nice one

I'm being lazy I know, but what combination of shaders and textures is the quickest way of creating an ultra realistic silver/chrome "look"...

Cheers...

Oh, and why do most raytraced shadows...

Eventually I setled for attaching the two horizontally alligned surfaces together and then filleting the two vertical ones to the top and bottom of the attached surface...

Cheers. I'll check it out

Has anyone got any idea on how I could create a water fountain using both particles and soft bodies to interact together and create jets of water that fly into the air and then create splashes and...

thanks for your help. I'll give it a go...

actually, I think I need to apply a field such as air or turbulence to the particles themselves and then the field will do the damage...

yep...

and then what?

My problem is that I want to 'smoothly' join together all the four ends as shown below. However, when I lofted, attached surfaces, stitched etc, the result was always messy, with tubes flying all...