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Prem Subrahmanyam wrote:

> This attitude, unfortunately is quite pervasive, namely that
> management-type-persons need to know little about the product
> they head the development of (in however removed a fashion), sales
> people need to know nothing of what it takes to develop new features
> of a product and so promise the moon in a week, etc.  IT'S JUST
> PLAIN STUPID!

I agree! There is an interesting life cyle of a software development
company:
    -programmer creates a great new app, and begins fine-tuning code
    -he hires his friends to keep up with demand and changes
    -he forms a larger company, complete with Bean-counters
    -BeanCounters can't begin to comprehend the programmers, who
     insist on coming to work in T-SHIRTS and SHORTS! (God forbid)
    -BeanCounters work behind the scenes to Oust programmer from
     the President's chair, and replace him with a 'Real Business
     Man'
    -Said New Suit arrives, and begins posting memos (to delight of
     His BeanPeers) that there is now a DRESS CODE that will be
     enforced, and everyone is expected to Clock in ON TIME!

    -Programmers can't begin to conceive what this Suit is talking
     about, and begin jumping ship in Droves!

    -Beanie and Co. Inc., are now left to manage a hollow software
     company, without new ideas or critical programmers even if they
     COULD think up the next killer app!

    -Company farts, implodes, and falls over dead.

This happens more often than the public knows; great software that is
released by companies that become 'one-hit wonders' for the above
reason!

I firmly believe the NUMBER ONE principle of sucessful management is to
KNOW _EVERYTHING_ about what you're selling.  Otherwise, you don't
really know your customers.

WaveRider
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel J. McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: AREXX to C programming
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 19:25:57 GMT
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In article <4gp0jh$[e-mail]>, "Breno A. Silva" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi. Could some kind developer post some kind of tutorial on how to create
>plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
>To be exact, which C compiler do you need? Any specific library? Is there
>a specific sequence of linkings or something like this? Of course I'm not
>advanced C or C++ programmer so some patient and detailed information
>would be very appreciated not only for me, but for everyone that miss
>AREXX (<:( R.I.P.).

While LightWave3D for the Alpha or Intel don't have Rexx tie-ins, there are
easier alternatives.  Try BML!  BML is a cross between a few languages (C/C++,
Rexx and in some cases PASCAL) and REALLY makes creating Modeler plug-ins
easy.  The creator, Robert Hood, is also making way with a possible Layout
scripting language as well.  BML is a commercial package.  For I THINK $200,
you can buy either the scripting interpreter to run non-compiled scripts or
get the compiler and BML-RT that runs compiled scripts.  Optionally, you can
buy both for a discount.

Coming from an Amiga, BML does make up for the lack of ARexx for Modeler.  :)

To get a glimps of BML scripts, ftp to ftp.newtek.com and check out
/pub/bh/bhood.  You should see a few directories.  In there should be some
non-compiled scripts as well as compiled scripts and the free BML-RT plugin
that lets you run compiled BML scripts in Modeler.

Have a blast,
Dan
(PS - NO I don't work for Mr. Hood or his company.  I'm a satisfied customer.
:) )

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From: typhoto <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: ASSUMED PRIATES!!
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:18:21 -0600
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> Wouldn't you need the Alpha version of Photoshop for the DEC Alpha
> rather than trying to install the INTEL Version on a DEC Alpha?
> You wouldn't try to install the Alpha version of lightwave on a
> Pentium would you?


If there was an Alpha version of Photoshop one would probably install it, But there isn't one...
FX!32 seems to be our only hope for the near future. Keep an eye on it.

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From: [e-mail] (BigFatCHUK)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and LightWave Problems
Date: 25 Feb 1996 01:38:44 -0500
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I have been researching Pentium Pro vs. Pentium, there is a good article
in the computer shopper for March (yes I do read the articles :) ) and
theit had some CPU ratings.
The ratings are something like the following.
PPro 200 = Pentium@300mhz in 32bit app.
PPro 200 = Pentium@180mhz in 16bit app.
PPro 150 = Pentium@230mhz in 32bit app
PPro 150 = Pentium@133mhz in 16bit app
The price for a Pentium 166 chip is about $650
The price for a PPro 200 chip is about $1500
So price performance is about the same for both a Pentium 166 and Pro 200.
The part that throws off the price performance is the motherboard costs.
Mother boards are about 2.5 times more for Pro.
In my oppinion always buy the fastest CPU you can because it is the RAM
that will really set you back.
chuck
BigFatChuk@aol



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From: "Frank D. Cocke" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Paint for DEC ALPHA
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:25:47 -0600
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
>         Does anyone out there know of a good paint package for the DEC ALPHA
> running  NT?  I had tried Photoshop, but of course it doesn't install properly.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Dana McNeil
>  Industrial Animation

Dana,

   There is an Alpha version of Micrografx Picture Publisher for
NT though I don't think they ever released it. If you try hard
enough maybe they can dig you up a copy.

Frank

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From: "Frank D. Cocke" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave & Non-parity RAM
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 01:34:45 -0600
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To: Hazen <[e-mail]>

Hazen wrote:

> if anyone knows of a considerable difference when using non-parity ram
> /w lightwave.  Is parity ram a must?
>
>         Also, what are the effects of non-parity RAM & Photoshop?  How
> many megs does Photoshop need to be fairly fast?



Hazen,

Parity or non-parity has nothing to do program performance but
it sure has alot to do with your computer. Check your computer
manual to see what kind of memory it specifies and use only that
or your asking for trouble.
As always the more memory the better. Depending on the OS win,
95 or NT.

Frank

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW Versions and upgrades
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 19:49:25 GMT
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[e-mail] (Computers From Scratch) wrote:

>How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
>like a 17th century novel character don't I?)
>
>Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
>I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
>automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
>teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>J
>
It's printed on the CD-ROM.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Derek Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga-based LW files to Mac Pict files
Date: 25 Feb 1996 02:52:39 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>,
Ernie Wright  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Jose Alvarez wrote:
>
>> [...] In my case I used ADPro2.5 to convert the files to PICT with no
>> luck.
>>    I think the problem is that neather ADPro or ImageFX save the new
>> PICT2 format, but use the old "regular" pict one. What I can't figure
>> out is that ADPro will READ PICT2 files! :{

ImageFX 2.1a will save PICT files so the Mac can read them.  If you're
using photoshop on the MAC run photoshop then open the PICT file like
you would any other PICT file.  Do not drag and drop the file onto the
application icon.  Photoshop will look at the typeID and unless you've
set it to PICT using resedit (some other MAC program) the program will
just assume it's not a pict file without even checking the data.

Ps.  I know the PICT format does work I use it all the time when going
to Media Composer, or Photoshop at work.

Derek<<<<<


--
Derek Lang        |  "I want him in the games until he dies playing." - MCP
Toronto, Ontario  |--------------------------------------------------------
Canada            |  WebPage-O-Fun -->  http://www.io.org/~dlang

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From: [e-mail] (Derek Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga sound files to .wav???
Date: 25 Feb 1996 02:58:33 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>,
Jeff Holinski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>sound files on my Amiga (iff, 8svx) and I'd like to convert them to .wav
>files to combine with avi's.
>Anybody know of a program that will do this? I'd perfer PC, but Amiga will do
>as well.
>

  There's a shareware/PublicDomain program called Sound Machine for the
Amiga, written by Syd L. Bolton of Legendary Design Technologies Inc.

It can take IFF sound samples and convert them to WAVE format and vise
versa.

Derek<<<<<


--
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Toronto, Ontario  |--------------------------------------------------------
Canada            |  WebPage-O-Fun -->  http://www.io.org/~dlang

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From: Paul Lara <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:47:48 +0800
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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:

> Note:  Apparently no replacement if it is stolen.  Gotta insure that $20
> dongle for about $800 to be safe.
>
> P.S. This isn't intended as a rant against dongles.  I don't like them, but I
> understand NewTek's reasons for using them.  However,  lets not exaggerate
> their faults OR benefits.


Walter, what you SHOULD be insuring is the software, not the dongle.
You probabaly know of the well-documented spat between animator and
NewTek, but NT has every right to say, "Lost the dongle? Buy another
copy of Software."

I had a (nearly) similar incident happen to me with Nova Designs:

Had my Flyer ripped off, including my ImageF/X manual.  They didn't take
any of the software diskettes, so when I got it replaced (it WAS
insured), Nova told me "We don't sell manuals. Buy another copy of
ImageF/X"  I though that was a little silly, but Kermit was pretty
insistent.  In this incidence, however, a letter to the president, along
with photocopies of the police report and my original floppies, he
called me and asked ME what I thought a fair price for the manual was.
We settled on $45.

WaveRider
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: FS:Visual FX CDROM for Lightwave (Amiga Version)
Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:00:11 -0800
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For Sale:

    Visual FX for Lightwave Cdrom Volume One

    20 transition effects for Lightwave. Automatically steps
you through the process of making stunning visual effects. Each
has a 30 frame animation preview to show how the effect will look.
    Sells mail order for $110.

    $65 plus shipping

    Please leave e-mail.

        Don

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From: [e-mail] (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Lightwave Tutor Tapes for Trade or Sale
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    I've got almost the whole collection of Lightwave 3 tutorial
video tapes by Lee Stranahan. I would like to trade on a one for one
basis for any of the other video tutorials like the Dark Horse,
Ron Thornston, or Mark Thompson series (no Lightspeed, I have them).
If you have none to trade, I'm open to offers to sell them all.
    Please leave e-mail.

        Don

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From: Paul Lara <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW Versions and upgrades
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:05:55 +0800
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Computers From Scratch wrote:
>
> How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
> like a 17th century novel character don't I?)


Look under the 'INTEL' on the face of the CD-ROM.  It will tell you
whether you have A,B or C.

Wavey

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From: "Breno A. Silva" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: AREXX to C programming
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Hi. Could some kind developer post some kind of tutorial on how to create
plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
To be exact, which C compiler do you need? Any specific library? Is there
a specific sequence of linkings or something like this? Of course I'm not
advanced C or C++ programmer so some patient and detailed information
would be very appreciated not only for me, but for everyone that miss
AREXX (<:( R.I.P.).

Breno A. Silva
Animator - PRO GRAPH
<[e-mail]>


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From: [e-mail] (Kip Pesuti)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga sound files to .wav???
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>I know that this is a bit off topic, but I'd like to start adding sound
>effects to some of my LightWave animations. I've got a huge collection of
>sound files on my Amiga (iff, 8svx) and I'd like to convert them to .wav
>files  to combine with avi's.  Anybody know of a program that will do this?
>I'd perfer PC, but Amiga will do  as well.

Well, I don't know about a pc app. But "SoundBox" for the Amiga will do the
job. It's on Aminet.

>Jeff H...

 God bless you!
(and your Amiga)
-Kip


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 24 Feb 1996 16:59:02 -0700
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In article <4gnogf$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
>Date: 24 Feb 1996 19:21:51 GMT

>>  I think not.  They are
>>  >business men who give control to experts of each of these fields. Because
>>  >on general a pilot could not run the company nor could a mechanic, why not
>>  >find a true business man to run the company.  [SNIP]
>>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>  >                     Brad Parscale


>        I guess that explains why Bill Gates' company is such a small time
>operation-- after all, Gates isn't >really< a business man, he's just a tech
>head.....


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

Actually, he's both from what I understand.


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Good Reviews??
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In article <4gl7n9$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (PMshark) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (PMshark)
>Subject: Re: Good Reviews??
>Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:23:05 -0500

>I get your arguments. We all have differing opinions, that helps make each
>of us unique.

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

Actually, it is our uniqueness that gives rise to our differing opinions.
Not the other way around.  Of course I wouldn't want to be argumentative or
petty. :^)


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Help Lee Stranahan find a new title for this thread
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In article <4gl8td$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (ToastRGuy) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
>Subject: Re: Help Lee Stranahan find a new title for this thread
>Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:43:25 -0500

>In article <4gi4vp$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:

>>>  Technology sold itself and always will.
>>
>>       The obvious refutation for this is:  if this were so, Amigas would
>>       dominate the computer market.
>>
>And Sony Betamax would be the choice for home video, and Atari Lynx would
>be the dominant portable game machine.
>Sigh...

And plastic yo-yos would have never replaced wooden ones.


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Win95 memory reqirements??
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In article <4gl9om$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (ToastRGuy) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
>Subject: Re: Win95 memory reqirements??
>Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:57:58 -0500

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Adam Lowe)
>writes:

>>>> Can anyone tell me what's the best amount of memory to have with
>window95
>>and
>>>> lightwave? I was thinking of adding about another 16mb so I'll have
>24.
>>JUst
>>>> wondering how much of that 24mb will be accessible?

>With 24 MB of RAM, you can double your speed by using Windows NT, instead
>of Win '95.  The dual boot let's you choose which you want to use for any
>session.
>My Pentium 120 is now 1/4 the speed of a Raptor, so I'm pretty happy.

>________________________________________________________________________
>Don James   The Computer Room    Colorado's Desktop Video Specialists
>2760 S. Havana St.  Aurora, CO  80014        [phone]

Win NT has never delivered twice the performance of Win95 for rendering.
Win95 with SNII has always been nearly as fast as WinNT.  Since Rev C has been
released (and is available from ftp.newtek.com as a patch), you don't even
need to use SNII to be nearly as fast - or possibly even faster.

There ARE good reasons for using WinNT, but speed of rendering isn't one of
them.

I know that many of you have seen these benchmarks before, but Erik is very
proud of his 133Mhz Pentium.  This is for his benefit as well.  :^)

System: Micron 133MHz Pentium, 256K cache, 32MB EDO RAM
Tester: Erik Flom - ELF Works 3D Construction Co.
LightWave Rev: B
File            Win95   Win95/SN        WinNT   WinNT/SN
Dof.lws         6:27    6:13            6:17    5:53
Raytrace.lws    51:14   ???             49:58   50:04
Textures.lws    2:29    1:48            1:45    1:43
ZBuffer.lws     6:56    4:36            4:40    4:38
Blade.lws       21:26   14:54           14:01   13:38
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
System: Micron 133MHz Pentium, 256K cache, 32MB EDO RAM
Tester: Erik Flom - ELF Works 3D Construction Co.
LightWave Rev: C
File            Win95   Win95/SN        WinNT   WinNT/SN
Dof.lws         6:22    5:47
Raytrace.lws            50:37
Textures.lws    1:48    2:01
ZBuffer.lws     4:45    4:36
Blade.lws       13:00  12:53


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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
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In article <4gnomq$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek
>Date: 24 Feb 1996 19:25:14 GMT

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

>>  Note:  Apparently no replacement if it is stolen.  Gotta insure that $20
>>  dongle for about $800 to be safe.

>        No, gotta insure that $800 program.
>
>******************************************************************************
>** [e-mail]                     |  Synergy Graphix & Animation   **

No.  I can backup the software and put the CD-ROMs in a safe place.  Since I
have multiple licences (OK - the studio has) I can actually have nine legal
copies (3 backups, 3 installs and 3 CD-ROMS).  So, I can pretty well guarantee
that I won't lose the software if it is stolen (yes - I keep a copy off-site).
I cannot do the same with the dongles.

The insurance is for the dongles since I can virtually eliminate the risk
associated with the software itself and since it is impossible to steal an
agreement (which is what the purchase really is).  I will only have a problem
if the dongle is lost or stolen.  So it IS dongle insurance.

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From: "Andrew S. Milkis" <[e-mail]>
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Simon,

I ran it on an Iris Indigo.  To answer your speed question,
an SGI Indigo2 Extreme's processor is usually a 150-200MHz
R4400.  In Lightwave pro, that ranked in the Pentium
range.  What you pay for with an Extreme is the "Extreme
Chip Set" which provides rather intense 3D and graphics
acceleration.  When Lightwave was ported to SGI, it was not
written to take advantage of the 3D acceleration hardware that
the Extreme has.  Likewise, it does not take advantage of
OpenGL on Windows NT.  From what I understand, that would be a
MASSIVE operation, and is being implemented in the next major
revision of Lightwave.

I hope that answered your question.


Andrew


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From: [e-mail](William A. Mendez )
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When will Penello pro be out for LW?

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From: [e-mail] (Mel Norris)
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Subject: Curve to motion path?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 20:35:37 GMT
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Hello all,

I need to convert a complex curve into a motion path for use in
Layout.  Is there a plug-in or technique that I am missing?  I can't
find anything in the manuals.

Thanks,
Mel Norris
Resolution Imaging


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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 25 Feb 1996 07:09:23 -0500
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In article <4gnogf$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:

>    I guess that explains why Bill Gates' company is such a small time
>operation-- after all, Gates isn't >really< a business man, he's just a
tech
>head.....

   oh how true.. see what happens when the head of the company not only
knows how to use his product, but can actualy program it too? Maybe newtek
should take a little tip from the leader..



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
RICH!!!!"



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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
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In article <4gmuk4$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(DJM2984712) writes:

>> Lee's the reason I know many of the tricks I know. Who else
>>would have drilled the keyboard shortcut for the stats menu so deap into
>>my brain.. It's wierd...
>
>No. It's not weird. If one is excited about something, they'll want to
>share the good news with others. Lee was (correction, still IS) excited
>about Lightwave and that came across on the tapes. That kind of
enthusiasm
>is contagious and entices the viewer to pay attention to what is being
>said which, in turn, leads to a greater likelihood the information will
be
>remembered and easily retrieved when needed.
>
>

   obviously you have never watched the tapes Lee made, or you would have
caught the wierd reference.. W is the shortcut for the stats menu, and
Lee's way of making people remember is was saying that it was a 'wierd'
shortcut - worked for me.


Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
RICH!!!!"



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From: (Ken Mayfield)[e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Free Range Digital Imaging: Still around?
Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:00:39 GMT
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Hi,

    Does anybody know if Free Range is still in operation, and/or in
Albequerque, New Mexico? They did some animation and used Lightwave...


    p.s. visit my home page and stay a while...

    http:www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/~ad914/Profile.html   (note caps)

            TIA and Be Well,
                        -Ken
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I've just come over from the 3DS world and I love LW4.0. My problem is
that I use Dave's TGA animator to create 16bit FLH animations. Light
Wave saves The Images I this Format( Name.TGA#.TGA). DTA can't
read those long names. is there a way to make LW save The files in the
regular dos format?

[e-mail]


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Hi, hier ist ein GERMAN LW USER was ghibts denn??

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 25 Feb 1996 08:31:25 -0500
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"Who is Lee Stranahan?" ;)
.......................................

Yep - I also started 'the Lee's Problem with NewTek' thread by saying -
"This is Lee Stranahan speaking...." References everywhere...


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
A : Lee's new and improved home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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From: [e-mail] (FXMatte)
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Subject: Re: Paint for DEC ALPHA
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>>     Does anyone out there know of a good paint package for the DEC
ALPHA
>> running  NT?  I had tried Photoshop, but of course it doesn't install
properly.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> -Dana McNeil
>>  Industrial Animation
>>
> wich leads me to think it's pirated,isn't it?

I hate to be rude; however, your deductive reasoning here seems to be
flawed.  How did you come to the conclusion that this guy pirated the
software?

I have tried to install intel compiled software, that I purchased, on my
Mips machine.  Now, for you to call either myself or Mr. McNeil a pirate,
you would have to assume that the software in question was installed on
more than one machine and in violation of the license agreement.

How is it that you know that this is what was done?  Let's not start a
baseless non sequitur pirate hunt here.

I believe the ogiginal question had to do with Alpha based paint packages.
 Look for the upcoming X-Rez for Windows and the currently available
Picture Publisher.  In the image processing department check out Win
Images from Black Belt Systems.  Hope this helps.

