The Renderfarm

There. I just built a contraption rigged to the keyboard so if it does not detect Ctrl+S pressed at least once every 30 seconds, It will send a noticeably powered electric shock through the chair into a wire attached to my head. It definitively gets you to save it more often!!

NoviceInDisguise

XD

Chebhou

@X-27 you'll develop a Ctrl+S reflex to any electric shock

X-27

12:34 AM

Yah, if you happen to get your finger in the wrong spot while changing a plug, almost instantly your hand will bolt to the keyboard position where you would press Ctrl+S

:-)

iKlsR

1:46 AM

Hey everyone, I'm proposing a day or two of migration this weekend. Where we remove all pasteall links and move our blend files to Blend-Exchange.

More details shortly.

X-27

@iKlsR I vote yes. One absolute, mega YES. Amusing you support your proposal, that is 2-0

however, I already did that to all of my posts a while ago....

:-)

iKlsR

I was a bit unsure when it started but I'm behind the effort now.

NoviceInDisguise

I think that might be a good idea, mine are already all on there anyways

X-27

Mine also...

I'm pretty sure David won't like the idea. Gandalf3 will though, since he made most of the site.

however, Gandalf has quite a few questions and most of them are probably dud links, so changing them could be hard for him...

Oh and this is semi important @iKlsR,on a scale of 1-10 how would you rate yourself in terms of being a good sport?

iKlsR

I have a folder with all my gifs, blends and images, if I know @gandalf3 he does too.

X-27

1:58 AM

1 - I cry when someone pings me -5 I'm ok - or 10 I'm resistant to everything

iKlsR

@X-27 Probably a 7 or 8

X-27

Great!

so you wont mine my project for April 1st

iKlsR

If you spam me I will make you pay tho. :D

X-27

not at all

Don't worry, I edited my storyline to include a reference to your ban-hammer. :-)

I"m really laying it on heavy for stacker, ideasman42, and GCF,

now Stacker and ideasman both probably wouldn't throw their chars over the close reason, but Hey- it needs to be funny...

@David look who just popped in

Do you hate IklsR's idea?

or agree ?

or absolutey love it?

David

@X-27 really, and after all the time you have spent in 2.49 revision (crash-a-lot) editing yo franky, you sure should be saving by now.

@iKlsR I think it is a good idea. slowly a big percentage of our answers will break.

X-27

2:03 AM

@David I know, When I would be stuck in 2.49 in yo franky, It would literally crash every other time you hit P

David

@X-27 WHY NOT???

X-27

Because You ignored my notices on some of your questions that a link is/will be soon a dud

GiantCowFilms

Just in case anyone is still "cross" about the BE "branding" take a look at this.... If you don't market, nobody comes.... I'm talking to you project gooseberry

sitepoint.com/best-php-framework-2015-sitepoint-survey-results/…

X-27

I never had a problem with the hosted by part of the image

GiantCowFilms

I also mean my answer to the blend upload question etc...

David

2:06 AM

@GiantCowFilms did you have to bring that up again? :)

GiantCowFilms

Not trying to start a fight, I just like to back my points up, even if the there point is old....

I'm just pointing out the methods to my madness.... cause I can :P

anyway, g2g

X-27

I actually though that the "hosted by blend exchange" was the disclosure for the link and that Not having it would actually be a violation because it is a non-disclosed link to a third party service. But- as long as the power-users, mods and general community accepts it, I'ts awesome, because I wanted it to stay!

David

@GiantCowFilms np

iKlsR

@David wot

David

@iKlsR data.stackexchange.com/blender/query/294824 nearly 500 we will have to edit.

iKlsR

2:10 AM

You said slowly a big percentage of our qs will break. lol

David

plus another 187 on dropboxs

@iKlsR what am I missing? why is that funny?

cegaton

I WANT A TUTORIAL AND I WANT IT FAST! (not even please...) blender.stackexchange.com/questions/27913/…

X-27

lol

DO THIS FOR MEEEEEE!!!!!

:-)

cegaton

link only... why bother describing what you can do for me!

gandalf3

2:39 AM

@iKlsR How did you know ;)

gandalf3

3:02 AM

@iKlsR ?

