My 3D Studio Home Page

• Here's some information for working with 3D Studio files (*.3DS) with IRIX.
  • Speak your mind, tell Autodesk you want to see continued Unix support.
    • Let's get a few thousand Unix users to submit wish list requests!
• And here's my updated 3D Studio Toolkit for IRIX.
  • Now includes proper Inventor file orientation and that ellusive 3dsToIv translator.
• Here are some tips on exporting AutoCAD R13 objects for use in 3D Studio.
• The public domain program Xanim supports playback of of FLI and FLC files.
  • Contact me if you have difficulty getting a copy
• User's of the newest 3D Studio Max products on the SGI Visual Workstations might want to check out the following information:

By the way, Autodesk does offer a version of the 3D Studio Network Renderer for IRIX.

• SGI is the only Unix platform to offer this capability.
• In case you are wondering, the 3DS Network Renderer works great on
  • The new O2 workstation.
  • The new Octane workstation.
  • Irix 6.2, 6.4, 6.4, etc.
  • Those hot new 64-bit R10000 CPUs.
    • Isn't binary compatibility a wonderful thing!
• The 3DS Network Renderer does have some problems on certain configurations:
  • On XFS (or EFS for that matter) file systems with over 2GB of free space:
    • The 32-bit code in 3DS chokes when it sees that much free space.
    • The work around is to re-direct your output to a smaller file system; e.g. link your 3ds4/images directory ta smaller file system.
• Here is some technical information on the difference between network rendering on IRIX and DOS.
• Here is some technical information on using the IPAS Software Developer's Kit (SDK) on IRIX.

Autodesk also has some tips for setting up and running the 3DS Network Renderer:

• Network Rendering with 3D Studio
• Swap Space and the SGI

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the network renderer does not function with 3D Studio Max.

• If you would like to see this capability please let your Autodesk representative know.
• I've tried running MAX on SoftWindows95, and while it does run, the hardware lock is not supported, meaning you can't run as a render master.

Here are some links to other sites offering 3D Studio resources:

• Kinetix Home Page
• Ultimate 3D Links
• 3D Studio links