed. So once you have telnet working (I use it all the time) how
> would one connect to the NEWTEK BBS through it?

> I have an account on the BBS (or did once) but haven't accessed it for
> a long time because of long distance charges.

> Sean Huxter
> [e-mail]
> http://www.cabot.nf.ca/~sean

Sean, you would just set your telnet software to telnet to bbs.newtek.com.
From there, it will appear as if you made a normal modem call to Topeka
with a terminal program. Well, *almost* the same. The response as you type
will be a little jumpy, since the data is going out in TCP/IP packets
instead of one character at a time. But otherwise, it's completly usable.
Certainly worth the savings of not having a long-distance phone call.

--
      ______________________________________________________________
     /     John Crookshank         | Raptor3 DEC Alpha Workstations \
    |  MicroTech Solutions, Inc.   | Lightwave 3D, Toaster/Flyer     |
    | Desktop Video Systems Dealer | JVC Professional Video Products |
    | NewTek Systems Group Dealer  | PVR, Speed Razor, Amiga Dealer  |
    |------------------------------|---------------------------------|
    |     [e-mail]              http://www.mt-inc.com/       |
     \______________________________________________________________/



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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 10:18:28 -0800
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> >In a message dated Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21: [e-mail] writes:
>
> >E> it would be IDEAL for me to telnet to the NewTek bbs instead of paying
> >E> the long distance call from Dallas!
>



    Thanks to all for the TELNET info  (I easily got it up
and running)...however, is it always mega-slow...I mean it's so slow that
when I type I have to wait a couple of seconds to see what I punched
in?!?  Granted, it's no longer a long-distance call...but still!

-Lance <><
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: NEWTEK FTP ????  THIS BLOWS
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Carp3D wrote:
>
> Sorry to have to use such strong and loud type but this is getting out of
> hand. I haven't been able to get on to newteks FTP site for some time now.
>  How can such a successfull computer hardware and software selling company
> have such a flakey FTP site?  Any Comments?!?!?!  Anyone
> Anyone.......Voodo economics...
>
> Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
>  """""""""""""""""""""""""""""

I got on just the other day and DLed the rev. C patch. No probs.

TL

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I got the AVI saver to work porperly, but then I updated with the rev C
patch, and now I getActivation Failed: Code -2 errors every time I try
to save an AVI. Anybody have any clues?

TL

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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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From: [e-mail] (K)
Subject: Re: tesselation times & 3D Artist
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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:39:42 -0800, Manuel Coats <[e-mail]>
wrote:

|
| I understand that the two above named magazines sometimes deal with
| Lightwave.  Does anybody have an e-mail address to whowever handles them?
|
| Thanks.
|
| MC

HTTP://www.3dartist.com


     - Kinetic


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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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Te koop.

Lightwave 4.0 compleet met orginele CD en boeken.
Vraagprijs f 500,-.

E-mail:[e-mail]
Homepage:http://www.worldaccess.nl/~vidiform/


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From: [e-mail] (Emmanuel Olympia )
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does DPS have a newsgroup? if not, can you pls. give me their tech
support phone number.  I am having problems connecting my Par to the
Toaster. thanks

Emmanuel

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check out
http://www.3dartist.com



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From: [e-mail] (Jan-Willem Korver)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Live action PAR video into Lightwave ?
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In <4dgvkv$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (DJazz)
wrote:

>I'm mind boggled.  Could someone tell me how to dump live action PAR video
into
>Lightwave..

You'll have to enter the footage as an image sequence. Once you enter the
sequence into lightwave you can use it in textures and as a background image
sequence.

The PAR has a special feature which lets you access each individual frame of a
particular animation. This is different on the PAR and the PVR and may also differ
between Amiga and PC pars.

Basically, the idea is that lightwave needs all individual frames of an animation on
disk in order to use it as a sequence. The PAR's filesystem provides a feature to
trick LW into thinking the PAR anim is in fact a bunch of loose frames. On the
amiga this can be achieved by specifying a frame number after the file name when
specifying an image sequence (so frame 1 of 'MyFirstSony' would become
MyFirstSony.001) I found that when specifying an image sequence on the amiga
lightwave it was best to specify a few extra leading zeroes after the dot or the
image would not be loaded.

Once again, I have no experience with the PC version of the Par and the PVR
has a different (and more transparent) approach to this trick.

Good luck!

Any other suggestions more than welcome...

--
________________
Jan-Willem Korver
MarketGraph, Haarzuilens, The Netherlands
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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[e-mail] (Danilo Bucca) wrote:
>
>I'm looking for good settings for a seawater!!!
>Please help me!!
>
>Reply to: Danilo Bucca <[e-mail]>
>
>byebye
>                                                        Danilo Bucca

Greg Teegarden at Amblin did a very convincing ocean for Seaquest, it was
featured on the front of LWPro magazine, and on the inside cover of the
latest one, you might want to pick it up. He used a combination of
displacement mapping and the crumple procedural to acheive a nice effect.
Here's some of the other settings:

Surface color: 0,0,0
Diffuse: 0%
Reflectivity: 60%
Raytracing: on

Hope that's helpful

Andrew Weiler
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From: [e-mail] (David L. Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave
Date: 17 Jan 1996 20:18:50 GMT
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Michael Justin Austin ([e-mail]) wrote:
: On Jan 16, 1996 04:28:00 in article <Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave>,
: '[e-mail]' wrote:
:
: >
: >>  Integrate Layout and Modeler in one program.  You can then work directly
: >>  on your scene, and modifications to objects can be done without having to
: >>  save object, jump back to Modeler, reload the object, modify it, save it,
: >>  jump to Layout, replace object.
:
: I think the gui's are too crowded as they are,
:
: PLEASE NEWTEK don't integrate them!!
:
: besides it is a nice safety net and we must keep in mind that object
: creation (modelling)  is a fully separate task than anim'ting objects,


Really, that rule is completely arbitrary and doesn't buy you much.
The "safety net" thing is a pretty nice side-effect, but IMO it doesn't
nearly make up for the lost utility of not being able to quickly and
conveniently tweak models as you animate them.


David.
-----------------------------------------------------------
David L. Campbell     The Ego Wall:
[e-mail]          http://www.realtime.net/~dcampbel
========= Will make computer animations for food! =========

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From: [e-mail] (singh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: IRC LightWave Panel Discussions
Date: 17 Jan 1996 22:20:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Bob Lindabury) wrote:

> LIGHTWAVE IRC CHANNEL FOR INTERACTIVE LIGHTWAVE INFO!
>
> With the advent of the Internet and low-cost connections via online
> services such at Netcom and others providing SLIP/PPP, it is now
> possible to work interactively with other LightWave users from around
> the globe!  You can interact in REAL TIME with other people who share
> your interests.  You can help them and they can help you almost as if
> you were right there! How? By using IRC (Internet Relay Chat)!
>
> IRC allows one to join different channels (much like CB simulators on
> various BBS's or chat rooms on AOL or Prodigy) and to type in real
> time to other users from around the world in the channel.  There's no
> limit to the amount of people you can have in a channel.  With
> programs for the Amiga such as GrapeVine and AmIRC, mIRC and WSIrc for
> the IBM, IRCII for Unix machines and a SLIP or PPP connection to the
> Internet, you too can join in on these conversations!
>
> Several of us have created the LightWave IRC chat channel and there's
> always somebody there to help people and to just chat about LightWave
> and other various topics related to using LightWave. (Sometimes the
> conversations stray..but that's the fun of it!)
>
> Besides the talk about lightwave, IRC allows you to share files with
> others via something called DCC (Direct Client Connect).  While you're
> chatting with someone about why your model doesn't render correctly,
> you can send them a render of your scene as well as your model so they
> can look at them and tell you what you may have done wrong.
>
> NOTE: Routinely, updates and patches to LW have been released FIRST on IRC
> direct from Newtek!
>
> THE IRC MONTHLY PANEL DISCUSSIONS
>
> Myself and a select few individuals are attempting to start what we
> hope to be a monthly live interactive conference via IRC (Internet
> Relay Chat) pertaining to various aspects of LightWave featuring
> prominent figures in the animation/graphics world.
>
> We plan to gather an elite group of professional Lightwave animators
> as well as recruit professionals in the industry to serve as panelists.
> These panelists will answer your questions pertaining to various aspects
> of Lightwave. All questions will be routed through moderators which
> will pass them on to the panelists.  The guest panelists will then
> answer them in turn.
>
> HOW IT WORKS:
>
> We will have two IRC channels open called; #LWPanel and #Lightwave.
> (#lightwave is the normal discussion channel that is available to
> everyone all the time)
> The panelist will be in #LWPanel while the public will join both.
>
> #LWPanel will be moderated and will allow only the panelist to speak
> at random while the public will only be able to speak in turn as the
> moderator see's fit.
>
> #Lightwave will not be moderated and will allow the public to chat
> amongst themselves while awaiting their turn to address the panel.
>
> We feel that this will be a great learning experience for all and
> should be alot of fun. This is just another means of sharing
> information about LightWave via the Internet. We hope to have you
> aboard.
>
> WHERE WE ARE NOW
>
> We're currently in the process of setting up the first few months topics
> and trying to gather panelists and other professionals to participate in
> the panel discussions.  We are also gathering information from you so
> that we can make this forum as productive and easy to use as possible.
>
> Please answer the appropriate group of questions below (Panelists or
> Attendee) and submit the answer to either of the two addresses listed
> at the end of this message.  We are planning on starting the discussions
> in March, so please reply as soon as possible.
>
> Even if you don't currently have access to the Internet, we would like
> to get your feedback.  We are looking at ways to provide everyone that
> is interested with accounts that will allow them to IRC, so please
> respond.
>
>
> SOME QUESTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE PANELISTS
>
> If you are interested in becoming a panelist, please reply with the
> following information so that we can determine a date and time that
> best suits everyones schedule.
>
> 1) Generally, what day of the week would you be available for one to
> two hours starting at 10:00 PM EST?
>
> Note: We feel that this time would be the best compromise for the east
> and west coast people in the USA. We may change this based on
> responses to this questionair.
>
> 2) Please give one other day and time.
>
> 3) If there are any particluar dates that would be best for you
> between now and the end of March, please list.
>
> 4) Please list projects and or accomplishments. We will compile a
> list of these for each panelist which will be echoed to the public
> before the conference begins.
>
> 5) If you have ANY questions concerning IRC or this project, list
> them here.
>
> 6) Do you know of any other professional animators that might be
> interested in being a guest panelist?  If so, how can we contact them?
>
>
> SOME QUESTIONS FOR ATTENDEES
>
> So that we can best serve your needs, please answer the following
> questions in as much detail as possible.
>
> 1) Do you have access to the Internet now and if not, do you plan on
> obtaining access in the near future?
>
> 2) Would you be interested in attending such IRC discussions and do
> you feel this is a worth-while project?
>
> 3) What topics would you like to see covered in panel discussions on IRC?
>
> 4) What would be the best time for you to attend such discussions?
>
> 5) Do you need help in getting an Internet connection and an IRC
> program so that you can attend the monthly discussions?
>
> 6) Who would you like to see as guest panelists?
>
> We will be contacting all participants within the next few weeks with
> a confirmation of scheduling. Thanks for your time and hope to see ya
> soon on IRC!
>
>
> [e-mail] (Bob Lindabury)          IRC Nickname: TheRaven
> [e-mail] (Ronnie Norwood)          IRC Nickname: RonDude
>
>
> --
> -- Bob Lindabury
> The NEW Graphics BBS 908/469-0049 "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!"
> FidoNet : Bob Lindabury@1:107/320.0 -- PCGNet : Bob Lindabury@9:510/271.0
> Internet: [e-mail]

Actually I was one of the creators and I am generally banned.  The irc is
a chat line and nothing more; as a net surfer and lightwave artist I
recommend Lightwave users find real info sources and not let the irc suck
away their time with no real benefit.  The irc is a good way to kill time
if you are bored and lonely; nothing more.  I say this as someone who's
spent way too much of the last three years.  The lightwave channel is
pretty bad as irc channels go anyway, so there's even more reason not to
go there.

--

wavegirl

Support Amiga development, *BUY* amiga software!

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 16:32:43 PDT
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In article <4d25bb$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>     Hi all...
>
>     I need help with Lightwave, in either:
>
>     1 - Help for why Lightwave (Rev B) can no longer initialize
>        (can't find the dongle)   could it be a system or install
>         problem?

Need a bit more info.
I get the feeling that the first question is a cut and paste. The real
question, must be below...


>     2 - if no soultion is there, I need a crack.
>         (and don't you other other guys bother giving me
>         crap about it... I have a business to run, and I'm hard
>         down now....)

People sure are quick to get to the point of asking for the "crack"...
Why not try and fix the problem, or better yet, buy a copy of the software
from NewTek.

********* I work for nobody, but myself... *************
This is my two cents. Since I'm new to the group, it probably does not mean
much. Mark




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From: Archie Jones <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: can't save avi file
Date: 17 Jan 1996 22:02:48 GMT
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[e-mail] (Thies Uhl) wrote:
>I want to save an animation, but i can do everything nothing happened. i
>have lightwave 3d 4.0 intel on a win95 platform. Does anybody know the
>problem and can help me?
>
>-Thies-

Thies,

     I had the same problem.  There have been several posts concerning
replacing a particular file that is missing or overwritten.  I don't know
but I was able to get my AVI save to work by reinstalling Win95 (no
changes, just reinstall).  After the reinstall everything worked fine.

Hope it works,

Archie Jones


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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Object floating on water
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[e-mail] wrote:

>
>How can I do to have this object follow the exact wave of the water ??
>The only way I found is to move my object separate from the water ! Very
>long and boring ! Is there a way to do moving this object both with the
>water wave ??
>
>Thank you for your incoming answer !!!
>
>PG. Switzerland.

Welcome to the world of 3D animation. there might be other ways to
accomplish this, but the best would be to set individual key frames for the
object at the different levels. You may want to offset the motion afterward
in the graph mode to give it the "bobbing" look of something floating.
Skillful use of spline settings will also save you a little work. Have fun,

Andrew Weiler
http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html


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Subject: Re: Cracks, Pirates & Bullshitters
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|>One suggestion I saw which might be useful to legitimate users is
|>attached below.
|>
|>>If you're a legal, registered user, then here's a novel suggestion:
|>>upload your real name, address and the serial number of your copy of
|>>whatever (If you are a real user, then you shouldn't have a problem
|>>with this, should you?)
|>
|>>Otherwise, quit bullshitting us.
|>
|>Just a suggestion :-)
|>
|>
|>-------------------------------------------------------
|>| John Reddington    EMail [e-mail]   |
|>|                                                     |
|>-------------------------------------------------------
|>
|>
  John,
   I see your point but I for one would not post my serial # any more than
  my Charge card #. After all this is how NewTek tracks is's customers.
  I think anybody that will not post there real name and enet address
  should be given zero consideration. You want to know how to add a surface,
  it's on xxxx page of the manuel. A request for a fairly complex problem
  could be the type of question that is addressed as it may not have an answer
  in the manual. We need to look after our own list in a responsible manner
  and some basic guidelines could help. As for buying 4.0 without a manual
  maybe someone did but it sure was not a smart thng to do. I read this as
  someone with 4.0 rev x upgraded to rev xx and then sold rev x off.
  BTW this is not the way it should go. All revs are tied to the license
  agreement covering the software.

