Rendered in Bryce this time, re-smoothed with the maximum smoothing angle reset to about 80 degrees. The fire is a "radial light" inside the combustion chamber.

interesting.

Hello i follow yours blue mans stories. Just one thing:according to me ,they looks like rubber mans,may be more noise on texture would be good

As one of the 'dive in' members, I can only hope that the fascist git has just shoved a pressure tank into the flames. Scratch one pig-mobile. ;-)

fire?

(0) I am a sport scuba diver. I put this Sea Patrol series up partly to warn what might happen if Government etc controls for their own sake are allowed to take root or if a few small noisy on-site groups such as a few inshore shellfish fishermen or excessively industrial safety minded types manage to shout down everybody else. E.g. around the 1960's the USA state of California's parliament (or whatever it's called) had an idea to put a tight licencing system on scuba diving, but everybody made such a rumpus that they had to drop the idea and they had to leave scuba diving free as it was before. Thankfully the scuba gear trade got big enough soon enough to squash such authoritarian ideas. (1) The truck started life as a fire engine on a web site, and I stripped it down to the cab and chassis and made a new back-load for it. It is a Poser model; the stoking doors and their handles and the front wheels and the cab doors are posable. (2) The accurately square appearance of the mechanical parts is why I want Poser 5 to have a way to vary the maximum smoothing angle like I can in Bryce. (3) In Bryce, why must re-smoothing take so long? With the above scene, re-smoothing the truck and everything in or on it to 80deg maximum was a real right "let it run while I go for coffee" job.

I was 90% sure that this was a satirical series, but the 10% doubt was enough to make me post a couple of 'fishing' responses. Of course, what I think isn't important, but I'm kind of relieved that you don't sympathise with the 'Sea Patrol'. Maybe the seed of doubt was planted by a picture I have somewhere of a certain A. Appleyard at the A.A.C. dressed in not entirely disimilar attire to the 'blue mans' in these images. (offstage sounds of blackmail plot hatching, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh...) Some of the smoothing operations in 3DStudioMax take a long time too, so Bryce isn't all alone in this respect. Actually, I'm not sure it takes any longer to smooth at 80deg than it does at 20. I've never timed it though. Like you, I'm usually off reading War and Peace or something.

What PJF saw would have been me in motorcycling gear, or possibly a work overall. I have a motorcycle, not a car. They cost less and can be parked easier. There is a difference between motorcycling visors and riotsquad visors - download my riotsquad helmet model, select its visor, operate its morph dial "motorcycle", and you will see the difference. AAC = Amateur Astronomy Center, in Lancashire (UK). (To PJF: any chance you could email me to tell me the current news re the AAC?}

LOL, I was going by a long distant memory. Sorry, I've no idea what the situation is with the AAC now. Last I heard the personality difficulties with the founders had pretty much killed it off. But for all I know it could be thriving. I just hopped from one nerdy hobby to this one, stopping off at Hi-Fi along the way. :-D