Test of environment animation (http://home.midmaine.com/~nate/environment.wm9.avi) 642kb .avi file, windows media 9 codec.

WIP of the environment...

Animated paintFX, environment fog, tweaked ocean shader, spotlight with animated light fog... Renders kind of slow...

There will be an army of open-source geeks wanting to get their hands on that kind of cheap horsepower, and if that isn't enough, people will want a way to "play" with the Cell CPU architecture. ...

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Seems OK. http://images.nasioc.com/forums/images/smilies/discomonkey.gif

I want one modded to run Linux, to use as a render node. Maybe 2 or 3 if they're cheap enough.

Have you seen the specs on this freaking box? 2+ teraflops!?! That's a couple orders of magnitude...

Hey thanks! Your prehistoric mutant fish is impressive - very elegant, clean wire for it. I've been banging my head against several walls with the sea lion, mostly on his environment:

- Learning...

If you installed the documentation then you have it.

In Maya click on "Help|Tutorials" Your web browser will open with the Learning Resources intranet site. Click on "Getting Started with Maya",...

You'll need to key the uValue of your motion path to your timeline. The uValue starts at 0.000 at the start of the path, and runs to 1.000 at the end of the path. So if the edge of your table was...

One way is to create a curve for half of it, and then revolve it.

Painted the body - I think it's starting to come together. A little (lot of) weirdness going on with GI in mental ray. I haven't turned caustics on yet, maybe that'll fix it. Who knows.

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