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01.48.29 ghost: hey
01.48.45 calyxa: hey, do you know how to export in VRML?
01.50.21 ghost: nope
01.50.28 ghost: from what?
01.50.47 calyxa: from a parameter bomb... I have mail from Bryce indicating it should do it, but my tests haven't worked...
01.50.53 calyxa: I'll just ask Chris...
01.51.58 ghost: ok
01.52.05 ghost: I don't know what viewer you'd use.
01.52.30 calyxa: every extension I've tried has just added an additional .png to the end and results in a greyscale heightmap.
01.53.00 calyxa: I don't know what viewer I'd use either, but figured if it had the right extension, that'd be half the battle...
01.54.07 calyxa: I never saw an announcement from Chas about this 'event', did you?
01.54.30 ghost: um
01.54.39 ghost: I' just happend to be online.
01.54.41 ghost: :o)
01.54.47 ghost: what event?
01.54.59 calyxa: heh, supposed to be the "regular" thursday nite event starting "now"
01.55.13 ghost: I didn't know that we were exporting vrml
01.55.36 calyxa: just terrain patches, not whole planets... at least according to that mail from Bryce from a while back.
01.56.12 ghost: hmmm...
01.56.15 ghost: did you e.mail him?
01.56.21 ghost: vrml is poly data
01.56.32 calyxa: I sent the mail to 'support-engineer' since it's in reply to a customer question...
01.56.39 ghost: the current export scheme seems to be only HF or 16bpp grescale
01.57.22 calyxa: obj, DXF and LWO, too, according to Bryce...
01.57.26 calyxa: I've tried obj, even.
01.58.07 calyxa: on the PC side... Mac needs a patch to do exports, I believe.. there was a beta patch for it, but it just timed out a day or two ago.
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02.00.06 ghost: boo
02.00.08 calyxa: heya, Chas
02.00.16 chas: Hey ho MojoNauts
02.00.21 calyxa: where was the announcement, man?
02.00.48 calyxa: did you guys see my animation?
02.00.51 chas: Whatchu talkin about... I sent it out to our mojonauts mailing list... Aren't you on that?
02.01.11 calyxa: I thought I was... I know I asked you to put me on it a while back, 'cuz I wasn't on it when 1.1 went beta...
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02.01.38 calyxa: heya, pink boy
02.01.38 chas: Yeah... but Mathew and I just totaly revamped it all... I'll make sure you get re entered
02.01.48 chas: PINKMO
02.01.49 DocMojo: Woo hoo! The Doctor is in!
02.02.03 DocMojo: WAAAAY PINK!
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02.02.11 chas: Putting the MO back in...
02.02.15 calyxa: hey, rex
02.02.22 DocMojo: MO-RON!
02.02.41 rex: hey---did i come at a bad time doc? ;-)
02.02.59 chas: There's EL RON... and then there's MO RON
02.03.04 DocMojo: But of course! There is NO good time.
02.03.11 rex: good point!
02.03.17 DocMojo: Then there
02.03.41 DocMojo: 's DE-DO-RONN-RON-RON-DE-DO-RON-RON
02.03.41 chas: Folks... check out the new animation I just posted in the pandromeda gallery by Krummen Hacker
02.03.57 chas: Called Wrooom
02.04.37 chas: He's got a freeway with cars moving along it. Seems like a test, so it's very crude, but it shows where we're going
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02.04.55 DocMojo: tHIS MAN IS A fiend.
02.05.09 calyxa: is that Bernard?
02.05.16 DocMojo: Yep.
02.05.30 calyxa: he totally loaded up the database with feature requests the other day.
02.05.33 chas: Yes.
02.05.50 DocMojo: Did he? Are they "good" ones?
02.05.59 DocMojo: (Whatever that means!)
02.06.23 calyxa: there was one that was a duplicate of something submitted 500 entries ago, that qualifies as 'good'
02.06.28 chas: And CHEERS to you Rex too. I've been totally diggin on what you've been doing in MjW
02.06.39 DocMojo: I'm SO happy I'm not a plane to NZ tonight I could just dance!
02.06.51 chas: TO ALL: Send me stuff... I'll post it
02.07.05 calyxa: are you going to not go to NZ? or just go later?
