Mark Johnston

Hi I propose a new forum section , ideas for getting more users , that do not involve new features being add too the program. I propose in this section users post one idea per thread, not a list of suggestions. Then other users could rate 1 to 10 each idea in their replies as , could be helpful or don't think would be helpful at ends of scale. and also just post comments about the suggestion.

A How this was done section , in forum with examples of easy to do things that look impressive explained as simple out line of steps. I think this is a idea that can help grow market if done right. When it was announced that Tomas and Igors would be new owners , I was not aware who Tomas was, so I looked in the old Gallery and saw one after another, after another impressive video , so many I could hardly believe one person had done that many postings of great stuff. Tomas your a busy Guy. To me your postings seemed almost like a encyclopedia of technics, because of so many different styles of creativity . I was also impressed with the works by many others who had posted in the Gallery , Check out the Gallery People !!!!!!! A mastery of all the tools and how they are combined is a necessity to do really good stuff. Knowing how to use photoshop, your 3d program, and your compositor of choice , all together. So breakdowns of how I did this and what was done in what program would help users accomplish their dream creations.

This is a subject that was beat to death on the old forum . Don't a need repeat of that. Get pro animator from Zaxwerks.com to export fac.s of illustrator shapes. I think this works good. If you make money from your work the cost should be easy to justify. I know you guy's want way more then that. I say , this is not important, unless number of users can be increased to justify cost of doing it. IT just sounds like to hard to do, and is it really that important. At this Time.

Thanks Igors I'll check it out later, already down loaded your updated file . Mark

Hi I installed Silo recently and had the same problem of no mesh coming into EIAS on an intel mac and did a search on the old forum and someone said you have to run Silo under rosetta for exporting to work. So I set it to run under rosetta and I only have tried one model export since then but it did make it work. To run under rosetta you click on app icon do the get info from the file menu and click the box, open with rosetta, then open the program. I heard you can run EIM on intel macs the same way but have not tried it . Still have it on my G5.I guess you must be able to install from old install disk from people saying they got it on their intel Mac. Mark

HI I noticed in the version 8 there was no ColorNoise.shd in the shaders folder so I took the one from 7 and though the interface opens changing the density doesn't show any difference in the interface or on the object. Whats up? Thanks Mark