The Renderfarm

GiantCowFilms

12:34 AM

@NoviceInDisguise Just curious, what editing software do you use?

I swear you'd see every pre-release camera in the market if you lived in Yosemite...

I actually think I saw one there, I took note of it because it had no label....

Vince Scalia

1:40 AM

@gandalf3 @GiantCowFilms @NoviceInDisguise You know what we should do?

I've noticed we've a few closed questions like this

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Q: How to start out in blender?

I am new to this amazing world of 3D modeling. I wanted to know how can I start 3D modeling from scratch? I am very new to this,I googled up and found that blender is a nice software for 3D modeling and its free too, so I decided to work onto this. I wanna know is there any background required f...

modeling

why don't we re-open one, then answer it and mark all the others as duplicates?

we could each do one answer on a different subject that we're especially good at...

it would be super beneficial to all those millions of people who start out "Hi, I'm new!"

and really cool to have all that information compiled into one place.

@David ^^

oh, and @X-27 my profile says I've reached more people than you :)

NoviceInDisguise

2:56 AM

@VinceScalia Hmm, maybe a good idea, IDK

@GiantCowFilms For what?

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Video Editing etc...

like equivalent to Final Cut or Premiere Pro

NoviceInDisguise

Pinnacle Studio 16

It is crap, crashes with large projects

GiantCowFilms

Rats

NoviceInDisguise

Why?

I can do medium (less than an hour) projects reasonably well

GiantCowFilms

True, I don't think it is plugin extensable

NoviceInDisguise

3:23 AM

@VinceScalia Not more than 42k I hope? THat'd be more than me too :P

NoviceInDisguise

2:31 PM

Wait, I thought AoE was dead after III . . . what's this AoE II thing?

blendernation.com/2015/04/18/…

Vader

2:59 PM

ello

NoviceInDisguise

ello

GiantCowFilms

3:54 PM

ello

GiantCowFilms

4:09 PM

The reflection normal in the texture coordinates node is amazing

instant catch light :D

cegaton

4:39 PM

@Vader seems like @David beat me to if again... in any case here's a modified version fo your file: pasteall.org/blend/35651

Vader

@GiantCowFilms male-ware o.O

@cegaton yeah, I already changed it on mine, but thanks anyway

GiantCowFilms

@Vader mal-ware

typo

Vader

@PeterVaro I have one, don't like it, no lag at all

GiantCowFilms

I always think I'm not susceptible to side bar advertising.... until I end up on creativecow.net.... I feel compelled to click on nearly every add....

So many lovely cameras and software packages...

NoviceInDisguise

@Vader lol

@GiantCowFilms IKR?

Vader

4:54 PM

It's been awhile since I've seens ads

NoviceInDisguise

Me too, AdBlock is awesome

Before that though, cameras are one of the few things that interested me enough to click

GiantCowFilms

The most irksome thing about after effects tutorial is the highly obnoxious intros... 15 seconds of low grade motion graphics and then some hopelessly originally unoriginal name followed by studios or productions

NoviceInDisguise

I almost feel like I'm cheating the site owners though with adblock

Vader

Right, "Cameras" ;)

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise That is why I don't use it

It feels like stealing

And it probably is illegal

NoviceInDisguise

4:56 PM

@GiantCowFilms lol, exactly

Vader

@GiantCowFilms lol, no

NoviceInDisguise

@GiantCowFilms legal as in illegal :P big diff

GiantCowFilms

Inside the TOS of many websites it is forbidden to alter the view or remove the adds

Vader

You are not stealing content, just taking less.

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

4:57 PM

Which means you are violating the TOS

Vader

well TOS doesn't mean anything

GiantCowFilms

@Vader AHEM!

Vader

TOS can't be enforced

GiantCowFilms

You are entering into a real and legitmate contract with the owner of the website

NoviceInDisguise

Still stealing . . .

GiantCowFilms

4:57 PM

@Vader If I don't find out you hacked my computer and read my files, does that still make it okay

?

Vader

no

NoviceInDisguise

Very interesting though, I never thought of it being against the TOS of the site

Vader

but that's a different subject

internet is pull, not push, you chose what you want to see, not your ISP or the websites you visit

GiantCowFilms

Well it still is illegal in many cases, whether you'll be caught or not

Vader

Probably a violation of TOS

GiantCowFilms

4:59 PM

@Vader what?

NoviceInDisguise

sort of not though, I agree with GCF, the same principle does apply. I think the whole ToS thing should be overhauled legally though.

GiantCowFilms

They are a little abused, I will admit, however site owners need protection, and also to set boundaries as to the usage of their site

Vader

@GiantCowFilms idk, maybe not

but how does adblock make a site unsecure?

NoviceInDisguise

@Vader Now I have a question, if you click on an add, and it redirects you to a site without intending to, are you still restrained by the site's ToS?

GiantCowFilms

I wonder if it is viable to ban IE in you TOS, that would be a very good use

Vader

5:00 PM

all you are doing it modifying the webpages you are served

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

@Vader it doesn't

@Vader Yes, but in a way that harms the owner

Vader

how?

financially?

GiantCowFilms

You aren't seeing their adds

@Vader and possibly legally

NoviceInDisguise

I wouldn't go to the site though if all the stupid adds were visible . . . . . . . . . . so yeah

GiantCowFilms

5:01 PM

What if they are doing some advertising partnership and are contractually obliged to show the adds?