  -bill

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From: [e-mail] (Eric J Fleischer, MD)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: simple question from a newbie.
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:17:19 GMT
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>We have tried several pieces of trial software over the last 8 months and not
>all came with manuals. Several have included basic instuctions and some
>tutorials along with support services. If fact most of all the software we have
>purchased for our SGI system (except for Lightwave and AVID) did not come with
>paper manuals but use SGI's "Iris InSight Online Documentation and Help.


   Why is it that through all this everyone is suddenly talking about
SGI Lightwave? Mathew Davis said nothing about running on SGI, and if
you may have noticed, has not returned after over a week to object to
my comments. Sounds to me like Mr Davis has this "Lightwave Lite"
thing that is floating around, which still sounds to me like a pirate
version.

   So how about it, Mathew? Are you running an SGI, or did you get
your "trial version" from your favorite download site?


<ELF> - Dr Gandalf - Eric J Fleischer, MD
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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From: Brad Hayes <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: NEWTEK FTP ????  THIS BLOWS
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:52:24 -0500
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Carp3D wrote:
>
> Sorry to have to use such strong and loud type but this is getting out of
> hand. I haven't been able to get on to newteks FTP site for some time now.
>  How can such a successfull computer hardware and software selling company
> have such a flakey FTP site?  Any Comments?!?!?!  Anyone
> Anyone.......Voodo economics...
>
> Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
>  """""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Hey, let's face it They don't even have Voice Mail or a Tech Support
Phone Que. I mean come on... "Hey Guy's lets move up to the Eighties at
least"

Brad Hayes

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From: [e-mail] (CNelson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: MPEG HIIP?
Date: 18 Jan 1996 01:48:11 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>
>> There are very few inexpensive MPEG solutions for the PC.  I have used
>> a freeware program called CMEPG successfully.  It runs in DOS only and
>> can only create MPEGs of up to approximately 400x300 resulution.  I
>> made a couple of batch files that make it easier to use and it is
>> actually pretty quick at compiling the MPEG.  There are some 320x240
>> MPEGs on our Studio WWW page.  If they seem of satisfactory quality,
>> let me know and I will arrange to mail, link, or ftp the program to you.
>
>I agree with this. It is a freeware or shareware program, but it doesn't
>do sound, sadly. You can load and save MPEG files from Corel Photo-Paint
>version 6, but then you have to buy the entire darn Corel 6 suite
>(including versions of Add-Depth and Ray Dream which you might not want)
>as well. Again you can't do sound.

>THe hardware solutions seem to be the only way to go to get MPEG and
>sound. An HIIP MPEG plugin would be nice though. As would an MPEG saver
>for Adobe Premiere. Right, Adobe?

Thanks to all who replied on the mpeg issue. Unfortunately, I missed most of
the follow-up articles! Probably didnt miss much...

cmpeg unfortunately dosent support some of the mpeg output options required for
my specific decoder. Something to do with inter-frames or somesuch.... ImageFX
was the ideal performer, but I had to send the 'ole 4000 out the door to pay
for the pentium.... I'll miss her so....

Sincerely, CNelson


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From: Brad Hayes <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: ??Scanning Question??
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:57:50 -0500
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To: Farzad <[e-mail]>

Farzad wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I scanned in a 2d picture. Then I wanted to load it in the LW. i knew it
> wouldn't work, but I gave it try...it didn't work!
>
> Do you know how can I load a 2D picture in the LW and then play around
> with it in Modeler?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Farzad
> [e-mail]
> http://www.geopages.com/SiliconValley/1323

Farzad:

You didn't say what platform your working on. If you are working on
the amiga there is a program called PixlePro That will take an IFF
image and auto trace it into a 3D object. It can also save and load
a whole bunch of formats.

If you are working on a PC there is a new program (I think from the
same guys) called PollyForm. I have not used it but have heard good
things.

Brad Hayes

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:54:00 -0700
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 16:32:43 PDT




>Need a bit more info.
>I get the feeling that the first question is a cut and paste. The real
>question, must be below...


>>       2 - if no soultion is there, I need a crack.
>>           (and don't you other other guys bother giving me
>>           crap about it... I have a business to run, and I'm hard
>>           down now....)

>People sure are quick to get to the point of asking for the "crack"...
>Why not try and fix the problem, or better yet, buy a copy of the software
>from NewTek.

And I thought I wouldn't post on this thread again.  For what it is worth, I
can independantly verify that months ago (for those of you who are interested)
Michael Powell did post questions here asking why he couldn't read long file
names off of his Rev. B CD.  I'm pretty certain he is a registered licensee.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Mojo sure didn't stick around very long ...
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In article <4dgfpm$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Foust) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
>Subject: Re: Mojo sure didn't stick around very long ...
>Date: 16 Jan 1996 15:21:26 GMT

>In article <4dcter$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>>
>>2). Look, as near as I can tell, this newsgroup serves no useful
>>    purpose whatsoever. It exists solely to a). serve as a forum
>>    for third-party vendors to promote their products

>Did someone say promotion?  Did I mention that we're offering
>a $100 credit for anyone who'd like to purchase InterChange
>for Windows, if you send in the front page of your InterChange
>for Amiga manual?  :-)

>- John

What kind of credit will you give me if I send in my Pixel Pro disks AND
manual?  :^)





Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
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In article <4dh3vf$[e-mail]> Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
>Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:05:51 GMT

>Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
>>won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
>>Marco
>>[e-mail]
>>Thanks in advance

>Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Fractal Painter, and maybe Picture
>Publisher. I was a hard-core Amiga user a couple years back,
>but nothing on the Amiga ever compared to Photoshop. Check it
>out sometime.

>Andrew Weiler
>http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html

I actually had as much fun compositing with Photoshop as I usually do while
working in LightWave.  The more I use Photoshop, the more I like it.  It is an
excellent tool for LightWave.

A few months I used its spherize filter and lighting effects to dummy up a
"golf ball" in LightWave.  The ball was actually a disc with this dummied
Photoshop image mapped to it.  I used the lighting effects filter in Photoshop
to match the lighting of the LW scene.  For this particular purpose, Photoshop
saved me a lot of time.  Modeling a golf ball is harder than I thought.



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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <4djlja$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David L. Campbell) writes:
>: >
>: >>  Integrate Layout and Modeler in one program.  You can then work directly
>: >>  on your scene, and modifications to objects can be done without having to
>: >>  save object, jump back to Modeler, reload the object, modify it, save it,
>: >>  jump to Layout, replace object.
>:
>: I think the gui's are too crowded as they are,
>:
>: PLEASE NEWTEK don't integrate them!!
>:
>: besides it is a nice safety net and we must keep in mind that object
>: creation (modelling)  is a fully separate task than anim'ting objects,


>Really, that rule is completely arbitrary and doesn't buy you much.
>The "safety net" thing is a pretty nice side-effect, but IMO it doesn't
>nearly make up for the lost utility of not being able to quickly and
>conveniently tweak models as you animate them.

>David.
>-----------------------------------------------------------

I don't find it that time consuming to ALT-TAB to Modeler. Open the object
file.  Make and save my changes.  ALT-TAB back to Layout and do an object
replace (the object name will default to the object you have selected, so this
goes fairly quickly).

I think some import/export link ala the Amiga would be slick, but I don't
consider tha above too cumbersome.  However if you do a lot of tweeking of
objects, I suppose it could get old.

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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
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In article <4dhcol$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>Metatools (the Kai company) - great marketing, very cool company, KICK-ASS
>demo crew.

Wow, Lee, you didn't tell me you were trying to get a job as a
trade-show demonstrator for MetaTools!  :-)

- John


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <4djha1$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ron K) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Ron K)
>Subject: memory usage for LW4.0 on PC?
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:44:07 GMT

>I had LW on AMIGA and loved it, and a friend got recent 4.0 for his
>Pentium.  He is having problems with lack of ram.... but he has 16
>megs!    Is this low for LW?   After he loads in a sample scene there
>isn't enough ram to do much more then a 5 frame preview...
>it appears from the info that software gives that its only using the
>640k conventional ram????    it doesn't mention his EMS or extra
>ram...    also he did manage to get it to actually render without a
>out of ram error (one small object) but it only rendered in a small
>winow in what looked like less then 256 colors (he's running in a
>ultra hi res display in 64 thousand colors?  doesn't it render to full
>screen like my amiga version did?   We're both really confused.

All that you describe sounds like you have the pre-release copy.  What do your
manuals look like?





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From: [e-mail] (robert hood)
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Daniel Rodriguez ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Where in Internet i can see all or almost all plug-ins available for
> LW4.0? Thanks.

  ftp.netcom.com:/pub/bh/bhood/plugins

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Thank you for littering the newsgroups with your sales spam.

I'm sure whatever you're selling deserved to be posted to every comp.
newsgroup because your product will revolutionize the computer industry,
so you just shot your internet wad out of benevolance, right?  Because
your product, above all others, will make the world a great place,
warrenting the repetition of the posting to 20+ newsgroups?

In the future, practice a little discretion in posting please.

Just say no to SPAM.
--Brian
Equinox Images, Inc.
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From: [e-mail] (Keith Dickinson)
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[e-mail] (Carp3D) wrote:

>Sorry to have to use such strong and loud type but this is getting out of
>hand. I haven't been able to get on to newteks FTP site for some time now.
> How can such a successfull computer hardware and software selling company
>have such a flakey FTP site?  Any Comments?!?!?!  Anyone
>Anyone.......Voodo economics...

Sorry guys...

I'll check the server when I drop by the office tomorrow.

Mea Culpa!

L8r G8r
 Keith



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From: [e-mail] (Keith Dickinson)
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[e-mail] (Ron K) wrote:

>I had LW on AMIGA and loved it, and a friend got recent 4.0 for his
>Pentium.  He is having problems with lack of ram.... but he has 16
>megs!    Is this low for LW?   After he loads in a sample scene there
>isn't enough ram to do much more then a 5 frame preview...
>it appears from the info that software gives that its only using the
>640k conventional ram????    it doesn't mention his EMS or extra
>ram...    also he did manage to get it to actually render without a
>out of ram error (one small object) but it only rendered in a small
>winow in what looked like less then 256 colors (he's running in a
>ultra hi res display in 64 thousand colors?  doesn't it render to full
>screen like my amiga version did?   We're both really confused.

I have 48M of ram running Win95 on my machine.  When I load LW, the
scene pannel says that I have 9M of REAL RAM left in the load.... I
don't know if this is _realistic_.  I can go into the camera pannel
and set the segment size to ~12M and render a scene w/o swapping out,
so I think Win95 probably padds the disk buffers till you use some
serious ram.  I will say that 16 is the ABSOLUTE minimum I'd try
rendering with, though 24 or 32 is a much better option if you can
afford it!

I can't wait till I swap my 2 8M SIMMs for 2 32M simms.... 96M ram to
render with?? Wonder if LW can handle a 64M segment.... (grin).

L8r G8r
 Keith







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From: [e-mail] (Fusion Films)
Subject: Re: Lightwave flying duck?
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:   A guy walks into his apartment and sees a duck flying around.
: Like most people, I don't have access to ducks, so I'm going
: to use Lightwave to generate it and then composite it with
: my live footage.

:   Anyone have any suggestions on how to make the duck look and
: move as real as possible?  Perhaps I can find a duck object
: somewhere?


Semi commercial plug here!

It sounds like you may be new to LW and or compositing - I would not
recommend trying such a complicated animation on top of trying this
composite.  My partner, Mark Thompson, has a video tape out that has an
excellent section on compositing and it comes with a CD-ROM that has the
scene file on it so that you can learn from his example scene.

You can get more information from our web site in the In.Focus section.

The URL is - http://www.ids.net/gamut/fusion1.html


Sorry for the commercial post, but I really do think that Mark's section
on compositing is pretty darn good ;-)

Paul
--
     *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
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     *     Fusion Films, Inc.                 [e-mail]   *
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From: [e-mail] (VirtualBri)
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http://www.teleport.com/~memex on the Web is amassing an index of
LightWave Plug-ins.

http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/
http://members.aol.com/equinoxii/

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From: [e-mail] (VirtualBri)
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>Is the December or January LW Pro out yet? The latest one I have is the
>November issue (Modeler Mysteries on the cover). If Dec/Jan are out yet,
>what's on the cover. Maybe I've just misplaced and forgotten it.

December is out.  No January yet.  I tend to get my issues right at the
end of the month, so that's when I'll be expecting January's issue.
--Brian
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Much as I can slam them for some things, I've never had a problem getting
onto the FTP site, up to and including last weekend.  I'd check your
program, and your service provider.
--Brian
http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/
http://members.aol.com/equinoxii/

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Daniel Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Where in Internet i can see all or almost all plug-ins available for
> LW4.0? Thanks.

 We recently put up the LightWave Plug-In Page.  It's address
is:

  http://www.teleport.com/~memex/lwpipage.htm

 This page is an attempt to have a comprehensive listing of
Plug-Ins for LightWave for the user.  The list is slim at the
moment (but growing).

  Kreg Branden
  -  Meme-X  -

  http://www.teleport.com/~memex

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From: [e-mail] (Carp3D)
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Amazing!!  I'll cross my fingers.  Thanks

Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
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Has anyone come across this problem.

I go and run the setup for lightwave, get 82 percent done and then I get a
"can't find MSVCRT20.dll.  File must be in use by another app."  What does
this file do?  And why won't it let me install lightwave?  I have
installed lightwave on 3 other PC's running Win95 and they went without
any problems. My computer is a Micron p133 w/32 megs running Win95.    Any
suggestions?
Your help is much appreciated....

Thanks

Carp3D  Editor/Animator...
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
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Walter (Jay) Turberville ([e-mail]) wrote:

: And I thought I wouldn't post on this thread again.  For what it is worth, I
: can independantly verify that months ago (for those of you who are interested)
: Michael Powell did post questions here asking why he couldn't read long file
: names off of his Rev. B CD.  I'm pretty certain he is a registered licensee.


    Me either.... (sigh)

    Not only am I licensed, but my DONGLE IS BACK!

    Came today, overnight Airborn Express, and in working
    condition once again!

    This is a great response from NewTek.... a 24 hour turn-
    around once they got it.

    They included no note of any kind that would indicate what they
    actually did, or what they suspected caused the failure.

    I have also applied the Rev C. patches and everything is
    running smoothly under that revision.  Although for some reason
    the HIIP loader and saver refused to extract from the zip archive
    over the existing files.  Strange.

    I extracted them elsewhere, and then manually moved
    them into their correct directories.


    Anyway, this crisis is officially over!

    -mp-

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Does anyone know if the Patchs for upgrading to Rev C are downloadable from
any WebSite.  I tried and tried to ftp to ftp.newtek.com, no luck.  I know
that there is a webpage for LightWave by NewTek, I can access that page any
time.  So what's the deal.  I've even connected by telnet, didn't take the
common backdoor Login: Anonymous or Guest.

