The Renderfarm

NoviceInDisguise

12:12 AM

@GiantCowFilms Done

Now that that is done, going to start fixing some materials. That top beam on the shed is driving me CRAZY . . .

David

@X-27 and @GiantCowFilms look who else squiggles in their images.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 lol... one of the reasons I'm not running for the fun of it is that I can make fairly appealing "better then it is" posts for the noob population... and I could stand an odd chance of winning...

gandalf3

:P

David

@iKlsR after going through the knife questions (and retaging some of them) I have decided to use [:knife-tool] for the kine projection question too. I know it is different, but many of them are closeish.

X-27

Wow, that sets an all time record for squiggles

GiantCowFilms

12:21 AM

@NoviceInDisguise As part of the civil air patrol, do you actually get to fly... you should be able to get some stunning photos if you do :D

X-27

and he was using Default MS blue for the darker squiggles!

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I still want a closeup of the tractor :D

gandalf3

@David Assuming kine=knife project, then I agree 100%

Actually I never realized that we weren't using knife-tool for knife project things..

cegaton

@GiantCowFilms I've never been a fan of jogging, running or brisk walks.... If that answers your question...

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Just so you know, Andrew is critical of entries that don't "center" pieces like the tractor esp if the rest of the scene is of a lower quality. You get extra points off if you compose your scene in a way that doesn't maximize the mileage out of your work

David

12:26 AM

@gandalf3 that is because we weren't using knife tool. (iKlsR had for a long time refused to let some tags grow:)

after talking with him (again) yesterday he said go ahead.

GiantCowFilms

@cegaton ha ha... but seriously you should run for moderator. It will give you an excuse to spend more time on your chair instead of "running"

gandalf3

Oh. I thought we turned around recreated knife-tool a few months ago

cegaton

@GiantCowFilms I read the requisites and I think I would fail the description: Patient and fair...

David

@gandalf3 sadly, no.

if you all find any questions that can be tagged knife-tool please re tag it.

iKlsR

12:47 AM

@NoviceInDisguise 10x better, make the shed larger and tone down the abberation

NoviceInDisguise

2:10 AM

@GiantCowFilms Yes actually, I do get to fly :D 5 free powered flights, 5 free glider flights, and a discounted per-hour rate after that

@GiantCowFilms Yeah, I only got 2 weeks to finish o.O

GiantCowFilms

2:56 AM

@NoviceInDisguise That is so cool!!! it must be a lot of fun...

NoviceInDisguise

It sure is! I can get my private pilot's license cheaper as well

GiantCowFilms

Do a barrel roll next time you fly (so I can take your spot in the election)

NoviceInDisguise

lol, I don't want to die. We use cessna 172 and 182 aircraft, not rated for that ;)

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise wow... :D flying would be so fun... I'd probably get kicked out for duct taping a camera to the underside of the plane and flying low over some house to get a cool shot XD

NoviceInDisguise

XD Get a quad copter for that

CAP actually does reconnaissance photography for natural disasters and such.

GiantCowFilms

3:01 AM

Oh wow

@NoviceInDisguise Yes but those are expensive and can be dangerous if they fall on you (I know somebody who built one and was nearly hit by it! ouch!)

cya tommorrow

NoviceInDisguise

cya

GiantCowFilms

3:12 AM

back shortly

just remembered that @NoviceInDisguise added that he is single in his nomination "speach" ... there shall be no mercy! enter the teasing chambers

NoviceInDisguise

Progress int he right direction . . .

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Since your single.... have you tricked picking up girls in an airplane ;) <jk>

NoviceInDisguise

Nope

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera don't miss the fun!

NoviceInDisguise

Not interested

GiantCowFilms

3:14 AM

Figured... that was a joke

NoviceInDisguise

You are single too . . . ;)

GiantCowFilms

necessary teasing

NoviceInDisguise

Yeah, I'm pretty immune

GiantCowFilms

Siblings I presume

NoviceInDisguise

Yep

cya tomorrow

David

3:17 AM

@iKlsR they to some extent already are. I have said this before, (and gandalf3 stole my line) with the privileges system SE has not much would change for me, except for the fact that (example) I would no longer have to ask for delete votes on some pice of spam.

@GiantCowFilms LOL! (still laughing) that was by far the funnest thing you have posted here.