NoviceInDisguise

Ah!

Good thought!

Vader

Adlbock started because people were tired of seeing irrelevant adds that were obnoxious and flashing and whatnot.

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise On the internet their are few alternatives... You soon find you're enduring the adds

Vader

@GiantCowFilms they can show them, but you don't have to see them

GiantCowFilms

That kinda defeats the point

Vader

5:02 PM

Yeah

There's few sites for which I disable adblock, mostly because their ads aren't free to play game gifs, but rather or relevant to the site

NoviceInDisguise

What if you overlay the add . . . it is still technically displayed on the screen . . .

GiantCowFilms

I'm sure it must be visible etc...

NoviceInDisguise

probably

GiantCowFilms

I can only imagine the stress of making sure your adds work in IE 6

XD

NoviceInDisguise

XD oh wow. . . .

Do people still use that dinosaur?

GiantCowFilms

5:05 PM

Sadly yes...

:/

NoviceInDisguise

o.O

Vader

is they are using IE, they are probably not using Adblock either.

GiantCowFilms

be back in a moment

Vader

Their browsers probably look like this

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NoviceInDisguise

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is appalling!!

Peter Varo

5:08 PM

@Vader umm.. you realised it is 2015 now, didn't you? ;)

GiantCowFilms

@Vader XD

Peter Varo

I think I asked that in january 2014

and mine is working too ;)

Vader

Oh, lol

I was just browsing through some starred posts on the right

Do you still use it?

Peter Varo

but I'm not using 3D connexion anymore..

NoviceInDisguise

@PeterVaro Oh . . . I thought it was still 1247 B.C.

Peter Varo

5:10 PM

@NoviceInDisguise nice try :D

Vader

I found the fact that you have to switch between it and the actual mouse annoying.

Peter Varo

yeah.. well.. it was 1.30 years ago :)

Vader

:D

NoviceInDisguise

1245 B.C. then. THAT was a good year :)

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Significance?

or just a random number

NoviceInDisguise

5:12 PM

A random number that has significance.

#AllHistoryIsSignificant

GiantCowFilms

Did you have any in mind?

Vader

It's the year people decided the earth was flat

GiantCowFilms

@Vader ha ha

NoviceInDisguise

lol, I actually voted on that council :D

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise I'm sure today won't be significant

NoviceInDisguise

5:13 PM

You are wrong, it already is

IDK why though

:P

GiantCowFilms

Why, did Kim Kardashian get a new outfit?

NoviceInDisguise

Who?

Peter Varo

@GiantCowFilms && @NoviceInDisguise:

1247

Year 1247 (MCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. == Events == December 1 – A rebellion arises among the Muslim subjects of the Crown of Aragon in the region of Valencia. As a punishment, the king issues an order of expulsion of the Muslims from his realm leading numerous people into exile in Andalusia and North Africa in the subsequent year. Shams ad-Din disappears, resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance. Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town. The future Bethlem...

GiantCowFilms

Don't bother looking her up...

Vader

Don't google it @NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

5:14 PM

ok

I won't

Vader

you're better off not knowing who that is

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NoviceInDisguise

ok

GiantCowFilms

Yah, if you don't know you're lucky...

Vader

I don't know if I can trust that @PeterVaro, humpty dumpty could have written it and no one could prove him wrong.

GiantCowFilms

@PeterVaro You're of by two

Its the wrong date anyway

Peter Varo

5:16 PM

@GiantCowFilms :

6 mins ago, by NoviceInDisguise

@PeterVaro Oh . . . I thought it was still 1247 B.C.

NoviceInDisguise

Read the transcript

:P

GiantCowFilms

Doh

I saw I 1245

Peter Varo

@Vader ahh.. the famous historian Mr. Humpty Dumpty, yes.

NoviceInDisguise

Not much except some papal bulls and a decree for the deposition of the spanish king

Peter Varo

anyway, gtg now, bbl, c u lads!

~

Vader

5:17 PM

o/

NoviceInDisguise

cya

GiantCowFilms

@PeterVaro Using slang/abbreviations/abbreviations of slang to say good by... why why why does everyone do this

Vader

The population at 1245 was probably 13

@GiantCowFilms because its kewl ya newb

GiantCowFilms

@Vader At least I can attach some significance to the second number

Vader

How so?

GiantCowFilms

5:19 PM

how so what?

where?

who?

Vader

when?

GiantCowFilms

@Vader Excuse me Sir, that one is forbiden

Bang!

Vader

why?

GiantCowFilms

Sir, Its above your pay grade

> Wait, how do you know my pay grade!

Sir, I know everything about you

> You must be terrible depressed then :/

XD

Vader

Sir, I don't know this reference

GiantCowFilms

5:21 PM

Sir, Its rather generic

g2g bye

Vader

l8r m8

NoviceInDisguise

Sir, Its above your pay grade
--Wait, how do you know my pay grade!
Sir, I know everything about you
--You must be terrible depressed then :/

Now you can star it if you want

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Vader

There you go ;)

NoviceInDisguise

lol

David

5:52 PM

@cegaton I did not even know you were working on it. Also what are the other again's, that I beat you to?

cegaton

@David It's just the nature of the site. There's been quite a few times wher I'd be working on an anwser and just when I'm about to post it I see yours already there! :)

NoviceInDisguise

lol

Same here

Vader

6:37 PM

chirp chirp

the SSAO is weird

it renders AO for wire

and wireframe objects