Battle Tank

[Big Frank]

Thanks guys,
How long would this tank take to do on TrueSpace Frank and how does it differ from X3D in creating pieces?

I wouldn't create your tank in Truespace - your tank is a masterpiece of what you can achieve in X3D, but it looks like a child's toy tank. Were it me I would create a WWII German Tiger tank with realistic theatre camouflage and markings:

http://www.3-d-models.com/3d-model_files/t2.jpg


(picture courtesy of http://www.3-d-models.com)

Salaam, X3D is a crude hammer and chisel compared to the likes of Rhino, Truespace, Bryce, Maya inter alia. Let's not pretend any different. X3D excels at things they do not, like creating off-the-peg animations in a minimum of strokes but we're not comparing like for like so let's just not go there as it's a futile argument. Try placing your tank on a realistic surface, a veritable landscape, and having it cast shadows, both on that surface and on the objects around it, have its texture interact with the environment and light conditions. You can't do that in X3D, and that's just touching the surface of what you can do in a dedicated high-end 3D app. It's not a fair comparison.