Nvidia GTX 285. it's a smashing video card. i also have a quad core 17 processor and 12 GB ram.

it's NOT a slow or out of date computer.

i'm updating the drivers now though. thanks for the...

hey there
i bought the ORC modelling tut but can't do much because maya is screwing me over with the image planes.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4179/44419588.jpg

all of the windows shown...

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6595/scene9xb6.jpg

here is my basic scene.

My problem is lighting (from the lanterns) and render speed.

When i add a point light to each lamp with a linear...

ok basically i want to immitate a flickering light for a fire

i have the fire all done and crap, i wanna make the shadows flicker, so i set up a point light with linear decay rate...

basically...

SIMPLE question

i've seen before that some people can get a (i think green) box within the perspective window, which shows exactly what area will be rendered, within this box

how do i do this?

lol how many times do i gotta bump to get an answer

IM GOING INSANE lol

the issue is two things though.

1 - if i make it white, i'll still have to manually delete it in flash, and it'll still have an outline

2 - if i make it transparent, bits of the inside of...

sorry guys this is:

REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!

if someone can help me i'd be really grateful, i'm rendering another character and splitting the parts manually takes AGES...

again, i need to...

bump, sorry guys this is URGENT

you would see the scenery behind him

i want his torso/tabbard bit to be invisible/see through, without showing the insides/backfaces/HIM through where his torso was.

make any sense yet?