Sans, :-(

dAVE


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From: [e-mail] (Leuey)
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Subject: probs with migration to NT
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Just upgraded from wfw 3.11 to win NT 3.51.  Everything went relatively
ok, except I can't seem to get LW to work.  I reinstalled LW from my cd
(rev. b), selecting the Windows NT box, and LW and Contect.  I also ran
the sentinal program to install the sentinal drivers.  However, when I
double click on LW or Modeler I get this "msvcrt20.dll only intended for
Win32's....initialization of the dynamic link library
failed..blah..blah..blah...application terminated....blah...blah." What's
this all about?  I tried reinstalling from the cd twice, and still the
same thing.  Why does it think I'm trying to run LW with Win32's when I
installed the WinNT version?  ANY help would be appreciated.  Please no
RTFM replies, because the FM is real F thin on this issue.

thanx,
greg

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Subject: Re: have a problem connecting Par to the Toaster.help!
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[e-mail] (Emmanuel Olympia ) wrote:

>Hello, I just recently bought a PAR and I read the manual and looked at
>how I should connect the PAR to the toaster and when I do, I get
>garbage.  I connect the composite(from the PAR) to the input 1 on the
>toaster card and then I have a cable coming out of the program output
>to the vcr.  I am doing something wrong.  Pls. help. thanks

All I know is, when I did what you did,I ran the output through my TBC
in-and I come out into number 2,and it works fine.
If there is another way i would like to know.
Also,I have to use a joystick to trigger the darn thing. I hooked up a
GPI from my edit-controller,and it doesn't work. Oh well,i am still
doing research,so If I find out something worthwhile,I'll post it

Cul8R

Wayne

Toaster Powered
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Smith)
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Subject: Re: rev C bug with AVI save
Date: 18 Jan 1996 09:36:37 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, TL Westgate <[e-mail]> writes:
>I got the AVI saver to work porperly, but then I updated with the rev C
>patch, and now I getActivation Failed: Code -2 errors every time I try
>to save an AVI. Anybody have any clues?
>
>TL

Sounds like your lw.cfg file. Textedit it (without LW running) and check it's OK..
it's obviously haveing difficulty loading the saver.

Stu


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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Smith)
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Subject: Re: Anim to Video
Date: 18 Jan 1996 09:48:17 GMT
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In article <4di754$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin) writes:
>Major snipsy
>>Please don't laugh at this question <G>...has anyone tried using a PC
>>to Video encoder?  They cost less than $500.  They're not as pro as
>>the PAR but it's a start, isn't it?
>>
>>Chris
>A video encoder won't play back animation -just a single frame!
>
>you still need a way to move 60 flds per sec of an animation file
>at atleast 640 x 480 lines every 2 fields or 30 fps.??
>
>You would still need a single frame recorder or some such.
>
>atleast an mpeg card but those are pretty crappy for video.
>

I may have got the wrong end of the stick... but I think what Chris is talking about
a card that either plays back AVI's out to VHS/ S-VHS (plently around at the sub.
200 pounds mark), or better still something like the Miro DC1+ at 300 pounds over
here (incl. lots of software). The Miro is an MJPEG card. This means it can
capture and compress (in real time) 30 frames /sec of 320x240 into mjpegs. And play
back (in real time) 320x240 (interpolated to 640x480) frames at up to 60 frames per
second out to VHS/S-VHS.

This would be adequate for rough VHS quality output.

They do a DC20 (?) card which does 640x480 capture playback at 60 fps (MJPEG) which is
about 700 pounds... still pretty good value. I know it ain't a PAR, but it'll work
with your harddrive, a decent sized anim of 30 secs is only gonna be ....
say.. 30Kx60x30=54MB. Which is pretty decent.

Stu

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From: Jay Lloyd Neal <[e-mail]>
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[e-mail] (Brian Ross) wrote:

>Amazing.  Haven't they heard of technical writers and
>software documentation specialists?

Well, unfortunately the problem isn't really on how to use the software,
that in itself is well documented enough. Let me use an analogy....

Say you buy an oscilloscope, a circuit tester, and other various
electrical tech tools. After reading the docs, you are completely
familiar with the tools, but without some understanding of circuit
logic, it is unlikely that you will be repairing stereo tuners, eh?

While Hash tools can be learned easily enough from the docs, modeling
advanced intricate cartoon or photoreal figures is not something you
learn on your own in a couple of weeks.  If you look on the Hash CD,
there are examples of eyelid mechanics construction, mouth pockets,
hands, etc.. All very complex subjects, but right there to visually
pull apart and learn from.

It takes me sometimes weeks to sketch, plan, and execute a complex
humanoid model... To describe the thinking processes involved, the whys,
and the how to's might take an entire textbook if it were general
enough to cover more than one specific pro-level figure.

If PIXAR published a "how we construct a Toy Story figure for theatrical
animation" text it would be directly applicable to all Hash users. Why?
Because designing animatable figures with good IK, eyesockets, detailed
hands, etc. takes practice and experience. Like anything, it is easier
if you have an experienced user sitting nearby to help out while first
learning.

Is there a text out there on 4-point spline modeling figures in
Softimage3D?  Or did ILM break completely new ground in "The Mask"?
Seriously, any texts on style and technique for 4-point patch modeling
will help newbie Hashters.

Most doc complaints haven't been on how features work, but rather what
to do with those features. The greater freedoms of Hash's patch modeling
also requires the user to make more design decisions and select from
many more choices.

cheers, Jay

-- Jay Lloyd Neal,  [e-mail]
http://soilmicro-lab.biol.vt.edu/jln.html
"...a computer is just a stupid pencil with lots of
colors. The artist makes the difference." -Steve Williams



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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Cocke)
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>What might work is to creat a null-object, give it the same
>displacement map given to the water object, then parent the floating
>object to the null object. Haven't actually tried this but it should
>work.

>Dave Paige

The null object will just sit there. I tried just taking one of the polygons
of the water object and doing the same thing but it seems that when you parent
an object to another object it will not follow the object as it is displaced.
Try this. After you finish with all your displacement settings and you know
where your can or boat is going to be placed, mark these polygons of your
water object, take it into modeler and copy and save these polys as a new
object. Load it back into layout and put the same displacement settings to it
as your water. Then use it as a reference as to the placement of your can
object at the apropriate frame at the same time creating a keyframe for your
can object for say frame 1,5,10,15, for as long as you need. This will make it
easier to see where to place your object.

Hope this makes sense.


Frank D. Cocke
E-mail: [e-mail]
Check out my Home Page
URL - http://www2.netdoor.com/~frank
"The Lightray Factory" 3D animation and graphics

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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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Subject: Re: Up the Contrast? (Gamma?)
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On 13-Jan-96 18:11:00, Walter (Jay) Turberville  ([e-mail]) posted:

> Our  Amiga PAR didn't come with any SMPTE bars.  Does anybody know if
> there is a  SMPTE file for the PAR?  If so, you can load and display
> them to determine if  the problem is in the hardware (PAR and "TV"), or
> in the rendered images.

Sure it did - look at the program "TSG". It's a "Test Signal Generator",
and will selectively generate a bunch of test pattern stills, SMPTE
included. You can then just call them up, and use the output to calibrate
monitors, genlock timing, etc. If you have their WFM/VSC card, the same
program came with that, too.

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From: [e-mail] (Kip Pesuti)
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>>E> it would be IDEAL for me to telnet to the NewTek bbs instead of paying
>>E> the long distance call from Dallas!

>Agreed. So once you have telnet working (I use it all the time) how
>would one connect to the NEWTEK BBS through it?

>I have an account on the BBS (or did once) but haven't accessed it for
>a long time because of long distance charges.

>Sean Huxter
>[e-mail]
>http://www.cabot.nf.ca/~sean


I believe the telnet address is:   bbs.newtek.com.

 God bless you!
(and your Amiga) Or Whatever you use :)
-Kip



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From: Archie Jones <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
Date: 18 Jan 1996 12:41:40 GMT
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Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:
>What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
>won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
>Marco
>[e-mail]
>Thanks in advance


I use Picture Publisher for my texture maps.  I've used Photoshop as well but
I think Picture Publisher edges it out.  Also, with Picture Publisher, you can
use Photoshop plug-ins like KPT and such.  You can pick it up for less than
150.

Archie


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From: [e-mail] (christian wuerdemann)
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I got 1 Amiga4000 and 1 DecAlpha/WinNT (Raptor).
What i'm trying to do , is set up the Screamernet.
On the Amiga i got LW3.5 and on the Raptor LW4.0.
I don't have experiences with SN.
Does anyone know where I can get a manual or can
anyone explain me how I'm able to set up SN.
(is SNII avaible on the Amiga ??)
                                 -christian wuerdemann


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From: [e-mail] (DIWT)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: NEWTEK FTP ????  THIS BLOWS
Date: 18 Jan 1996 09:16:06 -0500
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 There is also a Newtek presence on AOL that has the files as well.
 If you have AOL you can use keyword "newtek" to get there.

Ed

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I don't every have a problem getting on to their FTP site....every time
I've ever tried it's been up...the only problem I've had FTPing from
somewhere is my server (those people at the bottom of my post) corrupts
some files and locks up my newsgroup reading.


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From: [e-mail] (Stephen Lucas)
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Hi, I'm new to this group so excuse this if it is an obvious question.

Is the Lightwave Plug In developer information freely available? I've got some ideas for plug ins and would like to have a go a implementing them myself.

ftp.newtek.com isn't working for me ATM, so ignore this if all the relevant information is there.

Cheers

Steve


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From: vidjunk%cs.wmich.edu (jim)
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Subject: Lightwave 4.0 is a pig
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Just recieved my LW 4.0 fromNT today.  I did a render comparison on a
scene I am working on.  Before installin g the 4.0, I rendered a frame
and it took 780 seconds.  I installed the 4.0 and the same frame in the
scene took 1792 seconds!!!!!!!!!!  2.3 times slower!!!!

Am I doing something wrong?

Now, how in the world can software be considered as an improvement with
all these great new features I would love to use like the limited regeon
bones and IK when the finished rendering willl be more than twice as
long??  The newer version would be rendering faster, donchathink??

Joe Freeman the Video Junky
A2000/g-force040/24megs

Back to 3.5 so I can get some work done.  I won't consider rendering with
such a pig untill I have an alpha.  What a waste of effort.

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From: [e-mail] (Richard Griffiths)
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Subject: Re: ***KEYBOARD RECORDERS***********************************************
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In message <4djlpq$[e-mail]>
        [e-mail] (HECTOR DAVILA ) writes:

> SUBJECT:***KEYBOARD RECORDERS********


> You will receive 18 different programs on a 3 1/2 disk.
> You'll get:KEYCOPY,KEYFAKE,KEYREAD,KEYTRAP,KEYREC,KEYLOGWN(Windows),
>            HACKKEY,BAGKEYS,GETIT,PLAYBACK,ROBOKEY,RECORD,ENCORE,
>            KCAP10,PTM229N,QWERTMAN,GKG,DEPL.

> Just send $9.95 plus $1.00 for shipping and handling to:
>
>                   HLD PLUBLISHING COMPANY
>                   1680 N. VINE ST. #1103
>                   LOS ANGELES, CA. 90028

You fool - what gives you the right to sell other peoples programs.
Just tell me how many of those grabbers you actualy wrote your self!!

--

                                          -Richard Griffiths
                                           [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Sterno Boy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Update: Lightwave Pro Book
Date: 18 Jan 1996 13:20:07 -0700
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FYI:

I just talk to the people who advertised the LightWave Pro Book (over
100 tutorials + CD from past LightWave Pro issues.)

For anyone who ordered it NO they did not just take your money. There
is some pre-press problems and shipping has been pushed back to March.

Anyone interested in this can call

LWPro FAX [phone]
Phone [phone]

The book is 39.95 with a few bucks for shipping. Anyone not familar
with LightWave Pro, chek this out. It is a great magazine with easy to
follow tutorials. Impress your friends, Impress your family, get the
book!


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From: [e-mail] (Mats-Ola Ström)
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Subject: Rev C upgrade... where?
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I would like to upgrade to LW4.0 iNTEL Rev C, but i can't seem to find the upgrade
anywhere. I was told that it was to be found on the NewTek FTP site, but i can't
seem to connect. And when i do, Netscape can't find the /incoming dir.
Please help, or send me the upgrade attached.

Thanks / Mats-Ola Ström

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From: [e-mail] (PavDg)
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Subject: Re: Live action PAR video into Lightwave ?
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When using an Amiga Par for image sequences, you have to enter the name of
the sequence as such: if the sequence is called Livevideo on the par then
in Lightwave enter it as Livevideo. with a period at the end.

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I am looking for an ftp site which is the same kind as Tomahawk (as this
one doesn't exist anymore).

If you have some adress. You welcome.

PG. Switzerland.

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I am looking for an ftp site which is the same kind as Tomahawk (as this
one doesn't exist anymore).

If you have some adress. You welcome.

PG. Switzerland.

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I am looking for an ftp site which is the same kind as Tomahawk (as this
one doesn't exist anymore).

If you have some adress. You welcome.

PG. Switzerland.

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From: [e-mail] (Taka Torimoto)
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Subject: How to import AutoCAD file into Lightwave??
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Can someone tell me how I can import an AutoCAD file into Lightwave?
What do I have to do?  Any help would be appreciated...

-Taka

--
Taka "Dr.Love" Torimoto             Electrical Engineering Senior (Class of 96)
340154 Georgia Tech Station         Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA  30332-1465             http://www.gatech.edu/taka
E-mail: [e-mail]    ********** This space for rent! **********

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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
Subject: Re: LightWave Plug In development
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+-- [e-mail] (Stephen Lucas) writes:
| Is the Lightwave Plug In developer information freely available? I've
| got some ideas for plug ins and would like to have a go a implementing
| them myself.

Free and freely distributable.  The main site is ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/
lw/lwsdk, but other faster sites are available.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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From: Chris Dansie <[e-mail]>
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Subject: High-end 3D animation business for sale
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That's right, the high-end 3D animation and graphics portion of our company is
for sale. Great clients, great demo reel, SGI and Alias.

Serious inquiries...reply to [e-mail] for the details. Thanks. Hope it
is OK to post here...I apologize if it's not.

--
Chris

---------------------------------------------
Chris Dansie
Digital Options Inc.    email: [e-mail]
Salt Lake City, Utah
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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Live action PAR video into Lightwave ?
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[e-mail] (DJazz) wrote:
>I'm mind boggled.  Could someone tell me how to dump live action PAR video into
>Lightwave..
>
>thx in advance
>

Taken that you've captured you footage into the PAR already,
export that as a series of IFF images, load that sequence into
LW, voila! (PS, you need a lot of HD space for these sort of
operations)

Andrew Weiler
http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html


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From: [e-mail] (Randy Penn)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Shader Plug-in?
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Unless my eyes deceived me, I read that there was a shader plug-in on
Newtek's FTP site.   I have been unable to locate this file and was
hoping someone could help me.

