In an attempt to demonstrate that this issue has nothing to do with my model, I've downloaded a model created by Antony Ward. He is a professional in the industry and has worked for EA and Atari....

I might post a wire tomorrow, I'm a bit lazy right now to open up and capture. It's 3 am. I am 100% positive that the vertices are all well connected/welded and that there is no additional hidden...

I'm having some odd issues when rendering with mental ray as of late. Any time i add a light other than the default light to the scene strange artifacts start showing up in the shadows of my models....

very nice!

The games idea is pretty neat, even with the downside of only being available infrequently.

What do you consider not breaking your wallet? Because you could provide things like small monetary...

neat!

Well, I haven't had much time to work on the model. I've been very busy on a new database application I've been developing for a client and it's eating up a lot of my time because they need it to...

that is looking really good.

Here is the page at AutoDesk where you can get the Maya Trial.

Maya Personal Learning Edition (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525)

There does not appear to be a...

nice