GiantCowFilms

3:39 AM

@NoviceInDisguise Duh! it would be unbelievably creepy at my age.

@David That (have you tricked picking up girls in an airplane) should be our answer to Blackhole's (BlenderDev) next question XD

I'd award it a 500 rep bounty

Though he'd probably ask us for a flying tutorial in the comments

@David You sir have a strange sense of humor

gandalf3

4:09 AM

@NoviceInDisguise Wow nice! I feel like a gap in the grass would be nice.. I can't see the tractor properly with the grass in the way :P

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms somehow, i can only imagine a homeschooler picking up their girl in a plane.

@GiantCowFilms and i think he's pretty close to your age... :/

@NoviceInDisguise you can barrel roll a 182... you just need to keep your cool and not fall out cause it'll be upside down for like, 10 seconds...

"alright start rolling"

gotcha

rolling

um...

still rolling.

and now it looks like we're.

still rolling.

and almost done....

ah...

done.

cegaton

6:26 AM

There has been a knife tool revisionist spree,,,

zeffii

6:42 AM

regarding retraction, i'm disappointed that there are only 3 spots

and I want other people to be in those

I was serious until I read 3 spots, and this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257614/…

@David @iKlsR yeah, the inactivity might happen again, so just in case I pulled the plug.

gandalf3

8:39 AM

6

I can't keep up with all the new nominations :P

NoviceInDisguise

11:16 AM

@RadishoftheOpera IKR? They are very slow . . . ends up it is just a maneuver CAP personnel are not allowed to do.

iKlsR

12:19 PM

@gandalf3 XD

I would love if the work could be broken down like that in a team of 3, someone overseeing tags mainly would be a big win. Can't do it all!!

@zeffii tbh, disappearing for a month isn't bad

It's disappearing without letting anyone know why

SE doesn't require you to be around 24/7 but working in a team and just up and leaving the work on one person is bad. I'd totally do the work if you were off to the Himalayas to visit your ailing grandma. It's funny how emotions make it into electronic medium but if I sense you don't care that's different.

@gandalf3 where's your banner?

zeffii

@iKlsR you are reading far too much into my change of mind.

iKlsR

@zeffii No, I'm just reflecting what inactivity means to me as a mod

zeffii

oh..unless you were referring to mods doing zilch

yeah, that's lame

iKlsR

I've been here 741 days, about a month or more of that is me just visiting the site tbh when I had no internet and couldn't do anything

Just a visit from my phone, a vote, a review and gone

zeffii

12:34 PM

i switch computers a lot, and sometimes didnt bother to sign in to stackexchange network

the massive gaps reflect that

iKlsR

Yeah i get that, same goes for me for chat sometimes.

zeffii

but whatever, i'm not a mod, checked the stats regulary tho :)

it seemed to go fine without me

i came back after it dropped below 90% (Answered)

and it's still dropping...

iKlsR

With more people joining that's expected.

I think SO is like 70 something?

zeffii

but three mods only.. then I'm not essential to have in that list

I only read that number when David asked me to read his question, it was right beside it

before that I was unaware of this ridiculously low mod count.

iKlsR

It's usually 3, we had 4 because there was a lot of work in early beta.

zeffii

12:42 PM

there's a lot of work in general in participating in this site

that 'unanswered questions' issue still botheres me

iKlsR

Yeah, for me it was either get to 1 million rep or actually moderate it.

zeffii

(as far as digital stuff bothers me)

iKlsR

We will have to find a way to deal with that soon.

I'm all for a weekend of burning crap.

zeffii

well cool! that might happen then!

with some stats to back up what we think about the queue, that would be great

i doubt it.. but it might just be that a lof of those questions are just hard to answer because the question is hard.

of course some percentage is simply people not coming back to accept.

user has 1 question, user has not returned,

question has answer (deemed to be valid by attentive readers checking why it wasn't accepted)

then those kinds of questions should be closed with some tag

but I don't know how often that happens

iKlsR

hmm

zeffii

12:49 PM

when I randomly browse those questions I also think:

"yep, I have no clue if this question has an answer"

iKlsR

Some are boring as well

zeffii

yeah " THINK FOR ME "

sometimes I don't mind those, there's some educational variants of that

other times they aren't pummelled with " WHAT HAVE YOU TRIED?! " hard enough

David

@gandalf3 That is great! I love it

@GiantCowFilms I do not. (just many of your jokes are not funny)

@zeffii cegaton has some great commentary on question like those. here and here

GiantCowFilms

1:47 PM

@David Ouch... you just lost my vote!

