understood, thanks for the info.

good to know! I've spent so much time learning modeling and animation that I suck terribly at texturing and lighting. I really really want to achieve that eye-gouging super reflective look complete...

I'm trying anything that will work. Finally got a render in hardware mode but I dont what I changed. :P I'll mess with the spotlights when I get home.

newb question, what are the benifits of a normal map? What are they used for?

I understand the default lighting. The lights I dropped in were both area lights with the default settings. I translated them in the lighting view so I know the subject is being lit. Plus there is an...

I don't understand. I render without any lights in the scene and I get that dull globally lit render. I add a few lights and no matter if I use hardware, software, mental ray, etc... I get a solid...

digging up an old post here. I have a network or curves that I have lofted. I forgot to shut of instance copies as I was duplicating them which was actually helpful at first but now I want to make...

Is there a way to force smoothness between two surfaces when using the stitch tool? I always get sort of a crease when I use the stitch tool and I have to manipulate the control points until it...

SONOFABITCH!!!!!
I have a complete workup for a game called Think Tank that I started developing like 5 years ago! And guess what, it involved 3 catagories of tank in a fast pased puzzle/action...

Well now I know how much to charge for my next project :)