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Hi,I'd like to add a bit more. After you are done changing the nameservers, park that domain in your account from your cPanel. Then your site will be accessible by http://www.yourdomain.com/. Regarding your forum, You will have to install it on the root directory of your website for it to be accessible from there.

Hey......come on..i dont think it's that bad.... i know the previous two were not that good but the first on had over a 1000 views.... please i need a feedback.

He he.....nice...lucky you. A discounted ticket to come back to India.....How long will you be here....Calcutta is a bit far away actually. If ur coming down to Hyderabad....drop me a PM..I wont be surprised if i see a sudden boost in my internet speed(ok thats stupid)

Reactor Tutorial 2INTRODUCTIONThis is my next tutorial for 3dsmax 7. There was a nice response to the first tutorial but the 2nd and 3rd....the less we talk about it the better. Anyway this time i decided to shift back to reactor, something that fascinates me. My previous tutorial was something that wasnt very realistic so this time im going to teach you something more realistic. Im sure most of you will agree that collisions are very tough to animate, so reactor basically makes your life easier not only on that account but on many other "Physical" aspects of an animation too. I am not very familiar with the other areas so i will not delve into that as of now. Now, imagine a box filled with balls. You throw another ball at it and make it topple. Now, what would happen? If one was to animate the sequence manually it would be very complex so here i make it a lot easier. Yes we would animate the baox toppling, the balls falling and then the aftermath. This entire sequence is very simple if you follow my steps as they are. In my last tutorial i got many e-mails from people who had missed some or the other step and hence the 'reaction' (pun intended) was not as expected. This sequence basically contains of the following steps.I Object creationa)Boxb)Ballsc)Projectiled)PlaneII Setting up the reactiona)Applying mass propertiesb)Providing the initial velocityc)Previewing animationIII Final Rendering_________________________________________________________________Before you begin, please reset 3dsmax. You can do this by going to File-> Reset._________________________________________________________________I Object Creationa)BoxTo create the box do the following1. Create 5 small boxes with dimensions Length and Width = 400 and Height = 252. Arrange the boxes to form a larger hollow box.3. Select and right-click the box used as the base of the box, and in the Transform quadrant of the quad menu, choose Convert To > Convert To Editable Mesh. 4.In the Edit Geometry rollout of the Modify panel, click Attach List.5.In the Attach List dialog, select the other four boxes, which make up the sides of the box, and click Attach. You now have a single mesh representing the box. Balls1. Now create a sphere of radius 25 in the box but make sure that the sphere does not touch the box. 2.Now select the move button. Press SHIFT and move the sphere upwards till it does not touch the other sphere. Now leave the mouse button. 3.In the dialog box change the value of no. of clones to 39.c) Projectile1. Create another sphere of radius 25 outside the box but in line with the box at a distance from it.d) Plane1. Create another large box of Length=Width=4000 and Height= 252. Move it so that it is just below the other box that we have created.3. Also make sure that the smaller box is on the edge of this box that we have just created.________________________________________________________________We have now finished the setting up of the scene, we need not create any new objects here onward but just have to keep making some modifications till the final result is achieved. Now we play with reactor.________________________________________________________________II REACTORa) Creating a rigid body collection. 1. Select all the objects that you have created by pressing Ctrl+A 2.Now goto reactor->Create Object-> Create rigid body collection. 3.Now click on the select by name option and select all the spheres EXCEPT the projectile.4.Goto reactor->Open Property Editor.5. Change the mass value to 506. Now select the two boxes and open their reactor property editors.7. Change Simulation Geometry to Concex Mesh.8. Goto reactor->Preview Animation.9. Press 'P'. Watch all the spheres fall into the box. Allow them to settle in the box.10. Then in the preview window goto MAX->Update MAX.11. Close the preview window.____________________Now, we have created the balls in the box as they would be when the collision will take place. We will now give the projectile it's initial velocity.____________________b)Providing the initial velocity. 1. Select the projectile.2. Click on Autokey.3. Change the frame to 104. Move the sphere to the other side of the box.5. Switch of autokey.6. On the upper right hand side you see some icons. Click on the icon that would say 'utilities' on mouse over. It looks like a hammer.7. In the list click on reactor. 8. Under preview and animation change the start frame value to 2 and end frame value to 500.9. Now open the reactor property editor of the projectile.10. Change mass value to 100 and select 'Bounding Sphere' under simulation geometry.11. Now preview the final animation.12. If you are satisfied with the result do the following bwfore you render the final sequence.13. In the lower right corner of the screen there is a button with a clock on it which says 'Time Configuration'. Click on it and change end time to 500.14. Now goto Reactor->Create Animation. 15. Play the entire animation in the main window. If you are happy with the entire animation you can render the scene.III FINAL RENDERING1. Click on rendering->Render....2. In the dialog box. Select 'Active Time Segment' under Time Output3. Under Render output apecify a file location and name. 4. Finally click on 'Render' Button and wait._________________________________________________________________Congratulations you have completed the basic tutorial._________________________________________________________________ADVANCED USER OPTIONSHere are a few more ideas for advanced users.*You can create a reflective plane and get a cool looking effect*Creating a camera and linking it to some object or even manully animating a fly around sequence.*Rendering from multiple angles and then putting them together in one slick video.*Playing with lights and shadows* Creating a daylight system and using more types of textures for the plane, box and the balls to make it seem like a real life situation.Have Fun!If you have any problems feel free to contact me at meetnakul@hotmail.com

lmao....very good post . I too had that problem '1/0' number of times. I installed Microsoft Antispyware on my pc and it works fine and has prevented a change in the start page atleast 15 times till now. Spybot S&D too prevented this from happening.... Btw...'1/0' is infinity.