@gandalf3 That is amazing!

5 candidates

I'm liking this... there may be some close ones

David

0

Q: Animations not responding correctly?

Intro: To begin, I have an empty with some animations, but i'll be looking at 2 of them and describing them simpler than what they actually are to make this question easier. Here are my 2 animations: Animation_1: (30 frames) The empty stays in place without rotating, moving (location), or scalin...

GiantCowFilms

Hmm should I?

:P

zeffii

@David cool reads

I once did tech support for a mega company, in the days before broadband

the phones are the companies trenches, first defence

I really really got introduced to the lowest brain activity on the planet

David

@zeffii is that still true today? I would think online support has taken over.

zeffii

and i'd often think

no. today online support is preferred, people are used to it..expect it... are clued in more, have better internet

but then it was ' it says i have no dial tone '

me: 'ok, is it connected to the phoneline' ?

David

2:00 PM

@zeffii "how do I right click?"

zeffii

I HAVE <insert cruel dissease> PLEASE WRITE MY EMAIL WHILE I DICTATE

GiantCowFilms

XD

zeffii

that's hard to say no to

the bell curve is true about intellect, there's a lof of people waay too thick to be near a computer

David

I understand, I have helped my extended family (some who are very computer clueless) with all sorts of troubles.

zeffii

or just not interested, yet..for some reason... need to be able to do something

so on BSE it is similar for a select group

maybe i'm far too grumpy about this stuff

one of the questions for the moderators was interesting

David

2:05 PM

@zeffii I dont think you are. ask iKlsR what he thinks about blackhole, you are not alone.

zeffii

(paraphrasing) "what to do with people who answer questions have high rep but get lots of complains because their personality seems to clash"

no.. blackhole is ' challenged '

David

@zeffii indeed they have some very good questions.

zeffii

for BSE i'm not even aware that we have avid users who are so combative.

in chat, amongst eachother , fine...

but out there " on the floor "

i haven't really seen it

one question did get me riled up.. and the import/export of .DAE

GiantCowFilms

I'm having alot of fun replicating Photoshop actions using the bpy and infor panel

zeffii

(a little..)

GiantCowFilms

2:10 PM

@zeffii sometime when people get confused there can be a comment fight

zeffii

blender.stackexchange.com/questions/30530/… haha that one, it has been cleansed now :)

I think we collectively should do more to delete comments that are anything other than trying to pry information to help answer the problem

GiantCowFilms

Once I got blasted by mont29 for hating the FBX import/export

zeffii

well, it's probably something he worked on

GiantCowFilms

yes it is

but he was really mean about it

zeffii

i'd need to read the exchange to see where i stand

personally I love to hate on macounos 'calliper' script

and btrace

does anyone still use that?

GiantCowFilms

2:25 PM

I rarely add use/scripts

I like vanilla release blender.. less stress, more work done

zeffii

hehe

I have an addon called BlenderConsolePrompt

now when i write snippets, i add them to that and give them a shortcut name and can execute it from console

>>> dist

would print the distance between 2 selected points

>>> psel

parents the selected objects to a new empty

>>> theme dk

dark theme

theme lt

>>> theme lt

light theme

>>> _svc

print the 10 most recent sverchok commits

not quite implemented the epic update Blender yet..

>>>! (followed by anything) will run as if it was executed from terminal

GiantCowFilms

@zeffii Do you know how I can make an object the active selected object in the bpy?

zeffii

2:51 PM

bpy.context.scene.objects.active =

GiantCowFilms

Okay thanks

GiantCowFilms

3:32 PM

If anyone has (or wouldn't mind creating) a movies.se account, I'm still trying to get support for this community add: meta.movies.stackexchange.com/a/1806/18877

GiantCowFilms

5:02 PM

@David @NoviceInDisguise I'm wondering if I should change my location to "put out to pasture" since I'm not answering much lately

NoviceInDisguise

lol, go ahead :D

zeffii

6:42 PM

wow

a rare sighting of rolandxor

@GiantCowFilms I also almost use no scripts, except the ones ive written or contributed to

vanilla Blender is already top.

