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From: Robert Kimmel <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: for sale
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:42:36 -0800
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Amiga 2000 rev 4
2 mb chip (DKB megachip)
Microway Flicker Fixer (says AGA 2000)
DEB 2000
1 floppy drive
keyboard, mouse
PPS040 28 mhz accelartor with 4 megs ram
GVP Series II HC+8 with Guru rom v6
    4 megs ram, 110 meg harddrive
Toaster 2000 with 3.1 software
1084 monitor

A few notes.  The 1084 monitor either doesn't display one of the primary
colors when connected to the amiga though it's normal cord.  The story
is that someone who didn't own an amiga fixed it for someone who no
longer had
a
but I haven't ran all the above together.  Everything should run no
problem, but there may be incompatablities between the flicker fixer and
toaster.


$1500 or obo All serious offers will be considered, trades? might split
system up.

I am looking for a high flyer for my A4000 toaster system.
and some 60ns 4mb simms (in groups of 4) 32bit 30 pin (for fastlane)
also Superbuster 11.

Robert Kimmel
email: [e-mail]
mesg # 206-648-3551

I'm having phone problems, so I'm checking my mail through a online
cafe, and not exactly sure if your replying to this message is sending
it to my correct email address.  if it's not going to [e-mail],
then it's not going to make it to me.  Probably best if you phone and
leave a message on my answering service, but please speak slow and
repeat phone numbers so I can understand (the record quality of it seems
to be lacking sometimes).

thanks

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Subject: Animating Metanurbs
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Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
without having to be converted to polygons first?
Just think this would give me one more reason to claim LW5.0 as the best
3d soft bar none;)


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From: flogic@198.59.115.2 (Phillip Minke)
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Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
Date: 16 Nov 96 00:53:45
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>
>
>
> What a stupid subject line, huh?  Maybe not.  I worked with PCs in my
> company's MIS department as network administrator for 2 years.  I have
> been using an Amiga in one form or another (currently an
> 040/Toaster/Flyer) for 9 years.  As a lightwave user, I need the
> rendering power of a Pentium so I finally bought a PPro
> 200Mhz/64meg/Adaptec 2940UW/Diamond Stealth PCI blah blah blah.  The Pro
> SMOKED the Amiga (no surprise), but multitasking IS A JOKE!  I couldn't
> believe that this NT computing monster couldn't keep up with my Amiga in
> switching tasks, flipping screens (pc users say 'what's that?'), and
> general interface speed.  Add to that fact that it takes about a minute
> to get to NT from cold boot and about 25 sec to get to AmigaDOS.  So the
> bottom line is: use the tools appropriate for the job.  In my case, the
> pentium (for rendering and single applications at a time), networked
> to the Amiga for video/audio/image processing
>  (oh and arexx to tie it all together).  Hey,
> maybe I'm using an "extinct" computer, but it's STILL earning me money.
> Hell, I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to.
>
> I must admit:
> NT 4.0 sure does look pretty, though
> (for taking up 80megs on my hard drive, it better!).
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Chris Gonzalez
> Lightwave user since ver. 1.0 (circa *1992*)
>
> PS. Newtek, has Bill Gates fooled you too?
> .



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From: cj <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: 1200 4 sale
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 07:18:35 -0600
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with 50 meg HD, 6 megs of RAM, 1942 Multisync monitor.

800.00

312-988-9056

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
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Joseph Maas wrote:
>
> They say that you can do brodcast quality renderings with LW, however,
> in the Video Toster User mag all you see is S-VHS type hardware for sale
> to record LW animations. Is'nt S-VHS for "Bronco Bob's Used Cars" local
> TV spot, and Betacam SP for the true brodcast quality used for all of
> the network stuff,,,, or am I missing something here?

What "they" say is true.
An add in a magazine for S-VHS players has nothing to do with what LW
can output to.
Those adds could as well have been for Solitare Film Recorders, but that
doesn't mean LW only outputs to film.
Lightwave and S-VHS are as far apart as you can get, saying that
LW only outputs to S-VHS is like saying ILM only do logo's.

Cheers,

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
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It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.

I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.

"but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
- PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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Phillip Minke wrote:

> > What a stupid subject line, huh?  Maybe not.  I worked with PCs in my
> > company's MIS department as network administrator for 2 years.  I have
> > been using an Amiga in one form or another (currently an
> > 040/Toaster/Flyer) for 9 years.  As a lightwave user, I need the
> > rendering power of a Pentium so I finally bought a PPro
> > 200Mhz/64meg/Adaptec 2940UW/Diamond Stealth PCI blah blah blah.  The Pro
> > SMOKED the Amiga (no surprise), but multitasking IS A JOKE!  I couldn't
> > believe that this NT computing monster couldn't keep up with my Amiga in
> > switching tasks, flipping screens (pc users say 'what's that?'), and
> > general interface speed.  Add to that fact that it takes about a minute
> > to get to NT from cold boot and about 25 sec to get to AmigaDOS.

> > Chris Gonzalez

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From: decar <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Looking for plane (747-400) models/interiors
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stephen benson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to find some models of planes like the 747-400, interior
> and exterior if possible, or maybe a model and some pix of
> interiors. Anyone able to help?  I know there's one or two plane
> speciality wwwpages somewhere, but where?


I can help you with some tie fighters like F16, Harrier, YF22 and
a HUEY helicopter if you need them too.

I'm looking for a human male model. My version of 3D Studio
is 3.0 although I believe its compatible with Max (3DS file).

Ernesto.

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Win95/LW4 Memory Questions...(+) Shadowmaps
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> My questions are fairly simple.  I am one of those who went from 3D-Studio
> to Truespace to Lightwave.  I have a 486 dx4/120 with 24 Megs of ram.
> When I load Lightwave 4 into Windows 95, Layout reports that only about 3
> Megs of RAM remain.  When I try using Windows for Workgroups with Win32s,
> I have a total of 17 Meg of ram remaining.  Does anyone know how to reduce
> the amount of RAM Windows 95 is munching, and perhaps convert it to a page
> file?

This is what you get when you try to add Mac/Amiga Like functionality to
a
PC, WFW was just a shell over DOS, no match for Mac or AmigaOS. Win95
gets
a little closer but requires MORE RAM to get that much closer. Hence
your
problem with low RAM.
Hey, once you go to WinNT you finally have a full 32bit OS but at the
expense of alot of RAM. So the best solution in my opinion is to do what
Micro$oft want you to do, buy some more RAM so you can run their OS.

> My second question is in reference to 3D-Studio Shadow Mapping as compared
> to that in Lightwave.  I create primarily architectural walkthroughs for
> 3D projects, and when in 3D-Studio, if you assign a shadow map to a
> spotlight, it can very quickly figure out the maps and then hold on to
> them for any following frames where shadow-casting objects do not move.
> This way, the program does not have to compute a shadow map for each
> frame.  Does a similar feature exist for Lightwave?

As far as I can tell from watching the render it does indeed compute the
shadow map for each frame. This makes sense when lights are moving and
objects interact with them as the map would need to change accordingly.
But as for still scenes it WOULD make sense to compute the maps only
once.

Maybe someone from Newtek could help, hello Newtek, you there? :)

> I appreciate your attention.
> [e-mail]

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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[e-mail] wrote:

> When I load Lightwave 4 into Windows 95, Layout reports that only about
> 3 Megs of RAM remain. [...]  Does anyone know how to reduce the amount
> of RAM Windows 95 is munching, and perhaps convert it to a page file?

Windows 95 itself will dynamically reduce the amount of RAM it's using
as programs ask for more.  LW's available memory display isn't terribly
meaningful.

- Ernie                              http://www.access.digex.net/~erniew



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Subject: FOR SALE: A4000/40
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Greetings!

I´m looking for someone who wants my A4000. In Germany, near Münster.
Here it is:

- Amiga 4000/40
- 10 MB RAM
- 540 Harddisk (I know, it is not much...)
- RETINA Z2 GFX Card
- Commodore 1960 Monitor
- Mouse...
and!!!:    REAL 3D V 4.6 (Original)

The Price:    1500,- DM (GermanMarks)

Write to:
[e-mail]
Or go to my page: http://www.muenster.netsurf.de/~c.werner

Thanx!

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> > When I load Lightwave 4 into Windows 95, Layout reports that only about
> > 3 Megs of RAM remain. [...]  Does anyone know how to reduce the amount
> > of RAM Windows 95 is munching, and perhaps convert it to a page file?
>

If you have 32 Megs of RAM, for example, then Windows 95 will automatically
allocate as much as possible of that for a disk cache. When you look at how
much
memory is available you will see you very little (2-3 megs). But as you
application
starts to need more memory, Windows 95 will dynamically reduce that amount
of
memory it is using for the disk cache and make this available to your
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From: Kirk Hutchinson <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: 3d Hardware acceleration
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Grinch wrote:
>
> Kirk Hutchinson <[e-mail]> wrote in article
> <[e-mail]>...
>
> > If you are planning on doing any 3D modelling, etc..., you need a board
> > that will support OpenGL.  If you want to play games you need DirectX and
> > Direct3D.
>
> Isn't that backwards?

Well ... not really.

> Decide which software you want to use, then determine which type of card
> that software prefers.

Yep.  But, for most REAL (workstation class-professional) 3D programs,
OpenGL is a standard.

> Caligari Truespace, for example, is rumoured to be using Direct3D for
> its modeller in the next version, not OpenGL.  If this is indeed the
> case, someone following Kirk's advice would have wasted their money
> on a card that Truespace wouldn't be able to use.

Not necessarily true.  For one, you are basing your standard on a rumor,
and secondly, pretty much any card that supports OpenGL will be able
to support Direct3D with the proper drivers.  If Microsoft wants to
stay in the lead, it will make the drivers (it does).  Other companies
that see the market that Microsoft has will create drivers for their
boards based on the demand.  It's pretty safe to assume that almost
every card in the next year will be supporting Direct3D.

Truespace is a nice introductory modelling program, and it is great
to learn on.  If you are planning on advancing your software, think
ahead when you purchase your hardware (as much as your wallet can
anyhow).

kirk

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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
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Subject: Performance of LW5 on Win95 or NT
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Well you only need 16 megs of ram to run LightWave 5.0 on Win95, but you need
32 to run it on NT. I've heard that NT is much faster at rendering then 95.
If all hardware is the same....95 might run faster in modeler....but once you
get to rendering, switch to NT

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza



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I've tryed LW5 (I'm user of LW4), I expected from LW5 that glow effect
could work for field render yet. Not solved. Why?

    Salutations

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      Are you interested in having a WWW site or a mirror WWW site to
take the load off your primary/other mirror sites??
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From: Kiernan Holland <[e-mail]>
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Well, I can I butt in here.. Well for me, I started
out on the likes of that ancient Amiga software like Imagine..
I can't speak for many packages, but I've really grown attached
to Wavefront.. I've used a little bit of Alias, its a little
more technical, but people claim its easier (the GUI sucks
to the nth power.. But so does Wavefront's, but I guess its just
comfortability factor.. Some programs like the Explore portions
[TDI, Wavefront bought and calls IPR/Render and 3Design
their own..] Frankly they need to propagate the interface in
3Design to everything, IMHO.. Even alias doesn't hold a candle to
it). Anyway, I can design a male torso in 3Design out of a cylinder
in one hour, if that could stand as a benchmark of sorts..
IPR/Render is not completely interfaced with Wavefront, its more
of a hack as far as programming is concerned.. Render's GUI
is a frontend for the underlying command line interface. IPR
is a front-end shader programmer, it lets you interactively tweak
properties and see the results on the objects.. The quality
of IPR/Render in terms of shading is superior to anything that's
out there (almost to renderman, probably not quite as flexible,
I could be wrong) it lets you control everything down to the
way 3D textures are interpolated with respect to the viewer
(very nice).. And Atmospheric effects [fog with 3D texture],
flare effects (that give photoshop wet dreams), variable
refraction (fresnel).. But the property control requires a
programmers understanding, its very high-level but alternatively
very very very flexible.. You even have a choice of how the phong
model responds, and I think you can write your own shaders in
terms of 'C' if you want..

Model, Preview, in fact most of TAV is in an interface that
never grew up.. They need to reqrite the GUI.. It has its own
window manager to give you an idea (argh!). Model is very
nice to use, especially the "Magnet" tool is a lot of fun,
but its often useful to use 3Design and Model together..
What I do now is design objects in 3Design with NURBS surfaces
and tesselate in Model with the choice of four different
surface approximation types. But that's just a taste of what can
be done. Preview is your "stage" program, it has numerous
camera resolutions (up to film resolution, named according
to their standards). You have everything you need there,
spline paths, multiple deformation/controls, multiple
channels, ability to control discrete information on
graphs or with mouse by movement.. Its hard to explain..
To some Preview may have a very bad GUI interface in terms
of interactivity, but once you've used it a while it allows
flexibility in controling every single object selectively,
precisely.. Like I could make a ball bounce by a series
of broken spline curves, use volumetric deformation channel
for squash and stretch, then rotate the ball according
to friction..

I've also use Composer (Like Adobe Premier on steriods,
it has more stuff for post production than you'll learn in
a week or two..). Often I'll fix problems in Composer
like lighting problems and create new composites for
atmospheric effects, 2D flares  (I haven't messed with IPR/Render
yet, but our shader wiz here has managed to do some of that stuff..
I need to get down and learn IPR/Render myself, besides I
am a programmer [and an artist]).

Anyway, Kinemation, very nice program for inverse-kinematics
and interactive animation control, uses puffer like controls
called flexors (muscles) [lattices of influence over a volume
of polygons/vertices], it supports both polygons and
NURBS.. However Preview (even in 4.2, only supports Polygons).
There are tricks to making it work well, but again, you have to
had been working with it for about a year.. I've been told
by some its the worst one out there, but I don't care, it
has strengths and weaknesses. One strength is it has
object collision for controlling handl-chains (the IK goal for
each arm) so you can place feet and hands or anything on a
rocky terrain, wall, whatever has polygons.. Then you can constrain
the placements of the IK goals in such a way that you can
move others.. Like If you wanted to raise a leg without
getting the "football" kick action, you can half-constrain the
foot to the ground and raise the knee. Then you can constrain the
knee and move the foot slightly ahead, then click "set keyframe".
Constraing the back foot and front feet, move the main body forwards,
etc.. You can get custom walks in minutes. The flexors and
handle-chains can be controlled simultaneously, facial expressions
can be designed with the lattices too and mutiple flexors
can inherit the same surface (for complex muscular influence,
as would be needed for a face)..

Then there is Dynamation, complete particles system.. Make
fire, snow, rain, explosions, collisions, smoke.. Like IPR
though, there is a entire programmers paradise behind the program,
however Dynamation has a really good end-user interface (GUI).
It is possible to have anything emit particles ( I mean anything!!
even pictures). You also have alpha, z-depth, transparency,
and other buffers to play around with, to create complex
post-compositing effects [I suggest using composer after
dynamation], many types of forces, springs, slugs, magnets,
everything needed for realistic cloth deformations, galaxy
emplosions are really easy, waterfalls as well.. Lack rigid
body dynamics (coming in Maya)..

Downside, Kinemation and Dynamation are incompatible
IMHO (Wavefront says, "yes they are, you can output object
file sequences out of dynamation and import kinemation
movement data into and out of dynamation", that's about as compatible
as a horse driven truck (just a small retrofit, but nobody said
the horse could drive?). There are a lot of little things
that make this software good, and can drive you mad the first
time around, but you'll survive..

If you want examples of stuff I've done with this software,
look at my homepage at http://www.unm.edu/~kholland .
I'm not going to yell it too much, but I won the Alias/Wavefront
Student Scholarship, 2 years experience. The movie I won it
on was something I did in the first year of school. A friend
of mine had signed a deal with SGI and got the biggest
setup of SGI's I've ever heard of, I'm going to train him
and pitch a movie idea to work on.. Maybe you'll see it at
SIGGRAPH '97. I'll give a hint, the setup is about 1/5th
that of Alliance productions ("Reboot") maybe we'll get
motion capture gear, I don't know.. All I do now is
straight IK (hard stuff). Its hard enough I'm still
finishing a CS degree (argh!).. (singing) "All I want to do is
have some fun, make my own movies, I'm not the only one,
all I want to do is have some fun... "

Kiernan

--
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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Heads Up! Will Vinton Studios on Oprah!
Date: 16 Nov 1996 22:18:33 GMT
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The Oprah! show scheduled for 4:00pm Monday in Portland OR on Ch.8.(of
course different times/dates in your area) is titled something like "How
They Did That."
The show is to feature the work involved making the Nissan ad with the
dolls driving a toy 300ZX. (million dollar commercial, totally cool, seems
to be selling cars.) And other special effects.

Get out the TV Guide and the instructions for the VCR..

Hope it's neat...

Gary Grossoehme


Gary Grossoehme, Oregon Electronics, 503-239-5293
[e-mail]

"I'm a hologram, dammit, not a Doctor!"

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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: PLease explain  what OpenGL means?
Date: 16 Nov 1996 05:52:11 GMT
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actually it's not that simple...I'm running Win95 and LW 5.0 and I have tried
everything....I've installed the Opengl32.dll and glu32.dll over a dozen times
I have even downloaded the files from the microsoft site and still modeler and
layout crash when I try to use opengl. Anyone have a solution?

I have a P120 with 32 megs EDO and a diamond edge 3D with 2 megs VRAM.
Someone please help....I really don't want to have to call NewTek...long
distance calls are a bitch!

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza


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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
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Subject: Animating Living breathing Animals.
Date: 16 Nov 1996 06:01:14 GMT
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I would appreciate the info on how to  animate a person talking also.

thanks

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
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I search the following programmes for [INTEL]:
[FIBER] [FACTORY] and [SPARKS].
Thank you at who can help me.


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From: Curt Gandy <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: New Lightwave Version 1997
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> The Tesselation Times section of 3D Artist magazine reports in their news
> section [to be included in their next issue], that a new version of
> Lightwave is coming the first quarter of 1997.  Has anyone else heard
> anything about this?  What will the upgrade policy be for people buying
> the current version?  Any info appreciated.  Check 3D Artist mag's site on
> the Web and confirm the news for yourself there.  If it's true, hopefully
> it outdoes MAX!!!

I am anxiuos to see what the next version will contain but I already
think it outdoes MAX with version 5! My wish list would be volumetric
lighting, particle system and support for multiple cpu's (althought he
networked rendering works great). Everything Lightwave already does
costs much less than MAX and that leaves me room to buy other goodies.

Curt Gandy
World In Motion Productions
[e-mail]

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Hello,

Click on     http://home.earthlink.net/~bacasino/

Extreemly heavy graphics. It shows that there is more to LIGHTWAVE
than space ships and special effects.

Mike Beals

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You know, I've been askin myself that question too. But I think I am gonna
have to use them real soon. I am going to try an build a musclar human figure
with metanurbs....but I have this feeling that the bulges are gonna be too
difficult. So I might have to try metaballs. Well we shall soon see:)

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
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Subject: WTB: Lightwave FX Kit
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Try Safe Harbor...I got my copy from them when I purchased LightWave.
Sorry but the web address escapes me right now....think its
www.sharbor.com

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
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From: Bryant Reif <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Error Message Modeler 5
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Stuart
> Ferguson) writes:
>
> >This is a problem with the dongle.  Make sure the hardware key
> >is firmly seated and that the parallel port is operating
> >correctly.  You might also try re-installing the software and
> >Sentinal drivers.  If this all fails you may need to return your
> >dongle to NewTek for reprogramming.
> >--
> >       Stuart Ferguson         ([e-mail])
> >           "How do you compute that?  Where on the
> >            graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"
> >
> >
>
> Don't you believe him. This is a simple lack of RAM. Throw some more
> hardware at the problem and you'll be fine.
>
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>  [e-mail] -- The Future Ain't Here Yet Design Studio
>  Pushing Pixels for a Better Tomorrow
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Ratboy,
Load Modeler and click on "About".  Read the text in the panel that pops
up.  Now decide if you still think we shouldn't believe him. :)
--

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

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
Date: 16 Nov 1996 20:45:04 -0700
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In article <[e-mail]> Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:29:44 +1100

>Joseph Maas wrote:
>>
>> They say that you can do brodcast quality renderings with LW, however,
>> in the Video Toster User mag all you see is S-VHS type hardware for sale
>> to record LW animations. Is'nt S-VHS for "Bronco Bob's Used Cars" local
>> TV spot, and Betacam SP for the true brodcast quality used for all of
>> the network stuff,,,, or am I missing something here?

Actually, all broadcasts are transmitted as composite signals.  S-VHS signals
(actually Y/C signals) are "better" than broadcast quality (or are capable of
being better than broadcast quality).  The confusion comes in when you start
talking about equipment typically used in the broadcast industry.

The broadcast industry typically uses equipment that is much better than
broadcast quality so that it can better withstand the generational losses
involved in making copies, editing etc.  Hence, BetaCam SP is typically
considered to be a minimum for "broadcast" quality.  Even though its output is
better than what actually goes out over the airwaves or cable.






