Curvy 3D Forum

Hehe.. thoroughly enjoyed watching that.. good job biggie
and Merry Christmas to you all!

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Oh I agree!!

by the by, I found out why Curvy was 'rendering in black' on laptops - they seem to only support a small (65,000 vertex limit) version of DirectX. Discovered when I finally got my own laptop! [posted into private forums] Simon has only just discovered what the problem is himself, so hopefully he wi...

load fine for me too using IE and Opera... but none in Firefox

First of all there are 2 seam types.... The first occurs on mirrored objects where there are 2 thin seams on either side of the object... I found that by scaling the mesh along the x axis helped to remove it. The 2nd occurs on non-mirrored objects where there is 1 thick seam along one side of the ob...

Currently the only version available for purchase is Curvy3D 1.0 available through Shareit. It is NOT as advanced as the beta version which is no longer available. Do trial the demo FIRST as it is a good indicator of what Curvy3D 1.0 is capable of.

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Oh we're still alive... albeit a bit quiet... but we are still hanging. Sad to hear about your Curvy probs but we may be able to find a solution for you... PM me and or Mr Nemo with OS, directx version, graphic card and driver versions (not that I can get into it tonight... just heading off to bed)....

All up it took about 20 minutes. Didn't feel the need to put too much effort into it (hiding gaps/seams etc), as the haphazard way they're built seemed to work ok.

http://www.curvy3d.com/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_entimage.jpg click for fullsize My offering: A pair of ents deep in debate about their taking ent-irely too long a time to finish a conversation. Just a quickie... didn't want to fiddle with it too much. Curvy rendered over a nice woody backgrou...

An ent is one of the walking/talking tree's from the LOTR Two Towers movie.

Ok.. seeing as how our usual challenge makers seem to be taking a break from choosing items to be made... here's one for ya.

I want to see an ent!!

Hairdept has a start, mid and end point options under "hairform" options... there's a tutorial type thread about making grass with hairdept in the cgtalk forums... used this method to generate the grass. From what I recall from the hairdept manual it can create differing shaped heads... not too sure...

Sorry, computer died on me earlier... twice :x ... and darn if it ain't always with the BEEP browser, opening a new window. Image rendered in C4D v9. Hairdept is the free plugin. I could only apply the leaf material to the tree leaves as there weren't as many polys as compared to the grass areas whi...