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- Real 3D to Opalvision display driver.
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- OVRealPanel User's Manual
- produced
- by
- Digital Machine Concepts
- Australia
- 1992
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- PLEASE NOTE THAT FOLLOWING IS A DIRECT EXTRACT OF THE PRINTED MANUAL
- SUPPLIED WITH THE FULL VERSION. MANY OF THE FEATURES DISCRIBED IN THIS
- MANUAL ARE ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE PURCHASED APPLICATION. ALSO THE FOLLOWING
- TEXT HAS REFERENCE TO FIGURESS THAT COULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENT.
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- THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS DISCRIBED BELOW MENTION A INSTALLER
- PROGRAM WHICH HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS ARCHIVE. PLEASE FOLLOW THE
- "NON STANDARD INSTALLATION" INSTRUCTIONS.
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- This manual is copyright (c) 1992 Digital Machine Concepts.
- All rights are reserved.
- The software supplied with this manual is copyright
- (c) 1992 Digital Machine Concepts. All rights reserved.
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- This document may not be reproduced,
- photocopied, digitised, translated or copied in whole
- or part without the consent of Digital Machine Concepts Australia.
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- opalvision is a registered trademark of opal technology Inc.
- Real 3D is a registered trademark of Realsoft.
- Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- Commodore and CBM are registered trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited.
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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- We wish to acknowledge opal technology for their support and congratulate
- them on an outstanding product.
- We also take this opportunity to acknowledge Creations Audio Visual
- Services, Australia.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Digital Machine Concepts makes no warranties, either expressed
- or implied, with respect to the software described herein.
- This software is sold 'as is.' All care in its preparation has
- been taken but all responsibility is assumed by the purchaser.
- Under no circumstances are Digital Machine Concepts liable for
- direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting
- from the use or defect of the software described herein.
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- Produced by Digital Machine Concepts in Australia, 1992 revision 1.1.
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- OVRealPanel Driver. Real 3D version 1.4
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- Ver 2.x
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Product Description 1
- Installation 1
- Non-Standard Installation 2
- Rendering to opalvision 3
- Opalvision control panel 4
- Using the Framebuffer menu 5
- Saving options 6
- Rendering status reports 7
- Product support 7
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- Please remember to send us your registration.
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- The installation of Digital Machine Concept's opalvision display drivers
- enables 24 bit display integration with your system's productivity software.
- Our opalvision drivers are designed to provide maximum utilisation of
- opalvision's resources to fully complement your Desktop video publisher
- or Rendering packages.
- At Digital Machine Concepts we are committed to continually updating
- our products and are pleased to inform registered patrons of product
- updates when they become available.
- We look forward to your registration or any inquiries regarding our
- range of products.
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- Installation.
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- Boot your machine to your normal Real 3D working environment. Important,
- do not launch Real 3D at this point.
- Insert the distribution disk into the internal floppy drive DF0: ,
- provided on this disk is an install utility. You must now initiate
- the install procedure. It is recommended that you launch Installer
- from the workbench by first 'double-clicking' the Disk icon, then the
- Installer icon. When installing from CLI simply type 'DMC:Installer' and
- press return.
- If problems are reported by the installer consult the section entitled
- Non-Standard Installation.
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- for Release 20 Sept 1992 page 1.
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- Non-Standard Installation.
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- Note: This section is intended for the intermediate to advanced
- users who wish to manually install the display driving software.
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- A framebuffer library must be included in your system libs:
- drawer for Real 3D to make use of opalvision. Both library
- files 'opal_r3d.library' and 'opal.library' must be present
- in the libraries drawer referenced by Real 3D.
- If 'opal.library' is not already present in your libs: drawer
- copy this from your opalvision distribution disks.
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- Now copy 'DMC:libs/opal_r3d.library' to your required libs: drawer.
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- While Real 3D is running the driver daemon must be active.