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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
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Subject: Re: Any one migrated from 3DS to LW?...
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I was lucky enough to use both 3DS Max and LightWave 5.0 before I finally
bought LightWave. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses. I liked features in
both programs. But when it came down to it....LightWave gives you more bang for
the buck as far as it's stand alone package.

I would have to say what sold me was the metanurbs feature of lightwave...
combine that with metaform, and you have an incredible modeler. Not to mention
the fact that it comes with 100 plug-ins(including metaballs). Most of which
would cost you a great deal more if you go with MAX. But LightWave is a more
artist oriented program. Whereas MAX seems more CAD oriented. Let's face it
it started out as a spin off of AutoCAD. The one downside of LightWave is
the fact that Modeler and Layout are seperate. I really liked that part od
the MAX interface.

Last of all....MAX does not ship with a raytracing renderer...LightWave does.

In the end the student version of LightWave 5.0 only cost me 725.00,
whereas MAX would have cost me around 1200 to 1500.

As I said ....more bang for the buck

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Volumetric light and multiple glows
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In article <01bbd30b$330e5960$0c53f8ce@Chris> "Chris" <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: "Chris" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Volumetric light and multiple glows
>Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:38:28 GMT

> Ok is there a nother way to do volumetric light istedad of creating a
>meshed cone..?

>And how about multiple glows of different strengths..?

>Thanks Chris

The standard "trick" for glows of differing amounts is to do a partial morph
between two objects that are identical except that one has glow enabled and
the other does not.  The glow can be adjusted by the degree of the morph.  Of
course you must have morph surfaces turned on.



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In article <[e-mail]> Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Win95/LW4 Memory Questions...(+) Shadowmaps
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:00:57 +1100

>[e-mail] wrote:
>>
>> My questions are fairly simple.  I am one of those who went from 3D-Studio
>> to Truespace to Lightwave.  I have a 486 dx4/120 with 24 Megs of ram.
>> When I load Lightwave 4 into Windows 95, Layout reports that only about 3
>> Megs of RAM remain.  When I try using Windows for Workgroups with Win32s,
>> I have a total of 17 Meg of ram remaining.  Does anyone know how to reduce
>> the amount of RAM Windows 95 is munching, and perhaps convert it to a page
>> file?

>This is what you get when you try to add Mac/Amiga Like functionality to
>a
>PC, WFW was just a shell over DOS, no match for Mac or AmigaOS. Win95
>gets
>a little closer but requires MORE RAM to get that much closer. Hence
>your
>problem with low RAM.
>Hey, once you go to WinNT you finally have a full 32bit OS but at the
>expense of alot of RAM. So the best solution in my opinion is to do what
>Micro$oft want you to do, buy some more RAM so you can run their OS.

Bottom line is that the reported RAM from Layout is not a good indicator of
available resources.  Don't take my word for it though.  NewTek almost removed
the feature because of its poor reliability.  Instead, they buried it a little
further in LW 5.0.  Win95 does take more RAM than Win3.1 and Win32s but not as
much as your tests would suggest.  Win95 multi-tasks a ton better and is a
better overall OS choice than Win 3.1 for LW use.  Screamernet is only barely
functional in Win 3.1

>
>Geoff Suttor
>Animator.
>Digital Video Productions Australia.


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The Tesselation Times section of 3D Artist magazine reports in their news
section [to be included in their next issue], that a new version of
Lightwave is coming the first quarter of 1997.  Has anyone else heard
anything about this?  What will the upgrade policy be for people buying
the current version?  Any info appreciated.  Check 3D Artist mag's site on
the Web and confirm the news for yourself there.  If it's true, hopefully
it outdoes MAX!!!

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From: Ernie Wright <[e-mail]>
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Jean-Eric Hénault wrote:

> Winodows 1.0 was demoed back in 1983. The Macintosh was born in 1984
> and the Amiga in late 1985.

Windows was *announced* in November 1983, only two months before the Mac
started shipping in January 1984, and 11 months AFTER the Apple Lisa was
introduced.  Version 1.0 of Windows was released almost two years later,
in November 1985, right around the time the first Amigas arrived.

Windows 3.0, the first version to be really popular, was released in May
1990.  The first version to directly support outline fonts came out in
April 1992.  The first 32-bit version, also the first with pre-emptive
multitasking, arrived in July 1993, but it was for a specialized market.
The vast majority of Windows users wouldn't be invited to go 32-bit until
August of last year, a full decade late.

> Microsoft purchased a packaged called PC-DOS and renamed it MS-DOS.

According to folklore, MS purchased something called QDOS, the Quick and
Dirty OS.  "PC-DOS" was essentially what MS-DOS was called if it came
bundled with IBM hardware.

- Ernie                              http://www.access.digex.net/~erniew


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Curt Gandy wrote:
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > The Tesselation Times section of 3D Artist magazine reports in their news
> > section [to be included in their next issue], that a new version of
> > Lightwave is coming the first quarter of 1997.  Has anyone else heard
> > anything about this?  What will the upgrade policy be for people buying
> > the current version?  Any info appreciated.  Check 3D Artist mag's site on
> > the Web and confirm the news for yourself there.  If it's true, hopefully
> > it outdoes MAX!!!
>
> I am anxiuos to see what the next version will contain but I already
> think it outdoes MAX with version 5! My wish list would be volumetric
> lighting, particle system and support for multiple cpu's (althought he
> networked rendering works great). Everything Lightwave already does
> costs much less than MAX and that leaves me room to buy other goodies.
>
> Curt Gandy
> World In Motion Productions
> [e-mail]

How about drag and drop heirarchy for IK?

Paul

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Sherrill)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
using for playstation, sega, etc.

I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
the obvious!)

Mike Sherrill
Pixelmedia Group
[e-mail]
http://members.tripod.com/~Pixel

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From: Howard Webb <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave availability in U.K. ??
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David Mclennan wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>          Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if anybody in this newsgroup
> knew about the availability of lightwave in the United Kingdom, or even better,
> Scotland.

Dave,
I recently bought LW5 from AMG New Media Studios Ltd, 101-109 Ladbroke
Grove, London, W11 1PG, phone [phone], fax [phone].
As far as I know they are the only UK dealer for Newtek products.  They
also provide technical support and seemed pretty knowledgeable when I
spoke to them. Give em a ring and buy Lightwave!

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Richard Green wrote:
>
>         Has anyone had problems w/ this combination....
>
> I am using the newtek avi saver and selecting cinepack at 100 % and I just see
> lock up heaven when saving avi files
>
> Anyone had any experience?
>
> Richard Green
> WTVT-Fox13
I've been having terrible problems with saving AVI's too, I tried
everything, it seems to be cured now by commenting out the line
VIDC.IV41=ir41.dll
in the [DRIVERS] section of system.ini
I hope this works for you too.

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ItsJustMe <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Experienced Illustrator, Designer, Draftsman,
>with 3d modeling and animation training. with 15 years experience.

So are you saying that... ummm... the Comodore's and Atari's had 3D
graphics programs back then?  Damn I must have missed out on the last
15 years.

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From: [e-mail] (me)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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[e-mail] (Michael Sherrill) wrote:
>
>I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
>using for playstation, sega, etc.
>
>I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
>lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
>the obvious!)
>

WESTWOOD!!!! Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer, Lands of Lore) use
Lightwave.  Check www.westwood.com for their new release Red Alert
coming out next week.  Also, their work is in and on the Lightwave 5
manuals.  Another is BlueSky coming out with Assasin(?).  VTU AUgust
96 has a section on companies using Lightwave.  Umm... Blizzard,
makers of Warcraft II and the highly anticipated Diablo use 3DS Max
(www.blizzard.com).  And alot of other companies use PowerAnimator
(SGI), which exports to various different platforms including
Playstation and has a game package (buy separately) for game
development.  I use Lightwave and PowerAnimator (starting to).  I find
Lightwave easier to use is less of a memory hog, and PowerANimator has
great particle effects but a HUGE memory hog (my new SGI should fix
that).  Also, you have to look at cost.... Lightwave is the cheaper of
the 3 and was ported to everything under the sun (to include the SUN).
3DS Max has a great plug in arch. but they can't seem to port that
sucker to even Alpha.  And PowerAnimator is great if you/your firm has
the money and time time to spin up on the software.

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Subject: Re: New Lightwave Version 1997
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[e-mail] wrote:
>The Tesselation Times section of 3D Artist magazine reports in their news
>section [to be included in their next issue], that a new version of
>Lightwave is coming the first quarter of 1997.  Has anyone else heard
>anything about this?  What will the upgrade policy be for people buying
>the current version?  Any info appreciated.  Check 3D Artist mag's site on
>the Web and confirm the news for yourself there.  If it's true, hopefully
>it outdoes MAX!!!

That's a spokesperson from Intergraph that's saying that. (I just read
it).  It might be just an incremental patch for the RenderGL system
Intergraph is I guess developed and they want Newtek to incorporate it
so they can sell their computers (maybe packaged with Lightwave).

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From: Johan Steen <[e-mail]>
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I need a util/patch so I can write paths like:

"sys:prefs\presets\example"

instead of

"sys:prefs/presets/example"


Does it exist any utility which can accomplish this??

/Johan

           -> Buy Amiga software, it's worth every single $$$! <-
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From: John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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To: Michael Sherrill <[e-mail]>

Michael Sherrill wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
> using for playstation, sega, etc.
>
> I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
> lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
> the obvious!)

We're a small game developer that recently had to make the choice.

Despite my personal respect for and ownership of Lightwave, and its dramatic
cost savings, we decided to go with 3DS Max instead.

Lightwave has a better modeler, and a better renderer. These factors may be
enough for you, and indeed, when we come to doing fluff animations, we may
go out and buy Lightwave.

However, our major requirement was for doing low-poly animated characters, and
the 3DS animation environment is so much pleasanter to use than Lightwave's Layout
that it swung the deal. Things like the integrated animation/modelling, and the
proper support for UV mapped surfaces were also important factors.

Please, no flames. This was our decision based on our particular requirements.
I expect that Lightwave will catch up and fix these problems, but we have to
work with what is available today, not what is promised for tomorrow.

Good luck.

John.

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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> [e-mail] (J. Schlaghecke) wrote:
>
> >Clegg <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >>I have seen it done a million times by othe rpeople but I cant get the
> >>effiect to work fo me.  where you have a section of text "glow" or look
> >>like it is so there is a haze of light around it.. sorta like a hot
> >>piece of metal glowin and has a "cloud" fo light around it.
>
> >>Please help me figure out how to do this cool thing..
>
> >>Oh and how do I get a negative of a text segment lie so ther is a square
> >>but the text is cut out of it.  Please help me with this
>
> >>Thanks a 1000000
> >>--
> >>                           ----/\=Clegg=/\----
> >>                            [e-mail]
> >>                  "Everything under the sun is in tune,
> >>                   But the sun is eclipsed by the moon"
> >>                                      --Pink Floyd, DSOTM
> >>                    '96
> >Sound to me like you should start reading the manuals that come with
> >Lightwave.
>
> >J. Schlaghecke
> >Digitix Publishing Int'l
>
> Maybe some of us haven't got the newest versions of LW with all the
> new tricks in the manuals. That doesn't mean it can't be accomplished
> with what we have., except for the fact we don't have the tips and
> tutorials. I suggest that if you can't be helpful you ought to not
> bother to reply in the first place. The world is fucked up enough
> without sarcastic know it all pricks who think their shit don't stink.
> (I don't mean that in a bad way!)

What version of LW are you using?

Paul

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On 15 Nov 1996 09:46:56 GMT, [e-mail] (G.P. Tootell)
wrote:

>|> Monthly fees:  $25 per month for 25 megs of space and 2,000 hits per
>|> month on your site.
>|>
>|> Added optional expenses:  For each meg over the 25 mentioned above, the
>|> fee is $5 dollars.  For more hits per month, you can pay an extra $5 per
>|> 1,000 hits.
>
>how on earth do you guarentee a set number of 'hits' like this?

They probably send some guy to your site and hit the reload button a
few THOUSAND times. :-)



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From: Ines Gonzalez <[e-mail]>
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After creating some avi previews with LW, I thought it might be nice to
add sound to the anims.  Is there any PD s/w that will allow me to do
this?  Or do I have to shell out for Premiere?

Chris


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Throw more RAM at the problem. It's the solution to EVERYTHING! RAM fixes
bugs, really! It lets you treat your hard drives with tender loving care,
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From: "Darren M LaMarr" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:44:20 GMT
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On ONE level I have to disagree with you.  Lets set up a little cyber
experiment.  Go shoot something on FILM, DIGITAL BETACAM, BETA SP, S-VHS, &
VHS (We will have to drop the film down a generation to broadcast it - or
'encode' it somehow).  Let's assume that we use the 'best' equipment
available for aquisition of each format, and for broadcast.  Now, while it
is true that the broadcast will be received in a composite format, there
will be SIGNIFICANT differences in the 'LOOK' of each format & the formats
ability to stay within legal NTSC parameters.  So, using 'Broadcast
Quality' formats is for more then generational purposes.


--
Darren M. LaMarr
Senior Editor/Production Supervisor
Bay Cable Advertising
(Oh, and LW Fanatic too!!)

> Actually, all broadcasts are transmitted as composite signals.  S-VHS
signals
> (actually Y/C signals) are "better" than broadcast quality (or are
capable of
> being better than broadcast quality).  The confusion comes in when you
start
> talking about equipment typically used in the broadcast industry.
>
> The broadcast industry typically uses equipment that is much better than
> broadcast quality so that it can better withstand the generational losses

> involved in making copies, editing etc.  Hence, BetaCam SP is typically
> considered to be a minimum for "broadcast" quality.  Even though its
output is
> better than what actually goes out over the airwaves or cable.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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

>

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: Lightwave "shading language" possable?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:31:03 GMT
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>>his doesn't preclude, however, *anyone* from writing their
own renderer or plug-ins to support the Renderman Specification >>

Yes, this was my point. It would be cool to see support within the
proprietary renderers of LW, 3dS, Alias, etc to deal with shaders written
as renderman shaders. This would enable one to learn a single shading
language (and a very successful one at that) and be able to program
shaders for various renderers.Also, it would enable companies to
commercially sell shaders usable in more than one 3d package.

This is not a new idea, of couse. This is part of what Pixar had in mind
when they first released the spec (oh those many years ago). Still, maybe
it was ahead of its time...maybe now is the time.

-H

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From: [e-mail] (Denver Trouton)
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Hi,

    I'm currently evaluating the current use of HCI in drawing / CAD type
computer applications.  I would appreciate it if any of you could complete the
following questionnaire and return it to me at

[e-mail]

Thanks you for your time,

Denver Trouton

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Questionnaire
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How often do you encounter problems which involve moving objects, confusing coordinates or copying
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Never:
Occasionally:
Often:
Very Often:

How annoying do you find these problems when/if you encounter them?

Not at all:
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How often do you encounter problems involving confusion as to what mode (drawing / selecting etc.) you
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From: Ben Cannon <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Heads Up! Will Vinton Studios on Oprah!
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:18:10 -0800
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> The Oprah! show scheduled for 4:00pm Monday in Portland OR on Ch.8.(of
> course different times/dates in your area) is titled something like "How
> They Did That."
> The show is to feature the work involved making the Nissan ad with the
> dolls driving a toy 300ZX. (million dollar commercial, totally cool, seems
> to be selling cars.)

Sounds neat, but as to that add, Nissan no longer makes the 300ZX !!!!
(at least, not in the 'states..)

It's a crime, to kill off the Z car in it's golden age.

--
"Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives...."
-Mel Gibson, "Braveheart."
      ~~~>http://168.75.121.10/ben.html<~~~

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From: [e-mail] (Tony Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Realistic landscapes
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:39:42 GMT
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I've been starting on a new project, and I'm having trouble getting
good results creating a landscape with Lightwave.

The landscape would consist of a rocky desert scene with a small bit
of vegitation (maybe one or two trees, but that's the least of my
concern.)

I would like to create areas with sand ripple effects, but mostly just
a rocky/hilly area.  Most parts do not need to be really detailed.  I
can work on some surface textures to fake some of the detail.  Sort of
like Mars, but not as reddish.

The area needs to be big enough for a small outpost consisting of 2-3
buildings, vehicles, and possibly a runway.

Any hints or tips?  Because I'll be doing a lot of animating, I can't
simply create a fractal landscape and use it as a background.

I would also like to hear from people who may have pictures up on a
web page (created with ANY 3d program) depicting a similar scenario.
Just looking at something like that may help.  (Note: I can't purchase
any additional tools just for this project)

: Come see the graphics gallery on my web page!                           :
...........................................................................
: Tony Schreiner                       : 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2  :
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From: [e-mail] (Dana Drury)
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    Hey,

    For almost the past 2 years I have been functioning happily with
bones by building my boned object, and loading them into the scene, or
building the scene around them. However I do see that I need to load
multiple copies of the same object and when you do that the bones aren't
carried across, so is there anyway to do this, or save the bones with an
object because this doesn't seem to happen, unless I have been missing
something all these years.  --

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Date: 17 Nov 1996 22:43:34 GMT
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  I tried creating a volumetric cloud using particles and the
surffuzzshader plugin.  At times I had good results, but other times, the
fuzz would darken or fade... on the SAME FRAME!!  What's going on here?  I
didn't have shadow mapping either... there wasn't any shadows playing with
it.
  When I animated this, the fuzz cloud would sometimes blink lighter
darker.  Very strange and unacceptable.  Anyone have a clue?  Stuart?
Allen?
  Thanks

David Carlson
CONTINUUM
3D graphics and animation

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From: "Joan Gusart" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: 3ds TOYOTA CELICA NEEDED
Date: 17 Nov 1996 22:27:36 GMT
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Has someone a 3ds '96 toyota celica model , or do you know where it is
available at a reasonable prize. (max. 90$)
Thankyou.

--
J. Gusart
[e-mail]
http://www.redestb.es/personal/jgusart/index.html


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From: Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]>
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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]> Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]> writes:
> >From: Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]>
> >Subject: Re: New SGI O2 : how much?
> >Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:59:12 -0800
>
[snip]

> > If I had 150$/hr for each hour I've spent configuring/reconfiguring
> >installing dll's reinstalling windows (ad nauseum) on our PC's,
> >I could have bought 3 or 4 more SGI's.
>
> > Paul
> >  [e-mail]
>
> >>
> >> 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
>
> That type of service can be purchased at most PC computer shops for around
> $35/hour.  But if you can get someone to pay you $150/hr then great.

 Most places need an in house "guru" who can at leastfigure out when
you have a drive problem or a virus- otherwise your PC spends more
time sitting in the shop than working for you.

>
> If you can earn $150/hr animating - and stay busy at it - then why are you
 Usually busy.

> spending it configuring/reconfiguring?  Hire it out or buy a preconfigured
> system. Upgrading systems is not always the best economic choice - regardless
> of the platform.

 We used to use the PC for scanning and burning CD's. More than once
I naivly bought a card and spent hours making it work. (misc. IRQ
problems IO address conficts bios shadowing issues etc.) The system
was bought as a turnkey system and worked ok, execpt for a slow ethernet
card (200kps).
 Installing new games that blew over existing QT dll or didn't have
needed ones add to the insult.

 cya
   paul
>
> 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

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From: Gregg Lukomski <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:52:16 -0800
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Darren M LaMarr wrote:
>
> On ONE level I have to disagree with you.  Lets set up a little cyber
> experiment.  Go shoot something on FILM, DIGITAL BETACAM, BETA SP, S-VHS, &
> VHS (We will have to drop the film down a generation to broadcast it - or
> 'encode' it somehow).  Let's assume that we use the 'best' equipment
> available for aquisition of each format, and for broadcast.  Now, while it
> is true that the broadcast will be received in a composite format, there
> will be SIGNIFICANT differences in the 'LOOK' of each format & the formats
> ability to stay within legal NTSC parameters.  So, using 'Broadcast
> Quality' formats is for more then generational purposes.

   Very true!  'Broadcast Quality' and "Meeting Broadcast Spec' are two
totally different things these days.  "America's funniest home videos"
and
"real TV" are simple examples.  With current black box hardware,
*anything*
can be modieifed to reach CCIR-601 and RS-170A (I know these have
changed,
but this is just for example).  Heck, you can 'broadcast' from a
Pixelvision
2000 camera if you want to by stripping and replacing the carrier/sync
and adjusting saturation levels :)

   The question these days is more 'quality' related than before.  You
could broadcast sequences layed off of a DC20, but I wouldn't want to :)
You can also record to Beta-SP on a Sony UVW-1800 via S-Video
connetions,
but you'd pay for it down the road.  You have to decide then, on which
hardware generates the 'cleanest' non-artifacted video you can possibly
get your hands on.

  IMHO, the PVR is pretty darn cost effective when teamed with a
UVW-1800
for doing local broadcast work.  If you need the quality for national
spots or high end clients, rent time on a true uncompressed DDR and
lay off to a 'D' format for master generation...  In both cases, the
signals will be clean enough to meet 'broadcast spec', but you'll get
a better 'looking' final product from the DDR/Dx setup.

