Hi Arjo : Yes , I just finished proof reading Stef's awesome 'Football' tutorial and learned a ton about RS3D modeling . Stef's a Pro and knows all the hot-keys and shortcuts etc , and this tutorial really shows what can be done , quickly too , in RS by people who use certain features a lot , I think . (this tute is a must)
Cinema is getting ton's of attention and I see on their home- page they are the first native 3rd party app to ship for the new intel macs (is this another nightmare for Mac users ?) . My only experience with C4D has been frustrating and dismal . Also , they used to host a great benchmarking site and utility , but that disappeared for a long time , and now the new one (3 years old) is a 40+MB D/L and appears to be mostly a Mac demo ! The bench works , but the database doesn't , so all you can do is compare your own computers or computers of friends etc , although the giant .pdf file will tell you otherwise . I don't know ... seems so many apps are getting so big and so untouchable . Autodesk buys Maya , Blue Moon got bought up when they said they would never sell out ... more and more 3D artists are getting bought up by animation studios , it's a crazy world of big-big money for 3D these days ... finally !!!! In our tiny part of the world we can talk to Vesa or Juha and still even ask them to code stuff for us . B^) I just wish I had more talent to be able to use RS3D the way some people can . Sorry , didn't mean to put C4D down . Judging by the gallery section on the homepage , it's obviously using all the latest digital simulation techniques available . I could probably aff- ord to buy it , or LW etc , but I just do not have the time or patience to teach myself yet another 2D or 3D S/W . Realsoft3D feels so natural to me , always has , for the most part , right from the start (V2.x for me) . However , some of the advanced RS3D stuff just leaves me behind now . Not sure what happened , but somewhere along the line RS3D and I seemed to have parted direction , somewhat . (somewhere/somehow) Then again , maybe me being 50 years old has something to do with that ! 8^l Cheers Arjo ! studio www.niagara.com/~studio www.studiodynamics.net > Hi Garry, > > > Kind of a 'right brain/left brain' thing . People who work in > > more traditional mediums get to just ... create ! Us ... we have > > to figure out which 10 buttons to push with which 5 levers , and > > in which order , and when button 7 doesn't work , how do we make > > button 36 and lever 79 do sort'a the same kind of thing ... and > > yet still maintain and expand our creative freeflowing focus . > > Yes I do agree about this one. > It was just that despite of having the soft selection tool in Cinema I > hardly ever use it. But that might be because of the type of objects I > create. I tend to work in a quite structured way so want to have strict > control over the radius of curves, sizes, grid etc. > > But when I'm in a hurry I tend to use Cinema instead of RS. Mainly because > many options work much more intuitively. Of course VSL is much stronger and > I wouldn't want to miss it but the same thing here. In a hurry it works much > faster when you only have to drop in some textures and tweek some sliders. > Even more advanced properties like blurred reflections only requires to tick > a checkbox and adjust the value. > I think asked many times: a sort of dummies interface and special advanced > tools for VSL. > > Arjo.
