The Renderfarm

Kinda sorta: it just has to move in front of the player like an idiot. However, there's another problem: how can one create a bullet so that it's aimed at the player's hitbox at the time of creation only?

Chebhou

maybe you can just assign the same controls to it so when you move the player it moves with it

Nefer007

1:13 AM

no no no, it has to move slowly on its own

it's not a fairy, but still

it'll just be standing there dooping about

Chebhou

for the bullet make another object that follows the player and track_to the hitbox ( he always orient to it ) and make it fire the bullet instead of the player

Nefer007

hmm... I'll try that. Thanks!

Chebhou

@Nefer007 are you allowed to use scripts ?

Nefer007

yeah but I suck so badly at them

Chebhou

ok, avoid them : )

Nefer007

1:22 AM

what is Track To?

yeah that didn't work at all. Chow.

Chebhou

@Nefer007 will test and post if i find something

X-27

2:12 AM

What do you guys think of my washing machine? It automatically dumps out the load when it is done :-)

GiantCowFilms

Does it come in GCF GREEN as well as XTTT

@X-27 Not a bad rig :D... now you need to add a custom property to control the drum spin speed

Chebhou

@X-27 and you'll have to pick them from the ground and wash them again : P

2

X-27

@Chebhou well, you should have the basket ready beneath the machine...

@GiantCowFilms I took great pains to make the mechanical part awesome :-) modeled the motors and everything.

GiantCowFilms

Nice

@X-27 I want it to fold the clothes, make that rig

X-27

the doors are glass, (but I couldn't have made a gif in rendered mode)

@GiantCowFilms Now that would be complicated....

@GiantCowFilms would you be so kind to post the Hex value of GCF Green?

RGB would work, but Hex is eaiser

GiantCowFilms

2:32 AM

Find GCF post, sample color

Why would I make your life easier for you when your doing me a favor, eh?

:P

(I don't know)

X-27

do you use the same color every time?

is it green at 225 and red and blue at 0?

@GiantCowFilms is that correct?

GiantCowFilms

Yes

Go for the squiggle color

X-27

that will be highly ugly...

I think we will keep it XTTT

GiantCowFilms

@X-27 You have a problem with ugly?

I want it in green

throwTantrum();

X-27

2:47 AM

seriously?

GiantCowFilms

Yes!

maybe down down the saturation a bit

X-27

uh....

GiantCowFilms

and give it a metal shader

X-27

that is pure GREEN

that is XTTT

perhaps GCF Green would work, slightly modified.

Radish of the Opera

3:20 AM

@Nefer007 use the logic brick "edit object" and set the type to "track to"

@X-27 does it come in radish red?

and how is it weighted so the whole thing doesn't tip when the barrel pops out?

And @X-27 I really like you lighting setups, could you do one for my BGMC entry?

iKlsR

3:38 AM

we did it boyz

2 years active

not one day missed

ayye

NoviceInDisguise

11:28 AM

@iKlsR That's impressive!

Radish of the Opera

2:43 PM

@NoviceInDisguise tahts why he makes the big bucks

GiantCowFilms

lol

All I have to do if I get cold in the morning is close the door and hit F12

Finally made a near decent sidewall texture

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms ?

f12 prints my stuff

what does it do for you?

GiantCowFilms

In blender it renders stuff

Radish of the Opera

2:58 PM

o. how does that make you not-cold?

GiantCowFilms

Does your computer not give if heat when rendering, lucky fellow?

NoviceInDisguise

lol, mine ups the temp by 10 degrees in as many minutes

Radish of the Opera

xps with radeon 230-d. gpu renders like a spring breeze off the ocean

NoviceInDisguise

@RadishoftheOpera Yep

@RadishoftheOpera And gets about as much done . . .

Radish of the Opera

@NoviceInDisguise wanna bet?

NoviceInDisguise

3:00 PM

How is your benchmark time?

Radish of the Opera

?

