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MarcClintDion

04:47

This would be good for a canonical "Blender fails to start" answer because the softwareGL thing is good for diagnosing driver related problems. blender.stackexchange.com/questions/18567/…

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gandalf3

08:10

@MarcClintDion I think we might need a few separate posts

e.g. one for "fails to start" and one for "fails to draw"

4 hours later…

MarcClintDion

11:44

@gandalf3 I wonder if one post with multiple answers might be the way to go for this. Each answer containing the needed info for one particular problem/OS combination.

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gandalf3

19:20

@MarcClintDion I don't really see the point of grouping separate problems/OSes together, users from one OS aren't likely to be interested in scrolling past solutions to different problems on other OSes.

Proog

19:49

Q: Must be every Question formulation so formal?

Isnt therea bit of bringing your own Personality into the question ? i mean is it really that important to have cold not individual question formulations ? Revision because of Grammar is okay but removing a have a good day and caling it "deleting the extra stuff" seems a bit to Harsh in my Eyes.

discussion

David

20:10

@gandalf3 edited my question

Q: How to make a realistic snow material in Cycles?

I have looked at many snow shaders, but haven't yet come up with one that looks good. I have many examples of not so good looking snow that I have tried to make. I have looked at these materials: Youtube tutorial thread on blender artists about the same material on blendswap another material on...

cycles materials nodes

gandalf3

I see

@David You want those little sparkly flecks?

David

that is part of it.

David

20:56

kind of funny, my answer to the down vote question, was down voted.

gandalf3

I saw that :P

I saw this recently too, which made be edit my answer with a link..

Blog - Stack Exchange: The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong

Jeff Atwood on March 08, 2009

Paul Graham’s Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post-Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (reddit was a Paul Graham Y Combinator startup). As such we studied it closely when building Stack Overflow.

It is true that discussion on Hacker News is more serious and less incendiary than the wild-west anything goes of programming.reddit.com. I’ve seen this firsthand, on blog articles I’ve w …