hello,

here's a description i found on web..

"DGS stands for Diffuse, Glossy, Specular. DGS materials are used to simulate materials with physical accuracy. It's the combination of these DGS...

thats a nice start... i like the nose part alot... but i guess everything is easy when you know how to do it=)... cant wait for update.

i'll try to model a hamster, but i'm not quite sure how......

thanks man...

there actually are streaks, but maybe not as visible as they should be... anyway im preparing for final, so i hope that soon i will be able to post it...

greetings...

update...or no update...

i have played with bump maps and it looks ok now. still not happy but...
i guess that i'll finish this thread and make it final for first stage, but as you can see there...

i'm really not sure, but i think that material is term that 3d studio max i using and shader i equivalent in maya...

but then i remembered a very importan thing...F1 ...

Maya help says:
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greetings..

lol, i've read that layer shader can prolong rendering time, but it nowere says that it will completely crash maya=)

after 10 hours of rendering batch came to 6th of 15 frames and...

Hey matt,
i've tried with layered shader, and rendering time doubled, and now i just copied main shape and scale it for 0.001, and then applied transparent map, render time is back from "way to...

it looks really great.. was it hard to complete? (i was thinking about getting some tutorials from here)

yes, it crossed my mind to mess with original body and bump maps, but a dont know anything about layered shader (i'll search it now). The thing that is bothering me is how to know drops position on...

here's update on bucket and ice...

i will play more with materials nad reflections....

another thing... i just noticed that maya binary for that scene is about 120mb... =)...

tomorow more...