so im basically new at this so dont expect me to know too much of what your talking about ;)

so heres the thing...im working on my first airplane model. im just about done with the modeling part....

i am trying to make a short film with a couple of planes over an ocean scene...i have some animation done and i dont know how to make the gunfire come out of the airplanes and make it look realistic....

well. so far im doing what i think is exactly what people tell me they do, but it still says the same thing...is there certain settings im supposed to change somewhere to do this right :confused:
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well i did just what you told me to but it still says it the same thing...how do i check for unconected extra curves?

and can anyone tell me how to do this their way from the start because i think...

well i am trying to make a shirt and everytime i use my cv curve tool i get the error curves must form a closed loop...why does that happen? and how can i fix this?

i want to make spitfire model that looks almost photorealistic

exactly like this: http://mind-dreams.com/wip/dogfight/spitfire_final.jpg

im kinda new so i dont know what the best approach would...

im new to mental ray not to maya tho, i need help on how to make a realistic looking ocean, sky, clouds.

any help is appreciated :bow:

well i found a new problem with this. i did all the steps and after i batch rendered and it finished doing that i looked for the avi file where it should have been but theres nothing there =/ could...

i made a fighter plane and have some animation and a camera following my plane with another animation. and now i dont know how to render this into a movie :confused:

hope someone can help with my...