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a_r_schulz Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Oct. 07 2001, 18:49 Whilst wildly switching NVidia drivers for my in-law's GeforceMX, I occasionally ended up in some messed up configurations. Besides the usual (crashing, fall-back to software rendering with ~0.2 fps), I twice managed to reach a configuration that, when starting the MusicVR demo, instead of the familiar cactus/vulcano scene showed the following scene : a solid green floor, shaded blue sky above, and, hovering somwhere in between, the good old famous white teapot (honestly!). I could fly around as usual, just quite pointless due to lack of significant features. See : http://www.nord-com.net/accot.schulz/Other/MusicVR/mvr_teapot.jpg Still looking for the best NVidia driver for the GeforceMX, I found that : 12.41 lets me fall through the floor occasionally, 12.90 adds some red stripes to the desert plain (see http://www.nord-com.net/accot.schulz/Other/MusicVR/MVR_stripes.jpg) Back to top

a_r_schulz Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Oct. 07 2001, 18:51 Oops - the second URL swallowed the right parenthesis : http://www.nord-com.net/accot.schulz/Other/MusicVR/MVR_stripes.jpg Back to top

Wojtek Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Oct. 08 2001, 19:48 What is directly the configuration? I want see it too 'live' Back to top

timshen Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: Mar. 2001 Posted: Oct. 10 2001, 03:37 You are joking aren't you? Did you just make up the picture of the white teapot on the green background or is this for REAL? Maybe Mike has put a hidden message in Music VR - what would the White teapot represent? Any ideas? -------------- Expect Great Things. Attempt Great Things. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Oct. 10 2001, 15:34 I'd imagine it's a test image from a model library. I'd not try to read too much into it (and we could, if we wanted to - everyday objects can become very symbolic objects in the right hands)... Back to top

a_r_schulz Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Oct. 10 2001, 18:44 I'd also guess that it's some kind of fall-back default scene of the rendering engine. in case something is wrong with display drivers (and no, I'm not joking, it's not made up..). AFAIR I got the scene when I installed my PCI-tailored version on my in-law's AGP GF2MX, so you would need an AGP GF2MX and rename vgartd.vxd, agartd.vxd and (maybe) alipcimp.pci. You may also need to run Win95OSR2.x, since vgartd is an add-on driver for functions under Win95 that are already built-in in Win98/ME. Back to top

Stu-bular bell Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: Nov. 2001 Posted: Nov. 11 2001, 18:13 I can explain this!!! As a 3d artist there is a certain significance. The teapot (or 'Utah teapot') started at the university of Utah when Martin Newell created an elegant wireframe model of a teapot. Soon his colleagues began experimenting with the model and it has since been a worldwide symbol in 3d modelling! I hope this solves your query. Stu Back to top

a_r_schulz Group: Members Posts: 425 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Nov. 12 2001, 05:54 Sure, it obviously was 'the' teapot - but that still doesn't really explain how it got into MusicVR... Back to top

celtic_rain Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: Dec. 2001 Posted: Dec. 28 2001, 15:27 Hello, I have recently downloaded MVR and very nice I find it too BUT how far can you go with it? can anyone tell me. I have got to the part where you can change from spere to seed to flower but then that seems to be as far as I can get. Is that as far as the demo allows? thanks Back to top

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