Tony Nemo

I found a use that I would never have anticipated. I had a 3DC project with very high res (I discovered later that it was consuming 7.75 gbs of RAM) and decided to refer to a C4D file of the same object when Vista gagged. After a wait, I closed C4D in Taskmanager. When I got my RAM back, I opened the same file to discover that all objects had been made 'editable' (that is, 'polygonal') and the materials reduced to the default gray state. So I had the problem of HN resolutions on my formerly low res objects. Solution: Retopology! Beware! This process is hypnotic and when you resurface, you may find that more time has passed than you were aware of. Anyway, I am making a much nicer mesh that wont require anymore smoothing than that provided by Phong.

Classic con, we all troop over to Washington to admire the statue only to be told (in the most withering tones) that the U.N. building is in New Yok!

I too have an unused Spacemouse. My Wacom tablet hogs my hand.

Some of these considerations would serve as well for the majority of 3DC users that come from C4D.

Just out of curiosity, could you receive screen captures by email?

Put me down for a copy.

The speed with which you do these (without a background reference image) is astonishing.

To paraphrase an old New Yorker cartoon, "on the web, they can't tell if your drooling".

"In the exapmle below will be in the end all lines horizontal and side and back image will have the same distance between red "rails". If you can treat reference image as polygon, this transformations could be quite simple." That's a good addition to any app. I prepare reference images in PS, but that's because I have to.

Have you tried using the "Square" brush tip in "E"? Also, you can copy individual quads.

Apatosaurus , including the popular, but obsolete synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of 23 meters (75 ft) and a mass of at least 23 metric tons (25 short tons). The name Apatosaurus means 'deceptive lizard', so-given because the chevron bones were similar to those of a prehistoric marine lizard, Mosasaurus. The name Apatosaurus comes from the Greek ἀπατέλος or ἀπατέλιος meaning 'deceptive' and σαῦρος meaning 'lizard'. Wiki. Congratulations on a job well done and the added information is most welcome! You may recall that the "Brontosaurus" (which is what I learned to call it) was the model for Windsor McKay's "Dino the Dinosaur", probably the worlds first animation.

Admirably grotesque!

Nice job, Phil! The tear duct does look too far from the corner of the eyeball, however.

Another feature I would like to see is a demonstration of creating hair (like the head in the examples) and clothes.

Looks like a nice basis for a project tutorial.

All that is lacking now are those wild eyebrow, nose and ear hairs. Maybe Andrew can set up a means of rendering splines.

Looks slightly malignant. You might have it looked at.

Thanks for the reply. I thought I had already installed Cuda for my 9600 GT card but I did it over again. Reinstalled 80 and tried again: same error. I'm using 2.1, perhaps there's a conflict of some kind that will wait until I have to do something for the final build.

Anybody encounter this: 3D Coat 80 wont start because Windows Vista Ultimate 64 can't find cudart.dll.

Both! A project that goes through the whole workflow would be very helpful and tips and tricks for individual tools would add to the mix. An important ingredient would be the "why" things were done as you go along. As there are often several ways of going about a job, it would even be helpful if this were gone into. Finally, a DVD would sell if it was comprehensive and got a good review by the Maestro.

I see your problem. I would use servos, as they would be simple cylinders at the joints connected by an electrical cable, all very compact. A servo follows it's controller located within the tank (invisible, of course). An example is the old "Engine Order Telegraph" where the captain says, "All ahead full, Mr Beasley". "Aye, aye, Captain! All head full!". The change to "Full" is repeated in the engine room so that the firemen know what is needed from the boiler. In the case of the Steam Spider Tank, the servos would respond with the angular changes required by the forward, sideways, or backward motion of the tank.

I'm puzzled by an apparent lack of a means for articulating the legs beyond rotating at the base. Maybe some servo-mechanisms at the joints or the more traditional hydraulics would do.

"The sliders are super easy to scrub through. Instead of having to narrow your cursor to a little tiny knob each time, you can just place it anywhere in the window and drag it left or right...with both a highlighted indicator and numeric indicators in the same window. That's a feature I LOVE about Combustion (adopted from Flame, Flint and Inferno...so you KNOW it's as professional as it gets)." The sliders I like. The colors can be user selected as in C4D.

Definitely has a market. Organized around work flows and an emphasis on "why" operations are necessary rather than mere recipes. It is perhaps difficult for an experienced user to avoid skipping over what has become automatic, but noobies aren't there yet.

Horizontal tabs work for me. My head tends to tilt to the right with the vertical setup. Take a look at the C4D layout to see what most 3DC users are accustomed to.