The Amorous Armadillo Complaint Thread

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,550
    edited December 1969

    Is Lilith Ugly?

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  • nobody1954nobody1954 Posts: 933
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Seriously, how on earth are Mosquitos surviving in this drought? Have had no rain in weeks and I just had three of those suckers in my office. I killed them and two more show up within minutes.

    Once they hatch, they live off blood.. think of yourself as a giant bottle of water for a mosquito. :bug: :gulp:


    But the eggs need still, standing water, I thought. There is none around because of the drought

    Actually mosquitoes live of plant matter. They need blood only to help fertilize their eggs. Only females drink blood. As for a place to lay their eggs, air conditioner runoff, any size pool of water will do for them, even if it will evaporate. Mosquitoes are no more capable of rationalizing reproduction than humans. They do suffer in drought. Few pity them however. Bats and spiders, perhaps.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    Is Lilith Ugly?

    I can't tell under all that makeup! %-P

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Seriously, how on earth are Mosquitos surviving in this drought? Have had no rain in weeks and I just had three of those suckers in my office. I killed them and two more show up within minutes.

    Once they hatch, they live off blood.. think of yourself as a giant bottle of water for a mosquito. :bug: :gulp:


    But the eggs need still, standing water, I thought. There is none around because of the drought

    Actually mosquitoes live of plant matter. They need blood only to help fertilize their eggs...

    Truly evil, eh? The real vampires.

    Dana

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,550
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    TroutFace said:
    Seriously, how on earth are Mosquitos surviving in this drought? Have had no rain in weeks and I just had three of those suckers in my office. I killed them and two more show up within minutes.

    Once they hatch, they live off blood.. think of yourself as a giant bottle of water for a mosquito. :bug: :gulp:


    But the eggs need still, standing water, I thought. There is none around because of the drought

    Actually mosquitoes live of plant matter. They need blood only to help fertilize their eggs...

    Truly evil, eh? The real vampires.

    Dana

    I thought that bedbugs are real vampires.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited August 2014

    ps1borg said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    ps1borg said:
    100 year anniversary of the WWI De Havilland Farman Experimental 2 pusher biplane. It didn't have any cockpit armour for pilots and was worse for observers who stood out of the fuselage on the sides of the nacelle to operate the rearward facing armament (Took hours to remap and retopo the model as far as I did) They didn't carry parachutes in those days :)


    ...interesting that it had a four bladed prop. Back in those days most (if not all) had only two.

    Geoffrey De Havilland was a great innovator
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Havilland
    ...as was the company that bore his name.

    They were the first to roll out a fully operational pure jet airliner, the Comet 1, in 1949 which entered service in 1952. Early versions of the aircraft were plagued by sudden catastrophic failure of the fuselage which was tracked down to stresses caused by the rivets that anchored the square window frames. All existing comets were modified to include oval windows which employed no rivets. After the redesign and refit, the Comet became a very stable and reliable aircraft which served several of the world's airlines with the last passenger carrying one, a model 4C being retired in 1997 nearly a half century after the first prototype as rolled out at Wooford Aerodrome. The Comet design also saw military service, most notably as the Nimrod Maritime Patrol aircraft, the last of which were retired in 2011.

    A month after the prototype Comet 1 was unveiled in 1949, AVRO Canada introduced their C-102 Jetliner prototype, however it never would see production or airline service (in spite of Howard Hughes' keen interest in acquiring a number of the aircraft for TWA after test piloting the prototype) as the Canadian government pulled the funding on the project. Unlike the Comet, the C-102 had round windows and would not have been susceptible to the same stresses that doomed several of it's British "counterparts". Would have been interesting if Mr Hughes' wishes had come true.

