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I've watched videos of people modelling with 3DS Max, and they didn't use any different techniques than I do with Blender.

The differences are in the toolkits (Blender doesn't have them because they are so huge in filesize, which is why Blender is only ~6mb, they aren't all that useful anyway) and in the renderers. Blender's rendering system is fast catching up. It doesn't have Sub-Surface-Scattering yet (one of the keys to realism) but Yafray is testing it and Blender can internally render with Yafray.

Blender is a pro tool that is more vastly used by beginners. There are tons of beginner tutorials for it, and a FREE manual on the internet for it. The techniques are the same.. so learn Blender, then in college you'll learn to do the same thing in 3DS Max, with different hotkeys. You're looking to do game models, right? Well I happen to have made a game model in the past few days. Granted, it's for a first-person shooter project with a free game engine, but do you honestly see much difference between that and what people with 3DS Max are pumping out? 70% of the finished result is dependent on the texturing, which is usually done in Photoshop.

Some small gaming firms are seeing Blender as a viable alternative, here is some evidence. They see that 3ds Max costs $3k and does little more than Blender, and now they're recruiting from one of the two best CG forums on the internet.

So you see, disregarding piracy, Blender is still better. Whore.

Hey, uh, any status on my question? It's rather important, I've started modelling already..

The safety video I watched before my factory job would show the scenes and then just imply that something went wrong (without the gore) and then show real photos of accidents from the very factory I was working at. They were quite graphic too.. the machines that ate up a persons arm covered in blood, and the hospital photos.

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And now that I've posted, this thread will die, like everything else I post in on this forum.


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Can you provide any evidence? You keep saying this, but I don't get it because it doesn't actually happen as a consequence of you posting.

You see, every thread I post in dies too, because they all do, eventually.

Hehe, makes it seem really dramatic, even though if I saw it in real life I'd probably just shrug and keep walking, unless the bees came after me, in which case I'd run.

Yeah, Mr welcome, but watch out there might be monkey trolls out to get you.

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Wow, you're going to have two locked threads in.. how long?

Must be some kind of record.

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I thought another post had been made about this, and I was going to post it here, BUT YOU STARTED IT! Why are you making another one?

This post was typed in front of a live studio audience

If you remember this, you are rock.

I remember it, but whose was it?

We had a program called DrHalo on our first PC. This was around 90-91.
It was awesome.

I remember Dr. Halo.. but back then I was only 7 or 8 so I didn't get a lot of use from it. I remember drawing simple things like happy faces and my dad would print it out and hang it on the fridge, haha.

Hey, good luck Mr. Hyde. I hope everything works out for you. The extent of my dealings with A.A. was caring for a friend of a friend's bird while he was in detox.. yeah, he was that addicted. The only thing I don't really like about it is that they force you to admit there's a higher power, which IMO isn't so much a necessary step as it is forced religion. Aside from that, I must commend you for taking the hardest step.. admitting that it's a problem.

I downloaded a hilarious tampon ad spoof once, too bad the movie section is down at College Humor or I could share it.Ã, 

Made up the name Klotex and had a bunch of graphic descriptions of.. I'll just stop there.

Kara, why did you dig this up? This is last weeks news.

LSD acts as a kind of stirring spoon.. your brain gets very mixed up. Smells can be interpreted as sounds, sounds as tastes, or whatever. The unlocking of certain parts of your brain can also be done through (much safer) hypnosis. I'd much prefer it over LSD anyway. The potential for spontaneous flashback is probably the most disturbing thing about LSD.

Someone was once telling me how it was discovered, it's actually naturally occuring. It can be formed in a type of yeast. It was first used when somehow an entire French (I think) villiage ate bread made with the yeast and just went crazy. One man jumped out of a three story building and when he landed, his ankle bones went through his knee caps and skin. It didn't stop him from running down the street on his knees.. crazy stuff.

Apparently it's not that hard to make at home either, she told me how, but I think it'd be best not to repeat.

you could achieve this effect by creating an animation using 3D software that pans 360 degrees inside a 3D interior or around a flat image (with distortion).

You could do that and stitch the files together to form a panorama and use Evil's method too, depending on how complex the scene is. Blender and any other worthy 3d app have Panorama Renderer's anyways, but they look outward rather than inward.

And Disney don't want to release his film in an election year? In the name of fairness and freedom? Can't they see the contradiction there?

It's not about fairness and freedom, it's about being non-partisan. They aren't making any kind of statement by not releasing it, they're trying to avoid making any kind of statement.

Seeing as how half the country is either Dem or Rep, I can understand a company making that decision. It'd be shitty for Disney if all Republicans stopped using their products (however unlikely/small that may be).

Got my concept mostly complete, just to be sure though, does ransom count as robbery, since there is money being taken illegaly?

Actually, it's more like a, "I'll do this if you don't give me this," rather than a typical ransom.

when I didn't put up copyright info about pics and such.

Do you honestly think that makes any difference at all?

PNG's are a superior format for digital art, as it is a lossless format with similar compression levels. JPG's may be more accepted but the distortions can be terrible. I think GIF files weigh in heavier than both others, so I don't use them for anything but animations.

Finals week for lots of us Peter.

Just rent a pickup and chuck everyone in the back.

Illegal, impractical, and you think people would want to be seen driving through New York City in the back of a pickup truck?

There's a good chance I won't be able to go, much to my chagrin. I still say all of us Southwest people should have our own. It will be called Scarves.

Heh, I could be up for it. I live in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.