The Renderfarm

1:26 AM

@NoviceInDisguise hi , is there an option for the grease pencil pressure sensitivity (I don't have a tablet so i can't tell if there is one it maybe only visible if the tablet is detected ) it's about this Question

NoviceInDisguise

I don't use a tablet, so I don't know, srry :P

Chebhou

thanks

@NoviceInDisguise I'll wait for a professional artist then :P

NoviceInDisguise

lol, ok :D

cegaton

2:19 AM

@iKlsR is there a way to lock questions like this before it gets ugly? blender.stackexchange.com/questions/27816/…

NoviceInDisguise

^^

iKlsR

2:40 AM

@cegaton I'd normally intervene but it got handled, even if it had an answer I would have shut it down.

No discussions.

David

3:10 PM

this voting is ridiculous, a good answer on a question viewed over 1000 times and 2 UVs. (my UV just now was the third.)

Chebhou

3:27 PM

passive users, take what you need and get away

meed96

Morning all

NoviceInDisguise

3:50 PM

Morning

Sort of

meed96

9 Minutes til I hit afternoon ;)

NoviceInDisguise

Still morning until noon I guess, even though it doesn't feel like it.

Morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night. Four of those fall within a 12 hour period . . .

meed96

Don't forget early morning and late morning :p

NoviceInDisguise

I guess you could say forenoon, although that is quite discontinued

@meed96 lol

meed96

Forenoon? Haven't heard that one before

Before noon I guess?

NoviceInDisguise

3:54 PM

Exactly, like afternoon and evening, just reversed

meed96

That's awesome

Good forenoon everyone

NoviceInDisguise

XD

It sounds a little odd in some circles, it is more of a classic British English term as far as I can tell

meed96

Should have guessed

Are there any rules regarding asking questions in chat?

NoviceInDisguise

Nope, chat is just a place to, well, chat :D

No profanity or posting of offensive content of course

Other than that, free-for-all

meed96

Well duh, I wouldn't think of that

NoviceInDisguise

3:58 PM

Got any April Fools jokes for Wednesday?

meed96

Oh boy

Does stackexchange participate in that?

NoviceInDisguise

No, it is just something that quite often happens in chat

Or on Meta

meed96

Ah

Well I wouldn't know

I'm just looking forward to google/everyone else's jokes

NoviceInDisguise

That is always fun :D

meed96

Yeah definitely

You remember Google Nose?

NoviceInDisguise

4:03 PM

Not really

meed96

Google's joke a few years back, google a smell and it would come out of your monitor :P

NoviceInDisguise

lol

I remember the "Microwave your iPhone to Charge it" app one

Some people actually fell for it XD

meed96

What, I don't recall that XD

I'm gonna look it up sounds awesome

NoviceInDisguise

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2768976/…

There is an article on it

meed96

Lol, that's awesome XD

Wow...

"Just tried using Apple Wave and now my Iphone is on fire"

NoviceInDisguise

4:07 PM

lol

Some of the pics are awesome, a blue flame coming out of the screen

meed96

That's pretty good

NoviceInDisguise

It is amazing people would try that with their brand-new $600+ phone :P

meed96

Well you know

Don't know a thing about technology

Don't know a thing about 3d artwork

NoviceInDisguise

True

meed96

See an awesome graphic of a phone in a microwave XD

NoviceInDisguise

4:13 PM

XD

meed96

+ trolls on twitter praising the success

The biggest problem I have is people falling for this stuff on April 1st...

They should know better on April 1st

NoviceInDisguise

Yeah, absolutely for sure

Never try a new technology then :P

meed96

Hide in your basement on April first :3

And then don't believe anything you read for the next month

Personally it's one of the most enjoyable days of the year for me

How much you wanta bet Andrew Price has something up his sleeve? :P

NoviceInDisguise

I wonder . . .

NoviceInDisguise

4:43 PM

This is an odd one:

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Q: How to save an audio file

I have a video where I deleted the animation part and I only have the sound. When I try to save the file it saves as .blend, how can I save it as an mp3 file. I have already set the start up file to save as mp3.

video-sequence-editor

Some people :P

The cat pic says it all really . . .

David

5:40 PM

@gandalf3 I noticed that your answer here got DVed, I wanted you to know I sure did not do that. (it is a good answer.)

gandalf3

I didn't think you had ;)

NoviceInDisguise

Why did that get DVed?! It is a quite good answer

David

I just wanted to make sure, you did not think so because of about the bounty.

(even took a picture to proof it)

David

6:16 PM

this guy still confuses me when I see a comment like this.

