The I Have A Code in my Node Complaint Thread
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Nice looking renders there Fyre, Sam is very fortunate to have so many good friends to keep him out of trouble :)
Often the parallel rays of a distant light cause more trouble than they solve when you literally want to splash light around in every direction :)
We could use advanced spot light and set the light angle to 180 degrees or higher. Thanks for the idea. Uber area light is too slow for a ducal-core Pentium when the scene contains reflections and transparency maps. In some cases, the Yosemite HDRI light is faster. lol
edit: I pressed submit too soon. I find that distant lights work well for some outdoor scenes and ambient light outside of an indoor scene.
i guess kk didn't go to the cafe today
Nice looking renders there Fyre, Sam is very fortunate to have so many good friends to keep him out of trouble :)
Samuel's middle name really should be Trouble ;p
Very nice!
Dana
I haven't tried rendering the outside of a building with the exception of the Conservatory. Maybe I'll try rendering part of dream home on the Windows 7 64 bit computer.
I don't mean to complain, but setting up lights indoors is tricky. At least I can hide the walls and ceilings. But suppose I want to show the ceiling?? I find outdoor scenes are easier because I can use distant lights or a spot light far away. Advanced Distant lights don't work well with some sky-domes though.
Ok... I'm going create a 32 bit Daz Studio version of my last scene now. Hope I don't run out of memory. lol
...in the scene tab select the ceiling (if it is one of the prop's "children") and in preferences tab turn off "cast shadows.
I have little trouble with the Advanced Distant light and skydomes. Make sure you also have loaded an Advanced Ambient light or the skydome will be dark. Most skydomes should already have "Cast Shadows" turned off.
Very nice!
Dana
Oh nice. I likes
Ahhhhhhhhh...that's more like it!
Dana
Hey thanks, I'm just gonna have to go back to the person that wanted it, embarrassing cos is weeks late oh well. Think the red number is ROK but the red nose is Soviet, if I get it wrong I'll have to do it again the military folks are quite pedantic about getting the country/unit right :lol:
You're welcome! There certainly were a lot of variations in those images. Even in the real photos.
Dana
indoors needs ibl or idl
...will probably crash on his single core system. I often had to forgo it even on my duo core notebook with 4G of memory. (allowing 3G for the application by making it large address aware).
I feel your pain - I loaded Nature Lake and my Win7 -bit box hit 7.2GB of RAM used, and I only have 8GB! :bug: :gulp:
This is my first real indoor lighting challenge.. UE2 doesn't help a lotll things look washed out, shadows vanish, all the depth clues are gone and the scene looks flat. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Need beer soon, at this rate... meh..
...try an advanced Ambient light (30 - 40% intensity) set to 10m radius in the centre of the set. You can also turn the advanced spotlight into a point light by setting the spread to 360° pasted to each of the light fixtures using Squared Falloff (natural falloff). Intensity should be about 50 - 60% with a light yellow colour.
Hey thanks, I'm just gonna have to go back to the person that wanted it, embarrassing cos is weeks late oh well. Think the red number is ROK but the red nose is Soviet, if I get it wrong I'll have to do it again the military folks are quite pedantic about getting the country/unit right :lol:
...I know, from my scale modelling days.
Sadly nobody seems to care as much about authenticity when it comes to civilian aircraft. About the only properly detailed airliner out there is the Boeing 737-800 by 2nd World available at Rendo. Vanishing Point comes close with a few models but control surfaces, fuselage details (particularly the wing root area) and windows are often incorrect. The VIckers VC-10 (which I need for my story) looks more like a bizjet than the sleek majestic intercontinental airliner that was BOAC Icon as the windows are far too large and the wrong shape.
1. VP VC-10
2. The "Real" Thing:
...nice, I like the background.
...nah, just got here late.
Oh nice. I likes
Yes me too :)
Hey thanks, I'm just gonna have to go back to the person that wanted it, embarrassing cos is weeks late oh well. Think the red number is ROK but the red nose is Soviet, if I get it wrong I'll have to do it again the military folks are quite pedantic about getting the country/unit right :lol:
...I know, from my scale modelling days.
Sadly nobody seems to care as much about authenticity when it comes to civilian aircraft. About the only properly detailed airliner out there is the Boeing 737-800 by 2nd World available at Rendo. Vanishing Point comes close with a few models but control surfaces, fuselage details (particularly the wing root area) and windows are often incorrect. The VIckers VC-10 (which I need for my story) looks more like a bizjet than the sleek majestic intercontinental airliner that was BOAC Icon as the windows are far too large and the wrong shape.
1. VP VC-10
2. The "Real" Thing:
The BOAC colours are very distinctive - is that Royal Blue ? Cos there are two distinct shades of Azure that may or may not be "Royal", the darker one is more purply/red :)
Hey speaking of aircraft that was a coincidence
Oh nice. I likes
Yes me too :)
Thanks all! :)
Yes me too :)
Thanks all! :)
Complaints!!