02.07.11 DocMojo: The guy is prescient. Thta's "good".
02.07.19 DocMojo: Or is he postscient?
02.07.20 rex: thanks - been trying...I am fighting with converting a startgate model from bryce odp to 3ds so I can get it in mjw
02.07.29 chas: Well... there's no one in here yet. Remind me to say that again in 1/2 hour.
02.07.36 calyxa: nothing converts Bryce's format...
02.07.37 DocMojo: Rex: Love your Star Wars scene!
02.07.45 rex: thanks doc
02.07.56 chas: YeEAH... That Snow Walker RULES
02.07.57 DocMojo: Thank you!
02.08.13 rex: gosh <blush>
02.08.13 calyxa: ah, the snow walker, I saw that one - great stuff.
02.08.16 DocMojo: "Come to the Dark Side."
02.08.20 DocMojo: -Darth Mojo
02.08.33 rex: "I am your father"...
02.08.36 chas: I could DEFINTELY use more images and QTVRs like THAT!!!
02.08.49 chas: Luke... Stop kissing your sister
02.08.52 DocMojo: I thought I was YOUR father!
02.09.04 calyxa: I got Poser 4 today, so we'll see what, if anything, I can do with it...
02.09.10 chas: "He's sooo old."
02.09.11 DocMojo: Is that the mother of your child?
02.09.25 DocMojo: HEY CHAS: BITE ME.
02.09.28 calyxa: gonna have to make a "Taking Back The Knowledge" to go with my "Taking Back The Ritual" and "Giving In To Sweetness" series...
02.10.14 DocMojo: Woah--that Bernard is one sick mind!
02.10.20 DocMojo: My kind of guy!!!
02.10.34 rex: the stargate I'm using from bryce has the "water"in the middle of it but mjw doesn't seem to recognize it and wont render it correctly --- any ideas?
02.10.37 DocMojo: I'm going on Weds.
02.10.42 DocMojo: Business class.
02.10.44 calyxa: cool
02.10.46 DocMojo: On FF miles.
02.11.00 DocMojo: Praise th eLord!
02.11.46 calyxa: Mojo won't do water in anything except an ocean primitive.
02.11.59 DocMojo: Everyone: I had 350,000 frequent flyer miles at teh beginning of 2001. Now I've wiped them out. ;-)
02.12.11 calyxa: it'll do transparent transparency, but you can't get index of refraction on small objects.
02.12.16 rex: so thats why it looks just like a dark panel...drat...
02.12.23 calyxa: ya... "version 2!"
02.12.38 calyxa: or post-process....
02.12.40 DocMojo: Xparency is a version 2.0 thing (we hope).
02.12.46 rex: and when's that again???? ;-)
02.12.58 DocMojo: Oh, tomorrow...
02.13.01 calyxa: how long will it take us to clone Craig?
02.13.01 DocMojo: NOT
02.13.17 DocMojo: They vats are bubbling...
02.13.23 rex: ah, well, can't blame me fur tryin'
02.13.35 DocMojo: No, we caint.
02.13.41 rex: so doc, you liked ff?
02.14.01 DocMojo: Well, I F frequently... ;-)
02.14.32 rex: i meant Final Fantasy
02.14.37 DocMojo: It's nice when you get to Premiere Gold Star Executive status.
02.14.57 DocMojo: Even United is nice to regular customers.
02.15.06 DocMojo: (When they're up to it.)
02.15.31 DocMojo: (Unlike Pandromeda, who are ALWAYS nice--except to each other!!!)
02.15.56 DocMojo: Oh, FF--yes--I was BLOWN AWAY.
02.16.02 DocMojo: Like, TOTALLY.
02.16.13 rex: what parts did they have you in mind for?
02.16.22 calyxa: he was gonna play the babe.
02.16.27 DocMojo: There were SO many tricks and subtleties in there I was AMAZED.
02.16.42 rex: hey, i was just hoping doc could introduce me to her someday... ;-)
02.16.44 DocMojo: HEY CALY: BITE ME.
02.16.47 calyxa: that thing was so visually rich that anyone not in "the biz" probably missed 90% of it.