Any idea on how to add foam in the wake like this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake#mediaviewer/… — David Mar 5 at 14:52

someonewithpc

@David Coincidentally, he has the same name and Gravatar color as you :P

David

@someonewithpc yah, I know.

someonewithpc

@David I wonder if that is an intrinsic characteristic of those that don't make sense :P </jk>

meed96

Afternoon all

someonewithpc

@meed96 o/

meed96

6:22 PM

Man that chat notification sound, haven't heard it that loudly before...

But hello, nice to meet you :D

someonewithpc

@meed96 Same here

gandalf3

@David o.O

someonewithpc

Does anyone here have the BMW 2.7x benchmark

The download link seems to be dead :(

blenderartists.org/forum/…

meed96

Hmm strange

The old scene is givin me an error

someonewithpc

@meed96 Which old scene?

meed96

6:30 PM

There's two scenes and the game engine scene on that thread

Apparently both links are broken

someonewithpc

@meed96 Oh, the benchmark one

meed96

Yeah?

There's only 3 links

someonewithpc

I have the old one

meed96

Yeah when I tested my GPU it was on the old one

I'm confused what you want now

I don't have the scene on my computer no, and both links seem to be broken.

someonewithpc

I want the new one

meed96

6:32 PM

Neither link works

someonewithpc

@meed96 Sadly

meed96

You should tell Mike, he might have accidentally broken the links or removed the files from his Dropbox

Probably an accident/mistake

someonewithpc

@meed96 And, how would I do that? I have no clue how I could contact him

meed96

Well you could message him on Blenderartists

But I'd go find his twitter acc

someonewithpc

I guess...

meed96

6:34 PM

And see if I could get an email

Mike Pan

@themikepan, Vancouver, Canada

A stumbling blenderist, pythonista, author and photographer.

3.8k tweets, 2.1k followers, following 209 users

someonewithpc

@meed96 I don't like forums, though...

meed96

Oh well thumnails I guess

That's his twitter

Go to his website

He's got an email acc at the bottom of the page

someonewithpc

@meed96 Ok, thanks

meed96

Sure thing

meed96

6:50 PM

Why can't Blender ever be easy? .-.

X-27

lol

meed96

Just...just once XD

Would be real nice

X-27

I know of one easy thing to do. I asked a question about it, and It got a lot of useful answeres

2

A: Quickly add cubes

There is a fast, easy ten key combination shortcut for this. Space+ADD+Space+CUBE+Enter This method may seem a bit tiring if you only want to add one cube, but the next cube can be added much easier. Also, if you can type Really fast it might be faster than some of the other solutions to this q...

someonewithpc

@meed96 What are you trying to do?

meed96

It never ends with these node setups

Here, I'll send you a picture

someonewithpc

6:52 PM

@X-27 That doesn't count - it's not an example of a good question...

X-27

That isn't a good question? What isn't good about it?

I was the only one on this site to get this hat...

And I got it on that question.

someonewithpc

@X-27 Because it was for the hat!

meed96

X-27

lol

someonewithpc

@X-27 It's ridiculously simple

meed96

6:54 PM

So I got these laser bits coming out of the engines on my ship

And they need color variation

someonewithpc

@meed96 That's not that many nodes...

meed96

You should see my other node setup

I'm still kinda new to this XD

It's a whole lota nodes to me

It's a WHOLE 11 nodes mate. Those things are confusing when they get big

gandalf3

:P

someonewithpc

@meed96 They are...

meed96

Afternoon gandalf

They need color variation along the length, it already fades from end to the other but

I need like two factor inputs

someonewithpc

6:56 PM

@meed96 Oh, ok then; you'll get used to using at least 10, per shader

meed96

XD

someonewithpc

Upwards to 50, sometimes

meed96

Dude, my other setup has TWELVE

I'm mostly using textures, and I've never seen someone who needed 50 nodes in a texture based setup :P

Procedural, yeah, but textures...

someonewithpc

@meed96 Damn! Twelve ?!

meed96

Tbh I thought there were more

someonewithpc

6:57 PM

@meed96 Well...

meed96

But that setup isn't finished either

I can't change the color XD

someonewithpc

Just multiply the color in

meed96

blenderartists.org/forum/…

He told me what to do but

I haven't any idea of how to implement it

And I just can't bring myself to finish this til those node setups are up to standard.

Been at it for a week now

Hour or so a day ofc

meed96

7:22 PM

If only I could reward someone in chat for helping me with question answers...instead of posting a whole question.

iKlsR

7:39 PM

Free dload

reynantemartinez.us8.list-manage.com/…

meed96

Saw that on Twitter this morning

X-27

@GiantCowFilms It is about time!

GiantCowFilms

@David It also has a broken .blend, good thing we have a new service!