- It's Monday
- No Space Tuna
- Too hot
- Too sore
- Too cranky
:long: :blank:
For such a pain in the neck Friday last week, this morning is turning out nice and quiet. Reports for the inspectors are printing just fine. My boss is on vacation this week though, so I don't expect this quiet to last all week. Those who ask her for maps will come to me. But for now, it's nice and calm
Non-complaint: armadillo! :bug: :bug: :bug:
Happy Unbirthday !
yahoo spam filters sent messages from Britney to spam folder :shut:
'plaint - da won't let me gift myself a month memb with my points. complained to their helpdesk, they sent me links to cancel rebilling membership and yearlies. guess which link i picked :smirk:
monday - 'nuff said :)
Tuesday is my monday.
So.
Here comes a story of my last week.
It begins when I notice that one of my HDs is running hotter than the others (observing temperature via DTemp tool, very handy) and then there's a bit odd lag spike when I browse for a file. "Weird," thinks I, "You know, I'll shut down my PC for the night. It is pretty hot right now and I don't want it to add more hotness to existing mess."
Next morning I start my desktop, and for a moment it looks like everything is good, and it is booting normally, Windows is chugging to a start and... the screen goes black and then it reboots spontaneously. What.
What happens next, is that it tells me that there's no bootable HD inside my computer. "Poop!" I said (no, I did not, it was more swear-y), and I checked the BIOS. The first HD was gone, gone, gone.
I tried to resurrect the system with checking the cables, but no amount of pushing and pulling and rebooting could coax the system to return online. "Poop x 2!"
Well, I was ready for this to happen, and that's why I had done the RAID array for my stuff, since I lost my secondary HD last year. Surely I can boot off from my other disk!
HAHAHAHAHAHA no.
Of course not. Windows doesn't want you to confuse it and build a mirror of the boot to your RAID array. You have to go through lots of hoops to achieve that! Yeah, okay, I could do that. I totes can do that.
Now, where is my Windows 7 install DVD? And, oh, of course I need a new HD. Best to call my fave store so I can do a price check and see if I could get a discount and whatevs.
1) I cannot find my Windows 7 install DVD. It is not where it was supposed to be.
2) My fave store is out of 2 TB HDs. New delivery on Friday.
"Poop x 4!"
So I spend my Wednesday and Thursday turning my living room upside down and trying to find the DVD. I am about to give up when I finally spot my motherboard's boxes, tucked to a "good, safe place which is surely also in plain sight" and whaddaya know, there it is.
"Poop x 5!"
For some reason my living room still looks like a pack of wild orangutangs had been tearing through it.
Friday comes, and I go and pick up my new HD. My money stash is rapidly dwindling (I already had replace two batteries to an UPS unit and while cheaper than getting a new one, it wasn't cheap anyway). I decide to take a little nap and then eat some late, late, late lunch before I start messing with my computer.
At 3:45 pm, Friday, in the middle of vacation season (aka "Finland is closed because summer" season), I discover that a dental filling has fallen off my molar.
"POOP x 8,000!"
But, hey, I got my computer, and a new HD, so it is time to spring into action, right?
I go over the instructions of recreating a new boot partition to RAID, where one never existed. Uhhh... okay. Clearly, clarity is not what happens with Microsoft's help pages now and then. What if I just cloned my RAID partitions to new HD, and tried it there? You know, just to be safe.
I get Ultimate Boot CD for free cloning software and HD tools, and set to work. Um. Why is it telling me that I have only 1 TB of poop to clone over..? Surely I have more. You know what, no. This takes 20 hours or longer. I'll do a reinstall from scratch, at least this gives me a chance to fix some messes I made.
Into DVD-RW the install DVD goes! Should go smoothly, since it booted off CD so well, right?
Well, no. Actually, my DVD-RW is also dying. It keeps rejecting DVDs, and doesn't want to read them, unless I happen to catch it when both ISS and ghost of Sputnik are in the constellation of Virgo and I have pressed the power button just right.
"Poop x 8,100!"
I do a bit of "turn off PC, wait, turn on PC, insert DVD and wish that it starts reading, if not, take it out and start over" foreplay for ten minutes before it accepts the DVD. It starts... and it turns out that it absolutely detests and despises the new HD, even if it is the same sort of HD as all other HDs inside the system (now total of 4 HDs).
I sigh, and put UBCD back in and erase everything relevant from the new HD, then start power-button foreplay again and get the system booting. Yay, now I can make partitions.
What do you mean, you can't install there?
"Poop x 8,200!"
Fine, what now? Searching online gives precious little clues (even with that cryptic error message number, as the fix doesn't seem to work for me), and I'm tired and exhausted and there's tons of chopper noise from overhead because that stupid car race is in the city again.
In frustration, I shut down the system, tear out all the cables except the ones going to the new HD and do power-button play and boot.
Hey presto, install is go.
Cue headdesking.
It must be noted that the HD was in first SATA port, it was the first device on the bootable list, etc etc etc, but Windows install media had decided to randomly shuffle it around on a list of devices, and unless it is device #1, you can't install OS to it.
"Poop x 9,001!"
I'm just... just dead tired.
Hmm... Tummy is unhappy. Soup for me then
Also, yikes on comp woes. Hope things get sorted soon
@Skiriki - geebus! :ahhh: :bug: :gulp: A saga fit for a long, epic poem!
@Fyre - ugh, feel better!
monday - 'nuff said :)
Tuesday is my monday.
First work day of the week is, for me, consistently pestiferous. :blank: I hope yours goes better!
...that's a lot of poop.
I'd have to call in an expert to deal with that sort of stuff.