--
Gregg Lukomski
Orlando, Florida
[e-mail]

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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:36:53 +0100, Mateusz Boczar
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>Looking for login and password to tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu ftp site...

wrong address for a start, they moved, or changed name awhile ago now

try tomahawk.grandi.com and login anonymous as normal

    Andrew (Crazy) Barnett
==============================
Email:[e-mail]
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     Lightwave 3D Artist
        Babylon 5 Fan


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From: Winston Helgason <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:59:42 -0800
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Wilson Tang wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
> to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
> without having to be converted to polygons first?
> Just think this would give me one more reason to claim LW5.0 as the best
> 3d soft bar none;)
>
> --
> WILSON TANG - Creative Director
> meta<   Planning + Design   Inter<  Net + Active  >  >
>   [e-mail]  <www.meta-i.com/wilson_tang>
>   [e-mail] <www.catouzer.com/satelight>
>   SATELIGHT Inc.,Takeyama White Bldg.,5F,N7,W4,Sapporo
>   T [phone]                  F [phone]
> ------------------------------------------------------
> The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape
> has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.
> When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart,
> the end of cities begins. - Italo Calvino (1923-85)

I don't think this is possible in Lightwave's current form since the
renderer is only capable of dealing with polygons - Metamation is great
though for working with bones. I have to admit though it would be nice to
be able to keep the object in it's  nice gooey state.


Winston Helgason
Digital Artist
[e-mail]


p.s. Hey Wilson we got some snow today! Don't feel alone.

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From: [e-mail]
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Is Discreet Logic developing a Flint/Flame/Fire for O2?
Will these products be useable as stand-alone systems or only as prep.
stations?
Thanks in advance,
Philipp Schloter

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From: "Tom Taylor" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Realistic landscapes
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Have a look at my web page, I have a mars landscape plus some others.
--
Tom Taylor
mailto:[e-mail]
http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt


Tony Schreiner <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> I've been starting on a new project, and I'm having trouble getting
> good results creating a landscape with Lightwave.
>
> The landscape would consist of a rocky desert scene with a small bit
> of vegitation (maybe one or two trees, but that's the least of my
> concern.)

> : Come see the graphics gallery on my web page!
:
>
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> : Tony Schreiner                       : 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2
:
> : http://holly.colostate.edu/~tschrein : INTP.  TKD.  Computer Science.
:
>
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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:24:51 +1000
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Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> Wilson Tang <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
> >to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
> >without having to be converted to polygons first?
> >Just think this would give me one more reason to claim LW5.0 as the best
> >3d soft bar none;)
>
> You can do it already. Look it up in the manual under "metamation".
>
> MCL-

It's not quite animating MetaNurbs is it? It's more like animating an
"unmetaformed" mesh then replacing it with the metaformed one, both
being polygonal, not metanurbs. Could be wrong, often have been. :)

Directly animating and deforming the "MetaNurb" object without
freezing,then
"freezing" at a preview render/full render, would be very cool.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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Subject: "Under" water surface?
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   Hello Lightwavers, I'm looking for some suggestions for surfacing a
plane of water from the perspective of the camera being underwater and
looking up towards the surface.  It seems to me that specularity would be
the key to a realistic surface.  I've tried a polygonal plane with a
crumple bumpmap and a largely transparent surface surround by a blue
half-sphere with refraction turned on, but I can't seem to get the right
effect (maybe I'm lighting the scene incorrectly).  The underwater
"ceiling" has to fade out into backdrop fog as well.


   Suggestions?   I seem to remember a discussion similar to this a while
back, is  there a FAQ?

  Best,

  Greg


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     I would really KILL for a schematic viewport in Lightwave similar to
SI's (or even the stupid file manager)  The practical "list" method
employed in Lightwave suddenly becomes very UN-practical and cumbersome
when you replace 400 particles with objects and try to scroll through the
list.  NewTek PLEASE (at least!) include in the next version of LW the
ability to collapse parented objects into a "root" object to cut down the
the legth of the scroll list.  It would also be nice to assign attributes
to one object and have them automatically assigned to all of it's
children.

          Best,

          Greg



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From: Steve Hurley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Bones
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Dana Drury wrote:
>
>         Hey,
>
>         For almost the past 2 years I have been functioning happily with
> bones by building my boned object, and loading them into the scene, or
> building the scene around them. However I do see that I need to load
> multiple copies of the same object and when you do that the bones aren't
> carried across, so is there anyway to do this, or save the bones with an
> object because this doesn't seem to happen, unless I have been missing
> something all these years.  --


  Try cloning the boned original to make your copies

--
Steve Hurley
Visit My Lightwave Page
http://world.std.com/~shurley


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Subject: Re: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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>I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
>using for playstation, sega, etc

Playstation has made some deal with NewTek to make LightWave part of
an official software development kit, but as with most companies,
everyones'
got their own preferences and faves.
--Brian
========   http://members.aol.com/virtualbri/   =======
== Home of the LightWave 3D Internet Resource Lists  ==
=============  100 hits a day and growing  =============
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From: Richard Krueger <[e-mail]>
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>
> Not sure if I should dignify this wiht a response, but I've gotta point
> out that O2's graphics is on a slide-out card.
>
> And to all you NT lovers, feel free to say what you think of the new O2
> once you've seen one in action.
>
> Please don't respond to mere marketing hype that could mean nothing,
> or everything.
>
> It just perpetuates a contest of ignorance.
> --
> "Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives...."
> -Mel Gibson, "Braveheart."
>       ~~~>http://168.75.121.10/ben.html<~~~

Speaking of IGNORANCE, the O2's graphics is NOT on a
slide out card per se. The O2's motherboard is on a
slide out card, and the graphics board is, stupidly,
on that motherboard. SGI's upgrades for motherboard
aren't likely to be cheap.

Great engineering behind that machine, but the final
result is very underwhelming.

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Dana Drury wrote:
>
>         Hey,
>
>         For almost the past 2 years I have been functioning happily with
> bones by building my boned object, and loading them into the scene, or
> building the scene around them. However I do see that I need to load
> multiple copies of the same object and when you do that the bones aren't
> carried across, so is there anyway to do this, or save the bones with an
> object because this doesn't seem to happen, unless I have been missing
> something all these years.  --

Maybe I missed something in your question, but I'm sure you know that
bone information is not saved with the object, only the scene.  If you
need multiple copies of the boned object just "Load from Scene" the
object with bones into another scene as many times as you need.  They
will come in with their bones intact.  Ax

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From: Martin Taylor <[e-mail]>
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I am running a Matrox Millenium 4mb Card in a Pentium System. In Layout
under options panel I have set the Point/Polygon threshold to equal the
number of polygons stated under the Objects panel. This is to view
objects as solid while moving them.

After exiting Layout, I have called up a different scene, and the Point
Polygon threshold seems to remain as I set it previously. The problem
is, when test rendering a frame, 'Clipping' of some parts of the scene
seems to occur. Anyone experienced this? Is it a problem with my card,
or do I just need to remember to reset the point/polygon threshold?

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Larry )
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:28:52 -0800, John Brandwood <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Michael Sherrill wrote:
> >
> > I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game
developers are
> > using for playstation, sega, etc.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game
developers using
> > lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same
(besides
> > the obvious!)
>
> We're a small game developer that recently had to make the choice.
>
> Despite my personal respect for and ownership of Lightwave, and its
dramatic
> cost savings, we decided to go with 3DS Max instead.
>
> Lightwave has a better modeler, and a better renderer. These
factors may be
> enough for you, and indeed, when we come to doing fluff animations,
we may
> go out and buy Lightwave.
>
> However, our major requirement was for doing low-poly animated
characters, and
> the 3DS animation environment is so much pleasanter to use than
Lightwave's Layout
> that it swung the deal. Things like the integrated
animation/modelling, and the
> proper support for UV mapped surfaces were also important factors.
>
> Please, no flames. This was our decision based on our particular
requirements.
> I expect that Lightwave will catch up and fix these problems, but
we have to
> work with what is available today, not what is promised for
tomorrow.

I have been lead artist for a video game company. We decided to use
LW for low poly characters for a Playstation title that featured real
time, low poly 3D characters. I have yet to find a better low poly
modeler than Lightwave. We decided to base our animation on the
PlayStation on Sonys MiME format which is a morph based animation
system. All our characters were generally around 600 polys and
seamless. We wanted to emphasize the organic nature of the
characters. I used Lightwaves spline patching tools to create all the
characters. There are other programs that support splines but
Lightwave is the only one that I found that allowed me to control the
poly count in each patch on the fly. I could decided not only how
many polys per patch but where I should put more or less polys.Again,
this is on a patch by patch basis. It is easy and the amount of
control is fantastic. I could create a nice low poly, organic
character in less than 4 hours. The texturing was not a problem since
we just reapplied them using sonys art tools. I will send samples to
anyone that asks.

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metamation is a different process to metanurbs, the subdivisions are not as
controllable in metamation & the smoothing is slightly different. You can
use morph targets with metanurbs but you must convert each shape to
polygons and not select
automatic.
--
Tom Taylor
mailto:[e-mail]
http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt


Michael C. Ling <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> Wilson Tang <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
> >to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
> >without having to be converted to polygons first?
>
> You can do it already. Look it up in the manual under "metamation".
>
> MCL-
>

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> I searched the entire LW5 CD for Painterly Effects, where is it?

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Where can I fan PAINTERLY EFFECTS?

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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Kirk Hutchinson wrote:

> > Decide which software you want to use, then determine which type of card
> > that software prefers.
>
> Yep.  But, for most REAL (workstation class-professional) 3D programs,
> OpenGL is a standard.

As well they should.  I would like to see all the software developers use
open standards that are platform (and os) independent.  This makes the
most sense in any case so I do not understand why ANYONE would write
simply to a Windoze-only standard.  You can write software that will work
equally well on a Windoze box, OS/2 box, BeBox, Mac, Linux box, etc if
you dump the stupid MS designs and stick with such as OpenGL and OpenDoc.

If software requires some form of MS os only, then it is not a product
for me.

patrick

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On 17 Nov 1996 22:20:56 GMT, [e-mail] (Dana Drury) wrote:

>
>    Hey,
>
>    For almost the past 2 years I have been functioning happily with
>bones by building my boned object, and loading them into the scene, or
>building the scene around them. However I do see that I need to load
>multiple copies of the same object and when you do that the bones aren't
>carried across, so is there anyway to do this, or save the bones with an
>object because this doesn't seem to happen, unless I have been missing
>something all these years.  --


Unfortunately, the bones are saved with the scene file and not with
the object.  I have had this problem also.  The work-around I have
used is to use the "Load from Scene" option.  Choose the scene that
you are currently in and it will load in a duplicate of your object,
bones, keyframes and all.  Hope that helps.

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What is the best option for saving animations under Lightwave?
I normally create separate jpegs, and then convert them to flc.
Problem is, flc has only 256 colors. Please help!


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From: Curt Gandy <[e-mail]>
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Ines Gonzalez wrote:
>
> After creating some avi previews with LW, I thought it might be nice to
> add sound to the anims.  Is there any PD s/w that will allow me to do
> this?  Or do I have to shell out for Premiere?
>
> Chris

I'm not sure about public domain stuff, but consider this: Premiere is a
good option, but you might want to consider Autodesk's Animator Studio
which can be had for about $280 (about half the cost of Premiere). You
can add sound and save the avi with compression or as other movie
formats. Also, the onion skin feature and painting tools of Animator
Studio make it a great addition for 2D animation and for some
post-processing FX.

Curt Gandy
Worlds In Motion Productions
[e-mail]

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From: Joseph Maas <[e-mail]>
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Jean-Eric Hénault wrote:
>

>
> Beside, you have to be nuts to try to do high-end 3D on a Mac...


Gosh. I've been making a confortable living doing high-end 3D on a Mac
for the last eight years. I guess I should get a whole new wardrobe full
of straight jackets.

Joseph Maas, partner
paragon3

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Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.

Joe Clasen
Joe's Digital Bar&Grill

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From: [e-mail] (Danny Kusters)
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Subject: Star Wars objects?
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Can anyone tell me where I can find Star Wars objects/scenes for
Lightwave?


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Dr. Giggles (gasp) wrote:
>
> On 15 Nov 1996 09:46:56 GMT, [e-mail] (G.P. Tootell)
> wrote:
>
> >|> Monthly fees:  $25 per month for 25 megs of space and 2,000 hits per
> >|> month on your site.
> >|>
> >|> Added optional expenses:  For each meg over the 25 mentioned above, the
> >|> fee is $5 dollars.  For more hits per month, you can pay an extra $5 per
> >|> 1,000 hits.
> >
> >how on earth do you guarentee a set number of 'hits' like this?
>
> They probably send some guy to your site and hit the reload button a
> few THOUSAND times. :-)

You are reading it incorrectly.  There is no guarantee to the number of
hits.  They are saying that you can have UP TO 2,000 hits per month,
after which, they will charge you more per month to host your site.
This is typical.

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From: Joseph Maas <[e-mail]>
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Subject: What about Martin Hash's 3-Dimensional Animation?
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And or Hash's Anamation Master software? I would like to hear from users
regarding: Program stability? Rendering speed? Capability? Professional
level software? Can you meet real deadlines with the package?

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From: Susan Ishida <[e-mail]>
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Susan Ishida wrote:
>
> Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
> metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
> and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
> WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
> the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.
>
That's www.mindspring.com/~surferjoe

Don't forget that tilde

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I would also like to second this. I use Lightwave & the thought of
suplementing LW with Animation Master is interesting, Does anybody on this
news group use both on a regular basis, & if so, please let us know what
you think????????

Tom Taylor
mailto:[e-mail]
http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt


Joseph Maas <[e-mail]> wrote in article <[e-mail]>...
> And or Hash's Anamation Master software? I would like to hear from users
> regarding: Program stability? Rendering speed? Capability? Professional
> level software? Can you meet real deadlines with the package?


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From: "Tom Taylor" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Star Wars objects?
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You dont know the power.. of the dark side!
http://www.surfthe.net/swma/
--
Tom Taylor
mailto:[e-mail]
http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt


Danny Kusters <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<56osnm$[e-mail]>...
> Can anyone tell me where I can find Star Wars objects/scenes for
> Lightwave?
>
>

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <01bbd4d0$5c8ab1a0$2fd4bbcd@darren-lamarr> "Darren M LaMarr" <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: "Darren M LaMarr" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
>Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:44:20 GMT

>On ONE level I have to disagree with you.  Lets set up a little cyber
>experiment.  Go shoot something on FILM, DIGITAL BETACAM, BETA SP, S-VHS, &
>VHS (We will have to drop the film down a generation to broadcast it - or
>'encode' it somehow).  Let's assume that we use the 'best' equipment
>available for aquisition of each format, and for broadcast.  Now, while it
>is true that the broadcast will be received in a composite format, there
>will be SIGNIFICANT differences in the 'LOOK' of each format & the formats
>ability to stay within legal NTSC parameters.  So, using 'Broadcast
>Quality' formats is for more then generational purposes.


The fact is that "broadcast quality" means different things to different
people.  For instance some consider it to mean that the electrical signal
meets specific electrical requirements (RS-170a?).  Others would say that the
image quality is the determining factor.  For instance you could take a VHS
tape and run it through a high quality TBC and produce an electrical signal
that was "legal" and hence "broadcast quality".  Nonetheless, the picture
would look like crap since the VHS recording significantly degraded the
picture quality.

The ever popular PVR is another great example.  If I understand its
specifications correctly, it actually does some of its sampling at better than
D1 levels.  Nonetheless, the image is degraded slightly by the MJPEG
artifacting even though the electrical signal it outputs is generally
considered excellent.  So, is it broadcast quality?  That is a matter of
opinion and industry concensus (or lack of it).

I will grant you that film has a definitely different "look".  I
suspect that has something to do with the difference in its "characteristic
curve" as compared to video or perhaps its dynamic range.  I doubt that film
grain would be visible after being transfered to video.

 I'm not so sure about the video formats though.  Even though a Y/C signal
can be electrically up to the task, S-VHS simply can't capture
the full resolution available in the NTSC signal.  (S-VHS being a tape format
and not simply the Y/C signal specification often refered to as S-VHS.)  So
you would probably see a difference if only due to its initial inferior
resolution. VHS would be even more noticeable.

This leaves BetaSP and Digital Beta unaccounted for.  My suspicion is that the
differences between these higher quality - "broadcast" video formats such as
these would be fairly subtle (I know that some people consider BetaSP to have
a soft look to it).  I further suspect that once these formats are output via
composite that the signal interferences this creates would make the
differences that much more subtle.  Add the losses and noise created by
modulating and broadcasting - and losses and noise from having a consumer
electronic product demodulate the signal and the subtleties ought to virtually
disapear.  Just the difference in a PVR's component image and the same
device's composite image can visually dramatic.  In fact, so much so that it
is a good idea to preview work using a composite output.

There may be other reasons for using the higher quality video and
signal formats than to preserve image quality during the various processes
that program material must endure prior to broadcast.  But surely (with the
exception of shooting in film) preserving image/signal quality is the main
reason.


>--
>Darren M. LaMarr
>Senior Editor/Production Supervisor
>Bay Cable Advertising
>(Oh, and LW Fanatic too!!)

>> Actually, all broadcasts are transmitted as composite signals.  S-VHS
>signals
>> (actually Y/C signals) are "better" than broadcast quality (or are
>capable of
>> being better than broadcast quality).  The confusion comes in when you
>start
>> talking about equipment typically used in the broadcast industry.
>>
>> The broadcast industry typically uses equipment that is much better than
>> broadcast quality so that it can better withstand the generational losses

>> involved in making copies, editing etc.  Hence, BetaCam SP is typically
>> considered to be a minimum for "broadcast" quality.  Even though its
>output is
>> better than what actually goes out over the airwaves or cable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>>

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

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From: [e-mail] (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
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In article <[e-mail]> Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]> writes:
>From: Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: New SGI O2 : how much?
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:15:56 -0800

>Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:
>>
>> In article <[e-mail]> Paul Bruggeman
><[e-mail]> writes:
>> >From: Paul Bruggeman <[e-mail]>
>> >Subject: Re: New SGI O2 : how much?
>> >Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:59:12 -0800
>>
>[snip]
>
>> > If I had 150$/hr for each hour I've spent configuring/reconfiguring
>> >installing dll's reinstalling windows (ad nauseum) on our PC's,
>> >I could have bought 3 or 4 more SGI's.
>>
>> > Paul
>> >  [e-mail]
>>
>> >>
>> >> Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]

>> That type of service can be purchased at most PC computer shops for around
>> $35/hour.  But if you can get someone to pay you $150/hr then great.

> Most places need an in house "guru" who can at leastfigure out when
>you have a drive problem or a virus- otherwise your PC spends more
>time sitting in the shop than working for you.

And I doubt he/she is paid $150/hour.  I'm that guy at our studio.

>> If you can earn $150/hr animating - and stay busy at it - then why are you
> Usually busy.

>> spending it configuring/reconfiguring?  Hire it out or buy a preconfigured
>> system. Upgrading systems is not always the best economic choice - regardless
>> of the platform.

> We used to use the PC for scanning and burning CD's. More than once
>I naivly bought a card and spent hours making it work. (misc. IRQ
>problems IO address conficts bios shadowing issues etc.) The system
>was bought as a turnkey system and worked ok, execpt for a slow ethernet
>card (200kps).
> Installing new games that blew over existing QT dll or didn't have
>needed ones add to the insult.

> cya
>   paul

My main point in all this is that your $150/hr and 3-4 SGIs worth of time is
pretty meaningless.  If your time is really worth that much, it is silly to
spend it configuring a PC.  You could hire someone to come to your place and
fix things for less.  In all likelihood, your time really isn't worth $150/hr.


Walter (Jay) Turberville         |[e-mail]  [e-mail]
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> Windows?    Mac and Amiga ten years earlier

Winodows 1.0 was demoed back in 1983. The Macintosh was born in 1984 and
the Amiga in late 1985.

> Basic?      Didn't he steal that too? (I might be thinking of MS DOS)

Microsoft was the first company to design Basic for the Intel processor.
Microsoft was also commissionned to design the original basic for the
Tandy computer line back in the late 70's as well as for the Commodore
PET, the Apple computer line and Texas Instrument home computer line
among others. It was in 1980 that IBM came to Microsoft to design
BASICA. Microsoft purchased a packaged called PC-DOS and renamed it
MS-DOS. Microsoft also had the genius of selling it only $60 box, a
fraction of the other alternatives like CP/M.

Jean-Eric Hénault

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    The techniques worked, please in the next lightwave would newtek
save the bones with the object please (not that loading from a scene isn't
all that bad just annoying...) --

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Ive also been wondering about the same thing.
I remember running across something that said LW5.0 supports Playstation
3d formats but have yet to find any real info on how this is done.
would appreciate any info on this also:)


Michael Sherrill wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
> using for playstation, sega, etc.
>
> I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
> lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
> the obvious!)
>
> Mike Sherrill
> Pixelmedia Group
> [e-mail]
> http://members.tripod.com/~Pixel

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Subject: LWO conversion playstation RSD
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I found out that a importer/exporter of playstation's RSD format is
available to officially registered playstation developers from sony's
bbs site.
There is also supposed to be a co. called Opus in tokyo (tel.
011-81-3-5707-7878) that newtek claims to have a conversion lwo-rsd
product available.
Does anyone have experience with either of these? do they export import
$B!!(Jtexture mapping info too???

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I found out that a importer/exporter of playstation's RSD format is
available to officially registered playstation developers from sony's
bbs site.
There is also supposed to be a co. called Opus in tokyo (tel.
011-81-3-5707-7878) that newtek claims to have a conversion lwo-rsd
product available.
Does anyone have experience with either of these? do they export import
texture mapping info too???


wilson wrote:
>
> Ive also been wondering about the same thing.
> I remember running across something that said LW5.0 supports Playstation
> 3d formats but have yet to find any real info on how this is done.
> would appreciate any info on this also:)
>
> Michael Sherrill wrote:
> >
> > I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
> > using for playstation, sega, etc.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
> > lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
> > the obvious!)
> >
> > Mike Sherrill
> > Pixelmedia Group
> > [e-mail]
> > http://members.tripod.com/~Pixel

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thanx for the tip - this certainly sounds cool - but i dont seem to be
able to access that page - is the address correct? has it moved?

Susan Ishida wrote:
>
> Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
> metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
> and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
> WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
> the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.
>
> Joe Clasen
> Joe's Digital Bar&Grill

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From: wilson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs not metaforms
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I checked the manual again and the metamation.p makes no reference to
any control over Metanurbs.....Do you know something they don't?

Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> Wilson Tang <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
> >to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
> >without having to be converted to polygons first?
> >Just think this would give me one more reason to claim LW5.0 as the best
> >3d soft bar none;)
>
> You can do it already. Look it up in the manual under "metamation".
>
> MCL-

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From: [e-mail]
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:40:33 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

>[e-mail] (J. Schlaghecke) wrote:
>
>>Clegg <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>>I have seen it done a million times by othe rpeople but I cant get the
>>>effiect to work fo me.  where you have a section of text "glow" or look
>>>like it is so there is a haze of light around it.. sorta like a hot
>>>piece of metal glowin and has a "cloud" fo light around it.
>
>>>Please help me figure out how to do this cool thing..
>
>>>Oh and how do I get a negative of a text segment lie so ther is a square
>>>but the text is cut out of it.  Please help me with this
>
>>>Thanks a 1000000
>>>--
>>>                           ----/\=Clegg=/\----
>>>                            [e-mail]
>>>                  "Everything under the sun is in tune,
>>>                   But the sun is eclipsed by the moon"
>>>                                      --Pink Floyd, DSOTM
>>>                    '96
>>Sound to me like you should start reading the manuals that come with
>>Lightwave.
>
>
>>J. Schlaghecke
>>Digitix Publishing Int'l
>
>Maybe some of us haven't got the newest versions of LW with all the
>new tricks in the manuals. That doesn't mean it can't be accomplished
>with what we have., except for the fact we don't have the tips and
>tutorials. I suggest that if you can't be helpful you ought to not
>bother to reply in the first place. The world is fucked up enough
>without sarcastic know it all pricks who think their shit don't stink.
>(I don't mean that in a bad way!)
>


I agree!  Be part of the solution - not part of the problem!
                        Jim   [e-mail]

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Anyone knows where to find film grain plugin for LW. Thanks in advance.

Eddie
CyberTech

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KL Choi wrote:
>
> Can any one who migrated from 3DS to LW please comment a bit why you were
> doing this, if not for the $?  Thanks.

Well, at the end of the day it usually comes down to money but in the
case of Lightwave its 'value for money'(VFM) instead.

3DS originally cost me £2500. I could never really afford proper Ipas'
so I had to make do with the few that were included and the odd freebie.
I'd got to the point were I was considering the expensive upgrade to Max
when I thought I may as well look around at the competition. Lightwave
stood out a mile. It would only cost me the same as the Max upgrade,
included Lensflares, Bones, IK, effectors, etc. etc.. Loads of things as
standard that would cost me £200+ pounds each for the Max Plugin. Add to
this the ability to properly ray-trace and a rendering engine that
produced, IMHO, better results than 3DS and suddenly Max looked a bit
iffy. Some of the inbuilt facilities in Max are excellent but it didn't
offer VFM. I sold 3DS4 and with the money bought Lightwave and half a
dozen odds and ends I'd wanted for a long time. I've never regretted it.
In the UK press Lightwave tends to get slated for its interface, cheap
price and because it isn't produced by Autodesk. Personally I'd rather
have LW's interface over 3DS4, Max or trueSpace, and as for price, what
more can I say.

Paddy

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Hi Lightwavers,

I am working on a short scifi - film of which I intend to preview
certain passages on a pc.

Could anyone give a hint on what settings (camera, record, etc) are to
use to produce a goodlooking animation.

The previews go onto a multimedia demo cd and should therefore be of
good quality.

I appreciate any hints!

Cheers, Michael

PS: Does anyone know a site where "known LW 5.0 bugs" are listed?

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kirk wrote
>If you are planning on doing any 3D modelling, etc..., you need a board that
>will support OpenGL.  If you want to play games you need DirectX and Direct3D.
>Depending on your price range, I would recommend the Matrox Millenium, or
>even better, one of the Imagine 128 boards.

I have an I128 series 2, I WISH I could find software that takes
advantage of it's supposed 3D acceleration.  I recently downloaded
drivers that claimed some sort of OpenGL acceleration under NT 4.0 but
didn't notice any real change. Of course the only modelling package I
have is TS2, which uses an old version of Intel's 3DR, which does
accelerate my card in any obvious way. Of course there is no
information about this on the Imagine Web page, don't get me wrong i'm
pretty happy with the card, it's darned fast for 90% of what I do, but
I just can't find anything that takes advantage of its 3D capability.

Craig Earls

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Software Age (http://www.softwareage.com) has an easily searchable
database of over 2,000 software products, information on 700 software
developers, a calendar of software-related conferences and expositions,
and a list of trade associations and user groups.

Software users can type in a short description of the type of software
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If you find Software Age useful, BOOKMARK the site for future reference.



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From: Glenn Johnson <[e-mail]>
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I used to work at Airbus Industrie, and there were lots of interiors,
all modelled perfectly, but these are extremely expensive. I'm not sure
about Boeing.
--
Glenn Johnson, VR Research Leader,
University of Salford, Adelphi Campus, Salford, M3 6EQ, ENGLAND

Tel: [phone](ext.486)
Fax: [phone]

http://www.salford.ac.uk/cdmt/gjohnson/HP3.htm
mailto:[e-mail]

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Shadow wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 03:37:34 -0800, Philip Page <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> >G.O.T wrote:
> >>
> >> I am looking for professional 3D artist who wants to work on
> >> a commission basis on a new web site project.
> >>
> >> Extras: Free Homepage, E-Mail account, ftp etc.
> >>
> >> please reply ASAP
> >> dan
> >
> >More Info please?
>
> Yes I agree please send us more information.
>
> or you can e-mail me @    [e-mail]

THIS IS MY E-MAIL:

[e-mail]

I was looking for the 3d-artists.

dan

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From: [e-mail] (Joris D inhuurkracht)
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Hi,

I recently converted from Imagine 4.0 (for DOS) to
Lightwave 4.0. Is there a plugin for LW to read objects
from Imagine? I tried to save the object in Imagine as
a .DXF file, but when I load that in Lightwave, it
crashes. I don't know if it is a fault in Imagine
or LW.

I found a demo for Polytrans, the object convertor, but
I would prefer a plugin. I don't care about textures not
being converted, I just don't want to start all my
objects all over again.

Thanks


Dennis.
--
Ing. D.M. Joris,  Software Specialist,
Philips CE/ASA Lab,                tel: [phone]
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In article <5685bc$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Chris Golchert) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Chris Golchert)
>Subject: Re: Bill Gates copied Apple's OS!!! HA!!!!
>Date: 11 Nov 1996 21:20:44 GMT


>I'm not a computer history major, but..what was BG/MS's last original
>idea?

what, now universities are offering "computer history" as a major?:-)
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download the video for windows developer kit from microsoft's ftp site. it
has a functional and free sound utility. as well as videdit which despite
the fact that i have premiere and animator studio, always manages to save
my butt in a deadline situation.


Ines Gonzalez <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> After creating some avi previews with LW, I thought it might be nice to
> add sound to the anims.  Is there any PD s/w that will allow me to do
> this?  Or do I have to shell out for Premiere?
>
> Chris
>
>

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In article <56o348$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Dana Drury)
writes:

>    Hey,
>
>    For almost the past 2 years I have been functioning happily with
>bones by building my boned object, and loading them into the scene, or
>building the scene around them. However I do see that I need to load
>multiple copies of the same object and when you do that the bones aren't
>carried across, so is there anyway to do this, or save the bones with an
>object because this doesn't seem to happen, unless I have been missing
>something all these years.  --

  Try 'Load from Scene.'  :)

David Carlson
CONTINUUM
3D graphics and animation

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Joseph Maas wrote:
>
> They say that you can do brodcast quality renderings with LW, however,
> in the Video Toster User mag all you see is S-VHS type hardware for sale
> to record LW animations. Is'nt S-VHS for "Bronco Bob's Used Cars" local
> TV spot, and Betacam SP for the true brodcast quality used for all of
> the network stuff,,,, or am I missing something here?

You are missing something here, but it is very slight. True, Betacam SP
is considered to be the best analog tape you can use, but S-VHS has the
same horizontal resolution (400 lines) at Beta SP, so the quality
difference is on the same level, but S-VHS suffers more loss after
multiple generations.

So, if you were to master an animation to S-VHS and ship to the TV
station for insertion, there's not really a problem. Only real snobby
die-hard engineers will give you the nose-up at S-VHS.

TL

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Animation Master is a nice "toy" but a waste of time for any serious work....

most of it's "features" are very non-standard.

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I know a couple of the guys who program games at Interplay, and they use
Lightwave there......



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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:15:08 -0500
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Laura Rogers wrote:
>
> Animation Master is a nice "toy" but a waste of time for any serious work....
>
> most of it's "features" are very non-standard.

Hahaha, you have got to be kidding. Have you talked to any professional
character animators? AM and MH3D are the tools of choice for many
professional animators. Just check on the Character Animators mailing
list where people from the likes of Disney and PIXAR will give LOADS of
praise to the Hash "toys". Hash has the best character animation tools
next to Softimage and PA. Nothing else on the PC or Mac comes close. I
would call its UI non standard, but there is nothing non-standard about
its feature list.

Jeff

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Subject: Re: The Scoop on LWPRO
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:46:40 GMT
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This saddens me greatly especially LWPRO. Now originally LWPro was an
independent publication with NO advertising. Anyone interested in
trying that again and staying away from corporate assholes like M-F
(good initials for them). On top of that M-F has been flooding me with
requests to renew both publications :( WTF Do you LWPro types have no
compete clauses in your contracts? Cause I'd like to resatrt as an
"independent" piece again.On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:05:26 GMT,
[e-mail] (John Gross) wrote:

>Hello everybody.
>
>The rumors you have heard about LWPRO and VTU are true. Miller Freeman,
>the new owners of the Avid publications have decided (for reasons beyond
>my control and/or understanding) to terminate both LWPRO and VTU. A press
>release will be posted (if it hasn't already).
>
>I'd like to thank all of you who have stuck with LWPRO over the years....
>
>John Gross
>editor (former), LWPRO




John Donlevie
Road-Ease, Inc.
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From: Miguel Marn <[e-mail]>
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Subject: LW-Antialiasing?
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How can I use antialiasing everywhere, but on the edges
between foreground objects and the background? I would need
it for rendered game-objects, and I don't want to work on
the edges manually. Thanx. Mig 23.

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From: flogic@198.59.115.2 (Phillip Minke)
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Subject: re: amiga vs. ppro200
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>
>
> It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
> a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
> better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.
>
> I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
> the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.
>
> "but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
> - PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.
>
> Geoff Suttor
> Animator.
> Digital Video Productions Australia.
> WK: mailto:[e-mail]
> HM: mailto:[e-mail]
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phillip Minke wrote:
  No I didnt, but I have a 1200 060 and a PC. Rendering on the PC is much faster
but the Amiga still has the better programs for batch processing and painting I still put my anims on tape from my Amiga because the PC stil costs too much for video while it is standard in my Amiga.
> > > What a stupid subject line, huh?  Maybe not.  I worked with PCs in my
> > > company's MIS department as network administrator for 2 years.  I have
> > > been using an Amiga in one form or another (currently an
> > > 040/Toaster/Flyer) for 9 years.  As a lightwave user, I need the
> > > rendering power of a Pentium so I finally bought a PPro
> > > 200Mhz/64meg/Adaptec 2940UW/Diamond Stealth PCI blah blah blah.  The Pro
> > > SMOKED the Amiga (no surprise), but multitasking IS A JOKE!  I couldn't
> > > believe that this NT computing monster couldn't keep up with my Amiga in
> > > switching tasks, flipping screens (pc users say 'what's that?'), and
> > > general interface speed.  Add to that fact that it takes about a minute
> > > to get to NT from cold boot and about 25 sec to get to AmigaDOS.
>
> > > Chris Gonzalez
> .



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Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:42:34 +1100, Geoff Suttor
<[e-mail]> wrote:

Full driving pleasure eh?

I gotta agree I have an Amiga 2000/040 Toaster system I bought in
1990. I still make money of that system. I also have a PPRo180 machine
networked in purely for rendering speed. Its also nice to have full
screen picture editing in photoshop. Although I have been tempted to
add Image FX to Amiga for ops that are natural for Amiga like going to
video via the Toaster or PAR. Thought about a Flyer also, but torn
between that and a Perception.

Another thread here mentioned screen/task switching, you'd think with
all the power the PPro has PLUS a Millenium GFX card that that would
be fluid but NOT. Bill Gates just doesn't know "blitter"

PPro kicks butt in rendering though and I like surfing the web from
the Wintel machine.

Guess its a two computer world, it sure helps the human multitask
better :)



John Donlevie
Road-Ease, Inc.
Drexel Hill, PA
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From: "Commercial Illusions" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Model of a cat needed
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Does anyone have a realistic model of a cat?


Sincerely,

Barry Bahrami
--
Commercial Illusions
"America's Multimedia Company"
2934 Ingelow Street
San Diego, CA  92106
[phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Arijan Siska)
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Subject: Re: 3D ARTISTS wanted!!!!
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me ([e-mail]) wrote:
: ItsJustMe <[e-mail]> wrote:
: > Experienced Illustrator, Designer, Draftsman,
: >with 3d modeling and animation training. with 15 years experience.

: So are you saying that... ummm... the Comodore's and Atari's had 3D
: graphics programs back then?  Damn I must have missed out on the last
: 15 years.

yes it had, i never owned an atari, but my friend did and there were
definetly some programs on it.

i however owned commodore 64 and used a public domain program called
giga-cad, and this was a 3d modeling/rendering program i used a lot.
you could even do animations with it. i can probably send you some sample
pictures of models i made with it.
yes this was all very primitive, but the c64 had 64Kb of ram.
still it worked......
and yes you definetly missed the last 15 years!
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                    Arijan


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From: "Brad Bowman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: A/BOX computer - The Amiga Lives
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No flames here, just wondering. Does Art Effects have the layering
capabilities of Photoshop. I am ex-Amiga geek who has migrated to the PC
and haven't kept up with what is going on with the Amiga. Also, is there an
illustration program with the power of Corel Draw on the Amiga?

--
Brad Bowman
Digital Artist
http://members.aol.com/bmocgraph

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From: Todd Shafer <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: 3D ARTISTS wanted!!!!
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Arijan Siska wrote:
>
> me ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : ItsJustMe <[e-mail]> wrote:
> : > Experienced Illustrator, Designer, Draftsman,
> : >with 3d modeling and animation training. with 15 years experience.
>
> : So are you saying that... ummm... the Comodore's and Atari's had 3D
> : graphics programs back then?  Damn I must have missed out on the last
> : 15 years.
>

Yes, The Atari ST series had a pretty good set of software that went by
the name of CyberStudio (Cyber Sculpt, Cyber Script, etc.).  No
raytracing, IK, etc. but it was a pretty decent package for the time.
There was even 3D LCD glasses support and support for VCR's with RS-2??
connection for frame by frame rendering to tape.  Actually, the artist
Daryll Anderson that has had works on Autodesk's demo reels used to
produce works with the Atari on this CyberStudio package.

I first used these packages in the early 80's.


>                                         Arijan
>
>
> E-mail: [e-mail]
>    WWW: http://luz.fe.uni-lj.si/users/arijan-eng.html

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From: TL Westgate <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
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Joseph Maas wrote:

>
> Yeah hooo!!!!!! Broco Bob sayz thanks!!!!
>
> Actually, you have confirmed my suspitions here. What about frame by
> frame recording vs. realtime?

It depends on your realtime recorder. If you don't have something on the
level of a PVR card or better, do frame-by-frame.

TL

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From: [e-mail] (marino domenico)
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Lightwave 4.0c (with original manuals and keylock) for sale at £
700.000 (lire italiane.....)

reply via e-mail....

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From: "Brad Bowman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
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Sir,
I am a former Amiga Zealot that used to make quite a living with an Amiga
2000 and an Amiga 500. It was quite a machine. I say was. Its architecture,
if it evolved at the speed the PC has, would blow the socks off of the
current entry. I to had a PC side by side with an Amiga and finally had to
shut the Amiga off because of two reasons. they are:

1) In multimedia development you need to author on systems that are
compatible with your target platform. We author for PCs so we author on
PCs. We could have used a Mac because Director and Authorware give at least
a bit of cross platform compatibility.

2) The Amiga was to bloody expensive to upgrade. With PC graphics cards
proces falling and their power going up, it was a no brainer. I tried to
keep the Amiga on life support for as long as I could but we finally had to
turn it off. :(

Some have posted about the resurrection of the Amiga 4000 tower and how it
is the return of the Amy but they are only kidding themselves. A computer
using an 040 or even an 060 are using a chip that is at the end of its life
cycle. An with current pricing, the Amiga is no longer the computer to give
the most bang for the buck, it is now a very expensive computer indeed.

--
Brad Bowman
Digital Artist
http://members.aol.com/bmocgraph

Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
> a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
> better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.
>
> I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
> the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.
>
> "but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
> - PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.
>
> Geoff Suttor
> Animator.
> Digital Video Productions Australia.
> WK: mailto:[e-mail]
> HM: mailto:[e-mail]
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phillip Minke wrote:
>
> > > What a stupid subject line, huh?  Maybe not.  I worked with PCs in my
> > > company's MIS department as network administrator for 2 years.  I
have
> > > been using an Amiga in one form or another (currently an
> > > 040/Toaster/Flyer) for 9 years.  As a lightwave user, I need the
> > > rendering power of a Pentium so I finally bought a PPro
> > > 200Mhz/64meg/Adaptec 2940UW/Diamond Stealth PCI blah blah blah.  The
Pro
> > > SMOKED the Amiga (no surprise), but multitasking IS A JOKE!  I
couldn't
> > > believe that this NT computing monster couldn't keep up with my Amiga
in
> > > switching tasks, flipping screens (pc users say 'what's that?'), and
> > > general interface speed.  Add to that fact that it takes about a
minute
> > > to get to NT from cold boot and about 25 sec to get to AmigaDOS.
>
> > > Chris Gonzalez
>

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Hi there,
Can anyone help with this request as i'm really struggling

Please email me at [e-mail]

Thanks


TOTO

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From: Marc Wolff <[e-mail]>
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Does anyone have an educated guess as to when LightWave 3D will be
available for the SGI O2 that runs IRIX 6.3?

Thanks in advance.

Marc

--
Marc Wolff
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Phillip Minke wrote:

> Geoff Suttor wrote:
> >
> > It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
> > a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
> > better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.
> >
> > I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
> > the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.
> >
> > "but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
> > - PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.
> >
> > Geoff Suttor

My point is "There's more to a computer than raw CPU grunt" :)
I hope it's more clear now.

> Phillip Minke wrote:
> No I didnt, but I have a 1200 060 and a PC. Rendering on the PC is much faster
> but the Amiga still has the better programs for batch processing and painting
> I still put my anims on tape from my Amiga because the PC still
> costs too much for video while it is standard in my Amiga.

No you didn't what??
You have the right idea, PC = Renderer, Amiga = producer/allrounder,
perfect combination of applications. :)

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
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wilson wrote:
>
> thanx for the tip - this certainly sounds cool - but i dont seem to be
> able to access that page - is the address correct? has it moved?
>
> Susan Ishida wrote:
> >
> > Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
> > metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
> > and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
> > WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
> > the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.
> >
> > Joe Clasen
> > Joe's Digital Bar&Grill

WOW, puppet master looks awsome!!!!

