Congrats to all the featured modelers!

Yes, I intentionally included the screen shot of the preview – “I included the screen shot of the thumbnail (pressing the “PLAY 3D” button does not work here), so that you could see the wonderful textures that our Player isn’t showing.” It was the only way I could think of to make sure that everyone could see the excellent textures.

By “bot code” do you mean the security code?

If so, it was changed because it was not working for a lot of people (including me) and we heard from numerous readers that it was pissing them off (me too!). You could put in the obviously correct code and it would still give you an error AND erase your comment. Very frustrating.

We want people to easily be able to make comments, so we changed it.

The new one allows you to change the code yourself (top blue button), change to an audio clue (second blue button) or get more information (third blue button).

Let us know if you have problems with it.

It is great that you are picking areas which 3DVIA users have not yet explored! I’m looking forward to seeing the models!

Thanks for all of your congrats and comments for the other winners! Congrats to you too!

Since I spend a lot of time on the site each day, I naturally keep a fairly good idea of what has been uploaded, but the key is to subscribe to the Recent Activity RSS feed.

Every morning (just like now), the first thing I do is go to the RSS feed and read all the comments since I last logged in. Some I reply to, but I try not to hog the the front page :). Then I go to Search>most recent , expand the page to 100 models and review all the models that were uploaded since I last logged in.

I use the time and date stamp from my RSS feeder to determine which is the first and which is the last model uploaded in each week. I keep a history in a separate file, since models do get deleted too. Some models, like the Bugatti Veyron, may be in consideration for more than one week as the collaboration team makes significant improvements over time.

That, in combination with being on the site a lot, is how I do.

Does this help?

perecat’s model is a emotional one & toymaker as always hits the jackpot (cool model & realistic water texture).

I am also looking forward to see the completion of Alfred’s lift facility. I am sure this model is getting huge now with more surprises to be added in this.

Finally many thanks for including my “Ring Where Champions Are Born” as while creating I was not sure whether people may like this or not but It got pretty attention & lots of comments. So I believe we should only think of modeling rest depends on the great 3dvia community we have here :)

One last question for you Don – How do you search the models created in a particular week (please tell me this secret) as I dont think there is any tag to know the details of creation week / day (people used to update model after upload so noway can be found the actual creation day)

Great! Thanks a lot Don. Very cool that lift facility made it as HM in the Top10. There is soon more to come from the whole Logistic center. I have finished certain areas of that already. Piece by piece it comes together :)