The Renderfarm

GiantCowFilms

00:23

@NoviceInDisguise Yes

@NoviceInDisguise lol, same here!

@RadishoftheOpera Fights urge to not help by adding 2 cents

X-27

01:36

@RadishoftheOpera Someone needs to tell him that. no matter how much I try to do for him to no reward - except for the occasional bounty :-) It never seems to be good enough for him.

I'm assuming Radish was the only one who upvoted this.

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A: Character Motion in BGE: Hold Two keys at the same time

Solution All you literally need to do to fix this is Click this button. (on all of your Motion Actuators) Reason When the Ad button is not clicked, each Actuator is setting the location, and is is overriding any other Actuators activated previously, regardless of whether or not they are stil...

@David @GiantCowFilms @gandalf3 @stacker @someonewithpc Please tell me what is wrong with that answer (hence the lack of UVs) so I can improve for the net time.

gandalf3

@X-27 Looks fine to me

X-27

Nooo! I just ran @David's data.stackexchange.com/blender/query/326237/your-blend-files and found a paste all link!

(outdated and DUD also)

there- fixed.

gandalf3

01:51

Fixed a few of mine too :)

I'm mostly just fixing them as they are requested, as there are a lot of them..

X-27

umm. I though that blend was blend #1 on blend exchange

gandalf3

?

X-27

didn't @GiantCowFilms make that blend blend #1

instead of blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com/b/278

it would be

blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com/b/1

GiantCowFilms

Nope I wanted to but never did

X-27

(I thought you had)

you should!

gandalf3

01:56

it looks like there isn't a blend #1?

X-27

mine is blend #27 (my awesome RTS blend)

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 It was a test

Okay, I'll change it now, but @gandalf3 you'll have to make the edit

gandalf3

np

@GiantCowFilms edited

GiantCowFilms

Okay :D

gandalf3

:D

GiantCowFilms

01:58

make sure you get the image link correct

I may give it a special "appreciation" upload image :D, unique to it

X-27

I just checked, blend 2-10 are still open

11 was a test

12 is the first real one used in an answer

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms good catch

X-27

like, a golden download button?

gandalf3

Or just a black sphere :P

X-27

GiantCowFilms

01:59

@X-27 Something subtle, not to make @David angry

X-27

maybe not...

OR- no wait!

GiantCowFilms

I'll have him aprove it

gandalf3

@X-27 ow

@GiantCowFilms ooh, that means you could do fancy things like display the title/thumbnail of .blends in the posts (someday in the future ;)

X-27

Mar 6 at 18:53, by gandalf3

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GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 Yes..

you are welcome to try rendering text into an image in PHP ;D

X-27

02:00

that was gandalf's own gif

GiantCowFilms

I actually think there are functions for that, but still, eek

X-27

make him use it!!!

gandalf3

@X-27 At least I used comic sans.. ;)

@GiantCowFilms There are

Thats what I was thinking :P

X-27

no one likes that one

WAAAA!!!!!

gandalf3

@X-27 It looks like you are crying frozen snowflake tears..

X-27

02:03

it is the typical :*(

only I animated the *

gandalf3

:'D

X-27

to make it look more renderfarmish

MY favorite character - ☢

either that or Q - or X

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms Btw, I assume you know about SE's api?

api.stackexchange.com

Could be useful

e.g. for getting titles of posts from the url

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 It took me 3-4 days to do the google drive API... I really really don't feel inclined to add another one. Also the SE API doesn't have an offical SDK if a remember

Yes, I have always know about it

David

data.stackexchange.com/blender/query/edit/326493#graph

Most users voted on the first two days.

GiantCowFilms

14:57

@cegaton @someonewithpc @NoviceInDisguise how do you make a line extend passed the keyframes in the graph editor. I've done it before but forgotten how

cegaton

@GiantCowFilms Channel-> ExtrapolationMode->Constant extrapolation

NoviceInDisguise

?

