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Thom Blair III

00:01

I also tried:

Vader

![bla bla description](asdaksdh.jpg)

Thom Blair III

I also tried this but no luck either:
<img src="http://example.com/sample.png" width="100" height="100">

@Vader Thanks Vader, but I couldn't get that one to work either. Does it not work with images on Google Drive? Should I upload my pics to some other host or something?

Vader

@ThomBlairIII Upload them via the image uploader/embedder

Thom Blair III

When I go to leave a comment on a question, I don't see any way to do that...is my reputation too low for that privilege?

@Vader What happens if we start a question and you and I just talk back and forth thousands of times...do we get thousands of rep points? XD I guess we just get booted out?

JK!

:P

Vader

I think you need 50 rep to leave a comment

you can always comment on your own Q/As

we only get points if someone votes on your Q/A

Thom Blair III

00:12

oh god, so CLOSE!
:D

Vader

Yeah

Thom Blair III

Ok, time for super reputation increase time...this is like jumping on the turtle in Super Mario Bros. to get a thousand lives!!
:D

Vader

I never played that game but okay

getting rep is hard b/c there are so few questions to answer

Thom Blair III

Well gosh, I have a jillion real questions to ask, but I feel like a pain in the butt to ask them all!

Vader

nah, you can ask as many as you want.

Thom Blair III

00:16

Is this a match made in heaven?!?
? :D

Well, ok, how do you as the answerer get points?

Vader

upvote one question is 10 points

accepted answer is 15 points

upvoted questions is 5 points

those are the ways you get points

Thom Blair III

Oh, ok...can I accept multiple answers?

Seems like I should be able to if there are multiple correct ways to solve the issue.

Like on my last question, several people gave correct answers I think, but I haven't had time to check through them all yet. I couldn't get your answer to work yet.

I don't want to get charged with racketeering or rep points scamming, but I seriously could ask a ton of real questions...

But then I don't want to have everyone just say RTFM...which hopefully they won't because I the manual is so hard to understand so often it doesn't help me much.

So why don't you just go around reading all the questions and upvoting good ones? Is that considered bad?

Or have you read them all already?

We need to find the Force on solving this one!

@Vader I was 4 years old when Star Wars came out and I saw it 7 times in the theater, so I still remember parts that are now lost due to the archival problems they had with the original film reel.

Vader

@ThomBlairIII than do so, you will not get blamed for it

@ThomBlairIII I only saw it 2 times

Thom Blair III

Actually, there are very few parts that were lost that were of any interest, except there was one scene on Mos Isley right after the canteena scene where Jabba the Hut peeks out from around a corner to watch Luke & them leave the canteena, but you never knew who the figure was until you read the book and found out it was Jabba before he got fat.

Did you see it when it came out? How old are you? I can't figure it out if you saw Star Wars in the theater but didn't play Super Mario Bros?

Vader

00:33

I didn't see it in theater

dvd

Thom Blair III

Oh ok.

Vader

i too live in VA

Thom Blair III

Oh really? Where?

Vader

Fairfax

Thom Blair III

Oh yeah, up by DC. Are you going to school there?

Vader

00:36

around yeah

Thom Blair III

So what are your specialities with graphics, blender & otherwise?

Vader

I like modeling the most

Thom Blair III

Nice. Did you make that pic of Vader?

Do you have your models/artwork online anywhere?

Vader

I have stuff, just not organized in a portfolio sense, most of it is scattered about my dropbox

my avatar is from the internet, I just cropped it

Thom Blair III

Oh, ok.

I saw your picture of the coins stacked and that was neat...did you model that?

When you were discussing the bitcoins with someone...

Vader

00:42

I think David did that

Thom Blair III

His bitcoins were pretty neat too. What are some of your favorite things you've made?

Vader

an airplane

Thom Blair III

Actually, I have a real question that maybe you can answer about models...I'll go ask it and invite you to answer it...it's about how to get a .MTL texture file onto an .OBJ file if it doesn't do it automatically. Do you know how to do that?

Vader

obj only allows a single texture map

Thom Blair III

Hmm, well, I don't know much at all about objs, but the ones I've downloaded from the internet often come with .MTL files that seem to have all kinds of colors etc in them, but when I import the obj, the .MTL colors etc don't always show up for some reason.

