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More work, but more importantly the Hull has reached it's milestone. Meaning I'm not changing poo after this! So after viewing the QT .mov file below tell me ANY concerns, complaints, and critisms that you have about the hulls shape. Be brutal and honest. * NOTE: I am aware of the squared off nose. This will not be there in the final mesh extraction.*

Make a list equal in amount of her hobby's items. Be reasonable about them. Include names of any annoying friends & relatives also any at work 'friends'. Give her the list. She will balk at the 'demands' that you place on her. Hey she started them, your just responding 'in kind'. Seriously though if you have the room where you live. Establish a 'den' or room that you call your own. Tell her to do the same thing. This way if the other person is embrassed about whats in the room when company is over the room can be simply closed. This allows each of you to have what you want and everyone is happy. If she still demands that you get rid of 'your' hobby then it's time to have an adult talk of to mutually compromise, separate, or one of you becoming a slave to the other.

I was very unimpressed with RT:I demo. It was actually boring. Whoever designed that level should be fired. The Invid were wimps! The game doesn't look well thought out at all. As for the FMV vs In Game models subthread. They only use them because it costs money to make FMV. Any In Game sequence with sub-10k models is crap. Properly mixed they are great, but too much either way they are garbage.

I find the way your DVD titles sit on your shelf pretty amusing. Especially since you have Toy Story sitting next to Tokoyo Babylon. Yup, all my animation is in alphabetical order! I was meaning the content contrast between the 2 shows.

It varies depending on their weapon layouts and gameplay balancing. CIWS will probably set for fighters, but only a few will probably set for missile defense. Soooooooo any updates? *is a thread whore*

I find the way your DVD titles sit on your shelf pretty amusing. Especially since you have Toy Story sitting next to Tokoyo Babylon.

Only George Lucas can decide that.

The Zen ships generally always carry more then 100 weapons and sometimes going over 600! The NUP have 4 hugh beam weapons, but hundreds of missile and smaller beam weapon placements. It's gonna be a fine balancing act to get most of the ships "playable" anyhow. Good work Cdr Fokker!

Yeah your right Ido. They do need ALOT of marketing for XenoSaga. Especially since the second game is close to being total garbage.

Jerry Bruckheimer & Walt Disney? HA! That pairing is about as mismatched as it can get. Jerry Bruckheimer can't lower his talent enough to make a 'family' movie.

Can't fault those maps orgins, being taken from anything less then a 4k version is a pity. But I can complain about the continued lack of simple NURBS support! Those planets would look soooooo much better rounded.

New bottom rear hull and some of the dorsal & ventral details. Also I did a little comparasion between my ship and stated 'offical' scale numbers. Length: 498 Height: 355 (155 in purple) Width: 178 The blue background it the scale sized to length. While the width is pretty close the height figure is WAY off. So I resized the height downwards to 155 which is really a far more exceptable number and one that works with screen captured imagery.

Power should be a buck to the gajillawatt with Hypermatter reactors I guess. Or simply a couple thousand hecta-acres of solar panels.

"We can rebuild him! We have the technology."

And you're basing this on.......? The fact that the manga isn't finished yet. I'm hoping otherwise though, but I'm not putting money on! It has WAY too many cliche's, none of which I mind in the manga, and it seems any time that anime writers get a free hand on characters not their own they don't use them well. It also doesn't help that they've already given away a key part of the plot in the opening sequence. The ending will be either LIFE or DEATH. Maybe somebody on the staff will be inspired and they'll have a non-ending ending.

Agreed. It's really sweet. I just wish that it were possible to have a higher polygon and texture version.

Yep! 'twas a Battle Angel Alita moment.

lol *goes back to drawing Wal-Mart faces on Boxers ship*

1 FULL disc per day and no more.

I think ALOT of animes bad, ugly, nasty, or just plain LAME endings come from the dual fact that it was taken from a still unended manga..... Hellsing Trigun Love Hina MSA Abenobashi Mahou Sensei Negima (oh come on you know this one will be bad) Bleach (oh come on you know this one will be bad) ...AND... ...were just poorly tranlated into anime to begin with.... RLHS Dragonball Love Hina Exceptions to these are not many and most seem to be OVA's..... the OMG OVA the Aliennine OVA the Haibane-Renmei OVA the Crest of the Stars/BannerOTS&BOTSII OVAs Of course it doesn't help that many english speaking people have been brought up with the 'good guy must win' style of writing.

The_Major, May I draw some suggestions for design/model changes on the Zen ship?

It's pretty clear as to the real 'why' of them stopping production releases. Their 'new' RT show. I also would love to see the old Macross material dubbed, but frankly I don't think that will ever happen. It's slightly more or less a cult anime show, it simply doesn't get the respect that Gundam gets. Maybe the fans will try to make a dubbed version now that super cheap video & audio editting software exists.

Oh you'd be surprised what a little adjustment can do to bring out the details in an image! If you can get a capture that would be great, if you can't.... don't sweat it. ***Written Update:*** *more of a whine/rant though* Ya know sometimes it's better to be totally ignorant about model flaws....... I've got to rebuild the entire bottom rear of the main hull just because I missed the fact that the thrusters that go there exhaust around the bottoms belly bulge. Ggrrrrrrr...... And I was making good progress on the Macro-details too.

I think you can pull off that level of contrast with smaller panels and a texture made from a higher resolution build.

Really sounds like you expecting one hellva lot more then you got!!! But then again Appleseed really has never had much of a 'real' storyline anyways. It kinda reads like an early version of what Shirow wanted to write in GITS. Hell, it wasn't until he FINALLY broke his artistic ceiling in the mid/late 90's that he actually was worth a damn as a 'Manka'. Also doesn't help that 90% of his stuff is taken from other authors.