R38@PSUVM.BITNET (01/17/90)
Sound interesting? Has anyone done this? Is there anyone willing to try it? I would love to render 24 bit files and display them in Dynamic Hires (ok, not quite 16 mil colors, but no ham junk!) Please E-Mail me! Marc Rifkin... R38@PSUVM 814-867-4837
hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) (01/18/90)
In article <90017.003919R38@PSUVM.BITNET>, R38@PSUVM.BITNET writes: > Sound interesting? Has anyone done this? Is there anyone willing to try > it? > I would love to render 24 bit files and display them in Dynamic Hires > (ok, not quite 16 mil colors, but no ham junk!) > Please E-Mail me! > > Marc Rifkin... R38@PSUVM > 814-867-4837 Easily done, Marc. Just get a copy of Troy Barlow's nifty program RGBExchange. We have it up on Plink and it should be on better BBSes everywhere. Render with Sculpt or Silver in 24bit modes, pass the saved files thru RGBExchange using the appropriate conversion module(s) that come with the program, churn out DV21 format file and suck it into DigiView 4.0, select one of the "Dynamic" modes and there you are. I've made bunches of these this way. Problem with Sculpt's output is that it seems to completely turn off all dithering when rendering out 24bit RGB files so unless your lamp placement is perfect you'll get tons of 'banding' in the Dynamic picture, although it'll be sharp as a razor. Turbo Silver SV's 24 bit output IS nicely dithered and in fact the Dynamic conversions of it don't really look much better than the HAM output from Silver itself. -- Harv Laser | SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. People/Link: CBM*HARV | UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!hrlaser
bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) (01/21/90)
In-Reply-To: message from R38@PSUVM.BITNET > Sound interesting? Has anyone done this? Is there anyone willing to try > it? > I would love to render 24 bit files and display them in Dynamic Hires > (ok, not quite 16 mil colors, but no ham junk!) > Please E-Mail me! > > Marc Rifkin... R38@PSUVM > 814-867-4837 Yes, it is interesting and you can do just that! Render your scenes in Sculpt or Turbo in 24 bit format and then run your copy of RGBExchange by Troy Barlow (a user here on my system - troyb@pro-graphics.cts.com) and load either the Sculpt or Turbo Silver modules as well as the Digiview conversion module and you just click on the gadgets to convert your 24 bit RGB file to Digiview RGB format. Then you run your Digiview 4.0 and save the resulting image out to a nice crisp Digiview Dynamic Hi-Res File. Works like a charm. By the way, I've sent a copy of RGBExchange out to Tad Guy at Xanth so it should be up in the library there somewhere by now if you are looking for it. If you don't have FTP access and you want this program, you can call my system (number in signature) and use Xmodem Checksum (no CRC, sorry) to download the file which is something like 120k ZOOed. Enjoy! -- Bob _______________________ Pro-Graphics BBS 201/469-0049 ________________________ InterNet: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com | ProLine: bobl@pro-graphics UUCP: ..crash!pro-graphics!bobl | CServe: 70347,2344 ARPA/DDN: ..crash!pro-graphics!bobl@nosc.mil | Amer. Online: Graphics3D ___________ ____________ Raven Enterprises - 25 Raven Ave. Piscataway, NJ 08854