I'd thoroughly recommend the following book for learning a whole lot about texturing:

3D Game Textures. Create professional game art using Photoshop, 2nd edn. Luke Ahearn, ISBN 978-0-240-81148-2

Although the title says 'game textures' it's actually a great book for teaching the texturing of 3D models in general.

Quote - The privacy policy for Renderosity is located in the TOS.

Thank you, that's useful. I note though that the privacy statement says nothing about third-party cookies as the policy from Google requires, assuming of course that rendo is an 'AdWords advertiser" (whatever that is) and therefore should comply with the Google policy.

Quote - Google would not be a billion dollar Ad Serving business if they were pushing spyware onto people's computers.

If you have any other questions please let me know. :)

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Firstly, spyware wasn't mentioned in the OP. Tracking cookies were. Perhaps I could encourage you to read this link:

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guidelines.cs&answer=100744

from which the relevant section is:

"Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie in its Google Content Network advertising services to help you serve and manage ads across the web"

And if you go to the link in that quote, you see this:

"DoubleClick uses Web beacons in connection with its products and services, including ad serving and paid search listings (“DART Search”)."

Google ads are privacy-invaders, beyond doubt. Oh, and the other point of interest from that first link above is this:

"If you are an AdWords advertiser that uses AdWords conversion tracking or DoubleClick's conversion tracking products, or that participates in interest based advertising, you must post and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users' browser, or using web beacons to collect information on your pages. "

Interestingly, I can't find a privacy policy here, though I'm sure there must be one. If so, does it include such a statement?

Having said all that, the best answer is to use AdBlock, which stops these ads cold.

Can't recommend a specific tutorial, but if you type 'photoshop saliva tutorial' into Google, you get a lot of hits, some even quite useful.

Seconded. Very nice of you to make it available - many thanks.

If there is, there's no news on the e-on web site that I can see.

I don't think I'd buy a new version anyway. Not that it doesn't produce good results - it can and does - but I bought Ozone 4 back in May last year. Cinema 4D release 11.5 came out in September and Ozone won't work with it. There hasn't been any indication from e-on about upgrading it to work with the latest Cinema since then. Sure, they've been busy with Vue 8, but Cinema R12 will probably be out in 7-8 months given the usual release cycle from Maxon, and if Ozone 5 stopped working with that release I'd have bought two versions of Ozone for a few months use out of each one. Not getting caught that way again.

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The only way I can think of doing it is to resample the brush. You could do a single stamp of the brush then use something like Genuine Fractals or SI Pro 2.5 to enlarge the image. Then just make a brush out of the larger image that results.

Quote - They all look realistic to me.. but I can't believe anyone would be able to beat the procedural rock materials already in vue...using texture maps always eats up valuable resources. Imagine is someone had 1 million rocks in a scene all using this texture.

Just to comment that I'm not sure the number of rocks would make any difference - unless Vue works very differently from other 3d apps, it would load the texture into memory once, not multiple times. Also, a million rocks with a complex procedural texture might be significantly slower to render than a million rocks with a bitmap, because Vue would have to compute the procedural algorithm for each object rather than just look up a pixel value from the texture map.

I agree about the difficulty of selling rock textures to Vue users, though :-)

Need a bit more info - what are the resources and what are you trying to do?

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No problem bobby... I was in a hurry and just stuck the link in the text, thanks for moving it.

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Here's one extensive set of tuts:

As I recall, PS CS4 came with both 32 bit and 64 bit versions in the same pack and I installed both (but hardly ever use the 64 bit because of the plugins issue). But it's easy to check that with Adobe, there's probably a FAQ.

You could certainly upgrade your individual licenses, which might or might not be cheaper (I think not, but it might not be by much).

Yes, Adobe's licensing/bundling is Byzantine and you really have to read their site and check and re-check before parting with cash, IMO.

I'll do my best to comment on these:

1. The main selling point of Extended is indeed its 3D capabilities, especially the ability to paint directly on 3D models. Frankly it's not a patch on Maxon's BodyPaint and if you really need to do that then a copy of BP is a better buy.

2. No, I don't think so. The impression I get from the Adobe site is that if you buy the collection you can't upgrade individual components of it. The Adobe store says 'Products within a Suite cannot be upgraded individually.'

3. I didn't have any issues running PS CS4 and Illustrator CS3 on Vista and they're fine on win7. One point to note (which I certainly didn't realise, though I should have done) is that if you're running Vista or win7 64 bit, both 32 and 64 bit versions of the software are provided, BUT most (read virtually all) of your plugins are still 32 bit only, so you may be restricted to the 32-bit version even on a 64 bit OS.

4. Well.. the main one is probably how many versions can I leave it before I upgrade again, the cost being what it is. I tend to skip alternate versions but even that's questionable, especially with Illustrator which doesn't change that much between versions.

Glad it worked okay! It is odd because it doesn't seem to affect all installations. I never had a problem on Vista with Illustrator CS3, which also installs Bonjour, but I disabled it on principle because I don't like unknown/unwanted services running. Fortunately CS4 doesn't install Bonjour as a service, so if you upgrade, the problem shouldn't recur.

I do think though that Adobe might have asked permission before installing it, because it isn't needed on Windows systems in the vast majority of cases. And they didn't even write it, it's an Apple product.