Hey!! Thanks a lot man....that was very detailed....

I need a video editing software that would enable me to make "frames" in one video using about 4 different videos. If u've seen the movie "The Hulk" ,you'd understand what i need. If i can animate the frames to slide in and out it would be cool. PS:- ANY software would do. Even if it is paid.

EDIT: 25Mbps....man thats costly....Im not too sure about the provider though.. I never heard this one... Allright....im ignorant.

I used to be on Sify "Broadband" I used to pay 10USD a month for a miserable 48kbps "Unlimited" connection. The speeds were pathetic. Their 'unlimited" meant not more than 200MB/day. If you dared to cross that 1 day would be deducted from your validity. It was better than 1GB limit for SIX months at 128 Kbps.A few months back the government made a law stating that they had to provide speed of "256Kbps" upwards to call it boradband so now it's "Lightning Fast Internet through Cable". BSNL thats a government owned company give 256Kbps ADSL at 10USD per month. But their are limits. You can get upto 1 Mbps for the home segment at.........60USD if im not wrong.

ROFL....I think that was something i wanted to say but couldnt...i too use a...ummm lets call it illegal copy of Office and saw no point in shifting to OpenOffice..

I was going through Nvidia's website today when i came across this.... Does anybody know this dude?? Original Link

I think the stats provided in the cPanel are pretty cool. I wouldnt use this one though. I felt that the layout is not very nice. The frames in awStats are handy and it gives me all what i need to know about my site. About mint..lets wait and watch.

You could try Yahoo! SiteBuilder I've used it and the templates are pretty nice. I have'nt uploaded anything so i dont know if it puts ads or something on your page. All the Best!!

Last week my system crashed and i couldnt get hold of an office CD. I used openoffice as an alternative.I felt it was pretty bad...functionality apart..it took ages to load on my freshly formatted system. The features were good and it can be considered as an alternative for those who cant afford MS office...

Hi Akshat! Welcome to Xisto . Where in India are you from?? Im from Hyderabad. There are A LOT of Indians out here and i think its pretty cool. If you should know, the owner of this place OpaQue is Indian too (He's from Mumbai i believe). Enjoy your stay and hope to see you hosted soon......

How do i install all that on my PC??? Can someone provide the links to the downloads...???

Hi Rachel. Welcome to Xisto. U'll sure learn a lot out here. You can make a cool looking website with photos and videos and what not....Of course...you wont be having any b/w problems with the kind of b/w we get. Hope to see you hosted soon and enjoy your stay..!!

Site address: http://www.nakulgupta.com/ Theme: My site is a personal site which focuses on me and me again. It is updated pretty regularly Also blog.nakulgupta.com can also be indexed. Added - m^e

Thats so cool!! I used SMF for awhile and i loved it. Beat the hell out of phpbb anyway. I removed it now because i didnt feel the need for a forum. Anyway THREE CHEERS FOR THE SMF TEAM!!! Keep it up guys..!!!

Oh....im sorry, i thought he meant game companies in general. Anyway, i agree there are a hell lot of gamecompanies out there...would be fun to compile a list of them though...

The Indonesian government has struck a deal with Microsoft whereby government computers running pirated software will be legalised at a dollar each, according to Information Minister Sofyan Djalil. "Microsoft will certify the already-installed illegal software. But in the future, all government computers must have legal software produced by the company," he told the Jakarta Post. The plan apparently evolved in a meeting between Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Redmond. More than 50,000 PCs are in government use, the JPost said, and there are no records of which are running legal software -- so the deal might take some time to execute. All computers running Windows would have to be certified under the plan, which is seen as a pragmatic first step toward encouraging an end to piracy in Indonesia. Full Story

What the....dude where are you from..?? I mean you haven't heard of VALVE!!!??? Hmm...Do any of these games ring a bell..... Half Life Half Life 2 Counter Strike Day Of Defeat Team Fortress Or Steam even.....i still cant believe you haven't heard of Valve......phew....

Hmm..... I see that you've missed Valve. So i guess i'll say it here... VALVE!!!! Apart from Valve i think Electronic Arts also deserves to be on that list... So ill say VALVE!!!! ELECTRONIC ARTS!!! I dont mean any offence, actually i dont see why you would take any.... EDIT I think all the companies on the list rock and among them i'd go for Microsoft.

Umm....a little correction there, since your sub-domain is the required address would be ftp://ftp.dassomegoodish.astahost.com and the directory would be public_hmtl.

Wow! I cant wait. Right now listening to something called "Axel F". Dunno if it would fit into the category though. I'd like to get my hands on some more stuff now.