Matt Merkovich

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From: [e-mail] (Adam Biskobing)
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I'm kind of new to lightwave and I was wondering if there are any
really good books for beginners that anyone knows about?


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From: [e-mail] (Adam Biskobing)
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Subject: Any Austin Texas Lightwave users outthere?
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I was wondering if there was a Lightwave users group started in Austin
yet?   Or if not is anyone interested in starting one?


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From: [e-mail] (Computers From Scratch)
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Subject: LW Versions and upgrades
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How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
like a 17th century novel character don't I?)

Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.

Thanks in advance.

J


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From: [e-mail]
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I sent these questions to NewTek a few times and no one seems to
answer there email there. Since they do no seem to put much interest
in answering potential customers I am having second thoughts about
NewTek as a serious company dedicated to ther customers. I know
the're many other 3d programs with great features for under $1000
like (Real3d,HASH,etc.). I sent similar question to other these other
companies and there responce was quick and informative. But I just
keep coming back to how LW output "looks". That however can not be
the only criteria for choosing a 3d program.

How is NewTek Tech support like?

These where the questions I asked Newtek:

I am interested in purchasibg another 3-D program. I currnetly
use Truespace 2 and Ray Dream Designer. Does NewTek (Lightwave v4.0)
have a competitive upgrade policy for TS users?

On the Lightwave Newsgroup it is said that NewTek does not
replace lost or stolen dongle. If you do replace stolen or lost
dongle what is your price policy?

Are they coming out with a new version of Lightwave which will
integrate the modeler-layout modules, and are there any plans for 3d
real-time API like OpenGL or 3DR, and when is it due?



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From: [e-mail] (Nanook of the South)
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TL Westgate <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Okay, what's up with Align to Path? After I move an object along a path,
>then go to Motion Graph and select Align to Path, the heading always
>gets messed. For example, the object will be aligned properly until the
>second keyframe, then it flips 90 or 180 degrees, until the the second
>to last keyframe, when it flips back to normal. The same problem occurs
>when saving the path to do a Path Extrude in Modeler. When extruding,
>the object gets twisted at certain keyframe angles.
>
>Any clues out there?

You probably didn't build your object with the X+ axis being the
"front" of the object....  (At least that's what I think it said was
needed in the manual...).  The problem your describing sounds like
that could be it.  The key frames force it to face how you want it,
the "align to path" orients it according to the X+ face.... It reverts
with the last key because you defined the orientation there...

Of course, I could be totaly off :)

L8r G8r
 Keith

BTW: Anyone out there have a good "house cat" object with bones I can
use?? (Non commercial).- Thanks
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From: [e-mail] (MICHAEL C. LING)
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On Feb 24, 1996 02:19:20 in article <Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!>,
'[e-mail] (Stranahan)' wrote:


>Since we're discussing ads, here was my idea for LW ads - an idea that I
>had while at NewTek and tried to develop there...this is designed for CGW,


I think a crippled but self running demo of layout/modeler playing
tutorials would convince most people of what LW can do. They'll see how
"easy" it is to use by example.

--
M C L -

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Barden)
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Subject: FS: Toaster4000 for $1,000.00
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Hi All,

I'm selling my Video Toaster 4000 w/3.0 and 3.1 upgrade software.

I would like to get $1,000.00 for it or make an offer.

I would be interested in trading for IBM-PC memory modules also.

-Steve


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Is the TBC IV Card still available?? I am looking for immediate
purchase.

Ted
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From: [e-mail] (Robert Bodek)
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Subject: FS:LightWave Workstation
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 17:24:09 GMT
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I am currently in possesion of a PC workstation that is about a
month old.  I have been using it to run LighWave, and it runs
great.  However, it now looks like I need to step up to the SGI
platform.

Here's what is on the system:
-ViewSonic 17" Professional Series Monitor (.25 dpi 1600x1280)
-32 MB(Extended Data Out)Ram
-Intel Pentium 120 Processor (Intel "Endevor" Motherboard)
-DPS Perception Video Recorder (PVR 2500)
-2.1 GB Fast SCSI Hard Drive for Perception
-1.6 GB Maxtor Hard Drive System Disk
-4x speed Mitsumi CD-ROM (IDE)
-Microsoft Mouse
-101 Key Keyboard
-14.4 Modem (Modem Blaster)
-16-bit Sound Blaster "Vibra" Sound Card
-Diamond Stealth 64 with 4 megs VRAM
-Large Tower Case with 5External 5.25"/2 External 3.25" bays
-3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy
-LightWave 3D Version 4.0 (Free! with purchase of system)

Just to clarify the above, I will give you my copy of LightWave,
in the box, free of charge.  In fact, the registration card is
still in the box, so you can register it to yourself.

Also, in case you are not familiar with the Perception Video
Recorder, it is a top-of-the-line digital video board that allows
you to record video to a dedicated hard drive, as well as output
to videotape.  This is especially useful for putting your LightWave
animations on tape so you can show people the work that you do.
You can also do all kinds of video editing with professional
results.
It supports S-Video, Composite, and Component Video for both input
and output.
However, my board (PVR 2500) only allows for video output.
But if you want to, you can purchase the daughterboard, which will
allow you to capture video.

This is an outstanding graphics workstation, and I really hate to
see it go.
I am asking $8000
If you have any questions, want to make an offer, or want to buy
the system at this price, feel free to E-mail me at:

                        [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Re: Free Range Digital Imaging: Still around?
Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:42:32 -0500
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They are - call 505 area code info to get the number.....




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Competitive upgrade for TS - No, I don't think so

Dongle - not sure, and not really sure if they are sure

Integrated modeler/render - I hope not. I don't know any LW users who want
that - modeling is one job, and animation is another - I would like an
easier 'pipeline' between the two.....

OpenGL - there are plug-ins already



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From: [e-mail] (Wanna B 3D)
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Subject: PAR over network for SN?
Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:48:56 -0500
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I have 2 computers networked for the sole purpose of rendering via
ScreamerNet.  The problem is; I can't get windows (3.11 OR win95 for that
matter) to recognize my PAR as a legitimate hard drive.  Under win3.11 I
can share the PAR drive, the other node (windows95) says that the drive is
not accessable.

Is anybody out there using SN to render directly to their PAR drive?!
Please help.

Thank You,
Frank Chiappetta
BaseTwo Imaging
http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html
            Frank Chiappetta
      <<<BaseTwo Imaging>>>
...The World Inside My Computer...
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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
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Subject: Re: lightwave anims on PC (no SF recorder needed)
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In message <[e-mail]>
        [e-mail] writes:

> Adam Chrystie wrote:
> >
> > yea, but i do not think the board will playback 640x480 at full
> > res or capture at that resolution...
> >
> > if memory is correct, the board operates at 320x480 and does
> > some weird interpolation.
> >
> > please ocrrect me if i am wrong...
> >
> > Adam
>   There are 2 boards I've been considering for personal use. One is the
> Quadrant Q-motion.  The other, Miro DC20.  Have you, or anyone else had
> any experience with these boards?

No but we are looking into the dc20 seriously for off-line editing
with premiere.As long as the avi`s are called the same we should then
be able to
move the project onto the pvr machine ,load it and on line automatically.

Will let you know how it goes.

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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
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Subject: Re: Amiga -Pc Lightwave
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In message <[e-mail]>
        [e-mail] (Andrew Barnett) writes:

> Hi all again ,

> Well I finally going for a

> P133,
> 32Mb Memory,( Got a few simms in my Amiga maybe 40Mb ;))
> 6x CD-Rom
> Medium Tower,
> 4 VRam Diamond Sleath,
> 1 Gig HD E-IDE ( To start with )

> Is Windows NT useable on this system ?


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> New evidence proves John Sheridan devil worship connection.


Yes it most certainly is ,it`s the same as what we use although 64
meg would help to stop usage of vrtual mem in big renders.exellant
starting position.
Enjoy  :-}
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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
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Subject: Re: FS:  Lightwave 3D 4.0 for SGI
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In message <4go7vp$[e-mail]>
        "Andrew S. Milkis" <[e-mail]> writes:

> For Sale,

> LightWave 3D 4.0 for SGI.  Lists currently for $2495.  Will go
> lower.  Please email offers.  Thanks!

> -Andrew Milkis

What type of sgi did you run it on?
It looked pretty slow on an extreme!!



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In message <4goa8d$[e-mail]>
        [e-mail] writes:

> >   [e-mail] (Jeff Yeh) writes:
> >    Anyone have any suggestions on the best compositing
> >  package that can composite Lightwave animations with
> >  moving live video backgrounds?  I'm looking for
> >  something on the PC, not Mac, that costs hopefully
> >  less than $500, which is easier to use than
> >  compositing with Lightwave.
> >

Try Adobe Premiere 4 it allows all kinds of digital compositing
E.G alpha channel
    Track matt
    Blue & green screen

unlimited layers
virtual clips ect..ect..




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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
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        [e-mail] writes:

> Hello, has anyone been able to get NT3.51 to work with the PAR card?
> I cant, it keeps telling me thier isnt enough expanded memory to load
> pardrv .
> Please help, thanks in advance, Shawn


Talk to dps tech.They will fill you in on the position of nt &par.
They told me a driver was quite close.



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In message <4goa5a$[e-mail]>
        [e-mail] writes:

> >   [e-mail](William Teegarden) writes:

> >  Assuming you're getting say, 64MB of RAM, a two gig drive, and the
> >  Perception with drive, and lets throw in a 21" monitor, I'd say about
> >  $12k.
> >
> >  GT

>  Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:  tell
> me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet, but the
> extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.


>
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> Any ideas why that is way cheaper than the average U.K price?


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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:33:56 -0800
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Adam Chrystie wrote:

> > That dosen't make sense.  You're saying that if Amblin's name d
>   So what's the deal when voyageer flies through the cloud layer..this was a LW and
> Alias mix?? Did santa barbara studios use a box model to displace the cloud layer and
> then the LW model was composited in the alias anim? Or was the voyager modeled in LW
> and converted to Alias??

I remember John Gross saying that it was a composite shot. The ship was
LW the gaseous clouds were done by SB Studios in WaveFront.

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From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Where to buy Penello?
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Dahcoata wrote:
>
> I have heard of a program for the pc called Penello.  Apparently it
> includes macros and other goodies.  I have not seen it advertised.  Does
> anyone know who is selling it?
>
> Please send e-mail if you can help me.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gary

There is a "Lite" version that ships with LW as a plugin.
The full version is sold by Xaos Tools in San Fransisco.

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Andrew Barnett wrote:

> 4 VRam Diamond Sleath,
> 1 Gig HD E-IDE ( To start with )
>
> Is Windows NT useable on this system ?

I'm sure you mean Diamond Stealth... ;)

and yes. NT would work on this sytstem.  You'll significantly faster
render times with NT vs. '95, but be advised that NT's gonna eat up
about 16 MEGS!  So you'll have 16MB RAM left for LW, which could cause
problems if you're gonna do complex scenes.

If those Amiga SIMMS work, and you can up the RAM to 40MB, you'll
definately have yourself an NT machine!

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From: Paul Lara <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Close-up views on Layers?
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J.A.B. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   I just happen to see something, I was reading in chapter 4 of FX Kit of LW
> and on page 72 it had a question about saving different views in Modeler
> by holding down the Cntrl key and select from 1 thru 9 on the numberic
> keypad to "Save" the view.
>
> Question: Is this feature for LW 4.0?

Yes, and (on the Amiga, at least,) it's the SHIFT key that you hold down
while pressing the numeric 1-9 keys.  It's a GREAT tool when you're
working on complex objects, because it will remember EVERYTHING about
that view setting, including hiding/unhiding polygons.

Paul Lara (WaveRider)
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>plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?

I always wondered why somebody didn't port AREXX to WinNT, I mean OS/2
has it, the Amiga had it since '87 (standard after '90-91).  What is
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>Yeah Richard I went over there too and messers Gould and Bishop (the guys @ Premier
>Vision) are indeed very helpful and knowledgeable. Unfortunately, and they might well
>agree with me here, they are enthusiasts and gfx/video experts rather than hard-sell
>businessmen, as Ive only seen fleeting adverts for LW in computer based mags such
>as Amiga Computing. LW NEEDS much more of a marketing push.

How about now that 4.0 is out for all systems, they cut down the price on LW3.5 so that it could compete with other Amiga packages l=
ike Imagine4.0 and Cine4D.  This could be a version in a cheeper box, minus the video-tape.  Ideally, I'd like to have 3.5+plug-in s=
upport becasue there are a lot of good Amiga programmers out there (DUST, FreeForm spring to mind) who could really do some cool stu=
ff with LW.

Zoltan (4.0 user, who wants LW in the hands (legally) of Amiga users everywhere)





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I suggest you get the LightWave Pro Compilation special offer:
It is a giant book of almost all the LightWave Pro articles plus
a CD containing scenes, examples..etcc

for about $40

Look at http://www.portal.com/~amg/ for more information....

ALSO

 There is a book by Alan chan ..i do not have the distributors
number handy at the moment..


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jparish (dmv.com) wrote:
: Plug Ins for LightWave.. for solar Flairs, Yes you can get them.. the Amiga and PC
: platforms both have the plug ins... a company by the name of DevWare sells the
: complete systems fof Amiga and PC for lightwave and toasters.. and MANY filters and
: plugins.

Wrong.  Lens Flares have been built into LightWave for a long time now...no
plugins required.

Also, DevWare no longer exists...they changed their name to NTI and
dropped a lot of the stuff that DevWare used to carry.  NTI is now a
company that deals mostly with high-end hardware/software...this is where
I bought my Raptor3 from and they have been taking good care of me.  =)

--
                                     -David Warner
                                      [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail](William Teegarden)
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Subject: Re: 21" monitors
Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:54:08 GMT
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>
>    Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:
tell
>me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet,
but the
>extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.
>

Like Ferris Buller said, "If you have the means, I highly recomend one"

GT



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From: [e-mail] (C Mak)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Help! Can't get into Modeller
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I hope somebody can help or give some insight here.  I can't get into
the Modeller.  When I click on it, the Modeller screen flashes on and
then I'm back into Program Manager.  I have no trouble getting into
Layout.

I had no trouble with it previously but I recently had the computer
apart to try to install a scanner card.  I thought that maybe I had
moved the dongle (it was a tricky dongle installation...any move made
it unstable).

Is this a dongle thing or something else?  I've tried moving the
dongle, jiggling it, but no luck.

I'm running on a P100, 16 meg RAM, Win 3.11.

Chris



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From: [e-mail](William Teegarden)
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Subject: Re: Science Fiction Ghetto - Lightwave
Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:06:35 GMT
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I
>
><snip>
>: Actually, it's possible to create a totally realistic human in CG
form.
>
>:  It's already been done from what I've heard, from very reliable
>: sources.
>
>: GT
>
>
>Sure, just get a 3D scanner, the equivilant of a three dimensional
>photocopier.  Technology can bridge that "artistic ability" gap for
any 3D
>animator.  3D animation is becomming stale due to the increased use of

>scanners and motion capture.  If we (animation artists and animation
viewer)
>are lucky this new fad will pass, just as rotoscoping did in the early

>stages of traditional animation.

To each his own.  I myself will use whatever tool I have at my disposal
to get the job done.

As for human forms, getting the mesh into the computer is only the very
beginning.  I'm referring to what has to transpire next to bring life
to the character, from real looking skin with pores to subtle nuances
of movement.

It take more than just a bunch of fancy equipment to bring CG to life.
Part of the artistry is knowing what tool to use and when to use it.

GT



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From: [e-mail]
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>   [e-mail] (MICHAEL C. LING) writes:

>  No... Microsoft merely wants to destroy them and take their place. I guess
>  if Microsoft was afraid of them, they'd just make sure 3DS MAX won't run on
>  WIN NT or  Win 95 or Dos; that or buy Autodesk and bury them.

    While MS may have the bux to outright purchase ADesk (if it were for sale),
I doubt even they could arrange beforehand to fine tune the OS to reject a specific
application while remaining viable.



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From: [e-mail] (Kent Lidke)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:03:27 GMT
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>>I'm trying to save the railroad... Lee Stranahan

>"Who is Lee Stranahan?" ;)  Bryant Reif

If he's trying to save the railroad, wouldn't that make him Dagny
Taggart? <g>

John Galt would just spirit all the engineers away, thus teaching us
all a lesson by depriving us of Lightwave.




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From: "Andrew S. Milkis" <[e-mail]>
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Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:27:45 GMT
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For Sale:

A DPS PAR Card for the PC, with current software release
(1.61), all cables and manuals.  Hard disk not included.

$1000


-Andrew Milkis


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From: Sam Marrocco <[e-mail]>
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What is Powerview plug-in and what types of cards does it run on?

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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"Andrew S. Milkis" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Simon,
>
>I ran it on an Iris Indigo.  To answer your speed question,
>an SGI Indigo2 Extreme's processor is usually a 150-200MHz
>R4400.  In Lightwave pro, that ranked in the Pentium
>range.  What you pay for with an Extreme is the "Extreme
>Chip Set" which provides rather intense 3D and graphics
>acceleration.  When Lightwave was ported to SGI, it was not
>written to take advantage of the 3D acceleration hardware that
>the Extreme has.  Likewise, it does not take advantage of
>OpenGL on Windows NT.  From what I understand, that would be a
>MASSIVE operation, and is being implemented in the next major
>revision of Lightwave.
>
>I hope that answered your question.
>
>
>Andrew
>
Supporting the Extreme and OpenGL still will not make Lightwave or any
other program render final output any faster.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (FCAP)
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Subject: Re: LW interfacing with Film
Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:41:23 -0500
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>>Scott knows well what I meant by 'liar, and worse.' Scott, and the other
animators at Area 51, work on machines that rightly belong to Ken every
day. Scott knows that Tim promised Ken time and time that Ken>>

I've listened in on this argument of your's Ken for many months now
without a bit of response but enough's enough.  You may not remember me
but you, Tim and Richard Payne all came to my house to possibly do the
effects on my second feature film No Way Back.  (747 lands in cow field).
At the time you were both estatic to be working with Tim, a man who you
both claimed had film effects experience way beyond anything you two had -
put together.   I've known Tim professionally for about 9 years and have
found him to be a very personable, likable man with a thorough knowledge
of all aspects of film effects.  (And believe me, that's rare in the
competitive cut-throat FX industry these days)  Dragging his reputation
down through public airwaves is not only unprofessional but liable to
accusations of personal slander.  Now I don't pretend to know everything
about your situation with Area 51 and I don't care to know, but I'm sure
you and Tim both benefitted from your association.  You may have the
modeling skill of an absolute genius, but without someone out there
selling the company (TIM M.) Area 51 would have nothing for you to build.
I have seen Tim in action as  a representative of his company and his
professionalism mixed with a likable sense of humor has made him someone
producers and directors WANT to work with.  We know he doesn't DO IT ALL -
but we know he'll come through by hiring the right technical people that
have the talent to produce the work he's promised.  That is what he does.
That is his true talent, one that is just as important as anything any CGI
artist working does.   Ask any working supervisor, producer or director
and they'll tell you working through the politics is the hardest part of
this business.   Tim knows that andhis skill at working inside these
boundries is above average.  In fact, it was a meeting with Joel Soisson
of Neo Motion Pictures (my producer) that gave Tim and Area 51 the
connection and ammunition to land the Space effects job to begin with.
And it wasn't because he had Lee or Richard or anyone else, it was because
of HIS background and knowledge of the FX industry as a whole and lik it
or not, his ability to talk the talk and walk the walk.  This is not a
business for the timid or those whose egos bruise easily and Tim has shown
time and time again that he has the right combination of talent and
presentation to be a complete success in this industry.  There's room for
everyone.

