Its my understanding the gold prices are dropping. http://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-gold-prices-dropping-2013-4 http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/ http://goo.gl/EfoU0 You might want to buy and wait for prices to go up or just wait it out and see if it keeps going down.
Morph targets and blend shapes seems to work well. One of the recent UE4 streams had some growing plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564OYZanl3A&list=UUBobmJyzsJ6Ll7UbfhI4iwQ#t=1013 and at this time as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564OYZanl3A&list=UUBobmJyzsJ6Ll7UbfhI4iwQ#t=1373
That was annoying to listen to, guy doesnt even lift. I'm more fan of these kind of video;s [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXAIoSr33w"]BEST MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO 2013! - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJ1FZKwI7c"]You are limitless - Motivation - YouTube[/ame]
I can open it fine with 2013 64bit. The main structural mesh is completely screwed, though, a total mess of geo. You need to start deleting history more often as it has a tooooooon of nodes. That will often times mess things up when trying to re-open a file.
It's really with any type of face or vertex selection. http://imgur.com/a/1KzR7 I also recieve this error with edges. // Error: file: C:/Users/Tastyrice/Documents/maya/2016/scripts/AMTools/AMTScripts/ADN_QuickPatternSelector.mel line 103: Cannot find procedure "VariableShadowDisable".
The rotation locks prevent Users from changing the values, but not scripts/rigs. Are you using the built in dinosaur CAT rig? I can't repro the issue with that. I'm using 2013 though. If you altered it, maybe you can post your rig file?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YMu2jy7Oqw&t=313s I made a tutorial, where I talk about what I think about and how I push the forms on weapons like this! check it out, you might find some useful thing in there!
http://illustrationage.com/2013/04/02/free-andrew-loomis-art-instruction-downloads/ It might also help if you post images of what you're making/capable of right now. So others can help further and tailor to your specific needs.
Seems like if you go through and read all the reviews they make a pretty accurate sum of the product. I found this one pretty informative (as well as having links to the other reviews) http://3drips.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/a-word-about-the-yiynova-msp19u/
[ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKEI1EgWvQ"]How to make a hole/circle in Maya 2013 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtncTvmQJc"]Cutting circular holes into polygon meshes while maintaining good topology - YouTube[/ame] :thumbup: