Infini D FAQ

Infini-D Frequently Asked Questions GENERAL ___________________________________________ Q I’m running Infini-D on a Power Mac and have QuickDraw 3D installed but I don’t get any interactive rendering. What’s the problem? You need to select QuickDraw 3D as the renderer within Infini-D. Choose AppleSW (or Apple HW if you have an Apple QuickDraw 3D accelerator) from the Views floater. Set the shading mode to fast, better, or best and QuickDraw 3D will take over, shading the views in real time. Q Why are the Apple QuickDraw 3D renderers grayed-out? I installed QuickDraw 3D on my Power Mac, but I can’t get it to work. Be sure you’ve left enough RAM for QuickDraw 3D to load. Before launching Infini-D, check About This Macintosh to see how much RAM is free. Set your Infini-D partition to 3 to 5 megabytes less than the current amount of free RAM. Then, when Infini-D is launched, the system will have enough space to load QuickDraw 3D (and QuickTime). Q How do I use the object library? To use objects in the object library, place an object into the world. Edit the object to enter the Workshop and open the object library from the FILE menu. Select the object you wish to manipulate and press the “Place” button. Click Done. To save an object, enter the workshop with the model to be saved. Open the object library and press the “Add” button. The object will then be available later and can be retrieved using the above steps. Q How do I link objects? The easiest method is to use the sequencer. In the sequencer, if you drag an object name onto another object name, the object you dragged will become the child of the second. Remember that children always follow the parent, but the parent doesn’t follow the child. Q How do I change the surface color throughout time? In the sequencer, COMMAND double-click (Macintosh) or CONTROL double-click (Windows) on the name of the object whose surface you’d like to change, then choose the “Change Surface At Eventmarks” Animation Assistant from the ANIMATION menu. Q When I try to access the color picker the computer seems to freeze. When I press RETURN Infini-D functions again, but the color picker never appears. What’s up? The Macintosh system software may put the color picker on the monitor with the most colors. On AV Macs this may be the AV port or a board that is in your machine (there doesn’t need to…