The Renderfarm

Thom Blair III

00:00

@Qwertieϟ @qwertie check this out!

I noticed that Zeffii managed to have my name on the post twice & couldn't figure out how to do it...

Then Seth showed me how to do it

Qwertie ϟ

cool

Thom Blair III

Seth from the Sandbox

Qwertie ϟ

But why would you want to do that?

@ThomBlairIII @ThomBlairIII

Thom Blair III

I don't know but Zeffii did it and I couldn't figure out at first how he did it, so I tried it

Seth finally showed me

Qwertie ϟ

I found my old unity answers account from when I was 10. I feel like down voting everything there. Most of my questions/answers are one line.

Thom Blair III

00:05

Easy on yourself...time makes us all wiser, mostly

:D

Qwertie ϟ

DX

Thom Blair III

XD

the thing is, if you were asking in ernest, then hey, you didn't know...kids aren't born innately known what null is...

:D

Qwertie ϟ

One interesting thing is that in one of the code snippets I posted I found the answer to a problem I have been having for ages.

Thom Blair III

I'm still privately petitioning Redfoo to come over here and save the unicorns

Nice! That's cool!

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII Thanks, me. That sounds so strange to read

Thom Blair III

00:10

I think iklsr was saying he had the same experience recently...

a month or so ago he said so

I personally only have a certain amount of ram and I don't keep everything loaded in it...

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII I can see why Stack Exchange has a 13+ rule

Thom Blair III

I usually discard things after about 10 minutes

Ah, I didn't know that...

That still doesn't help when super confused 41 year olds like me come in and are still too new to figure it out immediately

but I'm kinda getting the hang of it

Qwertie ϟ

Thom Blair III

XD

Qwertie ϟ

ooh, The new version of ubuntu just came out. Time to update my PC

Thom Blair III

00:14

WAIT!!!

NEVER be the first guinea pig...

what if it's got catastrophic bugs in it????

Qwertie ϟ

Its too late. ;)

Thom Blair III

that's your OS you're talking about!!!!

Qwertie ϟ

They release it into beta first

It has already been tested.

Thom Blair III

friends shouldn't let friends upgrade the first day an OS comes out.... I'm sorry I failed you XC

@Qwertieϟ O!M!G!

YOU REALLY ARE YOUNG!!!

Qwertie ϟ

If it fails I will downgrade it

Thom Blair III

00:16

I can't tell you how many times I've watched coworkers have to figure out how to cope with buggy OS upgrades

I always was the last in the office to upgrade...

Qwertie ϟ

Well ok I stoped it

Thom Blair III

I always waited until the first patch comes out

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T UPGRADE

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII But shiny new features

Thom Blair III

yeah, but wait to see if the shiny features work before you upgrade...wait at least a few days & watch the forums

what if it makes your machine unusuable??

:\

Qwertie ϟ

The beta has been out for months now

Thom Blair III

00:19

ok, well, if you think it's safe

Qwertie ϟ

itnews.com.au/News/…

Thom Blair III

I always hated having to downgrade

Qwertie ϟ

DX

Thom Blair III

is that a serious issue?

it looks like it...

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII It has been fixed now, but I will wait for a while just to be sure

Thom Blair III

00:21

yeah, I think that sounds like a good idea

Do you know the story of the Pilgrims coming to america?

most of them died the first year because they didn't know what was waiting for them

the same happens to many people who are the first to go somewhere TOTALLY new

I expect the same thing will happen when people colonize mars

BUT, in the meantime, you can still avoid upgrading to new versions that havne't been widely enough bug tested

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII Why don't the try the moon first?

Thom Blair III

idk...most people seem to want to go to mars first

Colonization of Mars

The colonization of Mars by humans, which was originally an idea limited to science fiction, is now the subject of serious feasibility studies. Relative similarity to Earth Earth is similar to its "sister planet" Venus in bulk composition, size and surface gravity, but Mars's similarities to Earth are more compelling when considering colonization. These include: *The Martian day (or sol) is very close in duration to Earth's. A solar day on Mars is 24 hours 39 minutes 35.244 seconds. (See Timekeeping on Mars.) *Mars has a surface area that is 28.4% of Earth's, only slightly less than th...

