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Ok this is it, cleaned up :shy: i might do a dirty/worn version sometime, but time to do other things.

Yes Steven, looking at the images on the iPad it looks like a mistake now, I need to fix this.

Do it Richard :shy: I have some final renders here.... There are some more in the photostream. A few things... i wanted to add some dirt to the fingerboard but perhaps went slightly overboard with that, doesn't show too bad on all shots, but they are unfinished maple boards which stain with dirt quite easy so its not so unrealistic, my own real one looks the same until having a good clean. The dirt map on the fingerboard was bleeding over the sides even with z-negative turned off, not sure if a bug... but again, not really an issue. I did struggle with finding or creating a good bump map for the lower heavy strings, it looks ok at distance but not for close-up shots. I decided not to alter the lighting, one area light and one radial, i used the mforge shader for all metals plus some carefully selected HDR reflection maps, everything else uses texture maps apart from the tuning knobs.. NX shader. Any thoughts ? Comments or questions ?

Hi Derryl, good idea i was thinking about this.... Would it be possible to add working MAC/WIN and which EIAS version to the form though ? Some i have tested no v9 32 bit Big Dipper 3.0 WIN Working - Mac ??? Blaster 1.5 WIN Working - Mac ??? Braider 1.0 WIN working Mac ??? Also, non of TripleD shaders are working on WIN that i know of.

Hi guys thanks ! Yes its been on the backburner for a long while but its turning out pretty good, i'm almost finished, just a few more bits and tweeks :cool:

Well i decided after failing solve the issue to put the pci card back into the machine - parallel dongle detached, EI now works again with USB dongle, how strange :-/ I'll have to look into this when i have some time.

Hi Tom, I just received the usb dongle but i'm having some trouble, maybe partly my fault- I had the old parallel port dongle attached to a PCI add-in card, i first removed the old dongle but left the PCI card in the machine, installed the USB driver and it worked fine until today when i removed the PCI card - but forgot to uninstall the card from windows first, which is what i'd normally do. The issue seems to be that EI is still looking for the parallel dongle, i am guessing... anyway i get the following error- "Hardware key error: Driver_not_installed" Windows 7 64bit. :-/

I've always fancied FormZ but yes, the cost put me off a bit. After EIM started showing its age i also started using Silo v1, and BTW i think the fact export was only broken in v2 which is a shame as there is zero chance of getting it fixed now i assume. I like Viacad very much and i bought the app when it was Csi Concepts 3d, eventually upgraded to Viacad pro which i think is the same thing feature wise, i think the app its self is a fantastic hard surface modeler, but there are a few other things i'm not quite happy about- Concepts 3d was originally 499$ and it was worth it IMO, but somewhere along the way it de-valued by 250$ ?, rather annoying for those who supported the original app, i guess it was just a price restructure. Also the online activation system can be a nightmare, and last but not least, they are spamming both my email addresses every day with "offers", so- great app shame about the company behind it.

Hi folks. Here's a model i've been working on and off for the past few years and is almost finished, here are a few render tests for materials and mesh. You can view full size images in my photostream, spot the mistake on the strings ;)

Yes, very good Tomas.

Love the model, is it Chrysties work do we know ?

It can be done with the Fiberforge plugin, and paint on the hair with strength maps, although I'm not sure whether the its still available to buy.... Edit: i forgot, there is also Placer deposit ;)

Very nice David.

Was there a 64bit mforge ? i'm sure i saw this somewhere :blush:

Ordered finally :D Thanks for the help Tomas

Ok thanks Tomas, i actually have the old parallel port dongle, i had to get a pci card to make it work :blush:

Hello Tom :shy: But do i still have to pay for a shipped dvd ?, i just don't see the option in the cart for digital delivery :-/ I also wanted the usb dongle.... i'm a bit confused about the shipping.....

Can't seem to see a download version..... is this not available ? thx

I think we need to compile a list win/mac of what 3d party plugins and shaders are working and what is not working. There is alway the option of running an older version of EIAS

Hi all, I just wanted to say congratulations to Tomas, the Igors and everyone else involved in making EIAS v9 a reality. I only spent a short time with the beta, i've been involved with other things, but i have to say this is a must-have upgrade- the new render engine alone is worth the upgrade cost IMO, i will be placing my order as soon as i can. Thanks again for making this happen. Reuben

Removing all the shaders and reinstalling on windows fixed the problem, they are all working except aRim, but i seem to remember doing this before and at some point the shaders stopped working, like something causes them to crash.

Hi Greg. I think i know the problem, sometimes when using HDRI images they do suffer from under exposure, or look very dark, it seems to happen with the ones from Dosch, the larger backgrounds, you can fix this- In EIAS open "HDRI options" on the special tab (once you have loaded the map), then enable "output remap" and then move the "x range" down to about 1.0 You can tweek this value to preference, hope this helps. Reuben

Buy memory while its cheap because prices are volatile, ;)

Nice job Tomas :)

Hello Kishore, i didn't realize there were replies here, ok after some thinking i've concluded that a "midi file reader" would be much more usefull than using waveforms to generate keyframes. Someone has already written a blender script which does exacty what i'm thinking about - http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?195434-MIDI-Driver-music-driven-animation-creator Reuben