Wow. You rarely see postings of this caliber and fortitude. How nice. Hoborg

I sense difficult times ahead rendering if your meshes are that tight. :) I like the joint, but the feet are really heavy in the poly count. Did you use the Spline modeler? If not, I suggest that. It's much better when it comes to poly-counts. Even if you have a really nice machine, if more of your mech looks like that, it'll bog down a lot. But it's a great model so far. Hoborg

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Hey Dethblud, nice work here, but I, too have some comments. :) -In order to get a reflection map to work, the reflection has to be turned up pretty high. But I think that the actual curvature of the glass, in this case, is what's preventing you from seeing it. Either the image is too widened by the curvature, or it's too shrunk down. Consider re-posititioning the glass itself. Either that or making it less round. -The lighting is pretty bland, if I may say so. Maybe a torch on the wall with a yellow light inside. (Thank god for Four Elements:fire) Also I think there is too MUCH ambient light. (off-screen light) All of the shadows are very confusing, leading to a jumble as to where the objects are. I can barely see the glass in back, for instance. With torches on the wall, the lights and shadows make more sense, because you can see what is making the light, rather than just putting it in there because it looks good. -Your modelling is beautiful. I'm sure you could sell them on the Online Store if you so desired. -Your texturing is too perfect. This is a problem with a LOT of CG, but it can be fixed quite easily. Jump into the shader of the scrolls, primarily, to give them an "ancient" look. The axe is going to be difficult to "age" but be careful not to overdo it. You might try to go with a simple stone or dirt for the floor. Brick doens't make sense. -As for more general comments, I would add a small puddle of whatever the glasses are filled with; ale, grog,mead, etc. Just so the scene has that "just happened" effect. Also, I REALLY, REALLY recommend different camera placement. This view is very "human-level, straight on", and is, bluntly, boring. Consider a lower or higher angle, with a slight roll of the camera. Maybe 10-15 degrees. I can't stress this enough. I would duplicate your table, put a glass on it, and place the camera "on" the table "looking past" the glass. (Use the depth of field) Then you get some foreground, which this scene needs, plus you give the impression that this place is bigger than it is. Lastly (phew!), scale. Imagine a person at this table. Then imagine how big the axe is. I think everything else is okay. I hope you aren't offended by this all, cause I think it's got tremendous potential, and all too often, people let a great scene slip by with great modelling and little consideration to presentation. Happy rendering! Hoborg

I believe, the prefix and suffix are Numbers you can assign to your renders. For Example, I have a scene that I want to animate from two different viewpoints and splice together in Premiere. I also want them to be rendered as Tiff Files to preserve file quality and transparency. (Okay, a little hokey) So I change the prefix to 1 and the suffix to one to have Carrara render my images with the file name 1blah01.tif - 1blah25.tif. Then for the second round I change the prefix to 2 to differentiate between the cameras. so I get 2blah1.tif - 2blah25.tif. Just a nice touch. Course I would jsut put them in seperate directories... :) Hoborg

This may sound stupid and I apologize first off if I may offend, but have you looked at your system resources? HD space and RAM, etc. When I have a problem like that, It's always cause I've taxed my system. (ICQ 2000b takes up 30% of my system's resources. Foutunately, ICQ98 is available still on Download.com. I don't need all that yuppie crap) [gets off soapbox] Anyway, Sorry again for pointing out the obvious, but sometimes it takes an ass like me to find the ass in all of us. :D Hoborg (note use of ^)

That doesn't look at ALL like Marilyn Manson.... hoborg

I like siva's idea, actually. I'm not opposed to the others, but I think it's one of the things that people need to know, cause the spline modeller is fairly difficult to learn, but also invaluble once learned. I'll keep all ya's posted. Peace, Hoborg

I think it's GREAT! No wonder. I was thinking that this was Carrara... :) I need to learn Lightwave. Badly. The nose, I think, could be a little rounder, but that's personal preference, and what morphs are for. Good Work! hoborg

What did you have in mind? Maddox? I thought that the Original set (I can't stand the post-Ice-Age art) had some cool pieces. Maybe something like Anson Maddox's or Damion Willich(sp).? I don't know. Hoborg

Yeah, I don't think that Geometra is going to work for me. It's a lot like trying to use formZ to make Metaballs. I'm trying to make some friends in 3d and I don't think that will cut it. Hoborg

Who cares? That's RAD! It reminds me of Warner Bros cartoons. But I don't know, the default Poser figures have some interesting eyes, which require some fancy cr2 editing, and I don't know anything about that. but I know what I like! Hoborg

I saw some at Download.com

NT 4. The GUI has a little to be desired. hoborg

At least this isn't the Poser forum. Every time I get bored and browse through that, I feel a pop-up is about to come up telling me how I can see Britney Spears NUDE! If I want porn, I'll get it somewhere else where the people in it actually exist. Some of it can't be helped, but I think it's a little overwhelming in the Poser freestuff... Just my thoughts Hoborg