Qwertie ϟ

As part of the ongoing effort to improve the usability and security of Google Chrome, the latest version has removed loading web pages

Tweeted by Horse_iOS on May 3, 2014 at 4:37 AM

:P

Thom Blair III

XD

yep,

#safetyFirst

for this reason, I am planning to wait to be one of the last people to get cybernetic implants

hackers are bad enough when it's just your desktop, but when it's your brain, O!M!G!

Qwertie ϟ

I use internet explorer 1 a few weeks ago

Thom Blair III

00:27

how'd it go?

Qwertie ϟ

Barely managed to load google

Thom Blair III

why?

Qwertie ϟ

Because its like 20 years old

And does not support JS or CSS

Thom Blair III

OH, now I get it

Qwertie ϟ

If you go to blender.stackexchange.com you get stack overflow

Thom Blair III

00:31

you mean with IE 1?

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII yes

Thom Blair III

yep, sounds like sage advice not to go back that far

Qwertie ϟ

It doesn't work with multiple websites on the same ip

Thom Blair III

were you trying to test your websites with different browsers?

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII I was just messing around with WINE

it lets you run windows apps on linux

Thom Blair III

00:33

oh, yeah, I tried wine once, but I didn't like it

it was too hard to figure out...

I like apps that just work without lots of struggle

I didn't need it so I didn't go far with it

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII Try Play on mac

One click install and setup of windows apps

it makes wine easy to use

Thom Blair III

well, that's neat...I just never use windows software

Qwertie ϟ

I use it for licecap unity and skyrim

Thom Blair III

oh, I see, since you're on linux

Qwertie ϟ

I found the ugliest pc case ever

Thom Blair III

00:37

hmmm

omg! that's that insulation stuff?

Qwertie ϟ

yes

Thom Blair III

I suspect that's a joke

most likely

do you think so?

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII Probably

Thom Blair III

most people try to keep their pc cooler

XD

Qwertie ϟ

Still

Thom Blair III

00:40

yep, definitely the least aesthetically pleasing case I've seen in quite a while

but do you think it's really a working pc in there?

I mean, I know the screen looks like it's hooked up to a computer, but maybe not that one

I wonder if they really made one that'd work like that

Qwertie ϟ

This is my case

Thom Blair III

I suppose if you had enough disposable parts, you could just mess around with them like that

Is that cybertron?

or whatever the brand is?

Qwertie ϟ

coolermaster

apac.coolermaster.com/en/product/Detail/case/…

Thom Blair III

how do you like it?

Qwertie ϟ

It looks awesome

there is a button to turn the LEDs on/off

Thom Blair III

00:43

I was scared away from the cybertron ones once I read all the terrifyingly bad reviews of them

they were being sold with stolen copies of windows etc

Qwertie ϟ

There are so many fans in my case

Thom Blair III

and the coolermaster ones look so much like the cybertron ones that I was scared away from them

that's cool!

literally

do you have a internal temperature gauge?

what temperature does yours run at?

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII No, I just use the terminal to check the temp

Thom Blair III

my macbook pro runs at ~135F with a throttler

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII I think the CPU is usually at 40C

Thom Blair III

00:46

mine's at 58C

Qwertie ϟ

It gets a lot hotter while rendering things

I think it once got to 80C

Thom Blair III

yeah, I used to have to put mine in the refrigerator to render before I found a good throttler

Qwertie ϟ

@ThomBlairIII 0_0

Thom Blair III

yeah, because my motherboard is known to be faulty and will die if it gets to ~180F

Qwertie ϟ

When I get a good GPU I might add watercooling

Thom Blair III

00:48

I was thinking how awesome cpus might be if they were run out in space, where it's about -430F

~ −273°C or so

actually, it's closer to −459°F

gandalf3

01:04

@ThomBlairIII But they don't have as good a way to get rid the the heat they generate (and that's assuming they stay out of the way of the sun..)

You'll still have to water cool them or something..

Thom Blair III

yeah, my cousin was explaining that to me, or trying to...I'm not a big math/physics person

my cousin, on the other hand, is an astrophysicist professor

gandalf3

wow

cool

Thom Blair III

I still prefer to use a calculator for adding numbers with more than 3 digits

I was wondering if having nuclear powerplants up in space would be a foolproof way of preventing a meltdown

gandalf3

hm.. I tend to use the cli :P

@ThomBlairIII I don't think it would..