Oh that

yeah, that is how you do it

GiantCowFilms

@cegaton Ah thanks! :D

cegaton

@GiantCowFilms i meant linear... sorry the caffeine hasn't kicked in...

GiantCowFilms

@cegaton figured that :D

cegaton

15:10

rule number one: coffee first, stackexchange later.

GiantCowFilms

@cegaton :D

someonewithpc

15:42

Is there a way to have the number of inputs to a group be dynamic?

someonewithpc

15:53

@GiantCowFilms @cegaton @NoviceInDisguise ^^

Anyone?

NoviceInDisguise

Ummm . . .

Node group?

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise Yes

NoviceInDisguise

You mean animate it?

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise No

NoviceInDisguise

?

someonewithpc

15:54

Just make it generic

Probably not possible

NoviceInDisguise

I don't think I quite understand your question :/

someonewithpc

I would use OSL, but cpu

@NoviceInDisguise I want the number of inputs to a node group to be dynamic

As in, if I have more images, I can plug them in there

NoviceInDisguise

How you use them can change then?

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise Yes...?

Let's just leave it at not possible

NoviceInDisguise

I just don't know what you are using it for

I probably wouldn't know anyways :/

someonewithpc

15:57

BTW, the round mode in the math node

Does it round to the nearest integer, up or down?

NoviceInDisguise

You know, I never really thought about that

someonewithpc

Source says nearest int

NoviceInDisguise

Ah, good

someonewithpc

@NoviceInDisguise No bad :(

I want to round down

NoviceInDisguise

oh

:P

Normal rounding is nearest int, so that is why I said good

Mutant Bob

16:37

rounding down is mathematically referred to as "floor". If there is no "floor" mode, then you can use round(x-0.5)

NoviceInDisguise

Ah

someonewithpc

@MutantBob That's what I ended up doing

Thanks, anyway

In the mix rgb node, how does the color mode work?

It seems to be almost what I want, but it doesn't like white or black

Radish of the Opera

17:18

@X-27 @GiantCowFilms @David i'm glad it's all done though, made me feel like a troll. btw thanks for whoever deleted those... i feel alot better about it now.

David

@RadishoftheOpera most likely @iKlsR deleted them (it had to be a mod)

@someonewithpc I do not think so.

Mutant Bob

18:09

Heh, it looks like @zeffii couldn't let me 1-up him, so he made an even better version of my answer. (just based on timestamps. could be coincidence).

zeffii

wat? no

i have code like that in sverchok :)

iKlsR

@RadishoftheOpera yh np, pointless to argue with some people

Mutant Bob

I'm not going to complain too much. Your version taught me something new. The real question is will I remember it the next time I need it.

zeffii

@MutantBob you can one up me anytime, i prefer to see better answers when people care enough :)

Mutant Bob

♬ PythonFu Technique Battle. Player A -vs- Player B. FIGHT! ♬

zeffii

18:13

anytime I see someone trying to use bpy.ops procedurally I cry a little

on the inside, in my quiet voice.

Mutant Bob

bpy.ops totally has cooties. But even I am forced to use it sometimes. Editing bones is the most mainstream problem. I think you have to use it to put physics on an object too.

zeffii

i'm not sure about that, i have had some success scripting rigid body simulations

Mutant Bob

orly? what is the alternative to bpy.ops.rigidbody.object_add(type='ACTIVE') ?

zeffii

would welcome the challenge tho, specifically because i'm refactoring BioBlender2

and need something less crazy to investigate first

oooh. let's see!

locates old code

should this not be a Question on the site ? :)

that way this information doesn't remain so closed-sourced

may even angle ideasman into adding the feature if we can't work it out.

whistles

Mutant Bob

Dude, if I had a presidential pardon, I'd write a script that enumerates through bpy.ops and posts a "what is the non-cootie-infested way to accomplish bpy.ops.x.y()" question for every combination of x and y.

zeffii

18:20

balls. I may have deleted this branch of scripted rigibbodies..

