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Here's another for your list. UK Manchester: Mi - http://www.wearemi.com Cheers

Support has just been added:) http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/

Have you checked your fog colour in your refraction options to make sure there is no green in it?

If anyone is getting multiple 3dsmax processes you can use this script to kill them, put it in your startup scripts

They have evening courses at MANCAT on 3DS Max http://www.themanchestercollege.ac.uk/courses/adult/3d-studio-max-fundamentals And short courses at Futureworks http://www.futureworks.co.uk/cgi-courses.asp Hope that helps

You might want to search for 'mechanism of action' videos (also referred to as 'mode of action') to find some examples. Heres a funky Yakult commercial that shows a few nice techniques.

Aton, you should add all the vray elements which are present in your scene. If its just cars you would probably need. Diffuse RawGI Raw Lighting Relection Refraction Specular zdepth Multiply the diffuse with both the gi and lighting then add everything else together. I don't use after effects so cant help you with that. I would make all your lights in the scene white and change the colour in your comp too. You will also need a shadow pass, create another instance of your cars and make them not visible to camera, then make your ground a vray matte with -1 on alpha, check shadows option. I would recommend investing in RPmanager if you are doing lots of jobs like this, it will save you lots of headaches! The chaosgroup forum has more users who do this kind of thing. try posting there too.

What message does vray display when its waiting? It Could be calculating a pre render process like motion blur samples or interpolating reflection/refractions on materials?

It was uncomfortable to watch after about a minute, so im guessing it would cause eye strain. That may have well been the content i was watching though, some crappy over saturated lego animation

It was made by Alioscopy http://www.alioscopy.com/3d-solutions-displays and i think it was the 47" model. It was great for catching your eye, but not for watching anything more than a few mins.

About £10k

If it only happens on your first frame, birth the particles at -1

You need to setup a camera rig in max similar to this http://www.immersivemedia.com/products/capture.html then use the authoring tools to add it all together.

The main types of TV out there use either Active stereo (shutter glasses) or Passive stereo (polarised glasses), whichever one you use your prob best running your content from a PC and using a viewer like this http://www.3dtv.at/Products/Player/Index_en.aspx to play, as you can feed in the eyes seperate or create a side by side sequence from any compositing/editing program. I saw an autostereoscopic display the other day where you didnt need any glasses, but you had to render your scene 8 times!

You dont need to upgrade your graphics to run BB. Not sure why you cant run on server 2008, all our nodes are on it. Ill have a look at our config when i get the chance.