Thanks,
Randy


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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Date: 18 Jan 1996 18:57:03 -0700
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Fusion Films) writes:

>Sorry for the commercial post, but I really do think that Mark's section
>on compositing is pretty darn good ;-)

>Paul
>--
>     *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
>     *       Paul Griswold                      [phone]     *

We did a demo of a duck for a local customer.  It is harder than might be
supposed.  Especially if the client wants the wings seemlessly integrated to
the body.

Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: [e-mail](Timothy Wilcox )
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In <4dbr04$[e-mail]> John Moores <[e-mail]>
writes:
>
>I am running LW 4.0 on a PC under Win95.  I am trying to do
>some interesting scenes using video sequences for the
>background.  So far, the only way I can do this is to load my
>avi file in Premiere, convert it to a filmstrip, and then cut
>each frame and save and rename it (plus numbered file
>extension) in Photoshop.  As you can imagine this takes
>forever.  Is there an easier way to achieve this?  Is there a
>plug-in to load avi files as BG image sequences?
>
>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
If you go into the "make movie" option.... you will find that premiere
will take a filmstrip or avi and output a sequence of tgas or tiffs at
the resolution that you specify......

good luck.

Tim Wilcox

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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Sorrels)
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John Moores <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I am running LW 4.0 on a PC under Win95.  I am trying to do
>some interesting scenes using video sequences for the
>background.  So far, the only way I can do this is to load my
>avi file in Premiere, convert it to a filmstrip, and then cut
>each frame and save and rename it (plus numbered file
>extension) in Photoshop.  As you can imagine this takes
>forever.  Is there an easier way to achieve this?  Is there a
>plug-in to load avi files as BG image sequences?
>
>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

Why didn't you use use Premiere to save it as a targa sequence and then
just load this into Lightwave.  It works for me.  In Premiere say make
movie and for output pick targa sequence and give the path and base
name.  Then in lightwave load them in that way you don't have to do the
filmstrip and Photoshop trick.  Its not as good as directly loading them
as a sequence but its not that bad.


Matthew Sorrels   [e-mail], [e-mail]
Pontari Productions  (http://www.pontari.com/pontari)



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John Moores <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I am running LW 4.0 on a PC under Win95.  I am trying to do
>some interesting scenes using video sequences for the
>background.  So far, the only way I can do this is to load my
>avi file in Premiere, convert it to a filmstrip, and then cut
>each frame and save and rename it (plus numbered file
>extension) in Photoshop.  As you can imagine this takes
>forever.  Is there an easier way to achieve this?  Is there a
>plug-in to load avi files as BG image sequences?
>
>Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

Why didn't you use use Premiere to save it as a targa sequence and then
just load this into Lightwave.  It works for me.  In Premiere say make
movie and for output pick targa sequence and give the path and base
name.  Then in lightwave load them in that way you don't have to do the
filmstrip and Photoshop trick.  Its not as good as directly loading them
as a sequence but its not that bad.


Matthew Sorrels   [e-mail], [e-mail]
Pontari Productions  (http://www.pontari.com/pontari)



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From: John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
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John Reddington <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Can I make a suggestion. If anyone feels a post has come from a pirate
>(rightly or wrongly) can they just please ignore it and prevent the
>long tedious arguments over the wrong doing of pirates. No one ever
>says anything for or against that we haven't all heard before. Please
>just don't take the bait and ignore them, they'll soon get the message
>and it will save bandwidth.
>
>Just a suggestion :-)

But an incredibly sensible suggestion :-)

John.



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From: [e-mail] (Michael Graveen)
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In article <4dm4u7$[e-mail]>, vidjunk%cs.wmich.edu (jim) says:
>
>Just recieved my LW 4.0 fromNT today.  I did a render comparison on a
>scene I am working on.  Before installin g the 4.0, I rendered a frame
>and it took 780 seconds.  I installed the 4.0 and the same frame in the
>scene took 1792 seconds!!!!!!!!!!  2.3 times slower!!!!
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>Now, how in the world can software be considered as an improvement with
>all these great new features I would love to use like the limited regeon
>bones and IK when the finished rendering willl be more than twice as
>long??  The newer version would be rendering faster, donchathink??
>
>Joe Freeman the Video Junky
>A2000/g-force040/24megs
>
>Back to 3.5 so I can get some work done.  I won't consider rendering with
>such a pig untill I have an alpha.  What a waste of effort.

    You didn't mention what kind of machine you were running 4.0 on.

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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave flying duck?
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>:   A guy walks into his apartment and sees a duck flying around.
>: Like most people, I don't have access to ducks, so I'm going

Did you know that the in-house icon for 3D Studio Max is a
duck wearing a Superman-like cape?


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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Krispow)
Subject: Amiga LW 4.0 Is Shipping!!!
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Just thought you'd all want to know...

I ACTUALLY received my Amiga LightWave 4.0 package in the mail yesterday.
Comes with a CD-ROM (for installation & extras), aa 25-page "Systems
Guide and Installation" book, and hefty well-written "Users Guide" and
"Referrence Manual." (The Amiga version also comes with a short guide on
using Pennello Lite, which seems a bit lame since you CAN'T RUN IT on the
Amiga...).

Anyways, gang, it out, I installed it, and it seems to work pretty well
thus far.

Enjoy...
Jeff
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                                             [e-mail]

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From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
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To: Jeff Yeh <[e-mail]>

Jeff Yeh wrote:
>
>   Here's what I need in a scene (shot with 8mm camcorder):
>
>   A guy walks into his apartment and sees a duck flying around.
> Like most people, I don't have access to ducks, so I'm going
> to use Lightwave to generate it and then composite it with
> my live footage.
>
>   Anyone have any suggestions on how to make the duck look and
> move as real as possible?  Perhaps I can find a duck object
> somewhere?
>
> --
> "The truth is out there..."
>                 - THE X-FILES
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> Internet: [e-mail]


One of the Muybridge collections is of animals in motion. Might find a
flying duck in there. I've only got his human figure in motion book.
-Ace
     -------------------------------------------------------------
    Ace Miles * Senior Animator * Time Warner Interactive

       [e-mail] (work)  or   [e-mail] (home)

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From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave
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Michael Justin Austin wrote:
>
> On Jan 16, 1996 04:28:00 in article <Re: Proposed changes to Lightwave>,
> '[e-mail]' wrote:
>
> >
> >>  Integrate Layout and Modeler in one program.  You can then work
> directly
> >>  on your scene, and modifications to objects can be done without having
> to:
> >>  save object, jump back to Modeler, reload the object, modify it, save
> it,
> >>  jump to Layout, replace object.
> >
> I think the gui's are too crowded as they are,
>
> PLEASE NEWTEK don't integrate them!!
>
> besides it is a nice safety net and we must keep in mind that object
> creation (modelling)  is a fully separate task than anim'ting objects,
>
> The brilliance behind layout is that it is a studio shoot situation,
> and myself, coming from a cinematography and lighting background
> I find it particularly helpful.
>
> (with the new nt shell ala '95 its just a click of a button to switch from
> one to the other.)
>
> my 2 cents


Yes but it would be nice to be able to do surfacing while your modeling.
Or to be able to animate the modeling process like you can in Soft
Image.
-Ace
     -------------------------------------------------------------
    Ace Miles * Senior Animator * Time Warner Interactive

       [e-mail] (work)  or   [e-mail] (home)

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From: [e-mail] (Suraj Gulrajani)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Help:  Need Toaster font!!
Date: 19 Jan 1996 22:53:03 +0700
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Please help!  I accidently formatted my HD yesterday only to discover my Toaster disks (3.1) was corrupted and I can't install it.  I then called the NewTek BBS to download the 4.07 archive only to find that it does not include all the system files.  I ca

My Toaster is S/N 5677643 (No, I am not a pirate in love with Toaster's system fonts!! :) and waiting for a replacement disk to Thailand would probably take 2-3 months (if ever!!  It took them a year to come up with LightWave 4.0 for Amiga!!) so PLEASE?

Thanks a million!


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From: Christopher S Carpentier <[e-mail]>
Subject: Illegal operation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:18:26 -0500
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Has anyone gotten a repeat of the message "This program has created an
illegal operation and must be shut down! Contact Vendor"  This happens
to me on a spoaratic basis.  Is this Lightwave or Win95 and my system (a
p133 w/32mg and stuff) or am I just having a bad dream....?


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Roger,

We don't do demo versions.  Instead,  we offer a 30 day money back
guarantee.

Jeff, Hash, inc.

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From: [e-mail] (Jason Linhart)
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[e-mail] (Michael Powell) wrote:



>    To all concerned:

>    I'm writing this message to hopefully close this sad affair and
>    restore harmony, such as it is and such as it might last, to
>    this group.

>    I have proposed a truce with Jay, and as part of that truce
>    I have offered to take back the venting (read: fire and brimstone
>    flames) that I directed at NewTek in my original post.

>    The flames I directed at NewTek were unreasonably harsh and
>    uncalled for.    For this I apologize to NewTek, especially
>    those responsible for the legitimate practice of dongling
>    Lightwave, and also to any readership here that might have
>    taken offense to said flaming.

>    My grumpiness over a dongle failure should have not spread to
>    the net.

>    I promise to never let it happen again (unless they loose my
>    dongle while they are fixing it, and I never get it back :-)

>    Jay and I have both agreed that under other circumstances, we
>    would very likely get along much better (and in fact have).

>    Regards to all,

>    Michael Powell

I'd still be interested in seeing the "Top 10 Reasons I Hate NewTek
List".............OK, so I'm curious!  : )

Jason Linhart
LightWave Group
NewTek, Inc.



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From: Adam Hendershot <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:12:03 -0500
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Archie Jones wrote:
>
> Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
> >won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
> >Marco
> >[e-mail]
> >Thanks in advance
>
> I use Picture Publisher for my texture maps.  I've used Photoshop as well but
> I think Picture Publisher edges it out.  Also, with Picture Publisher, you can
> use Photoshop plug-ins like KPT and such.  You can pick it up for less than
> 150.
>
> Archie

  Do any of these have provisions for aiding in the creation of _seamless_
textures? Or, for that matter, does anyone simply have any tips on making
textures seamless?

Thanks,
Adam

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From: [e-mail] (Joe Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: I bought Lightwave v4.0 without manuals, *PLEASE* help me!
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In article <4df551$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin) says:

>Send me your LW serial # and a photo of your dongle
>and I would be happy to help.

Hey buddy, you better watch it!  If you send a photo of your dongle
over the internet, you better do it before the Communications Decency
Act is passed!   :-)

-joe

Caution: MALFUNCTIONING SUBTLETY MEETER

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From: [e-mail] (VirtualBri)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: LightWave Resources on the Web
Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:32:26 -0500
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Check out my increasingly comprehensive and constantly evolving list of
LightWave Resources, available at:

http://memebers.aol.com/virtualbri/lwlinks.htm

And feel free to E-mail me your resources, so I can add them to the list.
(And if I can talk them into it, I'll get them on the LightWavePro web
site as well....)
--Brian
http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/
http://members.aol.com/equinoxii/

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Illegal operation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:06:21 GMT
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Christopher S Carpentier <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Has anyone gotten a repeat of the message "This program has created an
>illegal operation and must be shut down! Contact Vendor"  This happens
>to me on a spoaratic basis.  Is this Lightwave or Win95 and my system (a
>p133 w/32mg and stuff) or am I just having a bad dream....?

What were you doing at the time?? How about a capture of the dump
info??

I know there are problems with rendering to avi if you have a small
segment size... Raise it to 4000000 at least and the problem will stop
for 90% of the renders.

L8r G8r
 Keith


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From: [e-mail] (Gord Davison)
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Hi all,

As usual, I'm pressed for time with a client, and I'm looking for
a public domain "touch-tone common household phone" object [LW
format preferred].

I wanted to model a nice phone for some Metaform practice, but I'd
like to get a couple hours of sleep between now and the end of next
week :-). I've looked around at some FTP sites and found a couple
of _very_ simple phone objects and a telephone booth [?].
[Un]fortunately, realism is of the essence.

BTW, I have LightROM 3 on order ... <Sigh> Why do these things never
show up when you _really_ need them?

If someone could point me to an FTP or WWW site I would be eternally
grateful.

Maybe after this project is done, I'll create that metaform phone for
*fun* ... Nah, then again, maybe not.

Thanks in advance.

==========================================================================
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 Phoenix Interactive Design, Inc.  |
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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[snip]
>same thing.  Why does it think I'm trying to run LW with Win32's when I
>installed the WinNT version?  ANY help would be appreciated.  Please no
>RTFM replies, because the FM is real F thin on this issue.

>thanx,
>greg

I don't know for sure what the problem is, but you might try hunting down the
msvcrt.dll file (I'm betting it is in Windows/System) and renameing to
msvcrt.old.  If that works, make sure you are sure nothing else needs it
before deleting that .dll.


Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber
Hey!!  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  We have our new Studio 522 URL!!

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From: "C:APPSWEBWINSOCKKA9QSPOOLMAIL" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Anim to Video
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In article: <4dl511$[e-mail]>  [e-mail] (Stuart Smith) writes:

>
> This would be adequate for rough VHS quality output.

Actually, it`s not even really that rough and considering the price I`m very impressed
with it. With rendered frames and grabbing from a good source the jpeg artifacting is
barely noticeable from a short distance and then only if you`re aware that it`s there. If all
you want/need is a budget card to go onto vhs, you can`t go wrong.
.
>
> They do a DC20 (?) card which does 640x480 capture playback at 60 fps (MJPEG) which is
> about 700 pounds... still pretty good value. I know it ain't a PAR, but it'll work
> with your harddrive, a decent sized anim of 30 secs is only gonna be ....
> say.. 30Kx60x30=54MB. Which is pretty decent.
>

I grabbed a 1min 6sec seq from video earlier today at 100% with 16 bit 44khz mono sound,
the avi is 104.8mb and plays back with no jittering off a bog standard scsi2 drive.

Gwynne.

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From: [e-mail] (Slaven Radic)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Matrox Card with Powerview Plug-in?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:55:13 GMT
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[e-mail] (Ole Gunnar Dokka) wrote:

>[e-mail] (William A. Mendez ) wrote:

>>I would like to know if any of you are using Any Matrox card with the
>>Powerview plug-in, and how is the performance.
>The Matrox Millenium`s performance is very good, it supports OpenGL...

>>Also is the screen redraw in modeler any faster with the matrox.
>I had a S3 864 card befor I got the Millenium - there is really a
>great difference when it comes to speed in Modeler.
>But it would be even better if NewTek put support for DirectDraw or
>some other API into the program, Millenium supports most of the
>standards.

>Highly recommended.


I've got a Matrox Millenium card with 4Mb of WRAM running
under Windows NT 3.51 Server but I can't notice any improvement
in speed whem I'm in Lightwave. The Windows NT OpenGL demos
run really smooth but I keep thinking that I might be missing
something - I have Asymetrix 3D/FX (a low end 3D package) and
it uses Matrox built in 3D acceleration and it has real-time shaded
models (no wireframes) that draw 20 times faster than the wireframes
under Lightwave...

Oh yes, the system is a P133 with 32mb of RAM.

