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Mitch Rosefelt wrote:
>
> In the LW5 manuals, one of the new features mentioned is the use of Metaballs in Modeler.  The
> reference guide mentions 2 plugins, Addmball.p and pcblob.p., as well as a sample object
> M.bal, which are to be used w/Metaballs.  Of the 3, only Addmball.p is on the CD.  There are
> no instructions for using Metaballs in the user guide.  Was this implementation dropped?
>
> BTW, the metanurbs is a very impressive piece of code.  Will we be able to keyframe them
> directly in some future release?


Both plug-ins came with my copy.  Add MetaBalls and Metaballs. Check the
manual to see the proper plug-in name. The manuals description is a bit
lacking, but just functional enough to get you working.

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From: [e-mail] (Bryan Ewert)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Correct size to display video in Modeller BG image?
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:05:10 GMT
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[e-mail] (Anthony Caviello) wrote:

 >     When you display a BG image in modeller, especially for the purpose of
 > creating  polygons to be Front projection mapped in layout...

You were darn close.  It works like this:

1. In Layout, read the Camera Panel's "Frame Aspect" value.  In the case of
   D2, it's 1.346.

2. In Modeler, create a box:  X = -1.346 m  -  1.346 m
                              Y = -1.0 m    -  1.0 m
                              Z =  0.0 m    -  0.0 m
   Save it.

3. Load the box into Modeler.  Key it at X/Y/Z = 0.

4. Read the Camera Panel's "Zoom Factor" value (eg. 3.2) and key the
   Camera's Z position at the negative of this value.

The result will be a perfectly framed backdrop object, suitable for Front
Projection Mapping.

My thanks to Mark Thompson and his invaluable LightwavePRO articles on
Aspect Ratios.


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

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From: Dwight Bonney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Lightwave to DXF
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Howdy,

I think this has already been asked, sorry.

But can anyone please tell me how I can convert a Lightwave object
into a DXF for use in 3D Studio.

Thanx
Dwight.

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From: [e-mail] (ysin)
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Subject: JOB! Computer Related
Date: 30 May 1996 00:28:45 GMT
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Employment agency accepting resumes via email.  Please email as text or as an
attachment in MS Word format.

We will distribute your resume to potential employers if it meets thier needs.

please EMAIL your resume to [e-mail] if you meet the following
requirements

1. MUST be willing to work in Virginia, Maryland, D.C or Pennsylvania area
2. MUST have 3 years of experience in COMPUTER related work, anything ranging
from programming to hardware related work, or even writing web pages.

Thanks for your time


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From: [e-mail] (Bryan Ewert)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
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Ernie Wright <[e-mail]> wrote:

 > BTW, I found the lower gloss settings work better, which is counter-
 > intuitive, but it spreads the specularity over a larger area.  I'm not
 > sure I understand what's going on there.

I found this as well.  My observation is that this increases the "glint"
area across a facet so it has a nicer shine to it.

 > > taking 30 mins per frame at 640x480 on a P100.  Trace reflections
 > > and Trace Refraction is on.  Low anti-alias with adaptive at 10.
 >
 > Whew.  Trace reflections with AA is really hammering your render time.
 > AA are off.  320 x 240 takes about 17 seconds on my P133.

My diamond is a remodeled version of the LightROM one -- mathematically
defined to avoid non-planars, and added a small facet between every facet to
increase the "glint factor."  300MHz Alpha bucks a 640x480 full Trace w/med
AA in less than a minute.


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

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From: Peter Gruhn <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio
Subject: Re: MAX or Lightwave?  Pick one and shut up...
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> When people say they can produce rendered work
> indistinguishable from raytraced, without raytracing, surely they mean > "as photo-realistic, if not more so" than raytracing?

Unless they mean "as correct in certain details"

> If so, why would they bother
> trying to make their images look like they have been poorly ray-traced

He didn't say he planned for them to be poorly ray traced. He said that
they were simple.

>_looks_ raytraced,

I thought raytracing was "photorealistic"?

> software is, so how can this reflect on how good each package is? (Wasn't that
> the point of the exercise?)

No, it wasn't.

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From: Lance Gray <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Heap error?!?
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 20:44:45 -0500
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A collegue of mine has had an error occur just recently that I've never
seen or heard of with LightWave 4.0

He said it says  "Unexpected Heap Error"

He said in fact...the scene exists under which the scene was saved,
however no objects exist whatsoever in that scene!?!  Apparently this
has been happening to him today about every hour!  The scene is
constantly saved, but all of a sudden it exists only as a name with
nothing in it anymore!  In other words, he saves a scene like 5 or 6
times in working on a project and after the "heap error" occurs his
system crashes and then he looks at the scene---which does exist---but
everything applied to it is gone!

    Does LW make a backup of the scenes anywhere in its files?!?


    Any solutions!?!
--
________________________________________________________________________
Lance Gray ([e-mail]) **25 GIG Flyer & PC LightWave equipped**

 "If you are insulted because of the name of CHRIST, you are blessed,
  for the spirit of GOD rests on you."  1 Peter 14
________________________________________________________________________

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Mitch Rosefelt <[e-mail]> wrote:

>In the LW5 manuals, one of the new features mentioned is the use of Metaballs in Modeler.  The
>reference guide mentions 2 plugins, Addmball.p and pcblob.p., as well as a sample object
>M.bal, which are to be used w/Metaballs.  Of the 3, only Addmball.p is on the CD.  There are
>no instructions for using Metaballs in the user guide.  Was this implementation dropped?

>BTW, the metanurbs is a very impressive piece of code.  Will we be able to keyframe them
>directly in some future release?

Add the plugins:
lwpanels.p
metaball.p
addmball.p

that'll get you started with metaballs


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From: [e-mail] (Surfer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave to DXF
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 01:46:00 GMT
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Dwight Bonney <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Howdy,

>I think this has already been asked, sorry.

>But can anyone please tell me how I can convert a Lightwave object
>into a DXF for use in 3D Studio.

>Thanx
>Dwight.

load the plugin "tran3d.p" into Modeler

that will let you convert DXF, Wavefront or 3DS To/From LightWave


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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: test
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:59:36 -0400
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testing post.

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From: JP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Serpentine Morph
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:14:10 GMT
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Gooday all!!!

I am in the proccess of making an anim that has lots of morphs, and
the one thats throwing me is this:
    I have a Staff object,  approx 6' in length and I want to
morph it into a figure 8 with a serpentine texture moving alog the Y
axis. The texture I can handle But, converting the staff into the
figure eight is somewhat dificult.
Any suggestions?



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From: JP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Nurbs
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:16:52 GMT
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What are Metanurbs???



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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave 6.0 ?
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:21:45 -0400
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To: "Walter (Jay) Turberville (III)" <[e-mail]>

Walter (Jay) Turberville (III) wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]> Ace Miles <[e-mail]> writes:
> >From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
> >Subject: Re: Lightwave 6.0 ?
> >Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:46:02 -0700
>
> >Jean-Eric Hénault wrote:
> >>
> >> At last Video Toaster World in LA last Fall, Tim Jennison mentionned
> >> that LW would catch-up with SoftImage within a year. That was six months
> >> ago.
> >>
> >> It is logical to assume that now that 5.0 is shipping, NewTek is gonna
> >> start working on 6.0 right ? Well, A friend of mine who is working for
> >> one of the big LightWave studios mentionned that they are about to start
> >> working on a Beta version of 6.0. Is it possible this new version could
> >> be availlable by the end of the year ?
> >>
> >> Woudn't that be great ? I just hope the next upgrade doesn't cost me an
> >> other 500$ ...
> >>
> >> Jean-Eric
>
> >If the next upgrade comes that fast and is as good as 5.0 was then I
> >think it's worth at least another $500.00
>
> >-Ace
>
> >--
> >    Ace Miles -Sr. Animator
> >Atari Games / Williams Entertainment
> >     [e-mail] (work)
> >      [e-mail] (home)
>
> All they have to do to get my $500 is to give me animateable MetaNurbs.  OK -
> I want the motion channels separated as well for my $500.
>
> Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
> Studio 522 Productions           |http://www.primenet.com/~wturber
> http://www.studio522.com         |ftp.primenet.com/users/w/wturber


Can someone please tell me how so many people are talking about
LW 5.0 and even 6.0 when Newtek tells me 5.0 is not even
shipping yet (!?).  I just bought 4.0 about 2 weeks ago, unaware
of 5.0, and I'm anxious to get the latest release.
Thanks very much,
Brendan McHugh
--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  Order a pizza now and get 12,000 lightbulbs free!!
         http://gramercy.ios.com/~mchughs
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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From: [e-mail] (Tao Yin)
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Subject: lightwave books!!
Date: 30 May 1996 02:41:24 GMT
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Hello there:

    Is there a book on lightwave 3D other than the manual?  I am
interested in buying one.  Anyone has a related source, let me know please!!

thanks!!

tao

[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail] (Howard ST)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: metanurbs w. Metamorph
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>>, I've got
some tutorials out there that covers this in more detail.>>

Where?
-H

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From: [e-mail] (Tony Lisanti)
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In message <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Walter
(Jay) Turberville ) writes:

>In article <4oa7d1$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
writes:
>>From: [e-mail] (MarcMylar)
>>Subject: Re: Again more Dongle Problems
>>Date: 26 May 1996 14:20:17 -0400
>
>>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
>>(Walter (Jay) Turberville (III)) writes:
>
>>>Based upon the experiences posted here, I won't plug anything into the
>>>backside of a LW dongle.  For any reason. Period.  Apparently some
>>printers
>>>have the nasty trait of "reprogramming" the dongle.  I think the price of
>>an
>>>additional parallel port ($20-40) or a switchbox ($20 or so - works for
>>most
>>>but not all parallel devices) is easily worth the peace of mind.

 Well,  Newkek said the dongle would be transparant.  I guess transparant when
you're not running lightwave or when the machine is off.. :)  Stay away from
pluggin in HP printers into the port. My freiend learned that the hard way.  I
have a 3 way box here.  A-dongle B-printer C-Snappy . Simple.





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From: cjtsui <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:46:04 -0700
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To: Brad Peebler <[e-mail]>

Brad Peebler wrote:
>
> Okay everyone. Here is the official notice for feature requests. As we
> are hard at work on the next rev of LW I am putting together the
> master list of feature requests. I know there are lots of good ideas
> out there so send them to me!
>
> Please send all feature requests to [e-mail] so that I can
> compile them quickly.
>
> Thanks
>
> BP
>
> PS: This includes interface ideas, new input devices, plug in
> architecture...anything you would like to see in LightWave.

hi Brad,

heres a suggestion:

how about being able to select objects and lights by typing in the name of the obj/lights?
I'm working on a scene file that has about 600 objects and trying to find the objects on the list can be a
real pain (especially when their centers are close to each other and its hard to shift click on it.

this would also help when trying to parent objects/lights.

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From: Mikey <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Several lw questions
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:17:30 -0700
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Hi,

    I am very glad to find this newsgroup.

    My name is Mike Yuen. My first computer is an Amiga 3000.
Now I am developing VRML webs with LightWave4.0 on Win95. I have
a few questions:

- How much is upgrade to LW5?
- Anyone else have experience using the VRML plugin?
- When is VideoToaster for Windows coming out?

regards,
Mikey
CyberArtist ----> http://www.CyberArtist.com ---> San Francisco

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Subject: Re: PC Flyer? WHEN!?!?
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:

>Stranahan wrote:
>>
>> Abandon all hope.
>
>Ren Hoek grabs The World's Smartest Toaster Guy by the collar,
>pulls him down to Chihuahua level and screams,"WHAT ARE YOU
>SAYING?"    "TELL US, MAN!"

Is he now the world's most Anti-Toaster Guy?

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

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From: [e-mail] (LaCier Vincent)
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Subject: Where to start...
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I've been lurking for a short time, and my question is a simple one:
Where to start?  I've been interested in CG for many years, and have
dabled with one product or another, but I've finally decided to become
serious.  After looking at the various packages that are available, I
have decided that Lightwave 5.0 has what I want for the price.

Other than the FAQ, which I've already read, where does someone start
a career in computer graphics?  I'm an open slate, c'mon
professionals, share your words of wisdom!

LaCier
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Jim May)
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Subject: Re: Flairs in between transparent surfaces
Date: 30 May 1996 07:29:19 GMT
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In article <4odufv$[e-mail]>, [e-mail](Joe
Schrengohst ) wrote:

> In <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
> (Malcolm Lavery) writes:
> >
> >Hello!...
> >
> >I'v been haveing quite some bother with an anim that I'm producing.
> >What I have, are lots of Wasps, flying around a jam jar, and one
> inside.
> >And there is a partical beam comming out of the top of the jar into
> the sky.
> >Right!, my problem is that I need to have a lense flare inside the jam
> jar
> >just in the lid section were the partical beam starts.
<<<snip>>>
> Hi Mal,
> I hope this is not to obvious but have you tried setting the Intensity
> Falloff to adjust the effect radius of your flare. If you have a flare
> and want it concentrated on a confined area rather than the whole
> screen try setting your Intensity falloff to 500% or more. Intensity
> Falloff only works for Point and Spot Lights. Note in the Top, Side,
> and Front view you will see a circle showing the effect radius of your
> flare. Once you set the Falloff to the desired level then clone your
> point light with flare by 2 or 3 times for a more intense effect.
> Hope this helps,
> JS

Er, but unless this is some sort of 5.0 feature that I haven't seen yet (I
am still using 3.5 Toaster and occasionally 4.0 PC), that Intensity
falloff pertains to the light emitted, not the flare (these are
independent quantities).  Other than that, your advice to stack flares for
greater density is sound.

Mal:  Have you considered using a sphere with 50% or so Transparency, Edge
= Transparent and the threshold around 1 or so?  Or, do you need the lens
flare streaks etc.?

Jim May
The Vivid Group
Mandala and Vivid Reality Systems
http://www.vividgroup.com



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SYoakum ([e-mail]) writes:
> Daniel L Smith---Senior Animator At Will Vinton Studios Home page
>
> http://members.aol.com/felriq/spamo.htm
>
> I just stumbles across it and it's fantastic!!
> He has animation from the M&M commercials to his work on
> Judge Dredd!!
>
> A must visit for all 3d animaotrs and fans of 3D!!


This is not meant to be an insult but why can't you be honest? When you go
to the page you quickly find out you're his fiance..Saying you "stumbled"
on to it is misleading isn't it?

Sai

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From: Bryant Reif <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: change color over time?
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:24:35 -0400
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david goerndt wrote:
>
> Bryant Reif wrote:
> >
> > david goerndt wrote:
> > > I'm glad you asked! I once had a PAR and Amiga 4000 with LW3.5. and I
> > > wanted to be able to envelope surface attributes. The method I came up
> > > with requires a PAR or similar device that allows you to seamlessly join
> > > frames together. Here goes, first determine how long you want the effect
> > > to be, then how much of a change you want(this can all be eyeballed if
> > > you want) render a frame, tweak the settings, render a frame, etc., you
> > > get the idea. Pain in the ass, but it does work. I have a short anim that
> > > I enveloped all of the surface settings, luminosity, diffuse specular,
> > > reflective and some others. Now if this sounds like stop motion
> > > animation, it is, just as tedious, but you do get results. Color fading
> > > is probably the most tedious because you have three sliders to keep track
> > > of, so you might want to preplan the color fade with RGB numbers to get
> > > it right the first time. You do not want to make a mistake.Others say
> > > that morph surfaces will work, probably, but with this method you don't
> > > have to set up any morphs, just have a lot of patience!
> > >
> > > ers
> >
> > You seriously did this?  I would have went for morphing or an image map w/ velocity
> > before tweeking every frame by hand.  Yikes! =:o
> > --
> >
> > Bryant Reif
> > mailto:[e-mail]
> > http://www.aiesec.org/~bryant
>
> Yes I did, but only one time to see if it was possible. I think it is way
> more flexible than morphing as it requires almost no set up, just lots of
> patience. Plus you can change all of the surface attributes that have

If patience is a virtue, you are the most virtuous person I know! :)

> variable input at the same time. With 5.0 you could even use it with
> multiple image maps, although I'm not about to try it. This all came
> about because I want to see envelope controls on all the surface
> attributes, hell, I want envelopes on everything, maximum control!

I'm with you here 100%.  EVERYTHING in LW should have an envelope option.  Brad, if
you read this, please note that LW users want "maximum control" as David puts it.
This includes "real" Bezier spline handles too.  ...and UV controls, and independant
channels, etc...
--

Bryant Reif
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.aiesec.org/~bryant

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
Date: 30 May 1996 04:40:00 -0400
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In article <[e-mail]>, cjtsui <[e-mail]> writes:

>heres a suggestion:
>
>how about being able to select objects and lights by typing in the name
of
>the obj/lights?
>I'm working on a scene file that has about 600 objects and trying to find
the
>objects on the list can be a
>real pain (especially when their centers are close to each other and its
hard
>to shift click on it.
>
>this would also help when trying to parent objects/lights.
>
>
>

    if you do this, you should add a unix-like command completion....


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] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
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In article <[e-mail]> Ernie Wright <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
>Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:22:47 -0400

>Concerning diamond shapes, Ron Pepper ([e-mail]) kindly
>sent me the following pointer:

>   http://www.teleport.com/~raylc/master/tolkowsky.html

>where the proportions of a round brilliant cut diamond are discussed in
>just enough detail to build a reasonably accurate model.

>Ron e-mailed me this because his news server was down.  I may have to be
>satisfied with thanking him here because I'm in the process of figuring
>out how to do mail via PPP.

>- Ernie

That is a very nice resource.  Turns out that my diamond is too tall.  I guess
I'll have to fix it.  I've come this far after all.  :^)






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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Serpentine Morph
Date: 30 May 1996 01:33:01 -0700
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In article <4oj0e8$[e-mail]> JP writes:
>From: JP
>Subject: Serpentine Morph
>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:14:10 GMT

>Gooday all!!!

>I am in the proccess of making an anim that has lots of morphs, and
>the one thats throwing me is this:
>        I have a Staff object,  approx 6' in length and I want to
>morph it into a figure 8 with a serpentine texture moving alog the Y
>axis. The texture I can handle But, converting the staff into the
>figure eight is somewhat dificult.
>Any suggestions?

1)  Make a figure eight path.
2)  Extrude a disk (or other cross section object) along this path. (Rail
Extrude)
    a) Make sure you use align to path.
    b) Make sure you use Uniform Lengths.
    c) Make sure you use enough segments to get a smooth curve.
3)Extrude your staff using the same cross section (or you could modify its
shape as long as you do not change point order or amount.  Use any method that
you like to do this so long as you use the same number of segments that you
used to create the figure eight.

If your staff has a texture moving on the Y axis, your figure eight will have
the same texture traveling around the figure eight if you morph surfaces as
well.






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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave 6.0 ?
Date: 30 May 1996 04:47:47 -0400
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
writes:

>
>Can someone please tell me how so many people are talking about
>LW 5.0 and even 6.0 when Newtek tells me 5.0 is not even
>shipping yet (!?).  I just bought 4.0 about 2 weeks ago, unaware
>of 5.0, and I'm anxious to get the latest release.

   LW5.0 is shipping on intel at least - since I've been using it for
weeks.. It's not on amigas, Mips, and maybe alphas....



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: Serpentine Morph
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In article <4oj0e8$[e-mail]>, JP writes:

>    I have a Staff object,  approx 6' in length and I want to
>morph it into a figure 8 with a serpentine texture moving alog the Y
>axis. The texture I can handle But, converting the staff into the
>figure eight is somewhat dificult.
>Any suggestions?

   I'd start with the figure 8, and work back to the staff, it would
probrobly be easier that way..


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] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for Lightwave 3D for Windows
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In article <4ogrhj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J. Jorgensen) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (J. Jorgensen)
>Subject: Minimum system requirements for Lightwave 3D for Windows
>Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 06:41:52 GMT


>Greetings and Salutations...
>I wanted to collected some opinions on what sort
>of PC hardware (CPU, video card, memory, HD, etc)
>would provide a functional level of performance
>with the Lightwave 3D software.  I realize that this
>is a loaded question, but without causing too much
>of a ruckus, I'd like to know what you all think.


>Regards,
>John R. Jorgensen
>[e-mail]

The usable minimum is a DX4-100 with 16mb RAM and a 1mb DRAM video card
running win95.  A system like this will give reasonable results and
reasonable user interface response. I found that a DX2-66 was simply
too slow.  However, when you consider that LW 5.0 sells for around $1300, it
probably doesn't make sense to hinder the app with a "minimal" system.  (BTW -
I was able to run LW 4.0 on a 4mb 486-33 portable - not recommended, but it
worked.)