Frank Cappello

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Subject: Re: LW on NT
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[e-mail] (elixer) wrote:

>
>
>I've just come over from the 3DS world and I love LW4.0. My problem is
>that I use Dave's TGA animator to create 16bit FLH animations. Light
>Wave saves The Images I this Format( Name.TGA#.TGA). DTA can't
>read those long names. is there a way to make LW save The files in the
>regular dos format?
>
>[e-mail]
>

There is a button in the record panel for selecting the naming format.
Then it's just a matter of not using to long a prefix.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Subject: Re: Curve to motion path?
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[e-mail] (Mel Norris) wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I need to convert a complex curve into a motion path for use in
>Layout.  Is there a plug-in or technique that I am missing?  I can't
>find anything in the manuals.
>
>Thanks,
>Mel Norris
>Resolution Imaging
>

There is a path to motion plugin, if I'm not mistaken.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: Lance Gray <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: PC to Flyer?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:56:52 -0800
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> Yes, you need Ethernet cards for both machines, NFS server for the PC, and
> Ami TCP/IP for the Amiga.  Total cost about a grand, but boy is it handy.
> You just punch up "Iff2Clip.rexx on the Flyer and show it where your
> frames are on the PC.
>

    OR...if you don't have the cash & have a little (sometimes a lot)
of time---you can use TWIN EXPRESS (shareware!!!) to render on the PC
then move the files over a null cable to the Amiga!  I do it regularly
until I get my Perception...it works perfectly---again, it NOT the
FASTEST way to go but it's definately the cheapest!!!!!


 _______________________________________________________________________

 Lance Gray ([e-mail])
 Empire Productions Inc.         ** 25 GIG FLYER & LIGHTWAVE EQUIPPED**


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  for the Spirit of glory and of GOD rests on you."  1 PETER 4:14
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From: [e-mail] (Blaise Fanning)
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Subject: Re: Paint for DEC Alpha
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>Pirating issues aside, the Intel version of Photoshop will not work on
>an alpha machine. Alpha's currently can only emulate 16 bit Intel
>operations, since much of Photoshop is 32 bit it must be recompiled
>for the Alpha processor to work. Look for an upcoming program called
>FX32 from DEC, which will allow the Alpha to emulate a 486 in 32bit
>mode.
>

I can't say much about FX!32, except that I saw it running 32-bit Photoshop at
Comdex this year and that Digital's party line on the performance is that the
application will run at 70%-80% of native *Alpha* speeds (how fast the code
would run if it were compiled natively).

Just to clear things up, the landscape on Intel applications will look
something like this (as of 7-95) :

    16 bit Intel Win 3.1 Applications  - Emulated by the current emulator
    32 bit Intel Win 3.1 Applications  - Emulated by a new emulator
    16 bit Intel Win95/NT Applications - Supposedly Impossible
    32 bit Intel Win95/NT Applications - FX!32

These methods presuppose Windows NT 4.0 and FX!32.



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Dave Paige wrote:

>> [...] ( Name.TGA#.TGA). DTA can't read those long names.

> There is a button in the record panel for selecting the naming format.
> Then it's just a matter of not using to long a prefix.

And of not including the .TGA extension when you type in the base name.
LW will add that itself when you use one of the Output Filename Formats
with ".xxx" at the end.

- Ernie


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From: "Andrew S. Milkis" <[e-mail]>
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Dave,

Agreed.  I hope my post was not inferring that it would
accelerate final image output.

Andrew

P.S., So, getting back to the subject at hand, Would anyone
like to by my copy of Lightwave for SGI????




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From: [e-mail] (Chris Blanos)
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[e-mail] (Jeff Holinski) wrote:

>I know that this is a bit off topic, but I'd like to start adding sound
>effects to some of my LightWave animations. I've got a huge collection of
>sound files on my Amiga (iff, 8svx) and I'd like to convert them to .wav files
>to combine with avi's.
>Anybody know of a program that will do this? I'd perfer PC, but Amiga will do
>as well.

Check out SOX (SOund eXchange: Universal Sound Sample Translator). It
is available for the Amiga (at Aminet as AmiSOX33.lha), PC (at SimTel
MS-DOS area as sox7dos.zip), O/S2, Linux, Atari(!)... It has a basic
command line interface, but it will convert practically any sound
format to practically any other sound format.



- Chris
chrisb@.njcc.com
http://pluto.njcc.com/~chrisb/



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In article <4gqr8u$[e-mail]>, Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
>
>I always wondered why somebody didn't port AREXX to WinNT, I mean OS/2
>has it, the Amiga had it since '87 (standard after '90-91).  What is
>with this?

Rexx HAS been ported to WinNT by a few people however none are supported in
any application.  None are as tied in to the OS like AmigaDOS and ARexx are.

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From: typhoto <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: You Don't Need Raytracing (WAS Re: Lee Stranahan's Problem With NewTek)'
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:25:56 -0600
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Stranahan wrote:
>
> 'Anti-tracers' also seem to ignore the fact that LightWave has an
> =intelligent= raytracer - rather then 'brute force' tracing every pixel,
> it traces only what's needed and shades the rest...
>
> _____________________________________________
> Lee Stranahan
> Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
> A : Lee's new and improved home page!
> URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


Bravo!

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:     ????  Non-lightwavers, don't be mislead:  Lens flares are BUILT-INTO the
: Lightwave software and DO NOT require any additional plugins.

they were talking about the solar promenience (sp) in the Voyger
intro...lightwave does not have solar effects built in yet.  After
reading this original post about the effect...I messed areoung with LW
and I DID get the old Amiga 2000 to do the same thing (about) took about
45 minutes to render (I set High/motion blur/particle blu...
on/procedurals up the butt....) I did not include the sun itself.  This
method also is giving me monster fire effects, not just the fractal noise
stuff, but roaring flames.


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From: Bryant Reif <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Somebody's Problem With NewTek
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >   [e-mail] (MICHAEL C. LING) writes:
>
> >  No... Microsoft merely wants to destroy them and take their place. I guess
> >  if Microsoft was afraid of them, they'd just make sure 3DS MAX won't run on
> >  WIN NT or  Win 95 or Dos; that or buy Autodesk and bury them.
>
>         While MS may have the bux to outright purchase ADesk (if it were for sale),
> I doubt even they could arrange beforehand to fine tune the OS to reject a specific
> application while remaining viable.

There were compelling rumors that MS entered code into Windows 3.x that would
cause it to crash more often if the user had DR.DOS as opposed to MS DOS.  Of
course with the JD's spotlight fixed on them now, I doubt MS would try anything
like that.  Hell they don't need to.  MS will rule the computing world regardless
until they become too big, screw up, and become another IBM.  It will happen... I
hope.



|  Bryant Reif, 3D/Graphics/Telecom       M            Home: [phone]  |
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From: [e-mail] (Thies Uhl)
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Are there any lightwavers in germany?


-Thies Uhlenbruch-

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From: "Frank D. Cocke" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: PC syquests on Amiga
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To: Joe Schrengohst <[e-mail]>

Joe Schrengohst wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to read and write to PC formatted syquest
> cartridges using CrossDOS on the Amiga. I can read/write to Amiga and
> MAC format syquests (using MaxDOS). I use CrossDOS for floppies all the
> time but now have a need to use PC syquests on Amiga.
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Joe Schrengohst
> Channel 3 Productions

Joe,

 I can't remember the version number but you need a higher
version than the one that comes with the Amiga OS. The higher
version has the ability to read PC Syquest.
Consultrons Ph. number is [phone].

Hope this helps,

Frank

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From: ASK ME NICELY <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Spline Patching and Skinning
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 10:21:12 -0500
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yes, please send me some info also, patching still seems like a mystery to me,
sometimes i get it sometimes not :(

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From: ASK ME NICELY <[e-mail]>
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did anyone see the New York Times article last week (i think) about the computer
graphix industry?  They talked about the different segments such as videogames,
post-production, etc. and wrote what software is being used where.  Lightwave
was mentioned under the videogame/multimedia section.  Very cool!

Josh
Midway Games

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> Well, I can't say for sure how they did it, but the Alias particle
> stuff uses
> something they call volume light sources to create wind for the
> particles.  It
> looks like they had a bunch of volume lights in the particle layer and
> turned
> them on in sequence to give the appearance of the bow wave of the ship.
>
> As for whether Alias of Wavefront was used (not that it matters now, as
> they're the same company) I'm pretty sure it was Alias for the solar
> flares
> and space fog.  Unless, of course, the Alias sales reps were lying to my

I'm pretty sure that there was a piece in LWPRO about the effects saying
that the cloud was Wavefront (which had not yet been teamed with Alias)
and the ship was Lightwave.



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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Re: Any Austin Texas Lightwave users outthere?
Date: 26 Feb 1996 05:27:22 -0500
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I know there are users in Austin, but I doubt there's a group....form one!
And have a Shiner Bock and think of me!



_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
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A : Lee's new and improved home page!
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From: Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]>
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[e-mail](Joe Schrengohst ) wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to read and write to PC formatted syquest
> cartridges using CrossDOS on the Amiga. I can read/write to Amiga and
> MAC format syquests (using MaxDOS). I use CrossDOS for floppies all the
> time but now have a need to use PC syquests on Amiga.
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Joe Schrengohst
> Channel 3 Productions
>
>
A friend uses PC formatted syquests to make cd roms on a PC, CD-writer
He said he used the ordinary crossdoss that came with his A1200 WB3.0
but he had to modify a device driver. In the dir devs/dosdrivers
should be PC0: and PC1: these can be edited in a texteditor, and
should be modified to contain the right amount of cylinder/tracks/etc.
, So you probably need the syquest manual for that.

Good Luck, Wooly Mittens.

"Any sufficiently developed technology
                 is indistinguishable from magic", Arthur C. Clarke

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From: [e-mail] (Robin Luiten)
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Subject: Re: Ground Fog - Related to Feb 96 VTU Taming the Wave Article
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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996 01:46:10 GMT, Robert Dorney <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>> BTW The picture of the building with fog at its base at the start of the
>> article looks awsome.
>>
>> Robin Luiten
>
>I dont suppose you would be so kind as to relay some of the information from
>VTU regarding ground-fog creation, for those of us that don't receive VTU?
>(ie, Pal based Lightwave users =))

Huh ? PAL based - is that meant to imply your in England ? and don't
have access ?

Cause I am in Australia - can't get further away from the states :-)

But some local technical book stores import VTU...

I am not sure on the legalities of my repeating much of the tut.

Anyone have any Avise ?
Just how far can I go before they might get upset ? :-)
Its actually relatively simple so I wonder if they'd even care ?

>
>           * 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: Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Amiga -Pc Lightwave
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[e-mail] (Andrew Barnett) wrote:
>
> Hi all again ,
>
> Well I finally going for a
>
> P133,
> 32Mb Memory,( Got a few simms in my Amiga maybe 40Mb ;))
> 6x CD-Rom
> Medium Tower,
> 4 VRam Diamond Sleath,
> 1 Gig HD E-IDE ( To start with )
>

Well, Windows NT is but Lightwave certainly isn't, 32 megs is NOT a
lot of memory for PC-lightwave.
Since all textures are stored in 24-bit any scene will quikly consume
most memory for textures. A 24 or 32 bit framebuffer for any frame
with a decent resolution is gonna cost you the rest of your memory.
And since windows NT uses half your memory to function, there will not
be a lot left and windows will resort to swapfile rendering.

Also I think a 1 gig harddisk is laughably small. I filled two 1.6gig
harddisks up within 3 months of buying them. And storing the rendered
frames is starting to become a problem, let alone processing them.

If you want to play your anims a p133 is a must but also a video
harddisk because playback of an AVI-anim will require a decent
transfer rate (say 3 megs per sec) and it still stops playing
every ones in a while.

don't think i dont like my setup (the same as your but win95),
the render speed is right but the processing and playback require
a stronger system still.

Wooly Mittens,

"Any sufficiently developed technology
             is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently developed technology
             is extinguishable with standard CO2 equipment"
                                        PC user emergency guide

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From: [e-mail] (Wanna B 3D)
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Subject: FAQ for ScreamerNet?
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Does one exist?

Frank Chiappetta
http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html

            Frank Chiappetta
      <<<BaseTwo Imaging>>>
...The World Inside My Computer...
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      < [e-mail]>>

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When I chose some poly's in the modeler and make them a surface,
Is there any way to re-chose these polygons without repicking them by
hand, but rather by picking their surface name?

It would be handy for checking/hiding/editing purposes, and it
struck me as odd that nobody ever mentioned it.

Wooly Mittens,

"Any sufficiently developed technology
                     is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently developed technology
                     is inextinguishable with water"  Fire Guidelines

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <4gq79o$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Stranahan) writes:

>Integrated modeler/render - I hope not. I don't know any LW users who
want
>that - modeling is one job, and animation is another - I would like an
>easier 'pipeline' between the two.....
>
>

    I beg to differ. In one way I agree - I don't want to model in layout,
however, I'd love to be able to use the modeler toolset in layout.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could clone objects in layout with the same
tools you get in modeler? For my work, this would save hours. I'd love it
if they would add basic polygon creation abilities in layout (in the SDK,
not the interface) this way real-time object to object skinning could be
achieved without the assortment of hacks you'd have to do to create it
now..



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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Check in your user manuals and read about the function "Polygon
Statistics" this will tell you how to select surfaces.


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Frank :

This is Lee Stranahan, Ken's brother. I said I'm not going to argue this
issue on this newsgroup, but to clarify a non-issue related topic..

I, not Ken, wrote any of the posts you've seen. There has been no argument
'going on for months'. I have avoided talking about the subject almost
altogether. The disucssion here lasted about 4 days.

I've been very clear on what Tim did to Ken, and your post doesn't address
that in any way. If anyone wants to get into this, they can email me. You
are welcome to do the same.



_____________________________________________
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In article <[e-mail]>, Paul Lara <[e-mail]> writes:

>and yes. NT would work on this sytstem.  You'll significantly faster
>render times with NT vs. '95, but be advised that NT's gonna eat up
>about 16 MEGS!  So you'll have 16MB RAM left for LW, which could cause
>problems if you're gonna do complex scenes.

     whats significantly faster? Benchmarks of revision C prove the two
operating systems to be about the same speed..


Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
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In article <[e-mail]>, Paul Lara <[e-mail]> writes:

>I agree! There is an interesting life cyle of a software development
>company:
>    -programmer creates a great new app, and begins fine-tuning code
>    -he hires his friends to keep up with demand and changes
>    -he forms a larger company, complete with Bean-counters
>    -BeanCounters can't begin to comprehend the programmers, who
>     insist on coming to work in T-SHIRTS and SHORTS! (God forbid)
>    -BeanCounters work behind the scenes to Oust programmer from
>     the President's chair, and replace him with a 'Real Business
>     Man'
>    -Said New Suit arrives, and begins posting memos (to delight of
>     His BeanPeers) that there is now a DRESS CODE that will be
>     enforced, and everyone is expected to Clock in ON TIME!
>
>    -Programmers can't begin to conceive what this Suit is talking
>     about, and begin jumping ship in Droves!
>
>    -Beanie and Co. Inc., are now left to manage a hollow software
>     company, without new ideas or critical programmers even if they
>     COULD think up the next killer app!
>
>    -Company farts, implodes, and falls over dead.
>
>

     I can't agree with this analogy more. I'm currently working in a
company begining this cycle - everyone realizes it's inevitable, even our
ex-programer CEO - we just figure we'll jump ship when/if it happens. It's
funny, the artists want more artists, the programers want more
programmers, and the buisness people want more buisness weenies.. At least
the artists and programmers seem to agree that we don't need more buisness
weenies..



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
RICH!!!!"



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From: [e-mail] (MarcICIB)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave & Non-parity RAM
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The parity ram is set when an error in RAM happends. Then the PC Bios get
an INT and stops normaly the machine. It is nothing what has to Do with
Software just with your PC Hardware. But some Pentium Boards won't work
without Parity or singele sided SIMM's. Also mixining different Simm's
from different manufactuers gives often problems..

Marc ICIB

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Adam Chrystie <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Check in your user manuals and read about the function "Polygon
> Statistics" this will tell you how to select surfaces.
>
Gee how emba?rassing right under my nose...

Manuals?... We don't need no stinking manuals!  ;)

Well I've also got the manuals for Imagine and my computer and
all of the pheriperals at my work, thing is there as good as new:
..never been read.

I sorta jumped in after we'd dumped Imagine for our "project".

Wooly.

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From: [e-mail] (Axis3D)
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In article <4gkn91$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] writes:

>Does anyone out there know of a good paint package for the DEC ALPHA
>running  NT?  I had tried Photoshop, but of course it doesn't install
>properly.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>-Dana McNeil
> Industrial Animation
>
>

Adobe Photoshop does not yet exist for the Alpha platform yet.  I spoke
with an Alpha dealer recently who said that Adobe will soon be porting the
software over, but I have not heard of any release dates yet.  Shortly,
there will be Alpha software that will allow you to run your Intel Windows
x86 software in emulation mode.  I have heard of only one paint software
for Alpha (sorry, I can't remember the name)  but everyone tells me it is
not very good and to hold out for Photoshop.

Kevin Fanning
Axis3D

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From: [e-mail] (Greg Rodenroth)
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Subject: Re:  Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 26 Feb 1996 15:00:31 GMT
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>Hey everyone!!! NewTek CEO Dwight Parscale's son wrote the following...
>
>(Of course, he didn't say he was Dwight's son - I found this out by
>checking his AOL profile.)

Been checking out your Encyclopedia Brown books again...you really are a super
sleuth for checking an AOL profile...Hey everybody...the cat is out of the bag, if
you want to know who someone REALLY is, just check their AOL profile.

>I guess it's not fair to pick on children, but when I first met Dwight he
>said that while he didn't know anything about computers, but he was
>-very- proud of how much his son knew about computers and he'd be asking
>for his advice often. So, here's a view into the mind of one of NewTek's
>CEO's chief advisors. Plus, this child goes to college, where one is
>expected to be able to string together a few words into a coherent
>thought. I'm very forgiving of typos, spelling errors, or dropped words in
>online correspondence - I don't expect 'polish', but this note shows a
>marked inability to communicate using the English language

If you want to make a legitimate point, you need to go after what they say, don't
just attack the individual.

And why should anyone have to write to "your expectations" in something as
casual as a newsgroup?  What do you know about college level English courses
anyway?  By the way, saying you are forgiving and then listing the sins is nothing
more than a junior high debate team trick.  You did finish junior high, didn't you
Lee?

>Two scariest statements 1)  'technology sells itself' -  which has
>actually been argued by others here.  I hold the view that marketing is
>crucial - and that NewTek could have been doing much better marketing for
>the amount of money they had. I know I certainly could have.
>2) Losing people makes no difference since Tim was always the brains
>behind the company - Tim is a real smart guy, but I don't believe he
>thinks this. But lets take this arguement at face value and let make a
>suggestion - he should fire your Dad right away, little Parscale....

Tell us o' tell us little lee, why should Parscale be fired.  You are so quick to
name the punishment, yet you never even told us the crime...Condescension
without facts to back it up is nothing more than rhetoric and name calling.

If you are so self assured and armed with your "inside" knowledge, why then can't
you take a little heat.  Every once in awhile you post something genuinely
interesting and informative.  But this is more like your trademark material.
Hey...does anybody have any cheese?  Lee's got a whole lot of whine.

Regards

The Glory Boys


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From: [e-mail] (The Glory Boys)
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We are about to get lightwave for PC so that we can speed up our rendering
(P100 32MBRAM on NT).
What I want to know is this: Is there a way to link the PC to the amiga so that I
can render IFFs to my PC hard drive and then convert them to Flyer clips??
Help me so I can get my boss to pony up the bucks for PC Lightwave sooner!

