*sirens* DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA *sirens*

Kage, you suck so like theres no surprise there Anyway you bastards, i hate you all, i can't afford the game and even if i could i don't have a dvd drive so i can't install it. hoho.

HL2 still looks nicer to me and always has, but I'm still looking forward to D3. Must be just about out over here by now...think its this friday.

On the topic of learning other editors, I installed softimage last night and tried a couple of tutorials. While I am obviously new to it, and perhaps there are acceptable workarounds, I found the inability to do things such as save your custom GUI layout or save light (and no doubt other object) property presets pretty debilitating. Some actions such as moving the camera around seemed exceptionally tricky - I can appreciate that not all editors will feature Hammer style camera movement but the tutorials seemed to cover no rotate ability, and orbiting and then panning is not a suitable method. Having zoom linked to the same mode as panning, but dollying in and out a seperate one again, seemed insane to me, as surely you are more likely to want to move the camera position in and out while panning, as opposed to zooming it in and out?!

Meh, I may persevere or I might go back to learning Milkshape or 3Dsmax (if I can ever find a version that will work on my copy of XP ), both seemed far nicer to me.