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Hoping that someone here would be so kind as to help me get this "flocking birds" (content for lightwave) animation into Blender. Or maybe it is not possible?

The motion is determined by particles...

Only LW 9.6 here so was unable to open the scene properly, but looking at the files I gather you use an image to displace the wake and the radial gradient to fade it in and out (move it along ?).
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Hi There, Good work!

Would be interested to see and know how you handle the wake. Hoping to animate mine sometime this year.

This should work and is the fastest way to install LW on the Mac, if you have your license in the folder it should start immediately. I'd test LW 9.6.1 on both machines to compare speeds. LW 11 is...

You have to update from another pre-lion OS machine which can be a complication. Also you have to change some of the ktext files which have been fortunately and generously rewritten by some people....

This was a major disappointment when I bought a Mac Mini last fall. But as you can put multiple drives in the Mac Pro perhaps it could easily be circumvented. Apple's not the same company they used...

Oh yes my contribution. The blender file will work immediately in the latest version. Make a folder and bake out images for displacement and foam.

The film is made using the images only in Modo. I...

XsmampyX, just wondering, would you be so kind as to post the file of your ocean with the particle foam please? Would it work in LW 9.6 as I haven't upgraded yet?

Works fine here!

What is the difference between hyper and multi threading?

I've been using a i7 mac mini since last september and it seems to perform at about .7 of the rendering speed of the 2008 Macpro it...

Recently I have been experimenting with the Blender Ocean Generator, which is included as part of the most recent version, 2.63. It is very easy and fast to use, parameters are easy to change.
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Well there is only 3 or 4 of these mascots that I wish to try and then see where that goes to.

The first one, the flying lady is partly organic and part iconic. I suppose I'm into iconic, where an...

Hood ornaments or mascots

These seem very satisfying to model because though simple, at the end you have something very exact, tangible, and a good return on the work. A bit like the (Richard's)...

Great to see this thread going again!

Strangely enough, going over old work and sorting things out, I sought to lay to rest the Ford Anglia only last week.

I think it would be best to continue...

This sounds dreadful. You shouldn't be charged anything for a replacement by anybody except the postage.

I thought Newtek would ship the new dongle before you send in the old so you are not left...

Wow fast! It seems it was over before it began, standing here in the dust.

So then is this the special quality that gives the 'unbiased' look that only a few engines have? That is without getting into an argument about the exact definintion of 'unbiased' and also...

The thing about the GPU renderer is not so much the speed issue as at the moment the materials, surfacing, shaders etc are very limited. You would have to design a scene specifically with this in...

SmallLux GPU (part of the Luxrender development) is a hybrid renderer using both CPU and GPU at the same time.

Here's a link:

Fundamentals_of_Subpatch_Modeling

I've got these in original format and will post them later today.

Yes, Thanks a lot for porting this great Plugin to the Mac!

Maybe this is the crux of the matter, THEY DON'T KNOW! And just want to see what users expect.

So I would suggest the 5 application idea (with 9.6.1 Modeler and layout dead but continuing with...

Yes this would be good.

Can't help joking, but not funny, we all have a vested interest in this.

Maybe they should strip down modeler and put it into core immediately and concentrate on layout...

Wow! This is really rather unbelievable. 3 Apps in a "suite"?

LW/core? The only way out, marketing move I can see, though not politically correct, is call it LightWhore.

(replace modeler,...