Slaven.
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From: "C:APPSWEBWINSOCKKA9QSPOOLMAIL" <[e-mail]>
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In article: <4dlf64$[e-mail]>  Archie Jones <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> I use Picture Publisher for my texture maps.  I've used Photoshop as well but
> I think Picture Publisher edges it out.  Also, with Picture Publisher, you can
> use Photoshop plug-ins like KPT and such.  You can pick it up for less than
> 150.

Same here, I find Picture Publisher much easier to get around and the ruby
overlay is an excelent touch.

Gwynne

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Crack NEEDED for intel Rev. B
Date: 20 Jan 1996 00:26:14 GMT
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Jason Linhart ([e-mail]) wrote:

: I'd still be interested in seeing the "Top 10 Reasons I Hate NewTek
: List".............OK, so I'm curious!  : )

    Hi Jason...

    David Letterman has a patent on such lists, and his lawyer
    informed me that I would be is big trouble if I ever made
    one of my own :-)

    I do appreciate that you did apparently note the humor I intended
    with that...

    I was really having a bad week... but the dongle repair staff
    at NewTek did a bang-up job of getting me up and running again
    so I'm much more agreeable.

    (Now if only Toaster 4.0 would ship... :-)

    Regards,

    Michael Powell




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From: [e-mail] (Slaven Radic)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Refractions under LW + Finding out Rev. #
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:38:14 GMT
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We have just purchased Lightwave for NT 3.51 (Intel) and
everything is going great (I used to work with 3D Studio previous
to this and LW seems so much more powerful).

Two questions though:

I will be spending a lot of time in the next few weeks to model
a microscope. Is the refraction engine in LW precise enough
that if I model and position all of the lenses properly in the
microscope assembly to give me a 100x magnified image when
I place the camera at the eye-piece (with a proper focal length
and at the proper position)?? Or should I give up now??  :)

Also even though I have a brand new copy I would like to
know that I do have a revision C of the program. How can I
found out what version of the LW I've got (there is no Help,
About box, and readme.txt doesn't say much).

Thanks a lot for help + thanks a lot to Newtek for a great
program.

Slaven.
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From: [e-mail] (Christopher Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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In a message dated Fri, 19 Jan 1996 07: [e-mail] writes:

A> One of the Muybridge collections is of animals in motion. Might find a
A> flying duck in there. I've only got his human figure in motion book.
A> -Ace

Pigeons, Cockatoos, Ostrich and an Adjutant are all that's in the
"Horses and Other Animals in Motion" book from Dover. No wabbits either,
I was howwibwy dithapoynted....

Christopher

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From: " me"@net.com
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Subject: PAR & Lightwave
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:24:40 -0600
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I know this has been asked before but I just bought a used PAR and didn't
pay attention to threads of this nature in the past.

Like I said I have installed a PAR card on my PC with a segate 1.2 gig drive.
Lightwave can see the drive all right but when I enter a file name in the
'Save RGB' requestor I get an error message like 'Can not access file,
Do not have permission.. Have network administrator fix this.'

Thing is I am the admin. and I have set up full access to that drive ( the one
attached to the PAR).

The weird thing is I get that message even when I DON'T load the network....


What is happening here ???????? I have had no luck in getting in touch with
DPS tech support.. ANYONE have an answer???????


Thanx
Daniel Bernard
[e-mail]

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From: Anthony Cingle <[e-mail]>
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To: [e-mail]

, [e-mail] wrote:
>
> I know this has been asked before but I just bought a used PAR and didn't
> pay attention to threads of this nature in the past.
>
> Like I said I have installed a PAR card on my PC with a segate 1.2 gig drive.
> Lightwave can see the drive all right but when I enter a file name in the
> 'Save RGB' requestor I get an error message like 'Can not access file,
> Do not have permission.. Have network administrator fix this.'
>
> Thing is I am the admin. and I have set up full access to that drive ( the one
> attached to the PAR).
>
> The weird thing is I get that message even when I DON'T load the network....
>
> What is happening here ???????? I have had no luck in getting in touch with
> DPS tech support.. ANYONE have an answer???????
>
> Thanx
> Daniel Bernard
> [e-mail]

    I'm betting you're using Win 3.1.  I had the same problem. What you have to do is enter the
file name with the .TGA extension.  "Name.tga".  Then have LW save RGB images sans the extension
"Name.tga001".  One thing to get this to work (at least on my system) if you ran the par.exe before
rendering you'll have to restart, for some reason if I loaded and exited the par VCR  and then
tried rendering to it the par wouldn't advance the frames and simply write over the last frame it
recorded.  This whole process worked for me.
    Now I'm rendering to the PAR under NT.  The software is a bit flaky but I prefer it to Win
3.1.  Becasue of the Multitasking in NT you can open the PAR software while your scene is rendering
and play back the frames you've already recorded. Unfortunately, realtime video recording doesn't
work with this version so I just reboot into Dos and use the dos PAR software.

Hope this helps

Tony

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From: "T.J. Schuler" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Flyer Clips on Alpha
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:51:33 -0500
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Question:
 I am in a situation where I have Lightwave 4.0 on a 275 DEC Alpha, an
SGI and a couple of AMIGA 4000's, one with a flyer.  I was wondering is
there anyway other than rendering with screamer net, which I can do if I
have to, that I can get the ALPHA and SGI to render straight to a flyer
clip.

Thanks,
T.J. Schuler
<[e-mail]>

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Subject: Photorealistic Seawater
Date: 20 Jan 1996 02:31:00 GMT
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A couple people have posted recently about a good surface
setting for
ocean or seawater. Here's what I've come up with, which with a
little care
can be hard to distiguish from the real thing.

Surface Attributes:

Color: 0,0,0
Diffuse: 0%
Specularity: 80%, high gloss
Reflectivity: 60%, (I used a combination of backdrop and
raytracing)
Bump map: Crumple, amplitude 100%
                   Number of scales: 4
                   Small power: 0.75
                   Velocity: x0 y0.05 y0
                   Size: x0.2 y0.2 z0.2 (these settings might
vary with
                   size of your ocean)
(all values that I haven't addressed should be left at 0)

The Key to making this surface look realistic is to apply a
wave
sequence as a displacement map (Real 3D comes with a nice wave
sequence,
which I processed in Photoshop and used in LW). I used a flat
plane tripled
subdivided into 8000 polygons and a looping sequence of 30
frames. Use a
backdrop fog to blur the horizon and add another touch of
realism.

I hope this is helpful, have fun!

Andrew Weiler

http://ww4w.mindsping.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html



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From: Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]>
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>Now, how in the world can software be considered as an improvement with
>all these great new features I would love to use like the limited regeon
>bones and IK when the finished rendering willl be more than twice as
>long??  The newer version would be rendering faster, donchathink??
>
>Joe Freeman the Video Junky
>A2000/g-force040/24megs
>
>Back to 3.5 so I can get some work done.  I won't consider rendering with
>such a pig untill I have an alpha.  What a waste of effort.

NewTek has said that LW4.0 was slowing down with SAS/C, but this is bad.
As for WinNT- people keep there Amigas around for a number of reasons, Microsoft's lousy wanna-be AmigaOS is one of the reasons.

Zoltan.


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From: [e-mail] (Keith Christopher)
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FYI:


 For those who haven't read the news or list in a while. Tomahawk is down until
my 56K line is installed in my house. I have my router and CSU/DSU and the
telco guys were here on Thursday to run the main line (pole to house) I predict
by the end of the month (Jan) or first couple of weeks in Feb for the
link to be up and domain name registered. I will post to both when the
new site is up. I have a CDROM with all of the files from the old tomahawk
site at hopkins.  If you have any questions please contact me @ [e-mail]


Keith Christopher


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From: Mitch Rosefelt <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: probs with migration to NT
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:33:05 -0500
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Leuey wrote:
>
> Just upgraded from wfw 3.11 to win NT 3.51.  Everything went relatively
> ok, except I can't seem to get LW to work.  I reinstalled LW from my cd
> (rev. b), selecting the Windows NT box, and LW and Contect.  I also ran
> the sentinal program to install the sentinal drivers.  However, when I
> double click on LW or Modeler I get this "msvcrt20.dll only intended for
> Win32's....initialization of the dynamic link library
> failed..blah..blah..blah...application terminated....blah...blah." What's
> this all about?  I tried reinstalling from the cd twice, and still the
> same thing.  Why does it think I'm trying to run LW with Win32's when I
> installed the WinNT version?  ANY help would be appreciated.  Please no
> RTFM replies, because the FM is real F thin on this issue.
>
> thanx,
> greg

Ungaruanteed suggestion:

Check the CD for all the files that are installed by sentinel to run
w/windows (win32), then find and delete all those files from your drive.  That should
do it, or you may need to install the sentinel drivers one more time.

Good luck

Mitch Rosefelt

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From: [e-mail] (Yury German)
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On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:55:13 GMT, [e-mail] (Slaven Radic)
wrote:

>I've got a Matrox Millenium card with 4Mb of WRAM running
>under Windows NT 3.51 Server but I can't notice any improvement
>in speed whem I'm in Lightwave. The Windows NT OpenGL demos
>run really smooth but I keep thinking that I might be missing
>something - I have Asymetrix 3D/FX (a low end 3D package) and
>it uses Matrox built in 3D acceleration and it has real-time shaded
>models (no wireframes) that draw 20 times faster than the wireframes
>under Lightwave...

The one thing you might be missing is that you have to install the
drivers (they get updated almost weekly now) for the Matrox card.
Then there is a menu under one of the advanced options (sorry using it
on Windows 95 so can not tell you which one) which lets you turn on
the options of the card (3d acceleration, polygon acceleration and
such) the default is off!
DigiTek Consluting                [e-mail]
Unix System Administration        [phone]
WWW Design and Administration

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From: [e-mail] (Saiyad Abdul)
Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
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Adam Hendershot ([e-mail]) writes:
>
>   Do any of these have provisions for aiding in the creation of _seamless_
> textures? Or, for that matter, does anyone simply have any tips on making
> textures seamless?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam

The easiest way I know to make seamless textures is to use the tiling tool
in FD Painter...Simply going over a border will result in the
operation continuing on the opposite side, guaranteed seamless and easy!

Sai



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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:

<How to run SNII without LW <snipped>>

> That's it.  This doesn't allow batch rendering of course.

Who shall be the first to write that little ARexx script that
does it on Amiga4.0?

--
Darren Metcalfe
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
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Stranahan wrote:
>
> I'll make a non-PC suggestion - anyone out there with a Mac, get
> Specular's Texturescape - it ROCKS...

Hmm, or an Amiga with ShapeShifter - it rawks too.

--
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

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From: Darren Metcalfe <[e-mail]>
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Subject: LW4.0 Amiga and CyberGraphics, also Shapeshifter Rawks!
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LW4.0 Rev. A for Amiga arrived. If you're using CyberGraphics
and NewMode set NewMode Options for LW and Modeler to compare
Program Name and Screen Data. Otherwise Layout crashes when it
attempts to draw to the 16 color render preview (which NewMode
will promote to CGFX). Modeler finally runs in better than NTSC
resolution, hooray!

Totally Off*ckin Topic: ShapeShifter is running nicely on my
3000T/3.1/Warp40/CV64. Easily as fast as a Quadra 840, in fact
it boots faster than _any_ Mac or PMac I've seen, and this is
with the unregistered version and "filedisks" on an Amiga drive.
Hint: put SS and your filedisks on their own partition and pump
the partition's File System block size to 4096 or better. It
installed and booted System7.5.1 with absolutely no problems,
even MacTCP on my Hydra enet card works (although I can't get it
to use a _second_ Hydra while AmiTCP is running, any help?). My
$40 (Yow! Cheap Mac!) is on it's way to Germany, thanks
Christian.

So this has been a good week for my Amiga, again proving it's
far from a worthless pile of sand and old hype.

--
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

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From: [e-mail] (shnooky)
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Subject: If you need artwork done then read this...
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This is shnooky and I am a senior member in an artgroup called
Boss Illusions Enterprises.  Boss Illusions Enterprises (BIE) is
a fairly new formed artgroup.  Two other artgroups, which are
GfxGurus and Virtual Escape have also merged with BIE.  We don't
have many people at all at the moment because a lot of our artists
are in school and are unable to do any work until school is out.
We are going to be doing some free artwork for anyone that wants
some done.  I am not sure wheather or not anyone that is available
at the time in BIE does ansi drawings so for the time being we will
only do VGA's.  Since we have a very very limited number of people
at the time we will also be doing no animations and won't be able to
handle too much work.  Once some of our artists come back we will be
able to do more work and even some animations.  We do not charge
people for any of the artwork we do, although we do accept cash
donations.  If we do artwork and your not satisfied or even if you
are satisfied, but don't feel like donating anything then that's
okay by us.  Please feel free to e-mail me at [e-mail]
and tell me exactly what you want done.  Our minds can only think of
so many things so I would appreciate it if most of you guys don't
ask us to think up a logo or something similar.

Thanks,

shnooky
Boss Illusions Enterprises
Senior Member

e-mail: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (EnnBee)
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Subject: Re: PAR & Lightwave
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On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:24:40 -0600, I heard " me"@net.com say:

>Like I said I have installed a PAR card on my PC with a segate 1.2 gig drive.
>Lightwave can see the drive all right but when I enter a file name in the
>'Save RGB' requestor I get an error message like 'Can not access file,
>Do not have permission.. Have network administrator fix this.'

Make sure you have the drive set to take TGAs and not PAR files (by
running the PAR.EXE and making your settings there).  Also, if you are
using WFWG make sure you have all the 32 Bit File/Disk Access turned
OFF.

>What is happening here ???????? I have had no luck in getting in touch with
>DPS tech support.. ANYONE have an answer???????

DPS Tech Support? HAHAHA! Thats another thread altogether.

Aaron


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From: [e-mail] (DIWT)
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 You might want to check on the prices of either ISA version of the
Q-motion or
Fast FPS/60. These have dropped in price since the PCI versions became
available.

Ed

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From: [e-mail] (Ken Schmitt)
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>You can find the powerview plugin at Newteks FTP site.

has it been updated in the last few weeks?


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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
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Subject: Re: Toaster 4.0 ???
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In article <4dbpf2$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Lloyd Eldred) writes:

>Can someone update me
>as to the status of the full Toaster 4.0 update? Availability and
>price (from 3.5)? Format (is a floppy based version available, does
>it still include the CD-Rom?)

NewTek is finally shipping 4.1 for Flyer owners.  Toaster 4.1 needs some
more work before it can be released.  NewTek says a couple more months, so
it shouldnt be more than 4 or 5.
CD-ROM version $550
Way too many floppies $600

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From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Mavor)
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Saiyad Abdul ([e-mail]) writes:
> Adam Hendershot ([e-mail]) writes:
>>
>>   Do any of these have provisions for aiding in the creation of _seamless_
>> textures? Or, for that matter, does anyone simply have any tips on making
>> textures seamless?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>
> The easiest way I know to make seamless textures is to use the tiling tool
> in FD Painter...Simply going over a border will result in the
> operation continuing on the opposite side, guaranteed seamless and easy!
>
> Sai
>
>
    Speak not of butterflys, for you may have your wings plucked.

