Nice collection, cheers Todd

After messing around with Maxwell for a couple of months and then discovering VRay I've never looked back. Sure it's still a bit buggy (which software isn't these days? ) and the numerical inputs of the VRay UI are very dry and confusing at first, but the manual explains most of them them pretty clearly and the way the whole plugin is integrated with SU is streets ahead of Maxwell IMO. The results are as good as almost any renderer out there and in a fraction of the time (we're talking 1/100th of Maxwell), and it's possible to render out your SU Scene animations or batch render all your SU scenes overnight- this has saved me sooooo much time when I needed multiple views of a model asap. Yep, I'm a VRay fanboy!

My guess is thta it wont work, as i imagine the drivers alter other bits of the computer that are harder to copy across, for example theres a good chance that some registry values are modified upon installation of the drivers.

Mary Welcome to SCF. I hope you made arraignments and were able to attend 3DBC 2008. It was a blast.

Great Photos Susan.

Thanks for the reply Ross. The positive intentions sound good, we'll just have to be patient as ever. They usually surprise us with a few great features when new versions do come out. I really hope as many people do, that handling of large models is addressed. Kenny

pshh! ive already seen it! this is kind of redundant, because all the car people would have already heard of it! there are entire magazines all full of car stuff. (i get three per month, im pretty informed) still, i like it. mr bangle's "flame surfacing" desing method has alwas been a love-hate kind of thing, but i always thought it looked cool.

Had a better look at this software and I believe it would be very easy to bundle a library of shapes that one can modify with SU and create ones own creatures in SU. With all our new tools we can even map the UV's perfectly giving more texture options. ...hmmm... would there be a market for such a thing?

Thanks, Mike. I have been having fun exploring this site. May even start a "thread" (if that's the right term). You will remember our conversation regarding the topic. Hope you have a good flight and enjoy touring New York. Steve

if you have too much money left at the end of the month (what, of course, always happens ), I would advice you to buy a gamer mouse. I bought the Logitech MX518 one or thwo years ago. and it is the best mouse I ever bought - very precise, very responsive and comfortable to use for hours! I will probably only discard it, when the era of mouse aided input ends (which hopefully with the technology of iPhone and Microsoft Surface won't be too far away )

@plot-paris said: Chuck Norris doesn't eat honey - he chews bees! (shall we open up a chuck norris thread?) i think that is adviseable, before chuck norris gets angry about not having his own thread and round-house kicks us all. pav

Fred thanks for link, but i haven't see yet. Software..seems like camera-tracker(3dsmax) and 3dsmax-like bipeds(skeletons)

OK, that's it. No more posting any of my drawings. Now you know why I don't draw for a living.

Thanks for that info

I like no. 4. I do tell people "to have an ordinary day". Also, instead of "excuse me" I sometimes say "excuse you".

Thanks, Coen I didn't see that. Suggestion taken.

Cool... Great to see SU used this way... And a very nice site indeed... (just saw it's made using Swish Max... ) Back at the old SU Forum, there was this other guy who also used SU for making virtual sets prior to actually building them... Can't recall his name, but it was pretty impressive and fun to see... And if I remember correct, a lot of the scenes and camera paths in 24 are made in SU prior to real takings...

I get my Father's Day Gift tomorrow. My daugter comes home from Italy! She has been in Sicily for 18 months serving as an LDS Missionary. I am so excited. My son leaves for Russia in 2 weeks as well to serve for 2 years. Happy Father's Day to ME!!!!

@kwistenbiebel said: Pietzak! (=Vlaams voor geluksvogel). Ik moet het zelf nog kopen maar de zilverlingen zijn schaars efkes....Nog even wachten voor mij. Ik heb wel de SR versie (demo-) momentel lopen. Ik ben al een jaar van plan Vray te kopen maar ik wachtte steeds op een bugvrije versie. Ik zal er toch aan moeten geloven want de hoop op insectenvrije Vray is tevergeefs I'm afraid Maak je geen illusies: mijn fondsen zijn nu ook uitgeput. Ik heb de laatste maanden érg veel poen (ik gok: ruim drieduizend ballen ...) aan software, hardware, textures en 3D-modelletjes besteed. Nu, wat ik kocht, wilde ik ook al een jaar - ik heb ervoor gespaard. Wat kan je anders, als werkmensch? Ja, je kan het allemaal (afgezien van de hardware) illegaal van het net plukken. En dat deed ik vroeger ook. Maar die tijden zijn voorbij. Zelfs een mp3'tje jatten lijkt me moreel niet meer kunnen. Ik word volwassen, geloof ik. Overigens ben ik er - godzijdank - vrij behoorlijk in geslaagd om mijn voormalige werkgever nogal wat dingen (waaronder mijn Mac Pro) af te zetten. Als het moet, kan ik behoorlijk hulpbehoevend kijken. Jij bent zelfstandige, niet? Voorlopig ben ik, geloof ik, wel even klaar met kopen. Ja, Podium V2 schaf ik me nog aan, als ik niet van ouderdom sterf voor het uitgebracht wordt, tenminste. Je zou weleens gelijk kunnen hebben over een bugvrije versie van Vray.

@unknownuser said: Thanks for the info Lewis. It is short notice for me to enter this at the moment but I will watch out for the next brief being released. I feel much the same way. Unfortunately, I think this is probably the most interesting of the three briefs. At one point in time I had the email of the fellow who started this Line of Site business (an executive in a company that makes roofing components, I seem to recall), and he was pretty clear in our conversations that he was trying to provoke flash-of-genius "napkin sketches" as opposed to deliberated responses.