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X-27

12:05 AM

@gandalf3 I didn't know... at least if I did, I forgot.

X-27

12:52 AM

Q: Meta question with link from the future in original post?

The famous question on John Skeet Facts has a rather unusual edit history. It shows that the question was asked on November 20th, 2008. But when Bill The Lizzard posted the question, he had a link in it to this blog post - which was posted on November 25th, 2008. Five days later. It would make s...

Duarte Farrajota Ramos

1:17 AM

@X-27 Time travelers

@X-27 :O

1:40 AM

@gandalf3 we do. 40,494 users with less then 200 rep.

in other news...

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X-27

6:08 AM

again...

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos That gopher is surprisingly dramatic... XD

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VRM

1:32 PM

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos One of the original memes, and still one of the bets lol

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Duarte Farrajota Ramos

3:33 PM

Hehe hadn't used it a while :)

cegaton

I wonder, in what part of the tutorial does it say "crank up the level of subdivisions until you run out of computing power" ..?. blender.stackexchange.com/questions/106747/…

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Duarte Farrajota Ramos

4:56 PM

Blender Guru should stop by and answer a few of the questions stemming from his own tutorials every once in a while, to get a good feel for where newbies tend to fail following the instructions and improve his tutorials

VRM

5:28 PM

yeah

Andrew has an account

He hasn't been active for a long while though

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Duarte Farrajota Ramos

6:37 PM

He asked a question not too long ago if I recall correctly

Q: What does the simplify AO bounces value do?

I recently discovered that turning on Simplify in the Scene panel, and setting "AO Bounces" to 2, reduced my render times from 30 minutes to 10 minutes. A three times speed improvement! But... I still don't know what it actually does, and there appears to be no documentation for it. Besides ...