The Renderfarm

Thom Blair III

22:00

Thanks! I'm pretty happy to be involved...it gives me something to do

Vader

I hate FB\

like this like that

plus I have to login

Thom Blair III

something that uses graphic arts

FB...I just stay logged in

@Vader #Don'tGiveInToPeerPressure #BeYourself!

#HashtagAbuse/OverUse

#DownWithHashtags!

gandalf3

\#defaultcubismishard

Thom Blair III

ooo, yeah, have you made any more?

gandalf3

(It's okay, I escaped the '#') :P

@ThomBlairIII I did, as a matter of fact

Vader

22:03

?

gandalf3

I made a wineglass

Vader

what?

oh

show me

Thom Blair III

I totally failed to reproduce Obama using arrays of the default cube, as you might have expected I would

gandalf3

okay

Thom Blair III

Wineglass?! That sounds really cool!

gandalf3

22:04

rendering...

Thom Blair III

...anticipation mounts...

gandalf3

In the mean time, here's another one I did

Thom Blair III

ok

gandalf3

Thom Blair III

OOO! GIANT CEPHALAPOD IS HERE!!!!

Vader

22:07

how is that a wine glass

?

gandalf3

1 min ago, by gandalf3

In the mean time, here's another one I did

Thom Blair III

You have successfully mutated the default cube into a work of art!!!

Vader

ohak

nice colors

how'd you do those nice colors?

gandalf3

:D

Thom Blair III

that's super cool gandalf! it looks like the frosted part on frosted miniwheats!

gandalf3

22:08

@Vader I used some SSS.. Is that it?

Vader

I never used sss

b/c its only CPU

gandalf3

It's possible to fake on GPU with some fancy raylength tricks..

Vader

meh

not good enough

Thom Blair III

gandalf3

Interesting..

Vader

22:10

pukes

gandalf3

#defaultcereal

with stuff..

..

Thom Blair III

totally awesome postcube!

can you release the blend yet or does the competition have to end first?

gandalf3

The wineglass render is done, but it looks awful

Thom Blair III

I'd love to see it

gandalf3

:(

sure

Thom Blair III

22:12

not good enough for you???

gandalf3

It's not perfect, the stem is hollow

Thom Blair III

that looks awesome!*

gandalf3

I have an idea to fix it though

Thom Blair III

I have to admit, I never would have suspected a cube was behind that all

gandalf3

There is also a hole in the bottom (I have an idea to fix that too)

@ThomBlairIII it is :)

Thom Blair III

22:13

not even Sherlock would have suspected it, I don't think

Vader

why not just model it?

gandalf3

Because, um.. because...

Thom Blair III

@Vader VADER VADER VADER!!! TSK, TSK, TSK!

#DEFAULTCUBECHALLENGE

!!!!

gandalf3

Because it's a cube

Thom Blair III

because it's there...

gandalf3

22:14

Now I can show this to someone and say "this is a cube" and watch their reaction ;)

Thom Blair III

exactly!

totally!

just don't say it near a medical or legal professional...they'll check you for substance abuse

#justSayNo

gandalf3

:P

I'll just disable the modifiers quickly after the initial confusion wears off..

Thom Blair III

can you animate the arms on the first post-cube?

gandalf3

The curly blue thingy?

Thom Blair III

@gandalf3 that'd be a cool GIF

yeah, that!

writhing cephalapodic arms covered in frosting!

blueberry frosting

gandalf3

22:19

It's all array modifiers, so yes, and no. There is a remesh modifier afterwards, so the result would be different every frame (I think), plus it would be really really slow...

Thom Blair III

bummer...we need more crays

Cray supercomputers in our homes, that is

gandalf3

yay, I have the second highest amount of upboats in the competition so far :D

blendernation.com/2014/04/11/weekend-contest-default-cube

Vader

if python is allowed can't you use it to generate new geo?

gandalf3

idk

Vader

where are the entries?

Thom Blair III

22:24

congrats on the upbvoats!

gandalf3

@Vader In the comments

Vader

@gandalf3 please share that shader

I will give you back your blenderpoint

gandalf3

Sure thing

Vader

it looks insanely real and good

Thom Blair III

and I'd like the frosting modifier stack, when you're done, please!
:)

gandalf3

22:27

@ThomBlairIII blendernation.com/2014/04/11/weekend-contest-default-cube/…

Thom Blair III

did you mean to paste that link?

gandalf3

yes

It's supposed to go to a specific comment

Thom Blair III

it didn't for me

gandalf3

:(

sometimes it takes a while..

