Re: Another nail in RS's coffin?

2008-08-01 Thread Russell Jones
Coming from the 'good ole days', when OSes were lean and mean (because they had to be: Memory\storage was expensive and processors were slow), I loathe bloate. And Microsoft has become the bloat kings of the world (The only company I can think of that may give them competition in this area is

Microsoft's plan? (Truespace now FREE, as in air - forever!)

2008-07-29 Thread Russell Jones
Another nail in RS's coffin? Can RS compete anymore? Maybe...if they had full blown polygonal modelling support (using RS's excellent SDS/Nurbs tools) and full import/export capability. But FREE? Time will tell how this pans out. Russell p.s. Remember that it is Microsoft that bought them,

Re: Make sure ye buy the 3D World Mag - 100th issue ...

2008-01-07 Thread Russell Jones
And the price isn't bad, either: 8£,9£, or 10£ depending on whether you live in UK, Europe or the rest of the world. Russell - Original Message - From: Aidan O Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:58 PM Subject: Make sure ye

Re: A real micro radio controlled helicopter for 19.99$ at wallmart and it is made to fly it inside your home.

2007-12-09 Thread Russell Jones
This is even more cool than the micro RC cars that came out a few years ago (not much bigger than 'matchbox/hotwheel' cars). The double propellers is actually not that new, but genius nonetheless. Before Igor Sikorsky created the first 'practical' helicopter (contrary to popular belief he did

Re: Happy birthday... (quite off topic here)

2007-11-21 Thread Russell Jones
Yeah, there are some really funny points in this one! Let's have a look a few: What killed them was exacly what killed AtariST and hurt MAC : No standard, No upgrade possible (almost not possible). Although it can be argued that lack of a standard is part of the reason for the

Re: Happy birthday... (quite off topic here)

2007-11-15 Thread Russell Jones
Ah... the good 'ol C64. Fond memories. I got started in programming with it (Had Simon's Basic and Commodore's own 'Super Expander 64' - Built in Basic was sorely lacking). I, too, didn't really get into graphics until I got my Amiga 1000 (then 500, then 1200...). Real 3D version

Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday!

2007-05-04 Thread Russell Jones
this evening :-) Alessandro - Original Message - From: Russell Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:11 AM Subject: Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday! I'm surprised Alessandro didn't make the announcement

Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday!

2007-05-04 Thread Russell Jones
Ah, then that makes sense. :) Russell - Original Message - From: tasora POLI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday! Hallo, p.s. Find it interesting that the

Re: Chrono and Revolution4D now available

2007-05-04 Thread Russell Jones
[quote] Note: the Chrono::R3D Extreme edition will be available as a special offer (150E - same price as Studio edition) until 6 July . Later we will make an official announcement. Best regards [/quote] You mean July, no? Russell - Original Message - From: tasora POLI [EMAIL

Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday!

2007-05-02 Thread Russell Jones
I'm drooling at that 150E ($300US) price for the Extreme edition! Has anyone used it yet? Russell p.s. Find it interesting that the free Revolution4D is almost twice as large (13MB) as the Chrono apps (7MB)... - Original Message - From: Aidan O Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today, Sunday!

2007-05-02 Thread Russell Jones
I'm surprised Alessandro didn't make the announcement himself, to be honest. Russell - Original Message - From: Mark Heuymans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Chrono DynAtomic ... it seems they are out today,

OT: New Commodore computers released!

2007-03-15 Thread Russell Jones
Ok, it's not what you may have hoped for, but here's the full scoop: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2104319,00.asp Too bad the Amiga didn't have access to this kind of horsepower 'back in the day' Russell

Camera Matching: Anyone tried the free VooDoo program?

2007-03-11 Thread Russell Jones
A new version was released recently. Has anyone tried it? Russell - Original Message - From: Mark Heuymans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Yet Another Icarus Camera Matching Example Looking great Garry, I

Re: video tutorials (was Re: create a tentacle)

2006-04-03 Thread Russell Jones
Hello! .. No idea what it would take to change that , or how to inspire others to get more active . studio www.niagara.com/~studio www.studiodynamics.net That's a good question, and I have to think back to remember how RS originally got some excitement going with Real 3D version 2 (or

Re: video tutorials (was Re: create a tentacle)

2006-03-31 Thread Russell Jones
? Russell Jones - Original Message - From: studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:18 AM Subject: Re: video tutorials (was Re: create a tentacle) Hi Russel, I couldn't agree more. Hi Chris : OK , please allow me to play so called 'devils

Re: Congratulations...

2006-03-27 Thread Russell Jones
Thanks for everyone's kind remarks... Taking care of a child is one of those things that you can plan all you want and have an idea in your mind as to what it's going to be like, but once it's real - and right there in your face - it takes on a whole new reality. We're extremely lucky that he's

Re: CHARACTER ANIMATION STUFF and RS ....

2005-12-29 Thread Russell Jones
Been having a look-see at Blender and it has one glaring annoyance (at least on my machine): The User Interface is extremely slow. It literally takes up to 5 seconds or so for a click or mouse move to be registered in most windows. This is really aggravating! Apparently, Blender uses OpenGL to

Re: CHARACTER ANIMATION STUFF and RS ....

2005-12-28 Thread Russell Jones
Uh oh. This is some serious s**t! The user interface is a bit strange at first, but this is no fly-by-night enterprise: These guys mean business! I know RS has some tricks coming up for v6, but we'll have to wait more than 6 months to find out what it is... Should be interesting to watch what

Re: Odd bug found in RS5 Sp2

2005-11-13 Thread Russell Jones
I noticed that on the Grid Tab even before SP2 came out, but I guess what it does is it restores the previous version of that tab, which, in this case was empty... once you make changes, it reverts to them instead. Daniel On 11/10/05, Russell Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Status of Revolution 4D

2005-11-13 Thread Russell Jones
For that matter, what is the status of CHRONO... Remember that one from several years ago? Russell - Original Message - From: Marc Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:38 PM Subject: Status of Revolution 4D Hello list, did