I don't get it..

David

@cegaton at least he used a proper tag.

@gandalf3 neither did I.

gandalf3

... proper.. eeh..

cegaton

@David the worst part is that I'd probably would have spent a good hour to make an answer with plenty of Gifs...

gandalf3

@iKlsR Should we combine this with an unanswered cleanup? Or focus on one thing at a time?

cegaton

Or put a bounty...

David

3:06 AM

@gandalf3 I say one thing at a time.

@cegaton and then not get your answer accepted.

cegaton

@David but I'd probably get like 50 upvotes!

David

@cegaton not unless it is a video about a black hole...

this query may help with the pastall cleanup.

gandalf3

And this one :P

data.stackexchange.com/blender/query/edit/294878

iKlsR

3:21 AM

@gandalf3 One at a time, this will take all of April by my estimates.

Watch meta for a post soon.

Chebhou

10:42 AM

@GiantCowFilms can you allow hosting .py files ?

Chebhou

11:17 AM

@iKlsR same user two accounts jarv and jarv

NoviceInDisguise

11:40 AM

HURRY GUYS we are at #57!

blender.stackexchange.com/stackegg/leaderboard

I got it to two stars on all of them by myself, you guys should be able to make it better than that. G2G for now, BBL

If you neglect them, they will dissappear

Just a warning

Chebhou

11:57 AM

@NoviceInDisguise but it shows that one vote required ? shouldn't be 2 at least since you are playing too

NoviceInDisguise

1:04 PM

@Chebhou If I was on, I left

You can play by yourself

We are in #82 now :(

We need to take turns, i had to bring it back from "privateBeta"

Just so you know this is a game and most likely does nothing, probably just a game for April Fools (yes, it is wednesday somewheres)

GiantCowFilms

2:04 PM

@NoviceInDisguise What stack egg????

@Chebhou Why not just put them in the post?

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms Yep, it's a joke right?

GiantCowFilms

Yah

just found it

Come help me :D

I see one did @David you or @NoviceInDisguise?

NoviceInDisguise

I M THERE

David

@GiantCowFilms what did I do?

GiantCowFilms

@David did you join our stack egg :D

David

2:15 PM

@cegaton why do you not have the python tool tips on?

@GiantCowFilms the little game in the sidebar, no.

GiantCowFilms

please :D

@NoviceInDisguise should we work together

David

what is the point?

NoviceInDisguise

There is none I'm pretty sure

GiantCowFilms

Down vote!

David

huh?

GiantCowFilms

2:17 PM

Answer!

I'm communicating with @NoviceInDisguise

David

ok

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise do answer

our answers are slipping

David

so this game is like a whole other SE site?

GiantCowFilms

@David I need some help

If you go 100% on any value you never get anywhere

David

@GiantCowFilms what?

GiantCowFilms

2:19 PM

Try ti

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms ok'

GiantCowFilms

:D

@NoviceInDisguise do the ask

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms You vote first, I will after that

David

@someonewithpc and now he is asking a new question!

NoviceInDisguise

We can get 50% that way

GiantCowFilms

2:21 PM

Sombody should have gone for UV

NoviceInDisguise

yah

GiantCowFilms

@someonewithpc help us!

NoviceInDisguise

Don't do Flag

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise amen

Sombody do ask

NoviceInDisguise

Much more epic with Hans Zimmer's score to Sherlock Holmes going :D

someonewithpc

2:23 PM

@GiantCowFilms Doing what?

GiantCowFilms

Stack egg, look on main

Oh, I already was

Keep it up :D

Is there a point?

somebody UV

@someonewithpc yes we must make our site live!

go to answer

David

2:25 PM

@someonewithpc no just the yearly SE April first thing.

someonewithpc

@David But..

It's not...

NoviceInDisguise

ASK

someonewithpc

I guess it is somewhere...

David

so they are letting us play early.

