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What? No Black Friday sale???

Speaking of Lightwave....I read that Newtek had fired Mark Granger

Great. Then I can finally upgrade.... been stuck on v8.

This is going to be my last.....

Nah, just trying to stick to the EIAS color scheme :D

Sorry....haven´t been around for a few days. Great images, Stephen. Here´s a render with the ball.....

Sent you a PM. Here is another model....this time a ball. Haven´t had time to check it for any artifacts though...... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11909740/EI_ball.fac

Great renders and materials. Compared to my attempts it is fun to see what someone with skills in EIAS can do...... :-)

Here it is. Modified the edges of the cube and lowered the polycount a bit to 122 000 polys. However, I have only checked it for artifacts in EIAS 8 so I don´t know how it looks in v9. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11909740/EI_cube.fac

Sure, I could do that. I'll have a look into tightening the edges and possibly lower the poly count before I post it.

Thanks! I'll try take things a bit further when I have done some small adjustments/corrections to the geometry......

Haven´t touched EIAS in ages....but I was messing around with the Mesh Fusion in Modo and did a couple of tests using the EIAS logo. Decided I would put a couple of them here just for fun. Not to pleased with the soft edge on the cube variant so I´ll probably tighten up those edges a bit.....bit of a hassle to get clean geometry through into EIAS, had to do some clean up to make it work.

In case anyone is interested..... http://www.masterviacad.com/powerpackoverview/ViaCADPro/index.html

Comparing the two there's not much they have left out of the free version..... https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion/compare formZ free probably feels alot more crippled.....

http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=29406 Just give them time.....

As the title says..... https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion ;)

Any news on your tutorials , Brian?

Surprised noone has mentioned World Machine http://www.world-machine.com or World Creator (formerly Geo Control) http://www.cloddy.com/index.php/wc-product

That was what I thought you where saying....which BTW is wrong :) In Sculptris you hold CTRL to invert the brush, as opposed to ZBrush where you hold ALT. But you can also use the mask tool, press CTRL-D to mask your model, then paint your river or pond, and use the Grab tool with Global turned on to move the unmasked area. Whipped up a quick example to show you, masking on the left, plain Draw brush on the right with a dash of Flatten....

Huh? Can you please elaborate on this?

Here's the CGTalk thread.....the guys name is mikefarny... http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=175&t=1166786

Very kind and generous offer of you, Brian. :)

Know some people here use it....sale on formZ, $300 off out February. http://www.formz.com/products/formz/formzSales.html

Still on the fence regarding that offer myself. One thing though: if you find Steam to be annoying you can supposedly send an e-mail to Allegorithmic and they will convert it to a regular license for you. Very customer friendly of them......

Guessing most people here use AFX, but Hitfilm Ultimate has a January Sale with 25% discount so now you can get it at 299$