Thom Blair III

but he pointed out that ACTUALLY there is very little difference in the cooling ability of earth's atmosphere and outerspace

@gandalf3 you are correct, according to him

gandalf3

01:08

If you don't trust us, then there is a SE for that :)

Thom Blair III

but I was like, hey, if at absolute zero, even atoms cannot move, then wouldn't a nuclear reaction have to stop?

@gandalf3 I may be ignorant of physics, but I am NOT ignorant of the fact that physicists know WAY more about physics than I do!!

but I guess absolute zero didn't slow down the sun much

gandalf3

@ThomBlairIII That's the perfect reason to ask them stuff ;)

Thom Blair III

@gandalf3 I have a hard enough time trying to understand Blender's version of a universe simulator...I'd be TOTALLY confused if I tried to talk to a real physicist about the universe....except for my cousin...he's got blood loyalty that entices him to tolerate my abject ignorance

he used to work at Goddard

he gets to use the Hubble

gandalf3

:O

Thom Blair III

yeah, #jealous

I asked him if he'd ever used the hubble to look for bunches of gold floating around out there in space from past supernovas

gandalf3

01:13

@ThomBlairIII Blender isn't really the best at it.. :/

Thom Blair III

he never replied...I think even blood loyalty can't overcome how busy he is and how hard it is to explain stuff like that to a total physics newbie like me

@gandalf3 no, but it's WAY better than my brain

did you see that diamonds are the most common form of precipitation in our solar system?

gandalf3

No

Really?

Thom Blair III

bbc.com/news/science-environment-24477667

gandalf3

Interesting

Thom Blair III

yeah, field trip to jupiter & saturn!

bring a net!

and a wingsuit!

in other diamond news: "Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered."

gandalf3

01:24

That would devalue diamonds in a hurry.. If it wasn't 50 light years away, that is.

Thom Blair III

@gandalf3 no kidding, I think De Beers is VERY glad they're way far away

still, manmade diamonds are becoming much more prevalent

I bet De Beers IS worried about that!

gandalf3

People would be trying to decompress the diamonds to get coal or something

Thom Blair III

They're getting much better making Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamonds

@gandalf3 Idk, they're already figuring out how to make fuel from seawater!

google.com/…

soon coal & fossil fuels may be a thing of the past

or maybe the new breakthrough in fusion will come to fruition soon: scientificamerican.com/article/…

Sintel

0

Q: material test scene for cycles?

I am wondering if the scene that is used to commonly show materials in the official Blender wiki is available for download somewhere? I am talking about the setup used here http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/File:Manual_cycles_nodes_bsdf_diffuserender.png

materials

Thom Blair III

01:40

XD

gandalf3

lulz

Thom Blair III

BBC just reviewed my cousin's new movie: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yf0lr

iKlsR

02:01

@ThomBlairIII @gandalf3 there?

Thom Blair III

he was just a few minutes ago

gandalf3

I'm here

iKlsR

What browser are you using?

Thom Blair III

how's life?

gandalf3

FF

Thom Blair III

02:02

I'm using chrome

whatcha doin?

iKlsR

hrrm. ok

one min

drag this to your bookmarks bar

bpaste.net/raw/257411

just highlight the text and drag it there

Thom Blair III

done

iKlsR

next, go to any answer, type a few words, select a word and press the new bookmark that you just created

tell me what happens

Thom Blair III

ok

gandalf3

I get a "leave page" confirmation dialog

iKlsR

02:05

o.O

It shouldn't refresh the page..

It should wrap the selected text with <kbd> tags

gandalf3

hm

Thom Blair III

iKlsR

o.O

Thom Blair III

sorry

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII did you drag the url?

Thom Blair III

02:07

it'll be awesome when you get it to work though!

yep

iKlsR

It is working..

Thom Blair III

@iKlsR ??

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII not the one in the url bar, drag the long strip of code

on the page

gandalf3

ohh

iKlsR

D:

Thom Blair III

02:08

oh, ok, let me try

gandalf3

It works :D

iKlsR

aha

Just gonna leave it here as a temp hack

0

Q: Button to insert <kbd></kbd> for users with moderator rights?