Anyone, More info PLEEEEEASE!

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
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Subject: ART WARSELL - have you seen him?  $50 REWARD
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ART WARSELL is a ripoff con who stole money from me, and I am offering
a $50 reward to anyone who can give me information that leads to his
wherabouts.  He buys and sells used computer hardware, mainly AMIGA
hardware, he also works with INDY computers on Animations.  Anyway...
I put down $400 on a computer card which I later decided not to buy
off of him because I found out he overcharged me on another item when
he sold it to me for 3x its value.  Then I asked for the $400 back, he
would not give it back to me, I took it to court, won, and now he owes
me this money, he never paid it on time, so the local constable held a
public autciuon on his property to pay me off, but when the date of the
auction arrived, ART was not there, he took all of his belongings, and
moved out to evade this action, anyway I will pay you $50 directly by
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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Imagine object plugin?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 23:48:11 GMT
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In article <56prdc$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Joris D inhuurkracht) wrote:
>I recently converted from Imagine 4.0 (for DOS) to
>Lightwave 4.0. Is there a plugin for LW to read objects
>from Imagine? I tried to save the object in Imagine as
>a .DXF file, but when I load that in Lightwave, it
>crashes. I don't know if it is a fault in Imagine
>or LW.
>
>I found a demo for Polytrans, the object convertor, but
>I would prefer a plugin. I don't care about textures not
>being converted, I just don't want to start all my
>objects all over again.
>Thanks
>Dennis.

Hi Dennis

I used to use Imagine and if I need my old objects I just convert them to DXF
and bring them into LW.

If you are getting crashes, then there is something else wrong.

Try editing your lw.cfg (after backing it up) and remove anything that looks
like an ACAD converter or Trans3d. Then reinstall the plugins.

If this doens't work, try Newtek's ftp site (ftp.newtek.com) and download the
plugin and see if it's a later version.

After that, I'm running out of ideas. Anyone else?

Cheers

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
3D animation and graphics
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

http://www.tasmall.com.au/imagine_it/

The Librarian Rules! - OOOK!
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From: Mark Midolla <[e-mail]>
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Chuck Baker wrote:
>
> On 11-Nov-96 11:15:31, Mark Midolla ([e-mail]) in
> comp.graphics.apps.lightwave, re: <LW5 Amiga, Newtek, all I want is a
> progress update> said:
> >Newtek,
>
> >All I want is a progress update every couple of weeks as to where its
> >at, instead of just silence.
>
> The product team has not completed testing and debugging of the product
> yet.  Beyond that, there is no more that they are willing to say.  When
> the product is ready, it will be shipped as quickly as production
> logistics can make it happen.
>
> ======================================================================
> Chuck Baker -- NewTek, Inc., Technical Support Services
> ======================================================================

OK thanx

Mark

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From: Kirk Hutchinson <[e-mail]>
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I just read yesterday that someone found Direct 3D (DirectX v2) drivers
from either Matrox or Imagine (sorry, can't remember).  If you can't
get them directly from Nine's site (their site is pretty lame...), I
would continuously Email them about it.  You'd be supprised at the
attention a squeeky wheel gets! :)  I saw that they have DirectX
support, but it may only be a short time before they provide hardware
support for version 2.

If you get them, let me know.  I would like to either purchase that
board, or the new boards with the as of yet un-announced 3Dfx super
chip. <hint, hint>

kirk

Craig P. Earls wrote:
>
> I have an I128 series 2, I WISH I could find software that takes
> advantage of it's supposed 3D acceleration.  I recently downloaded
> drivers that claimed some sort of OpenGL acceleration under NT 4.0 but
> didn't notice any real change. Of course the only modelling package I
> have is TS2, which uses an old version of Intel's 3DR, which does
> accelerate my card in any obvious way. Of course there is no
> information about this on the Imagine Web page, don't get me wrong i'm
> pretty happy with the card, it's darned fast for 90% of what I do, but
> I just can't find anything that takes advantage of its 3D capability.
>
> Craig Earls

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From: [e-mail] (Michael C. Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
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Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Michael C. Ling wrote:
>>
>> Wilson Tang <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> >Does anyone know if Newtek or any one else is planning to write a plugin
>> >to allow metanurbs to be animated in layout by bones, keyframes etc.
>> >without having to be converted to polygons first?
>> >Just think this would give me one more reason to claim LW5.0 as the best
>> >3d soft bar none;)
>>
>> You can do it already. Look it up in the manual under "metamation".
>>
>> MCL-
>
>It's not quite animating MetaNurbs is it? It's more like animating an
>"unmetaformed" mesh then replacing it with the metaformed one, both
>being polygonal, not metanurbs. Could be wrong, often have been. :)
>
>Directly animating and deforming the "MetaNurb" object without
>freezing,then
>"freezing" at a preview render/full render, would be very cool.

I repeat:
YOU CAN ANIMATE METANURBS OBJECTS
IN LAYOUT VIA METAMATION.

CONSULT YOUR MANUAL!

...and there's NO FREEZING INVOLVED,
well... not exactly.

Look up metamation and see. :')

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> > >More Info please?
> >
> > Yes I agree please send us more information.
> >
> > or you can e-mail me @    [e-mail]

I am interested in this job, but I also would like information and have
lost the original e-mail address.

> You can post free jobs available or jobs wanted at 101 Hollywood Blvd's JOB JOBS JOBS page
> http://home.navisfot.com/brewpubclub/101.htm

When I try this url, I get a DNS error.

Brian Davis
[e-mail]

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Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote:


>> > Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
>> > metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
>> > and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
>> > WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
>> > the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.
>> >
>> > Joe Clasen
>> > Joe's Digital Bar&Grill
>
>WOW, puppet master looks awsome!!!!
>
>Anyone, More info PLEEEEEASE!

I get the impression from the www page that it's available now, but I
have NOT seen anyone online who's seen it first hand.

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grundman wrote:
>
> Er, excuse me guys, but shouldn't you be replying via email and not on
> the newsgroup? It's beginning to look like those lame 'me too' threads
> in the sex groups, heh heh.

Hubba hubba hubba!  :-)

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Brad Bowman wrote:

> Some have posted about the resurrection of the Amiga 4000 tower and how it
> is the return of the Amy but they are only kidding themselves. A computer
> using an 040 or even an 060 are using a chip that is at the end of its life
> cycle. An with current pricing, the Amiga is no longer the computer to give
> the most bang for the buck, it is now a very expensive computer indeed.

Agreed, seconded, totaly right! :) Youd have to be kidding to think an
'040
or '060 could compete, but, how about an "A/BOX" computer running duel
PowerPC or Alpha cpu's with an AmigaOS (advanced), now wouldn't that be
bloody brilliant!! :)

Cheers,

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
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Joris D inhuurkracht wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently converted from Imagine 4.0 (for DOS) to
> Lightwave 4.0. Is there a plugin for LW to read objects
> from Imagine? I tried to save the object in Imagine as
> a .DXF file, but when I load that in Lightwave, it
> crashes. I don't know if it is a fault in Imagine
> or LW.
>
> I found a demo for Polytrans, the object convertor, but
> I would prefer a plugin. I don't care about textures not
> being converted, I just don't want to start all my
> objects all over again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dennis.
> --
> Ing. D.M. Joris,  Software Specialist,
> Philips CE/ASA Lab,                             tel: [phone]
> Building : SFJ-7                                     [phone]
> E-mail   : [e-mail]           fax: [phone]
>          : [e-mail] (na 21:00 reply)
> Homepage : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/gto
> ====================================================================
> Butt-Head: That SUCKS, uh uhu uhu.
> Beavis: Yeah.... and it SUCKS too, uhuhu uhu uh.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------

Check out Interchange by Syndesis. I think they are out of Jefferson
City, Wisconsin. The program is famous on the Amiga and Intel side for
3D file format conversions and I know it works with Imagine to Lightwave
plus many others. In fact, the 3D Studio, OBJ, DXF and other conversions
that Modeler uses are the plugins from Syndesis. It cost about $400 but
if you call now and say "the Big Easy," they will throw in 3 cd-roms of
3D models plus some other goodies. Sorry, I don't have the number handy,
but call information!

Curt Gandy
World In Motion Productions
[e-mail]

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TOTO wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> Can anyone help with this request as i'm really struggling
>
> Please email me at [e-mail]
>
> Thanks
>
> TOTO

Check out the tutorials that come with Lightwave. Also, buy Alan Chan's
book , Lightwave FX (covers version 4.0) available from Lightspeed:

http://www.webcom.com/lghtspd

Additionally, check out Dan Ablan's great new book on Lightwave, the
Lightwave Power User's Guide. More info is available at:

http://www.mcp.com/cgi-bin/bag?isbn=1-56205-633-6&last=/bookstore

Good luck!

Curt Gandy
World In Motion Productions
[e-mail]

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Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> I am not sure I understand what you mean, but metamation does allow
> you to animate metanurb objects(not frozen) in layout. The process
> involves using a metanurbs object and a metaformplus'ed version of the
> metanurbs object simultaneously in layout. Metamation, I think, only
> allows one level of polygon subvision selected; you can not mix and
> match subdivisions.
>
> M C L -

I see what your saying now, you think that the POLYGON version (ie, not
tabed)
is the MetaNURB object, guess what, its a POLYGON cage of the metaNURB
object.
Not the splined version which is what the initial poster wanted to
animate in
layout with bones etc.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
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From: Ben Cannon <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Brodcast quality? Betacam SP or S-VHS
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 02:21:18 -0800
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TL Westgate wrote:

> So, if you were to master an animation to S-VHS and ship to the TV
> station for insertion, there's not really a problem. Only real snobby
> die-hard engineers will give you the nose-up at S-VHS.

For them, you do what I do, run down to the local TV station and
borrow use of their equipment in exchange for a few "intro" animations :)

Watch the "die-hard's" jaw drop as you waltz in with D1 media and some stuff you
"just whipped up this morning" on gold Write-once Laserdiscs :)

Best
Ben.
--
"Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives...."
-Mel Gibson, "Braveheart."
      ~~~>http://168.75.121.10/ben.html<~~~

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Subject: FOR SALE: Pentium 100 , 40 Megs Ram , PAR and 1.0 Gig Drive, Lightwave 4.0, Logowizard, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95
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FOR SALE:
Pentium 100 ,
1.0 Gig C: Drive
850 Meg D: Drive
40 Megs Ram ,
PAR and 1.0 Gig Drive,
Lightwave 4.0,
Logowizard,
Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 95,
MS Office Pro


I will accept the best offer I get. E-mail me at [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (vaibhav goel)
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Subject: Re: What about Martin Hash's 3-Dimensional Animation?
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In article <[e-mail]>, Jeff Jasper  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Laura Rogers wrote:
>
>Hahaha, you have got to be kidding. Have you talked to any professional
>character animators? AM and MH3D are the tools of choice for many
>professional animators. Just check on the Character Animators mailing
>list where people from the likes of Disney and PIXAR will give LOADS of
>praise to the Hash "toys". Hash has the best character animation tools
>next to Softimage and PA. Nothing else on the PC or Mac comes close. I
>would call its UI non standard, but there is nothing non-standard about
>its feature list.
>

This is true.  I think it might have been a case of sour grapes with the
original poster ;) (Can't figure the software out so it probably sucks) :P
A considerable amount of time and effort has to be invested in the
software before you can be productive with it and start doing cool stuff
but thats pretty much true with any software available today.


Regards,

Vaibhav


--
[vaibhav goel] [[e-mail]] [http://www.servtech.com/public/vgoel]
[computer graphics . animation . unix . networking . games]
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From: [e-mail] (Paul Griswold)
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Subject: Visit Fusion Films!
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For those of you who have always wondered what Fusion Films actually
looks like, you now have your chance.  We have put up some photos of
our building as well as a shot inside the office.

To jump directly to the photos, go to:

http://www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion/company.htm

Fusion Films is located in southern New Hampshire, just north of
Boston.  We use software like Lightwave, Softimage, Speed Razor Mach
III,  some custom code, some beta code, and lots of Duke Nukem and
Quake. We use a combination of 500 MHz Alphas and Pentium Pros.

Anyway, stop by for a visit.  The site is still a bit under
construction, so all of the links might not work.

Thanks!

Paul Griswold

Fusion Films Inc.               Co-head button pusher
www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
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Tom Taylor wrote:
>
> Hey Geoff, I think you guys have formed a love connection.
> --
> Tom Taylor
> mailto:[e-mail]
> http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt

:) :) :) - He he, good one Tom.

Get back to work and stop wasting time on these newsgroups like me.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs not metaforms
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Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> I just checked; it's on page 159 in the LW3D reference manual under
> metaform_shaper and metaform_target. Metamation lets you use an
> unfrozen metanurbs object in layout; it involves loading in two
> versions of the object, a metanurbs version and metaformplus version.
> The whole procedure is on pages 159-160.
>

Wrong, not a metanurbs version and a metaformplus version,
it's a POLYGON cage version and a metaformplus version.
I can now see that you are looking at the terms, MetaNURB and
metafrom cage as the same thing because in modeler, the cage
can be <TABED> into metaNURBS.
Think about this, If Metanurbs could be manipulated in
Layout in it's spline version, then what is the need of
the metaformplus high-res version of the object, there
isn't one because you could alway just "freeze" the deformed
metanurb object at render time. Which you cant because you
CAN NOT see/manipulate a metaNURBS object in layout, only
the POLYGON cage that made it in modeller.

Seeya,

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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Hey Geoff, I think you guys have formed a love connection.
--
Tom Taylor
mailto:[e-mail]
http://londo.dvp.com.au/~tomt


Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> > I repeat:
> > YOU CAN ANIMATE METANURBS OBJECTS
> > IN LAYOUT VIA METAMATION.
> >
> > CONSULT YOUR MANUAL!
> >
> > ...and there's NO FREEZING INVOLVED,
> > well... not exactly.
> >
> > Look up metamation and see. :')
> >
> > M C L -
>
> I'll quote from the manual, without SHOUTING! ;)
>
> Metamation works with two objects. The first, the metaform cage,
> is the simple, low POLYGON-count object that you animate. It
> gives the Metamation plug-in information about what points have
> been moved and where. The second object, which we'll call the
> 'meta' object, is the smooth, high POLYGON-count object that
> renders. Before each frame is rendered, Metamation metaforms
> the cage object and uses this new set of points to reshape the
> meta object. You create both objects in modeler.
>
> 1) Two "POLYGON" objects.
> 2) You create both objects in modeler, the first one you can use
> metanurbs to model it, then hit TAB and save the POLYGON object
> as the cage. You then have to Metaform (ie. POLYGONS) it using
> metaform plus and input a number of subdivisions, and usually
> triple it. Then save this as you 'meta" object, NOT NURBS.
> 3) You can load a MetaNURB object into Layout but it is
> invisible because layout needs/uses POLYGONS.
> 4) If you know something I dont about loading a Metanurb object
> into Layout (un-frozen in it's spline state) and get it to render
> then PLEEEEASE tell us all! :)
>
> Apologies to Newtek for quoting out of the manual.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Geoff Suttor
> Animator.
> Digital Video Productions Australia.
> WK: mailto:[e-mail]
> HM: mailto:[e-mail]
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec
>

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"G.O.T" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I am looking for professional 3D artist who wants to work on
>a commission basis on a new web site project.

>Extras: Free Homepage, E-Mail account, ftp etc.

>please reply ASAP
>dan

Here's Argentina listening....
Tell me more about....

[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Michael C. Ling)
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Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Michael C. Ling wrote:
>>
>> I just checked; it's on page 159 in the LW3D reference manual under
>> metaform_shaper and metaform_target. Metamation lets you use an
>> unfrozen metanurbs object in layout; it involves loading in two
>> versions of the object, a metanurbs version and metaformplus version.
>> The whole procedure is on pages 159-160.
>>
>
>Wrong, not a metanurbs version and a metaformplus version,
>it's a POLYGON cage version and a metaformplus version.

Semantics. Actually they say in the manual "quad-based object used as
a meta-nurb cage".

>I can now see that you are looking at the terms, MetaNURB and
>metafrom cage as the same thing because in modeler, the cage
>can be <TABED> into metaNURBS.

quad-polygon-object/metanurb cage analogous to meteors/meteorites?

>Think about this, If Metanurbs could be manipulated in
>Layout in it's spline version,

Bones, deformation maps, morphing.

>then what is the need of
>the metaformplus high-res version of the object,

Not knowing how it's done, I am guessing that it is a needed part of
the process. Perhaps they are using two objects to store the needed
data without drastically altering the file format? Perhaps the object
onscreen is based on the metaform plus version of the object? Perhaps
this arrangement is temporary until metanurbs is fully integrated into
Lightwave?


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From: Ali Abdullah <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Procedural textures plugins?
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:20:05 +0300
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Simo salonen wrote:
>
>   Hello lightwavers..
>
>    My manual tells me that lw has 10 procedural textures and that there is
> more available as plugins.
>  Anyone know something about these textureplugins? ie. where to find etc..
>
> --
> Simo Salonen      [e-mail]


Try Dynamic Realities ShaderMan.

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From: [e-mail] (Paal Christian Currie)
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In article <[e-mail]> Ines Gonzalez <[e-mail]> writes:


[snipped stuf so that my newsreader lest me post]
> As a lightwave user, I need the
> rendering power of a Pentium so I finally bought a PPro
> 200Mhz/64meg/Adaptec 2940UW/Diamond Stealth PCI blah blah blah.  The Pro
> SMOKED the Amiga (no surprise), but multitasking IS A JOKE!  I couldn't
> believe that this NT computing monster couldn't keep up with my Amiga in
> switching tasks, flipping screens (pc users say 'what's that?'), and
> general interface speed.

Well. Memory protection doesn't exists on the amiga, so it has an obvious
advantage. Buy all things aside, one reason that NT seems slow is that
disk swapping is slow as hell. It almost seems like it swaps segments,
and not pages. If that is the case, then major bummer.


>  Add to that fact that it takes about a minute
> to get to NT from cold boot and about 25 sec to get to AmigaDOS.

Gee, you ought to sit down and go through your startup-sequence. When my
Amiga was still mine I was down to 7 secs. (Full boot with multiuser) :)


--
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Paul Griswold wrote:
>
> For those of you who have always wondered what Fusion Films actually
> looks like, you now have your chance.  We have put up some photos of
> our building as well as a shot inside the office.
>
> To jump directly to the photos, go to:
>
> http://www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion/company.htm

Looks like a scarey place. I don't want to go there! :^)

--
Alex Lugones

Wildseed 3D/Interactive
http://shell.idt.net/~wildseed

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

> All the posted benchmarks I have seen show virtually identical render times.
> There have been some anecdotal reports of NT being faster, but they have not
> been substantiated with benchmark tests.  One of the contentions is that NT
> memory management is superior and that demanding scenes are necessary to show
> the difference.

Well, paging isn't NT strong side. I tried a modestly complex scene on a 32MB
pentium-133, and it used just over two hours to complete the render. Memory usage
peaked at 100MB, and the average CPU load was below 1%, so NT swaps slower than a
snail. Linux is much faster, believe me. But you can't get Lightwave for Linux,
so I guess its rather academic.....

--
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Michael C. Ling wrote:

> I repeat:
> YOU CAN ANIMATE METANURBS OBJECTS
> IN LAYOUT VIA METAMATION.
>
> CONSULT YOUR MANUAL!
>
> ...and there's NO FREEZING INVOLVED,
> well... not exactly.
>
> Look up metamation and see. :')
>
> M C L -

I'll quote from the manual, without SHOUTING! ;)

Metamation works with two objects. The first, the metaform cage,
is the simple, low POLYGON-count object that you animate. It
gives the Metamation plug-in information about what points have
been moved and where. The second object, which we'll call the
'meta' object, is the smooth, high POLYGON-count object that
renders. Before each frame is rendered, Metamation metaforms
the cage object and uses this new set of points to reshape the
meta object. You create both objects in modeler.

1) Two "POLYGON" objects.
2) You create both objects in modeler, the first one you can use
metanurbs to model it, then hit TAB and save the POLYGON object
as the cage. You then have to Metaform (ie. POLYGONS) it using
metaform plus and input a number of subdivisions, and usually
triple it. Then save this as you 'meta" object, NOT NURBS.
3) You can load a MetaNURB object into Layout but it is
invisible because layout needs/uses POLYGONS.
4) If you know something I dont about loading a Metanurb object
into Layout (un-frozen in it's spline state) and get it to render
then PLEEEEASE tell us all! :)

Apologies to Newtek for quoting out of the manual.