Vader

00:47

yeah blender does not read the textures from the mtl

you need to manually add them back into the model onc imported

Thom Blair III

ok, I'll go ask the question and get more details there, ok?

Vader

sure

make sure it is clear though

Thom Blair III

@vader Here it is...blender.stackexchange.com/questions/7790/…

Vader

I will take a look

Thom Blair III

Ok, cool.

Sintel

00:58

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Q: How can I get a .MTL file to show on an .OBJ model I imported?

I've downloaded & imported several .OBJ models into Blender but they don't always import with the textures automatically in place, even though the model came with them. Here's an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yQeQQ8ImENWWYyb0oxYWZMVjQ/edit?usp=sharing

Vader

This work fine for me in BI

cycles, not so much

Thom Blair III

Sorry, I had to delete it because I just realized I totally messed up again...none of my models import with textures already showing on them in texture mode.

Or should I undelete it?

Vader

I would just leave, it. there is not way to do this at import time

you need to do it manually

Thom Blair III

I just undeleted it, because I saw your answer about BI and cycles. You should leave an answer and I'll accept it.

Vader

okay

Thom Blair III

01:07

I just tried it and you're right, BI does have them import automatically, but cycles doesn't. ..kind of a pain.

I never use BI since I'm trying to learn cycles since BI is being deprecated in future releases.

Vader

01:24

gtg cya

o/

Sintel

03:26

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Q: How to show an object in 3D View as Bright Blue

This isn't about the final render using cycles, but in the 3D view when I'm in Object or Edit (or any) mode. I want to make one object in a tangled mess of object stand out as bright blue (or any color). I'm usually working with wireframe, solid, or texture view modes. I guessed that in the...

viewport

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Q: Does blender support what I could best describe as "Occlusion Planes"?

Is there a way that i can have a plane set to not render anything beyond it? What i am trying to do is create custom UI graphics for a java application. I find that blender produces some VERY nice looking UIs with very little effort (relatively speaking). I am getting stuck on making a switch th...

rendering mesh

Sintel

06:29

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Q: Use mist with scene that has world texture/background

How can I use mist in a Cycles scene that is using a world background?

cycles

Thom Blair III

12:16

I think I made my first intelligent, useful answer to a question! What does anybody think?
http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/7792/how-to-show-an-object-in-the-3d-view-as-a-specific-color/7800#7800

It'd be great to be able to give something back to the site!
:)

Thom Blair III

12:28

@iKlsR Can someone accept two answers to a question? For example, on this question
http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/7792/how-to-show-an-object-in-the-3d-view-as-a-specific-color/7800#7800
you answered about better viewing in Object mode, but then I added a way to change view coloring in Edit mode. Should we combine the answers or is it not an issue?

@iKlsR I guess it's not really an issue...any reader will just see the other answers and can figure it out for themselves.
:)

Sintel

13:05

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Q: zoom lags using linux (gentoo)

I'm running Blender as a binary and when I zoom in or out on an object it has a lot of lag. The zoom works using the roller ball of the mouse. 4 gigs of ram. I'm using the binary because the install does not work. I use Blender on a Mac 1 gig or ram running Lion and using Windows 7 and all i...

blender-internal

Vader

14:01

@ThomBlairIII only one answer can be accepted

only the person asking the question can accept it

Your answer is not wrong but its not what OP is looking for.

Sintel

16:09

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Q: How can I convert a UV map back into a mesh?

Given blender 2.7 is going to support sewing it makes sense to be able to unwrap an object (clothes) in to a 2d pattern, orientate the 2d panels around the body and then 'sew' it back together to simulate how the pattern fits. Is it currently possible to convert a UV map in to a mesh?

mesh uv

iKlsR

16:41

@ThomBlairIII What @Vader said and I also agree, your answer isn't really what OP asked plus that looks like a nightmare to work with.

Thom Blair III

You must be kidding? You leave your wireframe & vertices set to black?

iKlsR

Thom Blair III

I was overjoyed when I figured out how to change the active object's mesh to a different color when editing. I had seen other people with it in tutorials, but it took me a while to figure it out.

What about in wire frame mode?

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII same with opacity changed.

it's the same default black unselected.

Thom Blair III

Oh, so what theme are you using? I'm using the default theme where everything defaults to all black, like in the pic I showed.

iKlsR

16:49

@ThomBlairIII I'm using my own custom theme, basically everything is flat.

