yah i got one of the renderosity mags a few years ago.  it had some pretty simple tutorials and a whole lot of really nice art.  it felt good to look at something i was also involved in.  (i mean software i was using, not that i personally put anything in it.)

rocky top is the official song?  heh i used to play that in a band i was in...fun fast song

yeah that seemed like an odd thread to lock.
i see occasional censorship and intolerance here too, but i see it everywhere in everyone some time or another.  including me.  all i can say is we're all in this together.  the person you can't stand today may be your best friend tomorrow or the other way around.

hope you return soon.

o man
did you come up with the correct crease angle by trial and error?
that does seem to make a huge difference

thanks for everything folks

ah yes that is correct i did not enable raytracing (sorry for the newbie mistake) i will hit it again
i'm going to round the digits to 6  also and check that.  man those are nice renders.
gracias

again i made this sample building with as few edges as possible just to check what is happening

that's a nice technique mob i'm gonna go with that the next one.  in the one i am really working on i did pretty much like that but by the room instead of an entire house, outlining as many edges as a figured i needed and then deleting polys to open window and doors.

in the last image, there is only one spotlight, casting depth mapped shadow, directed at the back of the "building".   most of it is drenched in shadow as it should be but you can see a little light peeping through the building against the door edge and the plane of the floor as it meets the back wall, almost as if there  is a window back there.  the normals are all consistent.  here's the object itself if you'd like to mess with it.

Max2Obj Version 4.0 Mar 10th, 2001

object Box01 to come ...

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22 faces

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gracias

again this is with depth mapped shadows.  raytracing ignores the walls alltogether
also this had been shot mapped and unmapped in uvmapper...and also tried with exporting and welding verts and shooting again to no avail

here's a lame example...i just threw this together working on the principal of it this is the wire mesh of a block with an interior modeled from one single object, the interior extruded inward

i liked it it was nice
for good animation i like
beowulf, anything by zemeckis, but also the first final fantasy and the intro clips to WOW
of course those are high budget things.  final fantasy was not the best show ever or anything but i watch it a lot (love that color)
there's a japanese guy i used to like who did an incredibly realistic female, normal and vampire version, that had an interview with the character that was amazing.  can't remember who now though

poser kicks a22 don't give up on it it is super useful
in the dials you can change sensitivity by right clicking on the dial there's a nice little space for that.
you can change light types on the right tab of the light and get spots like a studio, and use the point at feature from the menu if you like
also why not set up the studio and parent all of the lights cameras etc to the floor of the studio and save the whole thing as a prop then you get a nice fast load
really there is nothing like this program out there.  be patient you will like it

that's neat
are you looking for conforming cloth or will it load it's own skeleton?  i have some dynamic cloth i can shoot over to you
always wanted to check out game modding too

happy birthday david