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Hi Noober - after a couple of years, I am just getting back into this program and running through the tutorial manual again. I needed to model some eyeballs and posted and someone nicely sent me here http://www.colins-loft.net/new_coop_tutorial/tutorials.html Tutorials are a great and pretty much only way to learn this program - anything you create to help others learn will definately be greatly appreciated. So count me in, I'll use your tutorials. I would post and try to get as many links as you can to current tutorials, so you don't recreate any tuturials already out there. Thanks - Eric

Also, Jon - how do you tell if your faced are outward-facing? Don't remember that in the tutorial book lessons.

Tralfaz - that was it - I was playing around trying to give the body of the model a nice glossy finish and I had the reflections of the body set at 100%, and had forgotten about it - thank you for the answer. Apparently not the way to give the body a nice glossy finish look - what is the way to do that while I am talking about it? It currenlty has a matt finish look to it. Thank you eveyone else for your quick responses. -Eric

Hey Scott - no it happens in different areas at different angles - very odd. I restarted the program and computer and still have the same problem - here is a pic of the wireframe - pretty simple, don't think I am doing anything wrong. Thanks - Eric

Hi - I am playing around creating an animated fan character and I am getting these weird distortions when I render the image in different areas of the model - Here is a pic of the back of the fan - I have the distortion circled. Thanks

Ah perfect - thank you Jesse.

Hi Again - I have an object grouped and gave it a name and colored it red. I wanted to change a color of the portion of it to black, so I grouped that portion and gave it a seperate name - I tried to change the color of that to black - it is showing as black in the properties box but the model is still red- can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks.

That is exactly what I was looking for - thank you.

Hi - can anyone tell me a quick and easy way to make a perfect circle for an eyeball - also can someone point me in the direction of some eye images I can use as decals or tell me if you have any tricks to making them. - Thanks again for all your help.

Thanks Paul - I'll give it a try.

Hello again - been quite some time since I played w/ this program, so having to relearn - so probably many more questions to come. I have half of a circular tube - I had a full circular tube, but screwed it up, so now I have a half. I need to copy/flip/attach it but where do I put it to do that - it sets it right next to it. -Thanks

Largento - worked perfect thank you, and everyone else for posting.

Worked perfect - thank you everyone.

Hello - I want to copy/flip/attach part of an object to make all the sides exact, but I need to delete a portion of it before I do - when I select the cp and click on "delete" on the keyboard it deletes the cp's, but attached what is left to other cp's - is there a way to select and delete the faces so it just removes it all cleanly? - hopefully I explainded what I am trying to do - Thank you.

Thanks Muff ;-)

Alright - got it. All I did was break several of the lines and reattached them - and it worked - there must have been something the program didn't like the way it was going. I'll just do that if I have the problem again. Anyway - thank you much.

Hi Caroline, thank you for the quick response - I think you answered the question before I posted it. ;-) I tried what you mentioned and it still isn't activating the button. I had a version 11 from a couple of years back and upgraded to version 13 recently. I haven't played around w/ the program for a couple of years and wanted to jump back in it, so I was going through the tutorials - I don't remember having this problem w/ v11. I have moved each control point to make sure there were only 5 and there were, rebooted the computer and program - so not sure what the deal is. Anyway, thanks again so much for your reply - Eric

Hi - I am running through exercise 11.5 - the face. I am having trouble w/ the 5 point spline where the eye and the nose meet. I have the 5 control points set up but when selecting the 5 cp's the "5 point spline button" doesn't activate. So I try a few more times and about the 5 time of selecting the 5 cp the button becomes active to where I can press it and it creates the 5 point patch. Is there a certain order you have to select the cp for it to activate - not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks - Eric

Hey Everyone, Thanks a lot for your input and comments - every one of them was greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking your time to look at it and comment. Take care, Eric

Hello, I just finally finished my first animated short film. It took me 18 months to complete but finally got it done. I want to thank everyone who answered my posts when I ran into problems your help was much appreciated. Anyway, if you want to take a look at it, I would love any comments - good or bad - here is the website I created for it. "Samurai Gumstick - The Evil Fly" http://www.samuraigumstick.com (click on "LOAD: THE EVIL FLY MOVIE" button") Thanks again, Eric LoCascio

Iomega HDD 80GB external harddrive for around $100, automatically backs up whatever files you tell it to whenever you want... will save you a lot of heartache. Take it easy, Eric

Thanks Mike, I wanted to try to create a character I could have some fun with while learning the program that would make people laugh. I figured you can't go wrong with a 3" tall stick of gum with a couple of samurai swords, and an attitude. Have a good night, Eric

Hey everyone, Thanks to you answering all my question over the past several months - I have created my first rigged character and put him in a short intro animation. I am currently working on a full 3 1/2 minute animation with him in it called "The Evil Fly", which should be done in a month or so. Here is a link to the animation: Character Intro Link Again, thanks for all your support in help in quickly answering all my posts. Eric LoCascio

Great animation! - very creative, got a good laugh out of it. Thanks, Eric

Hey Thanks guys, Yes, I definitely encourage the criticism - the only real way to learn. I also agree he is a bit out of proportion and boxy looking, I'll look back at him in a few years and at least get a good laugh. Amazed nobody commented on his feet... I actually copied and pasted part of his hands so I didn't have to start from scratch on the feet... bad, bad idea, don't recommend anyone repeat that one Have a great night, Eric