one very important question you left out Crescent... How many bottles of aspirin will I need to work on a getting a trench coat to conform to a figure without distorting itself into the twilight zone?

It does. Its just 13 year old brats like Mesh that spout their mouths off without thinking. Really mesh, have you EVER been a victim of racism? I have. Being a third native american in America sucks. Let me tell you. In my community, which is predominantly white of southern decent, race is a big issue. We even have a rather large chapter of the KKK, and one of our former mayors is/was an active member. When kids at school learned of my heritege, it was non stop picking and harassing until I beat the living hell out of a kid, calling him nothing more than a dumb ass white boy. Boy did that go over well. I had the cops called on me, spent two nights in jail for yelling racial slurs, and this kid was calling me a Prairie N. This is the racism I've dealt with this kind of racism all my life. If we start profiling against ONE race, we're no better then the Nazi's. We might as well do the goose step and scream Sieg Hiel everytime we salute the president. You're a young punk that doesn't know what the real world is like. The real world operates on balance. Throw that balance out and the world as we know it ends. You want a post-apocilyptic world to live in, create it in Virtual Reality and deck yourself in permanantly and leave the rest of us cool headed adults alone. A resolution will be reached, and those lives lost will be avenged, but WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING THAT IS GOING TO DESTROY OUR WORLD. Simple as that. Sorry for the rant, but on other board that I visit a lot, a little 14 year old went off saying that no military action needs to be taken, we can just talk to reach a resolution. That works in Theory when every party is willing to sit down and be buddy buddy. Right now, THAT side is not willing to do anything but kill for some demented religious dream. Again, I apologize for my outburst. Blade

Cools thanks... any special settings for importing your figure? So it doesn't come out looking like a deformed picaso wannabe?

yeah and with XP, don't you dare upgrade... BUY A NEW PC LOL. That product activation sucks big time.

yeah and with XP, don't you dare upgrade... BUY A NEW PC LOL. That product activation sucks big time.

Ok, where's that link for the obj plugin for maya?

That's the only thing Macs have that they beat the PC too.. but with the faster technology and processors(which Mac is lagging behind in majorly), the PC has whipped the Mac like a red headed step child. Not to mention the fact that PC's can support up to 4 processors on one machine :) Oh, and the DVD-CDR-DVR drives.. we've had those on the market for the PC for about 3 years.. just in the last 18 months have they become affordable.

not to mention for rendering and the like, the G450's and ANYTHING ATI sucks.. period. Don't matter how fast the MEMORY is, its how fast the Graphics Processor is. Memory helps too... and that fastest made is the GeForce 3 64MB DDR. NOTHING beats that card :)

Thanks guys.. like I said earlier, I'll be posting my work soon :) And please, don't be too harsh :)

np khorne. I already got the trench, just gotta texture the bugger :) Still looking for the hair... the standar poser 4 pony tail hair just looks ridiculous with the michael model lol

Thanks guys... I found some really great stuff... I'm going to work on the textures over the next week or so and then finally put it all together... Now I just need to find the hair.. I'm on a limited(literally no money thanks to school) budget. Is there any long ponytail style hair objects for Michael that I could download for free ?

TMG, that's an Asus board, not Zeus. I have the same one that you're talking about... though I had to add in 4 fans into my case cause I over clocked a 1.0 ghz Athalon to 1.3 :)

got any links to the digital babes and daz? And I'll look for the robe thing... also, need help with texturing lol.. boy ain't I a pain! LOL.

You'd do best to get a higher system. I'm not partial to the celery sticks they use for a processors... get either AMD or P4. Video card sucks baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Minimum for graphics is a 32mb card so its NOT drawing from system memory. OS, get Win2k Pro, I have it and love it. and it handles most games. Not to mention you could do better on the HD.. Get at least a 60gb on that bad boy so you know you have the room for games and for those horrendous sized renders. That's all I got to say!

To me this is as sad as it is angering. I for one have never been devotely religious, and now I see why. I love the human body, and no offence, the female body in particular. Reason being is thus: We males(yes I am male, along with being an American, though its more of a disgrace anymore. Those vets that fought for us are turning over in their graves now)are essentialy simple. All of our genitalia is exposed, and its not hard to see when one of is... well, for lack of a better word, aroused. ANY way, to the female body is near perfection. Within her body, the miracle of life can happen, she can beguile us males with a mere look. I've long hated the religious right, and now my hate is ever more justified. I've taken heat and guff for being an artist in a largely Southern Baptist community. I was even thrown out of a church by a pastor for being "an advocate to the devil". Well if art is of the devil, give me a pitch fork, a tail and some horns and look out. I personally I hope that those people that have made these alegations towards you thorne, rot in hell for their stupidity. I urge every american on this board to write your senators condemning this law as nothing more then communistic opression. My 2 cents. Blade