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6:00 PM
though this might come in late... congratulations to the new moderators @iKlsR @gandalf3 @David !!!
 
yay! new mods...!
 
why everyone is so happy about that?
are the old ones were bad?
 
no
:P
 
no, we're just congratulating them
 
thanks :P
 
6:02 PM
congratulations!
now I did that too
 
:D
 
not at all. I personally like being part of this community, that's ll...
 
?
 
6:03 PM
I think @cegaton is still talking about the "are the old ones bad"
just a late response is al
l
 
No bad moderators...
 
see, look how smart I am
 
was my sentence correct? I'm feeling bad for my english . really.
 
haha
Your english is fine :)
(ack I messed up my english while saying that XD)
 
lol, your sentences were fine... there's actually no reason to feel bad
@gandalf3 I English very badly..
 
6:07 PM
it's really difficult for me, takes a few minutes to say a simple sentence
 
the problem is, it's not really one language...
you've got English, then you've got American...
completely different
and there different versions of American...
you got you Ec's. Wc's, A/Canadians, and you're southerners.
 
And even besides all the dialects, english is just pretty weird alot of the time..
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A: How do native speakers 'guess' the pronunciation of the letters in a word they see for the first time?

writingthesisI asked some native friends the same thing, and they told me their guesses are based on similar words. It is far from perfect (moon - door anyone?), but it is a start. Also, the origin of the word may help. Charade is French, a mostly phonemic (that is, a letter or group of letters have the sam...

 
@RadishoftheOpera Its now a running joke, that only I find funny (the best kind)
 
all of you can respond to messages instantly.. while I have some problems with expressing my thoughts because they sound weird
 
Amazing texturing tips
 
6:12 PM
@GiantCowFilms gah!!! but I don't have PS!!
 
@RadishoftheOpera Try to apply what you learn in it to gimp
 
do people in U.S.A. buy every software or cracking them?
 
there is a lot of valuable generic theory in it
 
@wooden people won't really care how weird your thought sound... look back through the record at all the bizzare things I've said
 
@wooden Well taking time to read what you are saying is always good. Something I wish I did more ;)
 
6:13 PM
@wooden "cracking" ....?
 
ok how to explain that
 
Software cracking (known as "breaking" in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware. A crack refers to the mean of achieving software cracking, for example a stolen serial number or a tool that performs that act of cracking. Some of these tools are called keygen, patch or loader. A keygen is...
^^ there
 
thanks
 
@wooden I always buy it
 
how much is maya or 3ds?
 
6:15 PM
as a student Photoshop is pretty cheap
@wooden for more then anyone should pay for something like that.
around $4k
 
@GiantCowFilms I just go open source until I get a better job
 
in my country we crack everything
 
@wooden If you think buying them will help your 3D art think again. When you hit blenders few limits, and need to buy software, you will know.
 
@GiantCowFilms if you hit blenders limits, you've got other problems
 
> "This is the last year a perpetual license is available for purchase."
autodesk also can't english
:P
 
6:18 PM
@wooden Indeed... :/ we noticed
 
how?
 
@GiantCowFilms ?
we did?
 
@wooden America has a pretty good idea of how much of our intellectual property is stolen over seas. Half of china uses windows OS unlicensed, its not hard to figure that out.
 
well my windows are legal but I guess it's the only thing
 
So you stole everything else?
 
6:20 PM
I have photoshop but I prefer using pixlr which is free
 
@GiantCowFilms I don't like your accusatory tone....
,jk.
 
ammm like in the games I used to play non steam things
 
@RadishoftheOpera Well, I don't have any sympathy for people who steal software.
 
@cegaton thanks cegaton, please ping me with any concern about the site. (I'm a mod now:)
 
yeah I hate myself too
 
6:21 PM
3 mins ago, by GiantCowFilms
@wooden Indeed... :/ we noticed
 
but I don't have enough money to buy all the things
 
<jk>
@wooden I don't either, I just do without then, because its the right thing to do
 
Everyone should just make their software opensource. Guaranteed way to prevent all stealing.
 
