Cool thanks, I was just wondering, so 1.01 is it for now. Thanks.

Remember, the Athlon processor has a 200Mhz frontside bus. Pentium does not. And for the difference in cost, I'll keep my Athlon 600, and my Biostar M7MKA motherboard. This is a very fast combo, and it was way cheaper than a pentium setup. I am a professional and had the option of Intel. Pentium is great. Athlon is great too.Either way you'll end up with a great system for a fraction of what this kind of power would have cost ten years ago.

Thanks for the response. I think this might solve the problem, How do I adjust the size of the oval layer to cover the entire top surface with numeric values. The points around the oval layer are a pain to control and be precise with?

What & where is "add cylinder"????,by the way?

I figured out how to apply a decal on the topside of a spline made cylinder with the anodized aluminum shader as a master shader ,thanks to your tips.But I ran into one problem after all my fussing with getting iy on there right. It was reflective just like the metal sheader, so I made a new layer of aluminum and applied it to the bottom, the main shader to the sides and a texture map on top. Bingo.

I plan on using him in some detailed scenes later on. I see what your saying about his hands melding, a little more work should fix it, thanks. What Ice tonges??????

Pretty trippy bike, I like it.It's a very unique style. Keep on Rendering.

Yes I did it all in our favorite little ware Carrara, I even had a successful boolean subtraction, when making his mouth. I love Carrara despite all the problems, what it does, it does wonderfully.

Wow, you've got Vertex thing down, I wish I could model in it like that. I don't think there is an easier way but doing it tooth by tooth, a drawback but worth it inthe end. Very nice work, damn!

dude you need to give us all a Vertex tutorial. I played with the vertex modeler today and got extremely frustrated. Seriously, what's the secret, My system choked in the vertex room when I subdivided and manipulated with the sphere of attraction. Do tell......Your Devil Dog rocks......

It's looking great!I like it, you're doing more with the vertex's than any one I've seen, I'd really like to see how they modelled that gargoyle on the front of the Carrara box. My computer is a 600mhz athlon/448MB of ram and I get wierd error messages in the vertex room when trying to manipulate a sphere with 40 polygons, then my screen goes gray and it says rendering failed, did you ever have these problems? Nice work man.......

Smooth out any of the pointy things on the island,it will look more natural, nice work though, keep working on it.I like the water, it looks very real. Kaom

Well I took your advice and got Bink and Smacker. You didn't lie. Right off the bat I compressed a 39MB AVI file down to 1.25MB without even adjusting any of the settings. Wow , the quality was amazing, some of the best compression I've ever seen, the only thing that bothers me is the fact that you end up with a mutant file. But for your own movies to give to your friends it's a great thing. Mabye later it will be AVI compatible with a standard media player.

It's lookin sweet. I don't know what's up in the vertex room, it might just be me, who knows? When I have the time, I'll get into it and see if it's me or my computer. I can't wait to see the dogs with texture. Kaom.....

Looks pretty cool, I cant really see the lines on it though. Just keep at it , it's really pretty easy once you get the feel for it.Keep on rendering! I'm still fighting with the vertex room, so for now I'm making vertex objects in Ray Dream and importing them into Carrara.Will a patch to end the frustration ever happen, let's hope for the best and keep on crafting our art. Ya know Ray Dream ain't so bad after all, at least it's fairly stable, tools,tools,tools. Over and out.....Kaom