Gonzalo

Just unistall Blaxxun, restart the computer and reinstall Cortona. This should solve the problem.

Jeff, I know about the frames fobia around developers. Been there. What I was talking about was, as you correctly inferred, forums in a format similar to those Discreet uses or for lack of a better example, Outlook express' newsgroups reader.A format in which I dont have to go back and forth to change forums. Cheers Gonzalo

Hi Jeff, like almost everybody here I think the site is great. One thing I would change is the layout of the forums. I would consider doing it with frames, because to me it is cumbersome to go back and forth to change forums. Instead , if I could have, let's say the forums on a left frame and the messages in the right one I could click on both frames alternately and not go back and forth.Pretty much like a newsgroup reader\I don't know if this comment has been made before, if so , my mistake. Thanks Gonzalo

Hi Trey, I just finished doing an auditorium with around 1500 seats. I did the chairs as blocks in Autocad and then inserted the dwg into viz and it read them as instances, so what were around 300mb of chairs (I checked) ended up being around 5mb, much more manageable. You will still have the polygons to render but it is much easier to move around. I don't know how to upload an image here, but I even used a bit of radiosity,not on the chairs though. Hope it helps Gonzalo

Thanks a lot Lanni! Great link! I didn't find any 3d models of the chairs I was looking but I already solved the problem. I ripped an office chair apart to get the seat and back and modeled the armrests and divisions between the seats and voila! I got my auditorium. Thank again Gonzalo

Hi, does anyone know where I can find seats for an auditorium or a theater? I tried searching for manufacturers in the Internet to no avail. Thanks in advance Gonzalo

Hi, IMHO the way I see it, there is nothing weird about these values, you originally had 75% reflectance, when you use the radiosity override, you start with 1=75% as you set this to 0.5 the reflectance turns inot 37% (0.5 * 75)It takes the original value as 100% and computes from there. I think it is pretty straightforward but maybe I misinterpreted your problem. Gonzalo

Interesting idea, thanks. What about lighting, a Direct light parallel to the camera excluding everything but the trees and excluding them from radiosity? I'll try that now. Thanks again Gonzalo

Hi,I have a problem with making trees in 3dViz4. I received the RPC demo with the VIZ4 software and have been rendering with no problem. The problem arises when I try to use radiosity for an exterior scene with Daylight. Since I have only one light source (the sun) when I see the tree from say 90 degrees from the sun I see it in shade. Same problem with using bitmapped planes, whe I apply a lookat modifier the trees look right but the shadows look wrong, In previous works, since I had several lights the trees would get illuminated by some of the lights, but not now. tried adding other light to the scene but it doesn't add light (maybe my mistake. If anybody here is using trees with radiosity , could you please tell me how? I swear i am running out of ideas. Thanks a lot Gonzalo