Thom Blair III

#IBeURLChallenged

gandalf3

22:29

Anyway, someone asked for the modifier stack literally seconds before you did :P

And I replied

pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=69728

Thom Blair III

AH HAH! It DID finally load

gandalf3

:D

Thom Blair III

odd

gandalf3

@Vader Sorry it's taking so long, my nodes are rather messy (and i'm attempting a last minute clean up)..

Vader

thats good

gandalf3

22:32

I've put the .blend on my entry comment too, in case you want a closer look

Vader

is that for the gold?

gandalf3

Gold?

No, that's for the cream puff/blue curly thing (Mike Pan said multiple entries are allowed, so I entered both)

The gold has a few more nodes

Vader

oh, can I see the gold one plz?

gandalf3

sure

Thom Blair III

oh good, because your blue curly thing file just about melted down my computer before I noticed it and had to force quit blender! :(

gandalf3

22:34

The blend for that one is also in the comment too

Thom Blair III

That was close!

gandalf3

@ThomBlairIII Yess.. that remesh is pretty heavy

Thom Blair III

I almost lost my computer to your big frosted squid arms

gandalf3

o.O

Thom Blair III

KRAKEN indeed!

gandalf3

22:35

XD

Thom Blair III

my gpu has a known flaw in it and if it gets above 180F for too long, it'll die.

gandalf3

hm

Thom Blair III

when I saw it just about 60 seconds after opening your file, it was already up to 160F

135F to 160F in 60 seconds! NOT the kind of speed record I want to go down in history with

Vader

oh that is complex

did you do a lot of R&D

Thom Blair III

#deleteDefaultCube

#FAST

Vader

22:37

fpr the shader I mean

gandalf3

The gold shader?

Vader

yeah

Thom Blair III

ok I'm out...adios guys!

Vader

oops I added a skin modifier

gandalf3

naw, I just messed around for a while..

Vader

22:39

I hate the skin modifer

it should come with a warning

gandalf3

@Vader I hate it when stuff like that happens

@Vader ikr

At least the remesh modifier is tame until you crank it up

Vader

yeah

but the skin modier is just a blender killer

gandalf3

Even adding it to suzanne will take a bit

Vader

It it too slow

I didn't even save yet

gandalf3

that's not good..

Vader

22:42

well I live life on the edge

jk

still waiting

idk what it is doing

150mb RAM == normal

gandalf3

How dense was your mesh?

Vader

10% cpu, 90% gone to wase

not very

finally

gandalf3

It takes about a minute for me on an unsubsurfed suzanne..

@Vader hooray

Vader

never again will I use this modifier

wireframe willl do

gandalf3

Now if It was me, I would probably miss the remove button and tweak some setting into the millions (and recalculate the modifier too..)

The rigging is kind of cool, but I know what you mean..

Vader

22:45

yep same thing with the array mdoifier

can we use hooks?

that will let use move verts

gandalf3

idk

I don't see why not

It's a modifier

Vader

nothing in the thread

gandalf3

And it uses vertex groups

Vader

cool competiton

gandalf3

Yeah

Yes

I got rid of the hole in the bottom of my wine glasses :)

Vader

22:52

nice

gandalf3

Though my idea for fixing the hollow stem won't work..

Vader

oh well

I am sure there are some hacks

gandalf3

hmm

I can't think of any alternative atm..

Unless using curve geo to shrinkwrap to is allowed

But I don't think it is

Vader

it is not

maybe use a hook modifer?

and an empty to move a vert?

gandalf3

The verts I need to move are all generated

But wait

Perhaps I can use a lattice or something

nvm, that requires a vertex group

Vader

23:01

is it really that important?

gandalf3

wait, my original idea will work after all

I had some messed up rotations

Vader

it is 30 day competition?

wow

gandalf3

It is?

I thought it was just a weekend thing

Vader

oh nvm

he did it for 30 days himself

how can I add this glossy on top of this diffuse?

gandalf3

23:17

You can use an add shader node

Vader

facepalm

gandalf3

But you might end up reflecting more light than you receive (I think)

Vader

looks like it

gandalf3

In which case you want to use a mix node

Vader

nope

too mich

gandalf3

23:19

@Vader wat

The amount of reflected light shouldn't affect the size of the scene...

Vader

@gandalf3 ughh time for cpu

welcome to slow m o t i o n

I wish the array modiefer was instances

gandalf3

@Vader You can sort of do that by arraying a tri around using duplifaces

But it's tricky with a default cube..

