CompuServe Messages

Thanks for all the nice comments Gary….if I can just maintain long enough to finish this thing. BTW, let me publicly retract my statement to you regarding difficulty with your metal shader/refmapping. It took an evening of experimenting to get what I was looking for, but now that I've acclimated to your system a little more, I've gotten great results. More than once you & others have praised Renderman here, but I tell you, your renderer is one of the best I've ever seen, has a similar RM "look" & then some, and is considerably faster. Those guys deserve a lot of credit for pioneering this stuff, but 3DS just keeps impressing me – the more I get to work with it. BTW, the tape was very nice. I don't think most folks would know (believe) it was produced with PC s/w. Signal quality held up well, too. BILL