The Glory Boys


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William Teegarden wrote:
>
> >
> >       Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:
> tell
> >me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet,
> but the
> >extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.
> >
>
> Like Ferris Buller said, "If you have the means, I highly recomend one"
>
> GTBeware of the display card you use with the 21" monitors. The Imagine #9 flickers like crazy
under NT(they haven't updated the drivers in a long time, and I've requested to deaf ears).
The Diamond Stealth 4mb VRAM is a better choice.

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In <4gr0bg$[e-mail]> [e-mail](William
Teegarden) writes:
>
>
>>
>>    Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:
>tell
>>me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet,
>but the
>>extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.
>>
>
>Like Ferris Buller said, "If you have the means, I highly recomend
one"
>
>GT
>
>


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In <4gr0bg$[e-mail]> [e-mail](William
Teegarden) writes:
>
>
>>
>>    Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:
>tell
>>me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet,
>but the
>>extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.
>>
>
>Like Ferris Buller said, "If you have the means, I highly recomend
one"
>
>GT

Screen estate is always a help. We usually run two Lightwaves and a
Modeler at once, not easy to do on smaller rezs. Of course, make sure
you get enough display memory for your graphics card too..

AC


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Marco Sederquist <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I have a question regarding the fastest cpu my motherboard will
> take. I have a SQ588 Pentium PCI motherboard, it says that it runs

I have a question about what kind of power supply I can put in my
system.  Right now I have one that is 200 watts.  What is the largest
one I can get?

> ps. need more speed for LW 3D

PS - the power supply will be in a system running LW 3D.

  - steve

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Ernie Wright <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > What do you rename Powerview to, to not get the error code when you
> > run it?
>
> pviewigl.p

Huh?  I didn't have to rename powerview to anything after installing
LW4, and I don't get any error codes.  I must be missing something here.

  - steve

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In <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Johnny Pettersson) writes:

> >I am having major problems with converting Imagine objects to Lightwave
> >ones. I am using Pix Pro 2 to do the conversion. Pix Pro really does
> >mess the object up something rotten. Eg I have a cylinderical type
> >object in imagine and when I convert it to Lightwave it messes up the
> >normals. Eg some of the faces a facing away from you so lightwave
> >doesn`t draw them.
> >I know why this happens:-
>
> >1) Because Imagine doesn`t care which way the polygons are made eg
> >points can be clockwise or anti clockwise but Lightwave does even if
> >you have double sided turned on from the surface selctor in the
> >modeler. Easy way to solve would be double the polygons but this is
> >too expensive in the polygon count eg it doubles them.
>
>
>
>
> Why not turn on Double Sided in the surface editor. Then all polygons will be
> rendered correctly.
>

Caution--don't forget, there is a rendering bug in one of the versions of
Lightwave (is it 3.5??) which causes errors in rendering polygons with
double-sided turned on.

The best solution is, of course, the most time consuming and
troublesome--simply go through your object and manually rectify the
polygons so they all face the same direction. Yuck.

                                         --DwightG



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From: [e-mail]
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[e-mail](Joe Schrengohst ) wrote:

>Does anyone know how to read and write to PC formatted syquest
>cartridges using CrossDOS on the Amiga. I can read/write to Amiga and
>MAC format syquests (using MaxDOS). I use CrossDOS for floppies all the
>time but now have a need to use PC syquests on Amiga.
>Thanks in advance for any info.

>Joe Schrengohst
>Channel 3 Productions


First off you have to format the syquest on your Amiga from the
Cross-Dos disk .Insert the floppy and click on "Configure 100% dos
disk.This will give it a driver ie PCC.
Click on the Cross-Pc icon with a Bottable Dos Disk in DF0:
NOT A WIN95 disk.Make one from 3.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Dos disk has to have "FDISK" & "FORMAT"on it.
After it boots type in FDISK and follow what it says
Then use FORMAT and do the same
enter a name like Syq1
and you should be set.
Remember,if you are using D-Opus the disk is Called PCC
Cross-Dos recognizes it as C:

I hope this is right,i am doing this from memory,and I don't do this
every day.

"ANIMATION FACTORY" (East)
The leader in Wedding Animations
[e-mail]





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First off you have to format the syquest on your Amiga from the
Cross-Dos disk .Insert the floppy and click on "Configure 100% dos
disk.This will give it a driver ie PCC.
Click on the Cross-Pc icon with a Bottable Dos Disk in DF0:
NOT A WIN95 disk.Make one from 3.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Dos disk has to have "FDISK" & "FORMAT"on it.
After it boots type in FDISK and follow what it says
Then use FORMAT and do the same
enter a name like Syq1
and you should be set.
Remember,if you are using D-Opus the disk is Called PCC
Cross-Dos recognizes it as C:

I hope this is right,i am doing this from memory,and I don't do this
every day.

"ANIMATION FACTORY" (East)
The leader in Wedding Animations
[e-mail]




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Watch how you through around the name pirate!!!!

[e-mail]





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Besides you spelled pirate PRIATE





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From: Frank Chiappetta <[e-mail]>
Subject: ScreamerNet Problems.
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Hello,

Well, I've finally got my pc's linked up together.  I, according to the
instructions, made my screamernet icon.  When I click on the icon (under
windows95) it opens up an ms-dos screen.  It's looking for the job/ack
files on my control computer. (Full Lightwave)  I then initialize the
nodes, sometimes it recognizes the node, sometimes not.  When it does
recognize it, the node will be in a 'wait' state.  I then click on
screamer render.  On the nodes ms-dos window it is going through the
necessary motions.  The scene I'm rendering is "juggler" (not a huge one,
just for test purposes.)  The node is a P5-133.  It is rendering frames
at 1 per second.  I don't believe this to be possible.  When It completes
the rendering, I noticed that no frames had been saved.  Why is this?  Is
there any good information regarding the use of ScreamerNet available?  I
don't believe the manual is a good source.

I appreciate any advice you might have,
Frank Chiappetta
BaseTwo Imaging
http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html


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From: [e-mail] (Equinox II)
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Subject: Re: Solid, shaded, colored modeler previews!
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>I tried it out, and while it is a pretty nice plugin I was disappointed
>that it doesn't show the different surface colors for objects.  In only
>one color, it is little better than the "Solid" preview in modeler.

Well, yes.  What do you want for a free plug-in?

But I think we can pretty much expect more from future versions of
LightWave.
--Brian
Equinox Images, Inc.
http://members.aol.com/equinoxii/

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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Subject: Re:  Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
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I get plenty of heat...look at Foust's posts...or Brent's...or bill...or
Parscale's for that matter (and I think Foust likes me!)  It's not like
baby Parscale sent a post full of intellectual arguements - his post
started with What Garbage! and then 'If you love Play so much, why not go
work for them?" Hey - 3rd grade! (I -did- graduate 3rd grade.) So I
decided to lob a couple of insults back, along with some real comments...

'Firing Dwight' was almost more of an insult then a serious suggestion,
although Dwight should NOT be CEO - he'd be a good lawyer, CFO, or
something. Why? I've gone over this point numerous times, going all the
way back to when he was first made CEO - he does not know the product or
market enough to make decisions properly. He's made BAD desicions, such as
the Deskstation deal (which Tim Jenison told me was Dwight's doing) So,
since you seem to be new on the 'group, I'll forgive you not seeing how
many times I (and recently, others) have explained my opposition to
Dwight's CEO-dom

PS - 'The Glory Boys'?!?!? Aren't you...

....nahhh...it's too easy...


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
A : Lee's new and improved home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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Steve Koren wrote:

> Huh?  I didn't have to rename powerview to anything after installing
> LW4, and I don't get any error codes.  I must be missing something
> here.

The renaming is really a matter of restoring the correct name, which
someone at some site changed without realizing it would have an effect.

This problem isn't unique to PowerView.  A lot of Windows LW plug-ins
are going to be calling the Windows function GetModuleHandle() to get
access to the Windows resources (e.g. dialog box templates) stored in
the binary.  GetModuleHandle() takes the name of the plug-in file as an
argument, and if this doesn't match the actual filename, the call fails
because the requested file doesn't exist.  The plug-in then can't tell
Windows where to look for its resources.

It's just occurred to me, though, that Fori may be in a unique position
to avoid the problem with the OpenGL version of PowerView.  NT DLLs can
have an entry point that Windows calls when the DLL is first loaded, and
one of the things passed to this entry function is the instance handle
normally obtained by calling GetModuleHandle().  This isn't part of the
Win32s subset, so you sacrifice compatibility with Win 3.x, but that's
okay in this case, since OpenGL won't run under Win 3.x either.

I haven't tried it, so it's possible this approach isn't compatible with
the way LW attaches to plug-ins.

- Ernie

Just thinking out loud again...

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Subject: Need Help with Epson II printer
Date: 26 Feb 1996 15:46:32 GMT
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I need some help for a friend. He has an EPSON color II ink jet printer
on an Amiga 2000 and ENDICOR ENPRINT printer  program. He is trying to print
color pictures and is getting the results he would like. His father has
the same printer with an MSDos computer and is getting good results.
Does anyone with an EPSON II have any advice for him?

Thank You, Dan Browning, [e-mail], [phone]


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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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    I beg to differ. In one way I agree - I don't want to model in layout,
however, I'd love to be able to use the modeler toolset in layout.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could clone objects in layout with the same
tools you get in modeler?
-----------------------------------------------------------

We're on the same wavelength - I fine with LightWave being 'modal', but
more tools - cool...

In fact...I really want more options for the CLONE OBJECT (Hey - plug in
programmers?!?) I'd like to be able to clone an object and offset the
move, rotation, and size values as well as frame values...plus I'd like
controllable randomize options so thing could be less 'uniform'...(one of
my favorite new pieces of software is Specular's Texturescape, which has
sliders to control the amount of randomness for each parameter.) This way,
you could have one airplane and quickly make a squadron by cloning with
offsets that are slightly randomized (including time, so the 'blinky
lights' would avoid blinking at exactly the same time.)


_____________________________________________
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A : Lee's new and improved home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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From: [e-mail] (Accadia)
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There is a new version of MotionCLIPS CD-ROM now available for
Lightwave/Flyer 4.0+ users.  With the hiip jpeg loader you can now load
directly from the CD at full 752x480 screen size. (loader comes with
NewTek's software)  See our ad in 3D Design or stop by our WEB Site at
http://www.bluemoon.net/~accadia/  EMail: [e-mail].

This collection of royalty free stock footage is on sale now for $99.
See the latest review in Light Speed Video Magazine or check out the VTU
Review in May '95 (review on web site & along with a jpeg still of all
the scenes).  Dealers listed on web site or send email for more info.
New dealers welcomed.  MotionCLIPS for LW 3.5 and earlier is still available.

(New Version: ISO 9660 - Universal IBM eight dot three file names)


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From: [e-mail] (Jason Linhart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Newtek Customer Support?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:04:25 GMT
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[e-mail] wrote:

>I sent these questions to NewTek a few times and no one seems to
>answer there email there.

<snip>

To what address were you sending these messages?  The customer service
address is:

[e-mail]

If you've gotten no response, let me know.

>How is NewTek Tech support like?
Tech Support :    9-6 Phone Support
        Compuserve
        AOL
        24 Hour MultiLine BBS
        E-Mail: [e-mail]

Customer Service: 9-6 Phone Support
            E-Mail: [e-mail]

Outside Info:    This NewsGroup
        VideoToaster User magazine
        LightWave Pro magazine
        Training Tapes by Everyone : )
        Training Seminars around the country (Info in VTU)

>These where the questions I asked Newtek:

>I am interested in purchasibg another 3-D program. I currnetly
>use Truespace 2 and Ray Dream Designer. Does NewTek (Lightwave v4.0)
>have a competitive upgrade policy for TS users?

Yes, we do have a competitive upgrade policy.  You can upgrade from
one of your packages to LW4.0 for $695.00.

Upgrade from other packages is possible. Contact customer service for
the complete list.

>On the Lightwave Newsgroup it is said that NewTek does not
>replace lost or stolen dongle. If you do replace stolen or lost
>dongle what is your price policy?

This is handled on a case by case basis.  Check to make sure computer
hardware and software are insured on your Home Owners Policy or
Renters Policy and if it is stolen, get a Police Report.  The more
ammunition you have, the better off you are.  (This is good for all
cases of lost or stolen property, not just for dongles and NewTek.)

>Are they coming out with a new version of Lightwave which will
>integrate the modeler-layout modules, and are there any plans for 3d
>real-time API like OpenGL or 3DR, and when is it due?

No Comment.  Stay Tuned to this channel.   : )

Jason Linhart
NewTek, Inc.


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From: [e-mail] (AFrerking)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PARTICLE STORM SGI??
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In article <[e-mail]>, Robert Dorney
<[e-mail]> writes:

>And for the Amiga too? Ive got the impact preview from either Infocus' CD
or
>Lightrom3- can't remember. Looks good and I'm considering a cheque on
>the way to you when I get paid. Is there an Ami preview of Particle Storm
>available?

Actually, the Amiga version of Particle Storm is undetermined at this
time.  The Intel/Alpha/MIPS versions are scheduled for a mid-March
release.  We apologize for the delay in this release, but we are squeezing
in some last minute features.

>And do you have preview versions of both on PC (So I can convince my
bosses
>to buy a copy for me to use @ work too =)

That Impact demo is very old (I think May '95).  Unfortunately, that was
the last demo we circlulated and it was only for the Amiga.  In the next
couple of months we will have a demo tape for both Particle Storm and
Impact that we will circlulate to anyone interested, just drop us a line.

Andy
Dynamic Realities

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Newtek Customer Support. What's THAT???? I called them over 2 months ago
asking for help on my Toaster...waited so damn long I fixed it myself. If
I dont' start getting some ass-kissin' soon from them boyz...I'm gonna
have an Indigo^2 w/Alias in my Future.

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is not TV and radio. Let's keep it that way! For more information about
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From: [e-mail] (Ralf Jürgens)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW 3D 4.0 under Win3.11 / Win32s problem
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Re: LW 3D 4.0 under Win3.11 / Win32s problem

Hi Rus, this is tip from good ole´ Germany:
Try installing Lightwave once again on your system (maybe more than
once). I´m running Lightwave on a 90 mhz Pentium under Win 3.11 and as
far as I remember the installation procedure, the correct version of
Win 32s is installed in the proces. Good luck! E-mail me about further
problems.

Bye, Ralf.



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From: [e-mail] (Ralf Jürgens)
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Subject: LW 4.0 Modeler problems
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I have encountered some problems with the LW 4.0 Modeler that the
Pre-Release version didn´t have:
When constructing simple boxes the cursor (which is too large for my
liking - the Pre-release cusor was smaller and thus better!) snaps to
grids even when the grid is not aktivated. It simply does unwanted things
and it is rather difficult (at least) to construct models with this
snapping and jumping of cursors and boxes.
Anyone help? Will reinstalling do the trick? Some profound words from the
masters at NEWTEK would be highly appreciated!


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From: Andrew Hofman <[e-mail]>
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:38:20 -0500
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>...plus I'd like
> controllable randomize options so thing could be less 'uniform'...This way,
> you could have one airplane and quickly make a squadron by cloning with
> offsets that are slightly randomized (including time, so the 'blinky
> lights' would avoid blinking at exactly the same time.)
>
> Lee Stranahan

I'm currently animating a platoon of creatures who are marching along in
formation. Having them all in perfect lockstep is a bit too mechanical and
regular. So I'll have to go in and play with a bunch of keyframes by hand to dirty
things up just a little bit . . . what a pain in the butt. A variable randomize
function would save hours of work.

--
Andrew Hofman
LumaQuest Productions
[e-mail]
513-643-7333

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From: [e-mail] (FCAP)
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Subject: Re: LW interfacing with Film
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>>I've been very clear on what Tim did to Ken, and your post doesn't
address
that in any way. If anyone wants to get into this, they can email me. You
are welcome to do the same.>>

I can Email you to find out what Tim did to Ken?  Then why hasn't the
accusations and name calling that went on before this (in MANY forums
related to Space) been kept as Emails between you and the people you're
trying to 'warn' about this evil man?  Every argument has two sides and
I'm sure both sides believe their points valid.  But name calling is name
calling and without seeing Tim's side written about here, it's not a fair
game.  And I don't believe Tim would stoop so low as to get on here and
air out his obvious disagreements with you and Ken for all to see.
Wouldn't be professional, wouldn't be smart, and isn't necessary.

Frank Cappello


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From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 2 Questions . . .
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 16:40:27 -0500
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How does one figure out the length (distance) of a curved path? For
instance, if a go into Layout and make a path with a null of a winding
road, then I creat the road in Modeler, and brinf the road back into
Layout to have a car travel on at 60 mph, how do I find out the mileage
of the road so i know how long to make the animation?

Also, any answers for this: I need to render an animation with a
rather long chain link fence. Which method would be better: modeling the
whole fence, or making a box with a transparency map applied?

TIA,

TL

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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Close-up views on Layers?
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+-- "J.A.B." <[e-mail]> writes:
|   I just happen to see something, I was reading in chapter 4 of FX Kit of LW
| and on page 72 it had a question about saving different views in Modeler
| by holding down the Cntrl key and select from 1 thru 9 on the numberic
| keypad to "Save" the view.
| Question: Is this feature for LW 4.0?

Yes it is in 4.0.  It's SHIFT-keypad# on the SGI and Amiga and CTRL-kp#
on the PC.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: ScreamerNet Problems.
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In message <[e-mail]>
        Frank Chiappetta <[e-mail]> writes:

> Hello,

> Well, I've finally got my pc's linked up together.  I, according to the
> instructions, made my screamernet icon.  When I click on the icon (under
> windows95) it opens up an ms-dos screen.  It's looking for the job/ack
> files on my control computer. (Full Lightwave)  I then initialize the
> nodes, sometimes it recognizes the node, sometimes not.  When it does
> recognize it, the node will be in a 'wait' state.  I then click on
> screamer render.  On the nodes ms-dos window it is going through the
> necessary motions.  The scene I'm rendering is "juggler" (not a huge one,
> just for test purposes.)  The node is a P5-133.  It is rendering frames
> at 1 per second.  I don't believe this to be possible.  When It completes
> the rendering, I noticed that no frames had been saved.  Why is this?  Is
> there any good information regarding the use of ScreamerNet available?  I
> don't believe the manual is a good source.

> I appreciate any advice you might have,
> Frank Chiappetta
> BaseTwo Imaging
> http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html


Yeah i got this also.
Make sure there are no acks or jobs left in the command dir
Also that the command dir in sn panel is set to your command dir
set your saving options in the scene and save scene.
If you are on anet work make sure the drive :/newtek is installed on
is also named the same on the other computers

eg lightwave installed on p133 drive d at d:newtek
    sn                               d at d:sn

second pc must be connected to drive d and drive must be d: in sys/filemanager
So if you go to any other computers on the network ,go to file
manager and click on drive d: you see drive d: on the main system.
also snet on all coms must be exe`s of the origanal snet.exe but with
differant comand lines.

This may or may not help but i gave it my best shot.
:-}}}}}}}}
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                 Creators of Digital Visual Effects
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From: [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FS:LightWave Workstation
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>
>Here's what is on the system:
>-ViewSonic 17" Professional Series Monitor (.25 dpi 1600x1280)
>-32 MB(Extended Data Out)Ram
>-Intel Pentium 120 Processor (Intel "Endevor" Motherboard)
>-DPS Perception Video Recorder (PVR 2500)
>-2.1 GB Fast SCSI Hard Drive for Perception
>-1.6 GB Maxtor Hard Drive System Disk
>-4x speed Mitsumi CD-ROM (IDE)
>-Microsoft Mouse
>-101 Key Keyboard
>-14.4 Modem (Modem Blaster)
>-16-bit Sound Blaster "Vibra" Sound Card
>-Diamond Stealth 64 with 4 megs VRAM
>-Large Tower Case with 5External 5.25"/2 External 3.25" bays
>-3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy
>-LightWave 3D Version 4.0 (Free! with purchase of system)
>
>Just to clarify the above, I will give you my copy of LightWave,
>in the box, free of charge.  In fact, the registration card is
>still in the box, so you can register it to yourself.

snipsy

>I am asking $8000
>If you have any questions, want to make an offer, or want to buy
>the system at this price, feel free to E-mail me at:
>
>                        [e-mail]

blah....

