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Thanks for your reply, Daniel. I just threw this together in half an hour to show the OP in this thread that it's possible to have a spline-bevelled glass surface without any internal surfaces to spoil its appearance. I don't know why he wanted a glass grenade - I don't even know if he wanted any metal bits in it at all!

...just that this forum allows images. It's a followup from a post in the list. There are too many facets (it should have about 48 in total) and I miscalculated their regularity.

I think you can set another point as the start - it's the end that's the problem. Edit: Didn't really explain my thoughts. You can set the ease % to a higher value to start further along the path, and set it to less than 100% to finish before the path finishes, but how do you set it so that it starts at (say) 33%, goes around to 100%, back to 0% and then up to 33% again? (i.e. starts and ends at the same point on the path, but not at the start/end of the spline.) Dunno...

I think you modelled his belly using mine as a rotoscope. Great work. Not sure about the white surgical gloves, though. They look out of place...

Couldn't the armour be semi-flexible? You'd think that in the 40th Century Kevlar would have developed something that bends when a low-speed force is exerted (sitting down) but doesn't yield when a high-speed force is applied (bullet). Custard does that! I think I will patent custard body armour.

The one I saw on the school run this morning had a white roof, black mirror pillars and white mirror casings.

They did this on "True Lies" - the model with Arnie in it was suspended from a crane and they rotoscoped in a mesh where the downdraught would be. There was a basic Harrier model too, but that was used to mask out the areas of the downdraught that were "behind" the live shoot model, and was set not to render. The downdraught used a transparent blobby emitter that had its index of refreaction set. When rendered with the rotoscope, the background was distorted where the downdraguht produced a heat haze. Couldn't you do something similar for this project? A harrier wouldn't actually produce much smoke - it's the sign of a very rich fuel mix.

You know, i've always thought that we humans are a very unfair specie... we don't have predators that eat us! To be fair with mother nature and give a little bit of chance to the dragons family, I think I'm with the human slayer for now, hehehe Sorry for taking this off-topic, but we do have one species that is a predator. Sure lions, sharks, crocodiles and even driver ants will attack humans for food if they are hungry (opportunist hunting), but only one animal will actively predate on humans. The polar bear.