- It is suggested that this be launched on system startup. As
- such, we recommend its inclusion in the system drawer WBStartup.
- If launching from a CLI script file, for instance, the
- 'user-startup' the daemon must be 'run'.
- Copy the daemon file, 'DMC:other/OVRealPanel' into a drawer
- within the system path. The command line in the custom script
- file should resemble the following.
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- ' sys:c/run >nil: REAL:OVRealPanel '
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- This is all that is required to install the Real 3D opalvision
- display driver.
- Remember that you must have 'OVRealPanel' running as a background
- task as outlined above. Any attempt to open a 24 bit frame will
- result in an error which informs you that Opal Panel is not present.
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- If your manual installation fails please feel free to contact
- us for additional installation assistance.
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- Rendering to Opalvision.
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- Once Installation has completed re-boot your Amiga.
- If you have followed the recommended installation process
- a window will open temporarily on startup to inform you that
- the OVRealPanel is installing. The following steps outline a
- simple test of the installation and introduces rendering to
- opalvision from Real 3D.
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- 1. Open Real 3D then load a desired scene into the editor.
- 2. Select Modes > Solid in the pull down menu.
- 3. Select Framebuffer > library in the pull down menu.
- 4. Type 'opal_r3d.library' then press return.
- 5. Under the framebuffer pull down menu extra items will
- now appear.
- Possible Errors
- If not, check you have entered the library name correctly,
- otherwise your installation has failed. See the section
- entitled ' Non-Standard installation.'
- 6. Make sure that IFF-24 is selected in the Options panel.
- 7. Select Framebuffer > Openscreen. The screen will blink.
- Possible Errors
- Any Alert occurring at this point regarding a 'panel task'
- indicates that the daemon is not active. Ensure that
- 'OVRealPanel' is running.
- 8. Select the Render button.
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- At this point the opalvision display panel will pull
- into view and the image will render from the top of
- the display. You may at any time select options on the
- opal control panel. Some options will cause rendering to
- halt. For example, selecting the save function before
- rendering has completed. On completion of these functions
- rendering will resume.
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- Accompanying the opal control panel are further functions
- listed under the frame buffer pull down menu. Including a
- 'set display modes' option which allows you to configure Hi
- or Low resolutions, Overscan displays and Interlacing.
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- Real 3D version 1.4
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- Opalvision Control Panel.
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- The control panel displays render statistics and presents a
- number of button gadgets which allow you to, save the current
- image, hide the panel display and return to the Real 3D solid
- modeller. The panel display acts as the control medium between
- the Real renderer and your custom opalvision view.
- Below is the main panel display. The particular button and
- associated function are outlined below.
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- !SAVE IMAGE! RETURN TO REAL! TIME 00:00:00 !HIDE! !ABOUT!
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- Opalvision main control panel
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- 1.2.3.4.5.6.
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- Description.
- 1. Click once with left mouse button to bring Real 3D into view.
- This operation does not stop any rendering
- in progress, a progress indicator is maintained on both views.
- 2. Click once with left mouse button to activate the 'Image Save'
- panel. This operation may be executed at any time, this allows
- partial image saving.
- 3. Click to cycle a status output while rendering. Cycle to
- either elapsed time, current scan line or image size.
- 4. Cycle gadget output region.
- 5. Click once with left mouse button to remove the panel
- from the 24 bit display. Clicking the mouse again
- restores the panel image.requires
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- OpalVision Control Panel.
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- When an opal frame is open the only acceptable method of returning
- to the Real 3D view is by selecting the return to Real button.
- Visible on the Real Screen is a new button which can be selected
- to return the opal display and control panel into view.
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- Using the Frame Buffer menu.
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- The frame buffer menu, which is present on the solid modeller
- menu bar, controls the opal display. Before rendering to an opal
- display a frame must be opened. The opal panel remembers your
- display options. Once a screen mode is set all opal screens will
- open with the predefined display parameters. When selecting
- 'Openscreen' a 24bit display is created.