I have nearly an identical
system only with a nec 17" monitor
and a cheesy sb 16 pr0
and a 28k modem

but I spent 5500 new including
the ram and perception

why is yours worth 2500 more,

are you asking 2500 for LW intel
or did you pay to much??

either way for a USED system
the price is way too much

my 2cents

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW interfacing with Film
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Frank :

Perhaps I've not made myself clear. If that's the problem, I'm sorry. If
you don't understand, then it is possible others don't either, so let me
try again.

I have stated the relevant facts in the case, using up as much newgroup
bandwidth as I'm comfortable with. This thread marks the first time I've
really gone into this issue in any depth at all. This is not exactly the
place to continue a dialog about it, however.

I have not called him 'evil' here, nor have I 'warned' anyone against him,
nor have I implied that he deserves no credit for co-founding Area 51. He
has gotten the credit, and the financial rewards. Ken has not gotten what
Tim promised him.

I have called Tim a liar, and I'll do it again. Tim is a liar. This is not
idle name calling, but a statement of fact. I say this not only because of
the broken promises he made to Ken, but because I've had him lie to my
face on a number of issues. As recently as the SIGGRAPH meeting, he point
blank denied saying things that I and other animators heard him say
clearly and explictly.

Sorry, Frank - I've supplied a ton of facts (read my post to Scott
Wheeler). All you've done is say that Tim -might- be dispute some of them,
and that he isn't saying anything so we don't know -everything- and so
-maybe- he's got a gripe, too. That isn't argument, nor is it a refutation
of any of the facts that I've stated. Also, note that nobody from Area 51
has said that my facts are in error, because they know that they aren't in
error. Believe me, some of the people there would LOVE to slam me on any
inaccuracies.

Every argument has two sides - but that does not make each side correct.
There is such a thing as right and wrong. My public statement about what
Tim did to Ken is perfectly fair; keeping quiet about it only allows Tim
to keep his reputation as a 'good guy.'  I think the facts show that he
did to Ken was not good, nor was it professional or necessary, nor in the
long run will it prove very smart.

I consider myself lucky; I have a brother who I not only love, but that I
work in the same industry with and have a tremendous amount of
professional respect for. It's nice to love your family, it's great to
like them, too. For that reason,  understand that as long as this
injustice continues, I'll discuss it when and where I want. As for you,
Frank - either supply some relevant facts of your own or shut up.


_____________________________________________
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Kip Pesuti)
writes:
>
>>I know that this is a bit off topic, but I'd like to start adding
sound
>>effects to some of my LightWave animations. I've got a huge
collection of
>>sound files on my Amiga (iff, 8svx) and I'd like to convert them to
wav
>>files  to combine with avi's.  Anybody know of a program that will do
this?
>>I'd perfer PC, but Amiga will do  as well.
>
>Well, I don't know about a pc app. But "SoundBox" for the Amiga will
do the
>job. It's on Aminet.
>
>>Jeff H...
>
> God bless you!
>(and your Amiga)
>-Kip
>
i believe that goldwave (shareware) sound editing software willa also
load in amiga sound files.....

i dont' remember what site i got it from but you should be able to find
it readily using a search...


good luck

t

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In article <4gs360$[e-mail]>, Wooly Mittens
<4g9a42$[e-mail]> writes:

>If you want to play your anims a p133 is a must but also a video
>harddisk because playback of an AVI-anim will require a decent
>transfer rate (say 3 megs per sec) and it still stops playing
>every ones in a while.
>
>

    Gee, I don't have this problem on my lowly p75 - Ever thought of
getting a cheap capture/playback card?


Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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In <4gpstm$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Computers From
Scratch) writes:
>
>How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
>like a 17th century novel character don't I?)
>
>Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
>I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
>automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
>teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>J
>


It should say right on the installation disk.

GT


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>When I chose some poly's in the modeler and make them a surface,
>Is there any way to re-chose these polygons without repicking them by
>hand, but rather by picking their surface name?
>
>It would be handy for checking/hiding/editing purposes, and it
>struck me as odd that nobody ever mentioned it.
>

Select Polygon at the bottom and hit "w" to get info.  Scroll through
the surface list and select the one you want then hit the "+" button
next to the "with surface" window.



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elixer ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I've just come over from the 3DS world and I love LW4.0. My problem is
: that I use Dave's TGA animator to create 16bit FLH animations. Light
: Wave saves The Images I this Format( Name.TGA#.TGA). DTA can't
: read those long names. is there a way to make LW save The files in the
: regular dos format?

LightWave saves tga images like name001.tga, name002.tga (Select
name001.### for file format). You are most likely typing in a name of
name.tga into the save requester when all you should be entering is name.

JG

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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Besides you spelled pirate PRIATEand you spelled throw THROUGH!

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>I agree! There is an interesting life cyle of a software development
>company:
>    -programmer creates a great new app, and begins fine-tuning code
>    -he hires his friends to keep up with demand and changes
>    -he forms a larger company, complete with Bean-counters
>    -BeanCounters can't begin to comprehend the programmers, who
>     insist on coming to work in T-SHIRTS and SHORTS! (God forbid)
>    -BeanCounters work behind the scenes to Oust programmer from
>     the President's chair, and replace him with a 'Real Business
>     Man'
>    -Said New Suit arrives, and begins posting memos (to delight of
>     His BeanPeers) that there is now a DRESS CODE that will be
>     enforced, and everyone is expected to Clock in ON TIME!
>
>    -Programmers can't begin to conceive what this Suit is talking
>     about, and begin jumping ship in Droves!
>
>    -Beanie and Co. Inc., are now left to manage a hollow software
>     company, without new ideas or critical programmers even if they
>     COULD think up the next killer app!
>
>    -Company farts, implodes, and falls over dead.
>


This reminds me of what happened to Lotus.  And I also think of
Microsoft and where it would be if Bill was pushed out and a bean
counter took over.  The funny part tho is the dress code stuff.  Having
visited MS in the past and seeing the "grundge" programmers, I remember
how my host decribed the recruiting techniques to get new programmers.
He said the recuiters told the recruits that working there was "just
like college".  See you work on a "campus".  There is a cafeteria.  No
dress code.  Your offices are big enough to sleep in.  And the best part
of all, "We pay you to work here!!!!".



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From: [e-mail] (Fusion Films)
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:     Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:  tell
: me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet, but the
: extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.


I'd say that buying the Viewsonic 21PS that I use was one of the best
investments we made.  Everything is so much easier to use when you have
all that room!  Besides, monitors are one of the few things that you can
take with you if you switch platforms.

Paul

--
     *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
     *       Paul Griswold                      [phone]     *
     *     Fusion Films, Inc.                 [e-mail]   *
     * Director/Animator   http://www.ids.net/gamut/fusion1.html  *
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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On Thu, 22 Feb 1996 20:09:47 -0600, typhoto <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I would like to know who has found the best price available for
>Lightwave 4.0. I am looking to get a copy for Windows 95. If you got a
>great deal then let us know where you got it. I'm not talking about
>upgrade or student pricing either.

My dealer can get it for $770.00 I believe.  Let me know if you, or anyone, can do
better.  I'm looking to buy myself a copy... ASAP!

Bob


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Could you help me understand the process of using chroma keying with
lightwave?  Is this correct?   I am going to shoot live actors against
green or blue backgrounds, and then when I digitize and import the files
into lightwave I will select that color as transparent. I want to
composite it over 3D backgrounds and have it look very professional.
The end result will be my puppet characters in 3D atmospheres.  Now, I
understand that Alpha channels would be best, but I need suggestions on
how to generate them since LW won't do it for me.  Is there another
utility I need?  Thanks.  Ax

--

  Steve Axtell, president  -  Axtell Expressions, Inc.
-------------------------------------------------------
     VISIT OUR WEB SITE - http://www.axtell.com
-------------------------------------------------------
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          Axtell Expressions, Inc.
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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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[e-mail] (Nanook of the South) wrote:

>You probably didn't build your object with the X+ axis being the
>"front" of the object....  (At least that's what I think it said was
>needed in the manual...).  The problem your describing sounds like
>that could be it.  The key frames force it to face how you want it,
>the "align to path" orients it according to the X+ face.... It reverts
>with the last key because you defined the orientation there...
>
>Of course, I could be totaly off :)

You are.

>L8r G8r
> Keith

For align to path to work objects should be built so that they 'face'
in the +Z direction, the 'front' of the object should be towards the
+Z in layout.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
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I have the following system for sale:
    Amiga 4000
    Toaster 4000
    DPS PAR Card
    Quatum Fireball 1.2Gig for PAR
    540 Meg System Drive
    120 Meg System Drive
    18 Meg of System RAM (On Motherboard)
    Warp 68040/50MHz with an Additional 16 Meg of RAM
        (Total System RAM 34 MEG)
    External Chassis w/
        4X NEC CD ROM Drive
        Syquest 44 Meg Cart (with lots of extra carts)
    Amiga Monitor
    Lots and Lots of Misc Software.

Email me at [e-mail] or [e-mail]


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I have the following system for sale:
    Amiga 4000
    Toaster 4000
    540 Meg Hard Drive
    120 Meg Hard Drive
    18 Meg of System RAM
    Warp 68040 50MHz with an additional 16Meg of RAM
    (Total system RAM 34 MEG)
    DPS PAR with 1.2 Gig Quantam Fireball
    External Chassis with:
    4x NEC CD ROM
    44 Meg Syquest  (Lots of Carts)
      Lots and Lots of Misc Software!!


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[e-mail] (Dave Paige) wrote:

>[e-mail] (Computers From Scratch) wrote:

>>How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
>>like a 17th century novel character don't I?)
>>
>>Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
>>I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
>>automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
>>teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>J
>>
>It's printed on the CD-ROM.

Ok, so I sound like the village idiot in that 17th century novel.

I have revision B.  What's the scoop on upgrades?  I'd like to stay
current, I've only had this one for a couple of months.  It would be a
shame to be buying upgrades already....



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 JC> Don, were you at the same Commodore Dealers Meeting that I was, when
 JC> they introduced their newest President, an "acquisition" from PepsiCo?
 JC> His opening remarks to us dealers were "Don't worry because I don't
 JC> know anything about computers, if I could make a living selling colored
 JC> water, I can sell anything."

Gee, Apple did the same thing with John Sculley... They can at least claim to
have done it fist.  And look where they're headed.  I see trends.  Poor
bastards...


<ICS>



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 Re: That's my idea of a cool ad...


NewTek could also have a small sideline selling us LW fans full size posters
or large calendars of these images.  They have to put all the written details
in the border though...

And give 'em away to the unconverted at shows, dealers, etc...


<ICS>


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Yes, we do have a competitive upgrade policy.  You can upgrade from
one of your packages to LW4.0 for $695.00.

Upgrade from other packages is possible. Contact customer service for
the complete list.
------------------------------------

Hey Jason - can you post the complete list?



_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
A : Lee's new and improved home page!
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I'm on a PC system, but someone I know has access to Amiga machines with
LW.  Unfortunately, she's kind of on her own to learn it.  One big
question she has is how does one create a new Directory (or their Amiga
equivalent) in that version of Lightwave?  Is there something similar to
a File Manager to use with the Amiga, or can you create them within LW
somehow?


Get back to me via Internet E-mail if ya like at:
            [e-mail]
                    or
        [e-mail]


Thanx,

M.

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In article <4gs3r4$[e-mail]>,
   Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]> wrote:
>When I chose some poly's in the modeler and make them a surface,
>Is there any way to re-chose these polygons without repicking them by
>hand, but rather by picking their surface name?
>
>It would be handy for checking/hiding/editing purposes, and it
>struck me as odd that nobody ever mentioned it.
>
>Wooly Mittens,
>
>

Yes - if you go to Display/Stats (shortkey w) while you have polygons selected
on the Point/Polygon/Volume buttons at the bottom of the screen, you will see
display of stats on your object. There is a scroll bar second from bottom that
lets you choose a surface. Select your surface and then press the + buttin on
the row above it. This will add those surfaces to any already selected (or
subtract them if you press - minus ).

Hope that helps

Cheers

Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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In article <[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:
>On 24-Feb-96 00:42:19, Dave Paige ([e-mail]) posted:
>
>> [e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:
>
>>>The PVR version 2.51 software handles all of this. If you are using an
>>>older version of the PVR software, go to ftp.dps-inc.com and download
>>>the update. You only get the PAR-like file system if you're running
>>>Windows NT.
>>>
>
>> You're saying that there is a way to append to files together into a
>> single file using the software that comes with the Perception?
>> Enlighten me I can't seem to find a way to do that without exporting
>> all the frames and individual files and then reimporting them.
>
>Sure - with PVR 2.51. In the "VR Player" program, Under the Edit menu,
>you'll find Join and Duplicate. Join will take all the PVD files in the
>PlayList and pack them all into a single PVD file. You have the option of
>deleting the original files or leaving them intact. Duplicate will let you
>make duplicates, ping-pong, or reverse copies. The reverse option will even
>reverse the field order if you tell it to, great for field-rendered anims.
>
>Have Fun!
>John.
>
Yes, but this is still only under NT, not 95, correct? Or am I missing
something. I'm running 2.51 and I can't see the menus you are talking about.
I can't find it under 95 version but I'm still waiting for a BIOS change
before my PVR  will work under NT.

Cheers


Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Meshew)
Subject: Best price on LW 4.0 + free LIGHT-ROM 3
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   For your info,  Safe Harbor has Lightwave 4.0 for Windows/NT for
$775.00 plus a free copy of LIGHT-ROM 3.

Safe Harbor
www.sharbor.com
1-800-544-6599



Hope this helps,

Michael


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>>For that reason,  understand that as long as this
injustice continues, I'll discuss it when and where I want. As for you,
Frank - either supply some relevant facts of your own or shut up.>>

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.  Lee, I'm one of those people
that actually hires an FX company.  I come on this line because of my
interest and background in special effects and CGI.   And the way the
industry is changing, there will be more directors like myself who have
enough interest in the field to drop in occasionally to hear what the
'pros' are talking about.  It doesn't help your cause or job prospects
raggin' on a competitor, even if it is to right some "injustice".  In
fact, it hurts you as much as you might be hurting Tim.  I can't believe
that when Tim and Ken set out to form Area 51, that Tim had this ulterior
motive to oust Ken right when they landed a big job.  I don't buy it for a
second.  Something had to happen, Lee.  Personalty conflicts under
pressure, whatever.   I respect that you fight for your brother but you
could be hurting him just as well.  Remember, there's a reason they call
it "creative differences" in the trades.  Burning bridges is not a
constructive way to get anywhere.

Now I'll shut up.

Frank Cappello

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On 22 Feb 1996 16:45:37 -0500, [e-mail] (Kth Lango) wrote:

>Rather than send off tons of e-mail and forget someone, I'l announce it
>here.
>
>I have resigned or been laid off from Replica Technology (depends on your
>perspective, I guess). The company is undergoing some dire economic
>straits and as a result just about everybody of the 5 people who aren't
>family members or life-long friends has been let go. (I think that's me
>and the secretary. :)
>So life goes on and here I am. The e-mail address [e-mail] is no
>longer valid. If anyone wishes to contact Replica Technology, they may do
>so at 800-714-8184. I believe their other internet address is still
>operative, [e-mail], but I don't know for sure. The company
>still exists, barely. I will no longer represent Replica Technology on the
>net, nor anywhere for that matter. If anybody wants to get a hold of me,
>Keith Lango the person you all know and love, then you may do so at Kth
>[e-mail]. Not that anybody would.
>
>We now return you to your regularly scheduled 3D stuff.....
>
>Cheers,
>Keith Lango
>formerly Dir. of Mac 3D @ Replica Technology
>Now just me.
    Sorry, about the job. You are always welcome here....no need
to leave us.

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From: [e-mail] (David Oxley)
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In article <[e-mail]>, TL Westgate <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Also, any answers for this: I need to render an animation with a
>rather long chain link fence. Which method would be better: modeling the
>whole fence, or making a box with a transparency map applied?

I made a chain link fence with a transparency map of a small section of
the fence (that I drew in a paint program) mapped to a very long plane.  I
set the size of the map so that it tiled the whole fence at the correct
scale.  For the concrete posts, I made one and cloned it.

The image I made looked like this, so that when tiled, it repeated as you
would expect:

\ /
 X
/ \
   \ /
    X
   / \

If your fence curves along its length, you could replace the long plane
with a vertically subdivided one, save that as flatfence.lwo, then bend
the fence to map the terrain, save it as curvedfence.lwo and make a 100%
morph between the two in Layout just like in the Saturn's rings tutorial.
That way, your transparency map follows the curve of the fence.

Regards,

|David Oxley, Logica UK|SH5/HR 75 Hampstead Rd|[phone]x1800|
|<[e-mail]> |London NW1 2PL England|[phone](fax)|
`----------------------^----------------------^--------------------'
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Subject: Re: AREXX to C programming: BML!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:29:28 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Daniel J. McCoy) writes:
>  While LightWave3D for the Alpha or Intel don't have Rexx tie-ins, there are
>  easier alternatives.  Try BML!  BML is a cross between a few languages (C/C++,
>  Rexx and in some cases PASCAL) and REALLY makes creating Modeler plug-ins
>  easy.  The creator, Robert Hood, is also making way with a possible Layout
>  scripting language as well.  BML is a commercial package.  For I THINK $200,
>  you can buy either the scripting interpreter to run non-compiled scripts or
>  get the compiler and BML-RT that runs compiled scripts.  Optionally, you can
>  buy both for a discount.

    I can second that recommendation.  BML is an excellent product-- if you have
any programming experience you will find it easy to use.  It extends the abilities
of LWModeler to anything you can program:  I'm re-writing my handy-dandy pie chart
generator from AREXX to BML.

    Support your local LW-Plugin developer!   Purchase BML!  :

>  To get a glimpse of BML scripts, ftp to ftp.newtek.com and check out
>  /pub/bh/bhood.  You should see a few directories.  In there should be some
>  non-compiled scripts as well as compiled scripts and the free BML-RT plugin
>  that lets you run compiled BML scripts in Modeler.
>

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a (acting) Job!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:32:00 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Kent Lidke) writes:
>  >>I'm trying to save the railroad... Lee Stranahan
>
>  >"Who is Lee Stranahan?" ;)  Bryant Reif
>
>  If he's trying to save the railroad, wouldn't that make him Dagny
>  Taggart? <g>

    Lee's legs just don't cut the mustard in this respect.....



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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Dongle dongle dongle dongle DONgle.
Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:33:30 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>  The insurance is for the dongles since I can virtually eliminate the risk
>  associated with the software itself and since it is impossible to steal an
>  agreement (which is what the purchase really is).  I will only have a problem
>  if the dongle is lost or stolen.  So it IS dongle insurance.

    IMO, the dongle is the program, FAIAP.

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

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>   [e-mail] (Stranahan) writes:
>  Integrated modeler/render - I hope not. I don't know any LW users who want
>  that - modeling is one job, and animation is another -<SNIP!>

    "Once you know the POWER of the dark side......"

