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Round 2 of the helmet textures... This took half an hour to render (physical, adaptive, AO, no GI) ...and his top half nearly done (except arms)... If anyone could tell me why my Irwan reflectance is doing that moire discoloration thing on his right shoulder in that last render, I'd like to know ! Thanks CBR

3DConnexion make lots of different controllers. On mine, the space explorer, I have 2 buttons labelled + and - that alter reaction time. Does yours not have those ?

Well - there's more lines in that suit control panel than you'd think... not finished yet, but I gotta sleep sometime.

I can't give you modelling advice without seeing a wireframe render so I can see your topology. But I'm not seeing any problems in the render....

Pffffft :) I bought my drummer some drum sticks like that last year, which looked amazing, but lasted for just under 30 seconds of professional drumming ! Yours might last longer than that if you don't eat anything too hot or spicy with them. But they are cool, no doubt about it :)

Thanks. Looking good :)

Bit more progress from me - I notice I do seem to be doing all of him now (sigh) :) Quite pleased with my version of the breastplate so far (though I am going to refine and tighten up those central divots tomorrow and add some more shoulder pad details), and also getting nice results on a temporary cloak mesh using Irwan reflectance, which isn't taking too long to render, even on medium quality. This render took 10 mins (physical, adaptive, No GI, AO). Now to work out if I can model in the cloak folds or if cloth and some wind is worth a go. CBR

No no, it's fine but please update your profile from 18 studio to 18 prime - that was what was confusing me...

I'm confused - you're in 18 studio right ? So you should have access to Mograph... I don't know how to solve your specific problem, but I've always used this method of creating tank tracks, and it works really well. CBR

Probably best not to upload tifs to the internet :) Jpegs via cafe attachment system much better. ;)

Thanks, @Sigor. I'll upload it once I have perfected the modelling. It's almost there.

Me and @VECTOR have been furiously modelling away recently inspired by a help request in the new users forum, in which someone had downloaded a hideous mesh, full of terrible triangles, so we thought it would be fun to model Vader's helmet properly out of quads. This will take an hour, we thought. 3 days later, we were still going. I had opted to do a 2-piece mask, circa Return of the Jedi, whereas Vector went full-on rage mode, doing the 3-piece prop mask, including internals, from Revenge of the Sith. Modelling-wise, it's been a challenge, and I am still not 100% about all my edge flows, even though it's 100% quads, but I am mostly happy. I have 1 complex pole remaining, but will eliminate that eventually. In the meantime, here's a couple of renders and wires from me, which we can compare and contrast with Vector's more detailed version, which'll be along this afternoon :) CBR

Is that an Arroway texture I spot on the floor there ? I do like their maps. Looks a little too perfect, if you don't mind me saying, but otherwise good job...

Maximum awsome levels of realism going on there :)

That is excellent, most especially in the careful sound design, your nice folding transitions, and your overall design sensibility and colour choices. Great stuff. CBR

Looking good so far ! I see you have the excellent HB modelling bundle, but what are the red / white icons down the left hand side ? CBR

As a legal user of this software I welcome anything that is being done to prevent people using and making money off crack copies. I'll put up with quite a lot of snooping if I know it is there for this reason.

Really, really good work. Very interested to know how you did the clouds. String sections in the soundtrack were chaotically beautiful, and suited the piece extremely well. Some great rendering in there too. Nice job. CBR

Not often you see a 70% discount ! Thanks Lubo, may well get that... have always liked xfrog's models.

You'll get extra points from me if you keep it all quads all the way through ;)