    L8r,
    Jon


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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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>I will be spending a lot of time in the next few weeks to model
>a microscope. Is the refraction engine in LW precise enough
>that if I model and position all of the lenses properly in the
>microscope assembly to give me a 100x magnified image when
>I place the camera at the eye-piece (with a proper focal length
>and at the proper position)?? Or should I give up now??  :)

The only reason to give up might be because if the tremendous
rendering time that's going to require.

>
>Also even though I have a brand new copy I would like to
>know that I do have a revision C of the program. How can I
>found out what version of the LW I've got (there is no Help,
>About box, and readme.txt doesn't say much).

Your rev. is on the CD itself, probably A or B.

>
>Thanks a lot for help + thanks a lot to Newtek for a great
>program.
>
>Slaven.

No Problem
Dave paige
Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: Bob Lindabury <[e-mail]>
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To: dAVE@mikicic

dAVE@mikicic wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the Patchs for upgrading to Rev C are downloadable from
> any WebSite.  I tried and tried to ftp to ftp.newtek.com, no luck.  I know
> that there is a webpage for LightWave by NewTek, I can access that page any
> time.  So what's the deal.  I've even connected by telnet, didn't take the
> common backdoor Login: Anonymous or Guest.
>
> Sans, :-(
>
> dAVE

Try my sites below.  Stuff is in /incoming.  You can also get the files via
IRC if I'm online (TheRaven on channel #lightwave).

-- Bob Lindabury
[e-mail]                 The NEW Graphics BBS
http://www.graphics.rent.com           Main line: +1 908/469-0049
ftp://ftp.graphics.rent.com                   Piscataway, NJ USA
3D Studio, Lightwave, TrueSpace, POVRay, PCGNet, Tesselation Times...

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On 18-Jan-96 18:50:03, Walter (Jay) Turberville  ([e-mail]) posted:

>>> Our  Amiga PAR didn't come with any SMPTE bars.  Does anybody know if
>>> there is a  SMPTE file for the PAR?  If so, you can load and display
>>> them to determine if  the problem is in the hardware (PAR and "TV"),
>>> or in the rendered images.

>>Sure it did - look at the program "TSG". It's a "Test Signal Generator",
>>and will selectively generate a bunch of test pattern stills, SMPTE
>>included. You can then just call them up, and use the output to
>>calibrate monitors, genlock timing, etc. If you have their WFM/VSC card,
>>the same program came with that, too.

> We got one of the first PARs and I don't recall seeing the TSG program.
> Was  it included in the softwar updates?  Either way, I'll look for it.
> Thanks.

You might be right, but later updates did. I looked at my install disk for
PAR V2.52, and it's there. You can download the update from DPS's FTP site,
it should have the TSG program in it.

Regards, John.

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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
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Subject: Re: Flyer Clips on Alpha
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On 19-Jan-96 21:51:33, T.J. Schuler ([e-mail]) posted:

> Question:
>  I am in a situation where I have Lightwave 4.0 on a 275 DEC Alpha, an
> SGI and a couple of AMIGA 4000's, one with a flyer.  I was wondering is
> there anyway other than rendering with screamer net, which I can do if I
>  have to, that I can get the ALPHA and SGI to render straight to a flyer
>  clip.

> Thanks,
> T.J. Schuler
> <[e-mail]>

Flyer software 4.1 will have standalone utilities for Intel and DEC Alpha
to take RGB stills and build them into a Flyer clip, which can then be
copied/FTP over to a Flyer-equipped system for playback. So while you won't
be able to directly render to a Flyer clip file, you can create Flyer clips
on one of these faster machines for later playback.

Flyer 4.1 CD's and manuals are being pressed/packaged as we "speak", so
your answer should happen soon.

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From: [e-mail] (Brian Dady)
Subject: Re: AMIBACK CORRUPT FILES??
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Phil Bastien, Media Services ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I had a HD that crashed.  Someone said they could retrieve everything with
: Amiback.  It appeared they did, but I lost most of the original file
: names.  A lot of the files had only numbers in a directory folder.  These
: files are not recognizable. Most of the files are Lighwave and some are
: .IFF24 images. ...Did the process of retrieving the files with Amiback
: corrupt them beyond repair or am I just missing something like a header
: for the files.

: ...HELP!

: Lost in the ozone

: Phil

: --
: PB - Media Services, KNPR

I think this is a procedural problem.  ;)

AmiBack is *most* effective if you back up your hard disk *before* it
crashes.  That way you don't lose anything (except what you saved since
the last backup).

Sorry, I know this is not a joking matter.  Believe me, I went through
several HD catastrophes before I finally bought AmiBack and a tape drive.
It has saved my data once already when one of my smaller hard disks decided
to quit.
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From: [e-mail] (Brian Dady)
Subject: WTB:  LW3.5 for Amiga
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I would like to purchase a copy of Lightwave 3.5 with dongle.  Please specify
your asking price and whether or not it has been registered.  The manual would
be nice, but is not required since I already own one copy of LW with my VT.


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From: [e-mail] (William A. Mendez )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Sotimage Press Release and Demo in NYC
Date: 20 Jan 1996 17:56:32 GMT
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Hello,

This past Thursday I went to a Sotimage press release and demo in NYC
and one of the examples they showed was a bee obeject that flew through
a straw and deformed as it went in and again when it exited.


Is there a way that we can do this in LW?  It was somekind of lattice
or spline deformation.

overall the product is very good as well as verrrry expensive $7995.
Bones and null object look the same as LW.


Thanks!
Will Mendez

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From: [e-mail] (Justin Barrett)
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 17:03:08 GMT
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On 13 Jan 1996 18:11:00 -0700, [e-mail] (Walter (Jay)
Turberville ) wrote:

> What are you using as a "TV" screen?  Is it a TV or a video monitor?  Our
> Amiga PAR didn't come with any SMPTE bars.  Does anybody know if there is a
> SMPTE file for the PAR?  If so, you can load and display them to determine if
> the problem is in the hardware (PAR and "TV"), or in the rendered images.

I believe DPS has a SMPTE bar file you can download from their BBS,
and probably their FTP site as well.

Wave on...

       ---<  Justin Barrett  -  Free Spirit Productions   >---


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From: Robert Dorney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: best prog. for Textures
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In article: <4dh3vf$[e-mail]>  Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
> >won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
> >Marco
> >[e-mail]
> >Thanks in advance
>
> Adobe Photoshop 3.0, Fractal Painter, and maybe Picture
> Publisher. I was a hard-core Amiga user a couple years back,
> but nothing on the Amiga ever compared to Photoshop. Check it
> out sometime.

Right, Photoshop IS very good. Painter too. But an equally good and
FAST Amiga package if you have a videocard is TVPaint 3. Tremendous
when coupled with a Wacom.

           * Robert Dorney * Red Devil of Dual Crew^Shining *
    * Head of Art and Graphics at Eden Entertainment Software Ltd *
          * Digital Candy BBS * [phone] (6nodes) *


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From: Robert Dorney <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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In article: <4d8v5m$[e-mail]>  [e-mail] (XTremes757) writes:
> I need a Comm program that has Null Modem Transfers at High Speeds. I
> tryed Twin but it transfer too slow, Not sure why, I have a Amiga 2000, it
> seems to transfer at 19200. My PC can transfer up to 115200. I want to use
> Ripterm on my PC. Thanx

Just a case of having a faster IO card in yer Ami. Ive put a GVP IO extender in mine
to transfer between the two with no problems at a 115k link. Any Ami comms s/w such
as Term or Terminus that can then allow you to use something other than serial.device
(In my case, Terminus using GVPSER.DEVICE) and qmodem on the pc. Just connect
them with the same serial settings on both machines, then type on one keuyboard and
see if it comes up on the other monitor correctly. If it does, then wheyhey- its done!
Just upload on one and the other will receive it no probs. Id still prefer a cross-platform
version of Parnet though =(

           * Robert Dorney * Red Devil of Dual Crew^Shining *
    * Head of Art and Graphics at Eden Entertainment Software Ltd *
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From: Robert Dorney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: FS: LW Pro back issues!
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In article: <4dbcrl$[e-mail]>  [e-mail] (Taka Torimoto) writes:
>
> Anyone interested in old issues of LW Pro?

Yes Sir. Which ones and how much do you want for them?

           * Robert Dorney * Red Devil of Dual Crew^Shining *
    * Head of Art and Graphics at Eden Entertainment Software Ltd *
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In article: <4dgogd$[e-mail]>  Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> writes:
> >Not Adobe! Lightwave would become an ungodly pig of a program and
> >would probably get a Mac look to it to boot. What about KAI Lightwave?
> >
> Or maybe AmigaTech will get its hand in there- they are getting very
> cosy (or want to be) with NewTek (like more meetings in one month than
> C= ever did since '89)
> -This gleamed form one of the NewTek people at the WOA/Toronto Dec. 95
> Zoltan

Hopefully to try and arrange a Power PC (and thus Power Amiga) version to coincide
with the release of the Power Amiga? Now THAT would be top!

           * Robert Dorney * Red Devil of Dual Crew^Shining *
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To: Slaven Radic <[e-mail]>

> I will be spending a lot of time in the next few weeks to model
> a microscope. Is the refraction engine in LW precise enough
> that if I model and position all of the lenses properly in the
> microscope assembly to give me a 100x magnified image when
> I place the camera at the eye-piece (with a proper focal length
> and at the proper position)?? Or should I give up now??  :)

Slaven:

I just did an animation of a dancing magnifing glass the problem that I ran into was not the amount of
refraction but the wah that the Phong smoothing handled the shape of the lens. The lense was the perfect shape
640 polygons. but when it rendered it looked like a frenel lense. wierd rings showed up. When I modled the lens
I did run Metaform on it this probibly intrduced some anomoly.

Just My 2 Cents
Brad HAyes

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A message to animators;

I am interested in working with those of you who are, preferably freelance artists.

I have a requirement for custom animation. My thoughts are that many of you have a library of work that you would
be interested in licensing out to various clients.

I could be one of these clients.

I am specifically interested in lunar, (space or world) animation, as well as business & commerce metaphors.

My platform is Microsoft Windows 3.1 and some 95. Preferred format is either jpeg or bmp. Saw some interesting work on the Newtek
home page (www.newtek.com).

Thank your for your attention.

Luigi M. Calabrese
lmcfdm4&onlink.net

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For some odd reason, DPS has decided to leave non NT users out in the
cold on this, They say, "It should work" But it does'nt, I have been
rendering out to a slave drive then from a dos session, importing into
the par.
it sux but it werx.
Any solutions to this prob would welcomed.

JP



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From: Steven Gustafson <[e-mail]>
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Hi,
    I just bought an Amiga 4000 with a gvp 040 and 18 megs of ram.
the problem seems to be that I can't get the FP version of LW to run (in
synch) on my A4000. I read the install doc that says not to use FP with
EC type accellerators but FP works almost flawlessly on my A2000 EC`030,
which is almost twice as fast as non-FP on the A4000.  :(
     There are also some ADPro convolves that won't work without an
FPU. If you have any advice or consolation, I would like to hear from
you, because there must be a fix.... if this was a common problem I
expect I would have heard about it by now, so if you want to write and
tell me your completely happy with your A4000 EC`040 and it runs
lightwave just fine, I'll be happy (and much relieved to hear it.)

Thankyou for your time,

Spencer


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William A. Mendez wrote:
>
>
> overall the product is very good as well as verrrry expensive $7995.
> Bones and null object look the same as LW.
>

Hi.

I'm new user of Lightwave 4.0 on Intel P133,
and an ex-user of Softimage on SGI.
I had to sell my SGI equipement and software for
family reasons..

Ok. I just want to great Lightwave creator.

I can tell to all th readers here:
Don't cry if you haven't $7995 to buy Softimage on SGI.
You can do with Lightwave some things that you cannot do
in $7995 Softimage..

Oh, well, Softimage is the greatest package when it's come to
animation.
BUT, for exemple, when it comes to flare.... It's impossible to
make it so simply and so powerfully than in Lightwave.
In fact there is NO flare in Softimage. There is in
Mental Ray, a third party renderer wich come with the
package.

There is no even a simple function to make the pivot point
of an object centre to itself !..

Well.. I'm not criticising Softimage, I just want to say
that I fall in Love with Lightwave, because I can feel
that the creators are "Movie thinking" and not over
"technical thinking".

Lightwave: very powerfull in modelling (except for those "curves"
wich need handle to controle each control point)
           very powerfull in rendering (beautifull! Just need the
transparency surfaces to be effectively transparent for the
lights)
           ok in animation (Congratulation for the spline control,
nearly like in Softimage, except that you must implement separate
spline controle for each "channel" - but it's ok with parenting).

Long Life to Lightwave. Thank's a lot.

Guy Rabiller
3D Independant Director.

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I bought Adobe Premiere 4.0a the other day primarily to use with
Lightwave. The docs state to install it first under Windows (WFWG in my
case) and then to re-run Setup under NT and use the same DIR. When I run
Setup, the install halts right after entering the registration info with
a message that Script of DLL has been corrupted, unable to load template
mscuistf.dll : 103. FailedUIStartdlg (mscuistf.dll, 103 FINFo0DlgProc,
0), and to call Tech Support.

This occurs with both the CD disc and the floppy disks.

Well, the Adobe Tech Support folks being their ususal "accessible"
selves are only available 6a-5P M-F, and my work hours start before and
end well after that of course.

Has anyone else run into this and know a fix for it?

M.

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From: [e-mail] (Radiobyfm9)
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They said---

In article <[e-mail]>, TL Westgate <[e-mail]> writes:
>I got the AVI saver to work porperly, but then I updated with the rev C
>patch, and now I getActivation Failed: Code -2 errors every time I try
>to save an AVI. Anybody have any clues?
>
>TL

Sounds like your lw.cfg file. Textedit it (without LW running) and check
it's OK..
it's obviously haveing difficulty loading the saver.

Stu


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Stu's Rule of Thumb:
 "Don't use a rule made of thumb. It will invariably not be straight,
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---I say
Uhh..I'm having the same problem..What do I look for in the lw.cfg file?

Rocky

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From: [e-mail] (Theodore Terranova)
Subject: Re: memory usage for LW4.0 on PC?
Date: 21 Jan 96 04:17:16 -0800
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Is Ram all that important for lightwave.  I only have 16 megs on a
P90 and I'm now rendering a scene with 37000 polygons and 4 mb of
textures, about 20 lights(most trace shadows) and I have it set for 4
segment to render at 752X480 low antialias.
    My harddrive only grinds when it changes segments and then for about
a second and then when jumping to the next frame.  I realize that
thats some time and does add up after a few hundred frames, but its
not unbearable if you can't put out for the ram and seems like the
processor is the real factor here unlike say photoshop.
    It seems like if you set up the segments ok you should be able to
render anything.


