Well, i usuallay use extreme 3D 2, because it gives you superb texturing abilities.

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http://www.cerolia.pyar.com

Futurama Quotes

"Its not like you dont have crap stuck in your neck!" -Bender

"Ok, if you promise to shut-up, i will, against I will, knock it up another notch with this spice weasel." -Elzarr

"Man, I hate the planet of the moochers. They take you to a really nice restaraunt, but when the check comes, their wallet is in their pants, which they borrowed from me!" -Fry

"Well, i got some rocks, you do eat rocks, dont you?"
"no"
"Not even if they are sauteead in a little mud..?"
-Bender and fry talking

"good news everybody! I have been brought up on disciplinary charges by my old college! oh wait, thats not good news..."
-Professor Farnsworth

"its the biggest jamacian platter ive ever seen! Jerk chicken, Jerk beef, jerk Pork...is there any meat this man can't jerk?
-Hermes

"Okay, little boy, you may have your college education, and your REAl diploma... but i bet I have lost more people in my little claw, than your whole carapace! GERREREERERERERER!!!"
-"Dr" Zoidberg

Futurama Songs:

"Whalers on the Moon"
were whalers on the moon,
we carry our harpoons,
but their aint no whales,
so we tell tall tales
and sing our whalers' tune!

The Poppler Jiingle:

Pop..a poppler in your mouth,
when you eat at fishy joes,
What theyre made of is a mystery,
where they come from no one knows,
You can chew em'
you can loose em'
you can lick em'
you can stick em,
if you promise not to sue us you can shove one up your nose!

Thankyou!

dude you gotta trim that sig... your signal to noise ratio would be a lot better if, every time you posted, you didn't also post 30-40 lines of what everyone but you considers superfluous crap. Moderators? Can we please get a 10 line rule in effect for sigs?

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Originally posted by Admiral Zombat:
**Well, i usuallay use extreme 3D 2, because it gives you superb texturing abilities.
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Originally posted by --Eirik--:
**I been doing graphics for awhile now but I wonder what graphic software is best for planets/stellar graphics in Escape Velocity...

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Not a single person has mentioned Infini-D 4.5. Not only does it have a superior modelling and rendering engine, but it's much less expensive that Lightwave, for those who have better things to do than spend countless hours on Hotline downloading warez.

/bomb

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Originally posted by /bomb:
**Not a single person has mentioned Infini-D 4.5. Not only does it have a superior modelling and rendering engine, but it's much less expensive that Lightwave, for those who have better things to do than spend countless hours on Hotline downloading warez.

/bomb**

Granted, it is much cheaper, but might I ask where you got the impression about it having superior modeling and rendering engine? I know for a fact that the Lightwave rendering engine blows Infini-D out of the water, and I'd be very frickin surprised if Lightwave didn't have a better modeling engine. It is that expensive for a reason (although that's not to say I don't think it's too expensive..)..

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-Shade
AIM: Shade3742

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"It's your asphalt."

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Lightwave is NOT that expensive if you take into accout it's capabilities compared to it's main 3 rivals. SoftImage, Maya and Studio Max which costs up to 5 times more expensive (for Maya). I'm a student so I got the student discount for only $899. The Student version is exactly the same as the full version. The only difference is that you are not supposed to use a student copy for a business or make animation/images as a job. As long as you don't use the student copy for any sort of income, it's fine. This version can easily be made to the full copy. Or if you do not want to get Lightwave you can get it's little brother, Inspire 3D which is 95% of the full Lightwave version minus 2 - 3 tools I think. It is in my opinion a much better program than Infini-D or Strata Studio Pro if you are considering mid-range 3-D programs. As for instructions, not everyone has them. I don't have them! NewTek forgot to include that!!!!!

Also you can find older Lightwave programs like version 5.5 for fairly cheap on E-Bay. Seach around.

As for my own images, I do not have my own webpage to show them. Most of the landing pics I have already given to Philip Warner. He has his website at (url="http://"http://www.thegreatexpansion.com")www.thegreatexpansion.com(/url) It's up to him if he wants to put them up or not.

When I have more of my ships done, written more of the storylines, made up histories for the individual government and the space map, I will look for resources to develop a web site. Until then, I'm married to my computer and continue your realationship and produce great things!

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Just a short note on pirated stuff! Lightwave is not easy to crack. Cracked copies of Lightwave usually are very buggy and many times some of their tools do not work. I got this from my tutor who was one of many beta testers for LW6.

By far the easiest higher end 3-D program to crack in Studio Max, which by the way a lot of people do use it's cracked version. Why Discreet Logic does not do anything about it, I have no idea!

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Yes, Bryce has limited modelling capabilities; i.e. primitives, baloonean and what ever objects that came with the program. However it does NOT mean Bryce sucks! Bryce is usually used as a vital stepping stone for many people/students on their road to learn higher end softwares. Bryce is also used very often in the professional world; mostly for its landcape rendering mesh. Why use your time to make a mountain in Lightwave, Maya or SortImage when you can simply do it with one click in Bryce? These objects are then imported to the higher end programs and voila! you have a mountain!

TO make more complicated models in Bryce you just need some planning ahead and patiece and you can be amazed at what you might come up! DO the modelling in different parts as doing baloonean operation on top of other baloonean objects can confuse Bryce. Oce these seperate baloonean objects are done join then group them together to form the main object.

This is an example of a spaceship I made using only Bryce before I knew how to use Lightwave. I might remake this ship in Lightwave to make it look better with more detail. Until then...

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Originally posted by ShadeOfBlue:
**Granted, it is much cheaper, but might I ask where you got the impression about it having superior modeling and rendering engine? I know for a fact that the Lightwave rendering engine blows Infini-D out of the water, and I'd be very frickin surprised if Lightwave didn't have a better modeling engine. It is that expensive for a reason (although that's not to say I don't think it's too expensive..)..:p

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No, I meant it's engine compared to... er.. Mechanisto. Really.

/bomb

ShadeOfBlue: My dad owns a Computer Software company and I can get anything I want for free...No pirating here, sir.... Just to have the right connections.....
Ive done some work there myself so I know what kinds of programs that is coming...

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