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[mverta]

Dude, all of the graphics are mine! Everything on the site was done, 100% by my hands and my hands alone. (er wait, except for the "World is Watching" piece... had a crew on that.)

And as for the company website, I dunno what to tell you; my work is on my personal site, and it turned out I didn't even need the company website so it just sits there. I have more work than I can handle anyway... plus I decided 5 years ago not to grow the company. I'm keeping it lean and mean...

_Mike

[Maxer]

I'm embarrassed to say with the way things are but I've got 120 licenses and the CPU's to match so I'm as hopeful as anyone that cooperative rendering works.

120? were you pissed up? If you worked for me.... it would of been concrete boots mate!!!

Thanks I appreciate your compassion but seriously at the time we decided that taking a gamble on Maxwell was worth it, besides everything we had seen pointed to a relatively quick release. If we could save tens of thousands of dollars by waiting a few months we felt it was worth it. We didn't know however that NL was serving us a steaming load of shit. We had been in talks with Victor and Maya for months and were never lead to believe that Maxwell wouldn’t be coming out in June of 05.

[Maxer]

With that large of an outlay, you might do well to purchase some outside 'advice' on the matter.

Believe me I've thought about it more than once but at this point I don't think we are willing to spend more money in an effort to recover something that may be unrecoverable. I'm still hopeful that NL can pull this thing out of the fire and make something useful out of it. There is one thing for sure though; I have no loyalty to NL beyond receiving Maxwell 1.0 or 2.0 whatever. As soon as a competitor makes a better product I’m dumping them ASAP.

[jonathan löwe]

uneblievable, that even a customer with 120 licenses is treated the same way as the poor one-or-two-licences-owners...

[mverta]

Guys -

This is my X-Wing thread. Do not use every single thread as an opportunity to rail NL.

STOP


_Mike

[Maxer]

Mike I'm not railing on NL, I'm simply stating what happened to me and how that changed my opinion of them. Your right though back to Star Wars, let's make a movie!!

[mverta]

I've got a ton of models around here, that's for sure!

_Mike

[Maxer]

Is this something you'd be up for, it would definitely be a kick ass way to show what Maxwell is capable of.

[mverta]

Possibly... let's let it play out a bit and see.. a lot of my models have stuff in them -or are- things I can't share for legal reasons, but there's probably some way to work it out. I appreciate the offer, certainly!!!

_Mike

[Maxer]

Ok, I'll keep it in mind until the next release comes out then maybe we can do something.

[jonathan löwe]

@mverta:
sorry for hijacking your thread!

[gadzooks]

Mverta i was wondering what application do you model in. The x wing is nothing short of a hero model.

[mverta]

Thanks... the X-Wing is in fact a precise replica of the 1/24 scale X-Wing models used in A New Hope. Amongst real-world model builders, figuring out all the various pieces used on the original X-Wings (bits from other models of cars, tanks, rockets, etc.) is a real passion, and eventually every last piece's origin was discovered. I followed the process for 9 years, and along the way, obtained most of the original antique model kits to obtain the pieces for myself. This took a lot of time as most of the kits were out of manufacture, so they're very rare and very expensive. When I eventually had (nearly) all the pieces for myself, I measured them with digital calipers, and modeled the X-Wing in Rhino. The few remaining, neigh-impossible to obtain kit pieces I had measurements taken for me by friends who were also collectors. That, on top of some very generously provided references, and I was able to model an X-Wing that I quite literally can't improve upon; at least in terms of re-creating the 1/24th model. But I've noticed that the X-Wing is extremely hard to make realistic, when you simply scale up the 1/24th model to real-world size. So I've been working on a version that has another level of detail, which while not canon, will help overcome the detail limitations inherent in a model that's so physically small.

Thanks for the kind words!

_Mike

[jeffg]

Mike,

You've got dead links on your site.

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