Cheers,

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Driskell)
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Subject: Re: Star Wars objects?
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:39:08 GMT
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On 18 Nov 1996 05:37:58 GMT, [e-mail] (Danny Kusters) wrote:

>Can anyone tell me where I can find Star Wars objects/scenes for
>Lightwave?
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>---------------<<<<<<<<<<<<<

alt.binaries.starwars..........................no kidding, there are posts all of the time
about new starwars pages                                                          Bob
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"Should one unhitch his cart before or after passing by the horses?"
      Bob Driskell@ http://www.driskell.interworld.net
                 Home of Digital Alchemy

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From: [e-mail] (Bob Driskell)
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On 18 Nov 1996 23:32:10 GMT, "Sultan" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>xx
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>------------------<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,

You can get it at http://www.dynamic-realities.com  the Dynamic Realities
web site. They carry a full line of Plugins.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>-----------------<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
"Should one unhitch his cart before or after passing by the horses?"
      Bob Driskell@ http://www.driskell.interworld.net
                 Home of Digital Alchemy

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From: [e-mail] (Bjorn-Kare Nilssen)
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In article <[e-mail]>,
Todd Shafer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> : So are you saying that... ummm... the Comodore's and Atari's had 3D
>> : graphics programs back then?  Damn I must have missed out on the last
>> : 15 years.
>>
>
>Yes, The Atari ST series had a pretty good set of software that went by
>the name of CyberStudio (Cyber Sculpt, Cyber Script, etc.).  No
>raytracing, IK, etc. but it was a pretty decent package for the time.
>There was even 3D LCD glasses support and support for VCR's with RS-2??
>connection for frame by frame rendering to tape.  Actually, the artist
>Daryll Anderson that has had works on Autodesk's demo reels used to
>produce works with the Atari on this CyberStudio package.

I also had an Atari ST in the middle of the 80's.
The one and only reason I bought my first computer was the availability of the
3D programs in the Cyber series. And I kept on using them until I got my
first PC (486/50) running Caligari trueSpace.
Very good programs for their time.

Actually they were made by Tom Hudson, who is one of the main programmers
behind 3DStudio. I think Cyber Sculpt had a lot better UI than 3DS though...

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Pugh)
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In article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] wrote:

> Throw more RAM at the problem. It's the solution to EVERYTHING! RAM fixes
> bugs, really! It lets you treat your hard drives with tender loving care,
> make Really Big Stuff, and when you get Ratboy's Patented SmartRAM(tm) it
> rewrites everything you run to be faster, smoother and much more powerful!
> SmartRAM optimized all of Win95 to the point that it fits in 500k and runs
> 7 times faster than before!
>
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>  [e-mail] -- The Future Ain't Here Yet Design Studio
>  Pushing Pixels for a Better Tomorrow
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Hoooooboy....looks like somebody finally found that tutorial on building a crack pipe using MetaNurbs...;-)


Cheers,

          -Steve


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From: Glenn Saunders <[e-mail]>
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The mortal BobaFett wrote:
: You be there. Even if Lightwave 5.0 comes out, PC users will be running
: 6., & you will be running a computer that is obsolite 6 years ago!!!

Maybe you'll learn to spell by then.


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From: [e-mail] (Michael C. Ling)
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
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Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Michael C. Ling wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure I understand what you mean, but metamation does allow
>> you to animate metanurb objects(not frozen) in layout. The process
>> involves using a metanurbs object and a metaformplus'ed version of the
>> metanurbs object simultaneously in layout. Metamation, I think, only
>> allows one level of polygon subvision selected; you can not mix and
>> match subdivisions.
>>
>> M C L -
>
>I see what your saying now, you think that the POLYGON version (ie, not
>tabed)
>is the MetaNURB object, guess what, its a POLYGON cage of the metaNURB
>object.

Heh... I think I know what you are saying now. I think you got it
backwards. The low polygonal object used to create the nurbs cage is
the metanurbs object(when saved while tab key is on) whereas when you
freeze and save the object it is just an ordinary high polygon object,
eventhough it was modelled via metanurbs. I am guessing that the low
polygon object contains the spline data needed for layout.

>Not the splined version which is what the initial poster wanted to
>animate in
>layout with bones etc.

Metamation allows you to animate with nurbs, not polys.


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Subject: Power Texture Plugin
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I cannot get this plugin to work.  When I try to load a bitmap image(any
kind: iff;tiff;bmp, etc.) I get a dialog that says, "Could not load
bitmap image," when I hit 'OK' it closes Modeler.  I heard a rumor that
this plugin doesn't work under Windows 95, is this true?

Paul

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From: [e-mail] (Joris D inhuurkracht)
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Subject: Re: Imagine object plugin?
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In article <56qp24$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Kevin Gleeson) writes:
> In article <56prdc$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Joris D inhuurkracht) wrote:
> >I recently converted from Imagine 4.0 (for DOS) to
> >Lightwave 4.0. Is there a plugin for LW to read objects
> >from Imagine? I tried to save the object in Imagine as
> >a .DXF file, but when I load that in Lightwave, it
> >crashes. I don't know if it is a fault in Imagine
> >or LW.
> >
> >I found a demo for Polytrans, the object convertor, but
> >I would prefer a plugin. I don't care about textures not
> >being converted, I just don't want to start all my
> >objects all over again.
> >Thanks
> >Dennis.
>
> Hi Dennis
>
> I used to use Imagine and if I need my old objects I just convert them to DXF
> and bring them into LW.
>
> If you are getting crashes, then there is something else wrong.
>
> Try editing your lw.cfg (after backing it up) and remove anything that looks
> like an ACAD converter or Trans3d. Then reinstall the plugins.
>
> If this doens't work, try Newtek's ftp site (ftp.newtek.com) and download the
> plugin and see if it's a later version.
>
> After that, I'm running out of ideas. Anyone else?
>
> Cheers

Thanks Kevin, I found the problem myself. I started playing around with
the .DXF settings in Im40 and found that when I chose the option
'3d objects' or something like that, LW loaded the objects fine, with
the other option (the one above the '3d obects'), LW crashed.

Maybe this helps other people watching this space....

Dennis.
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From: [e-mail] (Wiebo de Wit)
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Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:14:31 GMT
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On 18 Nov 96 12:34:47, Phillip Minke wrote:

>> It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
>> a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
>> better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.
>>
>> I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
>> the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.
>>
>> "but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
>> - PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.

Ofcourse... A PC is faster, and an Amiga better... But is it worth the hassle??
I've had an Amiga for 8 years and its multi-tasking system is still unbeaten,
yes.. But speed is critical for me. I wasn't about to fork out lots of cash to
get a 060.. Instead I bought a PC and have never looked back....

Just my opinion.
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From: [e-mail] (Gary Connoley)
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How can I turn an anim into a screensaver .scr for windows?

regards

Gary

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From: "Robert Baldwin" <[e-mail]>
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Well, we're making the very best 3d game *ever* right now!  ;)

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Michael Sherrill <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
>
> I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
> using for playstation, sega, etc.
>
> I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide on major game developers using
> lightwave, and also any drawbacks to using 3ds max for the same (besides
> the obvious!)
>
> Mike Sherrill
> Pixelmedia Group
> [e-mail]
> http://members.tripod.com/~Pixel
>

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From: "Thomas Clark" <thomas@imagestream>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave 5.0 Alpha
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Anyone out there looking to upgrade to LightWave 5.0 for the Alpha.

The version I have is currently unregistered with dongle and manuals.

My Alpha ended up getting stolen from me.

I could sell it outright or trade for a copy of Lightwave 5.0 for the PC.



Make offers

later

[e-mail]

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Marc Wolff wrote:
>
> Does anyone have an educated guess as to when LightWave 3D will be
> available for the SGI O2 that runs IRIX 6.3?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Wolff
> [e-mail]

Wild guess, LW4.0 is already available for SGI, I would think it
works on O2 but am not sure. LW5.0 should be out VERY soon, a
supplier told be last week but he is yet to get it for a demo
I requested. You really want LW 5.0's opengl if your going to
run it on an O2.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
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I have recently aquired the lightwave 5 upgrade.
My problem is that I get a startup failure message after replacing
modeler4 with modeler5.
Someone help me!!!!!!!

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I have recently aquired the lightwave5 upgrade but after replacing
modeler4 w/modeler5, I get a startup failure message.
Has anyone had the same problem?

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Kenneth A. Carter wrote:
>
> Joseph Maas wrote:
> >
> > I have been using Strata Studio Pro for years and it just does not

[Snip!]

> > What would you do?
>
> Joseph,
> Tests show ElectricImage renders 6 times faster than 3dStudio and 10
> times faster than Lightwave. EI will release it's own modeler very
> shortly and you won't need FormZ anymore. Also, they almost have the
> radiosity renderer ready for public consumption. They keep saying that
> there might be something under the Christmas tree. Very Fast! 10sec
> preview renders and 20 minute full renders using radiosity!
>

It also costs 5 or 6 times as much. :^) That, and its lack of procedural
textures , a modeler (just about to be released doesn't = is available
now!), support for only a couple of image maps per serface, a work flow
that pretty much sucks, and the fact that it is a total RAM pig are all
other weaknesses of the program. It DOES render fast though, especially
"bread and butter" stuff like flyng logos. I mean, 1 minute frames with
motion blur and levels of FULLY oversampled anti-aliasing that put every
other rendering program to shame. I have to give EIAS kudos for the
things it does do well. Fast rerndering on even rediculously high
polygon count scenes is one of it's streangths. Increadible motion blur
is another. Um, I can't think of any other pluses though....

I have used Lightwave and Electric Image both enough to have an informed
opinion. Personally, I'd rather use Lightwave and just throw more
horsepower at it. For what you save buy getting Lightwave, you could get
a couple more computers. The only thing you WOULDN'T have that EIAS has
is the awsome looking "Motion Vector Blur"

Hey Allen, how about motion vector blur?! Even on a per object basis
rather than a per pixel basis (like EIAS) motion vector blur would look
smoother than the current over sampled blur LW has.


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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs
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Michael C. Ling wrote:
>
> Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >I see what your saying now, you think that the POLYGON version (ie, not
> >tabed)
> >is the MetaNURB object, guess what, its a POLYGON cage of the metaNURB
> >object.
>
> Heh... I think I know what you are saying now. I think you got it
> backwards. The low polygonal object used to create the nurbs cage is
> the metanurbs object.(when saved while tab key is on)

Yes, when saved in it's spline state it is the metanurb object.
When saved in its polygonal state it is just a polygonal object
that can be coverted to Metanurbs, in MODELER ONLY.

The cage is not the "metaurb object" it's just polygonal data ready to
convert to metanurbs when you hit the TAB key. The metanurb object
is the actual converted spline object created from the polygon cage
when you hit <TAB>, this object when saved, saves the cage and the
"tag" that it has been metanurbed, which MODELER can reload and
use. But Layout just loads the points of the spline metanurb onject
as it can't display anything but polygons, wether they be 1-2-3-4 or
more sided polygons.

Have you tried to ever load a saved metanurb object (spline state) into
Layout? Try it and see what happens, nothing but points. Invisible.

> whereas when you
> freeze and save the object it is just an ordinary high polygon object,
> eventhough it was modelled via metanurbs. I am guessing that the low
> polygon object contains the spline data needed for layout.

Yes you are guessing. The spline data doesn't exist in a usable state
in Layout. Actually if you load the cage object it doesn't exist at all.

> Metamation allows you to animate with nurbs, not polys.

WHERE??? in the section on metamation in the manual does the words
metanurbs/nurbs appear. All I can see is metaform which very
much convert/creates polygonal objects.

Sigh.... Can someone else PLEEEEASE explain this to him I cannot put
it any clearer than I have.

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Animating Metanurbs not metaforms
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Michael C. Ling wrote:

> this arrangement is temporary until metanurbs is fully integrated into
> Lightwave?

Let's hope, that way we will be actually animating metanurb splined
objects instead of polygonal one's only.

Over & Out!

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
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From: wilson <[e-mail]>
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Miguel Marn wrote:
>
> How can I use antialiasing everywhere, but on the edges
> between foreground objects and the background? I would need
> it for rendered game-objects, and I don't want to work on
> the edges manually. Thanx. Mig 23.

Depending on the shape of your object(s), You can try rendering 2 images
per frame;
-The first would have normal antialiasing and all surfaces turned on.
-The second would have all surfaces and background set to white with
luminosity turned to 100 and no spec, while turning on the "Polygon
Edges" setting with the "cel shader" turned on.
These will then be composited and viola!

I think......

--
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From: "Thomas Clark" <thomas@imagestream>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Star Wars objects?
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Danny Kusters <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<56osnm$[e-mail]>...
> Can anyone tell me where I can find Star Wars objects/scenes for
> Lightwave?
>
>

One of the most extensive collections I've found is
http://www.loop.com/~hhc/english/index.html

Almost all objects are in 3DS and DXF but Lightwave 5's modeler had no
problem loading these and

converting them to lightwave format.  I don't remember if 4 also had this
capablility.

I have a large # of them converted already.  Really nice.  Harry Chang
encourages people

to upgrade and enhance any of the objects in this collection.  It's rather
large.

Storm troupers, ships both rebel and empire, weapons, you name it.  Its all
there.

Later

[e-mail]

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From: Tareq Mirza <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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> > >
> > > I've been trying to get an idea of which 3d packages game developers are
> > > using for playstation, sega, etc.

It depends on what your using the graphics for. If its for nice background effects or still shots
of rendered pages, or intros to the game...LightWave or Alias would be used...because of the
high quality of the models.
If you are making it for a realtime game...the big companies are leaning towards 3DS max for that,
due to the ability to build low count polygon meshes, instead of downsizing your big meshes.
But there are more game oriented software out there now. Like what was used to make Super Mario 64...
I think its called N-World...it's an entire suite designed for game development in mind...made by
Nichiman Graphics out in California.

Hope this helps...

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza

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From: Glenn Saunders <[e-mail]>
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The mortal Chuck Baker wrote:

: The product team has not completed testing and debugging of the product
: yet.  Beyond that, there is no more that they are willing to say.  When
: the product is ready, it will be shipped as quickly as production
: logistics can make it happen.

I don't want a progress report, just a feature list, considering that
Amiga 4.0 arrived with (surprise surprise) missing features that PC
version 4.0 had (none of which really due to Amiga technical limitations),
despite arriving dead late.

I want to see how many things are going to be omitted from the Amiga
version.  Plus, there are OLD promises about restoring the rendering and
gfx refresh speed of LW SA 3.5 but I assume that's long forgotten, huh?

Given the substantial upgrade price, it would be useful to know what Amiga
users will and won't get by not cross-upgrading.



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On 16 Nov 1996, Christoph Werner wrote:

> Greetings!
>=20
> I=B4m looking for someone who wants my A4000. In Germany, near M=FCnster.
> Here it is:

> - Mouse...
> and!!!:=09REAL 3D V 4.6 (Original)
>=20
> The Price:=091500,- DM (GermanMarks)

I'm sorry for interfering but I think it's a mistake. If you're talking
about Real3D the animation/modelling package for Amiga then the latest
version is 3.3.

Luke



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From: Yiping Song <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Free download TMAP20 - surface modeling shareware
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I have uploaded to Simtel.Net:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/math/tmap20.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/math/tmap20.zip     143690
bytes

TerrainMap2.0 (for WinNT/WIN95) is designed for (terrain) surface
modeling. It takes in spatial sampling data, contour data or grid data
and generates 3D spatial models.

Three spatial models are supported:
     1) Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs).
     2) Contour model.
     3) Digital Elevation model (DEM) or grid model.

Special requirements:  WindowsNT or WIN95

Changes: Additional features added.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Besides all features delievered in TMAP1.6,

TMAP2.0 is powered with

Spatial Analysis functions:
    1). Profile Viewer/Output. This function solves the problem that given
two points and the sampling numbers, interpolate elevations for all
sampling
points along the line defined by the two points. Two points can be input
by
keying-in or mouse-clicking. All parameters necessary for the profile
generation
are human-interventable. Profile export is only a button-click away.
    2). Slope mapping and analysis. This function allows users to define
 classes and colors of slopes. TMAP treats the slope as one of
individual layers
for colored display. It also does 3D surface area calculation for each
class of slope.
    3). 3D surface  Area Calculator. This function allows users to defines
a
cube based on which 3D surface area calculation is then perfomed. More
specifically, it solves the problem such as "Find the total area where
elevation is
between 100.5 meter and 478 meter, longitude between 47.6 and 48.5
degree,
latitude is between 35.1 and 36.5 degree"
    4). Volume Calculator. This function is similar to Area Calculator
except
that it calculates the total volume within the given cube.
    5). Breakline Input. This function allows users to input linear
features
such as streams and shorelines, as the criticial points which must be
preserved.
All points on the input linear features are used in TIN generation.
Breakline is
treated as one of individual layers for colored display. Users can
designate the
 color for each breakline.
    6) Instant shaded-relief map creation with option to define multiple
light
sources and magnitudes of light sources.

Other impovements:
    1) DEM-TO-CONTOUR conversion has been improved in both speed
and precision.
    2) CONTOUR-TO-DEM conversion has been improved in both speed
and precision.
    3) DEM-TO-TIN conversion has been improved in speed.
    4) The toolbar has been expended for easier navigation.
    5) The status bar has been added for message prompting.
    6) Random-walker message display is in one field of status bar.
    7) DEM dimensional ratation has been added.

Data size limit:
    1) Up to 2,147,483,647 scattered points for TIN generation
    2) Up to 2,147,483,647 triangles can be generated by TMAP.
    3) Up to 2,147,483,647 points for a contour can be generated by TMAP.
    4) No upper limit for number of contours generated by TMAP.
    5) Up to 2,147,483,647 by 2,147,483,647 in DEM size can be generated by
TMAP.

Data sources:
    1) Your scattered XYZ points
    2) Your contour data
    3) Your DEM(GRID) data
    4) Your breakline data

TMAP is a standalone software system with no software platfom
dependency.
 It is believed that TMAP is the fastest software of this kind in the
world until today.
We have the policy of $2000 reward for interested individuals and our
valued customers
if any of them find any software of this kind that can outperform TMAP
in benchmarking
(either speed or precision). Please read the TMAP manual for details
about the reward.

TECHNOLOGY = SPEED + PRECISION. TMAP is truly a product of high
technology in
 both speed and precision.

Should you have any question, please donot hesitate to write to me.

Yiping Song
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Ole Gunnar Dokka)
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:53:28 +1100, Geoff Suttor
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>Marc Wolff wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have an educated guess as to when LightWave 3D will be
>> available for the SGI O2 that runs IRIX 6.3?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> --
>> Marc Wolff
>> [e-mail]
>
>Wild guess, LW4.0 is already available for SGI, I would think it
>works on O2 but am not sure. LW5.0 should be out VERY soon, a
>supplier told be last week but he is yet to get it for a demo
>I requested. You really want LW 5.0's opengl if your going to
>run it on an O2.
I`v been told by Newtek, that the 5.0 version for SGI will be out mid
december.


Regards,

Ole Gunnar Dokka
__________________________________________________

Designer / 3D Artist
Email: [e-mail]
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_________________________________________________
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From: anlauf <[e-mail]>
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hello,
please help me.
I got problems to save avi files with lightwave 5.0 under WINNT4.0
after the rendering time I've got only a blank screen on the media player
is this problem know?

bye Torsten

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From: [e-mail] (John Gross)
Subject: Titanic (mini series) LW
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Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the Titanic mini series on CBS (first
half on Sunday nite, 2nd half on Tuesday the 19th) uses LW generated
effects for all of its effects.

The Titanic, water, smoke, wakes and people on board in all of the moving
and sinking shots are all generated in LightWave.

The Digital Muse team that created the models and shots consists of:

John Parenteau (Digital Effects Supervisor)
Bruce Branit (Supervising Animator)
Bob Peppler (Supervising Modeler and Titanic freak)
David Lombardi (Animator)
Ka Yaw Tan (Modeler)
Larry Bowman (Modeler)

John Gross
Digital Muse

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Subject: Re: 3D ARTISTS wanted!!!!
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Michael Packard wrote:
>
> .graphics.apps.freehand
> Followup-To: alt.design.graphics,alt.3d,alt.emusic,comp.graphics.animation,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio,comp.graphics.apps.photoshop,comp.graphics.apps.softimage,comp.graphics.apps.wavefront,comp.graphics.apps.pagemaker,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,c
>
> p.graphics.apps.freehand:
> References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
> Organization: Exocom Internet
> Distribution: inet
>
> me ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : ItsJustMe <[e-mail]> wrote:
> : > Experienced Illustrator, Designer, Draftsman,
> : >with 3d modeling and animation training. with 15 years experience.
>
> : So are you saying that... ummm... the Comodore's and Atari's had 3D
> : graphics programs back then?  Damn I must have missed out on the last
> : 15 years.
>
> I was doing 3d modelling and animation on my apple II+ in 1979.  It was
> called "CAD" back then, and was BUTT SLOW
> Was constructing 3d landscapes from satallite\probe data for NASA in the
> early 80's.  It was called "Visualization" then, but the machines were
> faster.  I wrote a program that let you create and visit fractally
> generated planets and landscapes in CGA in 1985-6. It was called "cool!"
> and again was way slow on a 4.77mhz XT (they were State of the Art then!)
>
> <sigh> computers used to be fun...
>
> Michael Packard
> Lord Generic Productions
> [e-mail] http://exo.com/~lgp

--
    I've only been at this for 12 years. But the earliest computer
based 3D systems go back to the first interactive computer systems. In
fact if one considers the calculation of trajectories "a 3D system" -
which one might (because it is), then the first 3D systems go back
to the time of the first electronic computers.