I come across a lot of posts which lack proper hotkey formatting: any key And I change it to: AnyKey It would save me 11 keystrokes per <kbd></kbd> if there was a button in the post editor toolbar. Is there a way to add it? Or is it solely managed by SE? UX has a unique wireframe-editor butto...

feature-request

Thom Blair III

@iKlsR sorry, but I don't understand

can you record a screencast of it?

iKlsR

@ThomBlairIII go to the url I posted, there should be some code on the page

Thom Blair III

yeah

iKlsR

02:11

select all of it and drag it to your bookmarks bar

Thom Blair III

oh

iKlsR

next, go to any answer on the main site, select a word and click the saved bookmarklet

Thom Blair III

ok, let me try

iKlsR

XD

I'm sorry

Thom Blair III

did I mess it up?

iKlsR

02:13

I lulzed a bit

Thom Blair III

what do you mean?

iKlsR

let me record a screenie

Thom Blair III

ok

iKlsR

Have to click twice since its loading the script from another location, will fix shortly.

Thom Blair III

oh, ok...let me try

I clicked multiple times and it didn't do anything...let me record it so you can see if I'm doing something wrong

iKlsR

02:20

@ThomBlairIII you're doing it correctly. I'm not sure what the problem is.

hrrm

Thom Blair III

me either....

wait, I'll get my tech support agents working on it...

iKlsR

My javascript is really rusty. I'll try to patch it up when I'm free in a few.

Thom Blair III

THERE...now maybe we'll get some answers soon!

XD

I'd help but last time I tried javascript:

XD

wow, want to feel confused? click on one of those screencasts so it fills the whole webpage and then try to figure out how to close the page!
XD

gandalf3

I was attempting to use CSS and stylish to add it to the buttons in the editing thing, but I don't think it's possible..

That's odd.. I thought I edited that answer days ago??

Nope, not possible..

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Q: Using :before and :after CSS selector to insert Html

Possible Duplicate: Can you use the :after pseudo element to add html? I'm wondering if the following is possible. I know it doesnt work, but maybe I'm not writing it in the correct syntax. li.first div.se_bizImg:before{ content: "<h1>6 Businesses Found <span class="headingDetail">...

html css css-selectors

iKlsR

0

A: Button to insert <kbd></kbd> for users with moderator rights?

Such a feature is not available in the formatting toolbar, you have to do it manually. I've often wanted the same feature as it is encouraged that posts be formatted correctly, especially input. My javascript is really, really rusty but I managed to throw something together that should save a bi...

gandalf3

02:34

@iKlsR I was about to upvote.. Why did you delete it?

I'll try greasemonkey

*restarting browser*

Keavon

03:09

Is this off-topic? It seems so, and I'm about to mark it as such, but I'd like some more proper opinion (I know that a review queue exists for a reason but still) blender.stackexchange.com/questions/9108/…

iKlsR

04:08

@Keavon It is, it's asking nothing about Blender (the software), the only site to ask about resources/clarification that is allowed is the official wiki or the developer site.

Sintel

07:06

0

Q: Create Shortcuts for Particle Edit Brushes?

I didn't find a way to set this, even via the right-click menu. Anyone could advice some? Thanks. :)

python particles shortcut

iKlsR

@gandalf3 compacted it. Try it again

3

Q: Button to insert <kbd></kbd> for users with moderator rights?

I come across a lot of posts which lack proper hotkey formatting: any key And I change it to: AnyKey It would save me 11 keystrokes per <kbd></kbd> if there was a button in the post editor toolbar. Is there a way to add it? Or is it solely managed by SE? UX has a unique wireframe-editor butto...

feature-request

Qwertie ϟ

08:10

:0 Jeff Atwood replied to my tweet.

Sintel

08:25

0

Q: Why is blenders hair system making spikes?

I am using a hair/particle system but all of the hairs look like spikes not hair: How can I set it so they all have a consistent thickness and how can I adjust the thickness?

workflow particles

Sintel

08:50

0

Q: A property that is different during rendering and during preview

I want some properties, like the Factor value in a Mix Shader node, be controlled by whether Blender is currently rendering or not - so that some things would look different in the Preview and in Render. Is it possible to do that? Maybe via scripted expression driver?

properties drivers

Qwertie ϟ

For some reason blender only uses one core in the editor :/

gandalf3

09:16

@Qwertieϟ Which editor?

