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Hmm, nice. I've always used Blender for my 3D work, you ever tried it?

Agreed on the flames, but I have to give you credit for trying. I've airbrushed some in RL and it is very, very hard. Apart from that, it looks great.

No mix up there. Getting those lines sorted out is one of the main reasons I wrote this guide. I've heard this too, but you are correct in that this guide outlines my methods, which may or may not be the best. Thanks!

Was going to get tickets to see Elton John when he preformed in Anchorage (Alaska), but both shows sold out within 45 minutes. :cry: Oh well, I'll get around to seeing him sometime.

Ah, good times, good times... I've got 1 to share of the old Hobgoblins... From October 18th, 2006.

Matt's Guide to Firemaking After getting 99 Firemaking, I decided to write up all of my tips and tricks in the form of a guide... enjoy! Firstly, this guide is not made for the new firemaker. I have written this guide so that it focuses on levels 70 and up. It only highlights MY methods, not every single log, bank, and all that. I have done my best to include options for the different types of players out there, wether you are a member or a free player, or piles of money or dirt-poor. I've been through all of those stages... so I hope I can address them well! ________________________________________________________________________________ Table of contents 1. Where to train 2. What to burn 3. How to not get bored 4. Tips and tricks 5. Conclusion ________________________________________________________________________________ Where to train [hide=Falador East Bank]I tried quite a few places during my travels, none of which I found better than outside the Falador East bank. There are two different places for you to firemake here. One set of lines for F2P, one set for P2P. (Map credit to Tip.it.) For our F2P players: Your lines start 3 and 4 "steps" north of the bank. Firemake away, run back to the bank, and start again. The nice thing about this set of lines versus the P2P ones is that you are doing most of the running while you are not carrying any logs, therefore you use less run energy and will be able to firemake for longer without walking. If you will only be firemaking for short periods of time, or are doing firemaking where you have breaks so your run can recharge, you may use the other line if you wish. For our P2P players: These are two of the best firemaking lines in all of Runescape. The reason being is that they are very few steps from the bank. Your lines start East of the bank, 2 and 3 "steps" South of the door you can see in the picture. Light off your logs, bank, and run back to where you started. With some practice, you'll be able to do all your movement by using the minimap.[/hide] [hide=Edgeville]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Varrock East Bank]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Varrock West Bank]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Varrock West Bank (tele method)]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Rouges Den]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Camelot]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Yanille]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] [hide=Grand Exchange]Xp/hour: [images of lines][/hide] ________________________________________________________________________________ What to burn When I decided I was going to go for 99 Firemaking (I was 70 at the time) I bought over 120k Willow logs and started lighting. Shortly after, I stopped. A few months later I started again, with willows. Again, I stopped. That continued until about level 83, at which point I finally switched to my recommended log... Maples! Switching to Maple logs made a huge difference for me, as after I started with maples, I was able to go almost straight to 99. The price also wasn't a huge difference considering how much faster it felt. Remember that willows logs give only 90xp each compared to maples 135. But it really depends on how much money you are willing to spend and how much patience you have. In my opinion though, Maples are much better than Willows. Be-warned though: once you use Maples, you may find it hard to go back. ________________________________________________________________________________ How to not get bored Firemaking is undoubtedly one of the most boring skills. Unlike many other skills, you have to be clicking to get xp. Therefore, unless you are entertained by watching your character light a bunch of fires... you need to find something else to do. I happen to have two great options. First option is one many people use: listening to music. For someone like me, who can really "get into" the music, it works great. But trust me, after listening to your iTunes Library 50 times over, you'll want to find something else. Movies. And that doesn't mean go sit down infront of your TV and watch one. Why not? You'll be doing more listening than watching, because your eyes have to move such a long distance between the computer screen and the TV. How do we solve this problem? Simple, we put the movie on your computer screen. Allow me to show you how I did it in this photo: Let the movie play away while you firemake. Before I started this method, I was only able to firemake for about 2 hours at a time... once I used this method, I played for 7 hours one day! ________________________________________________________________________________ Tips and tricks Here I will quickly outline a few of my tricks I found and used when I firemake. Use 3 tinderboxes I began using three tinderboxes when I learned of the health risks of moving your wrists too much. It is usually referred to as a repetitive strain injury. [Wikipedia Article] Using three tinderboxes allowed me to firemake longer without noticeable strain to my wrist, and also lessened my probability to mis-click. I HIGHLY recommend using this method whenever firemaking. Play in low detail Unless you have an insanely fast computer and internet connection, stay in low detail mode whenever firemaking. To much lag can noticeably slow down your firemaking. I also recommend firemaking in small screen so you can watch videos, but that's up to you. Putting logs in inventory This is for those of you who just can't stand missing those level-up pictures. What you want to do is log out (to reset your Highscores), then go to Tip.it's Firemaking Calculator. Find the log you will be burning and write down how many you need to light until your next level. Log back in and open up your bank. Withdraw ALL the logs of the type you chose in noted form. Then withdraw the number of logs that you need for your next level. You can now see how many logs you have to burn until your next level! Awesome huh? ________________________________________________________________________________ Conclusion Please point out any errors I have made. Remember, this guide outlined MY methods, which may or may not be the best. For that reason, don't post anything related to "That's not the fastest way n00b" or whatever. I never said anything in here was the "best" or "fastest" way to do something, just my favorite. It got me to 99, and will get me farther, so I'm happy. Thanks for reading.

