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X-27

12:12 AM

@gandalf3 Are you going to enter "Funny Questions" contest?

gandalf3

If I can think of something funny enough

TARDIS Maker

I'm going to have to step up my game on that one

Although to be honest, I technically have 2 votes even if I don't actually

I've voted for everyone, so mine essentially has more votes than the ones that only have one vote (my vote)

NoviceInDisguise

BTW, the people that want to know how to do VFX in MovieMaker always give me a good laugh :D

TARDIS Maker

12:28 AM

@NoviceInDisguise That was me a few years ago :)

NoviceInDisguise

lol

I bet you got past it real quick

TARDIS Maker

@NoviceInDisguise Yeah

Once I learned the difference between editing and VFX

That's about when I first downloaded Blender

It was still a few months afterwards before I actually did anything with it though

GiantCowFilms

12:53 AM

@X-27 I shall have to add

GiantCowFilms

1:12 AM

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How to I puree? I downloaded BLENDER and am now trying to make a smoothy. I seem to be unable to put fruit in. I tried the USB ports but only the carrorts when in. So me DECIDED TO MAKE STUPID CARROT SMOOTH BUT I CANNNNNNOOOOT find the puree button... I also want to make a photoreaistic portrait...

GiantCowFilms

1:22 AM

Added two more answers

vote at will

trying to decide if a third one is worth it.

TARDIS Maker

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nEED hELP dUMPED BY gIRL"FRIEND" mY GIRLFRIEND DUMPED ME YESTDAY BECAUSE me LOST me JOB AT PIXAR. i NEED TO GET IT BACK. hOW DO i USE BLENDER TO GET MY GIRLD FRIEND AND JOB BACK. mY PARENTS HAVE DISOWNED ME. womenslef-helplifejob-request

That cracked me up

That is halarious

GiantCowFilms

:D

@TARDISMaker :D

@gandalf3 congrats on adding to the docs :D

gandalf3

:D

even moar docs

GiantCowFilms

Did you do that?

gandalf3

Most of them

GiantCowFilms

1:35 AM

That is sweet

gandalf3

lol

GiantCowFilms

Did you add it??? :O

would you mind sharing the file....

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms yes

@GiantCowFilms not at all

GiantCowFilms

I never can get such things to look right!

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms WOW

GiantCowFilms

1:37 AM

@gandalf3 did it :O

NoviceInDisguise

That deserves hi res!

TARDIS Maker

man, you're making me want to play with the smoke sim!

gandalf3

You can rebake it if you like

TARDIS Maker

But it takes so long to render!

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 I'm quite curious how you got the multi-plume effect

gandalf3

1:37 AM

@GiantCowFilms Erm, yes. I mean, no. err... thats not what it looks like

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 huh?

AH

Okay

that was confusing

gandalf3

:P

ikr

TARDIS Maker

@gandalf3 I thought that was a typo

GiantCowFilms

I presume you are uploading it....?? :D

TARDIS Maker

I want to see it!

gandalf3

1:39 AM

Yay for SE's reply feature to save the day :P

just a second..

The domain settings got messed up, I'll have to put them back.. just a sec

GiantCowFilms

I hate wifi

messed up svn of the docs...

I have my eye on a page that need repair....

gandalf3

:D

GiantCowFilms

or should I say a little more content then just a title

gandalf3

lol

David

@gandalf3 do I get rep? <joke> yes if there is something that needs work (very likely) and that I know about (likely) I would help. I had worked on a few of the wiki pages, but not been back scene the system change.

gandalf3

1:52 AM

lol

Great, that's at least two then :D

Well, three, since I would want to participate too :P

@GiantCowFilms @TARDISMaker Here you go pasteall.org/blend/37634

It may not be quite like there render in the docs, but I think it should be fairly close

David

@GiantCowFilms this one is so ridiculous it is funny. meta.blender.stackexchange.com/a/838/2217 Would you mind If I edit it?

question: why are the docs using SVN? and on top of that why are the docs using SVN when blender is using git?

TARDIS Maker

@David I was wondering the same

David

see I know git, now I have to go and try svn, just to try to help with the docs (easy to see why contributions went WAY down)

NoviceInDisguise

2:09 AM

yeah

GiantCowFilms

@David what to?

@gandalf3 Thank you :D

@David ikr

@David That is my #1 #2 #3 Complaint

@David Did you UV it?

:D

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms Nope, he didn't

David

@GiantCowFilms I think it will look neat showing edited by a mod to say "[on hold] migrated to ..."

