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While setting up my new machine last night... I stumbled upon a feature of Windows I have missed for years.Right click on the desktop.Properties > Appearance > Effects...Check the box for "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" and change it from "Standard" to "Clear Type"Press OKPress ApplyThe text looks much crisper on my machine now. I run Windows at 1600x1200 on a 21" Trinitron. Webpages, icon text, everything seems much better than with "standard" smooth edges.Check it out. You may really like it.

Thoughts Please?In a supposed land of "freedom" I have a set amount of money deducted from my paycheck that I have no say in where it is inevested! In fact as it currently stand it is invested in a crap fund that makes about 2-3% a year.. less than the rate of inflation mind you.I know alot on this board do not agree with alot of the plans/policies that president Bush has proposed.. but you would all have to agree that Social Security is a major problem and its current path is *BLEEP*?Please post your thoughts on it.. abolish it? Invest it differently? Keep its current path?I am of the thought that I live in a "supposed" land of freedom, where the money that I earn can be invested wherever I so choose.. this is however not the case.. so much for freedom eh? I would be willing to pay into social security so that the "baby boomers" can receive the money that they invested into it.. knowing that I would not receive a dime for it.. because I know it would make a better future for my children, knowing that they would be "free" to invest the money that they earned wherever they so choose.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Not to re-hash the abortion ideas, but I'm curious what you guys think about this case. I'd imagine that most pro-lifers would be against freezing embryos anyway (ie more for adoption). This ruling bothers me. For example: What if an embryo miscarried due to something thing the mother does... high stress activity, etc... charge the mother with involuntary manslaughter? Or.. An egg is fertilized inside a woman. She doesn't realize she is pregnant until 4 weeks later (missed period). During that time she drank heavily. The baby is born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome defects. Shouldn't she be charged with attempted involuntary manslaughter?

yea, i recently got a friend to let me borrow 3DS, and i have to say, C4D is MUCH easier to use compared to 3DS. i've been using 3ds for a while and i've only been able to do some noise effects and add materials, lol, so i can't really help you there. even though i can tell you can do a lot more in 3ds, i suggest you get c4d to do some of the easy abstract stuff..

16. Add HyperNURBS to the sphere, by going to 'Objects > NURBS > HyperNURBS'. More detail is shown in the pictures below: The 'Object' window should look like this now: The sphere should look more smooth now: 17. Now it's time to add some material. This is optional, but it makes the object look a lot better. I'll be adding the 'Chrome' material for this tutorial. Firstly, load the materials as shown in the pictures below: 18. Click on the 'chrome1' material and drag it on to the sphere. 19. Now all you need to do is export the render. I'll describe this quickly, since most of you already know: Firstly, go to 'Render > Render Settings'. Pick the 'Output' tab. In the 'Resolution' field, choose the 800 x 600 option. Then pick the 'Save' tab. In the 'Format' field, choose 'TARGA'. Then tick the 'Alpha Channels' box at the bottom. Close the window. Go to 'Render > Render in Picture Viewer'. Wait for the render to finish loading. Then go to 'File > Save Picture as...', make sure all the settings are correct and then press 'Ok'. Save the .tga file anywhere you want, then open it in Adobe Photoshop, and VOILA! You've finished! I hope this was useful! I'm really sorry for triple posting, but i had no choice because of the image limit in each post...

9. Right-click the sphere again, and choose 'Matrix Extrude'. 10. Press on a polygon that's at the tip/end of one of the segments that you've extruded: 11. Hold down SHIFT and repeat step 10 for EVERY segment you have extruded! 12. Release the SHIFT button. Press AND hold the mouse down, anywhere on the screen apart from on the polygons that you have selected, and then drag the mouse to the right so that you get something that looks like what I have below: 13. Now this is the bit where you can make something more unique. Press on one of the polygons which have been made as a result of the 'Matrix Extrude'. An example of one is shown below: 14. Press AND hold the mouse down, anywhere on the screen apart from on the polygons that you have selected, and then drag the mouse to the right so that you get something that looks like what I have below: 15. Repeat step 14, many times, on other extruded segments, until you get something that looks good enough. With the 'Matrix Extrude' tool, if you press, hold, and drag, then stop and then do the same thing again without selecting new pixels, you can make the extrusion a lot more curlier: TUTORIAL CONTINUED IN NEXT POST (BECAUSE OF IMAGE LIMIT)