X-27

There is less than two days left and I still need your input on the new paint laser

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 g2g again

X-27

7:44 PM

!!!

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 The last one you posted looked good

X-27

Seriously???

GiantCowFilms

yes, this cow does say it seriously

X-27

@GiantCowFilms You must be Really busy....

Hi, Bye, GTG, bbl all in one breath---

David

8:03 PM

@someonewithpc lol. good one.

someonewithpc

8:20 PM

@David That took a while... :P

developer.blender.org/D1197

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What do you guys think of this? Also the second last comment

I think we should do this, but I'm not sure how everyone else would react, so go post some feedback

bbl

gandalf3

Sounds brilliant to me

I have an equals to node group in my startup .blend :P

someonewithpc

8:35 PM

@gandalf3 And what about having the inputs and outputs being dynamically allocated?

gandalf3

That too

The animation nodes addon already has a node which does something like that

GiantCowFilms

9:04 PM

@someonewithpc WOW contgrats on you first commit

@someonewithpc I'd be really really interested if you could go into a bit of detail as to where you found out the info needed to make the changes, when I took a look at the blender source I was extremely confused, no idea where to start poking it.

iKlsR

9:18 PM

@GiantCowFilms you happy???

blender.stackexchange.com/posts/23947/revisions

gandalf3

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms Really nothing fancy

iKlsR

Hugo Strange?

someonewithpc

@iKlsR Strange?

@iKlsR AH!

iKlsR

From Batman m8

someonewithpc

9:23 PM

No...

Not quite

@GiantCowFilms I just used grep, on linux - it looks through all the files in a dir and tries to match a string you give it - to look for wherever the f**k the other modes where defined. Sure enough, it didn't work, so I asked on IRC and a guy pointed me to a patch he'd done which added the Absolute mode those nodes

I still don't understand most of the code, but I wasn't really expecting to

@iKlsR What's that? I'm guessing a comic..? I don't know...

GiantCowFilms

9:41 PM

@iKlsR very :D

@gandalf3 I managed to find that....

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms It's not that useful...

GiantCowFilms

yah

I couldn't even get the source into VS, and I'm a bit scared of it, but I've had a simple change I've been dying to do for ages

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms What would that change be?

GiantCowFilms

@someonewithpc rotating and a modification to the scaling of background images

anyway, g2g again sigh, so much todo

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms ... You can rotate them with the mapping node

@GiantCowFilms Cya

X-27

10:10 PM

@GiantCowFilms Alright, It seems that this special video should be ready in time for the big day.

posibly...

It should turn out ok...

GiantCowFilms

10:24 PM

@someonewithpc Not in cycles, the ones you add in the properties panel, for the 3d view

@X-27 sounds good

X-27

You should also Really like it

You and Roland Xor are the main characters, at least, the ones that make it phunny.

But, funny in an awesomely absurd way, not an idiotic way.

NoviceInDisguise

The whole ""Number of nodes in my material" discussion was a funny read :D I lose count of mine

X-27

I blued out certain parts not to give away my question that I'm going to post.

oops, forgot to blue part of it.

NoviceInDisguise

I read it :D

X-27

all of it?

NoviceInDisguise

10:31 PM

I have the ~~image link~~ too :P

X-27

DO NOT STEAL MY IDEA! I already have the question written.

NoviceInDisguise

I won't, don't worry

X-27

Delete the link or edit away

someone else might...

I'v been preparing for a while now.

NoviceInDisguise

I already was editing, don't worry :D

X-27

Sadly David also knows, since he found it and kinda re-wrote it

It was my idea originally though....

NoviceInDisguise

10:33 PM

Aww

X-27

I cant believe he uses his full name...

NoviceInDisguise

Me neither

X-27

Hold on...

NoviceInDisguise

It seems rather obvious that you shouldn't do that. Although I already was pretty sure as he ran on a political thing once, there was a link to it in chat somewheres

X-27

This is the name that I use in my E-mail accounts..

Qv Mquziagenium

NoviceInDisguise

10:36 PM

lol, not suspicious at all :D

X-27

I'll leave it to you to decide if that is my real name...

NoviceInDisguise

no, it is not

I'm ssooooooooooooooo smart :P

X-27

Que-Vee Mm qu zay gen ium

Or something like that....

@GiantCowFilms this is the image with all hints to my future selfie blued out.

NoviceInDisguise

Ok ...

X-27

Also, because everything important here was removed only room owners can read it.

GiantCowFilms

10:41 PM

I think this should be moved to Blend-Exchange asap... @iKlsR @David @gandalf3 thoughts?

2

A: How to create a long shadow icon?

this is a easy task if you use the compositor editor (nodes) here the file with basic configuration to obtain this: obviously you need to change basic configuration in order to improve some best shadows blend file

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms this?

