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Look on the A:M CD and the Extras CD or DVD that was packaged with it when you bought it.

congrats and good luck... err.. Break a Leg!

I do like that contest idea, but perhaps expand it to just plain "portrait" - model a real person's head, but it doesn't have to be you. After all, some contestants may be a bit shy.

which 3 states are your "tri-state area"? and where are you?

Looks good so far.

It's looking really good. The only glitch I noticed is that the wheels make a bit of a "bump" when the loop ends and restarts.

signing up. Thanks for the tip-off.

A "real-world" model builder scratch-built a Jupiter 2. Here are some photos. Maybe they can help you as reference material. You might also contact the builder should you want to seek or share some insight as you progress on yours. exterior: http://www.starwarsmodels.com/images/comm/j2001.jpg interior: http://www.starwarsmodels.com/images/comm/j2002.jpg

I found photos of plastic models of the A-Wing. They may help in your modeling. http://www.starwarsmodels.com/awings.html http://www.starwarsmodels.com/awing.html the second link includes a photo of the underside. You can by the plastic model on Ebay. One vendor is even selling a model that has been completed and painted.

select the CPs. Press P for sharp (aka Peaked or Pointed), press O for smooth. (the O is so nice and smooth and round) edit - Ken and I passed in the Internet Ether....

wow. that's awesome. You even got a slight wobble in the wheels as they turn, which makes it look much more real. How did you do that? Are the wheels not quite perfectly round?

Many thanks.

Is this a bug or something I'm not doing right? I am trying to make the distortion toolbar visible. I went to Tools-Customize and picked the Toolbars tab. I clicked the check box for "Distort." The distort toolbar appeared. I clicked "OK" and the distort toolbar vanished. I tried it several times and even re-installed the software. No joy. Why won't it stay? Running version 13.0s on an Intel Macintosh.

The cargo ship looks pretty good and it's far more than I could do right now, with the gun and the engines and the textures, etc. But as a "viewer in the audience," something about it bothered me. It has a strong resemblance to a run-down, single-wide mobile home from the 1970s with stuff stuck on it. Is that intentional? Put it this way: I've been inside buildings -- poor people's homes -- that look a lot like your model. I've also seen them being towed down the highway. If that's not something you want, you might want to make adjustments. example: mobile home photo

Version 10 of A:M is pretty old. I recall that there was a major problem running older versions A:M on Tiger, which is the latest version of Mac OS X. Mac users of A:M had to postpone upgrading to Tiger or quit running A:M until Hash got A:M updated for it. V10, I think, is too old. Also, Version 10 of A:M would be for the PowerPC processor. Mac has switched to Intel microprocessors. The old software isn't designed for the new processors. To deal with this, Apple has a translator program built into the new system. The translator lets you run older software, but for some applications there is a major performance penalty. A few programs won't run at all, even with the translator. So your best bet for your new Mac is to do the $100 upgrade to A:M version 13/14. The latest A:M has a lot of new features and it runs natively on the newest Macintoshes.

Or do what many people do (e.g. David Pogue for his New York Times videos, Anzovin Studio for "Duel"): Purchase a royalty-free song that includes rights to use it as you see fit. My hazy memory is Anzovin paid about $35 for the soundtrack song in Duel. You can find many sources online.

Larger prints and cropping.

very nice so far.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Where is the piston tutorial?

wow... the lighting and color really bring it home. great job.

add me to the drawing, please.

You've been at this only a year? Amazing. Excellent work.