I made this tutorial a long time ago, since people were asking on another graphics forum. I thought i already posted this here before, but i can't seem to find it. So here it is: C4D - Abstract Shapes - Technique #1 This is just one way of making abstract shapes in C4D, it's a new technique which I have come across lately. I've tried to go into enough detail so that people who haven't used C4D before can use this tutorial. Here is something you should get as a result of this tutorial: And here's how to make it: 1. Create a sphere by going to 'Objects > Primitive > Sphere'. 2. Change the size of the sphere so that it has a radius of 50m instead of 100m, as shown below: 3. Next, click on the 'Make Object Editable' button, and the 'Use Polygon Tool' button, as shown below: 4. Right-click the sphere and click on 'Smooth shift' in the menu: 5. Zoom in (if you need to), and then just select any polygon at random. You should see that the axis arrows appear on that polygon only. 6. Press AND hold the mouse down, anywhere on the screen, then drag right. Keep dragging the mouse enough for the polygon to extrude as much as shown below. 7. Press any one of the polygons again, at random, and then repeat step 6 - but extrude the polygon to a different length than you did in step 6. 8. Repeat step 7 many more times - rotate around the sphere so that you extrude polygons all around the sphere. What you get should look roughly like what is shown below: TUTORIAL CONTINUED IN THE NEXT POST (BECAUSE OF IMAGE LIMIT)

yea, i heard about this a while ago at zdnet.com that google hired the lead programmer of Mozilla Firefox. but that name... omg, that is just extremely lame: 'FoxGoo' ?? lool. GooZilla isn't too bad tho, that sounds a lot better.anyway, this sounds pretty good, can't wait for it to be released

zolofrocks, you got some pretty nice and interesting stuff there.i have a deviantart account but i haven't submitted anything since. the only think i have used deviant art for, is to download brushes for adobe photoshop 7.0 lol..i might be making some abstract 3d studio max stuff soon, so i'll probably upload that once it's done

TimeSplitters 3 is gonna rock! I can't wait to play it! For those of you that don't know, TimeSplitters is made by Free Radical Design: ex Rareware members that created Goldeneye. The game is going to have: More than 150 characters 34 guns at the start, more to unlock. (exact number unknown) Tons of gametypes including: capture the bag, deathmatch, gladiator, etc. 16 player online on xbox live or ps2. Fast 60fps gameplay. Cartoony, yet neat looking graphics. Goldeneye (for the N64) style gameplay. and MORE! For more info: http://www.ign.com/games/timesplitters-future-perfect/ps2-574319 http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Bathroom Conversation: I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: "Hi, how are you?" I'm not the type to start a conversation in the men's restroom but I don't know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed, "Doin' just fine!" And the other guy says: "So what are you up to?" What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre so I say: "Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!" At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question. "Can I come over?" Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could just be polite and end the conversation. I tell him, "No........I'm a little busy right now!!!" Then I hear the guy say nervously... "Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other stall who keeps answering all my questions!!!"

oh woops, sry, lol, im such an idiot. didn't realise some created that topic

i was just wondering, do your hosting credits go up only with posts that are 3 lines? or does it count ones that are like.. 2 lines or something? o and also, how fast does it update the stats (about your hosting credits)? lol, also, i've noticed my post count isn't increasing.. i've posted in this 'support and feedback' forum and in the 'have your say' forum, don't those increase your post count? any help would be appreciated thx

i only watched like a few episodes of naruto and it looked awesome.i also used to watch dragonball z ages ago

lol, that's pretty good actually,

huh?...i don't get it, what's the problem? it's either that i can't spot things easily, or you're not explaining anything lol..

wow, that's awesome, lol. i got 3d studio max 7 recently and it's pretty complicated, not as easy as cinema 4d.what you made there is pretty good dude!

i've got a O2 sim card, and it's pay as you go, i don't really need a regular plan, since i don't use my mobile phone that much so it's not worth paying monthly

lol, great presentation man, thanks a lot for sharing. that was really interesting

lol, that sums up exactly what i wanted to say. there's no point making a who subforum just for a few members to use

i think there's a program called Ulead Cool 3D which you can use to make quite cool 3d text. other than that, i definetely recommend adobe photoshop, you can practically do anything with that....

yea, those sure are nice, they look pretty original too.some of the website don't have much content tho, but still the graphics on them are nice. good job

yep, http://www.invisionize.com/ is probably THE only good place to get practically everything you want for IPB lol

whoa, dude... lol did you get that list from somewhere did you somehow compile it all yourself? o.Othanks for sharing lol

wow, i must say, the layout looks very professional. the main problem i see with it right now is that there's a really big blank space under the menu. other than that it's looks good