Yeah. Kinda does.

wow...amazing it looks like the tests carried out in the Pacific were at Muroroa Atol...the French really gave that a hammering....I'm surprised that it doesn't glow in the dark now (maybe the fish do)...!

No idea. I don't understand that either. Maybe the code simply doesn't allow for the sort of changes we'd like to see? I'm sure there's more at play than plain stubborness.

@tomot said: The Olympics have become too expensive to maintain. yeah.. maybe. but those diving platforms were super sweet last year [image: izpN_dezeen_London-Aquatics-Centre-2012-by-Zaha-Hadid_1.jpg] [haven't read the fry letter yet.. i'll do so in a bit]

Yeah ... I knew that. Hadn't realised so far it was this bad, though. Maybe I ought to try TT's Quad Face Tools.

The original render is huge, good render times for that size image.

@andybot said: How's "yes"? A lot like this: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30eiuIS5a1r95uueo1_500.gif. Click it. You know you want to.

Well done, I like the simplicity of the design.

@massimo said: almost constructivism-like I would say I'm a big fan of constructivism. Excellent model. The texturing's great. Thanks, Oliver.

Hm, possibly. Never used a mannequin myself. We had models. Which, at fifteen, I didn't mind.

it is really handy dear mate. also for a nonnative English person like me, this was handy too: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/

I'm tempted, but I'm not quite sure whether I should get a new license. After all, how many apps does one hobbyist need? Edit: Watched the tutorial in its entirety. It indeed is good. If you want to know about rendering in Modo, these vids are just what you need.

No, I didn't. And you are right, I think. It's interesting how the bump is much less prominent in the BSD render.

"You're a Troll!" is leftist code for we can't bully you!

I've been spec'ing a new PC also, just read through this interesting thread. I like the i7 3930(k) sandy bridge with the extra 2 cores, really curious how it stacks up to the Ivy Bridge i7 3770(k) ... in real world testing sketchup, autocad, solidworks, adobe cs suite for photoshop, illustrator, premier pro etc. Benchmarks are nice for baseline, but more interested in real world performance use cases. 3930 has the extra 2 cores 3770 newer 22nm architecture with almost 1/2 the wattage req. 77 vs 130 The Xeon E3-1275 V2 (ivy bridge with IG) is another very tempting processor I am also wondering about the new nVidia 6xx cards esp. 660 to 680 vs. the older 560 to 580. Seems a lot of "render" pro-amateurs point to the 5xx series for the superior floating point processing over the 6xx. Apparently the 570 was getting such good render/viewing in professional software as to tempt professionals from the Quadro/Fire series cards, so nVidia hamstrung the 6xx architecture to only focus on Frames/second. I'd love to see the difference between a 570 vs 670 (with same ram, or highest available ram in both 2.5gb?) Although I am seriously thinking of getting a Quadro 4000 for 3D work. I am painfully familiar with 3D render errors/glitches and CAD parts issues occurring with consumer grade graphic cards. It is fine if you have the time to re-render a scene once, thrice or painfully more or fix and fidget a CAD part to re-appear correctly. The Quadro drivers are pretty tight and can be targeted towards a specific piece of software. (i think sketchUp has it's own specialized drivers, although not 100% sure on that) ECC ram (error correcting code ram) can make for huge savings in time if an error ever corrupts a file (or simply a single part in a CAD project, try hunting that down!) Building a system with these parts should be do-able in the $1400 to $1800 range for good (silent cooling) gear. Any opinions? I'm starting to lean towards a full ECC system, something that gamers of course will not appreciate. Love to hear how your system works for you TomDC!

I think that Rush was merely saying that it was Jon Stewart who first made the suggestion about Bane = Bain. Rush was commenting on the Comedians who first talked about this. Its a stupid reference of course. . .on many levels. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/17/comedian-likens-batman-villain-bane-to-romney-bain-capital-firm/ I don't much about the movie but my son has been following it--it seems that it is more about Occupy Wall Street than about evil Rich Guys.

Hey Tom! What a great mood! I'd very like to have a bath there! ...well not NOW, having you all seeing me and being so enthusiastic... Just to have an idea, mind to share the non post-produced render? The PODIUM out-of-the-box output?

Thanks, Richard. Er, don't you always yell?

Sorry to get back at you so late; I've only seen your post just now. Regrettably, I cannot help you -I've never encountered the problem you're having. It might be useful to ask the devs over at the Podium forum.