been busy so missed this till now

yes there is a viable market for items made in blender if you have the abilities to make them usable in other softwares

as for paying for tutorials

if you intend to sell products the cost of those tutorials as well some supplies can be used as a tax deduction in areas(check with your preparer if in US)

i use blender 2.49b still to create designs for clients that want custom parts made for equipment, cars, and motorcycles so that they know what it will look like when done

i personally am a highpoly modeller which tends to crash most poser and studio systems but i dont sell or give that stuff away

i like the photo real look

ok it wont let me add a pic?

if not easily offended or fishing for love try http://www.photochopz.com/forum/

we arent placatrers  and it does get rude there but some good people

studios like to use stable(not constantly being modified) or proprietary softwares

back in highschool i started with an autocad program that was "highend" for the time but was still only 2d, i was using it to design mechanical parts for heavy construction equipment. while in college a friend showed me a fledgling opensource program that was so unstable that it was pittifull but i stuck with it, that was the original beta for blender

i started playing with it and it because normal, not long later i got my hands on pixars software and stared playing with that as well

it seemed like every week or so a new for blender hit the web while everything else was only touched once a year or so

i messed with bryce until daz got their hands on it and ive tried poser, silo, mudbox, carrera, hexagon, sculptris, argile, and alot more and keep going back to blender but just like i do most people learn one software and never leave it

first question would be what version of either blender are you using?

newer versions are available in 32 bit and 64 bit and if you have a 64 bit system and download a 32 bit software it will not work right sometimes because it downloads into the x64 files and not the x84 files where it needs to register

if by chance you got one of the OS or ubuntu versions they will not register at all

check which version you have and need and make sure that they are compatible

also do all windows updates and retry the download

boris, vallejo, frazetta?

which one did you grow up idolizing?

it looks like a hacked version of the original sketchup

i just watched a few videos on it and it seems to lack real world usage features

i think ill stick with blender

most things can be made from modeling but can also been mae by sculpting

its one of those deals where its all about personal prefence

like MBR has been sculpting a sea horse alien thing that looks good and sculpting is perfect for it

 making a car body you need the low poly count and accuracy of modeling

there are people that combine modeling and sculpting

just do what is easiest for you

normally i only work on hard bodies like  buildings and cars but even with those sculpting can be done for interior pieces like a couch or a pillow or seats

i learned in blender and still use it today because it allows for sculpting, modeling, texturing, rendering, and rigging all at a good price range  $000.00

im cheap but even if i had to i would buy blender because it is multi-use and as powerful than most paid softwares

but in the end which to use depends on the user

for the next time you hit the wall

unwrap the mash when you have just the basic form done

if you use a basic form as a template its easier to then add vertices and geometry and match it

starting the unwrapping early means that you have full controll and with the tools the newer versions of blender is adding the only limit is your ability

hate to say but poser will never do that

sculpted and textured in sculptris,modelled and rendered in lightwave, displacement baking help from blender

and new to poser in version 69.99

is there an inner cylinder inside teh tube or is it supposed to be a solid piece like glass?

start with the volume samples because of the opague materials and check the nodes to make sure they dont have a noise or roughness setting that isnt supposed to be there

as for why the actual render takes longer its because there is a hell of a lot more information to process than in a preview

ok shvrdavid how i know it is not a hagstrom is simple its missinf the selectro buttons and has knobs

hagstrom ahd large black push buttons for pick-up selections and combinations

also the headstock is a custom shop version of the 1940s mandolin

now the infamous star design guitar was also not a hagstrom as may rumours would have one believe it was made by goram malmberg but hagstrom did make 2 un-authorized copies in glod that were used as prizes

now for the update in 1976 hagstrom did get with the knobs and selector switches but still were not used by any member of abba at least no according to hagstrom

now onto the effects question

if i was still on the road playing and was looking i would pick up the didgitech gsp 2101 pro with the foot controller

its a digital effects processor but with a tube pre-amp so it doesnt come off so digital and now can be had for about $300 or less

ok now lets delve into the different guitars that the man used and yes the list is long

his main weapon of choice was the gibson ES-335 which he used most of his carrer

but he also used a 1955 model d-28 martin 6 string accoustic, a james olsen 6-string accoustic, a fender squire, a les paul, a gild 12-string accoustic that was tuned to open c, and various telecasters and strts as well

the love of vox amps was lasting and was standard

the guitars used were gibsons

the amps were vox tube amps not cabinets but the recording style called for a seperated amp from the recording studio

they put the amp in a room alone with a mic to record it without the noises from the open studio

tellis makes a similar amp now that is lighter but not cheap

ive played bass since i was 11 and worked in a recording studio for a while

but all i had to do was a simple search on the studio sites

scale the first loop to almost merged and then extrude again and merge that one

it eliminates the un-needed verts and still acts right in poser