Mark Johnston

Hi Alonzo, Nice camera Mark

HI Frankg Super loved this tutorial . Really Good and clear. Thanks for helping us all out!!!!! Mark

Great work Alex Mark

Hi Felix great links WOW!!! Mark

Looks cool want to see mac version, Mark

Hi Michael Iam not super expert , so maybe this will help maybe not. The main thing to me seems to be only using raytrace render settings where they are needed phong rendering looks really good and is way ,way , faster. Now as I understand if you aren't using raytrace shadows or reflections may be transparency then you don't need raytracing on. But In Eias you can have raytracing used where needed but also not where its not needed by setting the rendering of your objects to only render at phong , if thats all they need, but other objects set to raytrace that need raytrace. So you have to think what objects need raytrace which don't and set them accordingly in each object info window and still have over all render set to raytrace. Also use renderama if you haven't been. Get more memory each camera slave needs memory to use. I agree with Alex it is a constant learning curve and I think speed is coming in both software and computers that will make us all happy though it sometimes feels like we are standing still. Mark

Hi Tom I think getting a quality update is important , so I like what your saying . Still feeling excited to see ESIA 9 soon. Mark Yeah modo and zbrush updates are both great.

Hi Mike Great stuff, How about animation on chess board Mark

Hey Kurt , the article was great ! I'am going to have to read some of their other articles now. Thanks Mark

Hi, Happy new year right back at you and all on the EIAS3d team. Mark

Hi I second that Mark

Hi I just clicked the link and hope its not some kind of scam but I have always wondered if EIM IS still being developed and will finally come out. Mark

Hi Michael I love that your posting this here so we can see how your doing on this Challenge I followed the link a while ago and looked at the the other renderings and thought yours were the best or close to best. Thanks for posting model Richard now I can have some fun with it. Mark

Hi Rich I want to see camera in closer and some other planes above the ground plane to cause more different angles in the bouncing. I want to mess around with rodeo soon. I just got the recoil plugin for modo and was watching the lessons for it and almost all the stuff seems the same for rodeo just different interface.Keep up the posts it's all interesting. Love seeing what everyones up to. Mark

Hi Ended up upgrading couldn't get the 30% off deal only 20 .Hope I don't get mad when 6 comes out since adobe says the whole point of the new prices is to lower the cost to customers . I hope that doesn't mean lower for people who rent it only. I also hope new price for 6 is not reduced to only little over what I just payed for upgrade. The rent the software program price wise is cool but if your internet is down you can't use the software or you stop paying the rent you can't use it, but price seems cool for people who only use program once in awhile, which is me, but my internet company comcast is down about a 1/4 of the time and I, want to use it when I want to , if adobe server is down you again couldn't use it. Mark

Hi Michael I think your doing great work . The door knob reflection in the third picture seems odd looking to me . Seems to strong, but I'am sure in the next couple days I will be looking at door knobs reflecting everywhere to see if this is so. Everything really looks so good, its impressive. You get another WOW from me. Mark

Hi Richard Thanks for the project also. Mark

Hey Tom,,, the fact people were not informed of this in the 30% off offer that adobe had on black friday (it just appeared to be a normal sale ) wasn't good customer relations. I kind of don't like offers of deals at christmas time this being a time of more spending already. Its also the month my property taxes are due , so I just have high enough spending at this time. I don't like to bitch about prices that much but I have had almost every upgrade of adobe products for ten years but have never made one cent off these programs and I like many feel adobe seems now to want to set price for professional users and ignore people like me. Mark

Hi I was over on the modo forum and I saw all these people posting about adobes new upgrade policy which I did not know about, and I don't know if you do. But if I understand this if you don't upgrade to 5.5 there will be no upgrade path to 6 for you. Or you can pay full price again or start renting the software by the month. I did not upgrade past cs4 because at the time I last upgraded the policy was you could skip 2 upgrades and still be able to upgrade and I was tried of the yearly updates, that have stuff I mostly don't need or use .So now I think Adobe enters the totally sucks realm. If you ask me I hate that company. Mark

Hi I was over on the modo forum and I saw all these people posting about adobes new upgrade policy which I did not know about, and I don't know if you do. But if I understand this if you don't upgrade to 5.5 there will be no upgrade path to 6 for you. Or you can pay full price again or start renting the software by the month. I did not upgrade past cs4 because at the time I last upgraded the policy was you could skip 2 upgrades and still be able to upgrade and I was tried of the yearly updates, that have stuff I mostly don't need or use .So now I think Adobe enters the totally sucks realm. If you ask me I hate that company. Mark

Hi heres some new stuff on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__MeR8jsFk&feature=youtu.be and this http://www.alembic.io/index.html In the video at 9min its real interesting the performance info. Mark

Hi heres some new stuff on this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__MeR8jsFk&feature=youtu.be and this http://www.alembic.io/index.html In the video at 9min its real interesting the performance info. Mark

HI heres shots from eias7 and video on my site. http://web.me.com/markjohnston99me/markseiasmovies/PROJECTION_L_RAYS.html Mark http://web.me.com/markjohnston99me/markseiasmovies/Proj_L_Rays_Ball.html

HI heres shots from eias7 and video on my site. http://web.me.com/markjohnston99me/markseiasmovies/PROJECTION_L_RAYS.html Mark http://web.me.com/markjohnston99me/markseiasmovies/Proj_L_Rays_Ball.html

Hi Vic The whole video is great, one of the best shown here . Thanks for the link to the trees Tomas I now have a folder of x trees. Mark