    Born and raised w/LW, I also have a hard time thinking up reasons why
I would want an integrated layout/modeler, but when I see them demonstrated,
they do seem to make a lot of sense.  (No examples.)

>  OpenGL - there are plug-ins already

    With all the plugins, it's safe to assume OpenGL support is something
NTek is thinking about.

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Subject: Re: VOYAGER EFFECTS
Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:40:36 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Chris Golchert) writes:
>
>  :     ????  Non-lightwavers, don't be mislead:  Lens flares are BUILT-INTO the
>  : Lightwave software and DO NOT require any additional plugins.
>
>  they were talking about the solar promenience (sp) in the Voyger
>  intro...lightwave does not have solar effects built in yet.

    Oh, OK.  that was not clear from the post I responded to.

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From: [e-mail] (Andre Frosch)
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ja gibbet denn hier auch deutsche lightwave user in umkreis von Berlin ??

wenn ja dann schreibt mal bidde an : [e-mail]

danke !!!



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From: Rick Dean <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Running Lightwave with PVR Problems
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Has anyone else had experience with a PVR on a DEC Alpha computer?  I am running
Windows NT 3.5.1 with PVR and seem to have extreme trouble with Super Black function not
working or coming on when not requested.  I have contacted Digital Processing Systems on
this problem but seem to be getting nowhere.  They admit to no problem but have not tested
the Super Black Option a DEC Alpha machine yet (imagine that!).  I would appreciate any
suggestions from any PVR user who has need of Super Black from time to time.

Does it work flawlessly on an Intel processor or is it suspect there also?  The newest version of
PVR software for the DEC Alpha includes a Waveform Analyzer which clued me into the
problem.... otherwise I might have missed it all together.  Pure black (0,0,0 RGB) in my
animations was turning up with a 0 IRE level (not good) instead of the proper 7.5 IRE video
level required for NTSC signals.  If your experiencing the same problems with your PVR you
could be creating illegal signals and not even knowing it!

--
Rick Dean
mailto:[e-mail]

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Computers From Scratch wrote:
>
> How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
> like a 17th century novel character don't I?)
>
> Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
> I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
> automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
> teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> J


Another way to quickly find out what exact version you have is to hold the shift and ctrl keys (or
is it the shift and alt keys?) when you click on the about button.  It will give you a full version
readout on the screen.  At least it works that way on my DEC Alpha version.
--
Rick Dean
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Frank Chiappetta wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Well, I've finally got my pc's linked up together.  I, according to the
> instructions, made my screamernet icon.  When I click on the icon (under
> windows95) it opens up an ms-dos screen.  It's looking for the job/ack
> files on my control computer. (Full Lightwave)  I then initialize the
> nodes, sometimes it recognizes the node, sometimes not.  When it does
> recognize it, the node will be in a 'wait' state.  I then click on
> screamer render.  On the nodes ms-dos window it is going through the
> necessary motions.  The scene I'm rendering is "juggler" (not a huge one,
> just for test purposes.)  The node is a P5-133.  It is rendering frames
> at 1 per second.  I don't believe this to be possible.  When It completes
> the rendering, I noticed that no frames had been saved.  Why is this?  Is
> there any good information regarding the use of ScreamerNet available?  I
> don't believe the manual is a good source.
>
> I appreciate any advice you might have,
> Frank Chiappetta
> BaseTwo Imaging
> http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html


I had the exact same problem - here's the solution...  you have to go to the LW.config and
make sure the default directory is the same as the directory for all your animation files (lws and
lwo).  An easy way to do this is to run LightWave, then set your default directory under
OPTIONS to the proper directory then quit Lightwave - then start it up again.... THEN start
screamernet outside of Lightwave.  You'll notice that it comes up with a directory name when
you start it.  This directory is not to be confused with the SceamerNet control directory where
the SNet files are.... it is only the directory where your animation related files are.  I know its a
little confusing but I eventually figured that one out before Newtek got back to me (5 hours
later).
--
Rick Dean
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In article <4gthfp$[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson) wrote:
>In article <[e-mail]>,
>   [e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:
>>On 24-Feb-96 00:42:19, Dave Paige ([e-mail]) posted:
>>
>>> [e-mail] (John Crookshank) wrote:
>>
>>>>The PVR version 2.51 software handles all of this. If you are using an
>>>>older version of the PVR software, go to ftp.dps-inc.com and download
>>>>the update. You only get the PAR-like file system if you're running
>>>>Windows NT.
>>>>
>>
>>> You're saying that there is a way to append to files together into a
>>> single file using the software that comes with the Perception?
>>> Enlighten me I can't seem to find a way to do that without exporting
>>> all the frames and individual files and then reimporting them.
>>
>>Sure - with PVR 2.51. In the "VR Player" program, Under the Edit menu,
>>you'll find Join and Duplicate. Join will take all the PVD files in the
>>PlayList and pack them all into a single PVD file. You have the option of
>>deleting the original files or leaving them intact. Duplicate will let you
>>make duplicates, ping-pong, or reverse copies. The reverse option will even
>>reverse the field order if you tell it to, great for field-rendered anims.
>>
>>Have Fun!
>>John.
>>
>Yes, but this is still only under NT, not 95, correct? Or am I missing
>something. I'm running 2.51 and I can't see the menus you are talking about.
>I can't find it under 95 version but I'm still waiting for a BIOS change
>before my PVR  will work under NT.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Kevin Gleeson
>Hobart TAS OZ

Answered my own question this afternoon when my new Eprom arrived. I've spent
the day joining animations together and recovering heaps of hard drive space -
but only under NT.

Bye



Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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Can anybody send me MPEG-1 compressed films made with Pixelshrink ? Don't
forget to send the origenal film with it. I use now Cinepak, Indeo 3.2
and 4.1, RLE and MJPEG compression techniques. I want to know of
Pixelshrink compression technique is better then the technique I now use

Jurgen ter Haar
[e-mail]


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From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Quick question ...
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:42:47 -0500
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Mark Whitney wrote:
>
> I'm on a PC system, but someone I know has access to Amiga machines with
> LW.  Unfortunately, she's kind of on her own to learn it.  One big
> question she has is how does one create a new Directory (or their Amiga
> equivalent) in that version of Lightwave?  Is there something similar to
> a File Manager to use with the Amiga, or can you create them within LW
> somehow?
>
> Get back to me via Internet E-mail if ya like at:
>             [e-mail]
>                     or
>         [e-mail]
>
> Thanx,
>
> M.
>
> ---
>  * CMPQwk 1.42 #6.3 Cats are smarter than dogs.  Eight cats won't pull a sled.


I would have responded to this incredibly simple question, but then you
went and slammed dogs. Cats are worthless, you're on your own, bud.
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From: Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: ASSUMED PRIATES!!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:09:57 GMT
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Animation Factory([e-mail]) wrote:
>
> Besides you spelled pirate PRIATE
>
>
>
>
I'm a PRIATE and proud of it. (of course, no pirate)

buccaneer John.

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From: [e-mail](Alan Chan )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: 21" monitors
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:14:26 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Fusion Films)
writes:
>
>:     Greg, I know a buncha youguys went out and bought 21" monitors:
tell
>: me, how does that affect your productivity?  They look really sweet,
but the
>: extra grand seems a bit much to $wallow.
>
>
>I'd say that buying the Viewsonic 21PS that I use was one of the best
>investments we made.  Everything is so much easier to use when you
have
>all that room!  Besides, monitors are one of the few things that you
can
>take with you if you switch platforms.

As far as monitors go, if you are going for a 21", go for a Viewsonic,
and if you're going with a 17", get an Innovision Mag...

AC


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From: [e-mail] (Chris Golchert)
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Subject: Plugins
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:22:48 GMT
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anyone know how to get on the plugin mailing list???

or anyone who can give a little help on writting one...


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From: [e-mail] (Sander Pilon)
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Subject: Re: Real Looking Sparks?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:00:12 GMT
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In article <4gjrtu$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
> >   [e-mail] (XTremes758) writes:
> >  I have LightWave 3D 4.0 Intel, and Sparks. I would Like to make Real
> >  looking and acting sparks that will jump from a source like a fire
> >  cracker, on to the ground and bounce acouple of times before it dissapear.
> >  Can anyone help me with this?
> >  Thanx
> >
> >>>>
>     Perhaps reading the documentation??
>

Oh yeah.... GREAT help.... a real contribution... thanks for wasting my modem
time with this !!!




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From: [e-mail] (Sander Pilon)
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Subject: Re: CPU question?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:07:50 GMT
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> I have a question about what kind of power supply I can put in my
> system.  Right now I have one that is 200 watts.  What is the largest
> one I can get?
>
>
> PS - the power supply will be in a system running LW 3D.
>
>   - steve

You should be able to force a 10.000 watts supply somewhere in your computer,
provided you have an extra large sky tower.

This, however, will not increase lw performance.

ps - What the fuck is this doing in a lw newsgroup ?? Ignore such posts, some people
     have to PAY reading messages. (And it pisses me off when there's crap in them!)




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From: [e-mail] (CNelson)
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Subject: LW3D WEB GALLERY: http://www.iag.net/~cnelson/lw3d.htm
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:38:42 GMT
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Finally, the Lightwave 3D Internet Users Gallery is online.

I still need submissions for the gallery to grow, so please stop by and
consider contributing materials.

http://www.iag.net/~cnelson/lw3d.htm


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From: Julianne Shotwell <lochte>
Subject: Any SAN DIEGO SGI Lightwave users out there?
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From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Uploaded Object: Chain Link Fence
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:02:11 -0500
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Well, I've often thought that there should be a newsgroup for people to
attach 3D objects to their messages to share with others in need of
certain models. Here I go. I posted a question about a chain link fence
yesterday and got a tip today. I used that tip and modeled this fence
section real quick. If you want to use this, uudecode it, unzip it (it
has long filenames from Win95), and put all the files in the same
directory.  The object probably won't find the image maps on the first
try, so be sure to Save All Objects after you point Lightwave in the
right direction.

Let me know if anyone has success downloading this, as it is my first
try at posting a uuencoded file. Also, let me know what you think about
posting needed 3D objects.

Later!

TL

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From: [e-mail] (Jason Linhart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Newtek Customer Support?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:43:52 GMT
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The list of competitive packages is:

    3DStudio
    TrueSpace2
    StrataStudio Pro
    Alias
    Crystal Topas
    Electric Image
    Wavefront
    SoftImage (only if you pronounce it with a fake french accent!) : )
    Imagine


Jason Linhart
NewTek, Inc.




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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:01:51 GMT
Organization: Syndesis Corporation
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] says...
>
>The funny part tho is the dress code stuff.  Having
>visited MS in the past and seeing the "grundge" programmers, I remember
>how my host decribed the recruiting techniques to get new programmers.
>He said the recuiters told the recruits that working there was "just
>like college".  See you work on a "campus".  There is a cafeteria.  No
>dress code.  Your offices are big enough to sleep in.  And the best part
>of all, "We pay you to work here!!!!".

Ah, yes - pay for 40 hours a week, but require 80.  Wonderful
trade-off for wearing a t-shirt to work, isn't it?

I don't see why people get so worked up about dress codes.  Very few
companies would require coats and ties these days.  However, is
asking for a professional appearance so difficult?  Perhaps a
"no jeans" policy?  What, are programmers like rock stars who
must make a statement with their appearance?

- John


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From: Lance Gray <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: rec.video.production,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,rec.video.desktop
Subject: Flyer 4.1 & LightWave
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:28:24 -0800
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Well I just received the official release of Flyer 4.1 (update
5)...I've had update 3 for a while so there is probably some difference.
 However, rumor had it that a particular filed existed and now I see it
does in the manual, but I still can't find it!

    The manual claims it's in the NewTek:Programs/PCUtilities drawer
but I don't see a PCUtilities drawer?!?  It says it's off the CD-ROM.
This file allows your PC to save animations in PC LightWave as FlyerClips
that you can dump over to the Amiga to play on the Flyer!  Anyone found
it yet?!?  Please e-me if so!

Thanks!!!

Lance <><

 _______________________________________________________________________

 Lance Gray ([e-mail])
 Empire Productions Inc.         ** 25 GIG FLYER & LIGHTWAVE EQUIPPED**


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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PC syquests on Amiga
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:04:56 GMT
Organization: Syndesis Corporation
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In article <4gso1k$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>"ANIMATION FACTORY" (East)
>The leader in Wedding Animations
>[e-mail]

Oooh!  Those "wedding animation" pirates are the biggest, scariest
pirates of all!


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From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: OOPS! The fence again
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:09:28 -0500
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I tried to DL the fence myself, and it didn't work, so here's another
attempt.
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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Powerview
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:17:13 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] says...
>
>This problem isn't unique to PowerView.  A lot of Windows LW plug-ins
>are going to be calling the Windows function GetModuleHandle() to get

Uhm, I use GetModuleFileName( NULL, buffer, sizeof(buffer) );
which doesn't require the hard-coded filename in a program.

In a DLL, just make nearly the same call in your DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH,
using the HANDLE hDLL passed in your DllMain() instead of NULL.

- John


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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:23:05 GMT
Organization: Syndesis Corporation
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In article <4gsbro$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>     I can't agree with this analogy more. I'm currently working in a
>company begining this cycle - everyone realizes it's inevitable

Why is it that programmers always feel confident giving armchair
advice about the business side of a business, when the business
people would never think of giving detailed programming advice
along the lines of "gee, you should really unroll that loop"?

What happens when the programmers fail, and their program crashes
or doesn't do what they claimed it would do?  They do the same
thing as the business / marketing people: please, give me a little
more time and money, and I'll fix it, sorry.

- John


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From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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+-- [e-mail] (JBooth411) writes:
|    obviously you have never watched the tapes Lee made, or you would have
| caught the wierd reference.. W is the shortcut for the stats menu, and
| Lee's way of making people remember is was saying that it was a 'wierd'
| shortcut - worked for me.

I hadn't heard that one -- pretty funny.  Actually when I was looking for
a key to assign to "Stats," I tried every logical letter I could think of,
but they were all already assigned.  I finally picked W since it was just
above S.
--
    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

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From: [e-mail] (Cyrus J. Kalbrener)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Nt_avi.p troubles
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:28:47 GMT
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When I first installed Lightwave, I selected the Nt_avi.p plugin,
among others.  It worked ok under win95, but it was far more reliable
than 16 and 32 bit avi savers.

I since wiped out my hard drive, and re-installed LW, but now I can;t
get the Nt_avi.p to load.  It says that it was loaded, but it doesn't
show up.  Now I can't get the other avi savers to save anything either
(even with FOOANIM.AVI as a name).

1. If Nt_avi.p is supposedly only for NT, why did it load and work
before, and why isn;t it loading now?

2. Why can't I save with the 16bit  AVI saver, even when I add the
AVI extension to the name?

Grrrr.


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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re:  Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:07:38 GMT
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In article <4gshuf$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>>Hey everyone!!! NewTek CEO Dwight Parscale's son wrote the following...
>>
>>(Of course, he didn't say he was Dwight's son - I found this out by
>>checking his AOL profile.)
>
>Been checking out your Encyclopedia Brown books again...you really are a
super
>sleuth for checking an AOL profile...Hey everybody...the cat is out of the
bag, if
>you want to know who someone REALLY is, just check their AOL profile.
...
>Condescension
>without facts to back it up is nothing more than rhetoric and name calling.

If you're a sleuth, perhaps you can help dig up some of Lee's old
girlfriends, roommates, grade school ex-chums, etc. because it is
clear that this entire thread is all about people airing their
dirty laundry about Lee.

- John


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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga -Pc Lightwave
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:45:16 GMT
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>   Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]> writes:
>  Well, Windows NT is but Lightwave certainly isn't, 32 megs is NOT a
>  lot of memory for PC-lightwave.
>  Since all textures are stored in 24-bit any scene will quikly consume
>  most memory for textures. A 24 or 32 bit framebuffer for any frame
>  with a decent resolution is gonna cost you the rest of your memory.
>  And since windows NT uses half your memory to function, there will not
>  be a lot left and windows will resort to swapfile rendering.

    Bullshit.  I have 2 machines, 32m and 48m, and everything that renders on
the 48 renders on the 32 only SLIGHTLY slower.

    This constant "ya gotta have 64 megs" is total crap.

>  Wooly Mittens,

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: AREXX to C programming
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:46:35 GMT
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>   Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>  >plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
>
>  I always wondered why somebody didn't port AREXX to WinNT, I mean OS/2
>  has it, the Amiga had it since '87 (standard after '90-91).  What is
>  with this?

    "Microsoft" is with this.    The clueless titan of the computer world.

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Newtek Customer Support?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:50:34 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (JBooth411) writes:
> I'd love it
>  if they would add basic polygon creation abilities in layout (in the SDK,
>  not the interface) this way real-time object to object skinning could be
>  achieved without the assortment of hacks you'd have to do to create it
>  now..

    ????  How would this differ from the same thing Modeler?

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Realistic Metals?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:54:15 GMT
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>   [e-mail] (Mark Whitney) writes:
>    >Use very low diffuse settings. Maybe even try a negative diffuse for
>    >an extremely metallic look.
>
>  Negative Diffusion?  Didn't know you could do that.  Other than firing
>  up LW and taking a look, what's the general result of this setting?

    Hmmm, I don't see how reflecting LESS than zero would have any effect.
    But, I could be wrong-- OTOH, I just tested it.


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Is this possible??
Has anyone got this to work?

Frank Chiappetta
BaseTwo Imaging
http://members.aol.com/wannab3d/bti.html



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From: [e-mail] (Greg L. Kimnach)
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o.k., i've waited for 4.1 to come out so that i would finally be able to use
timecode (ltc) with the flyer.  but this is ridiculous the documentation
states:  "the flyer accepts smtpe time code while recording, and will output
time code during playback."  in the "fyi" section the manual then states that
"the flyer will not playback time code...."

confused?

then, to make matters worse, the manual indicates that to use timecode, video
must be fed into input 1.  where's the flexibility in this?  what if i have
three diffent formats feeding  inpust 2, 3, and 4 (which i do), and have my
house sync connected to input 1?  now i am forced to either daisychain my
video sources and input into channel 1, or i must route the video sources
through an external switcher to input to input 1 of the toaster/flyer
switcher!!!!  geez....

further, no mention is made of serial channel b.  (well, the way i understood
the first paragraph, serial-a is the timecode input port and serial-b is the
output.)

o.k., so do i have to route all video into input 1?  do i have to reconfigure
for those times that i want to edit tape-to-tape using channels 2-4?

i called newtek in october requesting info on tc support on the flyer, was
told that it would be in the 4.1 manual, and this is what we get?!!

semi-frustrated,
greg



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From: David Koegler <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Fix for Amiga to Mac transfer
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Our server has been down for several days and I may have missed a reply.
 Is there anyone who has converted rendered lightwave animation files (or
ANY Toaster files) to PICT format, and been able to load these
successfully into Avid Media Suite Pro?

I have used ImageFX, CrossMac, and a Mac-formatted Syquest, but the best
I get is an image 1/9th the screen size on the Mac side.

Interestingly, if I save out a PICT file generated in Avid MSP, and
resave as a PICT in ImageFX, then pick up on the Mac, all is well (right
size, etc).


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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Need CHARACTER GENERATOR s/w
Date: 27 Feb 1996 18:33:11 GMT
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Howdy:

I'm looking for some character generation software for the PC. (bleah)

Using Photoshop/other paint programs is lame because (of course) they are not STRING ORIENTED.
Basically what I'm looking for is something that works like a traditional character generator.

Thanks for any help.


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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re:  Help Find Lee Stranahan a Job!
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If you're a sleuth, perhaps you can help dig up some of Lee's old
girlfriends, roommates, grade school ex-chums, etc. because it is
clear that this entire thread is all about people airing their
dirty laundry about Lee.
-----------------------------------------

Were you serious about this?