@gandalf3 lol
The problem is that nobody would pay anything
 
that's a problem?
 
6:24 PM
Maybe
 
it should be free for people who don't get cash for what they do with that software
 
Maybe not (look at blender)
 
@gandalf3 it wouldn't, there would still be somebody trying to steal something, anything.
 
The thing that I don't understand is why Autodesk has so many different pieces of software that basically do the same thing...
 
a non-com license
 
6:24 PM
@cegaton me too
 
@David Well they can't steal the software at any rate..
 
@cegaton cept Revit
 
@gandalf3 Blender would get way more if it was commercail
 
revits way different
 
@GiantCowFilms Way more.. And way less.
 
6:25 PM
what's the average salary in the u.s.a.
 
@cegaton The bought up all the competition, in order to create a virtual monopoly
 
@GiantCowFilms they also wouldn't have as many nerd fanatics who live in $400 apartments...
 
and then were to lazy to combine or discontinue any packages
 
@gandalf3 very true
 
@cegaton And why can't just buy the thing once, you have to keep paying..
 
6:26 PM
@gandalf3 PS very nice guru image.
 
thanks :D
 
@wooden it think about 44K annually, if I remember correctly
 
330 euros for month here..
 
@gandalf3 that part is simple, everybody is doing it, google, MS, adobe etc. and you make more money.
 
... I still think my opensource idea is better ;)
 
6:28 PM
@wooden ouch....
 
yeah that's sad
 
@GiantCowFilms I get, like, a quarter of that... :/
 
@gandalf3 FF seams to think it works well.
(and so do I)
 
:)
 
@RadishoftheOpera not bad, I get next to nothing
 
6:30 PM
So, I was playing around with a much more verbose version of my Twisting Ropes answer and stumbled across a situation I've never noticed before:
 
@MutantBob !
verbose is a good word...
 
I parented an empty to the curve using Ctrl-P instead of the parent field in the object properties. The position of the object in the N panel appeared to be in world coordinates instead of local coordinates. Poking around with python I discovered the "secret" matrix_basis property was not the identity matrix.
 
@gandalf3 who is the character in your image based off of?
 
No one in particular
I just had an idea for a "steampunky" type person.. :P
 
prntscr.com/7i44e2 look funny picture
 
6:34 PM
@gandalf3 He kind of reminds me of the guy in elephants dream
 
country that is 400 km from norway gets 5x smaller salary
 
interesting
(that works as a reply to both David and wooden :P)
 
yes,
 
heh ;D
can anyone explain step by step what should I do with those repeating textures.... :D
 
stop
using
them
 
6:39 PM
xD
 
well i though about that too
 
but i still need it to do my work somehow
 
you just need to unwrap really well and put seams in obscure places
 
I believe i'm such an annoying person :D but i'll improve day by day
 
6:43 PM
I don't believe so
 
me too
 
and yes you wiil
using one hand -eating
 
I agree that I won't improve :D
no joking even a little bit i will
with mark seams whenever I put them I can see them
the thing is that I want to clone stamp those places where you can see them
 
probably need a 2D image software to do it right...
 
mhm should be easier
 
6:50 PM
@wooden I don't believe you are an annoying person and I know you will improve day by day
(using two hands now)
 
could be a way where I just paint on my model but unlike choosing the colour of brush I would choose the texture
 
yes
 
I can do that now but to choose texture instead of colour (it actually would be clone stamp) I need to have texture on my model
 
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Q: How to paint with the clone option in Texture Paint?

PaulI would like to use the clone tool with texture paint, but as soon as I choose Texture Paint, the mesh is white, and I cannot paint on it. I created a new UV Map, after I project the image from view, the image of reference appears well on the mesh in Object Mode, but I get this white color in T...

 
it's text draw brush isn't it?
I think i've found a way in my brains
 
6:58 PM
@wooden ^^
 
right
i was about to write that
 
:D
 
couldn't find how to add new texture
when i added only black was added
but i think i see from your picture
 
In cycles the image being painted is determined by the active image texture node in the material nodes
 
you see I've never did blender render before and actually it's first week with blender so everything is so difficult to me even though it's simple
 
7:02 PM
o.O You're way ahead of where I was in my first week :D
 
i checked somewhere that cycles gives more realistic results with light so I used it with not knowing that it's different in properties
 
Yes, cycles is a whole different engine (with a different material system, texture system, etc.)
 
