Brian Jones
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COW Coins
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Maxon C4D Coins
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I have QT 7.6.6 and QT X in Snow Leopard and import is working fine though I am running C4D 10.506
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the jump from a Core2 duo with a 9400M to either of the Nehalem towers is pretty big, can you get the Mac dealer of choice to let you put the c4d demo on either one and test the feel?
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the other plugin is enDOFin I think
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the video didn’t make it – you have to copy and paste the link it generates into your post
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change your units to centimetres (or decimetres) is the simplest way. You will have to scale what you’ve built already though.
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It’s hard to bevel a lot of things (particularly complex things) because you can only bevel an edge until the bevel would cross edges going the same direction, you have to stop or the bevel goes bad. It only works really well if everything lines up right (like in the pipe example). Planning helps (sometimes).
Some stuff is just going to be a problem. If you can build as a subdivision surface (hyper nurb) that helps because it wants to bevel everything but that’s a whole different game and set of techniques/problems to deal with but it’s not the best way to build everything.
Some simple stuff can be beveled by extruding the edges and bevelling that – that probably doesn’t make sense without pictures, I’ll put something together tomorrow if I have the time – it’s a limited trick though, as things get complex it doesn’t work either. -
you can use spheres for reflection and GI but they have to be big (and encompass the car as you suspected). You can stop reflections of the floor and backplate by putting Compositing tags on them and unchecking Seen by Reflection.
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you could also try using a rail spline for alignment (if you haven’t already)
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…or you might need a Stick Texture Tag
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probably you have each letter that came from Illustrator as a group of splines. Select all of one group (all the splines in a letter) and do a Functions/Connect. Toss or hide the group (and remove it from the Extrude) and take the new spline that just got made and put it in the Extrude.