Mutant Bob

In my cookbook I use bpy.ops.sequencer.meta_make() bpy.ops.object.hook_assign() bpy.ops.object.particle_system_add() bpy.ops.object.duplicate() bpy.ops.object.modifier_apply() bpy.ops.export_scene.fbx() bpy.ops.rigidbody.objects_add() bpy.ops.screen.screenshot()

The Hook modifier is REALLY missing some stuff from its python bindings.

zeffii

alas I can not find this snippet

yeah, it's a pain some parts of bpy can't be scripted so easily without using bpy.ops

without any real good reason for the lack of options... except nobody extended the functionality to lower level bpy

Mutant Bob

My theory is that they want to implement a feature, so they code the version for bpy.ops, and if they're in a hurry, they never get around to exposing the lower-level functionality. I know I ran into a dark corner of the particle system for blender.stackexchange.com/questions/13736/…

zeffii

yea.

particle system.. oh man... that could be so much more awesome if it was easier to script.

Mutant Bob

I wish I knew the techniques to tap into the physics system: imagine trying to make an "automated" pinball machine animation, with the bumpers reacting, and an "AI" that hit the flippers when the ball got near.

Hmm, maybe blender.stackexchange.com/questions/21643/… is the replacement for rigidbody.objects_add()

Although that still relies on bpy.ops.rigibdbody.world_add()

zeffii

18:39

ah yes, that's exactly the code I was looking for and going to suggest

I think the one single call to bpy.ops is acceptable if after than one can do the rest witout ops.

gandalf3

19:51

@David Any opinions on the optimization tag?

zeffii

election ends in 3 minutes :)

NoviceInDisguise

:D

gandalf3

starts countdown

T minus 120

T minus 60

T minus 30

10

5

3

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1

0

NoviceInDisguise

131 votes

gandalf3

aaand.. not much is different now

NoviceInDisguise

20:00

lol

zeffii

anti climax :)

gandalf3

:P

zeffii

kind of like seeing a shitty splash

gandalf3

:P

I guess now we wait for SE to do some STV magicks?

NoviceInDisguise

Must be

zeffii

20:02

ilke : splash blendernation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

NoviceInDisguise

I assumed it would be automatic

zeffii

what was that about

NoviceInDisguise

You interrupted me

zeffii

who?

gandalf3

I just noticed that both the election and the BG contest are ending on the same day

NoviceInDisguise

20:04

You . . .

@gandalf3 Yeah. must be a coincidence

zeffii

interrupted?

gandalf3

How do you interrupt someone in chat..?

NoviceInDisguise

Post a message between two that should be connected somewhat

zeffii

i see

NoviceInDisguise

Sometimes it can apply to subsequent messages too, but wasn't intended for them

gandalf3

20:05

That happens constantly though..

NoviceInDisguise

Yeah

zeffii

that' s of no consequence . move on :)

gandalf3

Chat conversations are sort of fundamentally non-linear

:P

NoviceInDisguise

Yep

zeffii

so now we wait?

counting votes? :)

maybe Donald Trump wins!?

NoviceInDisguise

20:07

I guess :/

zeffii

WTF. btw.

gandalf3

I suppose we could tally them, but it's easier to wait :P

NoviceInDisguise

lol

GiantCowFilms

20:59

@zeffii I still can't believe he is running

NoviceInDisguise

Almost as crazy as Bernie Sanders shooting for presidency . . .

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 @NoviceInDisguise looses, I'm not sure I added them up right, but in every algorithm I tired in Open STV, he trailed by miles :(

NoviceInDisguise

:D

I lose!!

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Still, trump, they won't even have to make stuff up to make him look like the root of all evil

NoviceInDisguise

lol, IKR? Almost as bad as Clinton . . .