Realistically, I wouldn't suggest using less than a P90 with 32mb RAM and
Win95 and a 2MB DRAM video card.  The main reason is that RAM and Pentium
processors just don't cost that much anymore.  So this is more of an
economic/efficiency minimum than a technical one.  I'd start with a Pentium.

These are only my opinions of course.  It also depends on your intended use.





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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <4ohlb8$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (The Glory Boys) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (The Glory Boys)
>Subject: Re: I am very upset ...
>Date: 29 May 1996 14:01:12 GMT


>>BTW - If you haven't figured it out, your general slam on this group really
>>irritates me.  I did a review of the posts I have made in the past three
>>weeks.  I made 34 posts that were responses to questions posted by others.  I
>>made 1 post that was a direct request for information for myself.  I made 16
>>posts that were general discussion/commentary (most of which were on-topic).
>>I put a fair amount of time and effort into this group and attitudes like
>>yours are causing me to seriously reconsider the value of my participation.
>>Too many people want too much and are putting way too little effort into
>>getting it and are putting far too little back in return.  I'm tiring of it.
>>
>>There are a lot of folks here whose time is VERY valuable who sometimes go to
>>great length to give detailed and valuable information.  And they respond to
>>the same questions repeatedly.  I get the distinct feeling that a lot of
>>people take this for granted.



>Walter, I’m a little surprised that you of all people were upset by my post. You
>do
>know that it wasn’t me who said "F*** ‘em all"?

Yes I do.

> And
>you’ve always treated everyone with respect as far as I could tell. Perhaps a
>post
>or two dropped off of my system. Did someone attack you personally?

No they didn't (AFIK).

>BTW my last 10 posts (before this one) 8 responses to questions posted by
>others, 1 general discussion/commentary (the post that upset you) and 1 bad
>joke. I’m actually kind of  proud of that ratio.

Sounds good to me.

>I still feel bad that LonerSam has now made two lengthy apologies for his one
>lengthy question. I just don’t think he has anything to apologize for except,
>perhaps rambling.

Probably so.  And I don't recall anyone asking him to.

>In reading your post again, I still think I must have missed something.

You made a comment(s) that there is a fair amount of "elitism" here.  I don't
see that.  You made the LonerSam situation out to be some very bad series of
events apparently caused by this elitism.  I don't see it that way and do not
appreciate the generalization about this group based upon this situation.
After all, LonerSam was helped out even though there was some initial friction
and misunderstanding.

>There are definitely some people who participate in this forum just for the
>sport,
>and that’s OK. (Just sort by author and look at the topics to see who) I just
>get a
>funny feeling seeing guys pronounced guilty before proving themselves innocent -
>even in the ultra free speech environment of a news group.

Nobody ever pronounced him guilty of anything.  There were suggestions that it
was possible or even likely that he was not a legit user, but I do not recall
a pronouncement that he was.  I understand that this was probably irritating
and frustrating for him, but he wasn't particularly clear in his post which
was the kindling for the fire.  Lack of clarity is no crime, but it does lead
to misunderstandings.

>No one who is here for Lightwave takes Walter Jay for granted. But if LonerSam
>turns out to be as good as Walter Jay except he’s pissed off, embarrassed and
>has fled the group, we all lose.

I thought that the fellow who made the initial comment made a post reassing
the situation and did offer assistance.  I thought positions were explained
and causes for actions given.  Problems occur.  That's life.

>Scott at GBI

I hope this clarifies my irritation.  Believe me, it isn't the beginning or
the end of the world for me that you slammed the group.  I just felt that the
comment required answering because I believe it was extremely unfair of you to
suggest that the group was significantly elitist.  Maybe you don't see your
comment that way.  I know that at least one other person besides me did.

You might note that I made a similar comment when someone asked a sarcastic
and rhetorical question to the effect that perhaps it was normal for American
mail order companies to take orders and hold onto them without shipping
product for many months.  I guess I just don't like it when people generalize
about groups based on isolated problems with individuals within those groups.






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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LightWave 6.0 ?(wish list...)
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In article <4oftr4$[e-mail]> [e-mail](Michael C. Ling) writes:
>From: [e-mail](Michael C. Ling)
>Subject: Re: LightWave 6.0 ?(wish list...)
>Date: 28 May 1996 22:13:56 GMT

>On May 27, 1996 14:44:20 in article <Re: LightWave 6.0 ?(wish list...)>,
>'[e-mail] (Brad Peebler)' wrote:
>>
>>With Auto Key Adjust, Auto Key Create, and the TCB spline controls you
>>can also adjust the curve in real time in Layout. The initial drawing
>>must occur in Modeler, but adjusting the curve is no problem in
>>Layout.
>>
>>BP
>>PS: I have added drawing spline curves in Layout to the master wish
>>list.
>
>I would love to see bezier curves with control handles, like you have with
>2d vector drawing programs; Truespace has it in their program.
>
>--
>M C L -
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mike_Ling

Agreed.  And the TCB spline controls have pretty bad response characteristics.
 I'm waiting for 5-10 seconds at times - on a P150!!??



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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PC Flyer? WHEN!?!?
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>Stranahan wrote:
>>
>> Abandon all hope.
>
>Ren Hoek grabs The World's Smartest Toaster Guy by the collar,
>pulls him down to Chihuahua level and screams,"WHAT ARE YOU
>SAYING?"    "TELL US, MAN!"

>> Is he now the world's most Anti-Toaster Guy?


Or just the world's smartest guy?   ;^)

I don't know, but I seem to have been pretty correct so far. I hope nobody
just 'takes my word' for things, but I know plenty. If you want to see the
logical successor to the Toaster, look to Trinity...

Will the PC 'Toaster' 1) have a switcher like the Amiga Toaster? 2) do
real time effects other than fades? 3) have a CG? Paint? Has anyone seen
them? 4) be component?





_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan

Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Several lw questions
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In article <[e-mail]>, Mikey <[e-mail]>
writes:

>- When is VideoToaster for Windows coming out?

    your joking right? It's been, what, a year past ship date? We have at
least 3 years to wait...


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)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PC Flyer? WHEN!?!?
Date: 30 May 1996 06:51:12 -0400
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In article <4ojctd$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(ToastRGuy) writes:

>
>>Stranahan wrote:
>>>
>>> Abandon all hope.
>>
>>Ren Hoek grabs The World's Smartest Toaster Guy by the collar,
>>pulls him down to Chihuahua level and screams,"WHAT ARE YOU
>>SAYING?"    "TELL US, MAN!"
>
>Is he now the world's most Anti-Toaster Guy?
>
>

   No, he just knows newtek...



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: Rafe Purnell <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave 5.0 + Matrox Millenium + OpenGl = ???
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Oh yes indeedy !

And very nice it is too !

Finally you can get a millenium to do what you paid for !

Regards Darkeye.


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From: Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Metahuevos?
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Mitch Rosefelt wrote:
>
> In the LW5 manuals, one of the new features mentioned is the use of Metaballs in Modeler.  The
> reference guide mentions 2 plugins, Addmball.p and pcblob.p., as well as a sample object
> M.bal, which are to be used w/Metaballs.  Of the 3, only Addmball.p is on the CD.  There are
> no instructions for using Metaballs in the user guide.  Was this implementation dropped?
>
> BTW, the metanurbs is a very impressive piece of code.  Will we be able to keyframe them
> directly in some future release?

    They are there. Only one problem: The file is not called pcblob.p it is called metaball.p I know it is pretty
stupid; I was stumped myself when looking for it. (And it is not as if Newtek tech support is that easy to get a hold
of.) I could not find the man.bal object either. MetaNurbs can be "keyframed" right now by using metamotion. You don't
really use metaNurbs; you use MetaFormPlus but the end result looks exactly the same.
    Implementation of MetaBalls was not dropped; but apparently the whole focus of LW's organic stuff went to
MetaNURBS. I think this is a pity as there are things you can do with metaballs that are easier than doing them with
MetaNURBS. Documentation is also pityfull.
    Hajo

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From: Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:59:39 -0400
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Animateable meta-balls! This way you can do really cool gooey animation! (And please
spend some time on Metaball documentation next time).

    Hajo

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From: Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: A good tutorial book for lightwave?
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Sean Young wrote:
> Can someone please tell me a good book for lightwave, as I find the
> manual is a bit tedious and slow.
>         From da bowwee Bwuva    Alan Chan's :The FX Kit for Lightwave is a very good book for beginning to intermediate
users. (And even advanced users can pick up some nice pointers). It is a lot better written then
the Lightwave manuals. (In the sense that everything is a tutorial). The LWpro compilation book
is su[pposed to be good and it probably is since the magazine has some of the best tutorials.
(Except the last LWPro sewer tutorial I personnally would have used bones to move the water
around)
    Hajo

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From: [e-mail] (Brad Peebler)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave 6.0 ?
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:02:27 GMT
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LightWave is shipping for Intel and Alpha currently. Amiga and MIPS
are soon to follow (I dont want to say two weeks! ; )   )
and SGI will be shortly after that. We are adding some new liscencing
code to the SGI version.


BP

[e-mail] (JBooth411) wrote:

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

>>
>>Can someone please tell me how so many people are talking about
>>LW 5.0 and even 6.0 when Newtek tells me 5.0 is not even
>>shipping yet (!?).  I just bought 4.0 about 2 weeks ago, unaware
>>of 5.0, and I'm anxious to get the latest release.

>   LW5.0 is shipping on intel at least - since I've been using it for
>weeks.. It's not on amigas, Mips, and maybe alphas....



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





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Please post the plugins of lightwave 5.0

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From: [e-mail] (Brad Peebler)
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:16:20 GMT
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Excellent responses! I have rec'd a ton of private emails with very
cool ideas. Come on now...I know there are a bunch more out there.
Please, please, please send them to [e-mail]


Thanks again,

BP
NewTek, Inc.


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From: [e-mail] (Steve Koren)
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[e-mail] (Lim Wei Li) wrote:

> These encoders dump EVERYTHING on screen, so what I do is to (using
> Win3.11) to change my Window's color to a customized color setting where
> close to everything is black (so you won't get those title bars, borders

Whenever I have wanted to do this, I don't change my palette to black
:-).  I just use a full screen window to play the anim in, so it either
uses its own screen or covers up all the other windows.

   - steve

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From: [e-mail] (Joe Monahan)
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I sort of lost interest in this thread when it became obvious that we were
all wasting our time. But I will still post images to the web site in
order to compare rendering quality.

The page is at:  http://www.netzone.com/~jmonahan/home.html

I have a few ancient/beginner renderings done with Alias Studio 5.0 at:

http://www.netzone.com/~jmonahan/jm.html

Joe Monahan


In article <[e-mail]>, Peter Gruhn <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > When people say they can produce rendered work
> > indistinguishable from raytraced, without raytracing, surely they mean
> "as photo-realistic, if not more so" than raytracing?
>
> Unless they mean "as correct in certain details"
>
> > If so, why would they bother
> > trying to make their images look like they have been poorly ray-traced
>
> He didn't say he planned for them to be poorly ray traced. He said that
> they were simple.
>
> >_looks_ raytraced,
>
> I thought raytracing was "photorealistic"?
>
> > software is, so how can this reflect on how good each package is?
(Wasn't that
> > the point of the exercise?)
>
> No, it wasn't.

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G`day mates!!!!

Can anybody please tell me some GOOD BOOKS for the LightWave proggy.

I need something to start with. I would be happy if somebody can tell me the
name of the book and the company who it is published by.
Somewhere in Germany or in Austria would be the best, but I`m also happy if
someone can tell me something in england.

Need your answer urgently.

TIA , greetings from AUSTRIA

see ya
[e-mail]







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I had a question for those people using switchboxes with their
dongle. How do you use it?

Say I have a switch box with the dongle on port A and the printer
hooked up on port B. I turn the computer on, and since I want to
load Lightwave, I obviously have the switch turned to port A.
However, if I want to print something, do I just change the switch
to port B and print, and then switch back to port A, or do I need
to turn the computer off, then change to port B, and print.

The reason for the question is that it seems that by switching the
port while the computer is on is just the same as pulling off the
dongle while you're using Lightwave without a switch box. Does this
damage the dongle.

Thanks in advance for any reply.

Steve Bennett
[e-mail]

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Wanted: 4 gig AV drive
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:02:02 GMT
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I'm in need of a 4 gig PVR drive, either new or used,  to add to my
existing system.  If anyone has one for sale, or can recommend a
dealer with good prices, I'd appreciate some e-mail at the address
below.  Also, if there is a more appropriate newsgroup for this post
(that is, one for video or computer hardware) please let me know and I
won't clutter this group with my postings in the future.  Thanks!

Tim Doherty
[e-mail]


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In article <4o6f2m$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>My problem is simple.
>
>The hair generate cross the sphere.
>
>It's possible to avoid this ?

Have you tried calling technical support at MetroGrafx?

- John


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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
>Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
>Date: 30 May 1996 01:26:02 -0700

>In article <[e-mail]> Ernie
>Wright <[e-mail]> writes:
>>From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
>>Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:22:47 -0400

>>Concerning diamond shapes, Ron Pepper ([e-mail]) kindly
>>sent me the following pointer:

>>   http://www.teleport.com/~raylc/master/tolkowsky.html

>>where the proportions of a round brilliant cut diamond are discussed in
>>just enough detail to build a reasonably accurate model.

>>Ron e-mailed me this because his news server was down.  I may have to be
>>satisfied with thanking him here because I'm in the process of figuring
>>out how to do mail via PPP.

>>- Ernie

>That is a very nice resource.  Turns out that my diamond is too tall.  I guess
>I'll have to fix it.  I've come this far after all.  :^)

It was late and I did my math wrong.  Actually all the ratios of my diamond
turned to be very close to the recomendations.  My worst ratio is the table to
width which is 61%.  This measure has an "acceptable" range of between 53% and
64%, so even it isn't too bad.  The larger the table, the greater the
brilliance.  The smaller the table, the greater the fire.  Since I have to
fake the fire anyway, I guess fudging toward the large side is probably a good
compromise for a raytraced diamond.  We can raytrace the brilliance I think.

I also ended up with the slightly bowed in look of the square when seen from
the top which is desirable.

So I am not gonna change it after all.








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From: [e-mail] (Bernd Kreimeier)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Again more Dongle Problems
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tony Lisanti) writes:

> From: [e-mail] (Tony Lisanti)

>  Well,  Newkek said the dongle would be transparant.  I guess transparant when
> you're not running lightwave or when the machine is off.. :)  Stay away from
> pluggin in HP printers into the port. My freiend learned that the hard way.  I
> have a 3 way box here.  A-dongle B-printer C-Snappy . Simple.

  As far as transparency goes: LPT Port-LW5.0 dongle-ECB dongle and LW works,
  LTP Port-EBC dongle-LW-5.0, and LW does not work. Now I am curious
  whether ECB (Encyclopedia Britannica, no, not a rendering tool :) works
  in the first configurartion - still waiting for the NT dongle driver
  from ECB. Dongle pains galore.

  Btw., Real3D 3.3 is now delivered w/o hardware lock, "for convenience,
  and to avoid compatibility problems". This decision probably saved me
  another five hours of dongle/IRQ/port juggling. I always thought that
  a CDROM full of stuff (e.g. a mirror dump of ftp.newktek.com, including
  index,html with relative URL's) and a decent manual in a not
  too-xerox-friendly layout is a way better protection (not to mention
  decent support for registered users only).


                                                  b.



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From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Lavery)
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On 30-May-96 07:29:19, the dood Jim May said about Re: Flairs in between
transparent surfaces:

Hi!, Jim...

>> >I'v been haveing quite some bother with an anim that I'm producing.
>> >What I have, are lots of Wasps, flying around a jam jar, and one
>> inside.
>> >And there is a partical beam comming out of the top of the jar into
>> the sky.
>> >Right!, my problem is that I need to have a lense flare inside the jam
>> jar
>> >just in the lid section were the partical beam starts.
> <<<snip>>>
>> Hi Mal,
>> I hope this is not to obvious but have you tried setting the Intensity
>> Falloff to adjust the effect radius of your flare. If you have a flare
>> and want it concentrated on a confined area rather than the whole
>> screen try setting your Intensity falloff to 500% or more. Intensity
>> Falloff only works for Point and Spot Lights. Note in the Top, Side,
>> and Front view you will see a circle showing the effect radius of your
>> flare. Once you set the Falloff to the desired level then clone your
>> point light with flare by 2 or 3 times for a more intense effect.
>> Hope this helps,
>> JS

> Er, but unless this is some sort of 5.0 feature that I haven't seen yet (I
> am still using 3.5 Toaster and occasionally 4.0 PC), that Intensity
> falloff pertains to the light emitted, not the flare (these are
> independent quantities).  Other than that, your advice to stack flares for
> greater density is sound.

> Mal:  Have you considered using a sphere with 50% or so Transparency, Edge
> = Transparent and the threshold around 1 or so?  Or, do you need the lens
> flare streaks etc.?

No!, but I'll try it, I really just need the glow.

Thanks bye!...

--
Mal!! :)


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From: adam <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Help! Error using Power Viewer for Intel?
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:45:49 +0100
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System:

win95
lw 5.0
32mb ram
stealth 64 vram


Problem:

When in modeller, choosing Power viewer plugin from tools/custom gives me the info
box message:

'Can't get module handle'

Then it gives me the Power viewer window, with a nice preview. It seems to work
but why the error message?!?!?!?

Also does lw 5.0 support volumetric light like 3DS Max( beams and dust cones
inparticular) if so how? As I want to produce a spotlight with visible beam.
Please note I'm a experienced 3ds user that has migrated to LW5, so some of lw5
features are new to me. Be kind. Thanks

Adam

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From: Keith Smith <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Need help - Cloak/Decloak effect from B5 using LW ver 4.0
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In article <4odjv8$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
writes

I personally think that a much NICER effect would be to model the ships
internal structure - all the corridors, bulkheads and engines and stuff
and then just dissolve it in and out.  I would love to see an effect
where the *inside* of the ship is visible as it cloaks.


--
Ben Smith

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From: [e-mail] (Mauro Avino)
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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[e-mail] (Brad Peebler) wrote:


>hi Brad,
>heres a suggestion:
>how about being able to select objects and lights by typing in the name of the obj/lights?

VERY TRUE !
--
Mauro Avino,
on the sea of Naples
ITALY


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--
Mauro Avino,
on the sea of Naples
ITALY


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From: [e-mail] (Mauro Avino)
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--
Mauro Avino,
on the sea of Naples
ITALY


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From: [e-mail] (Kenneth C. Nilsen)
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Subject: Re: What the price on Amiga  Lightwave 5.0 F
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Chuck Baker wrote (29-May-96 14:50:34):

KN>> I would also like to know what the price is for the Amiga version of

>Here's the whole ball of wax:
[...]


Thanks!


Regards,

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      General Manager   |          http://www.norconnect.no/~kenneth/

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From: [e-mail] (Kenneth C. Nilsen)
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Justin Kuzmanich  wrote (28-May-96 23:17:48):

>I know this sounds low budget, but I tried filming some avi's with my
>hi-8 camera directly from my monitor. They look ok (good enough to show
>to friends, ect.) but there's an annoying flicker which shows up on
>video that I was unable to eliminate with the shutter speed settings on
>my camera. Has anyone had any sucess with this technique and is there
>any way to get rid of the flicker?

Can your camera take external sync (ext. sync) ? If so you can get a device
you point at the monitor and connect to the ext. sync. This device will make
your camera in sync with the monitor. Sorry, I don't have price indications
on this device. A dealer of professional equipment should be able to help you.


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      General Manager   |          http://www.norconnect.no/~kenneth/

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Is there somebody who can tell me the E-Mail of Newtek Inc. ?


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From: [e-mail] (Surfer)
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[e-mail] (LaCier Vincent) wrote:

>I've been lurking for a short time, and my question is a simple one:
>Where to start?  I've been interested in CG for many years, and have
>dabled with one product or another, but I've finally decided to become
>serious.  After looking at the various packages that are available, I
>have decided that Lightwave 5.0 has what I want for the price.

>Other than the FAQ, which I've already read, where does someone start
>a career in computer graphics?  I'm an open slate, c'mon
>professionals, share your words of wisdom!

>LaCier
>[e-mail]
>http://www.eburg.com/~vyper/VypersURdL.html

Buy LightWave 5.0
Use it and learn all the tools. Don't be afraid to show your work to
Effects or animation houses. (Just so that it really doesn't suck)
Make a demo reel and you could be working in the big time within a
year or two!