TARDIS Maker

@David That would be funny

GiantCowFilms

@David Sure

but then you must UV it :P

Oddly this was my favorite

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How to I puree? I downloaded BLENDER and am now trying to make a smoothy. I seem to be unable to put fruit in. I tried the USB ports but only the carrorts when in. So me DECIDED TO MAKE STUPID CARROT SMOOTH BUT I CANNNNNNOOOOT find the puree button... I also want to make a photoreaistic portrait...

TARDIS Maker

2:15 AM

@GiantCowFilms eh

I thought it was kind of funny, but I think it took it a bit too far

GiantCowFilms

Waahhh

TARDIS Maker

Not funny enough for me to UV it

GiantCowFilms

Ah well

I will add some more

David

@GiantCowFilms deal

@GiantCowFilms look now meta.blender.stackexchange.com/a/838/2217 :)

GiantCowFilms

:D

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Can we ban gandalf3? I have been on this site for 3 days, and have gotten only 5 rep. gandalf3 has over 60,000k. Since I am a super skilled blender expert and always got a A in writing class, I don't see how he could be better at rep earning then me. Therefore it is clear that he is lying and ch...

New one, esp for @gandalf3

TARDIS Maker

2:23 AM

11 step plan, eh?

GiantCowFilms

:D

I figured that was the best way to sell this guy as a loser XD

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms You're forgetting one thing.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 Which is?

@gandalf3 how to you get the smoke plume to have multiple plums instead of one big lump?

TARDIS Maker

Check out my new question!

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms erm.. trying to find link T_T

@GiantCowFilms It's all in the particles :P

GiantCowFilms

2:33 AM

@gandalf3 O.o

gandalf3

The particles have some random velocities, so smoke gets sent in lots of slightly different directions

GiantCowFilms

BTW, why tangent velocity over normal velocity?

@gandalf3 Ah...

gandalf3

idk

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 That is helpful

gandalf3

I guess I wanted it to go sideways for some reason, and wasn't bothered to setup a wind force

GiantCowFilms

2:35 AM

@gandalf3 Lol

@gandalf3 sorry there, I saw my post was slightly less well timed

gandalf3

?

GiantCowFilms

you said idk

and then I said That is helpful

gandalf3

oh

:P

GiantCowFilms

which was sort of a rude response, when it wasn't intened for that post....

TARDIS Maker

:D

gandalf3

2:36 AM

@GiantCowFilms Welcome to chat, where replies never line up to responses or anything ;)

GiantCowFilms

Yah

gandalf3

Okay... SE chat search officially stinks :/

Right, now then

@GiantCowFilms I'm Souron

There we are

Not too far behind schedule

yet punchline == too late

:/

mwahahha.

my evil plans were delayed by evil planes.

I've lost all power to make sense

GiantCowFilms

:D

Working on these docs

gandalf3

Nice!

Which ones?

GiantCowFilms

Blender docs

particularly the python controller

writing docs isn't as easy as it looks ....

gandalf3

2:54 AM

No..

GiantCowFilms

@David Are names of scripts/modules in the python controller case sensitive

TARDIS Maker

I want to explode something but I don't know what to explode

GiantCowFilms

rst is tough stuff

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms ?

GiantCowFilms

restructured text

what the blender docs are written in

TARDIS Maker

3:27 AM

This service is awesome placehold.it

@GiantCowFilms any resources you'd recommend for learning to make back ends for web sites?

GiantCowFilms

What are you going to be using?

Node

PHP

Any framework?

TARDIS Maker

PHP

GiantCowFilms

Laravel?

TARDIS Maker

I don't know of any frameworks to use

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker Okay, framework, yes/no?

TARDIS Maker

3:31 AM

I'll say no for now

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker I've been using laravel on my current project. My opinion is mixed

David

@GiantCowFilms Yes.

GiantCowFilms

It makes my app 2-5x slower then it needs to be but makes development 10x faster and 100x less painful

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms You're always posting about how slow it is :)

GiantCowFilms

@David Also can you use a path and skip the text editor

@TARDISMaker ;D

Okay, if you are going to skip a framework then I suggest teamtreehouse.com

TARDIS Maker

3:32 AM

@GiantCowFilms They should make it comilable

David

@GiantCowFilms NO, haven't you gotten blender's text/data path, linking system yet?

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker ?

@David No, actually I wanted to ask you about something related to that

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms I'm realizing that that wouldn't really do much with PHP

I guess I'm thinking have it compile down into a file or two that's more speed friendly

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker They do

its still slow

David

you have to load the text file in to blender to use. THen any time you make changes you have to update blender's copy. (essentially)

TARDIS Maker

3:34 AM

Ah, okay

GiantCowFilms

@David Okay

BTW the resource I posted isn't free...