GiantCowFilms

21:04

worse.... I think, he doesn't even try to hide it XD

cya later

NoviceInDisguise

cya

zeffii

@GiantCowFilms yeah. it's just weird.

what will be even weirder is.. if he wins.

then ... i will start to doubt reality.

Mutant Bob

The matrix has you.

zeffii

Bernie Sanders would be an interesting president. Good public speaker.

not a publicity junkie like the rest

(warning contains copious amounts of bad language)

for the brittle among us.

GiantCowFilms

@zeffii no kidding

maybe go for linking it in a way that doesn't auto display

@NoviceInDisguise Did you get your submission into the BG steampunk competition?

zeffii

21:21

@GiantCowFilms the kind of person that would construct sentences like in that image, is entirely immune to the concept of vulgarity. Consider it a cultural difference

totally backwards ofcourse, but funny

maybe a guilty funny..

to me it matters more what someone says and how, than which words were used.

i've had a debate with my dad who happily uses the word ' Feck '

anway.

time for a walk

X-27

21:49

Welcome the new mods!

in Blender 2015 Moderator Election Chat, Jun 13 at 1:58, by X-27

I can't figure out who won!

gandalf3

@X-27 opavote.org/results/6496527652487168/0

NoviceInDisguise

22:22

@GiantCowFilms Yep

GiantCowFilms

@NoviceInDisguise Can I see the final image?

:D

NoviceInDisguise

I think it is on the WIP

GiantCowFilms

Ah okay

Radish of the Opera

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Q: Properties 1 tick late?

I have a common setup for an FPS game. The focus of this question is the following: when I pull out a weapon (weapon-switch), a prop ("Timer_Activate") is set to 45, the number of frames for the weapon-switch animation. If you swap weapons, it will set the prop to 45, and the prop will drop every...

how long do you think he'll wait for an answer?

NoviceInDisguise

8 years?

Radish of the Opera

22:25

maybe he'll be more reasonable by then

GiantCowFilms

"appreciated. Thanks!" - seems like meat for a snark....

...but don't do it

:/ so tempting

NoviceInDisguise

lol

wooden

Can anyone help me with texture painting?

gandalf3

@wooden What do you need?

No need to ask if you can ask a question in the future, you are welcome to ask questions at any time ;)

Just ask your question, and if someone can/wants to help they will.

Radish of the Opera

22:41

@wooden or ask here and experience all that our skills have to offer!

(which in my case isn't too much)...

@zeffii even too brittle for me :P

I save anything of that flavor for dire situations

NoviceInDisguise

@zeffii ~~But a piece of crap when it comes to all things directly related to the presidency . . . like Obama~~

Sorry, we shouldn't get into politics here . . .

Radish of the Opera

@NoviceInDisguise ...

probably a good thing... might become a dire situation.. :O

NoviceInDisguise

yeah

gandalf3

eek. politics + internet = bad

Radish of the Opera

politics + anything = bad

politics = bad

simple algebra folks... just proved all politicians incompetent

gandalf3

22:49

And now we are talking about politics on the internet

grabs fire-hose to put out any potentially imminent flamewars

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 @David congrats on your knew shiny diamonds, will take a minute to get used to them

gandalf3

More than a minute I daresay

ooh a flag

dashes off

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 XD

@RadishoftheOpera you've got it all wrong

I'm right

because I have a wacky viewpoint and a text box for me to type into!

therefore I'm always right

<jk>

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms I've got all three of those and a glass of milk.. so there!

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera ah! okay, we should blame this on the Chinese

Or maybe the Russians... I don't actually care

Radish of the Opera

22:56

Putin keeps causing problems in our chat room!

GiantCowFilms

Exactly

its the russain trolls

no really

theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/…

wooden

@gandalf3 My english is terribly bad and I'm new to blender but I'll try to explain, I try to animate giraffe walking and front legs bends in wrong way, it used to be ok yesterday after I fixed the way I can't remember.

