Oh well. Guess that leaves me out. All I ever use is CSG and a
heightfield or two.
Although I do like that isosurface is Superpatch.
Mr. Art

Ken wrote:
> 
>  I think you are missing one fundamental point in your logic. It is not any
> one specific scene that you design that will increase your knowledge rather
> it is the complexity of the features available at your disposal you choose
> to incorporate into that scene. My own advice for becoming one of the elite
> is to choose a Pov operation and work with it until you understand how it
> works and then choose another one until you understand it too. Continue this
> process until you have familiarized yourself with as many of the operations
> you have time to learn and only then will you have the proficiency needed
> to be among the elitist.
>  Long before I ever made my first complex scene I had littered my hard drive
> with test scenes of simple objects but with complex (to me any way) features
> used in them. It was by this process did I gain proficiency with the program.
> It is like in math class. They don't start you out with calculus they first
> teach you addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Once they were
> sure they had drilled those concepts into your young mind did they advance
> onto more complicated aspects of mathematics. Pov can be treated the same
> way and short cuts can easily miss important key elements that you should
> have taken the time to learn in the beginning.
>   I guess what I am saying is making a chess set may teach you some of the
> fundamental skills but it really won't make you an advanced user until you
> have paid all of you dues to the club. It takes a lot of work and it can be
> very boring sometimes but the steps outlined above will make you a better
> user in the long run and should not be dismissed out of hand if you are
> serious about learning the program to it's fullest extent.
> 
>   I'll step down from my pulpit now :)
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm

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