GiantCowFilms

I'm rendering this guy at 4k, since I'm cold

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Mike pan scene?

NoviceInDisguise

Yep

Radish of the Opera

3:01 PM

i'll have to render upwards of 10 to warm a single toe, so there.

NoviceInDisguise

10 samples only o.O

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I'm pretty sure somebody has already benchmarked my GPU, lemme check

Radish of the Opera

@NoviceInDisguise 10k you lemmon

sheesh...

NoviceInDisguise

IK . . .

My GPU is a GeForce GTX 470

Works OK generally . . .

GiantCowFilms

At 4k you can read my saftey warning

Radish of the Opera

3:03 PM

pshhh. I upgraded

GiantCowFilms

Its pretty funny

NoviceInDisguise

Now you gotta post a screenshot

Radish of the Opera

i wonder what happens if you render the default cube at 1million...

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I'll post it when its done

NoviceInDisguise

@RadishoftheOpera I don't have a default cube anymore, I saved my own default scene

GiantCowFilms

3:05 PM

NOooo

Radish of the Opera

well kudos for you then.

GiantCowFilms

That is sacralidge, your outta the cult man!

(cult of noob)

NoviceInDisguise

:D

GiantCowFilms

The default cube must live on!

(sacrilege)

3:06 PM

I

I'm disappointed.

My computer is slow here

its rendering

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms It does, in my memory, and the eternal existence of previous releases installed on my machine

GiantCowFilms

I managed to hit enter before any text even showed up...

Radish of the Opera

3:07 PM

1000000 samples ^^

the room falls silent....

GiantCowFilms

I rendered voluemtrics at one mil once!

Radish of the Opera

:O

and you could cook eggs on your PC chassis.

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Seee the bottom of this post

11

A: How to render lightning in Cycles

To create your lighting start with a mesh, you will need to add thickness to it, so apply a skin modifier, enter edit mode, and use CtrlA to scale the "thickness" of you mesh until your satisfied with you lighting. There are now to approaches, the not so great looking and very very slow materia...

NoviceInDisguise

Now for one billion :D

Radish of the Opera

holy....

GiantCowFilms

3:10 PM

lol yah right

NoviceInDisguise

We should do one sample for each dollar in the national debt . . .

Radish of the Opera

so NID, you ready for BGMC?

GiantCowFilms

My dad doesn't let me leave my comptuer on over vactaion, otherwise I would.

NoviceInDisguise

:/

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise It rises faster then my computer could render a sample

NoviceInDisguise

3:11 PM

@RadishoftheOpera Sure . . .

@GiantCowFilms IKR?

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms my dad doesn't care what i do to my computer.

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera BGMC?

NoviceInDisguise

Blender Game M_____ Competition

GiantCowFilms

Ah

I'm still fighting this tire

Radish of the Opera

Blender Game Making Challenge

NoviceInDisguise

3:12 PM

That's what it was

Radish of the Opera

@NoviceInDisguise ?

GiantCowFilms

I'm starting to have trouble breathing its so hot in here

Radish of the Opera

who was where/

NoviceInDisguise

Eh?

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms open the door again

GiantCowFilms

3:12 PM

#drysauna

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

The air is very dry

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms #Mt.Doom

NoviceInDisguise

#MordorVacations

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I could make it wet by throwing some water over my computer

Radish of the Opera

3:14 PM

#SwimmingWithSauron

NoviceInDisguise

Risk of electrical shock probably . . . they should have warning stickers ont ehm

GiantCowFilms

Lets see if it steams before it reaches anything expensive

Radish of the Opera

ewww. just grossed myself

GiantCowFilms

how...?

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms put a pot on

GiantCowFilms

3:14 PM

nah

NoviceInDisguise

#NachoCheeseHotspringsDotCom

Radish of the Opera

37 secs ago, by Radish of the Opera

#SwimmingWithSauron

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise XD

NoviceInDisguise

Sadly it isn't a place :/

GiantCowFilms

My 4k Tire is too big!