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
A : Lee's new and improved home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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From: [e-mail] (Robert K. Williams)
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Is there any difference between what's in this newsgroup, and what is in the
LW mailing lists?  Is the mailing list any better?


regards,        v   v  **************************************
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From: [e-mail] (David Phoebus)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: FOR SALE: 3D Lightwave Objects - Interior Design Collections
Date: 27 Feb 1996 18:50:29 GMT
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I am selling 5 sets of Interior Design collections from Replica Technologies.
 They are all in Amiga LW3D format and have never been used, complete in
orginal packaging with all paperwork.  All objects are fully detailed and
surfaced.  They are as follows:

- Interior Design I
50 furniture objects for the bedroom, dining room, and living room including
beds, tables, chairs, storage, cabinets and other items.

- Interior Design II
50 furniture and appliance objects for the kitchen and bathroom including
appliances, cabinetry, sinks, vanities, bathtub, toilet, toiletry and other
items.

- Interior Design III
50 furniture objects for the office including chairs, desks, bookcases, file
cabinets, computer workcenters, dividers and other office furniture

- Interior Construction
150 objects to design interior scenes including doors, windows, stairs,
fixtures, moldings, lumber, walls, floors, ceilings, and rooms

- Homes
4 complete homes including one-story, traditional, lakeside, and ranch,
complete with interior rooms and exterior details


All five collections for $200 including shipping, OBO.


E-mail David at [e-mail] if you are interested.
Or call 1-407-775-0406, 9am-5pm EST and ask for David


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[e-mail] (Sander Pilon) wrote:

> > PS - the power supply will be in a system running LW 3D.
>
> ps - What the fuck is this doing in a lw newsgroup ?? Ignore such
> posts, some people have to PAY reading messages. (And it pisses me off
> when there's crap in them!)

You apparently missed the sarcasm, but that was exactly my point.  Take
the hardware discussions to a PC or Amiga or SGI group.

   - steve (how 'bout mousepads?  maybe we should talk about the right
            mousepad to use with LW?)

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From: [e-mail](Jeffrey R. Hammond )
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Subject: Re: Running Lightwave with PVR Problems
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In <[e-mail]> Rick Dean <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>
>problem.... otherwise I might have missed it all together.  Pure black
(0,0,0 RGB) in my
>animations was turning up with a 0 IRE level (not good) instead of the
proper 7.5 IRE video
>level required for NTSC signals.  If your experiencing the same
problems with your PVR you
>could be creating illegal signals and not even knowing it!
>
>--
>Rick Dean
>mailto:[e-mail]

0,0,0 RGB = 0 IRE, or super black and I've used -7 IRE once for the
truck. Some programs will take any value below 7.5 IRE and bump it up.
I believe that if you have the super black option turned on for the
PVR, that's what you'll get, 0 IRE from 0,0,0 RGB values.

Whats your point?

Jeff Hammond

J.R. Animations Co.

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From: [e-mail] (Blaise Fanning)
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Subject: Re: What's The Difference?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:52:45 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>Is there any difference between what's in this newsgroup, and what is in the
>LW mailing lists?  Is the mailing list any better?
>
>

Sure there are differences between the two:  on the mailing list, the "Find
Lee Stranahan a job" thread died out after the first six weeks :-)

Blaise Fanning
DeskStation Technology
htp://www.dti.com


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From: [e-mail] (Mark Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga -Pc Lightwave
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 05:55:00 GMT
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On 02-26-96, 4G9A42$[e-mail] was going on about Re: Amiga -Pc
Lightwave

4>From: Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]>

  >
  >Also I think a 1 gig harddisk is laughably small. I filled two 1.6gig
  >harddisks up within 3 months of buying them. And storing the rendered
  >frames is starting to become a problem, let alone processing them.
  >
  >If you want to play your anims a p133 is a must but also a video
  >harddisk because playback of an AVI-anim will require a decent
  >transfer rate (say 3 megs per sec) and it still stops playing
  >every ones in a while.
  >


How does the issue of using Striped drives under NT affect the need for
the higher speed drives in this case?

For those of you going Huh? like I was not too long ago, drive striping
basically distributes the data being written evenly amongst the drives
that are striped together. All the striped drives of a given group are
regarded as one drive to the system.  An added advantage is that the
throughput is mulplicative meaning that two drives have 2X the
throughput and four drives have roughly 4X.  Some impressive, sustained
transfer rates areI beleive that it must be a SCSI system and that the
drives use NTFS formatting.

I'm looking to put together a P6 system soon so wanting to hear more
opinions on these sort of details.

M.

---
 * CMPQwk 1.42 #6.3 It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

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From: [e-mail] (Ace)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: HELP: NT Lightwave Problems
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Hey all!

I've got some serious problems with Lightwave, and I don't know what to
do.  I just got a new P133 system w/ Lightwave 4.0 running WinNT 3.51.

My problems are this:  I am trying to make an animation with Lightwave.
I tried using the AVI extensions.  Now I installed Video for Windows
(albeit the Win3.11 version from the B5 CDROM), and I was able to use
"NEWTEK AVI" option.  I was able to save an AVI, and play it back.  It
looked pretty good!

I quit for the day, opened Lightwave the next day and now I get "Dr.
Watson's" something or other error everytime I try to define AVI saving
options.  I don't know why, but Lightwave doesn't save my "saving"
options.  Also, Lightwave doesn't seem to save my surface options for my
models either.  Junk.

Anyway, now I can't make any more AVI's.  I read all the posts about AVI
problems with NT, but I'm running Lightwave 4.0 Rev C, supposed to solve
those problems, right?  And the funny thing is, it was working!!  Now I
get these stupid errors which crashes Lightwave.  What's the deal?  Do I
need a specific NT version of Video for Windows?  Do I have to reinstall
Lightwave?  Do I need a patch?

In order to try and get around this, I tried to save all the frames as
targas.  I rendered them, saw them on my NT box and they looked fine.  I
really like how Lightwave makes lens flares!

Now, I tried to move these files to my Mac so I could use Debabelizer to
compile them into a Quicktime movie.  Thing is, the damn targas don't
work.  Instead of nice white lens flares, I get these yellow-orange-red
flares that blank out the screen!  Yikes!  What gives?  I also tried
using PIC (mac output PICTs from Lightwave) and those have the same
result.  Is there any way to undo this?  Is there some saving option I
missed?

Please help me out.  I'm new at using NT, so I'm not sure if this is an
NT problem or not.  I'm also a newbie at Lightwave too.  Thanks for any
help you can give!

[e-mail]
--Orlando Benedicto
--<*>--


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Subject: Re: lightwavers
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sure sure...

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hier noch einer...

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From: Christopher Piazza <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 2D Image to LW object
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:28:39 +0000
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Is there any way (a plugin, perhaps), other than tracing, to
convert a 2D black and white image into a Lightwave polygon? I'm
currently using the image as a planar transparancy map, but the
rendered output is still 2D looking.

Thanks is advance,

chris.

.......................................
Christopher Piazza - 3D Modeling and Animation

[e-mail]
http://www.users.interport.net/~piac/
.......................................

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From: [e-mail] (MICHAEL C. LING)
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Subject: Background images in modeler? any tips?
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I started to use bg images in modeler and I've been finding that they take
a large amount of time to draw or re-draw onscreen, about a minute or two
on a pentium 100, at  one-quarter of a 1600x1280 screen. Every time I
re-center, or resize or magnify/demagnify, I have to wait for my work area
to re-draw.  Is there anything else I can do BESIDES going to lower
resolution desktops and smaller windows in modeler?

--
M C L -

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In article <4gq6hl$[e-mail]>,
   Sam Marrocco <[e-mail]> wrote:
>What is Powerview plug-in and what types of cards does it run on?

PowerView is available from ftp.newtek.com or simislar and is a realtime
shaded viewer for LW's Modeller. It will work with any graphics card, but will
really accelerate with an OpenGL card.



Kevin Gleeson
Hobart TAS OZ

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From: Mario Cascio <[e-mail]>
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Subject: FS:  Amilink Pro CIP
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MUST SELL!

* Amilink Pro CIP hardware/software
* Includes software to control 3 AG-1970 decks

I'm willing to part with this for a fairly low rate.  All offers will be
considered.  This is great for wedding videographers and everyone else who
uses the toaster without a nonlinear system.  Works perfectly.  Only used for
editing of 1 project (10 hours).  I still have boxes, manuals, and even the
hardware :).  --(Batteries not included)-- :)

Thanks for listening,
Mario Cascio
ProMotion

Offers accepted by email or phone:
[e-mail]
414-697-1979

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Justin Austin)
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Subject: Re: **** HELP IMAGINE -> PIXPRO -> LIGHTWAVE ****
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On Feb 25, 1996 02:54:51 in article <Re: **** HELP IMAGINE -> PIXPRO ->
LIGHTWAV
>
>> >I am having major problems with converting Imagine objects to Lightwave

>> >ones. I am using Pix Pro 2 to do the conversion. Pix Pro really does
>> >mess the object up something rotten. Eg I have a cylinderical type
>> >object in imagine and when I convert it to Lightwave it messes up the
>> >normals. Eg some of the faces a facing away from you so lightwave
>> >doesn`t draw them.
>> >I know why this happens:-
>>
>> >1) Because Imagine doesn`t care which way the polygons are made eg
>> >points can be clockwise or anti clockwise but Lightwave does even if
>> >you have double sided turned on from the surface selctor in the
>> >modeler. Easy way to solve would be double the polygons but this is
>> >too expensive in the polygon count eg it doubles them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Why not turn on Double Sided in the surface editor. Then all polygons
will
>be
>> rendered correctly.
>>
>
>Caution--don't forget, there is a rendering bug in one of the versions of
>Lightwave (is it 3.5??) which causes errors in rendering polygons with
>double-sided turned on.
>
>The best solution is, of course, the most time consuming and
>troublesome--simply go through your object and manually rectify the
>polygons so they all face the same direction. Yuck.
>
>--DwightG
>
>
>

Just hitting the -> align,

button works for me

or am i missing something here?

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: CHROMA KEY information
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:18:03 -0500
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I like and use After Effects for this sorta thing - there are other
options, of course


_____________________________________________
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A : Lee's new and improved home page!
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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Amiga -Pc Lightwave
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:32:46 GMT
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[e-mail] wrote:

>>   Wooly Mittens <4g9a42$[e-mail]> writes:
>>  Well, Windows NT is but Lightwave certainly isn't, 32 megs is NOT a
>>  lot of memory for PC-lightwave.
>>  Since all textures are stored in 24-bit any scene will quikly consume
>>  most memory for textures. A 24 or 32 bit framebuffer for any frame
>>  with a decent resolution is gonna cost you the rest of your memory.
>>  And since windows NT uses half your memory to function, there will not
>>  be a lot left and windows will resort to swapfile rendering.
>
>    Bullshit.  I have 2 machines, 32m and 48m, and everything that renders on
>the 48 renders on the 32 only SLIGHTLY slower.
>
>    This constant "ya gotta have 64 megs" is total crap.
>

Absolutely not true I've done scenes for hire that simply would not
render in 48 megs of RAM. To many large textures and large shadow
maps. These scenes needed a minimum of 64 megs to render, and even
more, (128 on my alpha) to do so with no paging. This 'total crap' as
you put it, allowed me to make alot of money.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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[e-mail] (Computers From Scratch) wrote:


>>It's printed on the CD-ROM.
>
>Ok, so I sound like the village idiot in that 17th century novel.
>
>I have revision B.  What's the scoop on upgrades?  I'd like to stay
>current, I've only had this one for a couple of months.  It would be a
>shame to be buying upgrades already....
>
>
You can download the patch you need to turn rev B into rev C from the
newtek ftp site (ftp.newtek.com) and several other places. The file
you need is INTELB.ZIP.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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NewTek could also have a small sideline selling us LW fans full size
posters
or large calendars of these images.  They have to put all the written
details
in the border though...

And give 'em away to the unconverted at shows, dealers, etc...

-=------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

yes yes yes - that was part of the plan...

By the way, I actually went as far as to start work on an ad when I worked
at NewTek - Jason Linhart (with some help from Brad Peebler) did an
AWESOME statue of liberty image, and the torch was the LW glyph. Good
subtle use...I did a mock up on my Mac...but...gone gone...Turn on your TV
and We got balls won..





_____________________________________________
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A : Lee's new and improved home page!
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From: [e-mail] (MTPzone)
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Subject: AMiga Ethernet..
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:15:43 -0500
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Help  ...

My AMiga 2000 went belly up and now I have reinstalled the O/S LW toaster
etc etc.. The problem is I am trying to reinstall the device driver for
the ethernet card and I don't remember where it goes and can't find the
little doc that came with the Hydra card. I have the disk that came with
the card but it has no installer program. It has a SANA.device and
Hydra.device driver. I tried copying them to the devs directory but the
tcp/ip amiga software is saying I have no ethernet card.. Does anyone know
where it goes or How I make it see the device driver.. I haven;t done this
in about 2 years so I am really lost..

THanks in advance...


MIKEY :J)

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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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On 27-Feb-96 00:33:00, Mark Whitney <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I'm on a PC system, but someone I know has access to Amiga machines with
>LW.  Unfortunately, she's kind of on her own to learn it.  One big
>question she has is how does one create a new Directory (or their Amiga
>equivalent) in that version of Lightwave?  Is there something similar to
>a File Manager to use with the Amiga, or can you create them within LW
>somehow?


>Get back to me via Internet E-mail if ya like at:
>            [e-mail]
>                    or
>        [e-mail]

  Lightwave, and the Toaster software in general, protects the user from
creating directories, deleting files, etc. :)  Most of the time, anyway.
Directory creation isn't one of the options in lightwave.

  The Amiga Workbench is a fine File Manager itself, with the show all files
option to see ones which don't have icons.  But there are many file manager
programs; my personal favorite is Directory OPUS (commercial, about $60 US);
there are many freeware ones as well.

  There is also a command line to use ;)

  Lightwave has certain default directories, and adding new ones (more object
directories in objects, etc.) in easy to find places helps.

<tsb> | *Starfire* |
*-___________________________________________________________________-*
Jeff Jones  email:[e-mail]   *//* Amiga Lives!
 *TFG*Starfire*Design*Studio*      *\\//*  1985-1994, born again 1995!
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From: Gwynne Reddick <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LW 4.0 Modeler problems
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In article: <4gpvd4$[e-mail]>  [e-mail] (Ralf J?rgens) writes:

> I have encountered some problems with the LW 4.0 Modeler that the
> Pre-Release version didn?t have:
> When constructing simple boxes the cursor (which is too large for my
> liking - the Pre-release cusor was smaller and thus better!) snaps to
> grids even when the grid is not aktivated. It simply does unwanted things
> and it is rather difficult (at least) to construct models with this
> snapping and jumping of cursors and boxes.
                           ^^^^^^^^

I had a problem with modeller in 3.5 standalone which sounds similar - bounding
boxes would jump around for no apparent reason. It wasn`t too bad at first, but
gradually got worse over a number of weeks. I finally tracked it down to a failing
cpu fan - the 040 in my A4000 was overheating. I also had problems multi
selecting points/polygons using any method other than shift-clicking them.

I haven`t come across this on the pentium yet, but I`m already on my second
cpu fan.


Gwynne.
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Subject: Re: Help! Can't get into Modeller
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In article: <4gqrr8$[e-mail]>  [e-mail] (C Mak) writes:

>
> I hope somebody can help or give some insight here.  I can't get into
> the Modeller.  When I click on it, the Modeller screen flashes on and
> then I'm back into Program Manager.  I have no trouble getting into
> Layout.
>
> I had no trouble with it previously but I recently had the computer
> apart to try to install a scanner card.  I thought that maybe I had
> moved the dongle (it was a tricky dongle installation...any move made
> it unstable).
>
> Is this a dongle thing or something else?  I've tried moving the
> dongle, jiggling it, but no luck.
>
Sounds like the dongle. This is the same symptom that I had - give it a
week or so and you won`t be able to get into layout either. Phone NT
tech support and arrange to get it sorted out.

Gwynne.

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From: Andrew Hofman <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Running Lightwave with PVR Problems
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:11:54 -0500
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> Pure black (0,0,0 RGB) in my
> animations was turning up with a 0 IRE level (not good) instead of the proper 7.5 IRE video
> level required for NTSC signals.  If your experiencing the same problems with your PVR you
> could be creating illegal signals and not even knowing it!
>
> Rick Dean

At the risk of sounding like a total rube, I leave my PVR set for 0 black all the
time. In fact, this is consistently requested by my clients when I'm creating
keyable animations. (Granted, in those cases the black is being replaced with
something above 0 IRE.) I wasn't aware putting a 0 IRE signal on the air was a
broadcast violation. In fact, I notice frequent shifts in black levels during
commercial insertions. TV stations must be breaking the law all over the place.


--
Andrew Hofman
LumaQuest Productions
[e-mail]
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My point is... Super Black option does not work on my PVR.  It has a mind of its own.
Sometimes it decides to switch on all by itself - other  times it won't go even when I ask for it.  I
just wondered if anyone else is experiencing the same problem on a DEC Alpha with a PVR.?
--
Rick Dean
mailto:[e-mail]

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JMachemehl wrote in comp.graphics.apps.lightwave about "suche deutsche
ligthwavebenutzer":

Jau hier, und?

Michael // Fido: 2:246/1115.10
Wolf \\X/ UUCP: [e-mail]
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I have encountered similar problems on my DEC Alpha running NT with Lightwave.  It is a bug
that Newtek is aware of but didn't catch on the latest CD release.  You cannot save your scene
with the SAVE ANIM button highlighted or it WILL CRASH the next time you open the scene
mess with SAVE ANIM again.  My temporary solution is to make sure I do not have the SAVE
ANIM on when I save a scene.  If you happen to have an older version of Lightwave (Like
Pre-Release 4.0) you can load the scene and save it again to kill the bug.  My older LW
version  didn't have an AVI option.
--
Rick Dean
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From: Manuel Coats <[e-mail]>
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:34:32 -0800
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I've got a PC par card for sale.  $900 takes it.  I've got two drives as
well that were used with it (1 gig each) which I will throw in for
another $300 if you buy the PAR.  The drives are a Micropolis and a seagate.

E-mail [e-mail] if interested.  Visa & MC accepted.

MC


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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Adam Chrystie wrote:
>
>  There is a book by Alan chan ..i do not have the distributors
> number handy at the moment..
>

The book is called the FX KIT FOR LIGHTWAVE and sells for $34.95.  It's
over 300 pages and can be ordered by using one of the #'s below.

800-764-8696 - Us Orders
805-726-3545 - All other orders
805-726-3544 - Fax orders

Or you can send check/money order to:

Lightspeed
2763 West Avenue L Suite 172
Lancaster, Ca. 93536
USA


*There's a 30 day money back guarantee on the book too*


Hope this helps.


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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >   Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> >  >plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
> >
> >  I always wondered why somebody didn't port AREXX to WinNT, I mean OS/2
> >  has it, the Amiga had it since '87 (standard after '90-91).  What is
> >  with this?
>
>         "Microsoft" is with this.    The clueless titan of the computer world.
>
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Uhhh, can you say Microsoft Basic, QBasic, Visual Basic and then Visual Basic for
Applications....I'd say Mr. Bill probably knew what he was doing for himself.

Elliot Bain

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From: [e-mail] (AXAXA)
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Subject: Re: Anyone using/used a 200 MHZ. P6 with LW?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 23:36:40 -0500
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I just got a Dell 200mhz, 32M ram.  The texturesample scene  took 15sec to
render. I did not get the chance to render anything else.  I'll test some
other scene and let you know

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Hi there!

