Another tip is to make sure nothing comes to a completely hard edge. Try to bevel all your corners at least a little bit. Use photo textures when you can.

Yeah in modeling mode go to polygons>tool options>keep faces together

I agree w/ adldesigner about the textures. There's really visible tiling. If it's a photo texture just take it into photoshop and use the offset tool to perfectly offset it and use the rubber stamp...

I also have a logitech optical wheel mouse. 2 buttons and mousewheel. I don't personally like those mouses w/ lots of buttons cause i tend to press them by mistake. All personal preference though....

Yeah, there's tons of possibilities, but web3d has to get better looking. Also you gotta take into account that everybody's got different systems. It's terrible when u have something that runs real...

If i remember correctly the last time i tried something like that i couldn't directly add the constraint and the motion path to the camera. I used an aim constraint on the camera to aim at a locator...

here's a link for havok exporter for maya
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/WhatWeDo/maya/extend/transl_mw/havok.html

Looks like it does exactly what you need. Lets you use maya dynamics and...

I think they stopped developing for it. You'd be better off learning lingo, or getting someone who knows lingo really well. RTA was kinda weak.

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um... not really. I was at siggraph in 2001 but couldn't afford any of the maya classes, and didn't go to their party. I hung around their booth a lil... does that count? :p

Yeah, the problem is i used the CVs of 3 curves to create my set driven keys so that area's extremely cluttered as well. I want that left panel to only show the objects affected by 1 of my set...