I've gone back and read your tut Lux. I appreciate the time you spent on it for me and I learned a few techniques that were new to me and a couple I had forgotten.

Despite the fact I've been tooling around with 3D apps since the mid 90's, as a hobbyist the amount of hours spent using the apps is largely inconsistent at best.

It doesn't help taking a 3 year hiatus from Max whereby I never even launched the program once because I was addicted to EvE online. I finally let my subscription lapse after their last upgrade was no longer compatible with the graphics card I had at the time. When I got back into Max this past March it was like starting all over again. I've had to relearn most the skills that were once second nature. Not to mention the Slate material editor and the graphite modelling tools which didn't exist for me 3 years ago.

But I'm having a blast getting back into it, and I hope we have another challenge soon. Perhaps a weekly challenge where we can work on a single more complex scene. Maybe throw in a Material Challenge or monthly challenge like they do over at CGtalk.

<strong>bandolin</strong><br />
[Former 3DS Max forum coordinator]<br />
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