Will the skin still stay bound to the skeleton if I smooth it? and will the weights be messed up?

Which will have less of a strain on my computer, but keep the model smooth?
If they are both the same, how can I make it so that a lower poly model drives a higher poly, smoothed version while its...

I've tried, its why i started this thread, but it wasent as good as i liked so i thought i could ask if someone could help or do it for me.... Which someone from another forum offered to do...

yea, im just about to reinstall it, by the way, this happened right after i opened a maya 7.0 ascii file from the digitaltutors walkcycle video, is that what caused it somehow?


EDIT: dang i just...

Really weird problem, maya crashes with no error after i click the texture button on a shader. this is exactly what i do:
i make a plane, i make it shaded, then i create either a lambert, phong or...

Well, i dont want it to be that simple...and the city doesent have to be big i just need like 8 buildings in it, if anyone has enough free time tell me and i will email you or whatever the plan.

actually no, its just that I want to learn animation on my own and I've done some a little character animations but i really want to do something bigger and what i have in mind is simple that i can...

I was wondering if someone could model a simple city for me. I cant model much at all... I want it for a animation I want to try todo. The city doesen't have to be too big just a few buildings, but...

I think you have to set the rods to passive bodies. Not sure though

First of all whats the difference between Hardware and software render? Ive heard that Hardware uses your gfx card right? so does software just use your cpu?

also isint software supposed to be...