Mark Lasersohn
Cow House Productions
[e-mail]
http://www.cowhouse.com
330-569-7492

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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Surface files probs
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Andreas Müller wrote:
>
> Why do I keep getting the message "can´t open surface file" every fuzzing
> time I render a example in the texture(surface) selection menu??
> (Please help or I will get drastic and maybe break a floppy!)

Oh NO! you can break a....floppy! Their indespensible. :)
I'll just have to tell you that your missing a "temp" drawer in the
Newtek/programs directory. ie. c:\newtek\programs\temp
It's where the temp surface files are kept.

Cheers,

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
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[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >>his doesn't preclude, however, *anyone* from writing their
> own renderer or plug-ins to support the Renderman Specification >>
>
> Yes, this was my point. It would be cool to see support within the
> proprietary renderers of LW, 3dS, Alias, etc to deal with shaders written
> as renderman shaders. This would enable one to learn a single shading
> language (and a very successful one at that) and be able to program
> shaders for various renderers.Also, it would enable companies to
> commercially sell shaders usable in more than one 3d package.
>
> This is not a new idea, of couse. This is part of what Pixar had in mind
> when they first released the spec (oh those many years ago). Still, maybe
> it was ahead of its time...maybe now is the time.
>
> -H

There is a company making a plugin that uses renderman's shader language. I
believe it's called Shaderman by Dynamic Realities. It's a closed system though.
I believe it comes with a number of shaders built into the code but WILL NOT
read or "compile" ASCII shader files. This is the real power of renderman.
If you don't like a shader, bust out the text editor and hack away..

dimitri

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From: [e-mail] (Glyn Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lightwave & 3d video game development
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John Brandwood) wrote:

> We're a small game developer that recently had to make the choice.
>
> Despite my personal respect for and ownership of Lightwave, and its
> dramatic
> cost savings, we decided to go with 3DS Max instead.

I'd echo this sentiment - Have a good look at both packages.
In our case Lightwave was the best choice.


We needed to produce a number of low-polygon count models - which
Lightwave Modeler excels at.

We also needed to produce hundreds of animated sequences with a high level
of visual realism - The Lightwave renderer in the right hands can do some
astoundingly convincing images. Better than anything I have seen done with
3DS.

We needed to produce some workarounds ourselves and ended up writing our
own RenderFarm control software - as well as devising what I believe to be
a completely new way to texture models.

Cost was not a factor in our selection of Lightwave.

Either package will probably meet your needs - you might even decide to
use both.

Glyn Williams - Particle Systems Ltd.


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From: [e-mail] (John Hnidec)
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Subject: Re: LW-Antialiasing?
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I am pretty sure if you turn off adaptive sampling this will achieve
the effect you are after. (not 100% sure though).



In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>How can I use antialiasing everywhere, but on the edges
>between foreground objects and the background? I would need
>it for rendered game-objects, and I don't want to work on
>the edges manually. Thanx. Mig 23.

--
JOHN HNIDEC
The South East Queensland Electricity Corporation
Email: [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: WTB: Lightwave 4.0 or 5.0 Intel
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Hi,

    I'm looking for Lightwave 4.0 or 5.0 for Intel.  I'll consider
either educational or commercially-licensed versions.  Please
reply via email to : [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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Date: 19 Nov 1996 22:29:18 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Paul Griswold) writes:

>For those of you who have always wondered what Fusion Films actually
>looks like, you now have your chance.  We have put up some photos of
>our building as well as a shot inside the office.
>
>To jump directly to the photos, go to:
>
>http://www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion/company.htm
>
>Fusion Films is located in southern New Hampshire, just north of
>Boston.  We use software like Lightwave, Softimage, Speed Razor Mach
>III,  some custom code, some beta code, and lots of Duke Nukem and
>Quake. We use a combination of 500 MHz Alphas and Pentium Pros.
>
>Anyway, stop by for a visit.  The site is still a bit under
>construction, so all of the links might not work.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Paul Griswold
>
>Fusion Films Inc.               Co-head button pusher
>www.mv.com/ipusers/fusion

  I like the animation on the latest Mind's Eye video!  Great job!

Dave

David Carlson
CONTINUUM
3D graphics and animation

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From: Gregg Lukomski <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: New SGI O2 : how much?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:34:35 -0800
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Geoff Suttor wrote:
>
> Michael T. Mayers wrote:
>
> >To those amiga people out there, the O2 is like an amiga with 2.1GB/sec
> > CHIP Ram,
>
> I'm SOLD! where's my check book...I know it's here somewhere?

   When I moved from Amiga to SGI last year (with Windows boxes in the
mix
from the get go), I was scared that the transition to Unix would be
really
painful to say the least.  Irix w/Magic really impressed, from an amiga
standpoint.  Personally, I see my SGIs as really big amigas :)  A bit
quirky compared to a standard windows box, but with a heck of a lot more
depth and some of the better MAC conventions tossed in for flavor.

   I'll say it again, until I start hearing anti-sgi messages from
'clients'
rather than benchmark crazed animators and sales droids, I'll stick with
SGI.
I have yet to hear a producer say "I feel more secure if my projects are
done
in Windows NT, instead of on an overpriced SGI" :)

   I love the O2 and I think its a great box for content creation.  I
just
find it funny that having *so many* platform, CPU and software options
out
there has really created an air of confusion as to what the other
options
have to offer.  People seem to just take the party line/religous
advocate for
whatever they happen to be using, until the articles in some trade
magazine
seduce them to another camp.

--
Gregg Lukomski
Orlando, Florida
[e-mail]

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Wiebo de Wit wrote:
>
> On 18 Nov 96 12:34:47, Phillip Minke wrote:
>
> >> It warms the cockles of my heart to read posts like this. Amazing that
> >> a so called "exstinct" computer is still making people money and has
> >> better architechure than a computer made 5+ years later.
> >>
> >> I wonder how much CPU speed & RAM you can put a PC before it reaches
> >> the "full driving pleasure" that an Amiga gave 5+ years back.
> >>
> >> "but it renders ten squillion times faster than an Amiga"
> >> - PC user that never used an Amiga....they just dont get it.
>
> Ofcourse... A PC is faster, and an Amiga better... But is it worth the hassle??
> I've had an Amiga for 8 years and its multi-tasking system is still unbeaten,
> yes.. But speed is critical for me. I wasn't about to fork out lots of cash to
> get a 060.. Instead I bought a PC and have never looked back....
>
> Just my opinion.
> _____o________o___________________________________________
> \\/\/|eBo de W|t! e-mail: [e-mail]
>                 homepage: http://www.cybercomm.nl/~wdwbest

Hail, fellow ex-Amiga somehowites!

    I too have an A2000 & A3000 sitting beside my PC gathering dust, even
though the PC has yet to handle as well even though it sure is fast.
But, I have a buddy that somehow has beta testing status and has an
Amiga that is both better handling and faster with  more graphic power
than any current PC & Macs, he is using a 200mhz Power PC accelerator
with a Cyber Graphics 24bit video board and runs Windows NT alongside
the Amiga OS. I Hate Him!!!......

I keep hoping the poor ol Amiga gets something right at least once. So I
can grab one before it disappears forever.

RYk

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From: [e-mail] (Tim Wilcox)
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Nice job guys......

you folks must come visit!!!


Tim Wilcox
"Contact"


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From: Prem Subrahmanyam <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Procedural textures plugins?
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To: Simo salonen <[e-mail]>

Simo salonen wrote:
>
>   Hello lightwavers..
>
>    My manual tells me that lw has 10 procedural textures and that there is
> more available as plugins.
>  Anyone know something about these textureplugins? ie. where to find etc..
>
> --
> Simo Salonen      [e-mail]

Well, one of those procedural texture plugins is Surface Effectors.
You can find out more info at:

http://star.noblestar.net/~prems/surfeff.html

-- Prem
========================================================================
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Eye Candy - http://dev.uol.com/~prem/graphics.html

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Is there an easy way to change the direction an object is facing?  What I
mean is the direction the triangle on the bounding box preview.  This
direction is what Lightwave uses for "look ahead" in the motion graph
panel.  Some of the models I got off the web have the triangle pointing
backwards or at right angles to the the way they should be and have a
large heirarchy of objects (some displaced and rotated)  I would like to
avoid loading/rotating/saving in modeler to fix it.

"Save Transformed" does not work when objects in the hierarchy are
duplicated in the scene and then translated/rotated.  These
translations/rotations are different for each instance of the object, and
doing "Save Transformed" on one screws up the placement of all of the
other objects.  I do _not_ want to make multiple copies objects.

Thanks.

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KL Choi <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> Which panels/buttons are associated with matanurbs manipulation?  Pls
help,
> thanks.

    Check in the LightWave User and Reference guides.
    Good examples there.

    Dan

____________

AGA Digital Studios
Chicago
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Hakki Alacakaptan <[e-mail]> wrote in article
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> Defectors from 3DStudio like myself might have noticed, alongside a
> huge sense of relief, that there's no "exclude" button on the lights
> panel - i.e. no easy way to get a light to hit only non-excluded
> objects. Has anyone thought of creating a plugin to fill this void, or
> is this just not an option for a raytracer?

        Have you tried using the No Diffuse
        or No Specular settings?

        Just a thought.

        Dan

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From: [e-mail] (Cornholio)
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Can anyone suggest a good web page or book tutorial on bones?

mailto:[e-mail]


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Beloved amiga 1200/80 mb hd/ 2mb ram
rgb monitor


make me an offer
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Richard Watson)
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Subject: Re: What about Martin Hash's 3-Dimensional Animation?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 14:27:35 PST
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>And or Hash's Anamation Master software? I would like to hear from users
>regarding: Program stability? Rendering speed? Capability? Professional
>level software? Can you meet real deadlines with the package?


Stability - Pretty stable, but will crash every time you use the Blobby's
        particle system, included in the latest version (can hang the
        OS on the odd occasion)

Rendering Speed - Really slow, the renderer is scanline (not Z-Buffered),
          I expect it my be faster on a Pentium Pro or Power PC.

Capability - Excellent for character animation, spline modeller takes a
         bit of getting used to (if you're used to polygonal
            modeling), interface is annoying (most actions use floating
         palettes and/or dialog boxes).  Need to go through 3-4
            modules to get to modeler part (supposed to be an
         "intergrated environment")

Professional Level - Will Vinton Studio's used it for the Siggraph winning
                 Fluffy Anim, a segment called Cool Tools was created
                     for Sesame Street with it

Hope this helps


Richard Watson


(Rich3d)




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Susan Ishida wrote:
>
> Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
> metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
> and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
> WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
> the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.
>
That's www.mindspring.com/~surferjoe

Don't forget that tilde



[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I would certainly like to see more on puppetmaster but no one has said
> where the web page is located I ran a search for digital domain and
> flatearth but came up with nothing, where the heck is it?

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From: [e-mail] (James C. Stutts)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
Date: 21 Nov 1996 00:34:27 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> writes:
>Brad Bowman wrote:

<snip>

>Agreed, seconded, totaly right! :) Youd have to be kidding to think an
>'040
>or '060 could compete, but, how about an "A/BOX" computer running duel
>PowerPC or Alpha cpu's with an AmigaOS (advanced), now wouldn't that be
>bloody brilliant!! :)

And this machine has been built?  AmigaOS written for the PPC or Alpha?  Or
are they just promises?  A computer you can buy *now* is worth more to most.
Then, of course, who but Newtek comes out with new software for the Amiga (and
they are rather slow about it.)

JCS


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From: [e-mail] (Daniel J. McCoy)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave5.0 AVI
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 05:51:06 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, anlauf <[e-mail]> wrote:
>hello,
>please help me.
>I got problems to save avi files with lightwave 5.0 under WINNT4.0
>after the rendering time I've got only a blank screen on the media player
>is this problem know?

You may want to pop by NewTek's FTP site (ftp.newtek.com) and look for the AVI
plug-in replacement skillfully re-written by Ernie Wright.  It works great!

Dan

--
Daniel J. McCoy - [e-mail] or [e-mail]
WWW - http://www.pacificnet.net/~djmccoy

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From: [e-mail] (Brian)
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  OK, here's the situation:
I am an excessive LightWave newbie (This is the correct newsgroup, right?  :-))
and I cannot, for the life of me, create a decent object to save my life.  After
a good deal of work, I managed to create a pyramid.  I am trying to create
a simplistic scene, to start from, but I cannot seem to get the modeler
interface down.  The manuals have been less than helpful, at least to me.
Maybe I can get some help here.  I have a little experience with 3DS R4 for
Dos; maybe this can help?  Thanks for any and all replies, either here or
on personal email.  Thanks,
            Brian
        [e-mail]


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From: "Mark Prenter" <[e-mail]>
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Hi, does anyone know how to load "Lightwave style" postscript fonts into
Adobe Type Manager?  I'm trying to find a program that will let me preview
what a type 1 font will look like, without loading the font into Modeller
and typing a few characters.  I thought ATM would do this, but it doesn't
seem to like the Lightwave postscript fonts.  :-(

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mark


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From: Steve Kellener <[e-mail]>
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Do you know anything about the Mac version of Lightwave?

Can we expect it soon?  I haven't heard too much about it.

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From: "Big Daddy" <[e-mail]>
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I have LightWave 3D 5.0 for Windows, and I have just recently moved from
California to Florida.  My dongle is missing.  I can't buy another one
anywhere...any ideas?!!


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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Dan Ablan wrote:
>
> Hakki Alacakaptan <[e-mail]> wrote in article
> <56v6jq$[e-mail]>...
> > Defectors from 3DStudio like myself might have noticed, alongside a
> > huge sense of relief, that there's no "exclude" button on the lights
> > panel - i.e. no easy way to get a light to hit only non-excluded
> > objects. Has anyone thought of creating a plugin to fill this void, or
> > is this just not an option for a raytracer?
>
>                 Have you tried using the No Diffuse
>                 or No Specular settings?
>
>                 Just a thought.
>
>                 Dan

Doh!!!!

No, good Idea (Sometime's the simple things)

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: The Scoop on LWPRO
Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:33:01 -0700
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[e-mail] ("Phil South") wrote:

>What I don't get is why both LWPro and VTU have subscription forms in
>them, even the issue which arrived yesterday. I suppose that they will
>coerce you into taking out a sub to 3D Artist instead?

3D Design is the Miller Freeman magazine; 3D Artist (an excellent
little magazine) is published by Columbine, Inc. in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.


--------------------
John A. Lipski
[e-mail]
Platypus Media Group
North Hollywood, CA


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From: Charles LonerSam <[e-mail]>
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Hi all,

I found that there is a QV.P for the layout once but it doesn't come out
with the LW 5 nor the Newtek site.

Anyone knows where I can find it? In case people who doesn't know about
this plugin, it is just a plugin which allows U to save the preview
window as an image.


Thanks in advance ...


LSam
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From: Richard Toth <[e-mail]>
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Michael Boeni wrote:
>
> Hi Lightwavers,
>
> I am working on a short scifi - film of which I intend to preview
> certain passages on a pc.
>
> Could anyone give a hint on what settings (camera, record, etc) are to
> use to produce a goodlooking animation.
>
> The previews go onto a multimedia demo cd and should therefore be of
> good quality.
>
> I appreciate any hints!
>
> Cheers, Michael
>
> PS: Does anyone know a site where "known LW 5.0 bugs" are listed?



LW bugs are on   http//www.newtek.com.

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From: [e-mail]
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Yes it is possible. In Modeller open up the Tools panel and click on the
plugin Translator3D_Export, then you choose the DXF file format. The
options for how it converts it into a DXF are in the Object's panel list
of Plugins under Translator3D_Options, or something like that.

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From: [e-mail] (Tareq Mirza)
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If I'm not mistaken....it is covered in the manual. Unless of course
you do not have one.

Tareq Mirza
[e-mail]
http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza


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From: Tom Kubat <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Morph target...rail move points??
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:38:59 -0800
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Steve wrote:
>
> I'm making a fish that morphs into a logo, what I would like to do is
> to create the source an target objects, copy the points of both onto a
> seperate layer, create curves from the start points to each
> destination point and move the source points via the rail layer. (like
> rail extrude but I only want the destination polygons.)
>
> This would create a target object with exactly the same number of
> points (and point organisation) as the source, and would prevent the
> horrible "turning inside-out" effect that you would normally get when
> the source and target objects are so different.
>
> Failing that is there a way to re-organise the points of a target
> object?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve


Good luck!
If you want your points to move in anything but a straight line, there
are two methods I've used:
1. Multiple Morph Targets
2. Locate your two objects in their final resting positions in modeler
so no movement/keyframes are needed in layout to create the effect.  Set
up a series of bones in layout which stretch your object in such a way
that the points move in your desired arc to their destination during the
morph.  This can be a clugey way to get points to move in an arc but it
can be done with enough patience.

Tom Kubat
VIP, Inc.

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From: [e-mail] (Steven Johansen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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On 20 Nov 1996 21:59:55 GMT, "Simo salonen" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>  Just thinking if it's possible to replace particles with objects... has
>anybody tried this / is it possible ? i havent
> been able to figure out how to do this (manual does not tell anything
>about this).
>  It would make some nice effects quite easily.. Thanks..

    There is a particle clone plugin that can do this in modeller
only.
    This plugin doesn't appear to be on the LW 5 distribution
CD, so I guess I picked it up on the net somewhere.
( ftp.newtek.com        maybe?)

    I'm not aware of a similar Plug-in for Layout.

        Steven


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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Geoff Suttor wrote:
>
> Dan Ablan wrote:
> >
> > Hakki Alacakaptan <[e-mail]> wrote in article
> > <56v6jq$[e-mail]>...
> > > Defectors from 3DStudio like myself might have noticed, alongside a
> > > huge sense of relief, that there's no "exclude" button on the lights
> > > panel - i.e. no easy way to get a light to hit only non-excluded
> > > objects. Has anyone thought of creating a plugin to fill this void, or
> > > is this just not an option for a raytracer?
> >
> >                 Have you tried using the No Diffuse
> >                 or No Specular settings?
> >
> >                 Just a thought.
> >
> >                 Dan
>
> Doh!!!!
>
> No, good Idea (Sometime's the simple things)
>
> Geoff Suttor

But I just thought, you can only do that to a light not a surface,
which means my problam stands as I still need the light to
"specularize" some object but not other. And for my example
limited region just didn't work as the "Logo" in front of the
backgound was to close. (wanted it this way :) )

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Dunakin)
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Subject: Re: Titanic (mini series) LW
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On Tue 19-Nov-1996  6:27p, John Gross wrote:
JG> Hello everyone,

JG> Just wanted to let you know that the Titanic mini series on CBS (first
JG> half on Sunday nite, 2nd half on Tuesday the 19th) uses LW generated
JG> effects for all of its effects.

JG> The Titanic, water, smoke, wakes and people on board in all of the moving
JG> and sinking shots are all generated in LightWave.

JG> The Digital Muse team that created the models and shots consists of:

JG> John Parenteau (Digital Effects Supervisor)
JG> Bruce Branit (Supervising Animator)
JG> Bob Peppler (Supervising Modeler and Titanic freak)
JG> David Lombardi (Animator)
JG> Ka Yaw Tan (Modeler)
JG> Larry Bowman (Modeler)

JG> John Gross
JG> Digital Muse
--------------------
I know, and it was awesome to see on the news afterwards, when they were
showing how they did the effects, and they showed LW. I felt pretty good
seeing LW on the news like that...........md :)
MD arts
Mark Dunakin
[e-mail]
http://tmisnet.com/~M.D/Index.html

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you must save anim as  "youranim.avi"

hope this helps.

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Chuck Baker wrote:

>
> Sony now has a developer package based around Lightwave.  They are
> currently offering these in Japan, but will be offering them world-wide
> within a few months.
>


Williams/Bally/Midway games also uses LW for game development, in fact
two very BIG games have used LW and will be using LW for 2 BIG upcoming
games.

With that said, I need to ask you Chuck why we can never seem to get
ahold of Keith to help us with some support.  He called us and promised
us a shitload of things we needed and said he'd send it out ASAP.  That
was a week ago and so far nothing.  We really need Keith to get back to
us quickly.

thanx

Josh

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Dunakin)
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On Wed 20-Nov-1996  9:59p, Simo salonen wrote:
Ss>   Just thinking if it's possible to replace particles with objects... has
Ss> anybody tried this / is it possible ? i havent
Ss>  been able to figure out how to do this (manual does not tell anything
Ss> about this).
Ss>   It would make some nice effects quite easily.. Thanks..