I don't know if I ever used a free one...??? hmmm

David

@GiantCowFilms please tell me that you are not trying to write the docs for the data paths/ file linking part.

@GiantCowFilms ~~huh?~~ treehouse = $$

GiantCowFilms

@David Well actually not quite... (I will tell you about it at the correct time which is not now)

@David that was for @TARDISMaker

@David Yah

David

grr I cant get the docs to clone

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker once you've gotten started on a good course you can simply use the docs + stackoverflow

@David I managed to do that

its the writing bit that I am hung up on

this restructured text is killing me

David

3:38 AM

@GiantCowFilms that is because you probably installed subversion.

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms Okay

David

I'm trying to use the GIT over subversion thing

GiantCowFilms

@David Subversion is cake

David

@GiantCowFilms just think of it as mark down

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms I have a decent understanding of PHP, I just need to learn how to apply it to making a site.

GiantCowFilms

3:39 AM

@TARDISMaker I'm trying to think of a free one

@TARDISMaker Ah

I could give you a 20 secound sketch

BTW don't look at Blend-Exchange....

its not good practice

David

@TARDISMaker codecademy.com

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker How to apply it into a site depends on what you mean by that

@David Last I heard that is good for the syntax not the application

You can go full on maddness with routing, ORM and the lot

or you can do it sorta BE style and go simple (faster)

David

@GiantCowFilms I dont know, I have not been through a lesson in a long time.

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms I've used it before, and that's what I found

GiantCowFilms

I would however recommend using ORM

TARDIS Maker

3:42 AM

I thought thier JQuery coarse was good, but the PHP one bored me to death, partially because I had already learned about it

GiantCowFilms

I have not cried during development since learning about the wonders of ORM

although I have come close....

David

@TARDISMaker that is a common problem when you already know about something (think 80% of blender tuts)

TARDIS Maker

@David Yeah

GiantCowFilms

cya guys tomorrow

TARDIS Maker

@GiantCowFilms bye

@David I find that I half know most languages, so most of the time, I want to do something, but I don't know what it's called or where to look, but I can't read the really basic tutorials because they bore me to death

David

3:46 AM

@GiantCowFilms night

@TARDISMaker I know what that is like :)

gandalf3

5:57 AM

@David It's... not very much like markdown :/

@GiantCowFilms If you haven't already found it, there's a helpful reference here

TARDIS Maker

7:05 AM

So my attempts at one line jokes weren't funny?

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Please? Can I be a moderator guy?

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How do I make this in two seconds.

I'm now seeing that the one about making something in two seconds isn't really funny

Kind of dumb

TARDIS Maker

7:28 AM

Well, hopefully this one will be a bit funnier

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I just downloaded Blender 2.75 and I've been having some issues. Basically, every few minutes, Blender crashes my computer. I'm not sure entirely why it's happening, but it's definately happening. I've got my kids on the bike 24/7, so I know it's not an issue with not enough electricity, I'm r...

wuden

8:19 AM

Hello

TARDIS Maker

@wuden Hi

It's late right now for me, so I'm not going to finish up helping you with your model until tomorrow

wuden

ok what's time it is? :)

04:20?

TARDIS Maker

4:20 :)

wuden

why ur still here?

TARDIS Maker

Because I haven't gone to bed yet

I will be soon though

wuden

8:55 AM

can i clone stamp these?

GiantCowFilms

1:47 PM

@gandalf3 Hits Panic Button The sphinx thing they used for the blender docs is crashing when I try to compile. I followed all the steps and am at a loss.... :O

This is why these docs are going to get low contribution rates :/

@JohnB Hi! Long time no see you in here!

JohnB

D:

GiantCowFilms

What brings you in here?

conversation?

help?

bad advice? (You've found your man)

JohnB

I clicked the "join favorite rooms" button

GiantCowFilms

Ah

JohnB

You're my favorite!

...one of them

GiantCowFilms

2:01 PM

Yah

so are you folks

Mutant Bob

@zeffi, sorry I stole your thunder. Man, are we doing that person's homework or what?

wuden

2:27 PM

how to reduce that noisy things?

those

NoviceInDisguise

not bad for 25 seconds of render

You need samples, and multiple importance could help

wuden

my laptop is weak

NoviceInDisguise

More samples will make the biggest difference

wuden

ok way better thanks

NoviceInDisguise

Crazy question 2, slightly different ideas:

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HOW DO I GET $$ FRUM REP i noticed thet som peple have A LOT OF REP and i was wonderin if maybe ther is a way to MAKE MY REP INTO DOLLAS sos i kin get rich. I NEED SOM QWIK MULLA or my CABLKE TV will be TURNED OF ON ME so if thers a way, pls HELP

