Hey gang, A while back, I posted a tip that for best compatibility with hardware rendering, textures should be square and a power of 2 in size. It turns out...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
May 28, 2001 3:10 pm
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great thanx for the tip joe! while we are on the subject- I just got involved in a game project its very early in development- anyways I was wondering if alpha...
kotos six
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May 28, 2001 6:54 pm
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... No, probably not. The trouble is that the clipboard format is PICT, and PICT doesn't support an alpha channel. (Not official; a few apps hack it in, but...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
May 28, 2001 7:17 pm
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Not sure if this is relevant to Kotos, but I found I could fake certain kinds of translation in Meshwork by placing a bone very distaint from all the points I...
forever.games@...
May 28, 2001 11:05 pm
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cool thanx ben seems like a pretty good workaround. your game is lookin slick - i like the hud ya did for the car. cann't wait to giver a test drive. ... ...
kotos six
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May 29, 2001 5:31 am
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... ok well I will make another request/suggestion- add a point to file function in the texure window so insted of using a clipboard image it would use an ...
kotos six
kotos6@...
Jun 3, 2001 1:15 am
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... Joe, I agree with this one. It's a convenient way of doing sometimes, but a real pain other times. While one the subject of small enhancements, could you...
Joseph Nastasi
jnastasi@...
Jun 4, 2001 12:50 pm
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... Heard and understood. High on my list for post-1.8 is a "texture name" field. This will have many uses, including referring to an external file....
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 4, 2001 4:25 pm
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Hi gang, I need a small number of experienced Meshwork users to try out Meshwork 1.8 for me. It's got some fairly substantial changes, and I'd like to give it...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 5, 2001 3:39 am
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Just wondering if this made it into 1.8......
doozy@...
Jun 6, 2001 9:59 pm
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Joe, If you still need beta testers for 1.8, I would love to help. I I am running OSX ( as of this week) on a G4, but I still work mostly in OS9. I also have...
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jswa@...
Jun 7, 2001 1:26 am
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... Yes, this one is a real pain at times. -- Joseph Nastasi YOU ARE GO! Educational Space Simulations http://www.u-r-go.com "as far as we reach out into...
Joseph Nastasi
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Jun 7, 2001 2:45 am
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Joe, This is a little wacky, but I was just wondering if Meshwork supported AppleScript in any way. Specifically, could I be in another application (my own, so...
Joseph Nastasi
jnastasi@...
Jun 7, 2001 3:14 am
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... Yes. The old Quake model editor (made in RB, BTW!) "meQanno" connected with Meshwork in exactly this way. ... Yep, you can do that today. The only tricky...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 7, 2001 4:34 am
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... Yes. 3DS files are now exported with a type of '3DSM', and on import, you can load either type '3DSM' or 'BINA'. That's what you wanted, correct? Cheers, ...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 7, 2001 4:54 am
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Meshwork is a great easy to use program. However, it crashes permanently on me. I'm running System 9.1 on a G4/400. I'm using it since version 1.6 but...
nbongaerts@...
Jun 8, 2001 11:54 am
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... How big of a model are you attempting to edit? You may need to increase memory allocation. That's the only reproducible I have had, although, I use 9.0.4...
Joseph Nastasi
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Jun 8, 2001 1:54 pm
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... reproducible I have had, although, I use 9.0.4 on a G3 PB. ... I'm using an unregistered version so my models can't get too big, I have also plenty of RAM,...
nbongaerts@...
Jun 8, 2001 3:43 pm
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... I agree, if your models are under 200 vertices then even the default memory allocation should be enough. OTOH, nobody else has reported any crashes except...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 8, 2001 5:31 pm
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I'm new to 3D modeling software. I'd like to use Meshworks to make a 3D model of a bookcase I'm planning to have built. I made a rectangle, but I couldn't find...
vikr@...
Jun 15, 2001 10:27 pm
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... While Meshwork isn't really suited for this sort of work, what you'd need to do is to is build each panel one by one, moving and rotating them into place....
Jeff Quan
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Jun 15, 2001 11:04 pm
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here is a simple room I made with meshwork- http://www.members.home.net/kotos/workspace.jpg its not an exact replica of my workspace but I was only trying to...
kotos six
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Jun 16, 2001 6:58 pm
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Jeff, Thanks for the great feedback. I tried it and it worked! Now I want to try creating a box and deleting just the front face. Okay, so I go to front view,...
Vik Rubenfeld
vikr@...
Jun 16, 2001 8:48 pm
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... Think about it. The vertices you deleted were each shared by 3 faces. Select the one face and apply the "X" color to it (invisible). It disappears. This is...
Evan Thompson
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Jun 16, 2001 9:48 pm
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or select one of the sides of the cube select hide others under the display menu then get a head on vew of the square that is showing-blue print mode is...
kotos six
kotos6@...
Jun 16, 2001 10:34 pm
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... faces. ... According to the manual, "to select a face, you select (by shift-clicking, or surrounding with the Marquis tool) the three vertices that are its...
vikr@...
Jun 17, 2001 6:23 am
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... True. You can't delete a single face this way. ... You did select just one face. If you clicked a different material at this point, just one triangle...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Jun 18, 2001 2:20 pm
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Joe, just curious how close Meshwork for X is? Jeff...
cocoabean@...
Jun 20, 2001 11:38 pm
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... Very close. It's been sitting at the "99% done" stage for ages -- but I've had visitors from out of town for the last week or so, so I just haven't had...