Ted

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I just read a post about RAM and thought some people might be
interested in knowing that under Win 95 and probably NT and 3.11, but
I'm not sure, the PAR takes 2MB of RAM from the system.  If you right
click on the my computer icon on the desktop and select properties it
will tell you how much ram 95 has to use.  I have 16 but it reads 14
with the Par operating.
    It seems that the PAR.exe line in the autoexec.bat takes the RAm for
its own use.  Now I rem the line, reboot, and render.  Then unrem it,
reboot and compress my files.  Is there an easier way to do it.  I
was upset a while back that LW wouldn't render directly ot the PAR
under Win 95, but knowing it steals(borrows) the 2MB of RAM i'm
happier with the faster rendering and decrease in the number of
rendering segments i have to use.  Hope this odd fact helps someone
and if its already been brought up, sorry about the wasted space.

Ted

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So, while perusing through my just-received Amazing Computing for the
Amiga magazine (Vol.11 No.1, Jan. 1996), I noticed the following tidbit.
On page 39, in an article by R. Shamms Mortier, he writes...

I quote...
"Many of the top graphics and animation programs now on the Pentium will
be ported to the PowerMAC environment just to cover the bases (Lightwave,
an Amiga original that is now a PC-native application, has a PowerPC
application in final development)."

What?! Is Mr. Mortier privy to some piece of secret information? Is he
part of some secret organization that is porting Lightwave over to the
Power Mac? Does anyone else have any information to substantiate or
destroy this rumor? Let's stick to facts only, please, and not turn this
into a Mac vs. PC vs Amiga argument.

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From: dAVE@mikicic
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> Does anyone know how to convert a 2d picture intoa lightwave 3d
> object, on the P.C.?
> I used to do that on the Amiga with Pixal 3d Pro.
> Thanks in advance, Shawn
>

Impulse's Imagine on the IBM will convert B&W IFF files (iff/lbm) or
Truevision Targa files (tga/vda/cel).  You load the image and Imagine will
"auto trace" it.  Once reproduced as polys, you can export it as a DXF and
read it into Lightwave.  The File will be composed pre-trianglulated.  You can
always merge polys in LightWave.

Sure do wish someone would write a plugin "auto-tracer" for LightWave (hint
hint to all you programers out there)



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From: [e-mail] (Paul Goor)
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I have a long "Play list".

I would like to sync audio to the whole thing not just a clip.

I do not have the $ to buy Razor or I would.

Also, how do you print out the play list?

Onlu way I know is copy and past into a doc and print as a graphic.

Not very good way.  I would think others would have these same problems.


Thanks,


Paul
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Re: Lightwave for PowerPC  in Final Development?
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: What?! Is Mr. Mortier privy to some piece of secret information? Is he
: part of some secret organization that is porting Lightwave over to the
: Power Mac? Does anyone else have any information to substantiate or
: destroy this rumor? Let's stick to facts only, please, and not turn this
: into a Mac vs. PC vs Amiga argument.

He knows not of what he speaks.

JG

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> What is the best program to make original textures with. Some thing that
> won't cost me a fortune. Platform Win 3.11 or NT 3.51
> Marco
> [e-mail]
> Thanks in advance
>
Yes - PhotoShop and Kai's PowerTools can be used to make some real good
textures.  In PhotoShop, you can use a "other" offset tool that would "wrap"
your image in both X and Y as you offset it.  This aids in custom seamless
texture making.

Soon the maker of "Forge" for the Amiga will release a version for the IBM,
although it will be named something else.   Steven Worley, the author, is
developing all kinds of tools for LightWave and the PC platfrom.  Forge is an
excellent Texture making program that both rendered bitmaps, as well as, made
procedurals "Essence" plug-ins for Imagine.

This is his site but nothing there yet.
Http:\\www.worley.com\







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Please Post all "Known" Plug-ins, the platform, their usefullness, their
location, and their price.

Purpose: The LightWave Plug-in Master List.




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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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Slaven Radic asked:

> Is the refraction engine in LW precise enough that if I model and
> position all of the lenses properly in the microscope assembly to
> give me a 100x magnified image when I place the camera at the eye-
> piece (with a proper focal length and at the proper position)??

LW can handle it in principle, but unless your purpose is to use LW
to prove something about geometric optics, I wouldn't do it this way.
Modeling and aligning the lenses is too hard, renders will take too
long (especially if depth of field is used, which it should be), and
in any case you may end up exceeding the numerical precision of the
raytracer.  Use an image map for the view through the eyepiece.

- Ernie


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From: [e-mail] (Chuck Durham)
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John Reddington <[e-mail]> wrote:




>I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting pretty tired of
>listening to the same old for/against piracy argument that seems to
>spring up every time someone asks for a crack or help with something
>that proves they don't have a legitimate copy.

>I'm as pissed off with the whole piracy thing as everyone else who
>shelled out for the software but why don't we just ignore these pleas
>from pirates and save bandwidth. No one is saying anything for or
>against that we all haven't heard many times before. And lets not kid
>ourselves here. We are never going to convince someone with a pirate
>copy that they are doing wrong and that they should bin it or go buy a
>legitimate copy. Likewise, you guys out there with cracked copies
>aren't likely to convince someone with a bought copy that what you are
>doing is harmless. And you aren't likely to get much help here either.
>
>If they get no response then they will most likely get the message that
>no one is fooled and piss off to alt.comp.pirates or something like
>that.

>One suggestion I saw which might be useful to legitimate users is
>attached below.

>>If you're a legal, registered user, then here's a novel suggestion:
>>upload your real name, address and the serial number of your copy of
>>whatever (If you are a real user, then you shouldn't have a problem
>>with this, should you?)

>>Otherwise, quit bullshitting us.

>Just a suggestion :-)

I agree in part with what you are saying, but I am going to go out on
a limb a bit on this whole issue.  I need to state up front that I
take no firm position for or against piracy.  I would like to just
give a perspective if I may and am curious as to the reactions I will
get.

About 8 months ago I was designing graphics using Visual Reality and
Animation Master.  Both of which I have purchased and registered.
Although both packages are very useful for what they can do, we wanted
to find a package that offered more effects and expanded our graphic
toolset.  The packages that we were considering were 3D Studio, Real
3D and Lightwave.  After using the Real 3D demo, I tossed that option
out (Now not meaning to offend any Real 3D users, I have heard it's
been much improved since the old demo).  A contracter we work with was
a 3DS man and he'd done some demos for us, which had us pretty
convinced to go with 3D Studio,  we didn't really like the interface
(Dos based as it is til 3DS Max) nor the price.  I hadn't gotten that
much information on Lightwave but had heard about the features that it
had built in which required IPASs for 3DS.  But I had the chance to
mess with 3DS and I became rather comfortable even in it's Dos based
interface.  We'd found a decent price on 3DS and planned on doing the
expenditrue for the end of the year.  About 2 months ago I was offered
Lightwave that didn't require that nasty dongle and I thought why not.
I started messing with it pretty seriously and in a much shorter time
was modeling things quite a bit more easily than in 3DS, plus the
renderings looked great.  At that point a decision was made and we
saved half the money we'd planned on spending for 3DS.  I know own
Lightwave and probably would not be a satisfied user had I not used
the Pirated copy.

This of course does not justify piracy.  I am professionally a
developer, mainly doing custom client/server applications.  I know
what it takes to program and I would not want someone to take all that
work for nothing.  I do custom application designs and I get paid way
more than just about any piece of commercial software on the market.
I think Alias beats my apps on occasion.  So comparing the hours spent
on commerical applications and how much they cost, you can see how
important it is to sell as many copies as possible.

So piracy is like depriving someone of his salary, or is it?  Who says
that the person who pirated would have bought that software if he was
moralistic, It may not have been worth the price to them, and they
never would purchase the software.  You can easily argue a number of
ways.

Now on to what I feel is important.  I agree with John on not wasting
time on here arguing about piracy, I come here looking for information
on Lightwave.  I also may ask questions that are in the manual, which
I am not going to read cover to cover,  It's a reference manual and
users guide.  I look at them when I need to refer to something or I
need guided.  I also would be able to ask questions on this newsgroup,
which often times return a more in-depth answer or additonal tips that
are not covered well in the manuals or covered at all.  I wonder if
any Lightwave users do this, hummm.  I'd get pretty upset if someone
started accusing me of pirating Lightwave since I am a registerd
owner.  Oh but if I put up a name and number I won't be insulted then.

Joe Duncan
125 W. State St.
Erie, PA  15932
LW23287

Is this my correct information???  It looks good though are you going
to look it up before answering my question.  It might be easier just
to answer the question and not worry about it, you may even answer a
question that someone else was going to ask.  Hey we could do like a
lot of the games do.  What is the subject on page 220 or the Lightwave
reference manual:
    Mirror

How's that.  Kinda waste of time isn't or did you go look it up.

So that's my long winded perspective on answering people questions on
the newsgroup.  Either you know it and you are willing to answer or
just keep quite. You may find that not everyone who is asking for
another book to supplement the manual  is a pirate,  I have a shelf
full of books besides manuals for alot of software I own,  Don't you??

Hey any problems with this, E-mail me.  I like to think rational human
beings can work things out and function effectively without imposing a
million rules and red tape.

Later

Chuck D
Imaginative Entertainment
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Chuck Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LightWave Plug In development
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[e-mail] (Stephen Lucas) wrote:


>Hi, I'm new to this group so excuse this if it is an obvious question.

>Is the Lightwave Plug In developer information freely available? I've got some ideas for plug ins and would like to have a go a implementing them myself.

>ftp.newtek.com isn't working for me ATM, so ignore this if all the relevant information is there.

>Cheers

>Steve

You can find the SDK on the CD under DOCS, that's C header files, etc.

Or if your not a C developer, you can check out Rober Hood's BML
scripting language.  He's usually hanging around here in the news
group somewhere,  he usually posts hit FTP site for you also.

Chuck Durham
Imaginative Entertainment
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (B E Verins)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: AVI saver for AMIGA
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Does such a beast exist? Actually, I know that Mainactor Broadcast
supposedly has one, but I have no knowledge if the AVIs it saves actually
work on IBMs or MACs (Theshareware version sure doesn't have a working
cross-platform AVI saver).

How about it NewTek? AVI savers for the Amiga version of LW. ANIM saver
for IBM... cross-platform is what it's all about. Obviously, this isn't a
VITAL thing, but it would save me a migraine or two.

-----------------> RICHARD HAGEN <------------------
... "Cower beneath my multitasking MIGHT!!! " ...

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
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In article <4dhcol$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Stranahan) writes:

>AmigaTech has far less of a marketing clue then even current NewTek...
>
>Adobe - good marketing.
>
>Metatools (the Kai company) - great marketing, very cool company,
KICK-ASS
>demo crew.
>
>However, I doubt a company switch is likely any time soon much.
>
>

      Hey - A guy can dream can't he!

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
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Check out my WEB page for all kinds of Lightwave/graphic links.

Don Hirschfeld    http://www.portal.com/~donrh

**************************************************************
I am looking for an ftp site which is the same kind as Tomahawk (as this
one doesn't exist anymore).

If you have some adress. You welcome.

PG. Switzerland.

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I have 3DS4 now and was considering getting Lightwave. I just
heard about it, say, a half an hour ago. Anyways, I was
wondering if projects in 3DS and Lightwave were
interchangeable. This way, I could do an animation in both
programs. Thanks in advance for any help.

        Mike Tormey <[e-mail]>


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The book said that you could save .fli files. I have not seen anything
that even hints that you can save a .fli file. Does anyone have any
information?

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I have set up LW 4.0 PC on my office computer and want to take advantage
of the 45 P-100 computers on our office network. But when I follow the
directions in the manual on how to set up the SN on each machine it
does not work.... I set up Screamernet Dir with a command sub directory
on our server and put LWSN.exe and the most current LW.CFG there. Now
I create the icon with the command line option of 's:\snet\lwsn.exe
-2 s:\snet\command\job1 s:\snet\command\ack1' and the working dir set
as 's:\snet'. But when I double click on the icon I get 'This program
can not be run in DOS mode'.... This is driving me crazy!!!!!! I even
tried to launch it via a dos shell with out luck. We are running WFWG 3.11
and Lantastic 6.0.  One really strange thing... I CAN run LWSN.exe on the
workstation that LW is installed on!!!!! Does anyone have an answer to
this perplexing problem????

Daniel Bernard
[e-mail]

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[e-mail] (Slaven Radic) wrote:

> Also even though I have a brand new copy I would like to
> know that I do have a revision C of the program. How can I
> found out what version of the LW I've got (there is no Help,
> About box, and readme.txt doesn't say much).

There is a version string in the binary:

   [11|133|Programs]: version Modeler.FP FULL
   LightWave Modeler FP 4.02 (07/12/96)

   [11|134|Programs]: version LightWave.FP FULL
   LightWave Amiga FP 4.00y (12/20/95)

 - steve

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Koren)
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Subject: LW 4.0 Amiga & comments thereto
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Finally showed up.  A nice, slickly-titled CD-ROM.  'Course, I don't
have a CD-ROM drive.  I managed to convert the whole mess by putting the
CD-ROM in a Unix machine and tar-ing the contents off to a DAT, which I
then extracted using the DAT drive on the Amiga and installed.  My first
attempt was to read the CD-ROM with my PC, but it 8.3-ized all the
filenames and generally had other problems as well :-(

Anyway, I've only played with it for a few minutes, but here are some
comments so far:

  * Overall, it is a nice improvement over version 3.5.  Lots of little
    things have been improved.

  * In particular, *finally* having the ability to run in decent
    resolutions is most welcome.  Modeler has a nice way to pick
    screenmodes.  I'm running it in 1280x1024 right now, and it is
    improved in lotsa little ways such as normal vectors drawn in a
    different color from object polygons, unlike 3.5 where they were the
    same.  Modeler is just wonderful in this resolution.

  * I cannot find an equivalent function in Layout, so I just promote it
    to 1280x1024.  At the moment, I have only found the presets for
    1024x768x8-colors, which doesn't make full use of my 1280x1024x256
    screen.  Anyone found a way to convince it that I have a screen
    bigger than 1024x768?  It isn't a huge deal, but I'd like to use the
    extra real estate, and have it use all colors available for
    rendering the image previews, etc.

  * Minor problem: when you change colors in the surface dialog, it uses
    the same pen as it uses to draw buttons.  This makes the UI look odd
    until you exit the color requester, whereupon it restores itself.
    ObtainPen() has only been around for what, 4 years now?  Common,
    Newtek :-)

  * Another minor problem: Layout redraws things twice or more.  For
    example, if I change the grid using options, when I click continue
    the view is redrawn no fewer than 3 times!  Same when you finish
    moving the view with the mouse.  Seems like a bug.

  * The program came with about 571 zigabytes of objects and images.  I
    haven't looked at 'em yet.  I was able to save quite a bit of HD
    space by storing the objects on a compression filesystem.  I suppose
    one could batch convert the images to JPEG, now that we have plugins
    for reading other image formats, and save mongo space that way too.

  * Alas, the stupid render status screen *still* seems to want to use
    DBLNTSC, which makes my monitor resync when switching between
    screens.  Sigh.  I really hate the render status screen.  I'd like
    to get rid of the stupid thing altogether and have a simple
    "percentage complete" display, or at *least* use a reasonable
    screenmode for the thing.  I end up just putting it behind my other
    screens and ignoring it anyway.

