Yes, that would be nice - it'll go nicely with Clay's Planets Series, especially if the does the tuts he talked about.

I'll look forward to that. Thanks Phil.

Um... I've got bigger problems than that.

I've had a little play with your planet mat - and this is creating animation problems.  I turned it into a more desert like planet - not completely just more desert than it had - however, during the animation it keeps trying to revert to the original mat.  Even though I've gone through the mat lab and set the start and end keyframes to the new mat - it's still not right.

Also, I set the ship not to cast shadows (rather than the planet) and the ship's textures vanished. Weeeheee! Ain't I got fun!

I'll try it your way, see if that helps.

You're very kind.

I'm working on Pinto at the moment, I've got him modelled but I want to pose him before I post an image of him... I'm just not sure how to rig him as the tut I followed for rigging FrozenPea only did rigging legs, and Pinto has legs AND arms... and I'm not sure how to do those as well.

He'll give off a totally different vibe posed, to what he does now in the standard position.  I don't like it!!!

Working on it...

I added a ship leaving the planet, but the ship was casting a shadow onto the planet, now I'm working on removing that.

However, I think the planet moving so fast is... well, a bit out of kilter with the ship.  I'll have to think about that one, it looks like my trees are too tall and are waving in the wind. At the moment it's rendering as is, but hopefully without shadow.

Nice ship render, I particularly like the details of the little lights on the ship.

Quote - My new 'puter came with Windows 8.1   It's really not a big deal.  I still have shortcuts to my fave programs on the task bar, I still have a desktop, which I have always kept really clean and use as a desktop and then move files to folders once I finished.   The whole tiles thing isn't that annoying. I like having a flipboard tile, everything else is pretty much just static links to applications. That being said, I do have two monitors, so one generally has a desktop.   AND Draculaz told me that there are ways out there to get a real startup menu if you so desire.  

BUT, I never had a problem with Vista.  So I probably am not the best judge. 

The main reason I got it was EIGHT CORES!   I use Carrara more than Bryce and to see those little core squares as it renders is a joy.  I'm not sure how well Bryce uses multiple cors.  Still seems pretty slow when I render.

I was told you need to get a program called "Large Address Aware" and then you use that to make Bryce (and Wings3d you can do too) look at the other cores, and use them.

Worked for me.

P.S. Nice to see you still around Phil

Nope, it worked just fine with me.

Nice smooth animation.

A couple of weeks ago we had the window open and the fan on with all radiators off - trying to cool down from a slow boil.  The day before it was freezing cold on approximately the 40th (or more, I've lost count) day of rain - I think it must have been St Swithin's Revenge.

And 4 days later the rain started up again - but just drizzles or the occasional full rainy day, rather than every day.

I guess we'll be calling this:- The Year It Rained.

Oooh that's nice!

Yes I'd love the mat file for that. Post away, Clay.

I don't have about 9 of the necessary PlugIns for this sort of scene,  like 'AddThe Sea' or 'Add The Sea Reloaded'  or even the 'FreeStormy Sea'  none of which are free or else you need the latest version of Cinema (thousands of pounds) so this is a bit of a cobble-up, I've had to use an HDRI from my Bryce HDRI folder, nothing out of the 3 or 4 free C4D ones had anything but cityscapes on it, so here's what I've come up with in Cinema4D rel 10:

Kind of interesting to try, (but soooo much easier in Bryce!)

This is awfully distracting.  I should be modelling for my own animation, but I just sat there watching part4... then part 5... tut tut tut.

Good stuff.

I have lots more modelling to do, like a P-Pod - does a similar job to an iPod, but it's a different shape, and there's the Pea-See, just sketches as yet:

Then there's 'The Pulse' - no sketch yet.  But I think it's a Night Club.

Actually in winter we regularly get water flooding into our store - it comes into the drive off of the street, and just floods down the gradient into the overhang and the Victorian drain can't cope with it so it overflows the drainage channel and laps into the store room.

But this year, with all the flooding everywhere has been getting - and with all our ponds full to bursting (and 2 flooding the paths around the ponds - one of which is connected to the aformentioned drainage) and yet so far the store has not flooded... I'm waiting on tenterhooks.

The results were posted eh?  Oh well, I was just looking at the 4 or 5 threads that looked active and just visiting them...

BeefCake, Ha-Pea, PeaBrain, SweetPea, (the Princess) Pea-Tar The Great, The King of Pealand, and Pinto the King's Master Spy.

The only one I haven't mentioned yet, is GreenPea, you can see him standing next to Susan in her petalled shirt.

GreenPea was the first one modelled and is the main character - at least in the first story from Pealand.

Susan is always dancing, she is a Mardigras kind of person.