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Just checking on that. I think it's fine, but good to be sure... Chris and Dimitris pretty much nailed all the fun stuff though !! Nothing left to add there ! CBR

Thanks for getting all this together Bezo ! I really like those new Delaunay Caps everywhere, and the many and various updates to the modelling tools. It also seems that UVs are on the radar, if not so much for this release... Love that denoiser too. And the little speedups everywhere... No more unconnected caps ! Copy and Paste polys and points ! But the winners for me this time round are still those better caps and bevels on everything and of course sub-fields and field forces as demo'd by CS, who sussed all that out in 2 days flat apparently !! CBR PS - thanks for the head's up about Alt when using Co&D - I didn't know we could do that, and am very glad we can !

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Thank you for those very kind words, and you do make some very good points there, Dave - I hope that is indeed the way it goes :)

Yes I should do some more of those... especially if it's gonna get pinned to the front page ! :/ CBR

Bit of a 'swings and roundabouts' situation for me, that one... On the plus side, it's certainly going to make a lot of jobs massively faster, and save the world a lot of tedious manual retopo while we deal with the ever growing client stream of awful CAD models that need sorting out. But I quite like some of those retopo jobs, so will miss them if they become a lot less infrequent or disappear altogether. Might also mean that a lot less of those jobs are offered to anyone anymore, modellers or not... I don't think it can entirely replace the art of modelling though - flow seems largely undirectable, and in the videos I saw even though its choices were quite good on the whole, it seemed you were kinda stuck with whatever flow it went for, but TBH I'm secretly quite glad it can't do that - means that proper modellers have got another few years in the ring before we're entirely replaced by AI and our skills go the same way as roof-thatching and become 'lost knowledge' :) CBR

I am not the person to help here, but thumbs up for another immaculately framed question :) CBR

Oh, nice one :) Thanks for sharing ! CBR

That is certainly something I'm sure we could ALL use :) Maximum thumbs up @kalugin ! CBR

Lovely curves there - could almost be SDS ! Although his camouflage systems seem a little broken at the moment :) CBR

They are very different animals, though some of the things they do overlap. Houdini is vastly more powerful in more areas, being as it is, an entire DCC application rather than XP, which is, at its core, a particle plugin for Cinema. Both have their place, XP is amazing, but Houdini is so extremely reasonably priced, sale or not, I'd say get both ! Houdini is a total powerhouse, but you can't beat the convenience of having some of that sort of power direct in Cinema, which is what you kinda get with XP. CBR

Where I've put it now, in Plugins etc... Substance doesn't come with Cinema so posts about it shouldn't be in the beginners section. CBR

@bentrajeI think so ! :) Thanks for heads-up. Dani - I'll PM you... CBR

Did a bit more research, which led to the discovery that snitches were actually made of copper and then gold plated, so needed some more work on textures. Did that, and quite pleased with it now... CBR

Does anyone know how to post in the right place !? CBR

Yeah I guess only the musicians amongst us would initially spot that the things the robots are doing (particularly on bass and piano) aren't always the right notes, but he kinda gives it away to everyone when the room starts blowing up :) Having said that, it's not in any way a diss - those robots are animated absolutely beautifully, and actually have really musical push and pull style movements, which is mightily impressive in my book, whether it was at the end of a real robot arm OR keyframed by some talented mofo :) CBR

Well this is the best thing I've seen for a while... (saw this and thought of you, @3D-Pangel) Spkrs up - the tunes are epic ;) CBR

Already done, my friend, already done ;) If you can't find the Lego one, there are alternatives, although I don't know if they work in R18. Here's one. And another. CBR

Please at least try and post in the right section. There is one called Plugins, you know ! CBR

I also thought that initially, but then remembered it would be mostly a budget thing. If Star Wars, and all their vast pots of cash can't entirely get us out of uncanny valley with Leia and Grandma Toffkin, then these guys had no chance ! :)