  * The "solid" preview in Modeler is way nicer, especially for complex
    models, than the old wireframe.

That's all for now...  Its sure nice to finally have a halfway
reasonable resolution to run LW in!

  - steve


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From: [e-mail] (Whiplash)
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Subject: Re: rev C bug with AVI save
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 16:35:10 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, TL Westgate <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I got the AVI saver to work porperly, but then I updated with the rev C
>patch, and now I getActivation Failed: Code -2 errors every time I try
>to save an AVI. Anybody have any clues?
>
>TL

I'm getting the same errors. What's up?

Whiplash

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which I forgot to mention: *Finally* both Modeler and Layout using the
real ASL file requester, which is about 1000X better than the old Newtek
one.  Thanks, Stuart, or whoever did that!  It seems like a little
thing, but it is really a lot nicer now.  Just little things like being
able to use completion in the file requester make a world of difference.

  - steve

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Mike Tormey <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I have 3DS4 now and was considering getting Lightwave. I just
>heard about it, say, a half an hour ago. Anyways, I was
>wondering if projects in 3DS and Lightwave were
>interchangeable. This way, I could do an animation in both
>programs. Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>        Mike Tormey <[e-mail]>
>
Lightwave well load 3DS objects but not the scene files.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Dickinson)
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[e-mail] (Slaven Radic) wrote:

>We have just purchased Lightwave for NT 3.51 (Intel) and
>everything is going great (I used to work with 3D Studio previous
>to this and LW seems so much more powerful).

Congrats.

>Two questions though:

>I will be spending a lot of time in the next few weeks to model
>a microscope. Is the refraction engine in LW precise enough
>that if I model and position all of the lenses properly in the
>microscope assembly to give me a 100x magnified image when
>I place the camera at the eye-piece (with a proper focal length
>and at the proper position)?? Or should I give up now??  :)

Even if it works ok, just give up now.  It will save you a LOT of
rendering time!

>Also even though I have a brand new copy I would like to
>know that I do have a revision C of the program. How can I
>found out what version of the LW I've got (there is no Help,
>About box, and readme.txt doesn't say much).

Look on the CD. It says what rev you have there.

>Thanks a lot for help + thanks a lot to Newtek for a great
>program.

Don't forget you can hit ftp.newtek.com for the update if you have
Rev-B. (Someone yell at me next time it crashes and I'll reboot it :)

L8r G8r
 Keith



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Hello All,

I have to agree with this...

Guy Rabiller wrote:

>           ok in animation (Congratulation for the spline control,
>nearly like in Softimage, except that you must implement separate
>spline controle for each "channel" - but it's ok with parenting).

It would be great if the next release of Lightwave stole a few of
SoftImage's function curve features. And how about adding envelopes
to all the texture map and RGB channels too?

I was lucky enough to use SoftImage last year on a traditionally
animated feature which had a fair bit of computer animation in it.

It's strongest feature is it's function curve and when I saw that
Lightwave had its equivelent I got 3.5 as soon as it came out. I
must say that independent keyframing of each channel would make
Lightwave MUCH easier to animate with. I tend to use alot of key
frames so editing them can often be a pain.


      - Mick Harper

        Former Digital Effects Supervising Animator
        Amblimation / Universal Pictures

        [e-mail]



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From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
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To: Phil South <[e-mail]>

Phil South wrote:
>
> I just read the Lightwave Pro December issue and John Gross says that a
> patch to sort out the HIIP problems should be available on-line soon. Is
> it?

> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil South <[e-mail]>   "nuqDaq yuch Dapol"
>         Webscape Home Page http://www.webscape.co.uk
> -------------------------------------------------------------

I believe the patch he was refering to was actually RevC.
It fixed a couple of HIIP problems.

     -------------------------------------------------------------
    Ace Miles * Senior Animator * Time Warner Interactive

       [e-mail] (work)  or   [e-mail] (home)

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From: Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]>
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Hello has anyone used the q-motion with lightwave? and if you have, what
kind of output did you get. I'm thinking of getting the PCI version by
the end of the week and would like a little warning. And if you've had
any expierence with either version (ISA or PCI) how was the output of
video and your general feelings toward the product? Thanks  in advance.
Marco Sederquist
Animator in training
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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[e-mail] (Theodore Terranova) wrote:

>Is Ram all that important for lightwave.  I only have 16 megs on a
>P90 and I'm now rendering a scene with 37000 polygons and 4 mb of
>textures, about 20 lights(most trace shadows) and I have it set for 4
>segment to render at 752X480 low antialias.
>    My harddrive only grinds when it changes segments and then for about
>a second and then when jumping to the next frame.  I realize that
>thats some time and does add up after a few hundred frames, but its
>not unbearable if you can't put out for the ram and seems like the
>processor is the real factor here unlike say photoshop.
>    It seems like if you set up the segments ok you should be able to
>render anything.
>
>
>Ted

RAM is very important for lightwave. Any time your system has to page
to virtual memory you are increasing your rendering time
significantly. Although you may not realize this until you get more
ram.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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I got LW 4.0 for the Amiga running today. Imediately I had the
following problems. I'm running on an A3000 w 2.04 OS.

1. The screen in layout has some serious redrawing problems.
I constantly have garbled graphics data around the edge of
the layout viewing area. The buttons frequently get garbled
as well.

2. Every once in a while the screen goes completely blank.
I don't get any kind of flashing power light, GURU or any
indication that things have gone wrong. I have to reboot
and lose data.

Anyone experiencing similar problems?

Thanks

3D Daryl

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From: Archie Jones <[e-mail]>
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     I use Softimage and Alias at work and am able to use
exclusive lighting.  Does anyone know how to exclusively link a
light to a particular object in Lightwave for Windows?

Thanks in advance,

Archie Jones


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From: [e-mail] (Mel Matsuoka)
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Is there a plug-in available to save LW scene files as VRML worlds? I
need a version for the PC or Amiga versions of LW 4.0.

If not, can someone suggest the easiest/best way  to do this?

--
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                         Mel Matsuoka
             Editor/Computer Systems Administrator
               Hawaiian Image Video Productions
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just thought you all might want to know..in a month or so there will be a
book of almost all the LwPro articles ever published..it comes with a cd
filled with the scenes, macros and objects too...supposedly it will be
$34 USA...pretty good deal!!..i wonder if it is hardback or not...my old
issues are getting beat up :(
--
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Adam Chrystie LightWave 3D Animator
Cinema/Video Major, Senior
University Of California at Santa Cruz

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It probably means that on of the paths in you lw config is heading
lightwave to a wrong directory or disk.  I got this error because my
config had a line in it that was
        D:\newtek  etc.  this told lightwave that the plugin was in my cd
rom but only when my lw cd was in the rom.  So I just opened the
lwcnfg file in a text editot and change the path to c:\newtek\plugins
 etc.  and made sure to not change anything else and sve it.  Its
kinda like lightwaves config.sys or autoexec.bat.
    Go through it and check all the avi directories are pointing lw to
the right folders.  Hope this helps.

Ted

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From: Kreg Branden <[e-mail]>
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Please Post all "Known" Plug-ins, the platform, their usefullness, their
> location, and their price.
>
> Purpose: The LightWave Plug-in Master List.

  Well you can go to:

   http://www.teleport.com/~memex/lwpipage.htm

  That's the address of the LightWave Plug-In Page.


  Kreg Branden
  -  Meme-X  -

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From: Guy Rabiller <[e-mail]>
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peter carlsson wrote:
>
> I go crazy
>
> is there any one how can explain in modeler how i use the function PATCH.
> I have tryed many different method. but the answere is still curves do not
> cross correctly.
>
> Please send me a answer, if you now some way.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Peter
>
> Answer to:
> [e-mail]

Try first with 4 curves. It's much easy to understand.
Think about a piece of paper. 4 sides. ok ?
The four curves must be joined, but not merged !
But Curve 1 must share the same end point with the head
point of the Curve 2. Etc..

First, the four curves are in the same plane.
If you patch its, you will have a simple plane.
Now, drag any point on any curve and repatch.
You will have like mountain.

Now, remove one curve and merge/weld the end point of
the third curve with the head point of the first curve.
You will have triangle.

Understand that now, (for example), move the points of the
first curve ONLY in "x" axys, the points of the second curve
ONLY in "z" axis and the last one in "y" axis.

You will have what we call a "spline cage".

Don't expect to make one all car like this. To make one
all car, you will need at least 4 spline cages.
It is not like "fit" in 3DS.

Hope this help.

Guy Rabiller.
3D Independant Director.

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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I d/l'ed and installed the Rev A to Rev C patch yesterday for LW 4.0
(Intel) and now not able to render AVI's or 24-bit Targa's.

With the NewTek AVI type selected, Layout crashes after the first frame;
same thing when saving to sequential TGA's.  I can't even select the HP
savers in the Record panel as it crashes right then and there.

What do I need to do to resolve this?


Thanks.

Please get back to me via Internet E-mail at:
            [e-mail]
                    or
        [e-mail]

M.

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Well, SoftImage's pricing will help LW...I'm sure SI is great - at $8000
to start, I'm sure I won't be buying it.

The other thing that could help LW is that this makes NT based machines,
paricularly Alpha and MIPs, the de facto pro-standard - replacing SGIs on
a cost performence/software level. The relationship with Deskstation is a
potential drawback there, though, meaning NewTek may not be able to
capitalize on all those ready-to-run LW machines...


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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Sotimage Press Release and Demo in NYC
Date: 22 Jan 1996 02:09:38 GMT
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Guy Rabiller <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Oh, well, Softimage is the greatest package when it's come to
>animation.
>BUT, for exemple, when it comes to flare.... It's impossible to
>make it so simply and so powerfully than in Lightwave.
>In fact there is NO flare in Softimage. There is in
>Mental Ray, a third party renderer wich come with the
>package.

Just for the record, Mental Ray is probably the best renderer
out there besides Renderman. MR is NOT third party, it's done
by Soft and is included in their Softimage Extreme package
(along with a couple of other things, like particle systems,
etc.) Soft has a lot to offer, especially if you do characters,
pretty much everything else is faster and easier in LW

>Long Life to Lightwave. Thank's a lot.
>

>Guy Rabiller
>3D Independant Director.

Andrew Weiler
http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler.html



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From: Andrew Weiler <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lighting
Date: 22 Jan 1996 02:14:14 GMT
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Archie Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     I use Softimage and Alias at work and am able to use
>exclusive lighting.  Does anyone know how to exclusively link a
>light to a particular object in Lightwave for Windows?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Archie Jones
>

LW doesn't do exclusive lighting in the sense of light falling
on only a specified object. You should, however, be able to
acheive this effect by using a spot, selecting it as your
viewpoint, and adjusting the cone angle to fit the object. You
can also turn of cast shadows for that spot if all you want to
do is cast light.

Andrew Weiler
http://www.mindspring.com/~aweiler/aweiler.html


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From: Lance Gray <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Flyer & PC rendering!!!
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:49:02 -0800
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Hey I saw someone mention that 4.1 (Flyer software) will allow the PC to
render out as a Flyer Clip....is this like a plug-in that will come with
4.1 to install on the PC side for LightWave???  If so, that sounds
exactly what I need...considering I port all my images over to the Amiga
then render the animation with IFF2Clip----I pray this info is correct!!!

Cheers!

-Lance <><

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From: mathew <mathew>
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Subject: Spline and patch modelling?
Date: 22 Jan 1996 02:32:32 GMT
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I am considering buyin lightwave for pc and sgi.

I realise that, lw offers spline modelling,
but it seem to expect the spines to be
frozen into polygons before rendering.

Is there a way around this?

( i am using the manual-less sgi demo)

or is there a suitable plug in ?

thanks.


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From: John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: probs with migration to NT
Date: 21 Jan 1996 21:30:21 GMT
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Mitch Rosefelt <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Leuey wrote:
>>
>> Just upgraded from wfw 3.11 to win NT 3.51.  Everything went
>> relatively ok, except I can't seem to get LW to work.  I reinstalled
>> LW from my cd (rev. b), selecting the Windows NT box, and LW and
>> Contect.  I also ran the sentinal program to install the sentinal
>> drivers.  However, when I>> double click on LW or Modeler I get this
>> "msvcrt20.dll only intended for Win32's....initialization of the
>> dynamic link library failed..blah..blah..blah...application
>> terminated....blah...blah."

Easy.

It sounds like you installed NT over your Win3.11. This left your
old Win32s directory in place.

LW rev B has an install bug that fails to copy over the NT version of
msvcrt20.dll to the NT system32 directory. So when NT searches for
this file it fails to find the NT version and goes looking for it
in other directories. It discovers the Win32s version in your old
directory, tries to load it, and then spits out the error message
you see.

The solution is to copy the msvcrt20.dll from you LW CD to your NT
system32 directory (I think its in the Sentinal NT driver directory).

Other unrelated things you might want to do are

1) Download the version 5.1 Sentinal drivers from their ftp site.

2) Recopy all the LW files from the 32-bit directories on the LW CD to
   your hard drive so that you get the long-filename versions.
   The installer ignores your request for the NT version and always
   installs the 8.3 filename versions.

Good luck,

John.



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Matrox Card with Powerview Plug-in?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:45:04 -0500
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In article <4d7naf$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(William A. Mendez ) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if any of you are using Any Matrox card with the
> Powerview plug-in, and how is the performance.
>
> Also is the screen redraw in modeler any faster with the matrox.
>
> Thanks!
> Will Mendez

I have a Matrox 4meg card coming in about a week.

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Subject: avifil32.dll w/ win95 bombs
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I just installed LW 4.0 Intel for Win95. However when I go to save an
animation in hiip32.avi format I get: avifil32.dll is linked to missing
export ntdll.dll: memmore. hiip16.avi works fine. IS there any work
around or is the 16 bit version as good as the 32 bit version?

Derek

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From: "Stephen J. Gaudet" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 500 SPECfp for under $11k.
Date: 22 Jan 1996 02:58:39 GMT
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Campbell)
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Subject: Anyone have Lightwave 4.0 for the PC??????
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Looking for it on W95.

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From: [e-mail] (Future Base Multimedia Production Ltd)
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Subject: Reducing surfaces
Date: 18 Jan 1996 16:28:01 GMT
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Is anyone know which function of Lightwave Modeller can automatically
search the neighbor surfaces with same flatness and change it to
a polygon.

Thanks


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From: John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave 4.0 is a pig
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Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> wrote:

>NewTek has said that LW4.0 was slowing down with SAS/C, but this is bad.
>As for WinNT- people keep there Amigas around for a number of reasons,
>Microsoft's lousy wanna-be AmigaOS is one of the reasons.

Yep, they still have a use.

I just bought a souped-up second-hand A1200 to replace the Amiga that
got lost in shipping when I moved from England to the US. Part of the
reason was that it's the only way I can get to see the improvments
Electronic Arts made in DPaint5.

The amount of pirated software that was on the HD is quite frightning
(including LW 3.5). I'm amazed that companies like NewTek can still
afford to develop for it.

But I think that Windows is really a wanna-be MacOS, not a wanna-be
AmigaOS. Except for NT, which is also wanna-be Unix.

John.