Radish of the Opera

translating...

so what does that have to do with tex-paints?

sounds like you need an IK rig with limits...

wooden

I know I speak about other stuff now but I have problem with that too

gandalf3

@wooden Your english isn't bad at all (I've seen far worse ;). You might want to ask a question on the main site describing your problem in detail (with maybe a few pictures/screenshots).

wooden

23:01

I believe that it messed up when I did alt+r and alt+g

Radish of the Opera

is your rig direct kinematics or inverse?

if it's direct, it shouldn't be a problem, otherwise you need to limit the ik rotation for the bones

GiantCowFilms

@wooden That is quite good actually, even a tad better then what some of we English speakers write on this site.

wooden

I can't explain it with words because I believe I don't understand it as much as I should since i'm doing everything by watching tutorials

Radish of the Opera

@wooden blender.stackexchange.com/questions/32570/… that your problem?

wooden

used to be

after i fixed that

i noticed that my front legs moves wrong

Radish of the Opera

23:04

but not anymore...

are there constraints on them?

wooden

I believe there aren't

I did something with those doted lines direction yesterday thats how i fixed that bending direction problem

Can I upload pictures here?

Radish of the Opera

@wooden click the button that says upload

is that what you mean by "the dotted line thing?"

wooden

yeah but this is something with keep offset right?

Radish of the Opera

its a directional thing, so wherever I move the little cross at the end, the bone points to it.

wooden

I'm feeling so bad that I can't find "upload picture" here

Radish of the Opera

23:09

wooden

I don't have it

maybe because I'm a new member here?

Radish of the Opera

:?

wooden

there is only send

gandalf3

hrm

Radish of the Opera

okay, act like you're going to ask a question, click the insert picture icon in the question bar ,then copy the link it gives you

pasteall.org/blend/36598 IK rig, try it out

wooden

23:12

prntscr.com/7htjj4

are you still here?

NoviceInDisguise

You need a certain amount of rep before you can post images in chat

wooden

I believe that i fixed, just don't know how it messed up

so I did illegal stuff?

NoviceInDisguise

No, the embedding method is hidden until you get a certain amount of rep. You can post links though

wooden

ok I'm sorry for stupid questions I'm new here and didn't have time to read all the rules a lot of work these days

NoviceInDisguise

That is ok

wooden

23:26

also I love that someone fixed my grammar errors on my post

but that is not what I can learn quickly :D

NoviceInDisguise

Yep, we are allowed to edit if we find something wrong (over so many thousand rep). Almost anyone can suggest an edit for us to review as well.

wooden

I think this website is a miracle

one of the best things I have found on the internet

NoviceInDisguise

I agree

Very helpful

wooden

This site makes me feel bad because I'm a person that speaks too out of topic too often :D

NoviceInDisguise

lol

wooden

23:37

thank you guys for answering my stupid questions even faster than my "friends" on facebook

NoviceInDisguise

No problem :)

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 You're been around more lately, I assume your trying to get your title back ;D

NoviceInDisguise

Probably :)

wooden

my new problem prntscr.com/7htv9j

I've made 1-60 frames of the bones rotation and then I repeated that

so my model is moving by standing

so I moved it to the next place at 120 frame

but it moves from one place to other only by 100-120 frames

NoviceInDisguise

On the bottom, change the End parameter to the proper amount?

wooden

23:50

how will it affect the movement?

my model stays in one location from 1 to 100 frames

100-120 it starts walking

I think I understood where the problem

NoviceInDisguise

Ok, I misunderstood you

7:30 on the BG countdown!

blenderguru.com/competitions/competition-steampunk

Excited to see what entries show up

wooden

looks like interesting

how to fix my problem which I understand but don't know a quick way

I need that my model could walk from 1 frame to 120 frame

I don't want to start everything from the beginning

NoviceInDisguise

In the curve editor everything looks right?

wooden

there must be a key to remove that standing

I can select all the bones and remove a standing key? but I don't know how to remove the standing but not the bones rotations

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