That's the coolest thing about LW...It's cheap and it is the same
thing the professionals use. You just have to discipline yourself into
long aniimating hours. Try picking up a copy of LightWave Pro or one
of Ron Thornton's tapes. They will help you understand 3D artistry.

...oh yeah, one other thing, be prepared to get doors slammed in your
face. But hey, that's life.

Good Luck!!


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From: [e-mail] (Rabbit PH)
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Our school recently got a hold of an Amiga computer with full Toaster and
Lightwave capabilities.  So far we have been able to render animations,
but the swithcher in the Toaster won't play them all back.  For instance,
if the animation was 300 frames, only 120 or so will be played back.
What's wrong?  Please help us!

Here is our current system:
18 megs RAM
115 megs HardDisk
System 3.01 workbench/desktop
Amiga 4000 computer

Thanks,
Rabbit [e-mail]
Rabbit

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From: [e-mail](Michael C. Ling)
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On May 30, 1996 02:42:42 in article <Re: MAX or Lightwave?  Pick one and
shut up...>, '[e-mail] (Joe Monahan)' wrote:


>I sort of lost interest in this thread when it became obvious that we were

>all wasting our time. But I will still post images to the web site in
>order to compare rendering quality.
>
>The page is at:  http://www.netzone.com/~jmonahan/home.html
>
>I have a few ancient/beginner renderings done with Alias Studio 5.0 at:
>
>http://www.netzone.com/~jmonahan/jm.html
>

I did a picture from scratch(with the stock objects and textures) when you
first made your challenge. If you want to look at it, visit my web
page(currently under construction).

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M C L -
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You could also just create a short Microsoft Visual Basic program which
you could use over and over again.  (PS. If you haven't checked out VB,
its great for writting quick programs to handle repetitive tasks.)
Sorry, unix doesn't have such a finely tuned beast.

> > >  foreach i ( *.hrc )
> > >    set n = echo $i | sed -e 's/hrc/als'
> > >    soft2alias $i $n
> > >  end
> > >
> > > 200 models later......

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From: [e-mail] (KWABBOTT)
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Can someone post the settings needed to get the secret cel-look shader
working in LW4?

Thanks

Kevin Abbott

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We just got a DeskStation Alpha 266Mhz Raptor Reflex and it's
pretty slick. Layout and rendering are real quick but moving
things around in modeler is very awkward compared to what we
can do in a A2000/040 amiga. The screen updates are so slow
that pulling a point in a moderatly complex object is nearly
impossible. We're doing something wrong I hope.

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you ar mistaken. There is no cell-look shader that comes with 4.0

there re cell-outlines..which makes outlines around the variouse surfaces..

 think you hit control f1 from layout

then go to the objects menu and hit control f3 or f4..t enable
cell-outine mode

the you need to get the anime-shader plugin pd version from
ftp.newtek.com or ftp from tomahawk.grandi.com

cartoon_b is the latest version.

Adam

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Adam Chrystie, -Will dust keyboards for internship-
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LaCier Vincent wrote:
>
> I've been lurking for a short time, and my question is a simple one:
> Where to start?  I've been interested in CG for many years, and have
> dabled with one product or another, but I've finally decided to become
> serious.  After looking at the various packages that are available, I
> have decided that Lightwave 5.0 has what I want for the price.
>
> Other than the FAQ, which I've already read, where does someone start
> a career in computer graphics?  I'm an open slate, c'mon
> professionals, share your words of wisdom!
>
> LaCier
> [e-mail]
> http://www.eburg.com/~vyper/VypersURdL.html



The old Catch 22, you need experience to be hired but to get experience you need to be working. If you can
afford it do like I did, buy a system and practice, read all you can about 3D doesn't matter what package or
platform, just understand what 3D is all about. After you have had some experience with LW or other software do
a demo reel of your best work, not everything you've ever done just the best. Send this tape to anyone who'll
watch it, and if you are good you may just get lucky, but you may have to wait, so don't stop practicing. Also
learn related software. You will need to create texture maps so learn some paint/image editing programs, I
recommend Photoshop, Fractal Painter to begin with. Don't forget that 3D animation is film making so learn all
you can about photography, cinematography, lighting, composition, design, color theory and anything else even
remotely related to making films, videos, etc.
I hope this helps somewhat. Most of all don't be discouraged if nothing happens right away, it could take some
time.  And one other thing, develope a thick skin and don't be put off by criticism from anyone. The true
professionals will freely give their time and advice to get someone started. Everyone asks dumb questions now
and again so don't be shy.

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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Subject: Re: Where to start...
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In article <4oj1vf$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (LaCier Vincent)
writes:

>
>I've been lurking for a short time, and my question is a simple one:
>Where to start?  I've been interested in CG for many years, and have
>dabled with one product or another, but I've finally decided to become
>serious.  After looking at the various packages that are available, I
>have decided that Lightwave 5.0 has what I want for the price.
>
>Other than the FAQ, which I've already read, where does someone start
>a career in computer graphics?  I'm an open slate, c'mon
>professionals, share your words of wisdom!

     Just start doing it. Go buy lightwave, play with it for as much of
you spare time your life can afford, and see what you like doing.. There
are tons of different CG fields, from logo's, games, real-time games,
movie effects, TV adds/shows, accedent reconstruction, training videos
etc.. I prefer working in Real-time games myself, as the restrictions are
far greater than in any of the other fields, and you have more places to
use tricks to get you by. Find out what you are good at, the rest will
follow. But, I'll tell you, what most people look for on a real is:

     Good character animation..
     Nice, detailed, models, made cleanly...
     Good lighting and texturing..



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



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Mauro Avino wrote:
>
> [e-mail] (Brad Peebler) wrote:
>
> >hi Brad,
> >heres a suggestion:
> >how about being able to select objects and lights by typing in the name of the obj/lights?
>
> VERY TRUE !
> --
> Mauro Avino,
> on the sea of Naples
> ITALY

I have an Idea... somthing i miss from Truespace... how about
free-standing deformation lattices? Very useful for character &
particle animation...

Ben Frech
[e-mail]

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> Our school recently got a hold of an Amiga computer with full Toaster and
> Lightwave capabilities.  So far we have been able to render animations,
> but the swithcher in the Toaster won't play them all back.  For instance,
> if the animation was 300 frames, only 120 or so will be played back.
> What's wrong?  Please help us!
>
> Here is our current system:
> 18 megs RAM
> 115 megs HardDisk
> System 3.01 workbench/desktop
> Amiga 4000 computer
>
> Thanks,
> Rabbit [e-mail]
> Rabbit

The problem is that your playback is determined by the amount of Ram on your
system.  You should be able to play about 4-5 seconds worth of animation with
18 megs of ram.

Hope This helps,

Mario Cascio
ProMotion

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To: Brad Peebler <[e-mail]>

Brad Peebler wrote:
>
> Excellent responses! I have rec'd a ton of private emails with very
> cool ideas. Come on now...I know there are a bunch more out there.
> Please, please, please send them to [e-mail]
>

1) NURBS that carries through to rendering without
   having to convert to polygons.

2) Same with metaballs -- Make them resolve at
   rendering time so I can animate them.

3) Tighter integration of Modeler & Layout

4) Vertex-level shape animation with the ability
   to group/cluster vertices.


George.

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <[e-mail]>, Henri Smulders
<[e-mail]> writes:

>
>Animateable meta-balls! This way you can do really cool gooey animation!
(And
>please
>spend some time on Metaball documentation next time).
>
>

     This would be cool - they'd have to be in layout.. I find the current
metaball implementation pretty useless, because you can't quickly make a
metaball in a specific spot.. Maybe I should write a points to metaball
plugin, which would make it a little more usefull..



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] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: RazorKid04  where do we write you???
Date: 30 May 1996 19:40:45 -0400
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Been trying to reply to your posts.  But aol says they don't know
Razorkid04
or
noclue0

________________________________________________________________________
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From: George Maestri <[e-mail]>
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MARTIN D. COLON wrote:
>
> Needless to say, I need help configuring a sys. for 3D LW. At this time
> I am going to order the following:
>
> Tyan Tomcat dual 133,triton,Eisa/pci,512 pbc,etc.,etc...
> 4.2 Seagate 'cuda Scsi

Maybe instead of a dual 133, check out a P-Pro 200
motherboard with a second processor slot.  It'll
be just as fast with room to grow.  BTW-You prolly
won't need Eisa.

> Matrox Mill/ w/ 4 meg. windows ram

Upgrade to 8MB for best OpenGL performance.

> Win NT
> and the basics: 3.5"-1.44,6x cd w/ basic sound card,monitor,etc.
>
> If anyone can offer suggestions on a better setup or whatever, please let
> me know.
> H.M.T.O.L.P.R.

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Books for the Lightwave proggy
Date: 30 May 1996 19:58:11 -0400
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In article <4okfct$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(twoface) writes:

>G`day mates!!!!
>
>Can anybody please tell me some GOOD BOOKS for the LightWave proggy.
>
>I need something to start with. I would be happy if somebody can tell me
the

    The manual is a great place to start...


Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help! Error using Power Viewer for Intel?
Date: 30 May 1996 20:02:28 -0400
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In article <[e-mail]>, adam <[e-mail]> writes:

>When in modeller, choosing Power viewer plugin from tools/custom gives me
the
>info
>box message:
>
>'Can't get module handle'
>
>Then it gives me the Power viewer window, with a nice preview. It seems
to
>work
>but why the error message?!?!?!?

    The plugin is named wrong.. You have to re-name the filename to get
rid of the message, however, since I'm 5.0 I've completely forgoten what
the name is supposed to be...


>Also does lw 5.0 support volumetric light like 3DS Max( beams and dust
cones
>inparticular) if so how? As I want to produce a spotlight with visible
beam.
>Please note I'm a experienced 3ds user that has migrated to LW5, so some
of
>lw5
>features are new to me. Be kind. Thanks

     No it doesn't, at least in the automatic sense.. But these types of
effects can be done quite easily in 3.0,4.0 or whatever. Just make a cone
in the shape of your lightbeam - make a gradient, assign that to be your
transparency channel, set lumminous to 100% and turn on edge
transparency.. Add a texture map with velocity to it to get the particle
effect..



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: Marko Sehtl <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Cel Look Shader
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KWABBOTT wrote:
>
> Can someone post the settings needed to get the secret cel-look shader
> working in LW4?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Abbott

hmmmm....   ALT+F1 ...  not sure

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Has anyone used Antigravity Products? We ordered two Toaster Ovens in October
95 and waited and waited. After being told time after time,"It'll ship at the
end of the week." we got fed up and changed our order in March 96 to the Eagle
4001 tower. That would ship on friday we were told. It's now May 96 and still
no towers. Suffice it to say the order is now cancelled and we went directly
to the manufacturer. Very poor customer service. Buyer beware.

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From: [e-mail](Michael C. Ling)
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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On May 30, 1996 18:50:51 in article <Re: FEATURES!!>, 'Ben Frech
<[e-mail]>' wrote:


>Mauro Avino wrote:
>>
>> [e-mail] (Brad Peebler) wrote:
>>
>> >hi Brad,
>> >heres a suggestion:
>> >how about being able to select objects and lights by typing in the name
of
>the obj/lights?
>>
>> VERY TRUE !
>> --
>> Mauro Avino,
>> on the sea of Naples
>> ITALY
>
>I have an Idea... somthing i miss from Truespace... how about
>free-standing deformation lattices? Very useful for character &
>particle animation...

I have Truespace 2 and Freeform deformation in LW5 is called metanurbs.


--
M C L -
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mike_Ling

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
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Subject: Re: Plugins for lightwave 5.0
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[e-mail]5.0 wrote:

>Please post the plugins of lightwave 5.0

Why?

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Help! Error using Power Viewer for Intel?
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adam <[e-mail]> wrote:

>System:
>
>win95
>lw 5.0
>32mb ram
>stealth 64 vram
>
>
>Problem:
>
>When in modeller, choosing Power viewer plugin from tools/custom gives me the info
>box message:
>
>'Can't get module handle'
>
>Then it gives me the Power viewer window, with a nice preview. It seems to work
>but why the error message?!?!?!?
>
>Also does lw 5.0 support volumetric light like 3DS Max( beams and dust cones
>inparticular) if so how? As I want to produce a spotlight with visible beam.
>Please note I'm a experienced 3ds user that has migrated to LW5, so some of lw5
>features are new to me. Be kind. Thanks
>
>Adam

Power view is a left over plugin from 4.0. You don't need it in 5.0.
5.0's OpenGL support is built in, in both layout and modeler.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Whats your preference?
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In article
<[e-mail]>, Kevin
Bruce Freeman <[e-mail]> writes:

>
>    Would you rather have more ram or a better graphics board to run
>lightwave?  Let me know what you tink and if it is one or the other, let
>me know about a particular board or configuration.  Right now I am
>planning on 64 Megs of ram and was think about a saphire card....I am not

>sure if the saphire card is realistic so I wanted to know about other
>options...Thanks in advance

32 MB should be fairly good.  with 5.0 I would definitly get an open GL
card, some are coming in around $800

________________________________________________________________________
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From: david goerndt <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: HELP!!  TOASTER WON'T PLAY BACK ALL THE FRAMES
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 23:52:10 -0400
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Rabbit PH wrote:
>
> Our school recently got a hold of an Amiga computer with full Toaster and
> Lightwave capabilities.  So far we have been able to render animations,
> but the swithcher in the Toaster won't play them all back.  For instance,
> if the animation was 300 frames, only 120 or so will be played back.
> What's wrong?  Please help us!
>
> Here is our current system:
> 18 megs RAM
> 115 megs HardDisk
> System 3.01 workbench/desktop
> Amiga 4000 computer
>
> Thanks,
> Rabbit [e-mail]
> Rabbit


That is simply a limitation of the Toaster/Amiga set up. It has to load
your animation into ram to play it back, so it is limited in how many
frames it can playback easily. If your animations have large
changes(delta) per frame, that is, a lot of movement or color change
happening this will restrict the number of frames played back. If you
want 30fps full screen palyback, I suggest you get a Personal Animation
Recorder from DPS. It plays back from its own dedicated hard drive.

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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: more color on a2000 toaster system
Date: 30 May 1996 22:47:21 -0400
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In article <4oegqd$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Caudill)
writes:

>At work we have a 2000/toatser 4000 (running in 2000 mode) and of course
>only 16 colors.  That's why I do "homework."
>
>I'd like to do less "homework."  What are my options?
>
>

Get the 4.1 upgrade.  The new Toaster Paint runs full screen, 256,000
colors.

________________________________________________________________________
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Whats your preference?
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In article <[e-mail]> Kevin Bruce Freeman <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Kevin Bruce Freeman <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Whats your preference?
>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:44:36 -0400

>        Would you rather have more ram or a better graphics board to run
>lightwave?  Let me know what you tink and if it is one or the other, let
>me know about a particular board or configuration.  Right now I am
>planning on 64 Megs of ram and was think about a saphire card....I am not
>sure if the saphire card is realistic so I wanted to know about other
>options...Thanks in advance
>        Kevin
>-Please respond as soon as you can :)

64 meg is a good amount.  Generally, I'd rather have more RAM.  But we
primarily do video work so very hi res AND true color aren't so important.
1024x768 works fine.

However, with the addition of OpenGL, I am becoming very interested in OpenGL
cards.  This is a really nice feature and the hardware support should (if done
well) really enhance it.  So I would recommend looking at OpenGL cards.





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From: [e-mail] (ToastRGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Capture/Edit card suggestions, please.
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In article <[e-mail]>, TL Westgate <[e-mail]> writes:

>A friend of mine wants to capture and reassemble video, with possibly
>adding some text and/or graphics, then outputting to tape. What should
>he get for under $1000?

Fast AV Master

________________________________________________________________________
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>I hope this helps somewhat. Most of all don't be discouraged if nothing happens
>right away, it could take some
>time.  And one other thing, develope a thick skin and don't be put off by
>criticism from anyone. The true
>professionals will freely give their time and advice to get someone started.
>Everyone asks dumb questions now
>and again so don't be shy.

The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask.

OK - that may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but it is a good rule of
thumb.

Another one is to try to answer the question yourself first.  This does three
things for you.
    1) You get a little respect for taking the initiative.

    2) More importantly - you are better prepared to understand the answer when
    you receive it.

    3) You become familiar with the process of teaching yourself.  This is
    important in this field since things change so quickly and formal training
    can't really keep pace.




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Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
  <stuff deleted>
> >
> >I have an Idea... somthing i miss from Truespace... how about
> >free-standing deformation lattices? Very useful for character &
> >particle animation...
>
> I have Truespace 2 and Freeform deformation in LW5 is called metanurbs.
>
>
> --
> M C L -
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mike_Ling

 Its not quite the same thing... Im talking about the lattices that can
move relative to the things that they are deforming. They are more
similar to the effector plugin for layout, a method of deforming an
object, rather than somthing to do organic modeling with.

Ben Frech
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Tom Spyrison)
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Subject: Mach 5?
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Can anyone tell me if there is a Speed Racer Mach 5 model out
anywhere?   Thanks

    Tom

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Caviello)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Tips and Experiences using Metaballs
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    What do people think of metaballs?  If anyone has gotten good results
could you share some tips.

    I was a little dissappointed with metaballs.  The only other metaball
program I have tried has been the shareware program Blob sculptor.
It's a pretty cool and well designed program.  So I looked foward to
lightwave's take on metaballs.  But I found lightwave metaballs not as
easy to use and the results not always to my liking.

    I've read the manual, and I've experimented with naming each
metaball's surface numbers from 5 to -5.  One thing, which must be a
bug?, is when I set one metaball to have a negative influence next to
a metaball with a postive influence, when I make the final object I
expect to get a sphere with a dent in it, but it seems like the
geometry of the negative ball is still hanging around and it looks
like a mess.
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong.  Can anyone tell me their positive
experiences using metaballs and what the best technique is.  Thanks.


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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Need help - Cloak/Decloak effect from B5 using LW ver 4.0
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 03:43:57 GMT
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[e-mail](Brenden Mecleary ) wrote:


>In <4odgvn$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>
>>I am working on an amature video project and need to use the cloaking
>>effect from B5. Any help is appreciated. Email or post to this group.
>>Thanks.

>Pretty simple, actually:

>-First, in modeler, subdivide your object as much as you desire.  The
>more you subdivide, the smoother the "squiggles" at the edges when you
>have the object cloak/decloak.
>-Then, Triple the object, so that all the polygons are triangles.  Save
>this object.
>-Next, go into layout.  Set up a dissolve envelope (objects panel), and
>go from 100% to 0% (decloak) or vice versa (to cloak the object) over
>the number of frames you want.
>-Put a Displacement Map (objects panel again) on your object.  I
>typically use "Ripples" for this.  Give it an envelope for the
>amplitude.  If you're cloaking the object, make the amplitude increase
>over the duration of the cloak.  If you're decloaking it, make the
>amplitude decrease to 0, so that it's back to normal by the time it's
>fully visible.

>                             Brenden Mecleary
>                             [e-mail]
>                             http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1979/



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From: Bob McGee <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Student Discount
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:44:37 +0000
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Does anyone have any info on what is required (other than being a
current student) on getting the student discount of Lightwave? Anyone
know the price? Lastly, what is Newteks E-Mail adress?

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you must send a fax of your student id card.

The upgrade price from 4.0 to 5.0 is $295

I think 5.0 new is $850 for student/government

call 1-800-8781354
     520-632-5662
A+ Computing
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From: [e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie)
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Subject: Re: Books for the Lightwave proggy
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The manuals are great! They teach the proggie well :)..proggie..here
proggie..goood proggie.

Adam Chrystie
Lw proggie user
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From: [e-mail](William Teegarden)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
Date: 31 May 1996 05:50:28 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> George Maestri <[e-mail]>
writes:
>
>Brad Peebler wrote:
>>
>> Excellent responses! I have rec'd a ton of private emails with very
>> cool ideas. Come on now...I know there are a bunch more out there.
>> Please, please, please send them to [e-mail]
>>

I would like to see multi-point vertices added to the program.  I can't
tell you how many times I've noticed it's not there.

GT



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From: [e-mail] (Dave Paige)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Wanted: 4 gig AV drive
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 03:29:15 GMT
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[e-mail] wrote:

>I'm in need of a 4 gig PVR drive, either new or used,  to add to my
>existing system.  If anyone has one for sale, or can recommend a
>dealer with good prices, I'd appreciate some e-mail at the address
>below.  Also, if there is a more appropriate newsgroup for this post
>(that is, one for video or computer hardware) please let me know and I
>won't clutter this group with my postings in the future.  Thanks!
>
>Tim Doherty
>[e-mail]
>
Feel free to call me at work, Washington Professional Systems
310-942-6800, we sell PVR's, drives, all manner of video and audio
production equipment.

Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot,comp.graphics.apps.iris-explorer,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,comp.graphics.apps.pagemaker,comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
Subject: Re: EXOTIC DESTINATION
Date: 31 May 1996 06:11:10 GMT
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In <4oe0ap$[e-mail]> landmarktrvl <landmarktrvl> writes:
>
>
>Dear Reader,
>Are you running out of destinations for your VACATION LIST?

Dear dickhead, are you aware that this group has absolutely nothing to
do with this topic?

>Are you interested in knowing more about history, culture and
traditions?

Not in this forum....


>Or would you like to see one of the wonders of the world, the TAJ
MAHAL?

You know, I was just wondering how I could use LW to expierence such
marvels....

>Or see the caves and sculptures from the 2nd and the 3rd century BC?

Haven't lately...



>Or how about exploring the best wildlife sanctuaries on an elephant
back?

Don't you mean elephant's back?

>Or a camel safari offering a tour of old palaces and forts?

You mean they let the camels in the palaces?  Dosen't that fuck up the
rugs?

>Or would you like to engage yourself in river rafting of trekking on
the
>world’s
>highest mountain range, the HIMALAYAS?

Or maybe just engage yourself, while you're at it...


>Or perhaps just lie on one of the untouched, unspoiled, palm fringed
>beaches?

Naw, I'd rather have a syringe poking me in the ass....

>
>If the answer to any of the above questions is YES!!!! then INDIA is
the
>destination for
>you.

And if any of these answers where NO, then this newsgroup is not the
destination for you, reason they made birth control.

>For more information please email us at Landmark Travel at
>[e-mail], or
>fax us your request at 416-962-5910.

I request that you please refrain from posting your worthless garbage
on our pathetic newsgroup.  This forum is for people to exchange ideas
and techniques for the creation of CGI (computer generated imagrey)and
to needlessly rail others in order to poke fun and boost our little
egos.  Your advertisments are taking up valuble bandwidth that could be
better utilized insulting one another and catching up on the latest
gossip because we don't actually have normal lives, hence no
inclination or ability to travel to such exotic far flung destinations.

Besides, I hear you can't even get a good hamburger there.


GT


>


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From: [e-mail](William Teegarden)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Anyone used Antigravity Products?
Date: 31 May 1996 06:12:43 GMT
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In <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Mike Riley) writes:
>
>Has anyone used Antigravity Products? We ordered two Toaster Ovens in
October
>95 and waited and waited. After being told time after time,"It'll ship
at the
>end of the week." we got fed up and changed our order in March 96 to
the Eagle
>4001 tower. That would ship on friday we were told. It's now May 96
and still
>no towers. Suffice it to say the order is now cancelled and we went
directly
>to the manufacturer. Very poor customer service. Buyer beware.


You mean somone's actually invented Antigravity?  Holy shit!



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From: [e-mail] (Chewie8625)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Jupiter texture map?
Date: 31 May 1996 04:18:05 -0400
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I know it's a bit off subject but does anyone knwo where to find a texture
map of Jupiter?
Thanks,

-Emile Edwin Smith
-An about to graduate student in Visual Arts
-Film/Video senior
-University of California at San Diego
-Anyone need a janitor?

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Tips and Experiences using Metaballs
Date: 31 May 1996 04:49:19 -0400
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In article <4olpu0$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Anthony Caviello) writes:

>
>    I was a little dissappointed with metaballs.  The only other
metaball
>program I have tried has been the shareware program Blob sculptor.
>It's a pretty cool and well designed program.  So I looked foward to
>lightwave's take on metaballs.  But I found lightwave metaballs not as
>easy to use and the results not always to my liking.
>
>

   I have found them pretty useless - expectialy with metanurbs, which is
a much better feature. If metaballs we're animatable, they'd be useable,
but they're not.. I think they were just added for two reasons:

    1) proff of plugin concept...
    2) "Hey, we've got metaballs now!" - the buzz word factor..



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



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Date: Wed, 29 May 96 15:15:53 GMT+1
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Distribution: world
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In a message of 28 May 96 Stephane Perolini wrote to All:

 SP> Hi everybody,
 SP> Has somebody the uportunity to speak with the people at AMG because I
 SP> send a lot of E-Mail without answer from them... I order my book in
 SP> november 1995.....IS IT A NORMAL WAY OF DOING THING IN THE USA:
 SP> TAKE THE MONEY AND SEND NOTHING....to the customer.

They shipped the international orders about 5 weeks ago. They said it
would take 6 weeks to deliver. They haven't replied to my e-mail either.
I wanted to know if they actually shipped my order and if they had
the right address. No reply.

Perhaps they are busy with the takeover.

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave pro book in the UK
Date: 30 May 1996 14:48:46 GMT
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2 or so months ago I ordered the F/x Kit book for Lightwave from a UK
company. They haven't heard a dickybird from their suppliers so I've
changed my order. After John Reddingtons praise of the Lightwave Pro book
and my experience of the online vsn and a lack of responce to my
earlier (newbie) posts I've ordered that instead and been informed that I
will have it in about 2 weeks!

We'll have to see won't we.

In my experience ordering any thing from the States is a really stupid
idea but unfortunately an animator's got to do what an animator's got to
do.

Paddy


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From: Bryant Reif <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: HELP!!  TOASTER WON'T PLAY BACK ALL THE FRAMES
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 05:17:20 -0400
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Rabbit PH wrote:
>
> Our school recently got a hold of an Amiga computer with full Toaster and
> Lightwave capabilities.  So far we have been able to render animations,
> but the swithcher in the Toaster won't play them all back.  For instance,
> if the animation was 300 frames, only 120 or so will be played back.
> What's wrong?  Please help us!
>
> Here is our current system:
> 18 megs RAM
> 115 megs HardDisk
> System 3.01 workbench/desktop
> Amiga 4000 computer
>
> Thanks,
> Rabbit [e-mail]
> Rabbit

Buy more RAM.
--

Bryant Reif
mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.aiesec.org/~bryant

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Subject: Lightwave Mailing List
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Does anyone know the write address for the Lightwave mailing list. I've
sent my email address several times but have had nothing in return.


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Subject: Space : Above and Beyond
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Just incase any of you don't realise, S:Aab is being disscontinued!

I don't know why but if any of you want more info email Pat Moss on

[e-mail]

He'll probably hate me for it but it's in a good cause.

He runs a mailing list thats trying to get S:AaB back on the air.


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From: [e-mail] (HMSS007)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Weird problem with PVR, LW and Premiere
Date: 31 May 1996 06:45:24 GMT
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Heres my two cents worth...

First and foremost, I would recommend not using the newshell, it is a beta
product and it can mess up some programs.  You will want to make sure you're
using Service Pack 4 for NT 3.51 as well.

The newest DPS Perception drivers are version 2.52 and they can be downloaded
from ftp.dps.com.  Also, the Adobe has released Premiere 4.2 for Windows 95/NT
and it is a full 32-bit application that works great with the Perception.  The
only other version of Premiere that works in NT/95 even semi-well is Premiere
4.0a.  If you are not using at least 4.0a, you will have problems no matter
what you do.

Premiere also has a preferences file that is kept in the c:\winnt directory
called premiere.prf (Premiere 4.0a) or prem32.prf (Premiere 4.2).  You should
delete this file when premiere is not running.  Premiere will recreate this
file upon launch when it can't find it.  As a general rule of thumb, when you
experience unexpected behavior in Premiere or Premiere crashes, you should quit
the program and delete the preferences file.

Hope this helps with your DPS & Premiere Problem.

[e-mail]


In article <4o2m26$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I am stomped by a problem that appeared recently. I looked everywhere
>for solution but no go so I finally decided to see if anyone here has
>any idea.
>
>I installed the new shell update a few weeks ago on my machine for
>NT3.51 Server. Everything was fine for a while but then I needed to
>render some stuff to my PVR drive so I had to take it off (with the
>batch file that came with it), Well, I could access the PVR drive
>again but Premiere would give me an error whenever I tried to render
>to it. So I would go to Win95 and try to use it there: I installed
>Premiere into Win95 (as I only had it under NT), and created a PVR
>preset for it. But Premiere gives me an error 'CAnim body table
>alocation failed!' and then a system error 'file already in use'.
>
>So now I don't have a working Premiere copy on either partition (it's
>installed into a single directory which should be okay). The machine
>is a P133 with 64Mb of RAM and a DPS Perception Video Recorder. Stuff
>was rendered in LW4.0c. Can anybody help here?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Slaven.
>


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From: [e-mail] (OTSP)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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Ditto what David and Mario wrote.  Also, if you have considered upgrading
to the Flyer non-linear editing system, one obvious yet important
advantage is that you can save animations (regardless of length) as a
video clip on your hard drive.  If money is a problem, then adding RAM may
be the way to go.

Bob
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From: Mark Midolla <[e-mail]>
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Subject: LW4 Amiga HIIP savers dont work
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I tried the HIIP jpeg, and pict saver and the image when displayed using
Adpro or other PD viewers appears as if I'm seeing triple.

Anyone know what the problem might be ?

Mark
Please reply to [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (James Macallister)
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 > Amen, Bob.
 > I have to laugh at the VB user's out there who think they can do
 > everything.
 > There is a reason for C/C++ you know.  VB has some MAJOR
 > limitations.

My son who is 13 and his best friend Peter also 13 are students at Boston
Latin School and avid C++ programmers. They take courses at a community
college here in Bean Town with a clss full of Hi Tech Heavies and hold their
own--generally having their assignments completed during the lab time at the
end of class. Right now the two of them are up here in the old attic
computer lab putting together a music program in C++ on the old 486 PC. When
I just asked them about various languages they said that C++ "rocks".


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From: [e-mail](Michael C. Ling)
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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On May 30, 1996 22:57:48 in article <Re: FEATURES!!>, 'Ben Frech
<[e-mail]>' wrote:


>Michael C. Ling wrote:
>>
>> I have Truespace 2 and Freeform deformation in LW5 is called metanurbs.
>>

>Its not quite the same thing... Im talking about the lattices that can
>move relative to the things that they are deforming. They are more
>similar to the effector plugin for layout, a method of deforming an
>object, rather than somthing to do organic modeling with.

I stand corrected.

I wonder if there's a work-around to get the effect you referring to.

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <4olg5p$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail](Michael C. Ling) writes:

>
>I have Truespace 2 and Freeform deformation in LW5 is called metanurbs.
>
>

    Not quite - you can't place a latuce in a scene and pull an object
through it..
I'd love to see this feature added... It's great for water effects...


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: Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Whats your preference?
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Kevin Bruce Freeman wrote:
>
>         Would you rather have more ram or a better graphics board to run
> lightwave?

    Currently RAM is pretty cheap. Ram is also what allows you to have higher polygon counts and higher
res image maps. The flipside is that once you start using your RAM the graphics card becomes more and more
important! I started spending money on RAM and finnally gave in and spend a whole bunch of money: First an
extra 32 megs of RAM: ($300) That wasn't too bad.) Within 2 weeks when I really started using it: my redraws
were majorly down!=> Glyder OpenGl accelerator w. 8 megs VRAM and 8 megs DRAM and geometry acceleration.
($ 2000 Ouch!). Finnally I have a card that is so fast now that my P5/150 can't pump data quickly enough. So
now I'm gonna have to buy a PPro. If you are in 3D it never stops does it?

Hajo

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From: [e-mail] (Noam Ben-Ami)
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[e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie) writes:


>you must send a fax of your student id card.

>The upgrade price from 4.0 to 5.0 is $295

>I think 5.0 new is $850 for student/government

>call 1-800-8781354
>     520-632-5662
>A+ Computing

Safe Harbor has it for $720.
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Alan Chan wrote:
> Yes. Therefore you will have, say Cage1.lwo (source), Cage2.lwo (morph
> target), Cage3.lwo (morph target) etc., and animate between them. Once
> this is done, you load in a reference metaformed object and link it to
> Cage1.lwo so that when you render, the displacement data gets
> transferred to the metaformed version. Hope this makes sense, I've got
> some tutorials out there that covers this in more detail.
>
> AC

Is it possible to just move, rotate, and scale the meta-cage in Layout
instead of having to animate the different keyframes in modeler?

nate

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From: [e-mail] (James Kewageshig)
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[e-mail] (ToastRGuy) wrote:

>In article <4oegqd$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Caudill)
>writes:

>>At work we have a 2000/toatser 4000 (running in 2000 mode) and of course
>>only 16 colors.  That's why I do "homework."
>>
>>I'd like to do less "homework."  What are my options?
>>
>>

>Get the 4.1 upgrade.  The new Toaster Paint runs full screen, 256,000
>colors.

Wait,  your saying that an Amiga 2000 will show  256,000 colours with a toaster?

(His post said that he was running a Toaster 4000 in a Amiga 2000)
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In <[e-mail]> Nate Hayes <[e-mail]>
writes:
>
>Alan Chan wrote:
>> Yes. Therefore you will have, say Cage1.lwo (source), Cage2.lwo
(morph
>> target), Cage3.lwo (morph target) etc., and animate between them.
Once
>> this is done, you load in a reference metaformed object and link it
to
>> Cage1.lwo so that when you render, the displacement data gets
>> transferred to the metaformed version. Hope this makes sense, I've
got
>> some tutorials out there that covers this in more detail.
>>
>> AC
>
>Is it possible to just move, rotate, and scale the meta-cage in Layout

>instead of having to animate the different keyframes in modeler?

Yes. You can do almost anything to a metaform cage. But if you're going
to move, rotate or scale something, why not just do it to the
metaformed object? The reason for metamation is so that you can
displace, morph or otherwise affect the surface geometry with bones,
plugins etc..

AC


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From: Nate Hayes <[e-mail]>
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Frank D. Cocke wrote:
>
> This is off topic from lightwave but I can't seem to be able to
> find a newsgroup on Digital Video and I know that some of you
> have experience with these products. You can just send me your
> replies so as not to take up room on the Lightwave group.
>
> The video house where in put my animations to tape, using my
> PAR, is thinking about purchasing a PVR for a small non-linear
> editing setup but is unsure about the capabilities of Speed
> Razor or Premiere. One of his main concerns is the speed of
> rendering transitions. I know DPS is coming out with an
> accelerator for transitions but how fast is it really. If anyone
> can give me any first hand working knowledge of these products
> it would be greatly appreciated.

I saw the DPS accelerator at NAB. It will only accelerate certain common
transitions (fades, wipes, etc.) and will bring rendering to about 6x.

As for Speed Razor vrs. Premiere, I know some friends who've benchmarked
the two products and Premiere was consistently faster than Razor by a
large margin (this was the new 32-bit Premiere). One nice thing about
Razor, however, is it's ability to deal directly with the proprietary
PVR file format. To use Premiere with PVR, you need to convert PVR files
into .AVIs.

Nate

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From: [e-mail] (The Glory Boys)
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Subject: Vapor Question Help Needed
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I’m making a conceptual animation showing water, in the form of a vapor, being
driven out of a piece of silicon under extreme heat.

The heat I can handle, but I’m not quite happy with my vapor. Here’s what I’ve
done:

FYI silicon 10x10x1.  I made a very shallow pyramid, (10.5x10.5x3.5) removed
the base polygon, and placed it like a cap directly over my silicon.  I gave it the
atmosphere surface (smoothing, double sided) and used fractal reflections as a
transparency map, set the transparency to 100 and used a texture falloff so that
the pyramid is totally transparent at the edges. (It renders out kind of like a vague
contact lens facing down, except I’m only using four polygons.)

As for movement the object simply fades in over two seconds, holds a sec then
rises out of the frame, while expanding to 300% size and fading to 100%
dissolve. All timed to VO.

POV: Y= about 7 so I’m looking down at and across the surface of the entire
object. No camera movement.

Here is my problem. (finally right?)  I’m getting a slight bit of a straight edge
across the top of the vapor as it rises. Not so much as if I’d actually modeled  a
contact lens, but that same kind of edge. The bottom edge looks great.

Also I have a catch: this all takes place in an ultra still environment so no texture
movement allowed. The slow dissipation is all I can get away with. Anything else
would imply moving air which is a no no.

Help me O fellow lighwavers, you’re my only hope.

Scott at GBI

Oh yeah, I did the tutorial titled -- Vapor: Driven out of Silicon Under Extreme
Heat--, but I wasn’t real happy with the results. Damn those manuals!! :-)


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From: [e-mail] (Daniel K. Reilly)
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Subject: Draw
Date: 31 May 1996 15:36:31 GMT
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I come on here looking for some cool stuff that you may have drawn, but I
can't really find any.  So...if any of you people that come on here, and can
draw stuff out with your computer, please send me some stuff.  I don't care if
it's stupid to you or what, just send me some pictures.  Icons or whatever
they're called.

bh149
--
Now that you're mine, we'll find a way.  I'm chasing the sun.  Let me be the
one who shines with you, in the morning we don't know what to do.  We're two
of a kind, we'll find a way to do what we want.  Let me be the one who shines
with you, and we can slide away.

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Diamond surface..Final installment
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville (III)) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville (III))
>Subject: Re: Diamond surface......
>Date: 28 May 1996 16:43:02 -0700


OK - I posted diamond4.jpg at tomahawk.grandi.com/pub/LW/incoming/framestores.
I have looked at a lot of diamonds this past week, and this rendering looks
pretty real.  The biggest weakness is the simplistic ring that I set it in.

I made the Nadir virtually black and left the Zenith dark grey.  The Sky and
Ground remain black.  I cut reflectivity to 51%.  I moved the colored lights
inside the diamond.  I changed the gloss type to either Hard or Medium.  And I
mounted the stone in a simple ring (thank you metaNurbs).

The last piece was the most important.  When I added something into the scene
that would reflects and refract in the diamond surface, the need for high
reflectivity and became less and the effect became more realistic.  Render
times went up as well.

The bottom line is that the diamond's surface properties will have to be
adjusted on a scene by scene basis to get a realistic effect.  This is the
nature of raytracing etc.  There are a lot of things that raytracing
reflections and refractions leave out so the scene determines where you have
to fudge in order to get the desired result.



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Subject: Re: Space : Above and Beyond
Date: 31 May 1996 12:21:19 -0400
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Is he started a fund, too? A big part of the reason the show was cancelled
was that it's EXPENSIVE...

If every S:AaB viewer kicked in about $1635 each week, you'd have a show!



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Subject: Re: Tips and Experiences using Metaballs
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-----------------------------
   I have found them pretty useless - expectialy with metanurbs, which is
a much better feature. If metaballs we're animatable, they'd be useable,
but they're not.. I think they were just added for two reasons:

    1) proff of plugin concept...
    2) "Hey, we've got metaballs now!" - the buzz word factor..
------------------------------

Well, 5.0 seems very 'thrown together' in some ways - please don't start
flaming me, I know it's good, but there is a sense...in the documentation,
and some of the plug-ins, that this release was - "Okay, let's put it in
the box and ship it at NAB, period. We didn't announce it, so everyone
will be happy and buy it and the vast majority of it works."

And it does, but it's not a professional way to release products.



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From: [e-mail] (steve)
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oh yeah
and
I would like bezzier splines with the ability to bring in Illustrator/Freehand
files.  On many projects I work with already existing graphic design work done
in Ill/FH.  I only really need Illustrater 3.0 support just to bring in the
bezziers curves.


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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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On 29-May-96 22:17:30, Mikey <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi,

>       I am very glad to find this newsgroup.

>       My name is Mike Yuen. My first computer is an Amiga 3000.
>Now I am developing VRML webs with LightWave4.0 on Win95. I have
>a few questions:

>- How much is upgrade to LW5?

  $495 list for any 4.0 to 5.0 ob the same platform.

>- Anyone else have experience using the VRML plugin?

  I've seen people mention using it, but I do not.

>- When is VideoToaster for Windows coming out?

  Early 1997?  Whenever it is ready, I'd think.

  The hard part of making it is cloning the Toaster hardware abilities,
and improving upon them in the process.  The device is actually the
Flyer for Windows, as it may not come without the NLE hardware.  Play's
Trinity may come out by that time, and may be a better implementation of
the concept, being designed by some of the same people after they left
NewTek.

  Without a definitive time of release, I wouldn't hold my breath
waiting for either of these products.  Cost may be higher than an Amiga
version of the Toaster/Flyer, including the Amiga computer you need to
run it, so in the meantime if you want Toaster abilities, you can buy
one that works now.  You can always sell it later, and the Flyer card
will fit into the Toaster for Windows.