Also, I think we should post some of the better examples that show up on the real site:

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REAL EXAMPLE #1: Giving lettes an individual node First of all. Im a total noob at blender. I only have a few days of training. I am working on a logo for an animation. Im trying to bake the scene, but my text is too long for only one bake map (or texture or what ever) So I have seperated ea...

wuden

2:42 PM

the second one reminded me

GiantCowFilms

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How do I get out of my Moms basement? I have been living in my parents basement for the last 16 years after I finished my degree in computer sciences form Stanford. This arrangement has worked well, as my parents slid pizza under the door. Today I tried to get out for the first time and discover...

My little play of the fact that some folks here are 'live in mom's basement' types....

NoviceInDisguise

Hmm

I personally don't want to do that

Especially if you get locked in

:P

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise That is where the joke comes in

NoviceInDisguise

lol, yeah

whose parents wants them to stick around that long that badly?

GiantCowFilms

I don't quite think that is the case

Its more to keep themselves safe

NoviceInDisguise

2:54 PM

lol

TARDIS Maker

3:40 PM

@GiantCowFilms That's actually me, which I'm finding really funny now that I think about it.

But I'm 14 so I have an excuse :)

GiantCowFilms

@TARDISMaker Yah

I at least get a bedroom....

only because we don't have a basement, only a crawl space

TARDIS Maker

I do have a bedroom, my computer is just in the basement, so I'm down here for a decent portion of my day.

GiantCowFilms

Mine is in the dining room

XD

TARDIS Maker

I would hate that

I don't like people looking over my shoulder

It's distracting and annoying

GiantCowFilms

4:17 PM

@TARDISMaker Nobody does really

or not to an annoying extent

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms I hate it

My dad will sometimes just stop by and watch me working in Blender and I end up just freezing up

TARDIS Maker

@NoviceInDisguise Same for me

Jonathan

hi there

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Hi

Jonathan

did you guys ever use the tool CrazyBump?

TARDIS Maker

4:31 PM

@Jonathan I haven't used it much

I prefer to use the bump node in cycles instead of normal maps

But if you're interested in games, that won't work for you

Unless you bake from cycles

Jonathan

@TARDISMaker I should check this out

@TARDISMaker Im using the finished result as a pixel graphic anyways

damn yesterday I found an alternative to crazybump in a youtube video and now I cant find it again, hate it when this happens >.<

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Awesome bump?

Jonathan

nah it was called something with n like nMaterial or nTerrain. Strange thing is I found nJob but that is only for normal maps

I get this super strange bug with crazy bump. First I imported a rectangular photo and made maps from it, then I took a part out of that photo and when I import only this part, crazybump autocompletes the rest of the photo. Seriously WTF

Jonathan

5:20 PM

lol it is impossible to start a question with a Hi or a hi guys.

TARDIS Maker

@Jonathan Never include that type of stuff in your questions or answers. You always want to get straight to the point, no fluff.

GiantCowFilms

@Jonathan Yes

TARDIS Maker

I was just looking at Black Rainbows Gargantua after about a year of not seeing it

That thing is amazing

NoviceInDisguise

The black hole scene?

TARDIS Maker

@NoviceInDisguise yeah

NoviceInDisguise

5:29 PM

That one is amazing!

It looks a lot like the one from the movie, which is impressive

TARDIS Maker

Except for the coloring, but yeah

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms o.O

I never had any of these problems....

Is there any output?

GiantCowFilms

6:47 PM

Q:\Projects\Development\2015\Blender Docs>C:\Python34\Scripts\sphinx-build.exe -
b html .\manual .\build\html
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "C:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Python34\Scripts\sphinx-build.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\sphinx\__init__.py", line 51, in main
sys.exit(build_main(argv))
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\sphinx\__init__.py", line 61, in build_mai

@gandalf3 ALL the output XD

gandalf3

hrm

Report it I guess

make on linux works for me, idk about running sphinx directly

NoviceInDisguise

Little test i made over the past day or so

Still working on details, but this is the rough blocked out scene

gandalf3

Wow

Nice

NoviceInDisguise

It is at 2X speed, so it looks a little fast

Thanks :)

Any ideas for details to add?

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms You haz buggy reports:

I will include the .blend file soon. Blend exchange is bugging for some odd reasons for me. Can' t upload the file.. — TheLast_BlenderBender 1 hour ago

What's wrong with Blend Exchange. Can' t upload anything there. — TheLast_BlenderBender 47 mins ago

GiantCowFilms

6:55 PM

It works for me ??

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