watters@penguin.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) (01/23/90)
>From tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!fatcat!acadch!impch!sosaria!wizard Mon Jan 22 18:42:06 EST 1990 >I would like to use Sculpt Animate 4D animations in Animagic. However, >SA (unfortunately) uses a special type of animation recording called J-type >animation. Can I convert it somehow to an Animagic compatible format? >I cannot save the images and create the animation with a tool like >GrabAnim, I don't have tens of megs free hard drive space. >Concerning SA4D - I sent in my registration card autumn last year, >asking for the update to V 2.09. I haven't heard anything from Byte by >Byte until now, while I got a letter to several other companies like Syndesis >(just for an information) answered rather quickly. If I buy a software that >costs 600 US$ (in Switzerland) I'd like at least to get some updates. The >fact that I didn't hear anything rather disappoints me. >------------------------------------ >Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com >"Justice is the possession and doing >of what one is entitled to" - Platon >------------------------------------ For those who haven't figured Byte by Byte out yet, You have to send them your original SA 4D disk and a upgrade fee, If I remember correctly it is $15. They will then send you your update (2.09). I believe this version lets you create a Anim version 5 animation for use with showAnim and things that support this format. It also includes refracting glass, and a large number of bug fixes and improvements. I am still having trouble with one aspect of SA and anyones help would be appriciated. I cannot render a Video size Scanline Painting anim in hi-res. It always does a "display/late" and the image files are empty. No matter how many time you pick display/early it won't do it and the images are empty. I sure wish companies like BbB that get $500 dollars out of you for a program would send you upgrades for free, upon complettion. I think having to pay for an upgrade, and not even knowing when there is one except by word of mouth is unreal!!!! I would also like to thank SoftLogic for sending me my v1.8 revision of PageStream without extorting money out of me and as soon as it was finished. This company gets an A+ in my book. David Watters | \ ----- / / \ / \ - | ^~^~^ | - Liquid Light Productions. \ / \ / 614-895-6770 / \ / \ 663 B Park Meadow Rd. ^~^~^ Westerville, Ohio 43218. ^~^~^ ^~^~^ ^~^~^ \_/ a division of JaMac Inc.
R38@PSUVM.BITNET (01/23/90)
$500? $600? I Heard that SA for the MACinshlosh is $1000.. do they get royal treatment for that much $$$$? Considering what we get for $500... you can come to your own conclusions. Later, Marc Rifkin R38@psuvm
mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland) (01/24/90)
In article <76049@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <watters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >I sure wish companies like BbB that get $500 dollars out of you for a program >would send you upgrades for free, upon complettion. I think having to pay for >an upgrade, and not even knowing when there is one except by word of mouth is >unreal!!!! I'm surprised you haven't gotten mailings about upgrades from BbB. I get three or four mailings a year from them trying to suck my money away from me. Byte by Byte has an interesting history about upgrades. Long ago I purchased SA3D and dutifully sent in my registration card. About a month later I received an upgrade without having asked for it, along with a nice letter asking for $5 or $10 to defer the costs. I was so impressed by this that I sent in the bucks. The upgrade in question fixed some rather significant bugs, as I recall. Later, of course, the upgrade from SA3D to SA4D was something like $200. The list of added features in 4D looked more like bug fixes (e.g. working file requesters) and minor enhancements, plus support for expensive video recording equipment. Certainly not worth a $200 upgrade fee for us hobbyists. More recently they offered a $75 upgrade for Sculpt 3D to 3D-XL. The list of added features looked quite good to me, but BbB told me that 3D-XL could not be used with SA3D, and that I should instead shell out 200 bucks to upgrade to SA4D. No sale. I think BbB doesn't yet know how to offer upgrades, at least to the hobbyist market where a hundred dollars is a lot of money. -- -- Alan Bland -- att!druwy!mab == mab@druwy.ATT.COM -- AT&T Bell Laboratories, Denver CO -- (303)538-3510