I live about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh and I never felt a thing... of course I live right next to train tracks and I'm so used to the house shaking when they go past, I probably didn't notice it.

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Oh wow!! There it is. That will make things so much easier. There's definitely alot more I need to learn.

Thank you for the comment hedheld:biggrin:

Just Plain old extruding on the body. The head was modeled by extruding single edges to get the facial topography I wanted. I tried sculpting in Blender, It's not working out so good for me yet. I do sculpting with my hands, by sight and touch and trying to repeat the process digitally is a whole new area. Trying to sculpt without that feedback from my hands is making it more difficult.

Blender needs a feature thats pretty useful  in Hexagon. It shows which direction the normals are facing. It would really help in the workflow for exporting objects.

eClark,,, did you check if the normals are forward? In edit mode, on the sidebar click recalculate normals or in the mesh menu navigate to normals> recalculate outside.

Thanks for the suggestions fighter.

The loopcuts and some detailing are in the works after I get the basic shape I'm happy with. It's about 80% there.. I think.

I figured I'm going to aim high right from the start, because I'll learn the interface, modeling, uv mapping and rigging in this one project. Besides I just wanted to see if I could actually do it.:biggrin:

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I think I'm aiming pretty high for my first project. But I figure I can learn a lot with just this one figure I'm working on. Be warned it's really rough right now and I'm sort of winging it to get the hang of things. Later I'll watch the Blendercookie tutorials on figure modeling to see where I went wrong. But right now I'm really having a lot of fun!!:biggrin:

Free is good and I've always been a geek.:biggrin:

I've had Blender on all my machines since NaN open sourced it, but I never really tried to understand it. I toyed with it and basically used this monster of a program as a file converter.. I guess I was just waiting for 2.5 to take things seriously and I caught the Blender bug. I keep hearing myself say "I didn't know it could do that". In the long run I thingk waiting was a good thing since I didn't have to over-write anything I knew in 2.4 to a 2.5 way of doing things. That's alot harder than learning from a blank state.

Robynveil... Young ,,,Me? Unfortunately I'll be 48 next month:sad: I guess it comes from having to learn everything from books back in the day. My kids think I'm crazy when I tell them I had to go to the library and look at actual books to do research projects.

eClark... I agree, great job on the lamp! It honestly does get easier.:thumbupboth:

RobynsVeil... I know what you mean about Blendercookie. I think the tutorials there are great, but I catch myself saying "What the heck did he just do???" to many times. What I really would like is the same step by step tutorial in video and written form, that way you can use one as a reference for the other. Probably just a lot of wisful thinking though.:laugh:

There probably won't be a official book until after the 2.6 release, since the 2.5 series is a developmental faze. Most of the coding, shortcuts and basic tools have been implemented in 2.5, while the 2.6 series will be the stable release and the base program won't see many coding changes.

I prefer reading tutorials too. But sometimes a video tutorial helps getting through the stickier parts.

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I've received quite a few from other people exactly as Les said, no subject and one link inside. In each occurrence they have had a yahoo address. Wait untill you get a email from yourself offering cheap viagra like I did.

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