Thom Blair III

Wow, that's cool looking. What do you mean by everything is flat?

iKlsR

I pretty much just removed the gradients from the interface

Thom Blair III

Oh, by editing Blender itself?

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII the option is in the user prefs.

Thom Blair III

Oh.

iKlsR

16:52

I have custom builds where I tweak the interface yes but not my working copy.

Thom Blair III

Neat. How good are you at changing the code?

Can you make it do new things or do you just remove things is what I mean.

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII I've been tinkering with the source for close to 3 years, I can pretty much change whatever I want. I know C and python and I work in opengl.

How to sometimes tell Blender users apart. #b3d http://t.co/S1sp6UUsv6

Tweeted by iKlsR on November 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM

Thom Blair III

Awesome! I don't know any of those.

Yeah, no kidding!

iKlsR

Blender developers meeting notes, March 16, 2014

Thom Blair III

Are you a developer?

iKlsR

16:56

Blender 2.70 will officially be here this Wednesday!

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Thom Blair III

I assume that means you are?

AWESOME!

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII nope

Thom Blair III

Oh, you just follow along?

Do you code for a living?

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII I'm a student. ;)

Thom Blair III

Oh, college or high school?

iKlsR

16:57

But yeah, I program. College, I have 1 year left.

Thom Blair III

What kind of things to you make? Any specialities?

iKlsR

erm.. I mostly do graphics programming.

Wish I had something to show but my projects aren't really public.

Thom Blair III

Oh, I was just going to ask...no problem.

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII I have some badly written code here, github.com/iKlsR

Nothing much, was just playing with git at the time.

Thom Blair III

!! Awesome! That looks just like the sprite editor I made back when I was programming!

I used QuickBasic

That was before I'd ever even heard of even turbo pascal

iKlsR

17:04

haha

Thom Blair III

When 286's first came out for home use

iKlsR

I probably didn't know what a computer was back then.

Thom Blair III

My friend had the first data storage device for a home computer...guess what it was?

iKlsR

Magnetic tape? :P

Thom Blair III

Yep...A drive that recorded onto audio tape!

iKlsR

17:06

heheh. Probably wasn't even born yet. :P

Thom Blair III

It took SO long to load

probably just as well....didn't really miss anything..

iKlsR

Ah, I just wish I had some new 3d artwork to show people instead of the same old stuff from 2010 etc.

So much to do, so little time.

Thom Blair III

Is your stuff on that link you sent? I'll check it out...

iKlsR

nope, it's scattered all over the place.

Let me see if I can dig up some old pictures.

I have some interactive models here p3d.in/u/iKlsR

Thom Blair III

Those are cool!

iKlsR

17:10

Thom Blair III

Did you model all those by yourself?

iKlsR

Can't find anymore

Yep.

All old stuff, circa 3 years at most, haven't modeled anything in that long. X.x

Thom Blair III

Wow, that's a lot of work and really realistic looking!

iKlsR

Heheh. Thanks. :P

I'm a pretty terrible artist tho, I try my best.

I also have some Blender 2.49 stuff I think. youtube.com/user/iKlsR

Man, everything is all over the place. I need to archive these for science!

Thom Blair III

Well, modeling and free-hand art are very different...my Mom's a great watercolorist and so was her mom, but I stick to digital art mostly.

That's why I'm glad to finally find a 3D program for macs that works

I haven't done any 3D for close to 15 years.

iKlsR

17:15

:O

Hope I don't fall into a rut.

Sintel

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Q: How to use actuator as sensor to play animation of my character?

I'm just new so I may not know the rules here. Pls do tell me if I violated something or what. So I have a character that has a walk animation. I assigned a steering actuator to it specifically path following so that they will all meet in a specific place by themselves. I also have a shake anima...

game-engine

Thom Blair III

Maya first came out when I had a job doing desktop publishing, making book covers, posters, brochures, etc, & although it looked SO cool, I never had time to use it.

If you have facebook you can see my photos & paintings...it's all public
https://www.facebook.com/thom.blairiii/media_set?set=a.1019215561985.2003201.1273030005&type=3

iKlsR

There's a piece of Andrew Price in all of us. :P

Thom Blair III

wow, that leaf blowing is awesome. maybe it looks simple to some people, but when you try to make it, you find out how hard it is to make it look realistic.

iKlsR

heh, it's animated by hand. ;) That's partly why the video is so short.