Any Amiga users (Still) out there?

Greetings,

Jeroen van Velsen (NETMAIL: 14:101/101.8)
                  (E-Mail: [e-mail])
A4000T V3.1 WarpEngine 040/40mhz 22mb RAM
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In een bericht van 24 Feb 96 Andrew Barnett gericht aan All:

 AB> Hi all again ,

 AB> Well I finally going for a

 AB> P133,
 AB> 32Mb Memory,( Got a few simms in my Amiga maybe 40Mb ;))
 AB> 6x CD-Rom
 AB> Medium Tower,
 AB> 4 VRam Diamond Sleath,
 AB> 1 Gig HD E-IDE ( To start with )

 AB> Is Windows NT useable on this system ?

It sure should be! I think you won't have any problems installing (and
running) Windows NT.

Ps. I own an Amiga but I also have knowledge of the PC.

Greetings,

Jeroen van Velsen (NETMAIL: 14:101/101.8)
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In een bericht van 24 Feb 96 Walter (jay gericht aan All:

 >>>>  Technology sold itself and always will.

 >>>       The obvious refutation for this is:  if this were so, Amigas would
 >>>       dominate the computer market.

Let me guess. Amiga user? 8)

Greetings,

Jeroen van Velsen (NETMAIL: 14:101/101.8)
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In een bericht van 25 Feb 96 Stranahan gericht aan All:

 S> "Who is Lee Stranahan?" ;)
 S> .......................................

 S> Yep - I also started 'the Lee's Problem with NewTek' thread by saying -
 S> "This is Lee Stranahan speaking...." References everywhere...

 S> _____________________________________________
 S> Lee Stranahan
 S> Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
 S> A : Lee's new and improved home page!
 S> URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm

Lee Stranahan?

I really LOVED those 5 LW tapes you did! It makes learning LW a LOT faster
then using the manual. (At least it did in my case...) I'm still learning
though, no Babylon 5 style/quality productions yet... 8)

Greetings,

Jeroen van Velsen (NETMAIL: 14:101/101.8)
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In een bericht van 26 Feb 96 Unregistered Version gericht aan All:

 UV> I need some help for a friend. He has an EPSON color II ink jet printer
 UV> on an Amiga 2000 and ENDICOR ENPRINT printer  program. He is trying to
 UV> print
 UV> color pictures and is getting the results he would like. His father has
 UV> the same printer with an MSDos computer and is getting good results.
 UV> Does anyone with an EPSON II have any advice for him?

 UV> Thank You, Dan Browning, [e-mail], [phone]

I think you mean 'isn't getting the results'? Try TurboPrintProffesional,
should work great...

Greetings,

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Christopher Piazza <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Is there any way (a plugin, perhaps), other than tracing, to
>convert a 2D black and white image into a Lightwave polygon? I'm
>currently using the image as a planar transparancy map, but the
>rendered output is still 2D looking.
>
>Thanks is advance,
>
>chris.

CorelDraw can help you save your drawing in DXF-format. If you've got the
new Translator 3D-plugin you can then import the object into Modeler.

Regards,
Per Swantesson
Sweden



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From: [e-mail] (FXMatte)
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Following are excerpts of some of Lee Stranahan's posts to this thread:

>Given Tim's conduct and record of lies and omissions...

This history of "lies and ommissions" would of course be copiously
documented in the voluminous records kept in "Lee's Great Hall of
Records."

>..., it is by no means a forgone conclusion that Ken and Richard would
get their >credit. There are many many instances of Tim failing not only
to credit Ken's >work on shots, but to even fail mention Ken's role as
co-founder of Area 51...

Kind of like how Tim arranged to have Ken and Richard's names put in the
end credits of the film?  As for crediting Ken with co-founding the
company... they no longer work together.  It is neither of their
responsibility to promote the other.  Does Ken, while talking about the
work he did on Space, or Lord of Illusions or, or, or... credit Tim with
co-founding Area 51?  I sure wouldn't if I were in his shoes.  It wouldn't
be my job.  My job would be to promote MYSELF.  Lee Stranahan, Mr. Self
Promotion, you of all people not arriving at this obvious conclusion...
tsk, tsk, tsk.

>First off, the LightWave forum isn't really the place for this. This is
>only vaugely a LightWave matter, in that Area 51 and Ken use LightWave -
>that's about it. My original intention was to 1) mention 'up-resing', and
>2) to clairfy the credit for Lord Of Illusions. So, I'll respond to...

What can I say.  I've seen thicker rice paper than that.  "Ahem...
up-resing is really neat... (cough, sniff) oh, and by the way, watch out
for that Tim guy.  He'll bite ya'."

>I've supplied a ton of facts...

What you have supplied is a lot of information out of context.  Your side
isn't even close to half of it.  Ken and Tim were not the only two people
involved in this situation, and if you insist that they were (not that you
are) then why are YOU posting all of this and not Ken?

>Also, note that nobody from Area 51
>has said that my facts are in error, because they know that they aren't
in
>error. Believe me, some of the people there would LOVE to slam me on any
>inaccuracies.

You flatter yourself sir.

Matt Merkovich

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From: [e-mail] (Robin Luiten)
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>"J.A.B." <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi,
>  I just happen to see something, I was reading in chapter 4 of FX Kit of LW
>and on page 72 it had a question about saving different views in Modeler
>by holding down the Cntrl key and select from 1 thru 9 on the numberic
>keypad to "Save" the view.
>
>Question: Is this feature for LW 4.0?

Yes...
The only annoying thing is that the saved settings are only for the
current execution. They don't get saved for the next time you run the
modeller. I would find it much [Much] more usefull if it was stored for
the future.

Just think:
    Keypad 7 to expand top left window to full screen
    Keypad 9 to expand top right window to full screen
    Keypad 1 to expand bottom left window to full screen
    Keypad 3 to expand bottom right window to full screen
    Keypad 5 to restore to defaullt.

    Then all the others 2,4,6,8 for incidentals....

Actually it would be best if it were tied to objects rather than the
config file as it the views are dependent on the scales you are working
at. And you could load back your object and instantly have the views back
to what they were.

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----------------------------
I really LOVED those 5 LW tapes you did! It makes learning LW a LOT faster
then using the manual. (At least it did in my case...) I'm still learning
though, no Babylon 5 style/quality productions yet... 8)
---------------------------------

Thanks - you'll so see how well loved I am...



_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan
Q : What do BBQ and better sex have in common?
A : Lee's new and improved home page!
URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


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On 02-27-96, ALAN was going on about Re: 21" monitors

AC>From: [e-mail](Alan Chan )

  >
  >As far as monitors go, if you are going for a 21", go for a
  >Viewsonic, and if you're going with a 17", get an Innovision Mag...
  >
  >AC
  >


That sounds like a fairly strong endorsment.  Any comment on NEC's or
are the above the best bang-for-the-buck?

M.

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On 02-27-96, [e-mail] was going on about Re: Quick question ...

J>From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
  >Mark Whitney wrote:
  >>
  >> I'm on a PC system, but someone I know has access to Amiga machines
  >> with LW.  Unfortunately, she's kind of on her own to learn it.  One
  >> big question she has is how does one create a new Directory (or
  >> their Amiga equivalent) in that version of Lightwave?  Is there
  >> something similar to a File Manager to use with the Amiga, or can
  >> you create them within LW somehow?
  >>
  >> Get back to me via Internet E-mail if ya like at:
  >>             [e-mail]
  >>                     or
  >>         [e-mail]
  >>
  >> Thanx,
  >>
  >> M.
  >>
  >> ---
  >>  * CMPQwk 1.42 #6.3 Cats are smarter than dogs.  Eight cats won't
  >pull a sled .
  >
  >
  >I would have responded to this incredibly simple question, but then
  >you went and slammed dogs. Cats are worthless, you're on your own,
  >bud. --
  >=======================================================
  >Send e-mail to mailto:[e-mail]
  >visit the Juris web site at http://www.oo.com/~juris
  >or visit my personal web site at
  >http://members.aol.com/tlwestgate/home/livroom.htm
  >=======================================================


Hey, it's a random tagline line selector, OK?  And the list doesn't seem
to have any dog related ones.

Actually, someone did reply, and I've nothing against dogs.  I just
state the facts.

M.

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[e-mail] (Jeroen Van Velsen) wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Any Amiga users (Still) out there?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jeroen van Velsen (NETMAIL: 14:101/101.8)
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Yes, I'm an Amiga LW user (from holland).
I just recently stepped over from IMAGINE and proud of it,
But my A1200-030-50MHz-FPU-10MegsRAM-0.5GIGsHD is getting
flattened by lightwave and I don't know how long I can hold on.

A friend bought a P133-16MEGS-3.2GIGsHD-4MegsDRAMDiamond stealth64-
AWE32. And I'm getting jalous of the speed.
But lightwave is flattening that too.

Wooly Mittens.

"Any sufficiently developed technology
               is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently developed technology
               is inextinguishable with water." Fire Guideline

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Christopher Piazza <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Is there any way (a plugin, perhaps), other than tracing, to
> convert a 2D black and white image into a Lightwave polygon? I'm
> currently using the image as a planar transparancy map, but the
> rendered output is still 2D looking.
>
> Thanks is advance,
>
> chris.
>
> ........................................
> Christopher Piazza - 3D Modeling and Animation
>
> [e-mail]
> http://www.users.interport.net/~piac/
> ........................................
Get polymorph(PC) or pixelpro (amiga) to extrude and smooth
bitmaps.
But tracing over them as a background gives better results.

Wooly Mittens.


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On 24 Feb 1996 15:34:02 -0500, [e-mail] (JMachemehl) wrote:

>b
yo,
die Masse macht's

Ich erhöhe auf ein "D". :-)





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From: [e-mail] (Hazen)
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>On 22-Feb-96 23:19:30, Hazen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>        I'm about to make a RAM investment for the PC and was wondering
>>if anyone knows of a considerable difference when using non-parity ram
>>/w lightwave.  Is parity ram a must?


>  Parity RAM is a hardware checking mechanism, to test for malfunctions in
the
>RAM.  It isn't the software that needs it, but the hardware in the PC.
There is
>no difference in speed, either way, but if your PC needs parity RAM, that's
what
>you have to buy.  Some machines have the option to use either, and many
newer
>machines (and non-IBM clones) don't use parity checking.


    Thanks for the info everyone!  You guys just saved me some ca$h!


Hazen


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From: [e-mail] (leelee)
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Help,
Anyone manage to get the PC running screamernet and using the amiga as
a rendering engine. I have managed to do it the other way, Amiga
running LW 4.0 and the PC acting as the rending engine (by using
LWSN).

Where can I get more info, I have followed both of the manuals but
still cant get it going properly.


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From: [e-mail] (FX51)
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Lee's facts are in error.

Glenn
AREA 51

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In message <[e-mail]>
        Rick Dean <[e-mail]> writes:

> My point is... Super Black option does not work on my PVR.  It has
a mind of its own.
> Sometimes it decides to switch on all by itself - other  times it
won't go even when I ask for it.  I
> just wondered if anyone else is experiencing the same problem on a
DEC Alpha with a PVR.?
> --
> Rick Dean
> mailto:[e-mail]

What version software (pvr) are you running
What kind of dec is it?(dec,carrera,deskstation?)
How much ram have you got.
Our pvr does not give us any problems on its own nor with premiere,in
v 2.5 soft,but did have your prob previously
--
Simon Blackledge                                       [e-mail]
                 Creators of Digital Visual Effects
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-------------------T.R.A.N.S.M.I.S.S.I.O.N--3D/AV-----------------------------
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From: [e-mail] (Simon Blackledge)
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Subject: Re: LW Versions and upgrades
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In message <[e-mail]>
        Rick Dean <[e-mail]> writes:

> Computers From Scratch wrote:
> >
> > How can one tell what revision of Lightwave one has?  (Geez...I sound
> > like a 17th century novel character don't I?)
> >
> > Umm..the thing is, I have Lightwave 4.0 but I don't know what revision
> > I have or how to find out what revision I have or whether I'll get
> > automatic upgrades because I'm registered, or what.  Please advise, O,
> > teeming hordes of superior Lightwave users.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > J


> Another way to quickly find out what exact version you have is to
hold the shift and ctrl keys (or
> is it the shift and alt keys?) when you click on the about button.
It will give you a full version
> readout on the screen.  At least it works that way on my DEC Alpha version.
> --
> Rick Dean
> mailto:[e-mail]

Do you have the experimental modes available on dec alpha
Does anyone know how to render on sn with experimentalmodes .

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In article <4gvg1r$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] ([e-mail]) writes:
>>   Zoltan Hunt <[e-mail]> writes:
>>
>>  >plugins for LW/Intel, once we don't have AREXX there?
>>
>>  I always wondered why somebody didn't port AREXX to WinNT, I mean OS/2
>>  has it, the Amiga had it since '87 (standard after '90-91).  What is
>>  with this?
>

I'm sure there is a REXX implementation in the NT 3.51 Resource Kit;
can this be used in any way?

I've also seen reference to an ML macro plugin (BML?) -- is it a
commerical product?


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Subject: Imagine to LW object conversion (PC)
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Hi All,

I used to have a program on the Amiga that would convert Imagine objects
to lightwave objects.

Now I need a similar program for the PC. Any ideas? I'm sure
this must be a popular problem but I couldn't find the FAQ
so please excuse me if it's answered there.

Malc.




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[e-mail] (Mark Whitney) wrote:
>
> On 02-27-96, [e-mail] was going on about Re: Quick question ...
>
> J>From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
>   >Mark Whitney wrote:
>   >>
>   >> I'm on a PC system, but someone I know has access to Amiga machines
>   >> with LW.  Unfortunately, she's kind of on her own to learn it.  One
>   >> big question she has is how does one create a new Directory (or
>   >> their Amiga equivalent) in that version of Lightwave?  Is there
>   >> something similar to a File Manager to use with the Amiga, or can
>   >> you create them within LW somehow?
>   >>
>   >> Get back to me via Internet E-mail if ya like at:
>   >>             [e-mail]
>   >>                     or
>   >>         [e-mail]
>   >>
>   >> Thanx,
>   >>
>   >> M.

Hello, I'm an Amiga LW user. Of course the amiga is swarming with
all kinds of filemanagers.
I use directory opus wich can do anything to a file or dir you
can imagine.
Cheaper alternatives are usualy to be found in PD libraries and
the aminet ftp site.

Wooly Mittens.


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AXAXA wrote:
>
> I just got a Dell 200mhz, 32M ram.  The texturesample scene  took 15sec to
> render. I did not get the chance to render anything else.  I'll test some
> other scene and let you knowI have an Intergraph TDZ300 150MHz Pentium Pro.  The TEXTUREEXAMPLES scene took me 12 sec.
But this is the texture scene(no antialiasing). Is the textures scene you rendered from the BENCHMARK
directory?
It took 78 sec. to render the TEXTURES.lws from the BENCHMARK directory
(I just load it and hit F9) because of the antialiasing steps.
If it only took you 15 sec. for the same scene then I'm impressed!, If not, then I beat you by 3 sec. ;)

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In a previous article [e-mail] (Steve Koren) said:

>
> Ernie Wright <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > > What do you rename Powerview to, to not get the error code when you
> > > run it?
> >
> > pviewigl.p
>
> Huh?  I didn't have to rename powerview to anything after installing
> LW4, and I don't get any error codes.  I must be missing something here.

        I've been meaning to post too.  I haven't renamed it all but
I always get some error opening module or something like that when it
starts.  This is on 4.0 Intel.  I will have to get the exact error
msg and post it here.  I also found it didn't run in anything lower
than 16bit color.  I was hoping it would work in 256.

mbc



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[e-mail] (Malcy-babes!) wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I used to have a program on the Amiga that would convert Imagine objects
> to lightwave objects.
>
> Now I need a similar program for the PC. Any ideas? I'm sure
> this must be a popular problem but I couldn't find the FAQ
> so please excuse me if it's answered there.
>
> Malc.
>
>
>
A PC program named Polymorph from the makers of Amiga PixelPro
should do nicely. It's not PD though.

Wooly Mittens.

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[e-mail] (John Gross) wrote:

>elixer ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: I've just come over from the 3DS world and I love LW4.0. My problem is
>: that I use Dave's TGA animator to create 16bit FLH animations. Light
>: Wave saves The Images I this Format( Name.TGA#.TGA). DTA can't
>: read those long names. is there a way to make LW save The files in the
>: regular dos format?

>LightWave saves tga images like name001.tga, name002.tga (Select
>name001.### for file format). You are most likely typing in a name of
>name.tga into the save requester when all you should be entering is name.

>JG

Well I got the problem fixed... I was typing in the name and the .tga
extension. Well I wrote a program the rename the files just in case I
did that agian... And I did, A thousand frames all with the wrong
names.. lucky I remembered some C programming.

elixer.


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Yes its the dongle.  Usually in a case like this we can reprogram it and
send it right back to you.  You will need to call tech support for an RMA
number before sending it in.

Greg Ready
NewTek Tek Manager

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In <[e-mail]> Rick Dean <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>My point is... Super Black option does not work on my PVR.  It has a
mind of its own.
>
>Deleted
>
>

You are the first that I know of with this problem. What type of Alpha
system are you using? What version of NT do you have installed? This
might help in solving your problem.

Jeff Hammond

J.R.Animations Co.


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On 27-Feb-96 05:55:00, Mark Whitney ([e-mail]) posted:

> For those of you going Huh? like I was not too long ago, drive striping
> basically distributes the data being written evenly amongst the drives
> that are striped together. All the striped drives of a given group are
> regarded as one drive to the system.  An added advantage is that the
> throughput is mulplicative meaning that two drives have 2X the
> throughput and four drives have roughly 4X.  Some impressive, sustained
> transfer rates areI beleive that it must be a SCSI system and that the
> drives use NTFS formatting.

> I'm looking to put together a P6 system soon so wanting to hear more
> opinions on these sort of details.

Yes, striping works great, but at a risk to data security.

I use a striped pair of drives in our Raptor3, and loading/saving/copying
is very close to twice as fast as before. The main benefit is of course
when loading AVI's and doing wire-frame previews of large animations. Not
only do they load faster, but the striped pair plays them back twice as
fast when the file is large enough that it won't all load into ram at once,
and it's paging in from the drive(s). Any time the system has to do a page
file swap/write, it happens in half the time, too. And of course, our pair
of 2GB drives appears to the system as a single 4GB drive.

There's a risk of data security, though, that "stripers" need to be aware
of. The information that defines the stripe set is held in the Registry, so
if something happens to your Registry, the system can no longer access the
stripe set. Using the "RDisk" utility will make a backup of the Registry
and make an "Emergency Repair Disk" so you can easily fix this if your
Registry gets clobbered, but without this backup, simply holding down the
space bar during bootup will cause the system to lose it's definition of
your striped pair, and along with it, all your data. Ouch! The same thing
applies to "Volume Sets", by the way.

As long as you're aware of and prepare for the potential problem, striping
is a very nice performance boost.

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On 27-Feb-96 19:15:43, MTPzone ([e-mail]) posted:

> Help  ...

> My AMiga 2000 went belly up and now I have reinstalled the O/S LW
> toaster etc etc.. The problem is I am trying to reinstall the device
> driver for the ethernet card and I don't remember where it goes and
> can't find the little doc that came with the Hydra card. I have the disk
> that came with the card but it has no installer program. It has a
> SANA.device and Hydra.device driver. I tried copying them to the devs
> directory but the tcp/ip amiga software is saying I have no ethernet
> card.. Does anyone know where it goes or How I make it see the device
> driver.. I haven;t done this in about 2 years so I am really lost..

> THanks in advance...

They go in DEVS/Networks.

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