SuperScooby Wrote: I hadn't thought about the licensing issue, and Disney has been know to be really picky about their licenses so I'm not sure who to ask about that, but on Turbosquid there are about 10 Tron models listed and you would think Turbosquid would not allow them if they were breaking any licensing issues. They even have $500 Star Wars models on that site for sale.

You have to check these out. The two best Star Wars models I've ever seen are free:

Legacy Star Destroyer
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20177&page=1&pp=15
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21629
I don't have the software that can use them but I'm just in awe at how someone can do that. It took me a year and a hald to finish the light cycles. It'd take me a lifetime to even know where to start with something like that.

Carl

Yeah, it's weird how the better models, your light cycles for instance, are free, and still way better than the most expensive $47 model.

How long did it take to make your tank model?

SuperScooby Wrote: Yeah, it's weird how the better models, your light cycles for instance, are free, and still way better than the most expensive $47 model. How long did it take to make your tank model?

While I was cutting my teeth on the light cycle I learned alot of tricks. At the moment I've probably got 3 or 4 months spent working on the tank but I'm not totally done with her yet. She still needs to be animated and the code cleaned up a far bit so she renders faster. In terms of complexity the tank model is about 20 or 30 times more complex then the light cycle. I want to do the recognizer too but I haven't even started on her yet.

By the way, what time zone are you in? It's midnight here and I'm about to call it a day.

Till tomorrow,
Carl

Do you think this might work for a Pov-ray converter?

http://www.tb-software.com/format_info.html

It's called 3Dwin and it list's Pov-Ray.

Another link:

http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/tutuv.htm

SuperScooby Wrote: Do you think this might work for a Pov-ray converter? http://www.tb-software.com/format_info.html It's called 3Dwin and it list's Pov-Ray.

The line "import: only plain mesh/mesh2/triangle/smooth_triangle objects" where it mentions POV-Ray has me thinking this won't work as my models are CSG.

SuperScooby Wrote: Another link: http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/tutuv.htm

Again this seems to only be talking about meshes so I'm not sure there is anything here that applies to my CSG models.

If anyone knows it will be the experts over on the POV-Ray forum. I've just now asked the question. If there is an answer I'd expect to see it pop up here:

http://news.povray.org/povray.newusers/thread/%3Cweb.42a99e871e3351d870dc520d0%40news.povray.org%3E/
Carl

TheReelTodd Wrote:Ok, Carl - it's been a few weeks... anything new you can share with us? Or have you been too busy to work on the game grid lately? I often get so very busy with real life stuff myself.

The animation is about 85% done maybe more. I'll share it as soon as it's finished... with luck maybe this week.

If my web site doesn't come back up by then though that might be a little hard. A very good friend of mind that runs this site:

http://www.macrossworld.com
is currently hosting my site:

http://www.wwwmwww.com
for free. However he's got everything down to work on a few things at a moment and aside from keeping his web site up and going I think he's working 3 other jobs at the moment so I'm not too sure when he'll be able to find the time to get things up and going again.

Aside from letting the animation render in the background I haven't had much time to model things myself. So I haven't got very far on the cloud effect yet. And another BIG issue just hit last Thursday. My father is in the hospital. He's 85 and was diagnosed with bronchitis and dehydration. His electrolytes and potassium levels had gotten very low. However the biggest problem he's dealing with are his legs. About a month ago he was visiting me and walking up and down stairs without a problem. Sunday, June 26, he took a bath and couldn't get out of the bath tub without help. Monday, June 27, my mom took him to the doctors and he was given medicine for the bronchitis but nothing was mentioned about dehydration at that time. He was able to walk fine and had no problem walking to the car after that doctor visit. Tuesday, June 28 as he was walking through the kitchen his knees gave out of him and he tried to sit down but knocked the chair over and ended up on the floor. Him being rather stubborn it wasn't till Thursday that he'd let my mom take him back to the doctors. And it was then that the dehydration thing was discovered and he was admitted to the hospital. Had it not been for my bother still living at home they would had had to call an ambulance as by then my father couldn't stand or support any weight on his legs. I drove home Saturday and spent the weekend with him and I think his bronchitis is now gone and he's taking potassium through an IV so I think he should be mostly rehydrated by now however his legs still can't support any weight. He says they feel like wood to him. There doesn't seem to be any neurological damage. He feels it when you touch his legs and he can move his toes and move his legs a little while he's in bed. It's just like he's lost 95% of his strenght in them and it seems to have just gone in a period of about 48 hours. I'm very worried about him. Anyone here familiar with anything like this. Since he was just walking last Monday I know his mussles haven't had time to atrophy but the longer he's stuck in bed the more I worry then even after his strength comes back to him he might have permanent problems walking again.

I guess my biggest worry is that something else might be going on. It's just hard for me to understand how dehydration could cost someone the use of their legs in 2 days. He still seems to have all the strength in his arms. On Saturday and Sunday they were able to get him in a standing position in a walker but I think he was holding 95% of the weight with his arms. He was unable to even pick his feet off the floor in that posotion.

If anyone here as any experience with a situation like this PLEASE contact me. PM is fine.

Keep him in your prayers for me... His name is Jean Hoff and he can use all the prayers he can get.

Thanks,
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That's terrible news about your father. I really hope he does recover and I am pulling for him.

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Thanks everyone. I just got an update. They did an MRI on my dad today. The results aren't back yet but it has me wondering if the doctors think there is more to this then bronchitis and dehydration. I was just telling my mom yesterday that she should ask the doctors if they should be doing an MRI or cat scan as I was afraid they might of missed something. My mom missed talking to the doctor yesterday so they did this testing before we had a chance to mention it.

Again thanks for all the well wishes everyone,
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Just a quick update. The MRI done yesterday was actually 2 MRI's. One done on the brain and one on the spinal column. The spinal column one came back looking normal but there were some concerns about the brain MRI. Some regions of the brain the doctor thought might not be getting enough circulation. He's now on something that should improve circulation and he's having what I think my mom called a sonogram done on his legs tomorrow to check the circulation in is legs too. Also based on the brain MRI they are calling in a neurologist too. Atleast it now feels like something is going somewhere. I thought the dehydration couldn't account for everything. Looks like the doctors agree.

Not that any of us have any control over stuff like this but it looks to me that late Thursday before a 3 day holiday weekend is the worse possible time to get sick. They've done more with my dad today then they have the last 5 days put together. It just felt like he was being held stable till the normal doctors got back from vacation. Granted I'm far too close to the situation to look at things objectively.

Heck beside going through a couple temporary doctors he's had a couple different temporary physical therapists stand in for his normal one a couple days this week as well. The one that I think is becoming his normal one is a very nice lady. The gal that stood in for her today was a grade-A pain in the @$$. She was having my dad push her hand with his legs and he was trying as hard as he could to push and she made a comment to the effect of "You'll have to try harder then that because if you don't show some progress they'll stick you in a nursing home." My dad is a very proud man and its depressing for him to be immobile and a comment like that sure doesn't help.

So much for this being a quick update...

Keep us in your prayers,
Carl

wwwmwww Wrote:...Keep us in your prayers, Carl

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