Looks cool, too bad I'm a Safari guy. I may have to fire up Firefox (haha) every once in a while to use this.

Phil Collins- Wake Up Call

We can provide the transparencies we use for the levels and also for the icons for both F2P and P2P, a preview feature is more difficult as it means adding not only an extra step to the uploads, but deleting files if they're not wanted, dealing with them if someone exits half way through, ensuring they're not linkable outside of the system, then there's actually creating the image, if we do a preview we're effectively doing the processing twice so it's not a great solution. Hopefully this answers the PM too. I'll sort out the transparencies tomorrow it's 5am I need some sleep. :lol: Righteo, thanks. For the transparency with the levels written in, could we use this one: Except with the full 12 characters for the name used? This would be nice simply because we would then know the absolute maximum space the overlay would use up, allowing a user to create a background where nothing is getting covered over. 5am? Go to bed. :P

5/10, not an anime/whatever it is fan.

Thanks Peter... however... one thing. Could we either have a preview function, or a overlay of the skill icons/skill icons with the stats filled in? Either of these would reduce the load on the server and staff because people would be able to see what they want before going and asking for it, then finding out they don't like it. How feasible would either/both of these be?

That doesn't teach a lesson to everyone else who reads the offending post. And if it's bad enough, we'll usually PM the user anyways.

I'm quite sure that wasn't his point... but I'll let you slide on that one. And sometime, italics just don't cut it. Red stands out much better... to most people. Some people don't see either.

Because it makes them look really cool and important :roll: How sweet of you. Try to contribute something useful if you're going to post. And as I said earlier, you will find nothing in The Rules that states only moderators may post in colour. He does have a point, mods could use the italics, as shown a couple posts above. And his point is? That's right, there isn't one, as tripsis outlined.

On a thread about cars... why am I not surprised.

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Ok... I need someone to explain this whole C4D thing to me. Or find a post explaining it. Or something. I know it's a product of Cinema 4D... but that's about it. :lol: http://planetrenders.net/renders/thumbnails.php?album=1 http://planetrenders.net/renders/thumbn ... p?album=10 Mmmhmm... I see. *opens PS*

Ok... I need someone to explain this whole C4D thing to me. Or find a post explaining it. Or something. I know it's a product of Cinema 4D... but that's about it. :lol:

Mmm, kind of like what I've seen done gazooks of time for the Photo of the Month competition? I even believe I've seen it done by you... hopefully I'm mistaken.

Yes, they were somewhat meant to be that way. That's my style... put too much crap on and it gets absolutely ugly... You go tell me where it says I can't ask for advice before I enter. I already have one picked out I think (#4) so I'm more looking for advice on my work rather than which one people like the most.

Seeing as this weeks theme in transportation, I figured I might have a legit shot at making a half reasonable signature to enter. I spent about 3-4 hours on the four of these, and I'm looking for feedback on them before I choose which one to enter. The pictures were (believe it or not) taken in my driving simulator. I then put them in PS and went wild... I still have the .psd files if I need to make changes. And yes, there's alot of gray there... full color just didn't look good to me. If you want me to post an original shot or two, I can. Thanks in advance.

So you go though 935 pages of topics in Help and Advice? Maybe delete 300 of those pages? I doubt everyone reads back that far. I just checked, and yes, I have some very old topics bookmarked in Help and Advice. Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's worthless.

You know, some of us do actually read those older topics... -.-

Umm... looks like an abstract to be. What am I missing? :wall: It's a high way, and the thing on the left is a car. It is very abstract, yeah, but you can still tell just fine. not saying its a bad piece, but i cant see anything, i can bearly make out a red car, and thats about it :? Ah, I see. Kinda. Not really. Not at all. And why does it say "Transpot"? Should it be "Transport"?

Umm... looks like an abstract to be. What am I missing? :wall: