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RobCat you should see a doctor... you're one sick mofo!!!! the propeller looks fantastic! Mike Fitz

I find most of your results to be acceptable for use. I mean, the part that is strobing a little bit on the top back of the tank tread... most tanks today have that part coverd. I would love to see what a render might look like with a basic tank shape body attached rolling over some grass or whatever. NIce stuff. Mike Fitz

Robcat, I for one am sick of you lies!!!! you obviously faked the tank treads! lol. No but seriously great work. I wonder you probably could do airplane propellers like this too? Or maybe bullets feeding into a machine gun? very very cool stuff you've been posting. Mike Fitz

that's actually a pretty good question you have there rodney. I'd like to see what happens with the dino staying still and the camera moving around it. Mike Fitz

Looks very cool!!! but whats up with the white specks on them?

Fitzgerald... my great great grandpa was "honey fitz"!

Please, McKnuckles is built like a gorilla! He'd wreck that guy!!! lol Nice model! Keep us posted. Mike Fitz www.3dart.com

this is like the best textbook low patch count model I'v seen! really cool!

jeeze talk about a spline heavy model lol! nice work so far! btw, you know Im kidding about the splineheavy thing....

what version did you do this in?

the kid looks a bit like Stewie from family guy! I like the shading style to the render!

Where are his arms?????? NIce model! Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com

btw, I tested the optimizer on my quad core and it did absolutley nothing in terms of speed. I tried every combination of threads and affinity. just fyi.

well, Im still going to give it a try on one of my quad core's. will report back... if you dont hear from in a week about this, I've been hacked and virused!!! lol

I dont think that the strobbing effect of the wheels are an issue at all. 1st off, that's what every wheel looks like on tv. the only thing you need is to add motionblur to it. 2nd.... I dont think that there would be any confusion on which way the train is moving, except in a still I vote for you to keep on keeping on with it and dont get hung up the issue.... Mike Fitz

I have not tested it yet... I found it here: http://www.ddlhere.com/pc-applications/814...zer-v1-0-a.html

Pixelplucker.... I got a free one but have yet to test it. I will report back when I do, on a quad core boxx machine. the free one is called: MultiCoreOptimizer I found it with a google search of a similar name dont remember what I used exactly though. Mike Fitz

that was great! question: why didnt you just use a 3d model of the house instead of building both a real one and a 3d one? thanks Mike Fitz

my grand piano has wheels on the bottom of the legs.... great modeling! Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com

Been a while since I've seen that kind of tinkering with differennt methods.... we've been missing that here for a long time! Thanks for posting! Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com

11min, 4 seconds am v14.0c BOXX machine running winxp pro serv pack3 amd opteron 250 - 2.40Ghz(single core machine), 2gigs ram

everytime I see this thread I think that its about me somehow.... just for a split second! Mike Fitz(gerald) www.3dartz.com

Jimd...here is what it looks like with no decals.... I originally made the model with the toon render so it had a different shade to it, but this is a straight render. kinda plain... http://www.3dartz.com/vids/nojeans1.mov John, I def. have used the relationships to drive stuff like that with decals. It def. would look cool if used in this scenario! Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com

Id say there are a couple ways to do this, but the overall final look is most likely not coming straight out of the renderer. the black surface looks like it has a reflection, reflecting what appears to be a black ground and lighter sky. the lettering.... could be anything from reflecting a white background or is set to not recieve shadows and has abit of illumination set to its surface. Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com

Meowx, sorry about that, my server is set to shut down around 1am or so and start back up around 6am.... got to save on that electric bill:) thanks for checking it out. I'll try and post a before clip. Mike Fitz www.3dartz.com