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You will get a smooth surface if you first model it with very few splines and CPs and than add new once at the same point where the curve would have been without the new CP... Smoothness will be archieved, if you make the spline "flow" *Fuchur* PS: There is a plugin at sgross.com called smooth, which does basically something like comparing a spline with less CPs to the one you got, but it jsut works with smaller values and smaller problems, because otherwise you will loose to much detail... feel free to test it. BUt be sure you save your work and do it on a copy... a plugin cant be undoed...

And did you ever try to use the Porcelein-Material from the CD? (DATA->Material->Geometry) Be sure the normals of the patches point outside and that you restart A:M after flipping normals. Otherwise, the material will produce black patches, etc. There is a tutorial in the forum... just search for porcelain. It can help, but you have to provide a nice model. *Fuchur*

There are several things which can help here... one very powerful thing is the magnet-mode + the grid-wizard... Just make a grid, use the magnetmode and you will get nice hills etc. Another thing is the toonnation plugin Terran which should work with the newer versions and v8.0 of A:M. Or you could use AM Terraform, which will create a high density-mesh for you based on a height-map. Or you can just use a displacement-map with a grid... Depending on your intend, quite everything can work very well.... *FUchur*

Every biological book shows more than what you see here... and dont let us talk about MTV... So I think that noone gets harmed if he sees that... But to be sure, just edit the topic and say "nudity" in it... the censors just dont help us to see, if she is modelled well... even if it doesnt make a real big difference... Thats something I wont ever understand because I am a European, but I just do it for my posts... *fuchur*

For *.x-export, have a look at this website. LINK to *.x Import/export-Plugin The exporter is quite good. One of the bests to poly-world for A:M. It can handle animations, cp weights, textures and geometry, if I am not wrong... but have a look at their webpage... there are some examples and informations there. I am not aware of a plugin which exports to blitz3d, but I dont know everything A:M is in anycase worth an upgrade! *Fuchur*

Nvidia-Cards have one small draw-back: In Shadedmode, with activated grid, the points will stay black when you select them. That is because of a change in the driver NVidia did some month ago. I am not sure about Radeon so... ATI has recently been sold to AMD and I dont know which way they will take. I recommend a fast NVidia-card with a Dual-System, but I think a good Radeon will do too... *Fuchur*

Very impressive! Keep it up! *Fuchur*

Wow... very cool car! Nice done with the Env-Map... First I thought it was a cool shader I didnt have... *Fuchur*

Somehow he looks like he had a apoplectic stroke... But nice anyway... *Fuchur*

If it is the community-window and a new chatmessage, I totally understand... If it is windows and you survived till now without turning all windows-sounds of, you are a real hero to me *Fuchur*

I like him anyway... But what you are properply missing is, that the head dont end where the hair starts. It looks a bit like you rotoscoped him from a real-life-image, modelled the face and than just attached the head itself. So, long talk, short answer: I think the nose is too long, the forehead should be a bit longer but in any case at the top more narrow (-> there will be hair on a part of it) and the mouth and the eyes could be a little bit closer... (not much so...) But as I said: If you want a nice semi-realistic-character to animate something with, I would leave him as he is... and maybe make his nose and the eyebrows(->skin of them) bigger. That will give him more character. *Fuchur*

Nice modelling... it looks very believeable... but I a agree on the velvet-shader... That will make the peach look more like it had a very high density fur on it... You can find the velvet-shader at your object-properties at the (I think) diffuse-shader-option. Tricky: It only works if you set the diffuse-shader to velvet at your rendering-tab too. (->the dialog you get when you try to render... make sure it is set to "advanced") (-> Dont know why.. if Hash had a reason or I am just doing something wrong... would be nice to know so...) *Fuchur*

You just have to adjust the "repeat"-value of your projection-map. That should be okay for you too. *Fuchur*

*.tga-sequences can be imported by AE and AE can interpret the alpha-channel too... If you dont want to let AE do that, you have to rightclick on the importat footage(image-sequence) and click on "interpret footage". No you can choose, if you want to ignore the alpha or you want to use it. Some versions back A:M didnt write the sprite-particles to the alpha-channel of the tga-file however... dont know if that has changed till now. But if you are not trying to compose something, where you would need the alpha, you can easily ignore the alpha and the sprites will be visible, too. See you *Fuchur*

Yes it is made with v13, newest version available... Were you able to open the file? *Fuchur*

Okay... I had a look at it... I think it is a bit nearer to the template: Basicly I used a projection-map (spherical of course) with a bitmap and I used z-shadows to get a more blurred shadow. I cant figure out, why your "ground" doesnt seem to be textured right... here it seems to be okay. *Fuchur* -> Get the projectfile

Looks really phenomenal! The robots are very cool and the humans are even cooler! Very very impressive. Just to say something negativ, so I dont have to feel too small : The right foot of the robot seems to be much faster than the other... is this intended? *Fuchur*

For any paper or things you can look at close, you should print with at least 150 better 300 dpi. So your client is most likely right about the 300dpi. *Fuchur*

Looks cool... He reminds me of the "good" aliens of The Fifth Element *Fuchur*

Hm... you may think about using a decal for the wall instead of a patch-image. Right now I see no reason why the wall should look like that. And you should give the monitor/TV a bit more details... I like the look of the game-console. It could use some bevels but it looks even great yet. The hinge at the flooar cupboard bothers me too. I would try to make two of them and way smaller. It should be places in a way, that the one side finalise with door. *Fuchur*

Whatever I can see it quite well, even if the pictures are a bit washed out through the darkness. I like the camera-views... seems to be very dynamic. *Fuchur*

So it's just me... Thanks for showing the prints+wireframe off. Very nice work! *Fuchur*

Hm... Very good job. Anything is not feeling right but I couldnt point my finger at it. I found a image of the 307 here, which is quite the same perspective as your image... http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4274/dsc02725bis9ed.jpg Only a impression... if you worked with blue-prints I am just wrong... *Fuchur*

You have to be a bit carefull. A:M will open a new window for quite everything you do. For example a new action, model, material, etc. If you dont close the windows, there will be many behind eachother. So even if it feels strange because you could think the changes will be lost (they wont) close all the windows (NOT A:M, just the window). That will help you to run A:M more stable (sometimes you will run into trouble if too many windows are open) and you will keep the overview of your project better. I ALWAYS only use 1 window if the possibility is there. If you model and want to animate: close your window. If you animated in an action and want to transfer it to a cheoregraphy, close the action-window, etc. You can always access everything you did through your PWS. I only have one exception of this rule: Smart-Skin-Windows. There it is not really useful to close the modeling-window because you will go back very soon. *Fuchur*

*grin* Inspired by Ratatui? *Fuchur*