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That's so wonderful to hear! Heads up too, if your interested Poser 12 is being worked on!
I think I going to wait for the P12 before I start to mess with it seriously again.
Oh and your aware that there is a HUGE upgrade to ZBrush just released today! There is a two hour talk, I posted a thread here in the Commons! XO
I was thinking they going to do that next year ? wow gonna check it out right now
in main time check this out Richard
Well, my name's not Richard, but I watched the video anyway. I've got two words for you, Cath…
Holy Mackerel!
(That's the family friendly version…)
I can hardly wait for these to hit the store so I can throw my money your direction.
Thank you, I know you like this kind of previews , I may need to make some live tutorials to show off what you can do with it once it is released, going this weekend into the nature again to make 3D scans including plants .
As you may notice the beautiful simple plants I got from the store here was flickering, wrong shadder setting, noticed after rendering the short sequence of the animated water that why I am going to make some matching sets plants and branches, stones etc.. so everything matching the HDRIs , it also great to set the ground in HDRI when using the shaders so when camera move, everything move with the same direction including the main HDRI , in case someone doing animation , or pair everything to camera, and it working fine too without the floating effect.
It is going to be very exciting set .I have this on my mind for quiet some time but did not had the proper equipment to do that , and I want it to be perfect with the max quality
In place of sleeping I am messing up stuff in Zbrush 2021 and dynamic cloth simulation
pretty simple and quick via GoZ , imported cloth back as morph , I believe it use PhysX and GPU for the simulation as my GPU that is set to use PhysX was running only, not the main that I use for monitor
also the UVs of the simulated portion of clothing get funky so need to be adjust, in the test I did not adjust it , it is a great new tool for modeling clothing and other suff especially when working on high resolution
Remember old freebie 4th July dress ?
You always make it look so easy Cath. LOL Your so f'ing amazing honey! XOXO
Awww.. it is easy when you know where to look for , but he path sometimes is long , I used elastic brush for so long doing stuff with clothing, this is now huge time saving tool
well it was a lot of fun, now back to my shaders lol
...same here.
Thanks, tomorrow 3D scanning day of high resolution grounds, stones and plants in the reservation , finally the weather is proper and is weekend so my hubby can join me and help with the heavy equipment , very exciting
I need to have the scans before fall, or I will have to walk in the woods with a broom lol time flows so fast, September lurks from the corner .
Preview of one of the ground shader in High resolution 8Kx8K , the original is over 600 megapixels (Imagine here 20 DSLR cameras doing 1 picture ) that even PS can''t handle but a lot of details to the little elements , but DS 8x8K is just fine, all seamless on a plane tiled 2 times in the preview , for those that just passing by, it is no geometry , just displacement, normals and other maps on a single 6x6 m plane .
Made over 26 different wood ground scans but it takes some time to extract everything , just want to share with you some progress on stuff with this first one.
The first 2 images are very close up of the ground shader
Hi guys, finally can be able to go back on work with full speed,
My oldie Gigabyte Mobo never disappointed me for many years so I trust the new one do the same . I am happy to put it all together today and run full time again
thanks to my lovely hubby for sponsoring my new TECH , I told him, he should proposed early with a new CPU in place of a ring, I would say yes quicker
I was quiet depressed to run on. my 5 years old PC and running just 1 GPU constantly out of memory since my last MOBO die , once you get used to speed it is hard time to get back.
But in main time I was working on some small stuff in Zbrush, so I will have couple of freebies for you soon to play with
8 RAM sticks
8x 8GB , I wish it was 8x 32GB lol can always upgrade up to 256GB but for now it is all I need.
well I am running already on new system , super fast, iray viewport even running just on CPU without cards selected , can freally moving around in draw photomode without switching to Interactive , loading time of scenes is so much improved , I wanted i9 10900X as it was almost at the same speed in graphics benchmarks close to i9 10980EX and so much cheaper , the 10920X and 10940X totally fail the graphic benchamarks bellow the performance of 10900X .
The only little problem noticed when using displacement, the viewport slowed down for some reason when tring to move around , and I wonder why, with the older CPU it was not even that slow as it is now, and using more or less cards make no difference , do you have any idea why?
Hmm, I've not heard that one before. If you are using the latest driver, and the GPUs are enabled in NVIDIA Iray, all I can suggest is checking the Scheduling options on the Advanced tab (Iray) in Render Settings.
...wonder if I could get the similar response with dual Xeon E5-2687W v3's. Older generation CPU but 3.1 GHz and a total of 40 threads and supports DDR4 memory.
Thanks I am going to check the all settings once again one by one , definitely something changed as I even got some po-up in DS about something was not installed but it vanished quickly, I run the last drivers for GPUs so definitely nothing changed , I recal having this issue long time ago when iray just arrived to DS and the displacement maps was a paint to work with , but then everything goes smooth again for some reason .