02.16.54 calyxa: come over here
02.17.07 rex: i bought the dvd and the book on making it...amazing
02.17.10 DocMojo: I was going to do "photosurrealism" for them--stuff like Comet Leary.
02.17.43 rex: very cool, doc, but i'm glad we got mjw instead
02.17.54 DocMojo: I'm glad you're glad.
02.18.09 DocMojo: I'm sure it will make the larger difference, in the end.
02.18.21 calyxa: if it wasn't for MW, I wouldn't have seen FF.
02.18.25 DocMojo: What I hope I learned at Meta was how to reach people like you.
02.18.29 DocMojo: No kidding.
02.18.51 DocMojo: I was (and still am, according to many) lost in teh clouds, the ivory tower.
02.18.56 rex: I bet meta was frustrating tho...since they killed it
02.19.09 DocMojo: But it's SO coll to get teh Power to the People!
02.19.26 DocMojo: Yeah, I still get hot over that.
02.19.38 DocMojo: Seems like a 100% greed-driven move.
02.19.44 rex: how long were you there b4 they killed it?
02.19.49 DocMojo: The price of having doen an IPO, methinks.
02.19.57 DocMojo: 2 years.
02.20.17 DocMojo: It was teh dot-com craze.
02.20.26 rex: whew...how is "...stream" doing now anyway...I have'nt heard much about em
02.20.28 DocMojo: They wanted to do another red-hor dot-com IPO.
02.20.31 DocMojo: Tools.
02.21.03 rex: my company did our ipo just b4 the bottom fell out...thank god
02.21.19 DocMojo: I wanted to look them up on YahooQuotes, but I don't know the company ID for Viewpoint.
02.21.35 rex: did viewpoint buy em?
02.21.37 DocMojo: Didja make anything?
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02.21.49 calyxa: heya, Codini
02.21.51 chas: Hey yo Codini
02.21.55 DocMojo: Hey, Codini!
02.21.58 Codini: I'm here
02.22.00 rex: yeah, i'm driving my proceeds from the ipo...
02.22.00 DocMojo: BITE ME!
02.22.04 rex: hey codini
02.22.13 Codini: Howdy
02.22.27 Codini: Puttin' the Mo back in Mo-ron
02.22.39 DocMojo: Excellent, Rex! I have two neighbors who are younger than me and RETIRED.
02.22.48 DocMojo: (I hate people like that.) ;-)
02.23.04 rex: well, it wasn't that much...is just a used protege...but I was happy!
02.23.11 DocMojo: I already used that line tonite, Codini...
02.23.16 Codini: I got OS x tinstalled today
02.23.37 DocMojo: Cool. How's MW on it? I hear it's REALLY slow.
02.23.39 calyxa: excellent!
02.23.48 calyxa: ya, really slow.. but I love having a command line.
02.23.57 Codini: just finished and haven't tried MJW yet
02.24.00 DocMojo: Ah, vi....
02.24.13 chas: Hey everyone... listen to ESO Radio tonight - www.wcsb.org, 11pm-1am EST. Legume sent me the whole show for tonight via ICQ. I just burned it to CD. Good stuff... Walter Brennan, Pickin' on Zeppelin... Woodie Guthrie... African drumming... all sorts of fun stuff for your ears.
02.24.18 calyxa: you'll want to pause the RTR every chance you got... other than that, tho, it is
02.24.21 calyxa: usable.
02.24.58 DocMojo: Cool, Chas. Beat them drums!
02.25.09 calyxa: that's streaming audio? I may have to give it a try.
02.25.29 chas: Yeah... just go to www.wcsb.org
02.25.31 DocMojo: (Y'all should know how Chas, Legume, Codini and I met--a weird and sordid tale!)
02.25.34 rex: i have to sleep...must work in morning...early meeting...ugh
02.25.49 rex: maybe next time chas
02.25.54 chas: I think there's various ways to stream it.
02.26.01 DocMojo: So Rex, are you going to write MW pug-ins for us?
02.26.15 chas: Keep that mojo workin Rex... You Rule!!! Mojonaut
02.26.33 DocMojo: Steely-eyed Mojonaut.
02.26.38 DocMojo: I love that term...
02.26.40 calyxa: there's one I want to write, if I can dust off my programming skills enough to work it out...
