3am Solutions Online Community Discussion Forum 2008-11-19T14:24:45Z Copyright (c) 2008 ExpressionEngine tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:11:19 New member of 3AM?  tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.272 2008-11-18T20:41:16Z 2008-11-19T14:24:45Z Ian McGregor With Bruce’s hands on, customer focused, approach to business I know there’s plenty of you out there who will join me in congratulating Bruce on the newest member of the team who arrived safely yesterday.

I hear Mum, Louise and baby Mae are doing great! Well done Bruce!!

]]> Autodesk University 2008 tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.227 2008-08-16T16:44:36Z 2008-11-19T14:43:57Z Remco Bastiaans Anyone else attending this year?

I will be arriving on Saterday so I’ve got two very nice days to explore a little bit of Las Vegas during my first visit! Do you have a stand in one of the exibit halls Bruce, so we can visit you?

Remco

]]> importing Paramics information?  tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.270 2008-11-10T05:17:54Z 2008-11-17T23:51:43Z Joe Waldron Hi

We use Paramics here and not VISSIM, is it possible to import data using Dynamite SIM?

Thanks

]]> More Materials tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.271 2008-11-13T02:08:44Z 2008-11-16T15:10:51Z Curtis Lee Hi there

How do you add a new materials to the list of dynamite surface materials?

Our client is looking for more of a browny/green sort of colour rather than the different shades of green for the batter slopes.

I see we are up to 50 channels and we can go to 99.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Curtis

]]> Articuated Vehicles tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.237 2008-09-09T01:21:56Z 2008-11-18T18:32:03Z Peter Cook Hey, if I were to run articulated vehicles i.e. trucks and construction equipment how would I go about getting a vehicle to follow the path then the trailer follow using the right point of articulation?

I’ve looked for tutorials and a few other forums but never found the answer I was after or I was unable to replicate their example.  Usually it involves using bones and IK which is usually kinda tricky.

Any ideas?

]]> Conspiracy Theory tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.269 2008-11-09T14:23:54Z 2008-11-18T20:35:00Z Peter Cook I swear software is designed to give problems at the 11th hour.

Having worked with a coupla lads on other jobs, I know I’m not the only one to experience issues when you least need them.

Invariably rendering is the issue.  This time round we’ve been plagued by renders that ‘complete’ yet miss frames or renders that just don’t work but don’t error.  Plus there’s the I/O errors that we get from our moment of tiredness / desperation.

Who else has issues?  What do you experience?

]]> Road Marking materials tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.268 2008-11-05T20:59:10Z 2008-11-13T14:19:21Z Brian Rogers I was trying to make a striped road marking with Raiseed Pavement markers (RPM) inbetween the stripes.  Here are the issues I ran into:

The numerical values are in decimal. My scene units are feet and my display units are in feet w/inches.  Would be nice if the display units in DVSP dialogs followed the rest of the MAX interface. For making 4” RPM squares placed in between the stripes I had to input .333 for a value. 

I was going to ask for road marking offsets along the parent spline but found you coud do it in the materials’ “V” offset value. It would be nice to be able to have this offset in the DVSP Road Marking Parameters panel so you wouldn’t have to dig around in the material’s settings.

It seems that everytime the values of a road marking are changed (either in the RMS editor or in the Parameters panel) a new Sub-object material is created! Huh? This seems rather troublesome and awkward.  It is rather easy to inadvertantly make a lot of materials after tweaking your line values!  I found that you can clean up the unused Sub-Object materials, within the DynamiteMarkings material, by using the Material Editor’s “Clean MultiMaterial” utility.  Maybe this could be handled automatically.

Can the Material ID number(s) be placed in the Parameters panel for Road Markings please.  It is very difficult to determine which Sub-Object Material is assigned to a particular Road Mark.

Thanks

]]> Adjusting asphalt’s texture along CL tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.260 2008-10-22T10:46:29Z 2008-11-13T04:52:55Z Piotr Janicki Hi,
I am getting difficulties in adjusting texture which contains ‘dirty asphalt’. Please find attached frame. I used UnwapUVW and UVWXform but still can not get proper size for this texture. Could you please give me an advice what do I do wrong?

Regards,
Piotr

]]> Filtering Errors tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.267 2008-11-01T02:50:51Z 2008-11-04T16:24:34Z Peter Cook What do others do when they get the annoying error when there’s not enough memory to filter the aerial photography you’re using?  I generally just reduce the image size.  Does using 64-bit solve / reduce this issue?

]]> OPS Placement Options tag:3am-solutions.co.uk,2008:community/forums/viewthread/.266 2008-10-30T00:31:08Z 2008-11-05T19:20:51Z Peter Cook Just wondering if there’s any point in having an option for setting a number of objects spaced at an even interval?  It’s not a game breaker.

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