X-27

@GiantCowFilms Definitivly.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 @NoviceInDisguise kind got in the way

The post I added

NoviceInDisguise

lol, sorry about that

GiantCowFilms

2

A: How to create a long shadow icon?

this is a easy task if you use the compositor editor (nodes) here the file with basic configuration to obtain this: obviously you need to change basic configuration in order to improve some best shadows blend file

That ^^

X-27

10:43 PM

Novice, you will notice If you look back far enough in the transcript, that any time I took a screenshot of the QDS (question display screen), I carefully pixilated any text that is readable.

NoviceInDisguise

Interesting . . .

X-27

Who thinks I should change my screen name to this?

Qv Mquziagenium

:-)

No

ok...

Maybe on Wednesday

10:46 PM

No on Wednesday, We all need to switch names.

If you want, You can be me..

However, that is quite an expectation to live up to.

You need to post spam in the chat 24/7

NoviceInDisguise

Oh right, I had forgotten

@X-27 I might be someone else :P We need to change avatars too

X-27

and act like a moron, and write awesome answers to lame BGE questions and get almost no UVs

NoviceInDisguise

I don't know much about the BGE

X-27

exactly.

NoviceInDisguise

It would be lame answers to awesome questions I'm afraid

X-27

10:48 PM

So you can be... ~~someonewithmac~~ someonewithpc

NoviceInDisguise

lol

X-27

I'll be you, ok?

NoviceInDisguise

Eh . . . .

For one day, hmmmmmm

maybe

X-27

ok?

NoviceInDisguise

that could be VERY confusing :D

X-27

10:49 PM

Yah :-)

I think impersonating mods is a big no-no so we cant be an IklsR

NoviceInDisguise

I have his avatar saved, just got it :D

X-27

me two :-)

NoviceInDisguise

@X-27 Nope, sadly

GANDALF NEEDS 1 VOTE TO GET 50 ON THIS ANSWER :O

49

A: Creating a Black Hole in Blender

The trouble with this is that you need light to "bend" in a continuous arc around the black hole. The reason why this bending is problematic is that cycles assumes light always travels in straight lines. Light does travel only in straight lines, but it can be bent by gravity. Gravity is a distor...

X-27

I of course already did, with such a cool gif...

ok, must get back to animating, talk to scales...

oh wait... he is broken..

ping iklsR until he fixes it

(bad idea)

NoviceInDisguise

Yeah :/

in Scales, 25 secs ago, by NoviceInDisguise

@iKlsR SCALES IS DEAD!

@X-27 :D

Now I prepare to die . . .

X-27

11:02 PM

You shouldn't that definitively relates to the site. So I'd say it is ok to ping iklsR for something like that.

NoviceInDisguise

11:25 PM

OK

David

11:36 PM

@Chebhou what is the purpose of the Less Than node in your answer?

Chebhou

that means if you have passed through at least one transparent point output 0

David

but that is what the node gives you unfiltered.

X-27

Yay! Finally figured out how to create a youtube channel.

youtube.com/channel/UCvIlYkGjyMOWEDINyFwV1NA/feed

Chebhou

the node will output the number of transparent points it passed through

X-27

of course, there is nothing there. Yet.

NoviceInDisguise

11:40 PM

@X-27 lol

Chebhou

@David you have done it in a simpler way, i complicate things : )

NoviceInDisguise

I have about 7

David

@Chebhou yep, and anything < 1 will be clipped to 1.

:) understandable. But when using the output to mix colors, a value higher then 1 is not a problem. — David 57 secs ago

Chebhou

@X-27 your first subscriber

David

@Chebhou we did about the same thing. you just got the answer there first, good job.

X-27

11:43 PM

@Chebhou Really? :-)

Chebhou

@David thanks

@X-27 check your channel

X-27

I should have an awesome up in time for 4-1

it still says 0 subscribers... Probably takes a while to update.

NoviceInDisguise

Yeah

Chebhou

@X-27 it displays that i'm subscribed but the count is 0 ?

X-27

NoviceInDisguise

11:46 PM

BTW, you should have two now

Chebhou

@X-27 try signing in/out

X-27

yep, just did and it has two there

Awesome!

now, should I waste the rest of the day trying to find the button to change the picture for the channel, or finish animating the video I created it to host?

lol

NoviceInDisguise

You do it on G+

X-27

oh...

ok, I guess I can do both

Took long enough to find the button to make the channel....

I'm good with buttons, You push them, and they normally do what they say they do. However, the hard part normally is finding the correct button to push.

2

:-)

David

@X-27 lol

X-27

11:59 PM

YAH!!! changed the background picture!!!

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