Thom Blair III

17:20

yeah, I figured! I bet you'd have a hard time finding a mocap file for a leaf!
XD

The lift is also neat...I'm really impressed with Blender's physics.

When 3D first came out, the simple 3D programs didn't even let you have an inside to an object.

I was so bummed because I wanted to make some cool flythroughs

Had to wait for ~15 years

iKlsR

Yh, Blender is what sparked my interest in graphics programming.

Always wanted to know what happened under the hood.

Thom Blair III

This is one of my favorite things I made doing 2D
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3972943843346&set=a.1019215561985.2003201.1273030005&type=3&theater

iKlsR

Yogi!

Thom Blair III

I made all those bevel look 3D by hand...photoshop didn't have a bevel tool back then

Yep!

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII looks depressing. :S

Thom Blair III

17:23

Depressing? why?

iKlsR

oh, looks really nice

Thom Blair III

??

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII reminds me of a funeral program.

Thom Blair III

A funeral program? Oh, you mean like if someone had died they'd have a thing they hand out at the funeral?

We don't have those here, at least not in any churches I've been to

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII oh, it resembles those out here

no offense btw

Thom Blair III

17:26

Wow, good to know for a cross-culture marketing perspective

I've lived all over america and I don't think I've ever seen anything like that at a funeral and my Dad's a minister so he's done countless funerals.

Every weekend ...a wedding, a baptism and a funeral....

Hatch, match, dispatch...
XD

A bit of minister humor...

iKlsR

Something like this

Thom Blair III

Ah ha, interesting...

Now I see why you don't like it, or it brings up the wrong memories...

The orgainzation I worked for was the Transcendental Meditation movement and they had a very bright, cheerful, flowery aesthetic.

iKlsR

:)

Thom Blair III

Do you have a mac or pc?

Solitary looks really real...nice work.

It's amazing what blender can do with textures etc

I was stunned at how easy it was to make this with just a picture of a stump:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202938300039825&set=a.10202938299959823.1073741832.1273030005&type=3&theater

Did you have to model the lichens or much of the branch?

iKlsR

17:43

@ThomBlairIII Was afk

erm

Thom Blair III

Hey, have you seen this yet? Looks pretty awesome
http://www.gizmag.com/artemis-pcell-mobile-network/31191/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4e519eca3c-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-4e519eca3c-91291261

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?204271-Solitary-Stump

I'll have to read up on it

Just realized I had a high res

Man, you find gems everyday

This image ^ was my first render, as in the first piece of work I considered done.

Thom Blair III

That's all really cool...nice work. It always amazes me when someone says the shape of the tree isn't really what a tree looks like to me, but I guess it's just what different people are used to. Maybe they grew up around different trees.

iKlsR

That too.

Thom Blair III

The towers are cool...the wooden cup was the first thing I ever made.

I was surprised to find that in China and Russia, at least the parts I went to mostly, they didn't have any trees like I'm used to in the US...they only had these very thin anemic looking trees

Maybe that's why the guy said your tree looked wierd.

Vader

17:53

@iKlsR was this done i 3ds?

iKlsR

Climate I guess, I know trees to have thick bases

@Vader yep

Vader

you have sinned

/ban @iKlsR

iKlsR

:D

nuuuu

I love 3ds max

Vader

really?

iKlsR

I hate Blender!

Vader

17:54

I hate its ui

if anything I would use sofitmage

iKlsR

nah, it's fun

Softimage is even worse, it had one of the worst uis next to lightwave

Vader

its funny how you can tell the app by just the viewport shading

the dozer looks good though

iKlsR

@Vader Yh, true. Tho I could configure Blender to have that hard look

Vader

yeah blender's viewport leaves some to desire

that scar model looks good, Is that from a cgcookies tut?

iKlsR

@Vader not that I recall. I think that tut was a M16?

I wanted a scar becuase I had run one in a cod match that day.. too cool.

Scar-H

Vader

17:58

yeah its a nice model

iKlsR

@Vader It was never finished.

Vader

looks pretty done to me

iKlsR

You will also notice that it has ejection slots on both sides. XD

I wanted a scope on it and a grip

argh

Vader

@iKlsR lol, thats pretty cool nontheless

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