As I heard in the news we only have about 20 % less than generally. Also Hungary has someown resources but of course, not enough (Romania should have more). My colleagues at work now complain that though they turn up the gas heaters at home, it is colder than generally (I don't heat with gas at home). One thing however; we were supposed to work on Saturday (as an exchange for another day betwen the holidays) but now it has been delayed until there is no need for heaing. So I don't precisely know where it is going but I personally and currently don't feel it - YET - but this can already be some kind of a sign of something bad coming.

Perhaps we should point KDS in their direction. When changes back in to being poor mode he could give them his details.

AT the end of last year I had the ATi Radeon HD2600 512MB in my machine for about two weeks. It was really slow with SU, even more so than the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB I had in my old machine. So I got rid of it really quickly (donated it to someone that could use / appreciate it) and got me something better, which was the ATi Radeon X1950GT 512MB, much more powerful than the HD2600. After the X1950 I got the nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB and now have a nVidia FX3500 256MB in my machine.

and Happy holidays too. +++ EDIT+++ fixed the double post - Juju

Thx for the heads-up!

Jeff, Off course you are right. There is a bit of difference between how the contest is 'meant to be' and how it really profilates. As much as the Contest holder (Podium team) wants it to be just a render competition, it is actually more of a modeling competition too. 'there is no good rendering without a good model', right? I think the 'intentions' here aren't the most important thing . don't see it as a 3dallusions/cgarchitect or whatever competition. This competition should be just big fun. And I think it is! And besides, it's the second Podium contest and there will probably follow more...maybe some pure architectural who knows. Here is a quick 'doodle' I did just as an experiment using one of the primitives of the contest SU file. This will off course not be a contest entry. (both images rendered within 5 minutes.original size: 2048 X 1536 ) [image: contestdoodlebis.jpg] [image: rendercontestdoodle1.jpg]

Thanks for posting Sid

Great !