GiantCowFilms

Keep up the good work!

cegaton

2:27 PM

Does anybody know the fax number for tech support for 2.49? or do you have to send questions on a stamped envelope over the mail? blender.stackexchange.com/questions/27925/…

someonewithpc

@cegaton Wax sealed is the procedure

David

@cegaton lol, it is not that old. (I think they had computers then)

someonewithpc

@David You would think so, but I'm not yet sure

NoviceInDisguise

There is four of us, should we each just pick one type?

GiantCowFilms

True...

The answers!!!

NoviceInDisguise

2:30 PM

:O

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms The quality!

David

@someonewithpc so you are one of those that believes that ton typed out blender on a typewriter, then that machine in elephants dream compiled it.

GiantCowFilms

Somebody ask!

someonewithpc

@David Sure... Also, there were oranges involved, at somepoint

NoviceInDisguise

DON'T DO FLAG!

GiantCowFilms

2:32 PM

Do ask soons

UV!

The trick is to keep the stats FLAT

see if we can get 3 to a coulum

Don't make a four spike

UV :D?

When you vote you need some to vote the other way

YES!

YES :D

MAYBE

ASK

we've gone backwards

Keep this balenced

someonewithpc

2:40 PM

SPAM DA BUDDONS!

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms yah

GiantCowFilms

We are back'

someonewithpc

I feel like we're focusing way too much on this thing

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

It fun for ONE day

NoviceInDisguise

2:41 PM

Almost done

GiantCowFilms

Its not a crime to vote on the same stat

that is what keeps it flat

NoviceInDisguise

BALANCE IT

GiantCowFilms

going stat by stat from the top

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms Two days

GiantCowFilms

okay

NoviceInDisguise

2:43 PM

?

GiantCowFilms

@someonewithpc youre going to kill our users

NoviceInDisguise

:(

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise From April first in Australia to the end of April first over where you're at

GiantCowFilms

Quick, last person uV

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms Quality, man!

NoviceInDisguise

2:44 PM

DV

GiantCowFilms

DV

!!!

NoviceInDisguise

Answer

GiantCowFilms

ikr

X|

Answer!

Upvte!

NoviceInDisguise

I wish we knew exactly how this game worked :P

Almost there!

GiantCowFilms

doh!

should hav3 Dvd

UV!!!!!!!!

yes!

NoviceInDisguise

2:48 PM

SO CLOSE!

GiantCowFilms

OOOps

why so much UV

It give us hints

YESESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

NoviceInDisguise

If we win the internet we get MUCH closer to the top

#54 :D

GiantCowFilms

DV!

NoviceInDisguise

DV CLOSE

GiantCowFilms

Who is so hard on the asking

leave it be!

I wonder if we could go and sabatage other sites :D

NoviceInDisguise

2:54 PM

lol

Where did everyone go?

GiantCowFilms

I got busy for a moment

NoviceInDisguise

3:09 PM

Ah

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise Away :P

NoviceInDisguise

I guessed so :P

Maybe we should take shifts?

GiantCowFilms

I've got to go, to win this thing you'd need alot more users

someonewithpc

31 mins ago, by someonewithpc

I feel like we're focusing way too much on this thing

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms I think so, should we quit then?

GiantCowFilms

3:14 PM

Why quit

someonewithpc

@GiantCowFilms We're in 56, so not that bad

GiantCowFilms

I wan't top 20

NoviceInDisguise

:D

If we "win the internet" we are good for a while

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise What does that mean?

GiantCowFilms

Okay, we are flat, that is good

NoviceInDisguise

3:15 PM

@someonewithpc Look at the top progress bar

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise Oh... :P

GiantCowFilms

NOBODY CV

it kills the questions

NoviceInDisguise

^^

GiantCowFilms

UV

:D

The little game thing gives us hints

g2g bye!

NoviceInDisguise

I thought it showed the last action

someonewithpc

3:19 PM

@GiantCowFilms I think that's just pseudo random

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms WHAT?

GiantCowFilms

maybe

Why do people vote SOO much on meta and not on main?

10

Q: Are questions about external render engines on topic?

Are questions specifically about external render engines (engines not bundled with official blender) allowed? For example, What's going wrong with my Luxrender Prism?