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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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Subject: Re: PC Flyer? WHEN!?!?
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On 30-May-96 05:37:24, Stranahan <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>Stranahan wrote:
>>>
>>> Abandon all hope.
>>

>Or just the world's smartest guy?   ;^)

>I don't know, but I seem to have been pretty correct so far. I hope
>nobody just 'takes my word' for things, but I know plenty. If you want
>to see the logical successor to the Toaster, look to Trinity...

>Will the PC 'Toaster' 1) have a switcher like the Amiga Toaster? 2) do
>real time effects other than fades? 3) have a CG? Paint? Has anyone
>seen them? 4) be component?

  If it doesn't, I don't know why you'd bother with it.  Or how you
could call it a Video Toaster, if it doesn't do all that the original
version did, at minimum.  Real-time is a big plus; one of the reasons
for using a Flyer is the ability to do real-time editing and switching.
There are many other systems, but few have real-time transitions, nor do
they tie them in directly to a real-time (live) CG and image processing
system.

  Maybe they are just being real quiet about what they are developing?

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From: [e-mail] (steve)
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>PS: This includes interface ideas, new input devices, plug in
>architecture...anything you would like to see in LightWave.
>
   I would like some major interface changes, especially in Layout.  I would
like to be able to keep windows like the Material Editers, Motion Graph, Scene
Info open (free to move around and resize of course).  I would like to see
"scene info" evolve into a kf editing tool that can also remain open (like
After Effects's Timeline).  You hierarchy can appear as a tree of folders,
open them up and see editable kf's and editable motion graphs the right along
the timeline with all those great tools like window select, cut, copy paste
working on mulitple objects at once. This is far better than the current
method which makes it near impossible to kf large numbers of objects.  I would
like to have multiple cameras and the option to have additional viewports open
at once.
  In general I would like to see the more flexible interface I have grown to
love in many Mac/Win programs.  LW's interface now seems too much like 3DSr4
(DOS).  Take advantage of Windows and MAC API instead of porting a
old rigid interface into Win/Mac.

I would like to see Layout and Modeler integrated into one.  If that is to
much to ask.  I would like to have the option of camera views in modeler
(same cameras in both modules) and animatable metaballs and as many other
animatible modeling features as possible in Layout.  Vertex level and cluster
style animation would be damn nice too.  Anything that prevents creating a
kazillion morph targets.

and improved bones/ik/character animation tools, like pinning/arbitrary IK etc

good luck guys, I am sure you have you work cut out for you for ver6


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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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Subject: Re: HELP!!  TOASTER WON'T PLAY BACK ALL THE FRAMES
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On 30-May-96 18:16:38, Rabbit PH <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Our school recently got a hold of an Amiga computer with full Toaster
>and Lightwave capabilities.  So far we have been able to render
>animations, but the swithcher in the Toaster won't play them all back.
>For instance, if the animation was 300 frames, only 120 or so will be
>played back.  What's wrong?  Please help us!

>Here is our current system:
>18 megs RAM
>115 megs HardDisk
>System 3.01 workbench/desktop
>Amiga 4000 computer

  The Switcher animation player plays animations from ram, not hard
drive.  When it loads up an anim, it won't give any indication (so far)
that the entire thing couldn't fit, but it simply won't play back the
entire thing.  The player is a real-time, bidirectional uncompressed
system, very good for its primary purpose of previewing animations
because you can manually play the animation back and forth at any speed.

  If you load up the absolute minimum Switcher configuration (GetSmall
project in 3.1 or earlier), and have run nothing else, this will
maximize the memory you can use.  However, if you are going to use the
animation as an effect in video production, along with other effects,
you'll need to either limit its size or get more memory.

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oh yeah
and (II)

real UV mapping!
It would be nice if UV mapping was created intelligently during certain
modeling (like extruding along a cruve) as well as the user's ability to
define splines.  Anything better than having to morph just for your mapping
coordinates which sometimes outright fails to get the desired mapping.



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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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Subject: Re: more color on a2000 toaster system
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On 31-May-96 14:31:31, James Kewageshig <[e-mail]>
wrote:
>[e-mail] (ToastRGuy) wrote:

>>In article <4oegqd$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Caudill)
>>writes:

>>>At work we have a 2000/toatser 4000 (running in 2000 mode) and of
>>>course  only 16 colors.  That's why I do "homework."
>>>
>>>I'd like to do less "homework."  What are my options?
>>>
>>>

>>Get the 4.1 upgrade.  The new Toaster Paint runs full screen, 256,000
>>colors.

>Wait,  your saying that an Amiga 2000 will show  256,000 colours with a
>toaster?

>(His post said that he was running a Toaster 4000 in a Amiga 2000)

  Toasterpaint will show 16 million on the Toaster program output.
Tpaint 4.1 will do so in full screen, even on an A2000.  However, your
painting control screen will be limited to the 4096 color limit of the
A2000 hardware.  Now, you could by a new video board, and a paint
program which will drive it, to get more colors on screen.  The Toaster
is configured to use only the Amiga video hardware for its own internal
programs.  Or you could use something like Alphapaint, or ImageFX, which
supports output to the Toaster framebuffer.

  There are lots of other reasons for getting the new software (4.1
Toaster), of course.

Mark,

  What software do you run on your A1200 at home, that you cannot do run
on the A2000?



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Subject: FS: AMIGA 2000 w/GVP 040/33 w/12mb 32-bit + 1meg CHIP w/PICASSO II 24-bit Graphic board
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Greetings,

The title pretty much says it all.

FOR SALE:

AMIGA 2000
GVP 040/33 w/12mb 32-bit
1meg CHIP
PICASSO II 24-bit Graphic board (You'll need a multi-sync)
1084 Commodore Monior (perfect condition)
540mg HD (also have a 52 I'll throw in)

I'm *asking* $1800.00 and will pay shipping charges.  Leave me a
response here, or, email me at:

    [e-mail]

Thanks,
Bob



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From: Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Books for the Lightwave proggy
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twoface wrote:
> Can anybody please tell me some GOOD BOOKS for the LightWave proggy.

    The FX kit for LW by Alan Chan. This and the LWPro book are probably your best bets. I do not have the LWPro
book since I have most of the magazines. but you can find info on the FX Kit at: http://www.webcom.com/lghtspd/

    Hajo

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From: [e-mail] (VirtualBri)
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My name is Brian Tatosky, and I d like to take the time to introduce
myself, and forward my resume, as I am currently looking for career
placement in a professional video, multimedia or game production
organization as a LightWave Animator.

I am a 26-year old professional with a degree from UCLA, and experience in
a wide variety of video and new media technologies, from scripting and
video production to HTML authoring and Web Design.  I have produced
educational video for high schools, managed numerous technicians for UCLA
s media needs, rendered pre-visualization scenes for motion simulator
rides, and consulted on CD-ROM, as well as amusement park ride
development, all as either job tasks or spare time interests.

I have a passion for digital media, starting from videotaping on one-inch
recorders in second grade, up through the early Atari and Apple II game
days, and continuing through the promise of  cutting-edge content on the
Internet.

Currently, I am involved with a small, start-up company in Camarillo as a
vice-president, overseeing all operations of the company.  My demo reel
was crucial for the company to obtain clients such as Harris Corporation,
Rollerblade, AMG Media, Inc., Gd others.  But my actual production time
has now dwindled to near nothing, while my career goal has always been to
focus on the production and creative side of video and multimedia,
learning and honing my skills as a visual effects artist in an industry
leader.

I can be reached by phone at [phone] or E-Mail at
[e-mail].  Thank you for your time.


Sincerely,

Brian Tatosky

**************************************************************************
*****************

Brian Tatosky
222 W. 64th St.
Inglewood, CA  90302

Home:   310-330-3916
Office:   805-383-5730
[e-mail]
http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/


PROFILE:

Fast learner with a demonstrated talent for organization, management, and
adaptability to a rapidly changing work environment with constantly
evolving tools.  Detail oriented.  Strengths include creative skills,
communication skills, and a strong knowledge of multimedia and video
production including over 6 years videotape editing and production
experience, LightWave 3D, Photoshop, After Effects, Web Design, and Media
100 experience.

EXPERIENCE:

Equinox Images, Inc.                               4/95-Present
Vice-President, Production
Operate and oversee all aspects of start-up production facility,
maintaining facility as well as performing all aspects of video and
multimedia production, post-production, graphics (2D and 3D), and internet
services, including Web design, for corporate and broadcast clients.
Oversee budgeting and financial planning process, develop sales contacts,
design marketing materials, evaluate new technologies for use by the
company.

--Provides production experience and show reel footage which gained
current clients such as, Geffen Records, Rollerblade, and
Martindale-Hillier Productions

--Manages LightWavePro Online Website, Internet presence of leading
LightWave 3D information source, and The LightWave Internet Resources List

Alesis Corporation
Video Production                 7/93-4/95
Responsible for all aspects of production of corporate video and
multimedia, including editing, 3D graphics, and camerawork, using Amiga,
Mac and PC platforms.

--Facilitated entry of company into interactive multimedia projects, such
as CD-ROMs

--Worked directly with company President, producing corporate, as well as
personal projects

--Increased quality, as well as quantity of projects to highest level in
history of the company

Audio Visual Services, University of California, Los Angeles
Audio-Visual Technician Supervisor              1/92-7/93
Coordinated multimedia educational work performed for UCLA classes and
special events, on-campus and off, including assigning and scheduling
labor.

--Promoted to single supervising positions over a peak staff of 75 AV
Technicians

--Supervised 4 quarters of record-high work loads, maximizing staff
efficiency

Audio Visual Technician                      9/89-1/92
Operated wide-variety of multimedia equipment for UCLA and special events.

EDUCATION:

University of California, Los Angeles, Extension
Film and Television Certificate Program         1992-1994

University of California, Los Angeles
BA, History             1992

References and Reel  available upon request

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In article <4omsa0$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Noam Ben-Ami) writes:
>[e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie) writes:


>>you must send a fax of your student id card.

>>The upgrade price from 4.0 to 5.0 is $295

>>I think 5.0 new is $850 for student/government

>>call 1-800-8781354
>>     520-632-5662
>>A+ Computing

>Safe Harbor has it for $720.

anyone have an address/phone number/web site URL for Safe Harbor? those of
us trapped out here in montana don't have access to this kind of information
on a regular basis...please post!!!
- jeneth


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>   LW5.0 is shipping on intel at least - since I've been using it for
>weeks.. It's not on amigas, Mips, and maybe alphas....
>
>
>
>Jason Booth
>Second Nature, Inc.
> "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
>RICH!!!!"
>
>


I have had my ALPHA 5.0 version for a month already.  But T-Shirt is no
where to be found =(

Will Mendez

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In <[e-mail]> Henri Smulders <[e-mail]>
writes:
>
>Animateable meta-balls! This way you can do really cool gooey
animation! (And please
>spend some time on Metaball documentation next time).
>
>    Hajo


How about interactive metaballs that react to each other as soon as
they get closer,  that way you can see in real time what you are
building.

Will Mendez

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In <[e-mail]>
Dobbin Burkhart <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>
>We just got a DeskStation Alpha 266Mhz Raptor Reflex and it's
>pretty slick. Layout and rendering are real quick but moving
>things around in modeler is very awkward compared to what we
>can do in a A2000/040 amiga. The screen updates are so slow
>that pulling a point in a moderatly complex object is nearly
>impossible. We're doing something wrong I hope.

If your on 4.0 this is true,  5.0 does improve the screen redraws.

Will Mendez

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>>I have an Idea... somthing i miss from Truespace... how about
>>free-standing deformation lattices? Very useful for character &
>>particle animation...
>
>I have Truespace 2 and Freeform deformation in LW5 is called
metanurbs.

What I think he means is being able to push an elephant through a key
hole and watching it deform as it does.

Maybe a more enhanced version of effectors.

Will Mendez

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From: Pat Borjon <borjon>
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one other thing about accessing PVR drives from lightwave, it crashes if mult
lightwave/SN progs are accessing it..  i.e. getting image seq's off it &/or
rendering out to it.  always get crashdump: Page fault error.  anyone else?

tip: render in real time, its faster...

tip2: if you have a circle image in a square x,y field you can use
          cubic image mapping to get it to cover an entire sphere.


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Pat Borjon <borjon> wrote:

>one other thing about accessing PVR drives from lightwave, it crashes if mult
>lightwave/SN progs are accessing it..  i.e. getting image seq's off it &/or
>rendering out to it.  always get crashdump: Page fault error.  anyone else?

Nope, never happens to me. I've had multiple machines accessing frames
from it and rendering to it without a problem. I'm running all
machines under Windows NT 3.51 + service pack 4 and PVR software 2.52.


Dave Paige
Alfheim Imaging
[e-mail]

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In article <[e-mail]>, cjtsui <[e-mail]> writes
>Brad Peebler wrote:
>>
>> Okay everyone. Here is the official notice for feature requests. As we
>> are hard at work on the next rev of LW I am putting together the
>> master list of feature requests. I know there are lots of good ideas
>> out there so send them to me!

The ability to save lights with their lens flare settings so they can be
reloaded into scenes as required.  Also the ability to allow the
settings of one light affect "child" lights, so animating dozens of lens
flares becomes a doddle.


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From: [e-mail] (Paul Bunkham)
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Subject: Re: Manuals?
Date: 31 May 1996 13:49:14 GMT
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Time for Ol Blackbeard to have a say. Thanks to John (who ever you are for
sticking up for me and helping me out), before anymore is said I would like to
make a few observations.  I have a dongle, yes there is a number on it.  John
gave me a few suggestions as to what I could do, and he is the only person
that knows the full story, of how I came to be in this situation.  He is in
the one that suggested I checked the dongle, and at the time I had not asked
Newtek at all, so it was nothing to do with them telling me that I couldn't
have any manuals.  If I was a pirate, as is being suggested, I wouldn't be
using a newsgroup of select and committed users, to help me illegally make a
dodgy copy of some software legitimate.  I came to the newsgroup, specifically
for some help on an issue that was annoying me and have found that I have
subscribed to a great deal of Agatha Christie readers and have come out more
annoyed than when I came in.  I wish you all well in your lives and request
that you maybe treat new members of your newsgroup with a little less
of an aggressive/suspicious attitude.

All my love and kisses

Paul

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Is it just me or has Babylon 5 gotton really good lately?
Date: 31 May 1996 17:47:16 -0400
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I've heard a lot of people becoming recent B5 converts...



_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan

Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
L.A.!!!!

Access DeniedURL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/access.htm
Lee's Home Page URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm

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From: Jean Marc Rodrigue <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Abekas driver for NT LW ?
Date: 31 May 1996 21:23:48 GMT
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We own a Raptor Reflex running Windows NT and a Abekas Diskus recorder,
both of which we were hoping to use with LightWave NT. Does anyone have
any info on the availability of Abekas driver/saver/plugin for such a
setup ?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Jean Marc Rodrigue
TwisTer.digital.design

P.S. Has anyone tried the #9 Imagine 128 Series 2 3D acceleration video
card with LW 5.0 ? Any performance comparisons with the Matrox Millenium
?


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From: [e-mail] (Derek Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Anyone know what version of SAS C to use?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 10:02:03 -0400
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  Has anyone attempted to write plug ins for the Amiga version of
lightwave using SAS C?

  Is so could you please post what version of SAS you are using.

thanks in advance.

Derek<<<<<
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From: [e-mail] (Jeffery S. Jones)
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On 30-May-96 15:05:48, pward <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Does anyone know the write address for the Lightwave mailing list. I've
> sent my email address several times but have had nothing in return.

  Send to [e-mail] a message with

  INFO LIGHTWAVE

  to find the instructions.  The list has been moved to a new server.


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From: [e-mail] (Falk Kühnel)
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Subject: MoveScene for PC
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Hi!

Sorry for bothering you, but does anyone have this nice program that
puts all objects, images and everything needed to render a scene in
one folder for PC. If so, please mail it to me.

Thanks

Falk




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From: [e-mail] (GKeenan818)
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Subject: Re: LightwavePro Book
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As yet I am still waiting for my copies to arrive in the UK.

Hey, I don't even worry about it anymore!


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From: [e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie)
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In <[e-mail]> Karma <[e-mail]> writes:

>Does anyone ahve any knowledge as to when the supposed release date for
>this product is?

>Thanks.

 Last i heard was end of this year of first quarter next year.
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From: Christopher Stewart <[e-mail]>
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[e-mail] pecked:

> Last week, I figured out for NewTek what was going on and why the Amiga
> v4.0 HIIP saver don't work (geez...their own developers can't figure it
> out, but I did...)
>
> Anyway, the version of the HIIPload.p and HIIPsave.p included on the
> Amiga LightWave v4.0 Rev A CD-ROM disks were v1.1. What you need are the
> v1.2 plug-ins. THey can be found either on a) NewTek's BBS, where they
> are inow posted, or b) on any Video Toaster v4.1d CD-ROM. Dreux, the
> gent now in charge of the NewTek BBS said that the patch is also
> available on their venues in CompuServe and (I think) Genie.
>
> Call up their BBS and get the files...

     I'm still suprised that the HIIP system was ported to the Amiga version
of Lightwave. If you think about it, Avid/EA or whoever they are now didn't
have an Amiga version of their translation system before LW 4.0 came out. I
wonder how much old ADPro code resides in the present incarnation and how
someone convinced (or paid) for the port to take place... Glad it works on
the Amiga now....

     Christopher

     Primordial Soup
     http://www.islandnet.com/~dretch
     [e-mail]



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From: [e-mail](William A. Mendez )
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I have had this problem since R4.0, everytime I try to use the VIDNOISE
effect Layout crashes.

Also crashed while trying to output NEWTEK-AVI.

Anybody else having the same problems?

Thanks!
Will Mendez

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From: [e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie)
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Yup nice idea...But EXPENSIVE!!! Think of the hardware needed and special
graphics cards to do virtual modeling.

Adam Chrystie
=Professional Keyboard Duster=

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From: [e-mail] (Kurt Harmel)
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Subject: Re: Texture mapping on irregular objects
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In article <4nsk6p$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (patrick smyth) says:
>
>Hi. I have only started started using Lightwave recently (version
>4.0), so this may seem like a newbie question, but it stems from my
>previous texture-mapping experience with another 3D package.  In
>addition to the usual mapping/projection options (spherical,
>Cylindrical, cubic, planar, etc.) this other package contained two
>mapping options called "by polygon" and "organic".  The "by polygon"
>option basically mapped the surface texture onto each individual
>polygon on the object, resulting in a "manufactured" look that came in
>handy sometimes.  More useful, however, was the "organic" mapping
>option, which essentially  "unfolded" the object's polygons into a
>flat sheet, projected the desired texture onto this sheet, and then
>returned the polygons to their original position on the object.  The
>result was a 2D source image mapped perfectly onto irregular objects
>like folded curtains and craggy boulders without smearing or
>stretching.  (Okay, sometimes it resulted in a mangled mess, but more
>often than not it worked quite nicely).
>
>My question is; how does one manage this in Lightwave?  I realize that
>there are numerous procedural mapping options to choose from, but I
>want to use my own source images in many instances. I have
>experimented with all of the available image mapping options in 4.0,
>but all of them are predictably unsatisfactory for  projecting source
>images onto irregular objects (i.e. anything that isn't a near-perfect
>cylinder, cube, or whatever) and my textures look like they have
>been applied with fingerpaint.  Are there plug-ins that solve this
>problem, or is it addressed in 5.0?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
> Patrick


I have been gripping about this for weeks. I thought 5.0 would
have solved this problem, but it was not the case. There are some
out there who just don't see the necessity of being able to map
images on objects that are not aligned to the strict x, y  and z
axis. I hope Newtek is not one of them. THIS CAN BE  A BIG PROBLEM.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP US NEWTEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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From: [e-mail] (Kurt Harmel)
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Subject: Looking for Performance Animation INFO!!!
Date: 2 Jun 1996 00:10:21 GMT
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Two weeks ago, Movie Magic aired a piece on Performance
Animation. Basicaly, P.A. is a bunch of sensors placed
on the face or body of an actor. Some sort of radar
box reflects beams off the sensors and back to the box.
The actor moves and the motion paths are recorded on the
computer for a CG model. The whole senario doesn't look like
it would be to expensive, but of course looks are often deceiving.

If anyone has any info on who sells these things, please
respond.

Thanks!!!


