Tim, can I ask how long you have been doing 3d??

Thats all very well, but already we are starting to have disagreements. You are still saying that you should be able to discuss things of any nature here while I say the opposite. Time will tell if...

Very true, but I still believe that this site is not the place for it.

I modelled a craft from star wars. After sourcing images I bought a model from a model shop an used that for reference. Depending on how detailed you want it and from what distance it will be viewed...

Thats true, but as I said chamfering edges on a complex model is a pain and very time consuming. I cant believe that maya does not have this feature as a lot of the work I see has hard edges while...

OK, I understand that meshsmooth adds geometry but do I have to do this to seperate face selections or do I add smoothing to groups of faces and edit in the attribute editor. It just seems that Max...

I have to disagree with people about this being an open site for all topic discussion. If you want to talk about things other than 3d find a site dedicated to it. I feel that this site should be used...

I am a convert from Max but find sub ds a pain also. If i want to just model in polys, is there a function that allows for different smoothing groups like they have in max. When I apply a meshsmooth...

Thanks a lot guys, I will try this when I get home :beer:

Welcome to SimplyMaya. Look forward to seeing your work soon.;)