NoviceInDisguise

IKR, kinda annoying

GiantCowFilms

Looks like yall doing well

The site is making progress

NoviceInDisguise

yep, almost two on each

DV

WHO VOTED TO RESTART?!

GiantCowFilms

3:36 PM

EEEK

someone is spamming/sabatague

NoviceInDisguise

yeah

Not good!

#58

Oh shoot . . . wrong button :P

I'm still here off and on

NoviceInDisguise

4:06 PM

More than half way!

BTW, I found this answer very interesting to write, I have no idea why it works.

3

Q: How to make a surface transparent, yet still reflect

I'd like to make a surface which reflects objects above it, but which itself is transparent in the final render. So in effect, the final render would contain only the reflections, not the surface itself. Is this possible please?

cycles transparency

Could someone clarify

?

zeffii

@iKlsR the flag / on hold post , by Amelia Johns .. I don't get it

maybe it's not clickbait?

but i read it like this.

paragraph 1 : blert. blert blert . blenderartsists.

paragraph2: I used it to make animations

paragraph3: can it be used to make animations

blert blert.

..still no reason to have a shop link in a first post..

NoviceInDisguise

nope, I agree with that

zeffii

hence..subversive clickbait to game SEO perhaps?

X-27

Who else is running the sim?

I'm keeping the users happy.

zeffii

hey @NoviceInDisguise. cool. just wondering.

NoviceInDisguise

4:10 PM

I'm doing StackEgg, if that is what you were asking

X-27

yah

Don't downvote, we can increase the quality by closing.

NoviceInDisguise

Right, got it

X-27

ok, now we need to fix the quality....

NoviceInDisguise

No, wait until it gets 0

X-27

yikes, that takes a big hit to the questions

nvm, we can upset the users.

NoviceInDisguise

4:14 PM

lol

X-27

With less than a day left, I really need to finish animating!

brb

NoviceInDisguise

OK

Almost 3/4 of the way there!

X-27

Wow, good job, but why does upvoting lower your answers?

NoviceInDisguise

I don't know :P

X-27

no one here minds if I make fun of RolandXator?

:-)

NoviceInDisguise

4:20 PM

He might, but I don't think so

X-27

If he comes on...

NoviceInDisguise

We'll see

X-27

I hate trying to make walk cycles...

NoviceInDisguise

lol, making them not slip is almost impossible :P

X-27

yah..

Unless you happen to have a constant walk speed and make the legs loop perfectly..

NoviceInDisguise

4:24 PM

which is unrealistic unless it is a mech

X-27

yah...

do we get traffic if we have 4 answer and 4 quality?

NoviceInDisguise

IDK

X-27

we do!

NoviceInDisguise

I was just trying to figure that out

We have 1 traffic!

X-27

max answer and max quality gets you one traffic, but if we have bad answers or not enough for too long we will lose the traffic

NoviceInDisguise

4:26 PM

I think that is it

2 traffic :D

X-27

3 traffic!

NoviceInDisguise

:D

X-27

We will take over the internet!!!

NoviceInDisguise

WOW!!

X-27

almost max hearts for all of them!

we are really close now :-)

NoviceInDisguise

4:31 PM

This is awesome :D

Just a game of Whack-A-Mole now

X-27

yah

I wonder if we get a prize for winning the internet?

NoviceInDisguise

IDK, maybe

:O

X-27

4 hearts on all of it... Now what???

NoviceInDisguise

ALL FULL

X-27

why didn't we win?

NoviceInDisguise

4:33 PM

we have to finish the time maybe :/

X-27

um....

NoviceInDisguise

Almost done that way too

I've been puttering on it almost the whole time

G2G for a sec, BB

iKlsR

@zeffii People are sly, I don't second guess these, immediate removal and I saw some edits on it too. I will undelete it if you think it can be repurposed.

-2

Q: Blender use for Ecommerce animations

New to Blender, just found blender today during search on Internet. I found this software quite useful for making animation. Just I want to ask some questions before going on. Actually, I have a PrestaShop website http://bit.ly/1iS22NF and I sell module on it. Now as far as blender use is concern...