HLDM crowbar replacement?
Looks very.... Rimrook / Turnstyle ish.
I like it.

Or you can hold it in 2 hands and just have it shoot energy like the egon. That'd be sweet.

Didn't think about putting it in HL... I might have to clean it up first. The texture map for it is quite sloppy since I didn't take the extra step to remap the baking coordinates. That is a great idea though!

Impressive stuff, love it.

Makes me wanna start modeling again
I did enjoy it, but i got way sidetracked.
Maybe i'll just load up the XSI tutorials again. Gotta get away from GLDsrc..
Aside from that, the rings looks a bit off. The texture doesnt seem to fit IMO.

mmmyes... no planning does that. about 2 hours and 10 minutes to complete it.

Shall I try again, sir?

Well that's up to you. I would just go with a light green trim instead of a spiral. Just my opinion, really.
I would just love to gib someone with that.

I thought it was a pencil. Looked at the bottom. Better be holding that like a cane and stabbing people with it!

cool I like it, now go and make an intensly high poly one, then post a pic

Wait, how'd you make that?

Your drive was stolen?
How?

Right from under his nose.

Stolen external, I presume?
They're fairly cheap nowadays too, damn desperate thieves. :<

Bah how lame. If any of my three externals were stolen I'd throw a fucking fit. There's years of history on them.

Years of pronz*

My flash drives attached to my keys which are always hooked to my beltloop. Sorry to hear about the theft:( that's terribly unlucky..

HO HO HO Strider. HO HO HO.

very pretty stuff!

as far as backing up, i'd look into clone-drive software. i have yet to find one i like completely tho myself, but acronis is ok... I'll add too that clone drive software is one of the few pieces of software i would actually buy, as you are risking all of your data on backup..

clone drive pacakages are nice because:

you can make scheduled or individual, full-backups in a a short period of time. (it takes me 30 minutes to archive a 80gb drive, and the final file size is about 20-30 gb, saving you space)

compressed backups are accessible almost in real-time, meaning you can access individual files--with a slight lag--, without unpacking the whole archive.

you can also do a full-machine clone copy and make "factory restore" bootdisk, just in-case you ever get a catastrophic error or virus that kills your os.

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That stuff would be nice given I had the means to do it, and the money. I was thinking of backing it all up on my new 250gb iomega drive. At least things are looking up.

means is easy, interface is very simple. money is another thing...

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you don't need the clone software, it just makes your life easier, particularly cloning your whole machine in case of a irrecoveralbe failure, you don't have to reinstall/reconfigure all your stuff--(takes me like a month to get everything back to normal if i have to install from scratch!)

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