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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LW5: Articulated Bones & IK
Date: 1 Jun 1996 20:24:18 -0400
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In article <[e-mail]>, Nate Hayes
<[e-mail]> writes:

>
>I'm having a problem getting articulated bones and IK to work in LW5.
>I've been thru the docs many times and even bought Stranahan's Bones,
>Morphing, and Displacement Mapping video tape (nice tape, Stranahan, but
>nothing about articulated bones or IK).

    Gee, maybe because IK wasn't in version 3.1....



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave and VR
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In article
<[e-mail]>, Kevin
Bruce Freeman <[e-mail]> writes:

>
>    I am a former 3ds user and am happy to say I have now
>converted....so, lets talk.  I want to know if there is any vr out htere
>for lightwave.  I realize you may use lightwave to help create your
>worlds, but what about a vendor that will allow you to use lightwave with

>a VR helmet....I just think that it would be a cool change to "turn
>around in your scene"....let me know what you think?  lame? Happy
animating.
>    Kevin
>
>
>

   what I'd rather see is support for a sensor glove, so you can model
with your hands... that would be cool..


Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
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From: [e-mail](Michael C. Ling)
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On Jun 01, 1996 10:09:16 in article <Lightwave and VR>, 'Kevin Bruce
Freeman <[e-mail]>' wrote:


>    I am a former 3ds user and am happy to say I have now
>converted....so, lets talk.  I want to know if there is any vr out htere
>for lightwave.  I realize you may use lightwave to help create your
>worlds, but what about a vendor that will allow you to use lightwave with

>a VR helmet....I just think that it would be a cool change to "turn
>around in your scene"....let me know what you think?  lame? Happy
animating.

I don't there's enough processing power to do single views in real time
with Pentiums, let alone two simultaneous views. Maybe there's an opengl
accelerator card fast enough to do it?

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From: cjtsui <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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Malcolm Lavery wrote:
>
>
> Hi!....
>
> >>Brad Peebler wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Okay everyone. Here is the official notice for feature requests. As we
> >>> are hard at work on the next rev of LW I am putting together the
> >>> master list of feature requests. I know there are lots of good ideas
> >>> out there so send them to me!
>


heres a big one I'm surprised no one has said:

previews of textures with velocity!!!  I hate not knowing how the movement will look until the friggin' thing
is rendered!!

a good example of this is in KPT 3.0

this would save soooooo much time!!

thanx
Josh Tsui
Williams/Bally/Midway Games

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From: [e-mail] (Matt McClanahan)
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Subject: Re: Need help - Cloak/Decloak effect from B5 using LW ver 4.0
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Keith Smith <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I personally think that a much NICER effect would be to model the ships
>internal structure - all the corridors, bulkheads and engines and stuff
>and then just dissolve it in and out.  I would love to see an effect
>where the *inside* of the ship is visible as it cloaks.
That would make for either very large windows on the exterior of the
ship, or a close-up shot of the ship passing the camera.  Voyager
actually has visible 'insides' on their plastic model, but I don't
think they built them imto their LW models.


Matt McClanahan
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <4oqpaq$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail](Michael C. Ling) writes:

>
>I don't there's enough processing power to do single views in real time
>with Pentiums, let alone two simultaneous views. Maybe there's an opengl
>accelerator card fast enough to do it?

    The problem is not calculating the views, but how those views are
calculated - Lightwave is not designed as a real-time engine - never has
been. We create huge virtual worlds with lightwave, that run in real time,
but they don't run in real-time in lightwave. Some things I do render in
at about 1 minute a frame (320x240), and playback 30 frames per second in
our system at higher res (400x300).
     Whats important to remember though, is that these models are able to
run at that speed because they are designed for it, and so are the
engines..


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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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Malcolm Lavery) writes:

>
>And being able to use an object as an actual lightsource. :)
>
>

    This would be pretty cool...



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: Elliot Bain <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Stealth LightWave Coverage, continued
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 21:47:46 -0400
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VirtualBri wrote:
>
> Take at look June/Post NAB issues of PC Graphics and Video for a complete
> lack of any mention of LightWave 5.0, in favor of more fawning over 3DS
> Max and SoftImage.
>
> If you're as tee'd off as I am over their shoddy coverage of LightWave,
> drop a line to "[e-mail]" to let them know what a lousy job of
> covering LightWave they are doing.
> --Brian
> ========   http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/   =======
> == Home of the LightWave 3D Internet Resource Lists  ==
> =============  So, why aren't you on it?  =============
> ============  All you gotta do is ask....  ============
>

Get real! Do you think coverage of a product just happens because someone
stumbles over it? No way! There's just way too much hype and activity at a
show like NAB for a second rate marketing effort to play out into a
Cinderella story.

Both SI and Kinetix spent the months leading up to NAB with high-powered PR
campaigns. They had materials and press realeases ready to go. Had a magazine
skipped coverage, they would have been remiss.

If there was a lack of coverage of Lightwave, it's because Newtek was too
screwed up from their previous problems to adequatley present themselves in a
coherent fashion. They had the same old, tired displays, the same old
literature bins, the same old monitor setups as they've had for the past few
years.

They hadn't even finished delivering 4.0 to some customers for anyone to have
taken the promise of a 5.0 seriously.

Lightwave is an awesome program, but the press hasn't taken it seriously yet.
While it can be argued that what the press thinks doesn't matter, it's an
argument that fails to take into account the advantage of good press
coverage.

Sometimes it seems like the captains of Newtek, have an armed guard standing
by, making sure no one steals the strawberries.

--
Elliot Bain
Laurell Creative Services
614.459.4404

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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark
Dunakin) writes:
>
>What I would really like to see in the next version of LW is something
I don't
>see too many people requesting, and that is a WAY better and more
documented
>manual. When I got LW 5.0 I had just gave my machine to the shop for
repairs,
>so I thought that while it was there I could at least be reading the
new LW
>manual and still be a happy camper........I was wrong. Instead I found
all of
>the same stuff that I already had in the 4.0 version and was really
>dissapointed.

You have to remember that it also takes time to develop all the cool
new tips and tricks that a certain feature set allows. Often times, a
feature is implemented in order to allow a beta test site to do
something, but the other things that a particular feature can do is
discovered along the way, sometimes in a busy environment, and it takes
time for this information to filter along. This was never really a
concern because of the length of time between upgrades in the past, but
now that Lightwave is open-architecture, mean time between upgrades is
shorter, and therefore tips get less time to get developed. Nature of
the beast...

AC


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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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Derek Lang wrote:

> [...] to write plug ins for the Amiga version of lightwave

6.51 or later.

- Ernie



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J Kirby Inwood wrote:
>
> [e-mail] (Drugmaster) wrote:
> >>*************** CONTEST *****************
> >>Prizes>>Since we have no sponsors and no money, we are giving out mail aliases from >>our domain, LSD.ORG.  And a link to your homepage
off of the credits pa
>
> >>Please send all entrees to
> >>
> Does this mean you will work for food?
> With a domain name like that, I doubt that they even remember what real
food is :)
Lynn

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From: [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard)
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Subject: #?@!&$#!! Dongles!!!!
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Blew out my old motherboard with a static discharge, fried my dongle too!
Newtek confirmed this, reprogrammed it and sent it back.  Now I find out
that my spiffy new motherboard apparently doesn't work with my dongle!

Newtek says that they've had problems with parallel ports located on the
motherboard.  Tried several old I/O cards my friends had lying around, of
course they don't work with Windows 95 (doesn't 'see' the port on the card).

Next thing to try is to get a _new_ I/O card specifically designed for Win 95
(about $30).  Worst comes to worst, one of my friends has offered to swap his
P-100 board for my P-100 board.  I checked my dongle on his system, it runs
perfectly.

One suggestion for Newtek - PLEASE give us a DOS utility for checking the damn
dongle!  When I'm trying different boards, settings, etc., it takes FOREVER to
get all the way into windows, and then I have to presume that the dongle
doesn't work because the program never starts.  How about a message "Can't
find dongle???"

The never ending quest continues.......


(and I really want to play with my 5.0 package too.......)

Douglas Bullard

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Diamond surface..Final installment
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
>Subject: Re: Diamond surface..Final installment
>Date: 31 May 1996 08:43:01 -0700




>The last piece was the most important.  When I added something into the scene
>that would reflects and refract in the diamond surface, the need for high
>reflectivity and became less and the effect became more realistic.  Render
>times went up as well.

>The bottom line is that the diamond's surface properties will have to be
>adjusted on a scene by scene basis to get a realistic effect.  This is the
>nature of raytracing etc.  There are a lot of things that raytracing
>reflections and refractions leave out so the scene determines where you have
>to fudge in order to get the desired result.

OK - I had to fiddle one more time.  I changed the ring surface's refmap.
That's it.  It made a significant difference which agrees with my point above
that settings will be significantly affected by the environment.



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On 1 Jun 1996 17:22:06 -0400, [e-mail] (GKeenan818) wrote:

>As yet I am still waiting for my copies to arrive in the UK.
>
>Hey, I don't even worry about it anymore!
>
My copy of the book arrived on tuesday.
A little bit battered and bent from the trip over the big pond, but at
least it got here

Geoff Wilson

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Is this some kind of add on for LW, if so how much is it?

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From: Torsten Westphal <[e-mail]>
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Hi there...

just have a question: just playe with 3DS MAX and found that
network rendering is only supported with TCP/IP on WIN NT 3.51.

That is really disapointing. Already under 3DS 4 one needed to
install Netware in order to make this function work and now this.

Thats why I will probably change to Lightwave.
Can anyone tell me which methods of network rendering are
supported?

Thanks for any comments

Torsten

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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----------------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes it seems like the captains of Newtek, have an armed guard
standing
by, making sure no one steals the strawberries.
---------------------------------------------------------------

HA!!!!

I can't resist - this is a true story. When the Play people left NewTek,
they all watched the Caine Mutiny as a lesson as to what might
happen....When I quit, Tim 'Queeg' Jenison told me 'All my friends fuck
me.' - a couple of months ago, he said 'I don't have any friends here
anymore.'....


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan

Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
L.A.!!!!

Access DeniedURL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/access.htm
Lee's Home Page URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm

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In article <[e-mail]>, Peter Gruhn <[e-mail]> writes:
>> When people say they can produce rendered work
>> indistinguishable from raytraced, without raytracing, surely they mean > "as photo-realistic, if not more so" than raytracing?
>
> Unless they mean "as correct in certain details"

I doubt they would mean that - as there are some details in which
non-raytracing methods produce more correct results, it would seem a bit
pointless without having a seperate set of comparisons to see if raytracers can
render scenes suited to scanliners (or whatever they're called... :)

>> If so, why would they bother
>> trying to make their images look like they have been poorly ray-traced
>
> He didn't say he planned for them to be poorly ray traced. He said that
> they were simple.

A simple raytraced scene usually looks raytraced, not real, "poor" was a <ahem>
poor choice of words :)

>>_looks_ raytraced,
>
> I thought raytracing was "photorealistic"?

Shit no. It's possible to do photorealistic images via raytracing, but
raytracing an image doesn't automatically make it photo-realistic - I presume
that's why you use the "" :-)

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From: [e-mail] (JASilva)
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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I think collision detection would be a great timesaver...

Imagine doing character animation of something walking.  If you could turn
collision detection on for the feet of your character, and then just move
the IK chain representing the leg towards the floor and have the foot stop
when it makes contact with the floor, this would obviate the need to spend
time meticulously positioning the feet so that they don't intersect the
ground.  This is just one of many applications for this feature.

Eventually I would like to see features such as gravity effectors and
other physics controls built into Lightwave.  Too much to ask for?

Thanx,
Jose A. Silva
Avocation:  Animator
Vocation: Telecommunications Engineer

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
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In article <[e-mail]>, cjtsui <[e-mail]> writes:

>heres a big one I'm surprised no one has said:
>
>previews of textures with velocity!!!  I hate not knowing how the
movement
>will look until the friggin' thing
>is rendered!!
>
>a good example of this is in KPT 3.0
>
>this would save soooooo much time!!
>
>

    I second that.. And would like to add VELOCITY ENVELOPES.. so you can
animate your textures move without morph targets...



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] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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Subject: Re: Network rendering in LW
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In article <[e-mail]> Torsten Westphal <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Torsten Westphal <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Network rendering in LW
>Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 11:43:50 +0200

>Hi there...

>just have a question: just playe with 3DS MAX and found that
>network rendering is only supported with TCP/IP on WIN NT 3.51.

>That is really disapointing. Already under 3DS 4 one needed to
>install Netware in order to make this function work and now this.

>Thats why I will probably change to Lightwave.
>Can anyone tell me which methods of network rendering are
>supported?

>Thanks for any comments

>Torsten

Any system that will let all nodes see a network drive as a drive on a node.
Netware and NetBui definitely do that.  I think that TCP/IP with NFS does it
as well.  LW/Screamernet simply pass text files to a common directory to
communicate and each node must have access to that common directory and to the
scene and related files.



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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <4orflk$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard)
>Subject: #?@!&$#!! Dongles!!!!
>Date: Sun, 02 Jun 96 07:27:12 GMT

>Blew out my old motherboard with a static discharge, fried my dongle too!
>Newtek confirmed this, reprogrammed it and sent it back.  Now I find out
>that my spiffy new motherboard apparently doesn't work with my dongle!

>Newtek says that they've had problems with parallel ports located on the
>motherboard.  Tried several old I/O cards my friends had lying around, of
>course they don't work with Windows 95 (doesn't 'see' the port on the card).

>Next thing to try is to get a _new_ I/O card specifically designed for Win 95
>(about $30).  Worst comes to worst, one of my friends has offered to swap his
>P-100 board for my P-100 board.  I checked my dongle on his system, it runs
>perfectly.

>One suggestion for Newtek - PLEASE give us a DOS utility for checking the damn
>dongle!  When I'm trying different boards, settings, etc., it takes FOREVER to
>get all the way into windows, and then I have to presume that the dongle
>doesn't work because the program never starts.  How about a message "Can't
>find dongle???"

>The never ending quest continues.......


>(and I really want to play with my 5.0 package too.......)

>Douglas Bullard

Make sure that your parallel port is not using either EPP or ECP.  Sometimes
these modes cause problems.  It is odd that a standard I/O card does not work
with Win95.  Win95 doesn't have any special requirement.



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I currently own a version of LW 4.0 I am running on a PC
under windows 95 with about 40mgs of ram.  I really was l let down
once I discovered that the PC version of LW wouldn't let me
play any of the animations I generate in real time in layout
 (only the wire frames renderings operate in motion).
Will this new version of LW 5.0 offer this feature if one has
enough ram to work with?
Many Thanks from a LW Rookie,
David Peterson, Seattle Wa USA


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From: [e-mail](Brenden Mecleary )
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Subject: Re: FEATURES!!
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In <4or7j6$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (JBooth411)
writes:
>
>>previews of textures with velocity!!!  I hate not knowing how the
>>movement will look until the friggin' thing is rendered!!
>>
>>a good example of this is in KPT 3.0
>>
>>this would save soooooo much time!!
>
>    I second that.. And would like to add VELOCITY ENVELOPES.. so you
>can animate your textures move without morph targets...

-----------

    I just say allow envelopes for as many surface attributes as
possible: color, diffuse, specularity, luminosity, reflectivity,
transparency, etc.  I think almost anyone can find a good use for being
able to use envelopes for surface attribs...

                             Brenden Mecleary
                             [e-mail]
                             http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1979/

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From: [e-mail] (Stranahan)
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no firm announce date - later this year, fall or winter, I'd think...


_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan

Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
L.A.!!!!

Access DeniedURL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/access.htm
Lee's Home Page URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm

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On Jun 02, 1996 01:33:16 in article <Humanoid>, '[e-mail] (Joe
Jobush)' wrote:


>Is this some kind of add on for LW, if so how much is it?

It is a set of humanoid objects with motion files.

Their page is at :

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/crestline/

--
M C L -


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On Sat, 25 May 96 16:44:01 GMT, [e-mail] (Drugmaster) wrote:

>*************** CONTEST *****************
>Prizes
>Since we have no sponsors and no money, we are giving out mail aliases from
>our domain, LSD.ORG.  And a link to your homepage off of the credits page!

And where did your money go?

Just the organization I want to be associated with.  What a prize!
This might be more appropriately addressed to:
alt.losers.n.limbo

>- ThE DrUgMaStEr
Great nickname, BTW.  Type it on acid?

- Will

>


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Hello everybody!

First, excuse my english, thanks.

I'm looking for a way to record an animation without needing to save each image.
I'm using Light Wave 4.0 for Windows, and i don't know how to record an AVI o FLC.

I don't used to connect to newsgroups, so, PLEASE, reply this message to my
Email address.
Thanks a lot!

Bye!





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From: [e-mail] (Martin Baumann)
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Re: Anyone used Antigravity Products?

I have buyed LW 4.0 on the "Amiga Fair" in Cologne for a real good price,
but now if tried to get the Update and the Shop how worked with them in
Germany together told me that they have many deliverytime problems with
Anit Grafity Products.

So i ordered my Update for 1000 DM from Videocomp (the offical distributor
in Germany)

thats life...

Martin Baumann  Grafik in Motion


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From: [e-mail] (Frederik Gagnon)
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Subject: Can't get AVI files from LW4.0 under win95...
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I just can't get the avi compiler to work under Windows 95... Using
LW4.0. Anybody got a hint ? E-mail me please...


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From: david goerndt <[e-mail]>
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VirtualBri wrote:
>
> Take at look June/Post NAB issues of PC Graphics and Video for a complete
> lack of any mention of LightWave 5.0, in favor of more fawning over 3DS
> Max and SoftImage.
>
> If you're as tee'd off as I am over their shoddy coverage of LightWave,
> drop a line to "[e-mail]" to let them know what a lousy job of
> covering LightWave they are doing.
> --Brian
> ========   http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/   =======
> == Home of the LightWave 3D Internet Resource Lists  ==
> =============  So, why aren't you on it?  =============
> ============  All you gotta do is ask....  ============
>


This is probably due to the fact that magazines have 1-2 month lead times
so an article written for the June issue would have to be finished in
April to make their publishing deadline. Lightwave was a reasonably
closely guarded secret until its NAB release, so they may not have known
about it in time.

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From: david goerndt <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Texture mapping on irregular objects
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 14:42:41 -0400
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Kurt Harmel wrote:
>
> In article <4nsk6p$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (patrick smyth) says:
> >
> >Hi. I have only started started using Lightwave recently (version
> >4.0), so this may seem like a newbie question, but it stems from my
> >previous texture-mapping experience with another 3D package.  In
> >addition to the usual mapping/projection options (spherical,
> >Cylindrical, cubic, planar, etc.) this other package contained two
> >mapping options called "by polygon" and "organic".  The "by polygon"
> >option basically mapped the surface texture onto each individual
> >polygon on the object, resulting in a "manufactured" look that came in
> >handy sometimes.  More useful, however, was the "organic" mapping
> >option, which essentially  "unfolded" the object's polygons into a
> >flat sheet, projected the desired texture onto this sheet, and then
> >returned the polygons to their original position on the object.  The
> >result was a 2D source image mapped perfectly onto irregular objects
> >like folded curtains and craggy boulders without smearing or
> >stretching.  (Okay, sometimes it resulted in a mangled mess, but more
> >often than not it worked quite nicely).
> >
> >My question is; how does one manage this in Lightwave?  I realize that
> >there are numerous procedural mapping options to choose from, but I
> >want to use my own source images in many instances. I have
> >experimented with all of the available image mapping options in 4.0,
> >but all of them are predictably unsatisfactory for  projecting source
> >images onto irregular objects (i.e. anything that isn't a near-perfect
> >cylinder, cube, or whatever) and my textures look like they have
> >been applied with fingerpaint.  Are there plug-ins that solve this
> >problem, or is it addressed in 5.0?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Patrick
>
> I have been gripping about this for weeks. I thought 5.0 would
> have solved this problem, but it was not the case. There are some
> out there who just don't see the necessity of being able to map
> images on objects that are not aligned to the strict x, y  and z
> axis. I hope Newtek is not one of them. THIS CAN BE  A BIG PROBLEM.
> PLEASE, PLEASE HELP US NEWTEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The type of mapping you need and LW doesn't have, yet, is UV mapping, and
one of the major features I want to see in LW soon.

