Max, .. why do all this constantly for free ? If you took the time to create something like an 8 pack of well designed mxm's in a theme and made it super cheap, like $20.00 you could create a steady cash flow. Its not about the amount money, it's about the flow of cash. Back to my idea , ..lol, ..... Now, ...the operative words here are well designed materials. Naturally you could (at your leisure) follow the classic path of bumping each series to Volume 2 and so on..The reason why is because i can no longer see what mxm's i should create. What i have not done others have already created nicely and then there's not really any need for me to keep this thread running. Unless ofcourse Maxwell 2.0 will provide anything that would give me a reason to keep this thread open. But that could be months until we know anything about that so i might aswell shut this down now and find something else to do which might bring me an income.
/ Max
i can understand that, but still.. you know, that extra step will boost the quality of their renderings much more. maybe there are more of them out there. you can't be serious.. i'd do that for 5 pence in 15 minutes 
one problem i doubt NL would like is if many of us went commercial with mxm creation, then their MXM Gallery would eventually go down in flames. Non of us would like to see that happen as the site is a great resource, yep i use it too! also as i wrote at the top of my post i do enjoy giving stuff away for free to friends here, even if i earn nothing except a good feeling from it. ..and thanks for that great image you put together hehe, i like it and i'm gonna keep it.I addressed this ---- but it is not the sole job of you. Limits, remember ? Time is valuable Max, ...do you think it'll never run out ? 5 years just went by since a lot of us started using MW ---- how fast did it go ? Pretty damn fast pal. And how fast another 5 will go ? .....just as fast. THAT'S A FREAKING DECADE MAN ! Do you really have decades to spare ? This doesn't just go for you, ...it goes for me, and anyone else reading this. Have fun, but try and be impactful with your time.Why i give everything away for free.. hm, good question. I guess i wanna do my part in contributing to a healthy and fun community, a way of keeping the place alive and making people happy. It's fun to see people like something they get, kinda like kids at Christmas.
Your too easily dissuaded and you abandoned the concept it too early ---- good ideas need time, refinement etc.... Its not realistic to expect something just out of the gate to be in finished form. A relentless and focused effort is what is needed until the task/concept/project at hand has been reached. No quitting.I have tried to setup a store as you might remember, several times but i just can't get it working so i scrapped that idea and instead went in cooperation with Vandigital (Seth) to sell my stuff through his onlinestore. Although i will only produce models for him and he will sell them there but it's always something that could generate some pocketmoney.
That's just another excuse --- you have a camera and scanner. And while I'm on the subject of excuses, ...remember what an excuse is, ... creating an instant exit door in the wall of responsibility where there really is no door. The door is really an immovable wall and its symbolic meaning represents a particular truth that comes in the form of a choice. So, we look at the wall and say, "Man, that sucks, too tall, too thick, ..hell with it, ..let me just imagine a door(excuse) and go through." Sure enough, the door appears, we walk through, ... "A ha! ...easy enough, I'm on the other side! SWEET!". Here's the problem, if you look around, ....ITS THE SAME EFFING ROOM!, ..and you have gone NOWHERE, albeit really fast. lol. This is precisely how people fool themselves, convince themselves that everything is fine -- it is not. What really is happening is that a perfectly executed process to create unfulfillment is in the making. That is what you call a private hell --- door after door, room after room, ...seems like there's movement, but nothing has changed. The only way out is to to acknowledge the wall then go about working on bringing the whole wall down -- that is the only way out. How to tear the wall down ? Acknowledge it first, assume there IS NO DOOR and then its simple, ....brick by brick comes to mind.Another problem why i can't really sell any of these materials is because most of them use commerical textures in one way or another, selling them would be a bad idea and give me trouble with the law. Giving them away for free i guess would be ok.
1. No they wouldn't 2. No it wouldn't. Do they mind people who create commercial training ? Do they mind Hervé with the food MXM's ? No, ....because it adds to the richness of the overall program with niceties that potential users will appreciate as options. And as far as the MXM site, that will always be useful for what it is. Again, there is no excuse door here for which you can exit the room.one problem i doubt NL would like is if many of us went commercial with mxm creation, then their MXM Gallery would eventually go down in flames.
Prove it.$40 for that leather ?!
you can't be serious.. i'd do that for 5 pence in 15 minutes 
i noticed that too, it really helped bring out the look and feel of the metal a lot more than if i would have rendered it straight out with Maxwell without adding the cavitymap element to the material. The difference is pretty big between a cavitymap and bump/displacementmaps, cavitymaps affect only the cavities on a object which means you will see it in places where you would normally find oxide and rust on a real life subject. It gets denser in areas where it's tight, see the image below of a mermaid (not 3d) this is a nice example of the real world application of oxidization in jewelry for example. It's just one of many uses of it. 
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