All that said and done though for bang for buck you can't beat an overclocked core 2 e2160, £40 for a chip that is extremely overclockable it's a bargain.

I may rethink that when Phenom actually hits the market and we can play with it...

Side effects are simple, long hours staring at a monitor screen while deciding if you need just one more update

Last page of the paper, there's a roughness (i.e. bump) map... The various parts of the model are controlled via texture maps, i.e. there is a diffuse map, and then a reflection map and transmittance map for each layer to define the amount of reflection/transmittance, so this isn't an SSS procedural...

Difficult to say, when I put my compass near my CRT it goes all funny

(Sorry couldn't resist)

Yuk, haven't tried it on my win 2k machine, wonder if I'll get the same

The app doesn't work for me, i'm very sade because I used v1 a lot... Got python 2.5.1 installed, I even added app path to system path for the dll's, deactivated hardware acceleration... When I launch it, the window starts initialization but doesn't success. No error pops up, please help ! The app ...

I'd settle for being able to find my list of what the nk materials in the current library are, I can remember some of the basic elements from school chemistry, but not all of them...

I know the old user manual with them is lurking in a zip file somewhere on my HD.....

Having switched from 3ds max I find blenders booleans pretty good (how they ship such an expensive program with such rubbish bools I don't know)

But I'll have a play with this script too, thanks for the heads up.

It's a nice image, would ne nice rendered longer......

ok, 3ds is a very old format and some modellers forget it's limitations. 3ds does not have the material image file embedded like you can with some other apps, so generally you'll get a zip file with the .3ds and some jpgs, but (it's a big but!) 3ds only supports the old dos file names in 8.3 format....

Well one fo the UK mags showed figures that in the last 1/4 Wii then 360 then ps3, 360 and wii rate of sale are pretty close and ps3 is a dead duck. it's not true globally and if you want to talk total sales (rembering that 360 has been out much longer ) the 360 has sold many more units then the oth...

Awesome, I've used topmod for a while and didn't realise it still had any active development...

It's really a lot of fun to play on the Wii, but the actual hardware is pretty weak. I'm not arguing with you there! hope I didn't imply that I thought the hard ware was powerful. It's a classic thing though - the best hardware (the PS3) is the worst seller, Sony messed up big style with price and ...

The Cell Processor is extremely powerful and is actually being used along side opterons in a new range of super computers by IBM, called Roadrunner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner As to games machines, the Wii is awesome, my wife bought me one for my birthday, playing tennis after a cou...

looks like my garage.....