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From: david goerndt <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Real time playback in LW 5.0's Layout?
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I currently own a version of LW 4.0 I am running on a PC
> under windows 95 with about 40mgs of ram.  I really was l let down
> once I discovered that the PC version of LW wouldn't let me
> play any of the animations I generate in real time in layout
>  (only the wire frames renderings operate in motion).
> Will this new version of LW 5.0 offer this feature if one has
> enough ram to work with?
> Many Thanks from a LW Rookie,
> David Peterson, Seattle Wa USA


No PC will allow realtime playback of anims. All animations must be
rendered first, then compiled to playback. What your asking for isn't
even available on the most sophisticated SGI's. If you mean you want to
see your anim playback after its rendered, you need a Perception caed or
similar device to playback at 30fps full screen. The Open GL preview in
5.0 should allow playback of anims, shaded and without textures if you
have an Open GL accelerator card.

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From: [e-mail](Joe Schrengohst )
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Subject: Re: AREXX to C programmin
Date: 2 Jun 1996 17:25:40 GMT
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Stuart Ferguson wrote:
>
>So C++ is the language 13 year old boys like.  Another excellent
reason
>to hate it.

So Stuart I am guessing by that post that LW and Modeler were written
in plain C
without all the extra nonsense of C++?
Can you shed some light(wave) on this.

Cheers,
JS

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From: [e-mail] (Aaron Hollingsworth)
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Subject: Re: Resume - anybody hiring? - resume2.txt (1/1)
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 wrote:


>[Saved as file: C:\WINDOWS\APPS\SLIP\AGENT\resume21.txt]

Hello,

    By looking at your resume I am interested in seeing examples of your
work. I own TriLance Software, as small game development company. We
have written two multi-player games for the Excalibur BBS platform,
and are now moving our efforts to the internet platform. We have
started design work on a multi-player rpg game for the internet. Up to
this point I have been doing the graphics work for our projects
myself, but I knw my limitations, and I would like to focus my efforts
more on the programming and game development for this project. We are
a small company and do not have the funds to hire a graphic artist
full time, but would like to talk about having some or all of the
artwork done for our new project.

Thanks,

Aaron Hollingsworth
TriLance Software



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From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Lavery)
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On 02-Jun-96 00:12:12, the dood JBooth411 said about Re: FEATURES!!:

Hi!, JBooth411, erm, ;)

> (Malcolm Lavery) writes:

>>
>>And being able to use an object as an actual lightsource. :)
>>
>>

>     This would be pretty cool...

Yes I know!, and as well as actual objects being used for lightsources, how
about individual surfaces being used for lightsources as well. :)

There's two to get the proggrammers working. ;)

Cya!....

--
Mal!! :)


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Hi to all.
In the next couple of weeks I will be upgrading from a p133 64 meg to
a  p6 200. At the moment I am using a 4meg Matrox card, but am
considering upgrading to a Glint graphics card.
I wonder if anybody could give me some recomendations or opinions on
affordable glint cards (current on iminent). Prices would also be a
help.
Thanxs in advance

Geoff

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In article <4oq612$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Falk Kühnel) wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Sorry for bothering you, but does anyone have this nice program that
>puts all objects, images and everything needed to render a scene in
>one folder for PC. If so, please mail it to me.
>
>Thanks
>
>Falk
>
>
>
There is a BMC plugin script which will zip all the files of a scene together
into one archive.


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> No PC will allow realtime playback of anims. All animations must be

Well, let's blow a few misconceptions away - and state that 30fps playback
at full screen is perfectly possible on a standard PC just by using the
autodesk FLI format...

Now, a standard FLI is 320x200x256 which is no trubs - only 64K screen
chunks to throw around even without delta compression.

FLC format is 640x480x256 and also achieves 30fps on a pentium type system
with a decent bus.

the one I USE however is an altered FLI/FLC standard called FLH/FLT -
developed, implemented etc by a bloke called Dave Mason - it's called
Dave's targa animator and the player util is called Dave's Flic Viewer

look for DTA and DFV at ftp.povray.org / www.povray.org

the thing that makes FLH/FLT really cool is the non-lossy
HI-colour/TRU-colour playback.

really really cool.

When I used to have my 486-40 with my vlb. cirrus logic, I was pulling
30fps at 320x240x16bit

now that's groovy....

Now, a quick word about AVI - you can easily get more than 20fps with
hicolour AVIs under win95 - both windowed and full screen - the new codecs
are truly marvellous - one suspects they are released just to tick off
those pathetic quicktime developers :) no offence anyone... - but I have a
suspicion that the full screen implementation is only using 8bit colour -
anyone confirm this?

oh - and one FINAL note - when you ARE making your AVIs under LW, you
normally have to write the file name AND the extension into the dialogue -
otherwise it will go through and render your whole 450frame anim without
producing a file - I know, I've done it - and cried :(

CYA~!!

Onvas
Advanced Render Design
[e-mail]


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On Sat  1-Jun-1996  8:12p, JBooth411 wrote:
J> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
J> (Malcolm Lavery) writes:

J> >
J> >And being able to use an object as an actual lightsource. :)
J> >
J> >

J>     This would be pretty cool...
----------------
Beleive it or not, my old "Turbo Silver" (on the Amiga) could do this......md

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Jonathan,

When LW 4.0 is installed, it overwrites the Win95 library AVIFIL32.DLL.
This is located inthe Windows/System directory. Sadly, the Win95 CD/disks
don't allow DIRECT access to this library, but if you reinstall 95, AVI
saving from LW should work.

Hope that helps!

JC.


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From: [e-mail] (Mark Dunakin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: LightWave 6.0 ?
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On Tue 28-May-1996 10:34p, Alan Chan wrote:
AC> In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Walter
AC> (Jay) Turberville (III)) writes:
AC> >

AC> >
AC> >I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.  But what I am looking for
AC> is the
AC> >ability to take the MetaNurb cage and manipulate it interactively (and

AC> >keyframe the manipulations) in Layout.  I don't think meta-Motion does
AC> that,
AC> >but if it does then I will send you a heartfelt thank-you for bringing
AC> it to
AC> >my attention.

AC> Metamation does exactly that... instead of Freezing your nurbs, use
AC> your cage objects in Layout as morph targets, and animate as normal.
AC> When you're done setting it up, simply activate Metamation and you'll
AC> have a nice metaformed version of your cage object...

AC> AC
------------
Am I missing something here? When I went to do this, all I see is a dotted
lined quare of the object cage and only when in objects mode. When I use any
of the other edit views, I see nothing. Is this the way it's supposed to work?
I was hoping that you could see the object the same way it looks when in
Modelar......I hope it's just that I am over looking something?......md

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Dunakin)
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On Fri 31-May-1996  6:19p, William A. Mendez  wrote:
W> >   LW5.0 is shipping on intel at least - since I've been using it for
W> >weeks.. It's not on amigas, Mips, and maybe alphas....
W> >
W> >
W> >
W> >Jason Booth
W> >Second Nature, Inc.
W> > "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
W> >RICH!!!!"
W> >
W> >


W> I have had my ALPHA 5.0 version for a month already.  But T-Shirt is no
W> where to be found =(

W> Will Mendez
------------------
I know, I have been waiting for my LW hat, but I think that there is no such
thing and I really wanted it for when I go fishing.......oh well :(  ....md

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 Guess this poor soul doesn;t have the manuals either :). Saving AVI's is
one of the hardest things to do in LightWave..shit i hate stupid
pirates...i mean c'mon..Lightwave is one of the easiest user friendly
programs....

AdammmmmmmX
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Alan Chan wrote something regarding the "ease" of using metamation...

However, I heard (and looks like) missed info on the HUGE LW5 bug
in the lens flare panel for RING size envelope.  Ring size does
work NON-enveloped, but as soon as it is enveloped, it defaults to
the last used size or somesuch.

IS there a fix/patch/cure/workaround  NOW?  Can't wait, need now.

Also, ANY reason as to WHY it isn't working?

specs:  Win95, P150 w/32mb

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From: [e-mail] (Remy Lebeau)
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Subject: Need Modelers!!! Send samples or demo Tapes!!!!
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My company is bidding on a massive modeling project and will need 65
to 70 modelers for 1 to 2 years.  If interested in send demo or model
sample, along with a description of your responsibilities on the
project to :
    Modeler Opening
    attn-Philip Nelson
    VAR Studios, Inc.
    P.O.Box 4320
    Monroe, La. 71211

Tapes and disk will not be returned

Thanks,
Philip Nelson, Jr.
President
VAR Studios, Inc.
[e-mail]


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From: Mikey <[e-mail]>
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Hi,
    I am shopping for plugins. Would you rate/recommend the
ones you have used? Any thing from humanoids to explosion.

--
regards,
Mikey
CyberArtist ----> http://www.CyberArtist.com ---> San Francisco

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From: [e-mail] (JohnC 764)
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On 30May 1996 P.Ward writes:

>2 or so months ago I ordered the F/x Kit book for Lightwave from a UK
>company. They haven't heard a dickybird from their suppliers so I've
>changed my order. After John Reddingtons praise of the Lightwave Pro book

>and my experience of the online vsn and a lack of responce to my
>earlier (newbie) posts I've ordered that instead and been informed that I

>will have it in about 2 weeks!

You could try Blittersoft, at Milton Keynes for Alan Chan`s book. Tel:
01908-261466.
They did stock the book in addition to PAL LightSpeed tapes... .

>We'll have to see won't we.
>
>In my experience ordering any thing from the States is a really stupid
>idea but unfortunately an animator's got to do what an animator's got to
>do.
Well I've ordered things from the States, and, as in the UK, there are
good suppilers, and there are bad suppliers. In my opinion, the "Best of
LW Pro", suffered from a technique known as Guerilla Marketing. This is
where the product does not actually exist until you get enough responses
(i.e. CASH) to produce it.
Fingers crossed for you Paddy!

JohnC.


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On 5/31/96 9:21AM, in message <4on69v$[e-mail]>, Stranahan
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Is he started a fund, too? A big part of the reason the show was cancelled
> was that it's EXPENSIVE...
>
> If every S:AaB viewer kicked in about $1635 each week, you'd have a show!
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________
> Lee Stranahan
>
> Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
> L.A.!!!!
>
> Access DeniedURL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/access.htm
> Lee's Home Page URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm


Actually, and I hate to say this because generally I liked the show, that
method would  only raise about $6000, which is far too little to produce the
show.
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On 6/2/96 3:21AM, in message <[e-mail]>, Walter (Jay)
Turberville <[e-mail]> wrote:

> In article <4orflk$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Douglas
> Bullard) writes:
> >From: [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard)
> >Subject: #?@!&$#!! Dongles!!!!
> >Date: Sun, 02 Jun 96 07:27:12 GMT
>
> >Blew out my old motherboard with a static discharge, fried my dongle too!
> >Newtek confirmed this, reprogrammed it and sent it back.  Now I find out
> >that my spiffy new motherboard apparently doesn't work with my dongle!
>
> >Newtek says that they've had problems with parallel ports located on the
> >motherboard.  Tried several old I/O cards my friends had lying around, of
> >course they don't work with Windows 95 (doesn't 'see' the port on the card).
>
> >Next thing to try is to get a _new_ I/O card specifically designed for Win
> 95
> >(about $30).  Worst comes to worst, one of my friends has offered to swap
> his
> >P-100 board for my P-100 board.  I checked my dongle on his system, it runs
> >perfectly.
>
> >One suggestion for Newtek - PLEASE give us a DOS utility for checking the
> damn
> >dongle!  When I'm trying different boards, settings, etc., it takes FOREVER
> to
> >get all the way into windows, and then I have to presume that the dongle
> >doesn't work because the program never starts.  How about a message "Can't
> >find dongle???"
>
> >The never ending quest continues.......
>
>
> >(and I really want to play with my 5.0 package too.......)
>
> >Douglas Bullard
>
> Make sure that your parallel port is not using either EPP or ECP.  Sometimes
> these modes cause problems.  It is odd that a standard I/O card does not work
> with Win95.  Win95 doesn't have any special requirement.
>
>

I was told that 95 has trouble recognizing new cards (this was referring to
serial cards, but it might affect parallel too) and that if you install a new
card you have to reinstall 95.  I know how much of a hassle it is to install 95
(why is NT so much easier but it's a "pro" OS?), but you might want to try that
if all else fails.

--
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From: [e-mail] (Uberscott)
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Subject: Re: Network rendering in LW
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>Any system that will let all nodes see a network drive as a drive on a
node.
>Netware and NetBui definitely do that.  I think that TCP/IP with NFS does
it
>as well.  LW/Screamernet simply pass text files to a common directory to
>communicate and each node must have access to that common directory and
to >the scene and related files.


Also your gonna want to take a look at a product called WAVENET. It adds a
whole lot more functionality to LW distributive rendering. Give them a
call at
800.248.8407, ask for John Julien or Scott Blinn.

Scott Wheeler
Area 51



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>     I am a former 3ds user and am happy to say I have now
> converted....so, lets talk.  I want to know if there is any vr out htere
> for lightwave.  I realize you may use lightwave to help create your
> worlds, but what about a vendor that will allow you to use lightwave with
> a VR helmet....I just think that it would be a cool change to "turn
> around in your scene"....let me know what you think?  lame? Happy animating.

While the idea could work (though you'd need an interface designed to take
advantage of VR for it to be remotely worthwhile), short of infiltrating a
military developement centre (I don't recomend this :) you won't get a VR
helmet with resolution or definition much higher than a ZX-Spectrum game :-)
(Ok, I exagerrate, but not much... :)





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From: [e-mail] (Joe Monahan)
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I was told by NewTek it would be third quarter of this year.

JM


In article <[e-mail]>, Karma <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Does anyone ahve any knowledge as to when the supposed release date for
> this product is?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matt Rampias
> Production, Animation, Design
> [e-mail]

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On Sat  1-Jun-1996  6:36p, Stranahan wrote:
S> --------------------------------------------------
S> Stranahan's Bones,
S> Morphing, and Displacement Mapping video tape (nice tape, Stranahan, but
S> nothing about articulated bones or IK).
S> -----------------------------------------------

S> That tape is around 2-3 years old, and was done in version 3.0 - if I'd
S> covered IK I would have been psychic....

S> PLUG MODE ON
S> But our upcoming tapes with Ken Stranahan and I - those will cover real
S> world character animation stuff, in a step-by-step way - the same
S> techniques Ken has used on shows like Sliders


S> _____________________________________________
S> Lee Stranahan
----------------------
This tape sounds pretty awesome! When did you say that it was going to be
released? And *I've asked this question before,but*, when can I order it and
how much will it be. I've got all of your LW tapes and I like them all. I
think my fav is the one on camera movements........md :)

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I went to see have much memory was being used today from a scean I was
building, when I discovered that the new scean pop-up display in LW 5 had no
such thing anymore. So I looked around in the other pop-ups and couldn't find
anything like it. Is it gone now?...........md :(

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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Dunakin) wrote:
>I went to see have much memory was being used today from a scean I was
>building, when I discovered that the new scean pop-up display in LW 5 had no
>such thing anymore. So I looked around in the other pop-ups and couldn't find
>anything like it. Is it gone now?...........md :(

Press 'w'.  But do we still want to trust those numbers?  :)

Dan

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 Voyager : actually has visible 'insides' on their plastic model, but I
don't : think they built them imto their LW models.

The insides you are referring to are actually color slides of ship
corridors that were cut out and placed behind the widows. And yes, if you
look closely on the closeups of our LW model, they are there too...

JGross
Digital Muse

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From: Steve Axtell <[e-mail]>
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HMSS007 wrote:
>
> Heres my two cents worth...
>
> First and foremost, I would recommend not using the newshell, it is a beta
> product and it can mess up some programs.  You will want to make sure you're
> using Service Pack 4 for NT 3.51 as well.
>
> The newest DPS Perception drivers are version 2.52 and they can be downloaded
> from ftp.dps.com.  Also, the Adobe has released Premiere 4.2 for Windows 95/NT
> and it is a full 32-bit application that works great with the Perception.  The
> only other version of Premiere that works in NT/95 even semi-well is Premiere
> 4.0a.  If you are not using at least 4.0a, you will have problems no matter
> what you do.
>
> Premiere also has a preferences file that is kept in the c:\winnt directory
> called premiere.prf (Premiere 4.0a) or prem32.prf (Premiere 4.2).  You should
> delete this file when premiere is not running.  Premiere will recreate this
> file upon launch when it can't find it.  As a general rule of thumb, when you
> experience unexpected behavior in Premiere or Premiere crashes, you should quit
> the program and delete the preferences file.
>
> Hope this helps with your DPS & Premiere Problem.
>
> [e-mail]
>
> In article <4o2m26$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I am stomped by a problem that appeared recently. I looked everywhere
> >for solution but no go so I finally decided to see if anyone here has
> >any idea.
> >
> >I installed the new shell update a few weeks ago on my machine for
> >NT3.51 Server. Everything was fine for a while but then I needed to
> >render some stuff to my PVR drive so I had to take it off (with the
> >batch file that came with it), Well, I could access the PVR drive
> >again but Premiere would give me an error whenever I tried to render
> >to it. So I would go to Win95 and try to use it there: I installed
> >Premiere into Win95 (as I only had it under NT), and created a PVR
> >preset for it. But Premiere gives me an error 'CAnim body table
> >alocation failed!' and then a system error 'file already in use'.
Does Premiere 4.2 directly address the DPS or not?



> >
> >So now I don't have a working Premiere copy on either partition (it's
> >installed into a single directory which should be okay). The machine
> >is a P133 with 64Mb of RAM and a DPS Perception Video Recorder. Stuff
> >was rendered in LW4.0c. Can anybody help here?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Slaven.
> >

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Frederik,

When LW 4.0 is installed, it overwrites the Win95 library AVIFIL32.DLL.
This is located inthe Windows/System directory. Sadly, the Win95 CD/disks
don't allow DIRECT access to this library, but if you reinstall 95, AVI
saving from LW should work.

Hope that helps!

JC.

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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark
Dunakin) writes:
>
>I went to see have much memory was being used today from a scean I was
>building, when I discovered that the new scean pop-up display in LW 5
had no
>such thing anymore. So I looked around in the other pop-ups and
couldn't find
>anything like it. Is it gone now?...........md :(

hit 'w'.

AC


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>I'm looking for a way to record an animation without needing to save each image.


>I'm using Light Wave 4.0 for Windows, and i don't know how to record an AVI o FLC.

 Okay, look in the section of the manuals which describes the RECORD
MENU. It will explain how to setup an AVI movie.

Sorry if my last post was kinda hot headed. After all. This is the place
for help..and in your case..help can be found..in the manual since it is
a very basic straight foward question.

Good Luck,

Adam



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FOR SALE:

Video Toaster 4000
  Version 4.1 is great...allows automated sequencing of framestore
edits and all transitions, CG, etc.  Even video edits can be automated
(though you must use some other controller to preroll and start each
deck on time.)

Amiga 040, 18 MB Ram,
2 HD: 120 MB & 350 MB
DataFlyer SCSI Controller
2X CD ROM, 1084 Monitor
$ 2900 / offer

Tom at VIP, Inc.
1-800-775-4288 or E-Mail: [e-mail]

Also Available:
Personal TBC-1: $ 300
Personal Single Frame Controller: $ 250

Installed software:
Toaster 4.1 (Orig. On CD ROM)
Toaster 3.5
Wavemaker
Wavelink
ADPro 2
Dir. Opus
Final Copy
PixelPro
ViewTek
Quarterback
Post
Term
AsimCDFS
CrossMAC
Internet Software (AmiTCP, Grapevine, DaFTP)
VMM

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Harlock)
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Subject: Re: Anyone used Antigravity Products?
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Time to repost my horror story.  I don't feel bad about badmouthing them in
public because this is a recurring incident...many other people have told
me the same story.
This came up on the mailing list recently too.
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Hi jeric,

> On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, George Lane <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >On Fri, 10 Nov 1995 [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> >> Re: Impact:  Which dealer has the best price?  I'm kinda gun-shy on
> >> Anti-Gravity.....
> >
> >What's wrong with Anti-gravity? Get burned in the past?
>
>       I've heard rumors.  Don't remember any specific problems I've personally
> had w/them.

I can give you a first hand horror story.

The day was monday.  I was slated to transport my Amiga/PAR setup to a client's
office to dump some frames to I-Mix on friday.  I had to purchase a new PAR
drive with more space and a better block limit just prior to that, so having
run out of room inside the Amiga, my machine was basically a pile of guts
sitting on my desk.   I wasn't about to walk into my clients office with a
pile of guts.

So I decided to do what I had been meaning to do for a few months: Purchase
a High Flyer expansion chassis for my 4000, to solve my space and overheating
problems.

It was late in the day and everyone was closed, so I called someone who
had room on their credit card at the time and had them call Anti-Gravity
the first thing the next morning (tues morning) (a little after 8am) and
order a High Flyer PS with fan kit and ship it 2-day economy to my address,
so it should arrive on Thursday, or I told them to overnight it if they
couldn't get it out on Tuesday.