Radish of the Opera

3:15 PM

i would not want to see Sauron, Lord of the rings, in swimming trunks. :(

NoviceInDisguise

g2g, brb

Radish of the Opera

@NoviceInDisguise cya

GiantCowFilms

3

There is my 4k tire!

a bit compressed

Can't read the warning though

Lemme go macro!

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms Saftey Warning: the trus nay fef lon crzzzmin...

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms Very nice tire!

GiantCowFilms

3:22 PM

Thanks

took forever to get that sidewall texture right

NoviceInDisguise

It looks good!

GiantCowFilms

Now I have to do the hub cap

D:

NoviceInDisguise

I enjoy doing those generally

GiantCowFilms

I already blocked it in

But I have to sub surf it

and model the manufactures logo

NoviceInDisguise

Logos can be hard

Find an SVG version and import that

GiantCowFilms

3:26 PM

This one isn't to bad

NoviceInDisguise

I think you can convert to a curve

GiantCowFilms

That can or cannot work

and you always end up with terrible topology

NoviceInDisguise

Depends, sometimes you have to trace it yourself.

@GiantCowFilms True

GiantCowFilms

3:37 PM

conversation dies

@cegaton the real issue with parenting is that with all those children around you have to obey child labor laws. No I can only blender for 1 hour a day, then I have to watch TV for the rest of the day :D

NoviceInDisguise

lol, children are free labor more like it. (at least from my experience)

cegaton

@GiantCowFilms lol

Radish of the Opera

@cegaton wanna join the game project?

I finishged the armature with animations

cegaton

@RadishoftheOpera thanks, but I don't have much time.

Radish of the Opera

That's fine, thanks

NoviceInDisguise

3:54 PM

@RadishoftheOpera List of needed textures please? And deadline

Radish of the Opera

Catwalk mesh
wood floor(scuffed)
rusty-ish metal
blimp canvas

deadline: next week

oh, cement

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Did you look at all the texutres pixar realised, there may be a few of those in there.

With a little bit of work they could become game ready

Radish of the Opera

I can't use premade

GiantCowFilms

Oh

D:

Radish of the Opera

ikr, sucks

NoviceInDisguise

3:58 PM

@RadishoftheOpera Cool, I can do that

Radish of the Opera

great, thanks!

NoviceInDisguise

What res? 1024x1024?

GiantCowFilms

I'd go for at least 2048, but personally I like 4096px. You can always downscale if you need

Since vince can always make it lower

NoviceInDisguise

OK

Good idea

2048 is what I'll go with I think

Radish of the Opera

4:19 PM

@NoviceInDisguise honestly I wouldn't know, I think we'll have a better picture of how much we can cram in once most of it's done.

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise BTW, rule of thumb for texture size: twice the res of the output image

Radish of the Opera

rule of thmb for games is whatever fits, put it in.. Muhahahaa

X-27

@RadishoftheOpera Here you go, this is my backup start up file in case I accidentally save the user preferences and ruin it. pasteall.org/blend/36202

@GiantCowFilms I'll probably put in my nomination just so I can say I was in the first election, but there is no way that the mighty SPAMKING-27 could ever be on the right side of the standard. :-)

Radish of the Opera

4:41 PM

@X-27 thanks!

it's got teeth.

X-27

no, just errors in the shadows

that same kind of idea

this one is better

@RadishoftheOpera pasteall.org/blend/36203

I have weak lamps pointing up also to cancel out more of the un-realisticness

Radish of the Opera

ok, very nice, thanks!

X-27

what is the general idea behind your entry?

Radish of the Opera

for some reason they haven't moderated it for post yet, so it's not showing up, but basically, you're a aguy with an enormous bird-head sneaking around on a blimp trying to assassinate a war mongering frog.

X-27

lol

Radish of the Opera

4:53 PM

don't ask why, I don't know.

if you want to help witht he story line, I'm open to suggestions.