Vader

yeah but not if you only have a cube to work with

gandalf3

I'm pretty sure you could do it with multiple files though (which is allowed)

Vader

what

link files?

gandalf3

23:24

yes

Link the tri in from another blend

Vader

that's cheatin IMO

gandalf3

It's allowed, according to the rules.. but I know the feeling ;)

I haven't had to resort to that yet

Vader

you know how we have homogenous volumes?

gandalf3

What, volumetric rendering?

Vader

yeah

gandalf3

23:27

Oh

Yes

Vader

when will they add heterogeneous volumes?

gandalf3

I thought they were here too?

Vader

what is that even a thing?

gandalf3

adaptivesamples.com/tag/…

^^ Yes, and it's in blender :)

Vader

lol okay

I was just making a bad joke

god blender delops fast

gandalf3

23:29

lulz

Vader

no joke intened there

maya is a turtle to evolve

do you do tuts?

gandalf3

No (Not unless you count any of my longer-than-should-be-allowed answers here) :P

Maybe I should though

Vader

you should on shaders for sure

I mean they are so darn good

gandalf3

ty

Vader

do you ever use clamp in sampling?

gandalf3

23:34

Yes

Only indirect clamp though

Vader

what is a standard value u use?

gandalf3

It's pretty useful actually

It varies a lot per scene, but I normally start with 5 and compare it to an un-clamped render

Then if no highlights are clamped, I'll bump it down and compare it again

Repeat until ready

;)

Vader

thx

I hate it when I leave render border on

they should fix that to vport only

gandalf3

Yeah

Vader

btw the nodes switching still sucks

gandalf3

23:39

It's useful for render too though

Vader

they need to rollback

gandalf3

@Vader But your right, I do that every time :(

@Vader Yep.

Vader

@gandalf3 yes but often times I leave it on accident

hmm, do I really need 22k samples?

gandalf3

o.O

:O

22,000!!!!!????

That is a lot

Vader

I used the branched one

gandalf3

23:41

ah

I don't use it much, but I think I should

Vader

you should for sure

you can focus rays on important rays

gandalf3

oh

Before you edited your comment I got all excited..

Vader

there was a tut on cgcookie about that

gandalf3

Adaptive sampling in Cycles!

(not (yet))

It's going to be in the next MLT patch though!

Vader

thats my entry

gandalf3

23:43

ooh Very cool

Vader

Last place, here I come

gandalf3

Nice lighting

How did you get the boolean cut thing?

Vader

1 cube

gandalf3

@Vader I'll vote for you :)

Vader

gandalf3

23:43

@Vader ikr

Vader

holy duck this guy is good

is this how god created the universe?

where do I submit?

gandalf3

Just post a comment

BTW, multiple entries are allowed in case you want to spam these things out ;)

Vader

@gandalf3 I am only gonna do 1, I am too busy

gandalf3

okay

I'm having too much fun

Vader

my final plane

gandalf3

23:51

Wow

That's detailed

Vader

somewhat

I ignored a lot of detail too

gandalf3

It looks kinda heavy though

But those textures are amazing

Vader

thx

they took forever

MARI

it is awesome

Thom Blair III

ooo, had to come in & take a snapshot for the chatroom family album! all together, except for iklsr...we'll get him in later on

Vader

if you ever buy a commercial app buy mari

Thom Blair III

23:53

2

Vader

lol

gandalf3

@ThomBlairIII Don't forget scales ;)

Vader

photoshop him in

gandalf3

:P

@Vader Use blender :)

Vader

:P

Thom Blair III

23:54

oh yeah, iklsr is prob fixing him now

hey vader, your plane is awesome!

Vader

thx

I am not sure what to create enxt

you should make a tutorial on shader @gandalf3

Thom Blair III

did they raelly have ones with 2 guns?

Vader

all the ones I see suck

@ThomBlairIII yeah of course, the more the merrier

Thom Blair III

XD

gandalf3

lol

@Vader Idk what I would do.. I've never made a tutorial before

Got any suggestions?

Thom Blair III

23:57

ok, gotta go again...ttfn!

Vader

ehhm

idk either

I never made a tut as well

it should be general

but specific enough so you can easly apply it to many things

Peter Varo

oh freak me..

my problem was: I ticked the OpenCL in the Performance section at the Compositing Node Editor

Vader

oh

MAC problem I bet

Peter Varo

and even I switched to Cycles as @Vader suggested it, I still had those "alien messages"

Vader

still a bug I bet

or a feautre

Peter Varo

23:59

probably, or especially my Mac's graphics card problem

gandalf3

That makes sense, I suppose

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