3DKiwi

Use the Australian price from Adimex as they supply New Zealand. I wouldn't bother with the NZ reseller as they don't list prices on their site.

Modo's render engine is quicker than C4D's. There's plenty of Modo tutorials. Just a matter of searching them out. I still have no regrets about jumping ship. 2 years on, still no updated UV tools / paint tools. The new core is still being worked on. I'm picking R19 still won't be the big one. MAXON's communication via social media is still woeful. As for the blog, I just roll my eyes and look to the sky. Life is great. I'm the fittest I've ever been and going to the New Zealand age group cycling champs in a couple of weeks time. Haven't done much 3D since 2016. We've just had summer and it's too hot to be sitting in front of a computer for hours on end. I'll be getting back into it after the champs when I take some time off from cycling and now that the seasons have changed.

Modelling and UV editing workflow is mostly superior to C4D. Communication from The Foundry a quantam leap better than what MAXON does.

If you're on a phone and browsing the cafe with a web browser the cafe's forum software should detect that you're on a mobile device and give you the mobile view. It functions pretty much the same way a dedicated app would work. I've just tested now on my phone and things seem to working as expected.

Would that be in the left hand column of forum posts? If so then it's a bit tall. No need to include gender.

The joys of running the Cafe :)

Merry Christmas everyone. Christmas morning here already in New Zealand. I got up early and did an hour's workout on my bike while the family were still asleep. Just waiting for Granny to arrive and we'll open the pressies :)

Attached for the benefit of Cafe members is the option to stop usage data being sent to The Foundary. Yup, the data is being stored on your computer but it isn't being sent. This is almost identical to MAXON's user participation system. Also shown in the attached image. If you're really paranoid and don't trust the option you could prevent Modo sending any data over the internet by editing your Firewall program options. Non issue as far as I'm concerned. I'm actually quite happy to send my usage data to The Foundary and MAXON as it may help them make the program better.

I'd be up for a challenge. Be great to be able to enter now that I'm no longer a judge.

Sort of thing I would have expected to see on MAXON's blog.

Hi John. Highly unlikely we'll see any progress on anything to do with character tools as the developer who worked on them, David O'Reilly left and now of course is responsible for the excellent X-Particles and Cycles for C4D. I can't see character animation being high on MAXON's priority list.

My guess is many people at MAXON don't actually use their own software.

Funding isn't the issue although I wouldn't say no to more cash :) I work school terms and only school vacations off. Siggraph occurs during school terms so I couldn't come even if I had free travel.

I'd love to come to the USA for a holiday and to do some cycling. One day but probably after I retire in 10 years time.

Dave I'd rather live in rattling NZ than crazy USA that just elected ...

Hi Dave. Thanks for your thoughts. My house rolled a lot. It was like it was floating on water and a boat went past and you got the wake and it was rolling around a lot. Went on for 2 minutes as it was 2 earthquakes one after the other. At the time I said to my wife, "if that wasn't close to us then somewhere just hit by the big one". We then went online and looked at the NZ Geonet site to see where the earthquake was and saw that it was in the south island. We're in the bottom part of the North Island so knew it would have been severe for those closer. There was an aftershock quake that we felt last evening watching TV. My wife said she felt one in the afternoon when I was outside mowing the lawn. Yeah road damage is severe with multiple rock falls . Here's a photo from this morning's newspaper. See the train track has been pushed out into the sea.

One consolation is the US election is no longer making much news here!!

Hi everyone. Thanks for your kind words about myself and NZ. I'm about 250 miles away from the epicentre of the earthquake and was woken a couple of minutes past midnight. Rather than violent shaking it was a prolonged rolling motion back and forth and a bit up and down. Lasted about 2 minutes. I gather it was in fact 2 earthquakes. Damn scary Yeah 2 dead which is tragic. I gather one was a heart attack. The area where the quake hit is rural so major damage is confined. There are numerous landslides blocking roads. Wellington (the capital) suffered some minor damage and the CBD was closed today. My daughter who lives and works in Wellington went to work, did some tidying up and then was sent home. Below are couple of photos I spotted online. Cheers Nigel