I think it's better to donate CPU power at something like climate prediction or the cancer & aids ones, If we find ET what living good will that do for us? We all know they are out there somewhere, maybe they don't even want to hear from us, we are probably the "irritating" relatives for them.....

Nice render, nice compo, I like it. Maybe add a rosette at the end of lamp chain where it meets the ceiling?, makes it easier to look at the real height of the ceiling. Or does it still continue off the image?

Yay!
Indigo goes scientific!
Cooooooooool....................

Very Nice! I really like that lime yellow.
Looks fantastic!
Nice work.

And here's my current desktop

lol dougal I have the same gargoyle model, I did a free RANCH beta test render with it to see how RANCH worked.

Damnit!!!. I'm really sorry, I can't help you with this one, we are all having a lot of issues with the new version of Ubuntu and the xorg server it's shipped with, I se NVidia and I also have some 3D issues. You can see this thread to kind of get and idea of what I'm talking about. http://www.indig...

http://www.ranchcomputing.com/I_index.php

I've never seen anything like VUEmark there

to install ati driver either: System>Administration>Hardware Drivers Enable ATI there Or, download Alberto Milones NVIDIA and ATI driver installer (I would prefer this one because he uses newer drivers, but not latest) Open a terminal and type sudo apt-get install envyng-core envyng-gtk Make sure yo...

I decided to wait till July 3rd, that's when they will release the new 8.04 distro (8.04.1) if it doesn't work I'll do a nice clean install 'cause I think I've just messed up with my configs too much which is probably overriding some updates. You can see the Hardy release schedule here: https://wiki...

I don't think it has much to do with NVidia drivers, take a look at you xorg.conf you'll see it's a very simple file now which is what I'm also not liking very much in this ubuntu, they threw in a new xorg that kind of sets up automatically on install, tweaking it like before is just impossible. May...

I think I found a possible solution, sometimes the simple is the most efficient. I think I'll try a clean install of 8.04 and upgrade it inmediately so configurtions take effect as soon as system is installed, then install nvidia and all that to see how it goes, I just saw some forums where people a...

Thx for reply dougal2, I am really in a very f***ed situation here, I really digged (or dig) ubuntu, but I think the developers have really messed up big time with this version. I just don't want to go back to strange packagings again and having to compile half of my box to have latest packages avai...

Well, for the first time since I have ever used linux I am finally having some outrageous problems with ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Some full screen glx appz or games just don't work, some sound glitches, and my sony MP3 player is no longer supported, can't even mount it. So, I'm thinking of moving directly t...

So this is like the impossible holly grail rendering?