Since there seems to be a lull around here, I thought I might play at being Fox-Mulder and pass along a little information ;) The entire De Espona model library is now being sold as individual models ($20 a pop) in both Max AND 3DS format. It's all available on Turbosquid, which means you have to download and install their software, but that's free. Given the total number of models, $20 a pop would be way too much to pay to get the whole library, but the models are extremely good and it is worth it if you find one or two you just HAVE to have. Oh, one more thing, while the 3DS models do come with textures, you have to apply them by hand. -SMT (a.k.a. - Fox Jr.) BTW, did anyone see Pearl Harbor...Thumbs up for the effects and the attack scenes, thumbs down for everything else! (crummy script, bad acting, full if Clich, stupid made up Hollywood ending...)

Interesting to hear about the De Espona deal... Unfortunately, when people heard that Michael Bay was doing the "Pearl Harbor" deal, (and having seen "Armageddon" and "The Rock", or whatever it was called) it was a foregone conclusion that it would be heavy action special effects but low on the acting end. It's not the actors fault, it's just the way Bay makes his movies. He DID get the 40's "look" down extremely well, better than most people expected, but didn't fully learn from James Cameron's "Titanic" that for all the great history and special effects, you still need to have real character depth and motivated actors with good scripts...

Tacking the Doolittle Raid on to the end of the movie was a complete mistake. It's like having a movie about the Vietnam War and ending it with "Desert Storm" just so we Americans can feel good about ourselves! My biggest complaint is about the characters portrayed by Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett. They're supposed to be a couple of Tennessee boys who grow up to be pilots. Well, I have life long friends in Tennessee, and I know several pilots, and those two characters are neither! They're Hollywood pretty-boy posers. They look, act and sound like they could have stepped right off the set of "Beverly Hills 90210" rather than the fields and rolling hills of Tennessee.

....going to see Pearl Harbor tonight maybe... maybe NOT now, LOL! Thanks for the info, Small-As-Fox.... I had been wishing that models in the De Espona collection could be purchased individually. :)

It's about time de espona sells these things individually so that us regular folks can get a model at whatever time and space... :) Hopefully, they give instructions how to apply these textures...

'quite' what? quite quiet? or is that 'rather quiet'? vue and i are mad at each other; we're not currently speaking. :/

Thanks for the info, Little Fox. Figures deEspona would wait to do this until after I bought the collection. Erg, just my luck. At least now Paul can grab up the lobster! :D Bloodsong, Bloodsong...what's da matter? What'd that nasty Vue do to you? :(

Oops, dyslexia stikes again :o -microfox

BTW SmallSpace, the Doolittle Raid actually did happen, and just four months after the Pearl Harbor attack. It was even more heroic than shown in the movie if you know the full story. Also, unfortunately not made clear, and actually deserving of a totally different movie, was that the Doolittle Raid lead directly to the massive Japanese Naval defeat at Midway and the turning point of the Pacific War... I'm working on a series of scenes about this. The De Espona collection has a fantastic collection of U.S. and Japanese aircraft from this period. Wish I had Vue 4 right NOW!...

I totally agree that the Doolittle Raid is worthy of its own movie. Unfortunately, it was turned into nothing more than a vehicle for resolving the love triangle in typical Hollywood, "let's avoid the problem by killing off one of the characters" fashion. - the incredible shrinking nanofox

heyas; well... all i wanted outta vue was a simple rock-scape. why is it so hard to get exactly what you want outta this terrain editor? all i need is a pointy-ish spire and a lower boulder nearby. finally, i give up on the random thingies and just paint a blob of dots, and that's as close as i can get. then i go to export the sucker to pose my figures on it in poser. but just before i tell it to export, i think, hey, i can export the textures too, and then do just one render in poser, maybe. so i hit the x on the export box to close it. which means, of course, i can't hit 'cancel' on the now-closed export box. i can't hit okay, i cant click on anything else without finishing with the export box which is now GONE. whadda dumb place for an x!!! so i give up and axe vue. and do it all over again. i export, i got textures, i'm all good to go. i close vue, i open poser, and load my terrain. and where's my spire and rock? aint nothing on here but a buncha low-res little pyramid lumps!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh! and, of course, i didnt save the vue scene with the terrain in it. so i said the heck with it and painted the blasted landscape in. (there wasnt much of one.)

Ah, yes, the joys of exporting terrains--- I've had a few little misadventures of my own with that one. It hardly matters anyway; even if hadn't x-ed out of the export dialog, Vue probably would have crashed when you hit OK..... for some reason Vue wants to crash when exporting terrains with the material "faked" to a .bmp. I found a way around it, which is in another thread here somewhere, but I can't remember what it was.