Ha, although believe it or not I hadn't seen yours before. I guess it's a rather obvious thing to do!

Do you mean the artifact on the bottom of the screw? Normals perhaps?

Funny that we were both working on such similar scenes

Thanks mate

It's only at 1100 spp, but then I am rendering it at 3200x2400. I estimate it will take ~240 hours at the current rate to get to my aim of ~5000 spp

Thoughts?

Here's the output: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-except...

I have access to gcc 4.1.2, and it's a 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3' box.

It would be great if you could help me out, but I'm afraid you'll have to really spell it out for me to get it.

Cheers mate.

So do you think it will be possible to install libwxgtk2.8-0 without root and get indigo running?

I've been looking at this a bit more, and it seems some librarys can be installed without root. For example: http://winter.eecs.umich.edu/soarwiki/Documentation/8.6.1/Installation#Installing_without_root_permissions The important point seems to be modifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH variab...

Thanks for the reply

Linux newbie here. When I try to run indigo on a Linux machine I get the message: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I understand I need to do something like: sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0 to get indigo...

Thanks for the feedback Stur. I like your idea for a crumpled paper ground, so here's a test. I would have made it more of a carpet but I am running low on ram. I think I'll try some different colours for the paper balls, green didn't really work that well. Anyway it's still lacking something, but I...

I wanted to give the impression someone had loving created a paper craft scene showing a bird in flight. No particular reason, I just felt like turning one of my day dreams into a more concrete form. The flowers are held in place with pins, and the birds are attached to a piece of wire. Everything i...

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