"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| now all you need is chris colefax's spline macro for your camera to add
| pitch, roll, and direction change to get rid of the sideways movement.
| i am going to check out your higher res version.  good job bob.

Thanks, not 'copter enough?  :-) I've had the spline generator and the macro
almost since they were first available I believe.  Just went with an easy
flight path for the tests, plus I don't always put a lot of effort into all
aspects of something anyhow.
Sure hope people can get to the better mpeg file someday, I'm still trying
to get a look at it from the web site myself to check if it went okay.
As Dick Balaska has said the "html" directory of the URL is wrong to have in
there.

Bob

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Zoiks!!
I found out what went wrong, maybe.  Everything under the HTML folder at
that web site is considered to be a html web file and nothing else.  Or so
it would seem.  I right-clicked on the link once there and to my amazement
the flightmw.mpg showed up as flightmw.htm !
So please excuse my total ignorance.  I will move the file to another
location or fix it somehow eventually I hope.  So sorry to be wasting
anyones time like this.  I need to ask questions at povray.off-topic instead
of continuing blindly here.

Bob

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> Thanks, I had no idea the "html" part was an unnecessary or wrong part of
> the URL.  I don't understand this special URL stuff yet at all and I still
> can't get the file downloaded.  Wondering if I have to set some sort of
> permissions up now since I read something about it someplace.  Wish I had
> checked into this further before posting.

The link http://jove.prohosting.com/~omnivers/raytraces/anims/flightmw.mpg
works for me.

Prohosting free service isn't what it was when I first signed up.  In addition
to the new ad banners, they did something so that you have to go to another
web page that says "to continue downloading this file..."  Therefore you can't
link directly to a file like you used to.  It also seems to cause problem with
windows media player, so the file needs to be saved to disk before opening.

-Mike

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"Mike" <Ama### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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| The link http://jove.prohosting.com/~omnivers/raytraces/anims/flightmw.mpg
| works for me.
|
| Prohosting free service isn't what it was when I first signed up.  In
addition
| to the new ad banners, they did something so that you have to go to
another
| web page that says "to continue downloading this file..."  Therefore you
can't
| link directly to a file like you used to.  It also seems to cause problem
with
| windows media player, so the file needs to be saved to disk before
opening.

Thanks Mike, that's at least an explanation not read about anywhere, but I
think I fouled it up now by changing "permissions" on it and the parent
folder... poof! it all disappeared.  Will have to check into uploading again
later.
I looked around at other places and ProHosting still has enough going for it
over those, amount of space being a big reason.  Other places want even more
control over how files are done, so in the meantime I'll keep this one.
Bothersome as it may be to all.

Bob

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Very cool: texturing, shapes, camera movement.

Bob Hughes wrote:

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I really can't download the mpeg from any given url, but I like to see
it. Does anyone here, who has the mpeg, have a ftp server?

Remco Poelstra

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Majestic...

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Alright, this thing is now at my XOOM web space so get it while it's warm
(not hot, get it?).

http://members.xoom.com/omniverse/flightmw.mpg  Under 4 megabytes.

I'm keeping the xoom place around I guess.  I had a 30 minute upload but a
unusually slow download when checking the file.  I consistently have a 2KB
connection for comparison.
I wish everyone who tries it out much luck and a speedy d/l.  It should go
flawlessly though.
Reminder: the grainy appearence is not from 'jitter' being on, no
antialiasing was used in order to keep a sharpness to it.  I think it's the
'granite' normals causing the random twinkling of the dirt and vegetation
textures.
I apologize once again to those who had trouble getting this animation
before.

Bob

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Just saw your animation today (i'm not reading p.b.a that frequently) and liked
it, even though your plane's pilot seems very drunk :-) RMF seems very good for
animations.

BTW for your information: My download rate from your ProHosting-Adress was about
33kb/sec while i got 58kb/sec with your xoom-accout.  

Christoph

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"Christoph Hormann" <Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> wrote in
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| Just saw your animation today (i'm not reading p.b.a that frequently) and
liked
| it, even though your plane's pilot seems very drunk :-) RMF seems very
good for
| animations.

Albeit slow.  With AA on, and a postage stamp sized180x90 frame, my 500MHz
PC does each at an average of 50 seconds.  Multiply that by 320 as I
currently am doing and it's about 4 1/2 hours per full test.  Not terribly
bad, but not fast by any means.

| BTW for your information: My download rate from your ProHosting-Adress was
about
| 33kb/sec while i got 58kb/sec with your xoom-accout.

Hey, wow, that's good to know.  Bad for ProHosting, but good for XOOM.  Been
thinking it over and with XOOM offering up plenty enough space (500MB
storage) and direct links I might as well use it more rather than quit it.
I reread the TOS and I'm not too worried about them using content on their
site for the sole purpose of promoting themselves.  Just wouldn't want it to
go beyond that.  'nuf said.

Btw, cable modem, DSL, dial-up?  Which is it you use there, may I ask?

Bob

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