sob ( cry ) presses face up against his LCD and stares woefully at the broke@$$ P.O.S. chat I want my chat fix.. it's been days! I can feel my will to live just DRYING UP!!! AAAIIIIGGGGH.

Very Awesome Michael... I am glad that your birthday went so well! I wish you the best of luck and hope that things only get better for you!!! (HUG)

On the winds and over yonder... In your heart his death do ponder... Bearer of the Iron Hart... Going somewhere off the chart.... Onwards to the stars you go... Always in our hearts you know... Bye Bye Billy.... We'll miss you.

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Ok, here is a Bryce 5 MetaBall composition of what my little robot would look like ( sort of ) ... but more .. robotic, with metallic skin with rivits and joints etc.

Val, here is my idea for a bot. I used to draw him all the time, and I have much better pics at home somewhere.

This is a 1 minute or less quick sketch here at work on paint to show the idea ( laugh )

A small bot that hovers about, his lower round body would be partially see thru, filled with electricity and lightning.

The body above would melt from transparent to a kind of Shiny metal segmented section on the neck (think of the Xmen series with that guy that turns all metal) That kind of segments. His antenna would be segmented also, and the antenna balls would be small see thru sections full of electricty as well. Eyes are standard round robot eyes, with eye covers that blink. :) Also..his neck can grow longer or shrink as he needs, each segment withdrawing into the larger one below itself.

Yaaaaay a bear is on the way :) Heeeelllooo Lemurtek! I remember talking to you a LONG time ago about this project when I first thought of it, I hope your bear turns out well, I will be keeping tabs on you GRIN Stephen

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Little_Dragon, I'll try and dig up my Satyr tonight. I had a 40 gig drive blow out on my bout a month ago, along with my dvd and cdrw .... cause of a bad power supply :P I dont believe I uploaded the file but I will try and find it and link it. I have the regular Satyr available on my artist page...  There is the Satyr BEFORE I took it and rendered fur on the legs. That fur as seen is all hand done. *oy* Sore hands I tell you. But I have one at home somewhere *I hope* with the rendered fur on top of that. Looked much nicer ! Like real hair.

LITTLE DRAGON ! You so rock ! ;) That's the kind of work I'm looking for ! I know on my computer, fur doesn't slow it down much. I have a hand built Athlon AMD XP1800+ (1.53 gig), with 1.3 gigs of ram, and an ATI Radeon 9000 128meg video card. Things hummm right along : )

"The biggest problem is the whole fur thing" Actually with Poser 5 I have grown entire sets of fur. I have rendered the Daz polar bear cubs with realistic fur, I just never uploaded them. It's hard to get right,but it looks great ! Instead of a body texture, I'll grow the real fur :) Will look better that way anyhow ;)

Oo, I will have to check it out then! And here I was hoping to test my elite ninja skills ! as if ;)

Hy Lyrra ! I just discovered Chris's Live Journal by accident chuckle , fun stuff ;) I bet he'd be fun to hang out with for a day or 5 ;0 Seems funny and full of talent !

laugh No ;) I just want the model !

First off you need to click on the little electric plug looking deal on the right panel.. and drag it to the little plug next to Diffuse color so they are attached !!! Then play with the diffuse value :)

Yes .. 2d texture... and it should add a little window .. which you click on IMAGE at the top right of it.... and then browse your drive to get the image :) Works the same way for transparencies and bumps.

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Are you looking for straight or gay or what ? :)

Helps to know these things ! =o)

Stephen aka Mtncub