i dunno what kind of 17" monitors you have, or have seen jinxy, but all 4 of mine can easily handle the 1280x1024, even my most cheap brand..
i have a 19, or even a 21 on my "to get" list, but a 17" screen is not substandard equipment in the least.
i bought a 17" compaq from the salvation army 3 weeks ago for $10.00 .. you can get a good refurbished 19" for about 100 bucks
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Same here too  Stuck with this crappy 15in. And I just don't have the moolah to upgrade. What a waste of a GF4 eh? |
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Sell me your bike. |
you couldn't afford the air in the tires dave 
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| It's hosted at wavelength too http://articles.thewavelength.net/506/] No queues and I'm getting it at 50k too |
don't suppose i should tell you i have kazaa running, and torrent on one comp and downloading this file link you posted at 145k should i dave?
/runs
[addsig]I hope that this modeler is easer than milkscape, I never got how it worked very well. Maybe now this will rekindle the HL2 fire.
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I hope that this modeler is easer than milkscape, I never got how it worked very well. Maybe now this will rekindle the HL2 fire. |
if being easier to use than milkshape would rekindle your fire, you'd better get a coat, 'cuz it's gonna be cold. 
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if being easier to use than milkshape would rekindle your fire, you'd better get a coat, 'cuz it's gonna be cold. |
at this moment, he is confused as to how to run adaware, his outlook on a modeling future is quite dismal
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at this moment, he is confused as to how to run adaware, his outlook on a modeling future is quite dismal |
Whatever
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if being easier to use than milkshape would rekindle your fire, you'd better get a coat, 'cuz it's gonna be cold. |
Yup it is cold in here, in fact its colder, i took one look at that thing and I slammed my head on the keyboard.
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Sell me your bike. |
Eh, no. I still have a bit of a real life left.
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Real eh? So give me your 'puter
Hmm, comes across to me as a bit difficult to use. At least the user interface isn't as bad as Blender, though. Perhaps I'm just too used to 3DS Max/Milkshape style interfaces. But anyway... Seems fairly powerful, assuming XSI will support it with a community and updates.
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For the record, I have a 15" monitor because I have a laptop. And the program does run at 1024x768, it just bitches that it should be higher. That still doesn't solve the f**k up with loosing its default layout. And it's not the monitor which is locking the res, it's the vid card because someone else has almost the same laptop, except a bit higher vid card, but still has a 15" monitor.
As for all that space needed for game stuff, I'm coding most of the time, if I have too much on screen at once, it all just looses it's meaning. Code's not something you step back and look at a distance, otherwise it all becomes one big blur of things that don't make sense. You have to zoom in a look at it component by component. It'd be nice to have a bigger screen for modeling/mapping, but I get by with what I got.
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For those of you with no experience in high-end 3d packages, this may seem a little overwhelming at first. I know that 3dsMax was for me. Luckily, I was forced to learn it at the Art Institute in a structured format, so I got past the steep beginners curve. Now, I am using 3dsMax at work to for my level design, and I must say, once I got as effecient in using it, as I was with Worldcraft, I wouldn't want to go back. Having the depth of tools that these packages offer is a necessity for creating the amazing levels that games are pushing nowdays.
Just start with some simple tutorials, and learn the basic transformation tools. Use snaps and stick to the grid. Before you know it, you will feel like you are right at home, in some jacked up version of Worldcraft.