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- Note that different screen modes have different memory requirements.
- The recommended system configuration is 2 Meg of Chip memory
- plus another 1Meg of Fast memory. The driver will operate with
- One Meg of Chip but this limits the choice of screen modes. If
- the requested mode is unobtainable the mode defaults to a low
- resolution screen.
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- The display options cannot be set while a dispay frame is closed.
- Selecting the set modes option while a frame is closed will have
- no effect. Select the 'Openscreen' option, then select the set
- modes option. A panel containing a set of cycle gadgets will
- appear. Simply cycle the gadgets until the desired display
- parameters are displayed on the panel. 'Set' these modes and
- the new frame will open using your display options.
- Opening multiple screens is not currently supported by Real 3D
- or the display driver. Attempting to 'Openscreen' more than
- once will have no effect.
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- Real 3D version 1.4page 6.
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- Saving Options.
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- Image saving to disk from Real 3D can be achieved using three
- different save options. The first two options are contained
- in the frame buffer pull down menu.
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- 'Save Image' will open a Real 3D file requester. Select a path
- and enter a file name to save as an IFF24 image.
- 'Save Custom' will again open a Real 3D file requester.* This
- provides an alternate route to the save option on the opal panel.
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- The recommended method of saving images is through the Save option
- on the Opal control panel. Once the save option is selected a new
- panel is displayed with a cycle gadget to select between IFF24 and
- JPEG saving configurations. A thumbnail, the opalpaint icon, will
- be generated if this option is ticked. Clicking the thumbnail region
- toggles the selection.
- If JPEG is selected the quality factor can be selected with the slider
- gadget. Selecting 100% represents lossless compression. The higher
- the quality percentage the larger the image file, conversely, with
- lower quality the image file size is reduced.
- If IFF24 is selected the slider is disabled since no other save
- options are required.
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- Selecting the save option from the save panel will open a file
- requester on the opal backdrop. Choose a path and file name,
- select OK to begin the saving procedure.
- Saving from the opal control panel is selectable at anytime
- while the panel is in view. As such the frame rendering does
- not have to be completed and allows partial image rendering
- and saving.
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- Whilst rendering the save options present in the Real 3D
- pulldown menu are NOT available.
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- Again, we recommend all saving to be done from the opal
- display panel using the save image option.
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- Real 3D version 1.4 page 7.
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- Rendering Status reports.
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- Rendering status is reported on both the opal control panel and upon
- the Real 3D view.
- On the main opal control panel the cycle gadget selects either,
- Elapsed rendering time, Image size, and current scan line number
- being rendered.
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- The elapsed time count is reset upon the initiation of a render
- and halted upon its completion. The current scan line reports
- the vertical line number currently rendering. On completion of
- the render it reports ALL completed. The image size option
- displays the resolution of the current display, not the current
- image. Any image size can be rendered by editing the width
- and height parameters on the solid modeling panel.
- When the Real 3D view is forward the current scan line
- is reported near the render button.
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- Product Support.
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- If you discover bugs in any of our software products we would
- like to know about it. We are also keen on hearing your suggestions
- for improving our range of drivers so that you can become more
- productive with your opalvision unit.
- You can send your bug reports or upgrade suggestions
- to the following address.
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- Digital Machine Concepts.
- Drivers: Opal Real 3D driver.
- P.O. Box 37
- Darlington
- Western Australia, 6070.
- ph (61) 9 299 6153
- fax (61) 9 299 7593
- Email : tnewmanda@cc.curtin.edu.au
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- FOR THOSE HOW HAVE READ THIS FAR (AND HOPEFULLY WANT PURCHASE A FULL
- VERSION), OVREALPANEL IS AVAILABLE FROM THE ABOVE ADDRESS FOR $US49
- OR $Aust59 INCLUDING POSTAGE AND PACKAGING.
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- Real 3D version 1.4 page 8.
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