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As far as i remember, was the guy who owns and invented the app was lost in the war of southeast of Europe twenty years back. So today no one can sell it...

One thing i remember I was helping me at that time with rendering cropped image. Every slave get a different rendering job... Slave 1 -> from top to pixel 500 Slave 2 -> from pixel 501 to 1000 Slave 3 -> ...and so on After that i stitched them in PS It helps me out and i could use my slaves and saved render time. Maybe it will help you?

Ah, ok, i didnt renderd to layers, i have that issue years ago with normal rendering, no layers. Did you try to render with only one camera?

Do you render to several slaves? What version of EI?

Ah, *patsch* of course... Solution for now: boot in Windows (bootcamp) so it would be native, right?

Ok, and Catalina does not like EIAS?

Hi Frank, why not native in High Sierra? Greetings Alex

Nice find! Thanks ;-)

I had same issue (Forumsuhr ;-) The only way was to break apart the model. And by the way: the shader did not the job, i ended up in creating a Photoshop textur to put it on the needed parts.

If we can dream it, we can make it :-)

Don't forget Polytrans from Okino, imho the best way to reduce polys. Alex

Merry X-Mas @ all :-)

Tomas, any news? Did Bob send the code? Greetings, Alex

Guys, you can't believe whats happened: Bob answered :-) He is the guy who built these plugs years ago and he contacted Tom :-) Now i can't wait what Tom will say.... Alex

Mailed him, lets see and wait :-) Alex

Maybe Bob Wagner is from Australia, i found some postings in a 3d forum - plugin related for vector works. And btw, here we go: Bolt and Gear for PPC on a Mac Alex

Sorry no mail address... Bob Wagner and CAD Creation gives no result in the popular search engines. Does anyone know him here? Maybe the Igors? Alex

@Mickael and all: no problem, i will put the plugs and readme files on my server and post the url for you all. Maybe someone can have a look and reinvent the plugs or better: put them into the next release of EI ;-) Alex

Correction: There are two plugins: "Bolt" - for making screws and so on and "Gears" - for making all kinds of gears Great tools!! But running on a PPC.... My iBook with a sensational G3 Proz (at 768 MHz, really!) and 640MB ram runs the plugs fine (because the G4 won't start anymore :-( ) One word: cool! And thanks to Bob Wagner ;-) Did not ever met him, too bad :-) Alex

Found it! In the darkest corner of my office, on an old HD called: EI stuff and cracks and more It was a plug called "Bolt" and it was developed by Bob Wagner (CAD Creations) in 2001. Of course to use with PPC..... Look at it click me for gears.... Now i have to reactivate my good old PowerBook G4 and install EI 7 and than hopefully the gears will go! Alex

Hi Tom, i wish i could! The project above sleeps in my backups, but the plugs are gone :-( There are two HDs left to look on if they have an old OS with EI and the gear plug-in in it. I thought that the internet will never forget something, but in this case gear4.plm will bring no results when you google that - tooooo bad. Does anyone have good experience with parametric surface plug-in? There is a preset for gears, but it doesn't look so good like the gear plug-in. Too few parameters to tweak and play with it. Or is there an other option or app to built gears out there? Alex

Uhhh, found a prj with the use of gear in it, it was in 2008 ...... At that time we had PPC (on a Mac) right? The plugin let you create gears in various shapes. The prj windows says: gear4.plm, but unfortunately i had no idea where the plug is gone :-( Does anyone knows anything about it???? Alex

As the title suggests: does anyone know if the gear plugin is still working and if so, which version of EI is needed? Due to rendering with my main machine i can't test it right now but have to tell customer if i can do the job.... Thanks Alex

Hi Mickael, I had the same probs some time ago. The only way i found: Using 2.92 with the original file, than open in 3.0 and save, than in 4.0 and save, than in 5.5 and save, than in 6 or 7 (don't remember exactly) and save, and final in 9. All the version in an untouched fresh installation... Some of the motion data could be saved and reimported and assigned to a new plugin-file (Ubershape f.e.) Good luck! Alex

Happy New Year :-) Lots of good vibes, jobs, updates ;-) , love and peace to all, Alex