The Renderfarm

@X-27 Not voting is actually an important choice, UV says good job, DV says that sucks, and no vote says okaish, that wasn't good enough to get a prize but it wasn't wrong either

@X-27 okay

To me unless you a reading a bazillion old posts you shouldn't be UV ing that much...

most posts aren't inclined either way enough to vote. I wish they had an abstain from voting button. My vote count would then be much closer to you and @NoviceInDisguise...

NoviceInDisguise

12:38 AM

Yeah, I think 40 is reasonable, I do run out on occasion though

GiantCowFilms

12:51 AM

@David, @X-27 Here is David's new gift, from me. Use it well to fight the spam. And remember only he who be worthy with the tags can lift this blade of death!

The Khammer of banishment!

@David you must put it in your profile :D

David

1:09 AM

@GiantCowFilms O brother. :)

X-27

A lightning shooting tag-changing ban-hammer

GiantCowFilms

@David Will you put it into your profile

?

David

@GiantCowFilms nope

GiantCowFilms

@David Why not?

X-27

@GiantCowFilms Good question

GiantCowFilms

1:10 AM

@David Just for fun? it is your hammer

X-27

@David I know why, it is a lame font

Eurostile LT ExtendedTwo

(all caps)

David

@GiantCowFilms It just does not fit me well. Plus it is only funny for a very few of us. other then that it will just be an odd image.

GiantCowFilms

You can add a paragraph or too explaining it...

David

how did you make the handle?

GiantCowFilms

how it represents your dedication to tagging, give the story of the kinfe tool, and talk about anti-spam commitments

@David in photoshop, using three paths

David

1:12 AM

you made it in PS

:) yep figured it out.

@GiantCowFilms now this is funny.

in Blender 2015 Moderator Election Chat, 19 mins ago, by GiantCowFilms

I nearly made it a knife, but it just brought up really terrible images of @David stabbing tag abusing noobs to death... smashing their brains out with a hammer is much more pleasant.

GiantCowFilms

You do have a strange sense of humor

will you star your Khammer at least? do you even like it?

GiantCowFilms

1:28 AM

@gandalf3 Here is one for you:

The Suzzane Slammer Snark Block Plus...

Removes all snark instantly. Also leaves a very unique print on the victims faces.

X-27

lol

X-27

2:12 AM

just made a nice looking electro-ban hammer

GiantCowFilms

Who is that for?

X-27

Electricly charged diamond powering the energy coils concealed under the removable X-matter covers.

@GiantCowFilms Iklsr.

GiantCowFilms

Ah...

X-27

Yes, it is the diamond that powers the hammer. It is the diamond that gives a moderator power.

I might have to use your answer on how to make lightning :-)

There is a spike (mainly a heat conductor for the coils)- as a result, it is normally super-heated (and very painful to get hit with)

rendering a better one to give to iklsr

GiantCowFilms

Render one for the poster... and give me it with the alpha I'm trying to make one of each, and then I'll make a cool combo

X-27

2:25 AM

ok, (let the current render finish)

GiantCowFilms

Okey... render it without the angle, I can do that....

the dimensions are 1200 X 1600

X-27

@iKlsR my gift to you. the ElectroShockBanHammer

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 You can actually give me the .blend...

then I can set the lighting up to match :D

X-27

alright, but I must warn you, I might improve it further after you have the blend. (I sadly must use pasteall here)

pasteall.org/blend/36611

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms That hammer you made for @David is awesome!

Now I have to ask, where does all this hammer stuff come from?

Where do these images get put?

iKlsR

2:46 AM

@X-27 where's the electricity

X-27

3:09 AM

55 mins ago, by X-27

@iKlsR The electric power comes from the Diamond.

gandalf3

3:32 AM

@GiantCowFilms \o/ Now I just need a staff -> hammer adapter..

GiantCowFilms

4:18 AM

@gandalf3 lol

What is your staff? 1 1/2" or 1 3/4"?

gandalf3

6:03 AM

4

@TARDISMaker chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=ban+hammer&room=8888

gandalf3

6:46 AM

@GiantCowFilms I'll just make it fit with the magic of post processing:

SOS

zeffii

10:10 AM

gandalf3

:O

Those animation nodes?

zeffii

that's sverchok

gandalf3

oh

Cool, I didn't know they did things besides procedural geometry

zeffii

gist.github.com/zeffii/ac3dffef09fb64781664

sverchok can do almost anything..