    Of the major postwar aerospace players, the US was one of the last to enter the commercial jet age with the 707 which made it's first passenger carrying flight in late 1958 six years after the Comet 1 and two years after Russia's Tupolev 104. The two former Axis powers, Germany and Japan never produced a viable commercial jet airliner after the war (though East Germany did embark on the on a project at the old Junkers plant in Dresden called the Baade or "Dresden" 152 which like the AVRO C-102 never made it past the prototype stage). France was the last to enter the race in 1959 with it's sleek passenger pleasing Sud Aviation Caravalle.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,550
    edited December 1969

    while I was trying to improve the Lilith render I got a blue screen.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    while I was trying to improve the Lilith render I got a blue screen.

    Did that improve it?

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,263
    edited December 1969

    while I was trying to improve the Lilith render I got a blue screen.

    Maybe you need a break. It seems that your computer needed one. ;-)

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited August 2014

    ...out of date drivers maybe?

    I finally tracked down my BSOD issue to two nVidia services (Networking and Streaming) after going through the various logs and diagnostics. Apparently the latest driver updates installed these services and kept trying to "call home" when I was working offline. Stopping them in Windows Task Manager just after I start the system up seems to have done the trick.

    Still have not installed the new GPUs as a friend of mine who just upgraded her GPU and PSU ended up blowing out the MB in her system. Need to call in someone with a bit more tech savvy to look these over as I can't afford that to happen.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,550
    edited December 1969

    For G2F what is the difference between swimwear and underwear?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    ...omg, a RL Merida just walked into the cafe a few moments ago. :ohh:


    That hair really does exist. :ohh:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited August 2014

    Ok, I th0ught I had to scale the dragon way up! :bug:

    Here's the Ocean Queen right next to M6 - both un-scaled. Wow... M6 need to be shrunk to fit! :ahhh:

    I see for my Ruttville render the Ocean Queen is scaled up 500%. :bug:

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  • edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Ok, I th0ught I had to scale the dragon way up! :bug:

    Here's the Ocean Queen right next to M6 - both un-scaled. Wow... M6 need to be shrunk to fit! :ahhh:

    I see for my Ruttville render the Ocean Queen is scaled up 500%. :bug:


    Oh, that's perfect for an apartment size drake ;p

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Ok, I th0ught I had to scale the dragon way up! :bug:

    Here's the Ocean Queen right next to M6 - both un-scaled. Wow... M6 need to be shrunk to fit! :ahhh:

    I see for my Ruttville render the Ocean Queen is scaled up 500%. :bug:


    Oh, that's perfect for an apartment size drake ;p

    Yep - only eats 2 whole cows a week, a real money saver. :blank:

    No joy with the wings, nothing loads. If you need wings on her, uhh.. you're probably out of luck. :down:

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. Real cool today here with a misty grey sky refusing to give up some sun so far :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Is Lilith Ugly?


    she doesn't look like that in the promos :bug:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Dragon Queen update - applying *any* pose mover her back to thew origin! :ahhh: :ahhh:

    I can't recommend this model to anyone unless you're willing to work with the wings-and-poses issues. :down: It's sad.. :down:

    Well, back to trying to animate her... :blank: Have to save up for Dragon 3 now.. :down:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited August 2014

    First Dragon Test render.... 99MB AVI file.. looks OK.

    http://www.woolyloach.com/drag_test_01.avi

    Rendering out one with dragon motion, if you don't use the canned poses she comes with a fair number of shaping morphs.

    It should be done... tomorrow... :smirk: Turning up the shading rate to 1.0 instead of 0.5 seems to have helped a bit..

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Morning. Real cool today here with a misty grey sky refusing to give up some sun so far :)

    Sounds very nice! :)

  • edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    TroutFace said:
    Ok, I th0ught I had to scale the dragon way up! :bug:

    Here's the Ocean Queen right next to M6 - both un-scaled. Wow... M6 need to be shrunk to fit! :ahhh:

    I see for my Ruttville render the Ocean Queen is scaled up 500%. :bug:


    Oh, that's perfect for an apartment size drake ;p

    Yep - only eats 2 whole cows a week, a real money saver. :blank:

    No joy with the wings, nothing loads. If you need wings on her, uhh.. you're probably out of luck. :down:

