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i dont think you should get rid of it or move it, it doesn't really slow down the site, and i think it's a really good way of quickly chatting to ppl, and it makes the site look active. in my opinion, the forum would be pretty boring without the shoutbox

wow very nice theme, but you need more content.you also need a proper banner/logo!

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!

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. Note: 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: (continued in the next post, because of image posting limit... again...)

C4D - Abstract Shapes - Technique #1 I've posted this quite a while ago on some graphics sites (e.g. iced-designs.net and gamerenders.com), so i thought i might as well post it here too. This is just one way of making abstract shapes in C4D, it's a new technique which I have come across lately and I don't think many people know about it, so I made a tutorial for it. 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: 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: (continued on the next post, because of image posting limit......)

i didn't mean 'pixelated' i mean more "sharp" - im talking about that patch at the centre.

oooo very nice, good grief graphics. here's some more of mine (most are old ones) : (there's 7 in total ) btw, i've got loads more, but they're a bit too old

yea it's pretty good, but some of it is really sharp/pixelated, and i think it would be better if u added colour to it... i dunno - just my opinion. it's good overall tho, nice work!

did you make the background yourself? if not, it sux then btw when you say tsubasa, do you mean captain tsubasa.. ?

i dont think im addicted to counter strike... but i used to be. right now i just play the game whenever i have a clan match etc.

lol, wow, dude, you sure are good at drawing. keep it up man!

ooooo nice, mr cheeky, i like the border, and the text is very nice too

lol that book is meant to be EXTREMELY boring to read... i can't believe someone bothered to make it an e-book lol... i'll have a look at it anyway tho

i like it, it looks very original, keep up the good work

thx for the comments, i've added another version which has more details about the hosting

hope you all like it: here's another version - with more stats: i tried to go for the 'icy tech' feel

lol i've heard of the program before, but it's a bit crap since they have to send u a file first... so it's not a very good hack. btw, so u don't have to be in a network for the person to hack? cos the last time i heard of it, it was about hacking people that are only in ur LAN

lol... very weird comics... but nice!

wow, it's looks really professional but it's free loli already have cinema 4d, so im not gonna bother to try it

you could try using adobe imageready.. that works quite well for me

lol unlucky man, there's always some retards taht do things like that

wow that layout is very original. but i think there's a little too much white space. good work!

silentwarrior, the first few sigs a quite good, but how come ur current sig isn't as good as them? lol

hehe thanks. check out http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - that's where i learnt most of my stuff

here's some more of my stuff: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png