2

here the setup takes up most of the code

but I image it may just be simpler to write a cycles PyNode with similar content... taking a 2d coordinate (will ignore z) and a height + width number value

actually, I may do that..

but would be cooler to have a bezier mask for it...

gandalf3

:)

zeffii

10:41 AM

we are discussing a recode of Sverchok, hopefully making it more accessible for the end user

gandalf3

Nice

I've had "learn Sverchok" on my todo list since forever :/

@zeffii Not sure if this is meant as a comment for you or just a .blend only "answer"

-1

A: Scrolling credits

My version of Zeffii's titles, ))

zeffii

please convert this to a comment then man

he's a main developer of sverchok, but language barrier and lack of experience with BSE

gandalf3

Oh neat

@zeffii I'm still learning the ropes with all these new abilities :P

zeffii

cool, we stand firmly beside you :)

gandalf3

:D

zeffii

11:05 AM

Guys I know this is a long shot, But I badly need a tutorial for how this is entire scene is don

HAHAAHAHAHA

shocking.

gandalf3

ikr.

zeffii

did he delete it himself?

gandalf3

11:23 AM

It's still there..

zeffii

he started hurling abuse, i flagged it, and it disappeared :)

NoviceInDisguise

This dude is a moron . . .

-5

Q: Interstellar Gargantua

Guys I know this is a long shot, But I badly need a tutorial for how this is entire scene is done. I'm in uni and for one of my papers I need to do a similar scene to this. I have done so much research and readings, but I am new to blender so this is quite hard for me. I know asking for a tutoria...

zeffii

indeed.

gandalf3

@zeffii I saw that. It says you deleted it o.o

zeffii

he added them back ... :)

it must be hell being that guy.

every day.

(or girl...)

gandalf3

11:36 AM

oh dear

Looks like you need a moderator..

zeffii

looks like he/she needs a psyche evaluation

gandalf3

11:54 AM

Well, I g2g. At least it seems you can delete comments until iKlsR and David turn up :P

zeffii

hehe.. BSE / SE should have a deputize feature.

wooden

good day all

zeffii

12:11 PM

ola!

wooden

zeffi where ur from?

zeffii

Earth.

: D

we pay very little attention to where people come from around here.

welcome :)

wooden

12:48 PM

many rules I don't know lol :D

GiantCowFilms

1:37 PM

@gandalf3 lol

@TARDISMaker Its a long standing joke. I want the mods to add 'em to their profiles, but they probably won't.

David

Best reason you should have voted for me: To be able to differentiate between David and now David ♦

7

zeffii

David

@zeffii nice new node. sevchok is better all the time.

zeffii

ha, that's a custom generic node works in all node trees

David

neat

zeffii

1:44 PM

gist.github.com/zeffii/bdfb9ec945446883d91f

but its use as a node is limited without having socket intputs, it might as well be a Panel.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 lol

@X-27 All the textures are missing!

X-27

2:11 PM

@gandalf3 I'll make you one, don't worry

@GiantCowFilms Oops! forgot to pack them again

Ahh! too big with the textures!

does blend exchange have a file size limit?

(You could delete it after you download it)

it is 41.5 MB

and PasteVeryLittle can only do 30 MB

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 Thats to big

really hard to violate the file size limit

TARDIS Maker

3:31 PM

@GiantCowFilms Well I think @David needs his in his profile, although maybe it should look a bit more polished.

GiantCowFilms

3:43 PM

@TARDISMaker I will polish it some more if he agrees to put it into is profile.

I also assume the lightning is what needs polishing, correct?

TARDIS Maker

Yeah, lighting, and maybe just a bit more overall work, but it's pretty close.

NoviceInDisguise

@David lol

That will be handy

GiantCowFilms

These features really need to be added into blender cycles

Element 3D V2.2 New Features!

►

esp the matte shadow workflow in gerneal

TARDIS Maker

In realtime!

NoviceInDisguise

Cool!

TARDIS Maker

3:55 PM

Hopefully the PBR viewport will help get us closer, although I doubt it will give results of that quality.

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker Nah, cycles is good

I just wish I could sometimes separate shadows and reflections

NoviceInDisguise

^^

Render passes are great, but only so far

TARDIS Maker

Yeah, I wonder how hard it would be to implement.

I just wonder how well it would fit into the design of cycles.

But then, in addition to that, we need light groups.

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker It necessary for any kind of vfx and comp workflow, and that would probably make up about 1/3 to 1/2 of the user base

@TARDISMaker It should....

TARDIS Maker

Yeah, if I had a nice camera, I would probably be doing mostly VFX stuff.

GiantCowFilms

4:03 PM

@TARDISMaker Very fun :D

but cycles is virtually useless due to the lack of proper matte shadow, matte AO and matte reflection toolset.

currently you have to kinda fudge it....

Facepalm

closed system console

TARDIS Maker

I feel like one of the only ways that this would be brought to attention, would be to have another VFX open movie.

Or to hire a dev

Sadly

system console for what?

GiantCowFilms

blender system console

TARDIS Maker

Ah, fun

GiantCowFilms

I have my auto save set for every one minute :D

So I lost no work :D

@TARDISMaker That would require money

Luckily I have tones of it lying around....

lol

no features for us plebs

@TARDISMaker Or try to write it ourselves and have a dev take pitty

TARDIS Maker

That works.

I can start by printing hello world whenever the box is checked! :)

GiantCowFilms

4:10 PM

:)

@TARDISMaker Yes, I can ask so many questions and make so many bad sarcastic jokes on IRC they'll add it to get rid of me....

