Correct me if im wrong but it seems to me that you have a photo of the moon as opposed to a texture ready image.

You could spend time in photoshop with the image you have or you could locate an...

Thought this would be of some use to you.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials.html

Theres a free downloadable tutorial on subsurface scattering on the above link. Goes into detail about...

Many thanks for the advice.

As your using the same GPU as me, have you ever experianced any errors, crashes or slow down with Maya using the 7800 GTX?

I take it my user name gave that away!!

Any advice on the above question?

I bought an alienware pc last year purely for gaming but have since wanted to go into 3D graphics and animation.

I currently have 2x Geforce 7800 GTX running SLI on my system.

Knowing that...

Hey Guys,

I have been going through the sword modelling and texturing tutorials from the archive section.

The modeling one went fine but on the first texturing video im hitting a wall.

It...

Look forward to seeing it!

Do you have any WIP so far that you could post? (images)

Im only new to Maya but watch these forums for more pics of the effect in use once i've got more experience with modeling and animation.

Til then, Thanks again.

Very Nice.

Thanks for your help arneoog.

:beer: :bow:

Thank you arneoog.

Will try that out.

Do you have an example of that effect in motion (an animation)

Would the jiggle effect work just as well with a cylinder?