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This software is cool but... why would you buy it?

I've tried updating java. My computer is just an asshole to me.

Have you tried making fun of its mother?

http://terraserver.microsoft.com is almost as good, just not in color and not in 3d. It doesn't have the entire world either.

I was very good friends, if not more, with a girl across the country for a really long time (over 5 years), and eventually I went to meet her. She wasn't anything like what I expected, and despite getting along amazingly well while I was there, afterwards she slowly stopped talking to me.

I wouldn't say we were like an online couple, just very good friends. I used to stay up most of the night talking to her when I was 13-15. Even after that we never lost touch, except after I went to meet her. When I was younger it was sort of a way for me to understand girls on a level that I couldn't with girls at school because of social groups and etc. When I started getting older it was more of a personal interest, because we knew so much about each other it was hard to just seperate and stop talking.

Use caution with such things, because words can be deceitful and true personalities easily hidden. When you're around someone a lot in person you get to know their friends and family (and how they interact), but when you talk to them online or over the phone you have a very one-sided view of the things that happen in their lives and the way they react to them. On a more superficial note, pictures can be photoshopped or deceitfully arranged too... even over five years.  I barely recognized the girl.

I'm having java problems. Can someone give me a direct download link?

They need an email address to send a passcode to, so it wouldn't work..

Try upgrading java at java.com.

lol, Im looking at rosswell

Area 51 is in the favorites, or something like that.

First to find a nudist beach somewhere in the Carribbean wins.

"Timmy, I'm giving you the oppurtunity to go anywhere in the world. Paris, Cairo, Moscow, anywhere you want to see you can see it."

"I want to look at naked people daddy!"

http://www.keyhole.com/

You can download a 7-day trial of software that will view any part of the world using satellite imagery mapped to a simple 3d translation of the Earth. I've noticed that you can zoom in close enough to figure out what kind of cars people drive in some places, but in others it's pixellated to hell. Fun to play with, nevertheless, because the entire Earth is mapped.

Best to have a fast computer, it's very heavy on system recourses. It requires faster internet connections too, because it's constantly downloading image data as you zoom in closer and closer.

It's also in full color, unlike sites like terraserver.microsoft.com.

I am serious, you are making fun of me
please stop and help me to develop a plot

I think the clay penises and asses should have a disagreement about abortion and start fighting. You play the part of the clay penises and try to make the clay asses see your point of view and resolve the argument peacefully. If that fails, the clay asses will be assulted without mercy by the clay penises.

You know, working inside the mold of the ideas you already have.

Borat owns, even though I've never seen the show.

I know nothing, but DVD menu progs were discussed at an old elYsiun thread, click here.

Noble effort too, I should probably do that with all of my parents old beta films.

This chick looks good... though as I have always modelled at polygon sublevel (noted now that i used word "face" at first post - this is wrong), these faces around mouth and ears confuse me a bit...

That was why I would just send you the model.. it means nothing to me, it was done for an open domain project. The reason the faces around the ears and the mouth confuse you is probably because you're used to doing things hi-poly.. when you have to use the minimum amount of faces, edge-loops go out the window. Use as many tris as you want because you won't be using sub-surfacing in realtime (I dunno if 3DS is like this, but tris in Blender don't look as good as squares do when subsurfed). My model stands to be optimized, if you look above the lips that little indention was totally unnecessary. It's all about getting rid of little details and focusing on the big ones. The ears are flat because that amount of detail would eat up your triangles quick.. just UV texture the ear details in a normal (bump) map. Because the model was build for facial animations, I did some stuff different there, but I haven't ever tested it so I don't know if it works good or not.

I have some 3ds models, but just examining the model won't actually teach much... 

The models help you in that you can see how they arranged their stuff and you can copy that method. Things like the nose, ears, eyes.. there are tons of different ways to handle them. Check out how other people did it and use the method that you think suits the purpose of your character best. If it's going to have a lot of close-up face shots, you put in rounder eyes and make sure the head is rounded enough that you can't figure out how many polys the artist used. You would skimp on details like boots in this kind of model. If it's going to be something that's far away and never seen close up, you make it uber low-poly because there's no reason to waste computer cycles and your time on character details you won't see.

Out of curiousity, what are you building game models for?

Im sorry dream team but Puerto Rico  win for 19 points. It will be next time. Viva Puerto Rico. of course I am Puerto Rican

By all accounts I hear the US team sucks this year though, so it's kind of like being proud of beating the Jamaicans at bobsledding (excluding a certain 90's movie).

Collosal suggested these two links a long time ago when I posted one of my chars up for crits.

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/resources/general/video_tutorials/video-tut-list.shtml

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetquake/polycount/tutorials/video/paramilitary_punk_video.zip

Here is a female character I made a while back to realistic proportions. Let me know and I can export it for reference, if you'd like. She deforms OK, I never did UV texture her because the team I was building the model for stopped contacting me. Around 1750 triangles and the face/mouth were made to animate.

No external linking?

When I load it in my browser window, it works.. then it will show up here. If I refresh, it goes back to an X like it won't load anymore. I can only assume that it will only show up if you go to the site and it shows up afterwards because it is cached in my hard drive.

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=16056.0

Puerto Rico is an American Territory, so the Americans still won.

Ah, I interpretted that as, "Choose either Anim8tor or Wings3d, but Wings is better."

Wings, almost positively. But phrase your questions better.

I had my first day of school today, which wasn't so bad, except that we start so early. I think it's out before December though.

He didn't have a question though.. unless he just wanted to start a new topic for a one liner about how good two particular apps are.

Puerto Rico is an American Territory, so the Americans still won. 

This is a really old thread. Why do guests dig up old threads?

Yeah, if she weren't only 18 years old.

This has already been well explained above.

The cramping up of limbs is a natural process once you have fully grown (most every doctor will tell you that age is 18), and again, is a product of the body aging, along with other factors (in some cases, poor nutrition can be cited, but unless you live in a third-world country this is rarely an issue). Severe cramping in the legs can signify a lot of things, really (like Atherosclerosis), but at that age it's more likely that you're just sleeping wrong or your body is just changing.  I used to be able to lay on my arm all day as a kid, for example, but now about 30 minutes and they go numb..

I dunno.. I've had cramps since as long as I can remember, and I'm only 19. I still think it's dehydration or improper nutrition. Age shouldn't really start adversly affecting you until your 30's or 40's so long as you're healthy.