TARDIS Maker

:)

Or you could just lucas stockner nicely

since he likes to play santa :)

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker good to know :)

TARDIS Maker

Or just yell at cambell and pretend he's the only dev you know of

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker lol

cya later

TARDIS Maker

bye

TARDIS Maker

4:43 PM

Anyone else getting an error when you try to go to blenderguru.com?

It was happening yesterday, but only when I tried to go to the competition page, but not it's happening when I try going to the homepage

zeffii

@TARDISMaker maybe he's trying to throttle his views, to keep bandwidth down

X-27

5:25 PM

@GiantCowFilms I can pack it without the HDR, but you'll need to have one to put there instead.

@TARDISMaker Yah, it is driving us all nuts, we want to know who won the competition!

@GiantCowFilms I un linked the HDR, now it is only 1.92 MB

pasteall.org/blend/36629

gandalf3

5:40 PM

11 hours ago, by gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms I'll just make it fit with the magic of post processing:

:P

X-27

lol

don't worry gandalf, your staff is next

:-)

gandalf3

waits eagerly

X-27

I'll try to be quick - you want a black shinny Suzanne on top with glowing blue eyes ?

gandalf3

claps hands and jumps for joy

stares around to make sure nobody saw

X-27

lol

with a diamond for eyes!

lol, I should be quiet and surprise you...

gandalf3

5:48 PM

:D

X-27

(rugged or straight staff)

?

gandalf3

surprise me ;)

No one noticed my render.. :'(

X-27

You rendered that?

WOw

I thought that was a good Photoshop job!

starred

TARDIS Maker

@X-27 It won't be announced for about a week.

He mentioned it in the news letter

zeffii

6:04 PM

damnit... why can't everyone program....?

TARDIS Maker

@gandalf3 I saw it, I just decided not to comment.

It's a cool render!

gandalf3

haha thanks

TARDIS Maker

@zeffii what do you mean?

zeffii

i mean.. nothing.. i guess programming is harder than I remember before I learnt

gandalf3

@X-27 :D (the hammer is a GIMP obviously, but the rest is 100% created in blender from scratch. Even the ~~textures~~ texture was painted)

X-27

6:07 PM

wow

TARDIS Maker

@gandalf3 what textures?

gandalf3

Well, the sky :P

TARDIS Maker

Okay, but that just looks like a few gradients

gandalf3

I think I started painting some textures for the ground but dumped them because it looked better without.

@TARDISMaker More or less, I went over it all with the smear brush pretty heavily

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker same here

TARDIS Maker

6:10 PM

Also, is it supposed to be a mix of high poly and low poly, or did you just forget to set smooth in the ground?

gandalf3

It's sort of a weird mix. I liked it better without smooth shading, but idk why

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 Oh lol, I though't you'd assembled it of the internet it look so good!

gandalf3

lol xD

GiantCowFilms

esp since it was done so fast

gandalf3

Well, not that fast.. I had a day

(more like two half-days)

TARDIS Maker

6:13 PM

I'm guessing most of that was just modeling gandalf?

gandalf3

A cloth sim fixed gandalf up pretty quickly :P

zeffii

BSE crew should make a film some day

gandalf3

I just modelled a low poly body to support the cloth..

X-27

The diamonds will be threaded so they can be un-screwed and swapped :-)

David

@pink vertex let me know if this edit was ok, I'm not sure if your old code no longer works.

gandalf3

6:15 PM

Hi David :)

g2g

o/

X-27

lol

gandalf3

:P

David

@gandalf3 I saw; and smiled.

gandalf3

shrinks away into nothing

TARDIS Maker

Oh no! He took someone with him!

David

6:18 PM

later gandalf3

X-27

putting threads on a cone is not easy.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 True...

@zeffii X-27 did

packed with inside jokes of course

cya alls later

David

6:58 PM

Us mods here are very careful about what we do; and we like to be in agreement about any action. This question is an example. :)

7

Or this more recant example.

zeffii

@David yes, v is referenced nowhere, but scale_dist is. looks good

TARDIS Maker

@David You have a very dry sense of humor

David

@TARDISMaker sounds like you should talk to GiantCowFilms about my humor. :(

Mutant Bob

8:07 PM

@GiantCowFilms, I'm thinking of replacing the narrative for my Twisting Ropes answer to use this instead: pasteall.org/59012/text

I'm waffling on the idea of adding screenshots, since it could pretty easily balloon to 8 or more screenshots.

gandalf3

9:24 PM

@David LOL that's brilliant

GiantCowFilms

10:36 PM

@MutantBob Looks much better.

be sure to add pretty pictures

you can record gifs with liceCap + wine for linux

@MutantBob You can always add it to the post and then use a roll back if you don't like it

X-27

11:19 PM

Wow, black hole went bounty-happy!

David

11:39 PM

Welcome David! Thanks for your answer, please try to add more information or a screenshot, so that your answer is comprehensible for others. At the moment it is a so called: low quality post and will be deleted in this state soon. — poor 14 hours ago

I thought I was past that point by now...

NoviceInDisguise

lol

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