Nice Model - didn't we see this not so long ago? On the subject of Bryce versus other apps: What troubles me most about these so-called 'high-end' apps is the way they describe things. In max for instance I seem to remember it being swamped with mysterious icons and strange words I didn't/don't understand. L/wave is another, nice looking UI but full of strange sounding names. Bryce is simple and straight forward. No fancy language, just arrows/pointers and drop-downs which actually show you what you are going to get when you apply this or that. Personly, I have a short-term memory problem (due to nerve damage from being poisoned years ago) Tackling something like max is quite literally a head-ache for me. OK, so you got a good memory? Great! Go ahead and learn max. But what for? The thing we want most is to create our pictures. What we don't want it to be blinded by geek-speak and hyroglyphics. There is simply no need for it. Doctors for me show the case in point. The human body is mapped by the medical profession using latin names. Yet latin is a dead language. Nobody uses it anymore. We've moved on. In the 3d community we brycers are regarded with disdain. Why? Because we are more prudent with our money, because we don't want to learn 'their' language, because 'their' way of doing things is over-complicated, because our results are just as good as theirs, because 'they' are professionals? No! It's because we are different. We look at the cg world in a different way. We're not looking at a 4 section screen. We're not using nurbs or polygons or whatever. They are trying to tell us that they are better than us. But that's like a painter who uses oils telling a guy using water-colours he is not a real artist! And how ridiculous is that? At the end of the day we are the ones who should ignore 'them'. They have made their own little world and they can live in it. We have made ours and should be happy with that. Of course there's always gonna be some snotty, stuck-up, snob who is gonna snipe and deride us for what we use and what we are, but that happens in all walks of life, from car owners to house-buyers to scientists to archaologists to religieous zealots and so on. We don't need critics! We are self-critical. We just need to believe in ourselves and to hell with the 'opposition'.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...