Action Hero - War Eagle

[electricCAT]

I don't know how to place them inside the post. Each time I choose to insert an image I get the URL field. My images are on my local hard drive so I don't have them anwhere else.
If you could explain the process I'll embed them in the posts.

[aurick]

I don't know how to place them inside the post. Each time I choose to insert an image I get the URL field. My images are on my local hard drive so I don't have them anwhere else.
If you could explain the process I'll embed them in the posts.

It works best if you're using Internet Explorer due to how FireFox (and some other browsers) handles javascript. For IE:

1. While creating your post, look under the text box. You'll see the "Upload Image or File" button. Click that.
2. In the pop-up window, click "Browse" and then browse to the file you wish to upload. Once located, click "Open" to return to the Attachment pop-up window. You should now see the path to the image filled in next to the Browse button.
3. Click the "Upload" button.
4. The window will update, and a "Place this image in your post" button will appear. Click that. This creates the necessary code within your text window. You will not actually see the image itself in your post at this point.
   
5. When you submit the post, the image will appear wherever the code was placed.

If you have FireFox, do steps 1-3 above. Then close the window instead of clicking the "Place this image in your post" button. Now when you look below the text entry window you'll see the image listed that you just uploaded. All you have to do is put it in the post. To do that, look to the right of the image name. You'll see some code that's like {ATT=124504}ImageName.jpg{/ATT}. (The actual code will use the [ and ] brackets instead of { and } . I had to use the other bracket type because otherwise ZBC would try to insert an image!) Type that code into your text window wherever you want the image to be.

That's it!

[Alliecat 08]

Good job.

[electricCAT]

Thanks for the tip Aurick. I'll try it next time I post.
PS: I am using Firefox.

[electricCAT]

Here are a few updates.

[electricCAT]

And I worked on the face a bit more. The hair I made out of ZSpheres and the face was retypoed. Did a few edits to the eagle head and added some basic color to help me visualize. Can't wait to learn about Materials. That's should be fun.

[Harmonic]

Hey that is looking nice! Really liking the eagle head and the progress on the wings is looks promising too.

[SolidSnakexxx]

Great paint work. I like this character style and background very much.

[electricCAT]

Harmonic - Thanks for the kind words. I've reworked the wings (posting here soon)

SolidSnakexxx - Thanks again for your encouragement. The difficult part of this for me is learning and working, but I figured that would be the best way to learn this software. Without all of the support here, I would never had gotten this far.

I have a question for Aurick about Mac 3.12 performance. Looking at this screen capture, can you tell me the best settings to increase my performance.

I am currently at 40.6 million polygons and my system's now running pretty slow with all the subtools ON.

My machine is a Mac:
OSX 10.5.6
Dual Quad Proc
10 GB of RAM
250 GB external HD for space

[electricCAT]

Here's the redesigned Wings.

[threetails]

looking good, the wings look cool.

[electricCAT]

Having trouble with the Transpose Master. Keep geting this error message:

ZScript Note: Interface Item could not be found...

[SolidSnakexxx]

Ummm, a friend of mine had the same experience, but then he restart and the problem's gone. Hope this issue's solved for you...as I would love to see War Eagle posed!


Or what you can do is temporarily merge all the subtool (Not too high of a polycount) but before doing so do the polygrop (So you can split back) manually.

[electricCAT]

Thanks for the feedback Solidsnakexxx.
My wings alone are 18 million polys. I'm going to try hiding them and try it without the wings for now. The restart idea didn't work for me. I also tried to split mirror shapes ans eliminate any Zsphere shapes I still had. I downloaded the latest version of TM and that didn't work either. Same error message.
The contest calls for the Transpose master to be used ,but it looks like I'll have to take another route.

[electricCAT]

Tried the Transpose Master on the Demo Soldier and that generated an error too. Guess I won't be using this tool.
Have to figure out something else.

Running out of time.....