Radish of the Opera

7:31 PM

@zeffii I always put Vanilla in my blender.

that’s the only real way to add flavour to shakes.

@gandalf3 lol, how'd you do that hair?

gandalf3

:P

Just extruded a bunch of planes around

Radish of the Opera

ahh.

it looked like sliced bananas. very cool.

gandalf3

XD

I thought of bananas too :P

NoviceInDisguise

Well, monkeys like bananas . . .

Radish of the Opera

@gandalf3 you should have put a fake moustache on NID

you know, the one's with glasses and a huge plastic nose.

NoviceInDisguise

7:37 PM

lol

gandalf3

Well, that's easily rectified ;)

Radish of the Opera

i never liked the word "rectified"

gandalf3

Whats wrong with it?

NoviceInDisguise

?

irregardless is a much more annoying word

Radish of the Opera

8:13 PM

@gandalf3 always sounded like "rectum"

and thats gross.

soooo.../;.

gandalf3

8:29 PM

:P

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera thanks for ruining a perfectly good word for me, Radish!

@RadishoftheOpera You should run so @gandalf3 creates a radish with a mask

I'd love to see that

NoviceInDisguise

9:07 PM

Everyone get their Mod nominee questions out there: meta.blender.stackexchange.com/questions/714/… I did my part ;)

GiantCowFilms

Still need to order them: meta.blender.stackexchange.com/a/717/3127

Radish of the Opera

9:22 PM

@GiantCowFilms i wouldn't want the responsibilities. not part of my style.

@GiantCowFilms sorry, i suffer from a serious case of Radishitus Scaliosus. Common side effects include causticity and a mind that thrives on vauge-slightly-off meanings.

also, did you know that one of the linux auto-correct options for "Vauge-slightly-off" is "Middle-of-the-road?"

GiantCowFilms

XD

Radish of the Opera

cause right, middle of the road sounds like vauge-slightly-off.

get a life, linux!

GiantCowFilms

lol

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms the guy that hired me to do that dragon has re-hired me. :D

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera what dragon?

Radish of the Opera

9:35 PM

the black flappy one...

large, shiny, liked to eat out on fridays, you know the guy.

GiantCowFilms

no

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms i love being able to blame my creepiness on a medical infirmity.

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera lol ha ha

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms i wonder if they'd let me start recreational pot for it.... >:)

<jk>

GiantCowFilms

eyeroll

no

Radish of the Opera

9:40 PM

@GiantCowFilms i could draw the stems on the radish a little differently...

GiantCowFilms

Sure if you want to get kicked off

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms no, i could probably pass them off as maple leaves

pretend to be canadian.

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera coloradian

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms We prefer the term "Cool"

or Coloradan without the "I"

1n 98% of the US, people scream before driving off an icy road into a ditch.

the other 2% are coloradan.

we say "Hold my beer and watch this..."

GiantCowFilms

?

Radish of the Opera

9:47 PM

forget it, you have no patriotism for your state.

GiantCowFilms

huh

where am i from around here?

Radish of the Opera

A pasture full of other giant cows, why do you ask?

GiantCowFilms

You've lost

me

(new band/song name alert)

Radish of the Opera

GiantCowFilms, In a pasture with other giant cows

7.3k 1 11 44

modeling cycles interface rendering animation texturing workflow

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Ikr

@RadishoftheOpera What does that speach mean?

or do I not want to know

Radish of the Opera

9:53 PM

@GiantCowFilms when did i write "speel?"

@GiantCowFilms before driving into a ditch?

it means....

GiantCowFilms

I give up

Radish of the Opera

Pick up my budLight out of the cup holder so it doesn't spill and open your eyes so you can see how skillfully i drive into a ditch.

@GiantCowFilms no offence, but you are thick.

GiantCowFilms

Sorry I'm also working in blender and watching a video at the same time

Radish of the Opera

thickity thick thickman from thicktopia.

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera WOW

this just got mean

Radish of the Opera

9:56 PM

@GiantCowFilms i ahve to put that after i call someone thick now. doctor who has ruined me

@GiantCowFilms come baAaAAaaaack! i din't mean it!

great, now i feel like crap for offending you.

and now i'm talking to nobody cause you left.

curse you scalia this is like, the 8th time you offended the cow.

yesterday, by X-27

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