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{{{hugs}}} Thank you Mike J, Varian, Sacred Rose, Jilly and Laurie...y'all put a smile on my face after a difficult and hard day today. Your words and prayers must have been what kept me going through today and I appreciate them so very much! I just got home from the hospital now, I'm off for a few hours sleep and tomorrow will be another and hopefully a bit better day. I have a dump site that I put stuff I'm working on over on Geocities...I went ahead and uploaded this same site I posted last night on there since Varian and Laurie are having problems acessing the first one. Hope this link works better for you. When I get more time I will search for a more reliable server on which to upload the website to before I make I put any more work into it. Geocities is reliable for the most part, but gawd I hate those advertisement banner things :( Again, thank you for all the comforting thoughts and prayers... Marvilla

Thanks tradivoro :) Tierazon is great also...the only reason I stuck with UF is because it has layering and masking capabilities and even merge modes with the layers. Just like Photoshop or PSP. Made it more familiar for me and that's why I chose it. Plus there is a huge community of people out there constantly writing parameter formula files and sharing them with the rest of the UF users through UF's database and their mail list. For simple fractals Tierazon is the way to go though...UF just has more power which allows you that extra 'edge'if you want to get really creative, but at the same time it has a very easy learning curve grin

LOL...thanks Varian. BTW much of that forest is filled with many of the beautiful leaves you have shared with us on your website. I have downloaded each and every material, plant, model, atmosphere, color map, and scenes you have for download heheh They are all so wonderful...I just want to say 'thank you' for sharing so much with the rest of us. You make learning and working with Vue that much easier. I even turned all your tutorials into .pdf files because I wanted to save them and NEVER lose them :)You are and have always been such a wonderful and creative talent!

Thanks Laurie...I just saw your XenoDream images and I have to say they are beautiful! :) Xeno Dream is a neat program, quite a few artists on the Ultra Fractal Yahoo E-Group were also on their Beta testing team and came up with some exciting shapes. I have KPT 5 and it's KPT Frax4D plugin is also capable of creating almost the same similar shapes as XenoDream, and can be manipulated the same way inside of PS so I never really did get into XenoDream. Too many programs and not enough minutes in the day to learn all of them, huh? LOL BTW your poser images are incredible...so many wonderful images you have shared in your gallery! Marvilla

Congratulations to the winners!!! :) I know I had a hard time choosing just one and couldn't make a final decision so I just held out this time. I thought they were all outstanding in their own way IMO Marvilla

That would be great...a tutorial would be much appreciated Laurie. I just took my first shot at UV Mapper and though I'm ok with the results I know if I'd had a good tutorial to follow it sure would have made it a lot easier to figure out. Marvilla

Ohhhhh...that's absolutely beautiful Laurie. I'm drooling over that texture you used on it :) Can't wait until Rich's Shapemaker gets released! Marvilla

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My pleasure droyd...BTW if you want to see some images I have created with Ultra Fractal go to my fractals website which I attached to this reply. Even though my fractal images are not terrain related, you'll be able get an idea what a powerful and creative tool UF can be.

Attached Link: http://www.ultrafractal.com/

Breathtaking image..just beautiful jaywat! I'll have to try my hand at generating some fractal terrains. I have done a lot of fractal work myself but never really tried creating terrains out of them. droyd of all the fractal generators I have used Ultra Fractal is by far my favorite because of it's versatility...a link to the Ultra Fractal website is attached so you can download a demo if you'd like to check it out.

Sorry bloodsong :))) This is my first time posting to this board, I had a hard time even figuring out where to put the text much less the URL's heheh Marvilla

{{{{Varian}}}} You don't know how thrilled I was when I first saw your name in here, your wonderful images, and that you were one of the mods of the forum. I hope you and yours are doing well...I can't begin to express just how awesome it is to see you again my friend! :) Marvilla

Okey dokey Bop...it will be my first priority to set some up and ready to upload as soon as I have a bit of spare time. It will be my pleasure :) Marvilla

Thank you Again Larry...and yes, it sure is a lot of work taking care of mom but she did that and so much more for me my whole life...least we can do is give them back some of that caring, I'm sure you felt the same way when you were doing so yourself. And a thank you to Jilly and Varian for your kind and encouraging words :) BTW Varian...you are a long lost and much loved friend, and I have missed you...do you have any idea who I am? biggest grin I have followed your work in here for a while now. You were a wonderful talent when we participated in the same newsgroup and even more so now as the years have passed! {{{{Varian}}}} Marvilla...aka. Maria chuckle

Beautiful bold colored painted effect...good composition, I loved this Larry! Marvilla

This is lovely Jilly...I especially loved the effect you achieved in the left side window area...very nice :) Marvilla