Ss> --
Ss> Simo Salonen      [e-mail]
-------------
For what program are you asking about? P-Storm?
MD arts
Mark Dunakin
[e-mail]
http://tmisnet.com/~M.D/Index.html

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Lightwave 4.0 for sale.  New in box.  $350.00 obo.

tom cole
913 843 5413



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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: amiga vs. ppro200
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Brad Bowman wrote:
>
> The problem with that machine is it is Vapor Ware right now. If it ever
> reaches the market its developers (software) will either be broke or have
> migrated to the PC.
> It is not economically viable to develop software for
> the Amiga, in whatever form it will take. I wish that was not so. While we
> wait for a dual Alpha AmigaOS machine, Windows NT already has one with the
> newest raptor. It is running two 500Mhz alphas right now. With fx32 it has
> access to all WIN32 compliant software running at native speeds. The
> AmigaOS box will have a massive shortage of software, The NT boxes have
> huge amounts of software.
>
> --
> Brad Bowman
> Digital Artist
> http://members.aol.com/bmocgraph

So in reality your saying that unless ANY new computer system runs
either
a unix,Mac (assumtion that windows isn't the only OS in the world) or
windows compatable OS that it will die a slow death.
That's a very scarey prospect. In the end one will probably win and what
we have then is ..... scarey, shudder, shudder... whys it so cold in
here?
;)

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
Subject: Re: Lights "exclude" plugin?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:44:27 +1000
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Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
>
> Defectors from 3DStudio like myself might have noticed, alongside a
> huge sense of relief, that there's no "exclude" button on the lights
> panel - i.e. no easy way to get a light to hit only non-excluded
> objects. Has anyone thought of creating a plugin to fill this void, or
> is this just not an option for a raytracer?
>
> Hakki Alacakaptan

I've wanted for that for a while,I needed it a while back so I
didn't have to run a scene throug a composite pass. I had to :(
I just hope, well, LW6.0 will have it all. Or someone could
write a plugin, maybe?

Geoff Suttor
Animator.
Digital Video Productions Australia.
WK: mailto:[e-mail]
HM: mailto:[e-mail]
http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec

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From: [e-mail] (Barry Einstein)
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Subject: FREE NYC Sense8 Virtual Worlds Seminar 11/25
Date: 21 Nov 1996 08:23:08 -0500
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MPC Advanced Technology Group is hosting a Free Seminar on Sense8 3D
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From: [e-mail] (Robert Gougher)
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Subject: how to get ull filenames on win95
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Is there some trick to installing LW5 on Win95
so as to get the full filenames (ie not truncated to 8 chracters)?

My machine is (don't laugh) is a 486DX2 with 20 megs.
The Hard Drive is 1.2 meg using a Dynamic Overlay. Is this the culprit?

Thanks.

Rob

---
Robert A. Gougher
Software Engineer, Eastman Kodak Company
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://www.servtech.com/public/gougher



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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
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I don't think it is designed to work just look like a good idea, I use NT
and it does the same thing. Wonder  why they include it with the plugins.


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From: Joe Clasen <[e-mail]>
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wilson wrote:

> ......Wouldn't it be great if you can directly select and manipulate the
> INDIVIDUAL controlling polys (and maybe even controlling-points) of a
> metanurbs object in the Layout window view with simple transformations
> such as translate, rotate, twist, bends etc. (but not change its
> polycount ), and keyframe these changes.


You can...it is called puppet master.


> The result was an  unrecoverable error "first point in metapoints list
> is NULL"

You probably have your shaper and target reversed.

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From: [e-mail] (Robert Gougher)
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Subject: how to get FULL filenames on Win95
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Is there some trick to installing LW5 on Win95
so as to get the full filenames (ie not truncated to 8 chracters)?

My machine is (don't laugh) is a 486DX2 with 20 megs.
The Hard Drive is 1.2 meg using a Dynamic Overlay. Is this the culprit?

Thanks.

Rob
(sorry about the spelling)

---
Robert A. Gougher
Software Engineer, Eastman Kodak Company
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://www.servtech.com/public/gougher



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From: "Christoph Werner" <[e-mail]>
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Yes, it was a mistake. The right version is V2.46.
Sorry,

Chris

l.m. piasecki <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...

On 16 Nov 1996, Christoph Werner wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I´m looking for someone who wants my A4000. In Germany, near Münster.
> Here it is:

> - Mouse...
> and!!!:    REAL 3D V 4.6 (Original)
>
> The Price:    1500,- DM (GermanMarks)

I'm sorry for interfering but I think it's a mistake. If you're talking
about Real3D the animation/modelling package for Amiga then the latest
version is 3.3.

Luke



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Brian wrote:
>
>   OK, here's the situation:
> I am an excessive LightWave newbie (This is the correct newsgroup, right?  :-))
> and I cannot, for the life of me, create a decent object to save my life.  After
> a good deal of work, I managed to create a pyramid.  I am trying to create
> a simplistic scene, to start from, but I cannot seem to get the modeler
> interface down.  The manuals have been less than helpful, at least to me.
> Maybe I can get some help here.  I have a little experience with 3DS R4 for
> Dos; maybe this can help?  Thanks for any and all replies, either here or
> on personal email.  Thanks,
>                         Brian
>                 [e-mail]

You've got to be kidding. On page 359 of the Users Guide, there is a
tutorial about making primitives. Tutorial #4 on page 369 shows how to
modify those primitives.

--
Elliot Bain
Laurell Creative Services
614.459.4404

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In article <01bbd6d4$294b6b80$0100007f@vgn>, "Simo salonen"
<[e-mail]> writes:

>  Just thinking if it's possible to replace particles with objects... has
>anybody tried this / is it possible ? i havent
> been able to figure out how to do this (manual does not tell anything
>about this).
>  It would make some nice effects quite easily.. Thanks..

Particle Storm can do this quite easily with it's Post Process plugin.

David Carlson
CONTINUUM
3D graphics and animation

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From: [e-mail]
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In article <01bbd6ca$7e8f9ee0$9d71fe8c@travis>, "Evan Ruff"
<[e-mail]> writes:

>Hey Everybody,
>    I was wondering what this whole MetaNURBS thing does exactly. I'm
thinking
>about buying Lightwave 5.0 and was wondering what it does exactly.

It's like the lattice feature in SoftImage.  In LW, you make a box and hit
the 'tab' key.  Now you have a metaNURB object made from the box.  The box
object now becomes the NURB cage.  You pull the points around to form your
shape.  You can facet more polygons or smooth shift or bevel polygons out
to create appendages for further shaping.  It's like clay modelling.

David Carlson
CONTINUUM
3D graphics and animation

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Hey Everybody,
    I was wondering what this whole MetaNURBS thing does exactly. I'm thinking
about buying Lightwave 5.0 and was wondering what it does exactly.

--
Evan Ruff - CEO Digital Genie
http://www.geniestudio.com

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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:05:28 GMT, [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson)
wrote:

>+-- [e-mail] (15 Nov 1996 12:20:43 GMT):
>| In article <>, [e-mail] (Stuart Ferguson) writes:
>| >This is a problem with the dongle.  Make sure the hardware key
>| >is firmly seated and that the parallel port is operating
>| >correctly.  You might also try re-installing the software and
>|
>| Don't you believe him. This is a simple lack of RAM. Throw some more
>| hardware at the problem and you'll be fine.
>
>While more RAM is always good, it will not fix this particular
>problem.  I should know -- I wrote the program.
>--
>    Stuart Ferguson        ([e-mail])
>        "How do you compute that?  Where on the
>         graph do `must' and `cannot' meet?"

Gee, Stuart, you really know how to make a guy feel lower than whale
droppings, don't you?  (Hee, hee) <- Insane giggle.

Don Spiegel
CADsultants

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Nice job John's. I taped it so I could skim through it and check out the
sfx. Hey JG let me know about the cover image either way.

B HALL
TRG3

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From: [e-mail] (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill)
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I currently have Lightwave 4.0C, and don't see much reason to go to 5.0 rigt
now, since I'm using it for fun more than anything. Seems the dongle died,
and I'm in the process of getting it replaced. However, I wanted to make
sure that 4.0C works proerly under windows 95 (I'm pretty sure it does...I
think I had it working before) and NT 4.0 (I'm aware of the updated Sentinel
drivers and the Microsoft patch). Anybody else got some gotchas?

======================================================================
Brian O'Neill - Director of Computing, Computer Science [phone]
University of Massachusetts at Lowell      <*>       [e-mail]
"Did I mention that my nose is on fire and that there are 15 badgers
 living in my pants?" Marcus, Babylon 5

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does anyone know where I can find some decent architectual and furniture
models??? If you can help please do. email me at [e-mail]

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> I am anxiuos to see what the next version will contain but I already
> think it outdoes MAX with version 5! My wish list would be volumetric
> lighting, particle system and support for multiple cpu's (althought he
> networked rendering works great). Everything Lightwave already does
> costs much less than MAX and that leaves me room to buy other goodies.
>

I know that NewTek has occasionally hinted of a minor upgrade for early
97, in fact, a major "New Product" is expected to be introduced around
January. However, I do not expect this to be LW 6.0. I would speculate
that something like a 5.1 or 5.2 might be more what NewTek has in mind.

Some of you have probably already seen this new lip-sync, facial
animation module for LightWave. I believe this may be a new plug-in that
will be sold either separatelly, or as part of the new upgrade.

Jean-Eric

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To: [e-mail], "Walter (Jay) Turberville" <[e-mail]>

Unfortunatelly, I am starting to feel that the Morph option is often
used as an excuse for the lack of real tools in LightWave. Not a very
user-friendly approach, and it makes the scenes so much more
complicated. I mean, we use morph to simulate UV mapping, to animate a
glow effect and what else...

I mean, I think LightWave really has to fix this "inconvenience" in
LightWave 6.0.

Jean-Eric

> The standard "trick" for glows of differing amounts is to do a partial morph
> between two objects that are identical except that one has glow enabled and
> the other does not.  The glow can be adjusted by the degree of the morph.  Of
> course you must have morph surfaces turned on.

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It may be scary, but it is true. The computer industry is reaching a level
of maturity it did not have when the Amiga was introduced. Same as the
Automobile industry. When cars were first being made (turn of the century),
they used all kinds of fuels. Some even ran on gunpowder. It wasn't until
the standardization of gasoline as a fuel that the auto industry really
took off. Now every once in a while someone will try to make a car that
runs on propane or electricity, but these will be doomed to failure. It is
just way to convenient to run to the gas station on the corner to fill it
up. Same way with computers. Write software to fit in the framework of the
standards, and you have a chance to make money. Write software that runs on
an Amiga, ST, or other "dead" computer, and you have limited your market
penetration and potential earnings. Companies write software to make a
profit, not to get a warm glow by keeping a dying computer on life support
for a few people.

--
Brad Bowman
Digital Artist
http://members.aol.com/bmocgraph

Geoff Suttor <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<[e-mail]>...
> Brad Bowman wrote:
> >
> > The problem with that machine is it is Vapor Ware right now. If it ever
> > reaches the market its developers (software) will either be broke or
have
> > migrated to the PC.
> > It is not economically viable to develop software for
> > the Amiga, in whatever form it will take. I wish that was not so. While
we
> > wait for a dual Alpha AmigaOS machine, Windows NT already has one with
the
> > newest raptor. It is running two 500Mhz alphas right now. With fx32 it
has
> > access to all WIN32 compliant software running at native speeds. The
> > AmigaOS box will have a massive shortage of software, The NT boxes have
> > huge amounts of software.
> >
> > --
> > Brad Bowman
> > Digital Artist
> > http://members.aol.com/bmocgraph
>
> So in reality your saying that unless ANY new computer system runs
> either
> a unix,Mac (assumtion that windows isn't the only OS in the world) or
> windows compatable OS that it will die a slow death.
> That's a very scarey prospect. In the end one will probably win and what
> we have then is ..... scarey, shudder, shudder... whys it so cold in
> here?
> ;)
>
> Geoff Suttor
> Animator.
> Digital Video Productions Australia.
> WK: mailto:[e-mail]
> HM: mailto:[e-mail]
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~gefbec
>

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In article <5705jv$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says...
>
>Can anyone suggest a good web page or book tutorial on bones?
>
>mailto:[e-mail]
>

The newtek page is awesome, has lots of tutorials, under their 3d Section I
believe. www.newtek.com


--
Greg Breault
Freelance Illustrator / 3d Animator


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   With 4.0 you could type ctl+shift+f12
and access the experimental cel shader

now with 5.0 I type in the same I get a panel that says

Warning
experimental features enabled.


but for the life of me I dont know what they are
nor can I find em.

any clues anyone


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From: [e-mail] (Greg Breault)
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In article <01bbd704$6ab97280$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] says...
>
>I'm a relative newcomer to LW and I cannot save my annimations, I have
>loaded the HIIP plug-in and can get LW4 to ask me to enter a filename, but
>when I render, the file is not saved, any help would be appreciated.
>

Hello,
  You have to use the NewtekAvi Avi and also name the file as filename.avi , I
found that if I just expect it to put the .avi extension on it, it doesnt like
it ;)

  Hope this helps.



--
Greg Breault
Freelance Illustrator / 3d Animator


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From: lharris
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:11:41 -0500, Tareq Mirza <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>Has anyone had Meshpaint 3D demo crash when you open it and try
>to edit an image? I got the demo with LightWave Power Guide and it
>does not work. Thanks in advance for any help
>
>Tareq Mirza
>[e-mail]
>http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza

I had the same problem. It seems to be the going rate on all demos
lately. One totally trashed mmy system and had to reload.(MediaPaint)
Oh well,at least the book is pretty goodd so far...

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From: "Michael T. Mayers" <[e-mail]>
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Walter (Jay) Turberville wrote:

[text deleted] ..
>
> So, I am trying to figure out EXACTLY where we will see the fast O2 non-bus
> benefit.  The RAM is its own bottleneck.  The drive is a bottleneck on its own
> - and is accessed through a PCI SCSI(Fast-Wide) interface.  It can't even
> begin to use the 2.1 Gbs bus.  So perhaps the video is where the benefit is.

Yes, The RAM is its own bottleneck, but it SUSTAINS 2.1GB/sec.
It is 256 bit wide / 8 way interleaved / 10ns cycle time SDRAM. That
works out
to 3.2GB/sec peak theoretical transfer rate. 2.1GB/sec sustained in real
world measurements.

A fairly typical pentium system would use 60ns non interleaved 64 bit
wide DRAM, peaking at
(16.7MHZ * 64 bits) 133MB/sec.

Big difference.

> But wait - with all this bus bandwidth they are still using 4:1 MJPEG
> compression on their motion video option.  Shoot!  With a RAID and FastWide
> SCSI, they should be able to sustain near lossless video - but they didn't.

Yes you can, in fact, the architecture looks to me like it can stream in
2
uncompressed video sources (2 x 27MB/sec) via the standard dual
ultrawide scsi
busses (via DMA, not tying up the CPU) (2 x 40MB/sec) into memory
simultaneously.

The compression codec (ICE) is standard, Video IO is optional.

Once the video streams(frames) are in memory, you can use ICE and the
MRE and CPU
for video manipulation. Map the streams onto 3d objects, do Image
Processing, Color Processing,
perform transitions, etc... All in realtime.

The ICE (Image Compression/Processing Engine) will do hardware assisted
convolution,
color processing, jpeg code/decode, mpeg decode, etc..  and it is
reprogrammable.

The MRE (Memory Rendering Engine) does the 2d/3d work, drawing graphics
primitives
and shading/texturing them.

The CPU does 3d transformations and whatever else you can think of.

Also keep in mind, since it is all shared memory, that once something is
in memory,
it is instantly accessable by any of the coprocessors.

To those Amiga people out there, The O2 is alot like an Amiga (in
hardware), Almost
everything is DMA based, Several Coprocessors orchestrated by the CPU on
a shared
memory bus( remember Chip-RAM? ).
The O2 IMHO is much better however, with a 2.1GB/sec Memory bandwidth,
you do not have
to worry about bus-contention as much.. (and the coprocessors do much
more!) :>

Hopefully, in the future, PC's will be built this way.

It will take time to see the benefit of the O2 UMA, software simply does
not take advantage of it yet.
Give it time...

MTM

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Sorry for all the update posting, but here's another one.

AVI sequence loader has been updated to accept 32/24/16/8 bit AVI files!

Now you can use all your AVI's in LightWave as easily as you would use
a normal Image Map.

MAJOR Bugfixes now taken care of.

Get it (Demo Version: 25 frame max) at

http://www.en.com/users/bforce

D.Flahaut
BurntPixels

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Charles LonerSam wrote:

> I found that there is a QV.P for the layout once but it doesn't come
> with the LW 5 nor the Newtek site.
> Anyone knows where I can find it?

http://www.access.digex.net/~erniew/getstuff.html

--
Marvin Landis
WWW Page:    http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/marvinl.html
Email:        [e-mail]

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From: Jim Lacy <[e-mail]>
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Hi All-

I'm thinking about buying Lightwave, either for an SGI or PC (NT).  I'm
pretty new to 3d modelling, so have patience with me... :)

If you had your druthers, would you rather have LW on an SGI (high
impact, 250mhz, 196 MB Ram, 12gig disk) vs. an NT Machine (P.Pro 200,
128 MB Ram, 4 gig disk)   My main reasons for asking are:

1.  My SGI, in the broadest sense, is faster than my PC. BUT we have
multiple PC's ,i.e, we could spread the rendering load across many
machines (at least that's what I'm told.) I've also been told you can't
spread the rendering load cross platform (is this true?)
2. It seems like many of the LW plugins are for the pc platform only
(??)
3. In general, I haven't seen much discussion of folks using the SGI
version, is this mainly because of cost?

Opinions?

Jim
[e-mail]

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Susan Ishida <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Check out the new "Puppet Master" Plugin from Fori Oruowa, the maker of
>metanurbs and metamation. It can do all that and more. For screen shots
>and a detailed explanation spin the dial to:
>WWW.Mindspring.com/surferjoe
>the waitress will direct you to the "Lightwave Lab" page.

>Joe Clasen
>Joe's Digital Bar&Grill


I can't seem to get above URL. I can get to the doamain, but not the
directory after the URL. Any other way to find out about Puppet
Master.

Alan



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From: [e-mail] (Robert Gougher)
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Anyone want to venture opinions on one or both?

The ATI card seems a better deal, yet Matrox seems to get better
lip service. Can someone explain why this is?

Does ATI have some hidden flaws (like Diamond with their driver policy?)

Thanks much.

Rob

---
Robert A. Gougher
Software Engineer, Eastman Kodak Company
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
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i would like to get to the bottom of this too.  if you check out
http://www.atitech.ca/graphics/3dxpre/3dxpre.html ati only compares their
card to the matrox mystique not the millenium.  it seems to me ( and please
correct/flame me if i am wrong ) that ati is trying to compare apples to
oranges by comparing their bilinear texturing to matrox's non-bilinear
texturing.  also i am put off by ati's and matrox's he-said/she-said finger
pointing about false advertising claims.  anybody out there done a
subjective comparison using lightwave??

Robert Gougher <[e-mail]> wrote in article
<56va0o$[e-mail]>...
> Anyone want to venture opinions on one or both?
>
> The ATI card seems a better deal, yet Matrox seems to get better
> lip service. Can someone explain why this is?
>
> Does ATI have some hidden flaws (like Diamond with their driver policy?)
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Rob
>
> ---
> Robert A. Gougher
> Software Engineer, Eastman Kodak Company
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
> http://www.servtech.com/public/gougher
>
>
>

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In article <01bbd77c$eea61940$74f2f4cd@beau>, "Big Daddy" <[e-mail]>
writes:

>
>I have LightWave 3D 5.0 for Windows, and I have just recently moved from
>California to Florida.  My dongle is missing.  I can't buy another one
>anywhere...any ideas?!!
>
>
Sorry Big Daddy, the whole idea of dongles is that you can't buy one just
anywhere... It has to come from NewTek.
Call NewTek, get the bat news, look some more, etc. Repeat as required.

Assuming you have insurance, the policy might cover lost software. Losing
the dongle pretty much means you've lost the software. Worth a  try.
You might be tempted to check into one of the "Dongle Removing Programs",
just don't EVER admit it to anyone.

Good Luck

Gary Grossoehme



Gary Grossoehme, Oregon Electronics, 503-239-5293
[e-mail]

"I'm a hologram, dammit, not a Doctor!"

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lharris wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:11:41 -0500, Tareq Mirza <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone had Meshpaint 3D demo crash when you open it and try
> >to edit an image? I got the demo with LightWave Power Guide and it
> >does not work. Thanks in advance for any help
> >
> >Tareq Mirza
> >[e-mail]
> >http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmirza
>
> I had the same problem. It seems to be the going rate on all demos
> lately. One totally trashed mmy system and had to reload.(MediaPaint)
> Oh well,at least the book is pretty goodd so far...


They have a working version at their website.  There was some problem
with the one on the Power Guide CD.


Paul