    Well, that's a shame. I reread the product and it mentioned both dynamic and conforming wings, so I had hope. As for the poses moving the figure back to origin, I've been dealing with that with quite a number of V6/M6 poses. It got so bad at times that I made sure I wrote down the xyz numbers before I used the pose. At least the current poses I have for Dragon 3 doesn't move them, though one does shrink/grow a figure to a certain scale.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    are we in the milky way galaxy?

    according to this http://www.space.com/19915-milky-way-galaxy.html
    milky way colliding with andromeda at 70 miles per second. don't need to hold on to our hats yet, about a billion year trip :lol:

  • edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    First Dragon Test render.... 99MB AVI file.. looks OK.

    http://www.woolyloach.com/drag_test_01.avi

    Rendering out one with dragon motion, if you don't use the canned poses she comes with a fair number of shaping morphs.

    It should be done... tomorrow... :smirk: Turning up the shading rate to 1.0 instead of 0.5 seems to have helped a bit..

    Neat ^_^ I likes

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited August 2014

    ...I brought up the pose issue and someone responded with a fix, but don't remember which thread it was in. Wish we had the old search engine for then I could just search for posts under my name.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    First Dragon Test render.... 99MB AVI file.. looks OK.

    http://www.woolyloach.com/drag_test_01.avi

    Rendering out one with dragon motion, if you don't use the canned poses she comes with a fair number of shaping morphs.

    It should be done... tomorrow... :smirk: Turning up the shading rate to 1.0 instead of 0.5 seems to have helped a bit..

    Neat ^_^ I likes
    ...agh, all I get is a never ending FF "Connecting" indicator with just a still image.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    First Dragon Test render.... 99MB AVI file.. looks OK.

    http://www.woolyloach.com/drag_test_01.avi

    Rendering out one with dragon motion, if you don't use the canned poses she comes with a fair number of shaping morphs.

    It should be done... tomorrow... :smirk: Turning up the shading rate to 1.0 instead of 0.5 seems to have helped a bit..

    Neat ^_^ I likes

    Thanks! :red: Can't wait to see the dragon move! :cheese:

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...I brought up the pose issue and someone responded with a fix, but don't remember which thread it was in. Wish we had the old search engine for then I could just search for posts under my name.

    I could hand-edit the pose files, I guess.. might try it for fun..

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited August 2014

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    First Dragon Test render.... 99MB AVI file.. looks OK.

    http://www.woolyloach.com/drag_test_01.avi

    Rendering out one with dragon motion, if you don't use the canned poses she comes with a fair number of shaping morphs.

    It should be done... tomorrow... :smirk: Turning up the shading rate to 1.0 instead of 0.5 seems to have helped a bit..

    Neat ^_^ I likes


    ...agh, all I get is a never ending FF "Connecting" indicator with just a still image.

    Next time I'll shove it on to my YouTube account... :red: :red:

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,245
    edited August 2014

    ...NM, just saw the response above.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited August 2014

    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    My movie clip finished rendering early A.M. - 3 seconds long and it took about 12 hours. :ahhh:

    Uploading, will post a link when it's done...

    Oh wow exciting *\0/**\0/**\0/**\0/*

    The darn upload failed, so I'll try again when I get home tonight. :blank:

    Next will be animating the dragon moving while the camera does the flyby.. I expect THAT to be a serious stretch for me..! :bug: The last real animation I made was in Inspire3D, or "Lightwave Lite".. remember that? :blank:

    Awww "taps foot"

    No don't remember Lite but do remember *shudder* LW Core :lol: and think I still have a Toaster somewhere...

    eta been animating sad mike by a fire but the fire got a little outta control :lol:


    not a cozy looking sitting by the fire

    Looks more lie a "watching the city burn" kind of fire! :ahhh:

    Think what I have to do is make a bunch of small emitters and combine them, instead of a single big fireplace size one, going to try that anyhow :)

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