The thing is that when using the displacement on the ground, they render in real time , only the HDRI have little pixels when moving the camera , like all rendering power goes to it at once .. maybe DRAW settings need to be adjusted . I going to figure it out after the backups are done .
Maybe it would works great, I was surprised to have real time smooth viewport movements on CPU only . The reason I go for the i9 10900X , the i9 10980EX was just 2 frames faster . I also needed the 48 lanes to support future updates of DDR4 and my 4 cards, so now they run x2 @16 and x2 @8 , plus M2 as it improve so much everything , better than faster DDR, if the SSD is slow the rendering will be slower and everything else, so good balance is needed and not just fast cards. If you render animation sequences the delay can be in hours, just because the system can't read/write down the data fast enough on the slow SSD or any HD you using .
I was consider to get double CPU Mobo, but could not find any that support 4 way GPU , since RTX there is not enough Mobos on the market that support 4 way GPUs
They said yesterday that the DDR4 prices are about to drop dramatically down soon . I will keep my 64GB until I switch to RTX , but that will be not very soon and definitely no this year . COVID19 plundered all my savings and it will be long road to recover .I am broke lol but ready for hard work again !
Older CPU are not always that bad, my over 5 years oldest CPU with just 16 lanes could run 2 cards @16 , impossible right? not so fast, the extra lanes was coming from the X99 chipset on the Gigabytes MOBO
Cool, looks good, any chance of End grain shaders? (I have a table in a well-made set where the end of the planks on the table is regular wood grain and not end grain as it should be and it looks just... wrong.
Thanks, I will have to add it to the list and add the 50 grain shaders for each species, if you want to work on it now, I give you a tip, under tilling you can change the values and offset to create grain shader as well from the same material if you end planks have additional surfaces, if not you can add it easy under geometry editor
Thanks for the request , I would probably forget about this important option
...one of the the reasons I'm looking at those dual Xeons is they have fallen in price. The other is that I can still run under W7 Pro. W10 updates seem to cause a lot of different issues I just don't care to deal with.
That is true, however older motherboards can be pricey , my MSI Godlike that was gone cost me new $400, and 4 years later $900 , I don't get it . I have 2 i7 CPUs that support X99 chippset and I just could not pay double for the Mobo to support it and most of them are used only , beside from China but that is risky. For the same price I got new Mobo and Cpu , it was not my plan but what you can do. I guess I am going to sell all the CPUs and parts on ebay as I never going to use it again. One of the CPU is completely new and in a box , I ordered 3 years ago by mistake could not return it back. .
I saw yesterday test with RTX Quadro $5000 vs RTX Titan X , guess what , no time difference in rendering , beside VRAM difference the both cards rendered at the same speed .
And regarding Win10, if you don't update it regularly it will mess up your system there is no other system I had to reinstall so many times after changing hardware, Win10 is a pain ,I am surprised no issues today beside Activation watermark , I hope they allow me to activate it again due to hardware change's as they did last time , how you going to deal with the security on W7 ? since the support is over ..
...the trouble is I've read enough about those updates and the bugs they often have (which tend to affect older hardware more) in tech reports to not ever want W10 on any machine. So true, I cannot take advantage of the new high core CPUs like Threadrippers, or the latest Intel offerings, but it's not that much of a concern as I really can't afford state of the art tech anyway since I am on a meagre fixed income. Just happy to have a single Titan-X right now.
I have a beefy firewall including an AV that is used by business which gets high marks for security and reliability (in one independent tech report, during several recent malware attacks, it stood up to all of them). I also have anti malware and system cleaning utilities as well as am careful when online (usually the most common "fail point" when it comes to infection). A little disturbed that the forums here show up as "Not Secure" though the main site does. The last time I ever had a system infected, it was trusted to MS security.
That happens, I believe, when one of the posts on the page includes embedded images not hosted on Daz servers. If the hosting server, or maybe just the image url isn't https, the browser will show the page isn't secure. That's not to say you shouldn't be wary, though.
...yeah old schooler here who's always just a bit paranoid, particularly as I am running an older non supported OS that pretty much has worked flawlessly for me. Pretty muchm the "not responding" messages and freeze ups I get have to do with Chrome.
That's correct, images and banners that are in the posts not belong to DAZ server will show it as not secure .
I am talking about hackers that can use the system to get in, since w7 is not more supported , a software on your PC will not stop them as that are holes in the outdated system itself and the last protection here is to cut the access to the Internet to be 100% safe.. what was made by one human can be hacked by another .100% quarantine not excisiting here. I stopped being paranoid with it , I spent so much money before on the best anti virus software and always ended with some things not belong on my station, since I stopped and use just Windows I have nothing since forever , thinking they inplant things just to get you pay more and bein paranoid .lol
Did you saw the Intel CPU with the 61 cores as PCIe ? looks like a simple GPU card with heat sink .. imagine what you could do with all the threads , guys convert the cards to full plate water colling and running in PC , since they are made for server and have no fans inside so the air can flows freely in the server . That was kinder interesting .