how do you deal with management going full retard? If that has ever happened to you. For example when important decisions are not made but the CEO gets involved in the tiniest design details:
stupidity has been around for centuries.. like this as an example.. stupidity turned into a "tradition" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10199238.stm chasing some cheese down a steep hill..
"Real" simulators do help teach the operator on how to say pilot a plane, fire a rifle or drive a tank for example. It's not until you actually do it that you learn to pilot the plane.
The final model for gameengine will be triangulated anyway. There is no problem with triangles in static 3d models for games, but you should choose wisely how your triangles will be arranged in animated models, for example - characters.
Your application needs to be able to export the normals. Zbrush for example can't (no matter what you do :( ) and Lightwave, you have to tell it to. Although it's called smoothing normals (or something like that).
No. Photoshop is a layer-based image editor. And you want to have a node-based (Nuke for example) workflow features :) Actually it would be the best CG event ever - node based photoshop ;) )
Yes, I'll make it available here when we release 1.6 as it supports external texture sampling in the shader so you'll be able to use custom diffuse warp gradients for example.
Each channel has its own blending mode. By the default the AO is in Multiply for example. Here is how to can change them : https://support.allegorithmic.com/documentation/display/SPDOC/Blending+modes
Here's another example of the instancer. But I doubt that some of these particles are not lying on top of each other. EDIT: Whoops, forgot the link. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxZY2gfqpA[/ame]
You have to create a procedure to have a single command execute multiple other commands. for example: global proc testing(){print "words \n"; print "more words";} print (`testing`);