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Yeah, that's what I thought. I might not have tried the fill and extrude method, but I have extruded then beveled and that's what happens to me every time.

If Steve's listening, would it be hard to add a uniform bevel tool?

3d text in anim8or as is never fails to look cheap to me. for a while I thought it was the renderer, but now that we have a ray tracer I see its more about beveling the edges.  the fact that anim8or extrudes in tris kinda makes it impossible for a clean bevel, so you have a manually go through and clean it up, and even then, for me at least it still doesn't look good, I guess I'm just not good at clean up.

I can actually get better results in photoshop, but it doesn't do real 3d. even though cs4 has real 3d now, it still seems to rely on importing 3d models, defeating the purpose. any kind of 3d 3d I create in photoshop usually looks pretty flat, sure it can be very shiny and beveled, but there's no perspective to it without a lot of manual work.

idea tips?

Im wanting to make high budget movie quality text (think terminator Salvation), not 90s video game menu screen text.

This has happened to me twice in the past 2 days. Im not exactly sure what triggers it, but two times Ive tried to render an image around 1300 by 600. all buttons are grayed out except for the close button.

The render appears completely done, but the progress bar looks to only reach around 90 percent.

I'm using the latest preview build. is this is a known bug?

ahh, there's that possible guy from jeb.  this should do for now.  though I'm still open to similar model with facial controls so hit me up if someone finds something better.

thanks hiho.

yeah, Ive downloaded a couple of the sample files, but even after analyzing them and trying to recreate the attribute values/classes, I still don't get any type of reflection. no idea why.  Ive only been able to get them to work by copy and pasting the sample materials and modifying them to my liking.

Wow, youve really outdone yourself Steve. I didn't think anim8or would ever see a real raytracer.
I'm finding myself very lost though, even with the documentation.  I cant figure out how to do simple things such as making the reflection more subtle. (something akin to turning down an environment map value when using environment maps). and I still don't get all these new terms. is there a thread I can go to right now to learn as much as possible about how to get specific results?   I keep finding that using this new renderer makes the lighting way darker to the point where it removes all detail from my pics. makes everything flat.  I know there's something I'm not doing right though.

anyway great stuff from what Ive seen. I think the only major thing left that I'm dying to see from anim8or's renderer is motion blur.
do you for see that ever happening?

oh, and fur ofcourse, but I think we're still pretty far off for that.  but for all I know it may be more achievable than motion blur.

nice. I have to wonder now though. the wip forum is now functional again (as in people can reply), correct?
whats the point of having anim8or.org now? weren't those forums meant to be a much needed substitute once you closed off the old WIP forum?  and now both forum systems are pretty close in functionality, wont there be a needless split in userbase?

what kind of anim8or user do you expect to use this one? like, do you think the newbies will tend to post here, and the more experienced on .org?

 I just think it may confuse some people

anyway, nice job once again.  now if only you could give a similir upgrade to the main site...*hint hint*