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Happy Birthday Stian!

Wonderful time at Disney made it home late last night. While I was there learn a few things that I can apply to Cupid's Sick Day.

Great looking models, David!

Some of our family is already there and said the new ride is a lot of fun. Much better than the old one

Thanks for letting me know. We go every year and this was not my choice of time to go. We were aware of star tours and star wars weekends we have planned accordingly. Hopefully by mid week next week we will be able to ride the tours.

Awesome. I will look at this when it comes to time on my project. Thanks Mark for sharing Steve

Off to Florida and annual trip to Walt Disney World. Be back June 2. You all have fun!

Happy Birthday!

Mark, Did you dress her in an action file? I remember somewhere you talked about decaling in action. To this day aim not sure how you do that Steve

Thanks Mark I am trying to make a mirror. I have done this before but for whatever reason I can not remember. Behind the counter I want to have a mirror. I have the surface as black and 100%reflective on it as well. Here is a shot. It works but that is not what I want the look to be. Any thoughts Steve

Nancy I did it with a sphere. Applied material. Baked. deleted (color left as I deleted). Saved model. Restarted. opened newly baked model and color gone decal is there but can not reassociate the decal to the model. Steve

I will check that out now. Thanks for the quick response Steve

Very Cool Gerry

Thanks for the help Nancy, but I still can not get it to work. I opened the couch with no material. Applied the material, then baked. I then deleted the material from the model and the material bin. then I save the model new name. As soon as a deleted the material the model turned white. I then closed am and reloaded. Opened the model and the bake stamp is there with color but the model does not render with color. thanks for the comment on the interior. Steve

AM 16 64 bit AO 9 passes Ok. Reworked the file. With material added 2:45 still the same time This time I loaded the couch blank loaded the material and baked the surface. Save the model. Close AM, open into new prj, opend the baked couch, loaded in chor., then rendered. (It reloaded the material even though I baked the surface.) Rendered again and it rendered 2:51. I deleted the material and when I did it took the color away from the couch. Checked the baked decal it was still showing in the model, and it was now black rather than brown decal. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong Steve started decaling andadding materials to the interior

Thanks Nancy for testing this. I will let you know what retest shows Steve

Nancy That was why I posted it. I think the material is called intsoft leather. I tried it again with the same results. I started new project and will test again this evening Steve

Nancy using a lot of different materials. Some darktree and some from the extra cd. I did a test today. Applied a darktree material to the couch. then baked the material to the surface. Rendered with AO 9 passes and it took 4:08 Then took the same couch with the same material and rendered it without baking with AO 9 passes and it took 2:45. Baked material was a 1:23 longer to render than just a material applied. The only thing I noticed when I baked the material to the couch it took over a minute. The other materials and decals were baked very quickly on the other models. Steve

Just tried a test. Great deal. render time went from 1:45 frame with AO 9 passes to :45 Steve

Ok I have a question. When all the materials and decals are set on the model, what is the process of baking? What are the results? Steve

Loaded several character s with sss, worked ok, then it did not work so same here. Faces disappeared that had sss

Mark, I did not see the clothes. Wow, I like it a lot!! Steve

Very cool. I like how the ship moves with the waves. Steve

Coffee Bean Grinder Steve

She looks awesome. Love the face