Qwertie ϟ

By editor I mean not the renderer

gandalf3

You mean the viewport render?

Or just solid shading?

or . . .

Qwertie ϟ

Blender froze and use 100% of one core

gandalf3

:/

Qwertie ϟ

solid shading

usually it recovers but this time I had 1 million particles

gandalf3

09:19

autosave?

Qwertie ϟ

@gandalf3 Nope :'(

gandalf3

Really?

There is nothing in /tmp?

Qwertie ϟ

cannot read, no file

wait got it

gandalf3

There are two different things

auto save, and "quit save"..

@Qwertieϟ You did? \o/

Qwertie ϟ

Yep

gandalf3

09:22

Yay!

Saved! ;)

Qwertie ϟ

DX Its happening again, I going to have to turn the paritcle display way down

gandalf3

hm

If you can consistently reproduce it, you could report it

Qwertie ϟ

I happens often but it usually recovers

gandalf3

weird

Never really seen anything like that.

Qwertie ϟ

It happens every time I click on the object with all of the particles

gandalf3

09:30

oh

What GPU do you have?

Qwertie ϟ

Ubuntu says "Intel® Haswell Desktop "

I don't have a real GPU yet

gandalf3

I think I read somewhere that blender was using some slow openGL function for selecting objects in 3D (and was going to be fixed at some point).

Interesting.

It's perfectly usable with my nvidia card, but on a friends intel there is a huge delay

Seems to be a thing with intel GPUs..

As a workaround, you could select thing from the outliner (though it's a bit annoying).

Qwertie ϟ

Still needs some work

gandalf3

Cool

Pretty detailed all right

Qwertie ϟ

It looks way better after I moved the sub serf mod to the top

Qwertie ϟ

09:54

0_0 blender is using 10gb of ram

Sintel

10:15

0

Q: Check if blender was compiled with openmp

Is it possible to check if Blender was compiled with OpenMP? How? The installed package is 2.70+git201404250132.3b75d6c-0irie1~trusty1

builds

Sintel

12:04

0

Q: Where I can download the Std Library for Blender? [new]

sorry for duplicating the qustion, but i can't acces my old account and can't edit my old question. Microsoft Visual c++ 2010 express needs the Std Library. Some Parts of the Library are avaible but the Library isn't complete. It allways return manny errors because of this and It cant Build Blen...

builds

Thom Blair III

12:33

@iKlsR Super Awesome!!

link?
:)

iKlsR

15:50

CoDEmanX made a sleek userscript based on mine. You should install it.

1

A: Button to insert <kbd></kbd> for users with moderator rights?

Thanks iKlsR, I created a Greasemonkey script based on your code, which inserts a new button automatically: // ==UserScript== // @name Add <kbd> Button to StackExchange Toolbar // @namespace http://blender.org // @include *.stackexchange.com/* // @version 1 // @grant none ...

Sintel

16:31

0

Q: How install PySide/PyQt in Blender?

I want to create blender add-on using QT framework, but couldn't find any information about how install it in Blender. I would be grateful for any information!

addon external-applications

Thom Blair III

17:15

Thom Blair III

17:39

OMG! Just did a Google search on Thom Blair 1400 Blue Jay Lane Richmond VA 23229 and there was MY DAD on YouTube!!! He never told me he made a video for that!

►

Sintel

19:00

0

Q: How can I make a "Movie Clip" node start at a certain frame of the scene?

When I use "Movie Clip" node in Blender 2.7, it always starts at Scene Frame 1. How can I change it in order to make it start at Frame 6, for instance? The movie clip I am using is a Movie FX for another video, and I want to use it with the Mix node. Thanks

nodes compositor keyframes

Sintel

19:57

0

Q: Dynamic sculpting doesnt work

im quite a beginner and i was going along a tutorial to learn how to use dynamic sculpting when all of the sudden it stopped working (i tested with the snake hook tool thingy and it isnt incrementing more mesh), the last thing i remenber doing that was diferent was using the simplify tool to remo...

sculpting dynamic-topology

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