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# 46 17-05-2006 , 06:29 PM

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tis looking very cool arran, for the tube i'd suggest creating a curve in the general shape of the hose, then creating a nurbs circle at the end. select the circle and the curve and use the surfaces extrude option.

To animate the hose you could use joints though it would probably look better with soft body dynamics. Unfortunately i don't know how to set those up.

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# 47 17-05-2006 , 06:44 PM

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Good work arran looks cool

For the hose soft bodies can be a right pain to set up, especially if your suing springs for the object to move bask into place as they are quite volotile.

If you hae unlimited try using a hair folicle as that should do the trick nicely, if not you might have to do a load of joints and a IK handle to have some decent control over the movement

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# 48 18-05-2006 , 01:08 PM

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Hello everyone - Thanks for the feedback and for pointing me in the right direction for animating the vacuum hose. cheers.

Here is another small update - I have started laying in the textures again. I am still new to photoshop so it needs a lot of a work...:blush:

I am pretty excited - I have finally ordered my first laptop! Now I just have to do a ton of overtime to pay for it.

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# 49 18-05-2006 , 07:20 PM

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Looking Nice Arran

What spec laptop did you settle on? just that i'm thinking of going down the same road and want to gather opinions

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# 50 18-05-2006 , 08:24 PM

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Thanks gster123. user added image

I don't know much about computers so I spent quite a bit of time trying to wade through the information. I was going to get a Boxx, as my experience with them has been very positive, but then I kept reading that Boxx and Alienware (and others) build their laptops on Sager models, so I ended up getting a Sager NP9750 - V.

-17" WUXGA+ (1920 x 1200)
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (2.2Ghz; L2 Cache: 1MB x 2)
-Artic Silver 5 (AS5) Thermal CPU Paste Compound
-nVidia Quadro FX Go 1400 w/256MB
-2048 MB DDR SDRAM (400 MHz, PC-3200, Dual Channel) (2 x 1024 MB)
-100 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) SATA
-8X DVD±R/RW / 4X+Dual Layer / 5X DVD-RAM / CD-RW Multi Drive (Pioneer DVR-k16)
-External USB Floppy Drive
-Built in 56k V.90 Modem
-Built in 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet / LAN Network Card
-Wireless (Wi-Fi) Lan Card 802.11g (54 Mbps)
-Internal Bluetooth Card
-Smart Lithium Ion Battery (12 Cells)
-TV-Tuner w/ Remote & IR Blaster
-Integrated 7-in-1 Card Reader
-Integrated Video Camera / Internal Subwoofer Module

I bought it from discountlaptops.com - they seemed very helpful and well priced.

Hope this helps.

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# 51 18-05-2006 , 08:30 PM

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Lovely spec man!!

i'm thinking of getting the following

https://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/Acer_.../version-1.asp

I was thinking of getting one like you have but im no too sure??
Think i'm gonna wait for some reviews of hte duo cores first.

When ya gettin the bad boy?

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# 52 18-05-2006 , 08:47 PM

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wow, arran, that laptop is about as good as my desktop user added image

And a Quadro FX card... I want one!!!!!

Your texturing is off to a good start, man. Good job!! user added image

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# 53 18-05-2006 , 08:58 PM

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It should arrive on Monday, but I am doing overtime all next week so it will have to wait.:headbang:

That looks like a nice laptop. The only things that I would watch out for are the ATI graphics card which I have heard some people recommend against, and maybe the screen size.

I was going to go with a Intel originally, but a lot of the reviews seemed to favour AMD. This article on Intel and AMD dual cores was pretty helpful:

https://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-1.html

As I said, this stuff is way over my head so I spent a lot of time scratching my head and looking stuff up on wikipedia.

I have to wait for a month or so before I can pick up my second copy of maya, so it may be some time before I can let you know how it handles.

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# 54 18-05-2006 , 08:59 PM

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thanks Matt! user added image

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# 55 18-05-2006 , 09:15 PM

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Yeah man the ATI on that, apparantly, is the same as one of the fire cards thats reccommended by alias so i'd be hoping its ok, i'd be running it through a monitor at home so the screen size, hopefully, shouldent be an issue.

Just wish AMD would get some dual cores out designed for laptops so I an have a good look before jumping on to what could be a lesser technology.

Anyway's onto your model..

Any updates???

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# 56 18-05-2006 , 09:28 PM

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Afraid not... and due to work, it may be some time before I can post another update. :angery:

Hope you manage to sort something out gster. If you get a chance, definitely take a look at Sager -

https://www.sagernotebook.com/index.html

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# 57 18-05-2006 , 09:44 PM

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I have an ATI card (actually a gaming card, a Raedon Xstacy 9000 256 mag) and it screws up with maya. In fact, because of it, I can't use Maya anymore because of frequent crashes :angery:

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# 58 27-05-2006 , 01:56 PM

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Here is another update. Haven't had much of a chance to do any work on this, but I have slowly been working on the textures when I get a spare moment.

I still need to add some more details to his clothes and also scuff up his shoes a bit.

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# 59 27-05-2006 , 01:58 PM

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By the way, my laptop arrived on Monday and so far everything seems to be working fine. :attn: Now I am just waiting for maya to arrive!

Here is a close up of his face.

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