02.26.42 rex: well, i am a hacker by trade so it sure sounds interesting...
02.26.59 DocMojo: Cool! Hack at will...
02.27.09 rex: ahem...have to have the SDK of course.... ;-)
02.27.10 DocMojo: Craig tells me he's writing up our SDK.
02.27.14 Codini: I hear Legume wrote a pretty good ego deflater today
02.27.46 DocMojo: I bitch slapped him reflexively, before my aligator brain even got a vote!
02.27.59 calyxa: have Craig send me the SDK... if I can figure it out, then anyone who can write 'hello world' will be able to handle it.
02.28.18 DocMojo: Believe me, we'll make a noise when the SDK comes out!
02.28.30 Codini: >smoke break<
02.28.42 DocMojo: We figure that MOST of MW's future lies in teh hands of people like yourself.
02.28.45 DocMojo: Not kidding!
02.28.56 calyxa: brb...
02.29.00 rex: so, the sdk will use C++ or will it support other object languages?
02.29.38 DocMojo: Uh, you can link in all sorts of languages to C, therefore, I presume, C++.
02.29.46 DocMojo: If you're a hacker... ;-)
02.30.07 DocMojo: MW is C++.
02.30.30 DocMojo: "Someday I'll get to program again, too."
02.30.41 rex: yeah, but with mjw written in c++ i'll probably just hang there with you folks...your using Microsoft C++?
02.31.03 DocMojo: Generic as we can make it.
02.31.22 DocMojo: VCC for the PC, Metrowerks for the Mac,
02.31.25 rex: but using MS compiler and tools or somebody elses?
02.31.35 rex: ahh, theres the answer - thanks
02.31.35 DocMojo: Gnu C++ for linux.
02.32.03 DocMojo: Intel compiler, for the critical stuff.
02.32.17 DocMojo: "Resist Darth Bill!"
02.32.27 DocMojo: Even if resistance is futile...
02.32.28 rex: amen to that!
02.32.41 rex: so how did macworld go?
02.32.48 DocMojo: VERY well.
02.33.02 rex: did they use some of our qtvrs?
02.33.04 DocMojo: We got an amazing amount done in a very short time.
02.33.14 DocMojo: They had a mess of them there.
02.33.20 rex: cool!
02.33.34 DocMojo: I had to tell the operators which ones they were, and whence they came.
02.33.39 DocMojo: "They know now." ;-)
02.33.41 rex: what were you trying to accomplish at this show?
02.34.01 DocMojo: Grub grub grub!
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02.34.10 DocMojo: Connections, connections, connections.
02.34.12 calyxa: hey, Chris
02.34.16 rex: hey chris!
02.34.18 DocMojo: Hay, Chris!
02.34.25 DocMojo: SLACKER.
02.34.27 chris_dickson: mmm,...what did i just walk into...
02.34.37 rex: more doc abuse
02.34.40 DocMojo: A TRAP! RUN AWAY!
02.34.52 DocMojo: (Chris is used to that.)
02.34.56 chris_dickson: i think so,....i might away and hide
02.35.10 rex: doc, glad you made good connections at the show
02.35.16 DocMojo: I can hear you sniggering from here
02.35.35 DocMojo: even though you're on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET.
02.35.41 DocMojo: Ain't teh Internet great?
02.35.47 rex: chris is a kiwi?
02.35.54 DocMojo: Yep.
02.36.06 rex: what do you do for pandromeda chris?
02.36.10 DocMojo: Craig's right-hand man, our Linux guru.
02.36.20 rex: cool! a good guy to know!
02.36.23 calyxa: support engineer duty, too
02.36.25 chris_dickson: it's better than being a pain in the arss american <sorry generally aimed at ken>
02.36.28 DocMojo: (And my whippin' boy.)
02.36.37 calyxa: thought that was Craig...
02.36.44 rex: doh...that hurt chris!!!
02.36.58 Codini: I thoght you liked whippin chihuahuas
02.36.58 DocMojo: (I hope so.)
02.37.30 DocMojo: (He's one of those napalm-off-a-duck's-back knida furrin scum types.)
02.37.32 Codini: +