I've been working with maya back in 2010 but what I can tell that I suck at everything what I do :D
animating is so interesting now even if it's a big challenge for me
you can express your imagination to reality lol :D
I can even create my dream girl and then print it with 3d printer
i bet with my skills she would look horrible
 
Man, i'm trying to figure out why the location property on this object isn't in local coordinate space, and I've gone down the matrix rabbit hole: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15240/… . I still don't know what the relationship between the matrices is because I can't understand french.
as for printing dream girls, you can just buy an anime box set that comes with a figurine: dcmstudiosonline.com/hosted/anime_figures.jpg
 
7:22 PM
heh
my question is: when you adjust the size of brush it stays the same no matter if you zoom in or zoom out
what i mean if you zoom too much brush becomes too small
 
You want the brush size to remain the same relative to the canvas, regardless of zoom?
 
yeah
its like in real life my hand would be bigger than tree which is far away but smaller than tinderbox which is near to me
im bad at explaining things lol :D
 
I think I get it
It does that by default in the UV image editor, but not sure about the 3D view
 
and the other thing clone stamp remains too blury even with the biggest strength
 
8:12 PM
@gandalf3, @David can you randomly ban somebody, the moderator election came to such an anti climax, with nothing really happening. @NoviceInDisguise maybe you could also accuse them of faking the votes, and have a fit? :D That would be appreciated, thank you in advance for helping me fight boredom in The Renderfarm
 
bans GCF
 
The on thing that is more jerkish (lightened the term) then eating an apple in a movie is linking to the page you are currently on.
@gandalf3 Good think I didn't vote for you <jk>
 
@GiantCowFilms Or just redirecting the page you are currently on to the page that you were redirected from, server-side (like this).
 
@gandalf3 lol
@Andrew Price, get you IT together.... or does your instagram cat do it, in his spare time.
@gandalf3 sysadmin: sacked; guy who hired him: promotion
 
sysadmin: meow
guy who hired him: awww a kitty!
o.o
They tried to sack the kitty but PETA wouldn't let them
 
8:20 PM
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A: How not to lose quality of image with brush

X-27When creating your texture that you are going to paint to, increase this number. (smaller is lower resolution, larger will allow for more detail) It is a good idea to keep powers of 2, such as 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 Etc. In your case, when you already have an image made, you can adjust the siz...

how is that?
one of my first cycles answers
 
amm
wait
trying to find a way to explain what i think
I think it has nothing to do with uv editor
because i paint on the object, not that I put the texture I just paint that
 
8:44 PM
After much flailing around, I have decided that blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15240/… is what matrix_basis is.
How much truth it contains has yet to be determined.
 
8:55 PM
@GiantCowFilms lol
@GiantCowFilms Instead of being bored, go take a hike. I did.
@RadishoftheOpera Not too bad!
Not over glossy like hte other one
 
9:49 PM
@GiantCowFilms are you trying to get me in trouble already?
(I did not think it was that bad of an idea)
 
 
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11:04 PM
Yeah, they can be mean. I think it is a good idea!
 
anyone with a main meta account
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A: Help us identify micro-privileges for top users

A RadishMore Up/Down Votes The high rep-users are regularly online, and find plenty of really good or really bad posts to vote on. As a result, they frequently run out. Higher rep users should have many more than 40 votes per day. I frequently use all of my daily votes, and I am sure there are plenty of...

I'm sure @NoviceInDisguise agrees,
 
11:25 PM
Interesting.. I typically vote on most things, yet I rarely run out
 
11:40 PM
@gandalf3 lo;
@David ikr
@X-27 I disagree
40 votes is enough
 
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