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The exp, max, min, sin, cos, etc. functions, for example, are taught in math class, not in CG artist class. How you use them is like asking how you use a pencil.

I must have had a poor education as I only ever used sine.cosine and tangent to figure out whether the imaginary tree would fall on  our house, how on earth it relates to colours and lights and materials I have  no idea, but it would be nice to have some vague idea.

I can see where Khai is coming from, in one respect, i think and these aren't his words but mine.....Why do i need a degree in math to add a wood material to a particular model if i dont want to use a texture, or if i do want to use a texture why do i need a degree in math to make it look "professional".

Why did it have to become so complicated that we all feel like idiots becuase we aren't Stephen Hawkins IQ levels.

There is some ego stroking going on in here I feel ,sorry BB, but in a recent thread on wood procedurals I started, you were the only one whom I expected to post, but actually didn't. Imho that shouted volumes to me.

Not having a personal dig, but if you expect help from vendors in many cases, expect there to be a "Buy my product" caveat.

I keep being told poser is a hobby artists program, maybe its time for me to go back to school get a phd in maths, then I can continue to enjoy my hobby.

Even if I do use snarlys ezskin,ezmetals, BB's mail shaders, car paints, matmatics, if you have an enquiring mind it's nice to have a least some idea what's going on, and then maybe, maybe, one distant day in the future when I get fed up with using other peoples stuff, I can try and use my own.

Oh yes, and one last thing to all genii out there, just because we don't understand, please don't think we are stupid and patronise us....

 

Hate mail to the usual email address please............

 

I've actually had a revelation, some programs have a "Check my system requirements" applet to see if your PC can run the program, why don't they create a "Check my IQ" script to see if your brain can comprehend

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