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- SoftEngine
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- READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS PRODUCT !
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- Contents
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- 1.0 Introduction
- 1.1 Resolution and Color Depth Support
- 2.0 Installation Notes for AutoDesk Products
- 3.0 Known Problems
- 3.1 3D Studio's 3DS.SET file
- 4.0 Reporting Problems
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- 1.0 Introduction
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- AutoCAD 386 (Protected Mode) Releases 10/11/12, 3D-Studio 2.0, and
- AutoShade with Renderman 2.0 are all supported by SoftEngine.
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- 1.1 Resolution and Color Depth Support:
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- Supported resolutions are:
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- 256 colors 65000 colors 16.7 million
- 8 bpp 16 bpp 24 bpp
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- 640x480 2/4MB 2/4MB 2/4MB
- 800x600 2/4MB 2/4MB 2/4MB
- 1024x768 2/4MB 2/4MB 4MB
- 1280x1024 2/4MB 4MB 4MB
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- 2/4MB - Supported on 2 or 4 Megabyte mach64 VLB and PCI products
- 4MB - Only supported on 4 Megabyte mach64 VLB and PCI products
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- The current release of AutoCAD and 3D Studio drivers support the following
- resolutions on ISA mach64 products:
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- 256 colors 65000 colors 16.7 million
- 8 bpp 16 bpp 24 bpp
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- 640x480 2/4MB 2/4MB 2/4MB
- 800x600 2/4MB 2/4MB 2/4MB
- 1024x768 2/4MB 2/4MB N/A
- 1280x1024 2/4MB N/A N/A
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- 2/4MB - Supported on 2 or 4 Megabyte mach64 ISA products
- 4MB - Only supported on 4 Megabyte mach64 ISA products
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- Note: Not all color depths are supported at all refresh rate.
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- 2.0 Installation Notes for AutoDesk Products
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- 1) Run INSTALL from Disk #1 of the mach64 diskettes.
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- 2) Select Drivers Installation from the Main Menu.
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- 3) From the Install Enhanced Drivers menus select one of the following:
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- AutoCAD
- Autodesk 3D Studio
- AutoShade
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- 4) Follow the screen instructions to completion.
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- 5) When INSTALL reports that the driver has been successfully installed,
- exit the install program.
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- 6) All the AutoDesk products require environment variables to be loaded
- prior to starting the application. The INSTALL program creates
- batch files that contain all the necessary Set statements. These
- batch files will be located in the directory specified during the
- driver installation. The following are the default batch file names:
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- AutoCAD R10, R11 and R12 ADIACAD.BAT
- AutoDesk 3D Studio R2 ADI3DS.BAT
- AutoShade with Renderman ADISHADE.BAT
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- 7) After running the appropriate batch file, refer to your Autodesk
- documentation for information on how to select and reconfigure the
- display driver.
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- 3.0 Known problems:
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- 1280x1024 is only supported at 8 bpp (256 colors) on ISA mach64 products.
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- 24 BPP is not currently supported on ISA mach64 products at resolutions
- greater than 800x600.
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- 1280x1024 is only supported at 8 bpp (256 colors) on non-linear aperture
- configurations
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- 24 BPP is not currently supported on non-linear aperture configurations at
- resolutions greater than 800x600.
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- AutoCAD Release 12
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- Configuring mode:
- Selecting No when asked, KEEP CONFIGURATION CHANGE <Y>, does not restore
- the old mode; it will actually change to the mode just configured.
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- Anti-Aliasing
- SoftEngine command SEAA (anti-aliasing) does not work.
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- 24 Bit mode
- Images rendered at 8bpp will cause the viewport to display white, when
- viewed at 24bpp (display and render mode)
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- Viewport
- Rendering a drawing to a Viewport, causes the cross hairs to turn red.
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- Configuring a mode, after a viewport render has occured will result in
- the command prompt disappearing. The command prompt will remain invisable
- until the screen is refreshed.
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- Reconfiguring Render Engine
- After replaying a rendered file, a vertical bar appears
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- AutoCAD 10
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- 3D Constuction lines
- Random lines appear after selecting 3D-Construction menu.
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- Copying objects may cause the orginal objects display a differenct color
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- Earlier versions of AutoCAD may require the phar lap extender patch,
- newdx.exe and apatch.exe inorder to function correctly with the mach64
- drivers.
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- AutoCAD Rel 11
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- Drawing Order
- Zooming may cause an ordering problem, where the drawing order of objects
- may be reveresed. To correct the problem set WORLD SPACE PARTITION to NO
- under the DIPSLAY LIST OPTION.
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- AUTOSHADE
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- Saved File Format
- Check marks, which indicate the format in which to save a file, do appear
- when replaying a shade file. The last format you seleced, will not be
- marked you will have to remember it.
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- 3D Studio
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- 3D-Studio Release 3 is NOT supported by this driver. Please refer to
- your 3D Studio Release 3 manual for further information regarding mach64
- support.
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- 3D Studio R3 is slow loading.
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- 3.1 3D Studio's 3DS.SET file
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- After installing SoftEngine, you will need to modify the 3DS.SET file
- located in your 3D Studio directory. These changes tell 3D Studio that
- you are using SoftEngine RCPADI driver. Once these changes are made they
- will not need to be done again.
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- Use your favorite word processor (remember to save in text mode only!) to
- make the changes described below. Please be aware that the line numbers
- given are approximate, though they should indicate the general vicinity of
- the parameter.
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- *** Rendering Driver
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- It is necessary to modify the Rendering Driver section of the 3DS.SET file
- to set SoftEngine as the default rendering driver. To do this change line
- 123 as outlined below:
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- Old line 123 (approx.):
- DEFAULT-DISPLAY = "VGA300X200"
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- New line 123 (approx.):
- DEFAULT-DISPLAY = "RCPADI"
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- Should you need to use a different rendering driver than SoftEngine,
- you can select a new one from within 3D Studio by selecting Render,
- Setup. Configure from the main menu and choosing a different display driver.
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- *** Main Display Driver
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- Next, set SoftEngine to be the Main Display driver. To do this, change
- line 139 by removing the semicolon, as outlined below:
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- Old line 139 (approx.):
- ;MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
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- New line 139 (approx.):
- MAIN-DISPLAY = RCPADI
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- *** Materials Editor Driver
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- Finally, set SoftEngine to be the Materials Editor driver by removing the
- semicolon in line 146:
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- Old line 146 (approx.):
- ;MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
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- New line 146 (approx.):
- MATERIAL-DISPLAY = RCPADI
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- 4.0 Reporting Problems
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- If you experience any difficulties, open the file REPORT.TXT and complete
- the Problem Report form.
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