I get a call from the person whom I had order it.  She said the sales lady
said they would ship it by the end of that day.   Great, fine.

So on THURSDAY, my associate gets a message on her answering
machine at 4:30 P.M. from Anti Gravity, saying "Oh, we're about to ship your
High Flyer, but we're out of Fan Kits and we usually hold orders until the
parts are in, about 5 days."

 So, lets pause to list the many questions that crop up at this point:

      1.  Why did the sales woman promise immediate shipment, when two days
      from then at 4:30 was when they actually processed it?

      2.  Why didn't/couldn't she communicate with stock to make sure the
      product is even IN STOCK before she makes such promises?

      2.  Why did they completely ignore our requests for urgency?

This is only half the horror; read on:

I told my associate who had been kindly dealing with them for me to call them
up and yell at them about the immediacy of demands in the video industry,
and if they expected to cater to clientel in this business that they'd better
damn well be more responsive and sympathetic to urgent demands.

She got the previously mentioned message at 6pm, when she was next able to
check her machine.  She called them right away to see if anyone was still
there.  There was one guy, whom got to recieve the aforementioned yelling at,
and said he would ship the High Flyer PS (which they did have) immediately
overnight compliments of the company, and then the fan kit later as soon
as it came in.

This would have been great, except that the FedEx office was closed for the
day.

Next day, Friday.   Pile of guts in my clients' office.
No fun moving it back and forth, either.

Later in the day, they call my associate to confirm that they shipped it
overnight with saturday delivery.   He begins to confirm the address:
"uh, colnia grn driv?"  First off, the address he read from the
computer screen was soooo mangled, it was barely recognizeable.  How
could anyone take an address down like that and not realize that no one
in their right mind would name a street with that name?  The real street
name is Colony Green Drive.   Secondly, _It's the wrong address!_ She
specifically said to ship it to my address, which is different than the
address on the credit card.
  He looks at the screen again and says "Oh!  It's supposed to go to this
Mountain View address isn't it?  I don't know why we gave them the other
one..."

d0h.

The man at Anti-Gravity said that he would wake up and call FedEx first
thing on saturday morning.   Unbeknownst to me at the time, FedEx has a
24 hour customer service # that you can use to do these things.  the
Anti Gravity person, amazingly, didn't know this either.

Saturday morning.  Both me and my associate have to wake up at 8am to
wait for this package, since we don't really know where it's going to
end up at this point.

10:30 am: no package.  associate calls anti-gravity.  They didn't call
FedEx like they promised.   They immediately call FedEx to track down
the package.   At 12:30, FedEx re-delivers the package, to the wrong
address, of course, but at least it's arrived.

I drive 15 miles out of my way to go get it.  I get there and I look
at the original destination address on the package..."colnia grn driv."


That was two weeks ago.   I got my Fan Kit in the mail yesterday.

It's all over with, but boy, did that sure suck.  Many hours and a little
professionalism and a lot of sleep! lost.

If they would have told me up front that they couldn't deliver, I would
have just called someone else up who could have.  I called them first
because they were in the same state.  Less shipping hops, less chance
for undelivery, etc.

If you're ever been to a Fry's Electronics store anywhere in California,
you'll know what I mean when I say that Anti Gravity appears to be
the "Fry's Electronics" of the Amiga mail-order industry.  A bunch of
underpaid moron sales staff trained to process things like droids,
unable or unwilling to make special exceptions or honor urgent demands.

The image of someone following a carrot tied to a stick tied to their head
comes to mind.

I haven't told this story to a large audience yet.  But now that I've
heard some other stories and confirmed that this incident isn't isolated,
I thought they deserved a little more bad press to help motivate them
to clean up their act.

Happy Hunting...
---Mike

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Struckman)
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Subject: Re: Save an animation.
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In article <4ou0vq$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Adam Ives Chrystie) wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a way to record an animation without needing to save each
> image.
>
>
>>I'm using Light Wave 4.0 for Windows, and i don't know how to record an AVI o
> FLC.
>
> Okay, look in the section of the manuals which describes the RECORD
>MENU. It will explain how to setup an AVI movie.
>
>Sorry if my last post was kinda hot headed. After all. This is the place
>for help..and in your case..help can be found..in the manual since it is
>a very basic straight foward question.

Ok then I have another question how come in the manual it sayes use the HIIP
for win 95 saving and when I select it, it comes up and tells me "Module Does
Not Support Animation".   Now where in Newteks oh so wonderful manuals does it
mention this problem which was in 4.0 and now it has been included into 5.0.
Anyone?????  And the reinstall Win95 answer does not work since I do not trust
Newteks installer and installed it manually.

Kevin...

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In article <4otv7c$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Douglas Bullard)
>Subject: Re: #?@!&$#!! Dongles!!!!
>Date: Mon, 03 Jun 96 06:04:58 GMT

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Walter
>(Jay) Turberville ) wrote:
>>
>>Make sure that your parallel port is not using either EPP or ECP.  Sometimes
>>these modes cause problems.  It is odd that a standard I/O card does not work
>>with Win95.  Win95 doesn't have any special requirement.
>>
>>
>Umm, It seems that I should've tried the 'Add new hardware' routine.  Still no
>difference.

Did you make sure that the port is configured as standard and not as EPP or
ECP?  This is probably a jumper setting on an I/O board  or in CMOS on an
port integrated with the motherboard.



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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

>>
>> Make sure that your parallel port is not using either EPP or ECP.  Sometimes
>> these modes cause problems.  It is odd that a standard I/O card does not work
>> with Win95.  Win95 doesn't have any special requirement.
>>
>>

>I was told that 95 has trouble recognizing new cards (this was referring to
>serial cards, but it might affect parallel too) and that if you install a new
>card you have to reinstall 95.  I know how much of a hassle it is to install 95
>(why is NT so much easier but it's a "pro" OS?), but you might want to try that
>if all else fails.

>--
>                      -=Fred=-

I concur that Win95 seems to get goofey with serial ports.  I haven't seen
that with parallel ports though.  I have two machines with multiple parallel
ports and no trouble or complications.  However, both of these machines are
486 class machines.  None of the Pentiums have multiple parallel ports.  They
print to the 486 via the network to avoid the need.



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>
>Make sure that your parallel port is not using either EPP or ECP.  Sometimes
>these modes cause problems.  It is odd that a standard I/O card does not work
>with Win95.  Win95 doesn't have any special requirement.
>
>
Umm, It seems that I should've tried the 'Add new hardware' routine.  Still no
difference.

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I wonder how to do the effect on rain hitting water. That mean : how to do the ripple where the water fall ?
When it's rainy, there are many different circle on water surface. They appear when the rain touch the surface
and then they disappear.

Lightwave seems to be able to do this effect once, but how to do it for each time rain touch water ?

Don't know if you full understand. Hope to read any clues.

Cu. :o)

PG.

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>
> On 5/31/96 9:21AM, in message <4on69v$[e-mail]>,
Stranahan
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > Is he started a fund, too? A big part of the reason the show was
cancelled
> > was that it's EXPENSIVE...
> >
> > If every S:AaB viewer kicked in about $1635 each week, you'd have a
show!
> >
> >
> >
> > _____________________________________________
> > Lee Stranahan
> >
> > Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
> > L.A.!!!!
> >
> > Access DeniedURL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/access.htm
> > Lee's Home Page URL - http://users.aol.com/stranahan/main.htm
>
>
> Actually, and I hate to say this because generally I liked the show,
that
> method would  only raise about $6000, which is far too little to
produce the
> show.
> --
>                       -=Fred=-
>

That's only 3.67 viewers, that's pward, Stranahan myself, I guess you
must be the .67 of a man that watches it.

Regards

Darkeye


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From: [e-mail] ("Phil South")
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> In article <4odjv8$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
> writes
>
> I personally think that a much NICER effect would be to model the ships
> internal structure - all the corridors, bulkheads and engines and stuff
> and then just dissolve it in and out.  I would love to see an effect
> where the *inside* of the ship is visible as it cloaks.

Ai carramba! Does anyone on Earth have the time to model the internals of
a starship. What about the people and the little blinking lights on every
panel? Tubes and crawlspaces? Wow, it would be a good effect but the poor
sap who had to do it would end up in the nuthutch.

:?)

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In article <4ou3i5$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mike
Harlock) writes:

>
>Time to repost my horror story.  I don't feel bad about badmouthing them
in
>public because this is a recurring incident...many other people have told
>me the same story.
>This came up on the mailing list recently too.

    Maybe we should all just save our mail about these things, then hit
the list with em every few months just to let new people know.. I've had
enough bad dealings with antigravity to do something like this... Lets
see, it would only be about 1 message for every five someone asks for the
crack.. Gotta love the newsgroup...



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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In article <[e-mail]>, PG <[e-mail]> writes:

> wonder how to do the effect on rain hitting water. That mean : how to do
the
>ripple where the water fall ?
>When it's rainy, there are many different circle on water surface. They
>appear when the rain touch the surface
>and then they disappear.
>
>Lightwave seems to be able to do this effect once, but how to do it for
each
>time rain touch water ?
>
>Don't know if you full understand. Hope to read any clues.
>
>

    Well, 5.0 alows multiple surface layering, if you want to do it with a
procedural, but I suggest another method.. This one is ala Mark Thompsons
Fred Floaty animation..

     Create an animated texture, say 7-10 frames long, of the water being
hit, and the ripple dispersing. You should have 4 or more raindrops,
hitting on various frames, in different places, just to make it look
better. Then just use that as an animated texture map for the bump map
channel..



Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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In article <4osr5l$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Aaron
Hollingsworth) writes:

>Hello,
>
>    By looking at your resume I am interested in seeing examples of
your
>work. I own TriLance Software, as small game development company. We
>have written two multi-player games for the Excalibur BBS platform,
>and are now moving our efforts to the internet platform. We have
>started design work on a multi-player rpg game for the internet. Up to
>this point I have been doing the graphics work for our projects
>myself, but I knw my limitations, and I would like to focus my efforts
>more on the programming and game development for this project. We are
>a small company and do not have the funds to hire a graphic artist
>full time, but would like to talk about having some or all of the
>artwork done for our new project.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Aaron Hollingsworth
>TriLance Software


    Hi Aaron, I saw this on the newsgroup, and was wondering what type of
world you are creating, will it be all 3d? Or 2d based? What type of size
do you plan? 8 players, or greater?



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



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We plan to ship tapes around the time of SIGGRAPH - email me to get on the
mailing list...



_____________________________________________
Lee Stranahan

Call 818.505.1464 to register for our upcoming LightWave seminar in
L.A.!!!!

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From: [e-mail] (JBooth411)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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In article <[e-mail]>, david goerndt <[e-mail]> writes:

>
>This is probably due to the fact that magazines have 1-2 month lead times

>so an article written for the June issue would have to be finished in
>April to make their publishing deadline. Lightwave was a reasonably
>closely guarded secret until its NAB release, so they may not have known
>about it in time.
>
>

    I think this brings up a whole other thread.. Lightwave should have
been announced ahead of time, and beta's should have been sent to
magazines for review...

Jason Booth
Second Nature, Inc.
 "I'm programing a raytracer that only outputs in ASCII art! I'LL BE
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From: [e-mail] (Richardson, Brian)
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Hope this isn't an FAQ.  What non-LW models can be successfully read
in directly to Modeler ?  A related question I have is, what
translators are available for i/o in different formats (IGES, Wavefront,
Autocad, etc) ?  I'm interested in reading models into LW which
have been created with other modelers.....thanks in advance !


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What I want is support for SMP. I want ScreamerNet to use RPC
calls. Basically I want Lightwave to tap out the power of NT. Sorry for
the Apple and Amiga guys. What Y'all don't seem to realise is that NT
can be superior to anything out there as long as software takes
advantage of it. This is the one BIG strength of MAX. Anf I hope that
NewTek takes a good look. Announcing support for a platform that is
slashing the production of its desktop systems in half so it can
concentrate on the Newton and for god's sakes the PIPPIN! Smart move
guys...
    Hajo

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JASilva wrote:
> I think collision detection would be a great timesaver...
> Eventually I would like to see features such as gravity effectors and
> other physics controls built into Lightwave.  Too much to ask for?
> Jose A. Silva

    Too much too ask for? Maybe afetr all Impact does all this and does it very well. Because of this I
don't really see the need to put it into the package. I am more interested in the "internal" upgrades that you
can't get from plug-ins. The earlier mentioned real-time preview of velocity textures is a real good example
as is the channeling of texture attributes.
    Hajo

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    Here is the deal.  I have created a curve in the modeler and then
freeze it to create the polygon.  Following that I etrude the ashape and
then put an object in the background as my "cutter".   Then using the
boolean subtract command I cut the object.  Here is wheree the problem
comes in, I think,  The surfaces created are all flipped, so I just flip
them over to point the right way, but when I render the object in LW
there isn't even a scratch in the surface.  Its like its cutting
everthing but the surface.....this is a flat surface and I have been able
to perform stencil operations on it.  ANy ideas??? I could be missing
something I just cnan't figure why.  Thanks in advance.
    Kevin

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Kurt Harmel wrote:
> If anyone has any info on who sells these things, please
> respond.
    What you call performance animation is usually referred to as " motion Capture". One of the
better known companies that sells the hardware is polhemus. It is not as easy as it sounds. MC data
need LOTS of cleanup. What is really nice about these systems is as a quick way of setting up IK
chains. or facial morph-targets. Unfortunately LW has no direct support for this kind of data unlike
SoftImage.
    Hajo

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Torsten Westphal wrote:
>
> Hi there...
>
> just have a question: just playe with 3DS MAX and found that
> network rendering is only supported with TCP/IP on WIN NT 3.51.
>
> That is really disapointing. Already under 3DS 4 one needed to
> install Netware in order to make this function work and now this.
>
> Thats why I will probably change to Lightwave.
> Can anyone tell me which methods of network rendering are
> supported?
>
> Thanks for any comments
>
> Torsten    Okay: Here we go. This is a little bit my specialty so I'll explain it. Lightwave can run under
any networked system as long as every node can see the main shared drive on which you will be rendering
to. The way screamernet works is basically: a file that keeps track of what frames have been fetched for
rendering; a directory where frames are rendered too and that is basically it. This has as an advantage
that it is really easy to set up. It is fairly easy to program and will run on ANY network. I haven't
tried it but I guess you could even render over the internet. (Anyone tried this yet?). There are several
disadvantages however. The bifggest is if one of the machines crashes. What happens in that case is that
the frame that has been fetched out of the file does not get written back. As such the buffer keeps
filling up with frames that are rendered on other machines waiting for the frame that crashed too show up.
Result: REALLY BIG swapfiles and basically every computer on the network crashing once they run out of
swapspace. Also a system such as this requires every computer on the network to have a decent amount of
RAM or swapping will occur.
    MAX's system uses TCP/IP. This is not all that hard to set up. (You are actually using it while
using the internet). It is platform independent (Besides the Altair and the VIC20 I believe any computer
manufactured today suopports it in one way or another). If one machine crashes the others keep rendering
and take over that frame. Also since Max uses RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) ie: nodes don't really render
frames; they just help in the calculation of them. Any computer with 16 Megs of RAM becomes an "Effective"
 rendering partner without swapping. No Matter How big the scene file or the textures! (In theory anyway;
Practice is not always that rosy) The fact that Max uses TCP/IP allows it to usae the Internet as a
rendering network. (Talk about computing power. If you had Max you could use my computer network (24 Intel
boxes) say for $100 a night. It would pay my rent and think of the rendering power you suddenly gain!)
    Both systems have their advantages. I prefer Max's though. Once installed well it is the superior
solution.
    Hajo

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    As it turns out the original cutting tool and surface I was
cutting were not aligned.... THey didn't have their normals facing the same
way and for some reason that messed the whole operation up. I also think
that i may have forgotten to freeze the cutter... Thansk for your help.
    Kevin


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From [e-mail] Sun, 02 Jun 1996 07:58:58 -0500


Johan Otterstrom wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> If LightWave is going to survive in the Amiga market it needs to fully
>support  CybergraphX!
>
> Will LW 5.0 support this on the Amiga????
>
> Best regards Johan
>
>        Orebro Videoreklam  -  We sell DraCo systems and Amiga products!
>        ----------------------------------------------------------------
>        Swedes! Don't miss our NEW homepage: www.flevel.co.uk/videoking/
>        Get your copy of Amiga-Pro here!! Videoproductions - 3D graphics
>        Information on video editing on Amiga and DraCo - Read about it!
>        tel./fax [phone]   email:  [e-mail]

We have taken steps to make sure LightWave is more compatible with Amiga RTG.
However, the number of LightWave
sales on the Amiga does not allow us to do any custom programming for
particular cards. Based on current sales
levels, we will most likely not be adding support for the CybergraphX board
for 5.0.

BP

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Sounds like Amiga/DraCo users should start looking in another direction for
our 3D needs. The upcoming Aladdin 5 from Nova sounds better and better..

       Orebro Videoreklam  -  We sell DraCo systems and Amiga products!
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 > You're right! I suck! Everyone hates me!
 >
 >
 > _____________________________________________
 > Lee Stranahan

I've always thought you were quite amusing.


 | AmiQWK 2.9 - FREEWARE |
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JASilva wrote:
>
> I think collision detection would be a great timesaver...
>
> Imagine doing character animation of something walking.  If you could turn
> collision detection on for the feet of your character, and then just move
> the IK chain representing the leg towards the floor and have the foot stop
> when it makes contact with the floor, this would obviate the need to spend
> time meticulously positioning the feet so that they don't intersect the
> ground.  This is just one of many applications for this feature.


Yes, this would be a great feature.... the new version of Hash Animation (the $199 version) even has collision detection and particle systems
built right into the package now.

Nate

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From: [e-mail] (Dennis Grant)
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Subject: Anybody need an animator? I just got fired.
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I just got fired.

Anybody need a kick-ass computer animator?

Please call 1-902-566-3136, ask for Dennis. Don't try this e-mail address,
it's probably going away.

Shit, I'm getting married in 3 months.


--
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Dennis Grant
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DavidH1734 wrote:

> Hi Nate
>
> Ah not quite so. PVR just runs a program that "points" to your PVR files.
> The process is almost instantaneous. A non-issue. There's no real AVI
> conversion taking place at all. Once this process is done then you have
> real time direct full screen interaction when using Premiere with the PVR.


Yes, you are correct... I didn't mean to make it sound like you had to convert it into a Indeo or Cinepak .AVI.... thanks for correcting me.

Nate

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JBooth411 wrote:

> >I'm having a problem getting articulated bones and IK to work in LW5.
> >I've been thru the docs many times and even bought Stranahan's Bones,
> >Morphing, and Displacement Mapping video tape (nice tape, Stranahan, but
> >nothing about articulated bones or IK).
>
>     Gee, maybe because IK wasn't in version 3.1....
>
> Jason Booth

Gee, maybe they didn't happen to mention that the tape was 2 major
versions behind before I paid $49 for it....

Nate hayes

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Stranahan wrote:

> That tape is around 2-3 years old, and was done in version 3.0 - if I'd
> covered IK I would have been psychic....


Yes, I wish I had been a psycic, too, and knew that to "learn new
features in LightWave 3D that enabled you to...<fill in the blank>" only
applied if you were using an outdated product <g>...

Nate

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I would like to buy a low-price version (old) of Lightwave 3D for SGI.

please send offers to [e-mail]

Richard Joye, Euphoria Studio


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Joe Monahan wrote:
>
> I was told by NewTek it would be third quarter of this year.
>
> JM
>
> In article <[e-mail]>, Karma <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone ahve any knowledge as to when the supposed release date for
> > this product is?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Matt Rampias
> > Production, Animation, Design
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Interesting timeframe.... about same for After Effects for NT..

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John Back wrote:
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> > No PC will allow realtime playback of anims. All animations must be
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Would be nice if you could save the OpenGL preview direct to AVI or to
any image sequence(PVR).  I know you can re-load into bkg and render, but
would be nice to have OpenGL as a render option.

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From: Gregg Lukomski <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Network rendering in LW
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[e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) wrote:

> Any system that will let all nodes see a network drive as a drive on a node.
> Netware and NetBui definitely do that.  I think that TCP/IP with NFS does it
> as well.  LW/Screamernet simply pass text files to a common directory to
> communicate and each node must have access to that common directory and to the
> scene and related files.
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   Has anyone been able to get any info on doing this or simply
using Screamernet in a multiplatform envrionment?  Were you
forced to purchase the full release of LW on that platform?