(as in help)

X-27

I was thinking about this for my general idea- you are a pilot who is flying a new stealth jet out of enemy territory. this has top secrete technology on board that must escape at all costs.

Radish of the Opera

oh, and as an aside, you blow up the blimp.

@X-27 flying a new stealth blimp

:D

X-27

lol

Jet

Radish of the Opera

are you entering?

X-27

or mech, they look more awesome

mabey, mabey not

Radish of the Opera

4:55 PM

@X-27 mech jet-powered blimp.

X-27

I'm trying to make my fluid simulation for my washer. When scaling a domain, do you do it in object mode or in edit mode?

Radish of the Opera

if you aren't can I steal your idea?

X-27

Sure

Radish of the Opera

except, with a blimp instead.

X-27

uhhh

ok...

Radish of the Opera

4:56 PM

@X-27 object scales all the liquid.

try edit

X-27

k

I don't use fluid much, so I really hope this works :-)

Radish of the Opera

I've never used it, seen the tuts though.

X-27

I usually only watch tutorials if I'm trying to do something I can't

NoviceInDisguise

@X-27 Me too

X-27

WHY?????

can fluid not use animated objects?

perhaps it will only be full of cloth.

Radish of the Opera

5:11 PM

@X-27 thousands of pairs of pants.

NoviceInDisguise

lol

Radish of the Opera

make it like a mary poppins bag, just keeps dumping

NoviceInDisguise

or socks, with no matching pairs

X-27

many-colored-toweles.

NoviceInDisguise

6:48 PM

lol, this site on Murphy's Laws is pretty funny.

You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

XD

When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Had experience with that one . . .

The clothes washer/dryer will only eat one of each pair of socks.

Too much fun reading those . . .

lol

An expert is someone with an opinion and a word processor.

That is a good one

Chebhou

7:15 PM

@NoviceInDisguise so funny ! I'll be for a long time there

@cegaton i think we should write Question/answer how to install addons this happens all the time

cegaton

@Chebhou there is a question already: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/1688/installing-an-addon

@Chebhou feel free to include the image in your answer though

Chebhou

@cegaton thanks , I have searched but didn't see it

cegaton

@Chebhou you should submit the add-on to be included in trunk, I think others will find it useful.

Chebhou

I will try that

NoviceInDisguise

7:45 PM

What addon?

Chebhou

4

Q: Is it possible to save all rendered images (in the render buffer slots) in one operation?

I have a different render in all eight render buffer slots. In the UV/Image Editor there is an option to “Save All Images” but when I select it, nothing happens. How do I configure the save path and save all the images that are in all the slots in one operation? If "Save All Images" is not for th...

rendering

NoviceInDisguise

Oh cool!

NoviceInDisguise

10:50 PM

Making slow but steady progress . . .

Chebhou

@NoviceInDisguise I really like your work !

@NoviceInDisguise do you sketch this ahead or just go through modeling ?

NoviceInDisguise

I sketch in my mind first, basically block it out, but no pen-to-paper unless I am planning something I can't work on yet or a very complex part of a current project.

I tend to try and keep out of the way of creativity

I'm not sure how I will implement @RadishoftheOpera's toaster . . . he challenged me to do it

Chebhou

and add a big radish posing beside it

NoviceInDisguise

11:49 PM

XD

Radish of the Opera

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. this isn't wotking.

I made a good drawing but I can't get the stupid thing to look right.

so frustrationg.

@NoviceInDisguise can I see how you made the image to drive the feathers on your chickadee?

NoviceInDisguise

Just a texture applied to the emitter mesh

Radish of the Opera

but how did the texture look. ive been working on this bird for hours and all I can get is $#!?

NoviceInDisguise

Unwrap it and apply it so it looks good as a mesh, then add hair . . . there isn't a whole lot more to it. Got a screenshot? I might be able to pinpoint exactly what is giving you issues

Radish of the Opera

one second

NZhSO

just needed to put that there for a minute so I can remember until my freakin computer starts working again.

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