The Renderfarm

cegaton

18:00

though this might come in late... congratulations to the new moderators @iKlsR @gandalf3 @David !!!

Radish of the Opera

yay! new mods...!

wooden

why everyone is so happy about that?

are the old ones were bad?

gandalf3

no

:P

Radish of the Opera

no, we're just congratulating them

gandalf3

thanks :P

wooden

18:02

congratulations!

now I did that too

gandalf3

:D

Radish of the Opera

:D

cegaton

not at all. I personally like being part of this community, that's ll...

Radish of the Opera

?

o'

gandalf3

?

Radish of the Opera

18:03

I think @cegaton is still talking about the "are the old ones bad"

just a late response is al

l

cegaton

No bad moderators...

Radish of the Opera

see, look how smart I am

wooden

was my sentence correct? I'm feeling bad for my english . really.

gandalf3

haha

Your english is fine :)

(ack I messed up my english while saying that XD)

Radish of the Opera

lol, your sentences were fine... there's actually no reason to feel bad

@gandalf3 I English very badly..

wooden

18:07

it's really difficult for me, takes a few minutes to say a simple sentence

Radish of the Opera

the problem is, it's not really one language...

you've got English, then you've got American...

completely different

and there different versions of American...

you got you Ec's. Wc's, A/Canadians, and you're southerners.

gandalf3

And even besides all the dialects, english is just pretty weird alot of the time..

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A: How do native speakers 'guess' the pronunciation of the letters in a word they see for the first time?

I asked some native friends the same thing, and they told me their guesses are based on similar words. It is far from perfect (moon - door anyone?), but it is a start. Also, the origin of the word may help. Charade is French, a mostly phonemic (that is, a letter or group of letters have the sam...

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Its now a running joke, that only I find funny (the best kind)

wooden

all of you can respond to messages instantly.. while I have some problems with expressing my thoughts because they sound weird

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera 3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=671#.VYG4M_lVhBc Read this

Amazing texturing tips

Radish of the Opera

18:12

@GiantCowFilms gah!!! but I don't have PS!!

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Try to apply what you learn in it to gimp

wooden

do people in U.S.A. buy every software or cracking them?

GiantCowFilms

there is a lot of valuable generic theory in it

Radish of the Opera

@wooden people won't really care how weird your thought sound... look back through the record at all the bizzare things I've said

gandalf3

@wooden Well taking time to read what you are saying is always good. Something I wish I did more ;)

GiantCowFilms

18:13

@wooden "cracking" ....?

wooden

ok how to explain that

gandalf3

Software cracking

Software cracking (known as "breaking" in the 1980s) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware. A crack refers to the mean of achieving software cracking, for example a stolen serial number or a tool that performs that act of cracking. Some of these tools are called keygen, patch or loader. A keygen is...

^^ there

wooden

thanks

GiantCowFilms

@wooden I always buy it

wooden

how much is maya or 3ds?

GiantCowFilms

18:15

as a student Photoshop is pretty cheap

@wooden for more then anyone should pay for something like that.

around $4k

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms I just go open source until I get a better job

wooden

in my country we crack everything

GiantCowFilms

@wooden If you think buying them will help your 3D art think again. When you hit blenders few limits, and need to buy software, you will know.

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms if you hit blenders limits, you've got other problems

gandalf3

> "This is the last year a perpetual license is available for purchase."

autodesk.com/products/maya/buy

autodesk also can't english

:P

GiantCowFilms

18:18

@wooden Indeed... :/ we noticed

wooden

how?

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms ?

we did?

GiantCowFilms

@wooden America has a pretty good idea of how much of our intellectual property is stolen over seas. Half of china uses windows OS unlicensed, its not hard to figure that out.

wooden

well my windows are legal but I guess it's the only thing

GiantCowFilms

So you stole everything else?

wooden

18:20

I have photoshop but I prefer using pixlr which is free

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms I don't like your accusatory tone....

,jk.

wooden

ammm like in the games I used to play non steam things

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera Well, I don't have any sympathy for people who steal software.

David

@cegaton thanks cegaton, please ping me with any concern about the site. (I'm a mod now:)

wooden

yeah I hate myself too

GiantCowFilms

18:21

3 mins ago, by GiantCowFilms

@wooden Indeed... :/ we noticed

wooden

but I don't have enough money to buy all the things

GiantCowFilms

<jk>

@wooden I don't either, I just do without then, because its the right thing to do

gandalf3

Everyone should just make their software opensource. Guaranteed way to prevent all stealing.

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 lol

The problem is that nobody would pay anything

Radish of the Opera

that's a problem?

gandalf3

18:24

Maybe

wooden

it should be free for people who don't get cash for what they do with that software

gandalf3

Maybe not (look at blender)

David

@gandalf3 it wouldn't, there would still be somebody trying to steal something, anything.

cegaton

The thing that I don't understand is why Autodesk has so many different pieces of software that basically do the same thing...

Radish of the Opera

a non-com license

David

18:24

@cegaton me too

gandalf3

@David Well they can't steal the software at any rate..

Radish of the Opera

@cegaton cept Revit

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 Blender would get way more if it was commercail

Radish of the Opera

revits way different

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms Way more.. And way less.

wooden

18:25

what's the average salary in the u.s.a.

GiantCowFilms

@cegaton The bought up all the competition, in order to create a virtual monopoly

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms they also wouldn't have as many nerd fanatics who live in $400 apartments...

GiantCowFilms

and then were to lazy to combine or discontinue any packages

David

@gandalf3 very true

gandalf3

@cegaton And why can't just buy the thing once, you have to keep paying..

David

18:26

@gandalf3 PS very nice guru image.

gandalf3

thanks :D

GiantCowFilms

@wooden it think about 44K annually, if I remember correctly

wooden

330 euros for month here..

David

@gandalf3 that part is simple, everybody is doing it, google, MS, adobe etc. and you make more money.

gandalf3

... I still think my opensource idea is better ;)

GiantCowFilms

18:28

@wooden ouch....

wooden

yeah that's sad

Radish of the Opera

@GiantCowFilms I get, like, a quarter of that... :/

David

@gandalf3 FF seams to think it works well.

(and so do I)

gandalf3

:)

GiantCowFilms

@RadishoftheOpera not bad, I get next to nothing

Mutant Bob

18:30

So, I was playing around with a much more verbose version of my Twisting Ropes answer and stumbled across a situation I've never noticed before:

Radish of the Opera

@MutantBob !

verbose is a good word...

Mutant Bob

I parented an empty to the curve using Ctrl-P instead of the parent field in the object properties. The position of the object in the N panel appeared to be in world coordinates instead of local coordinates. Poking around with python I discovered the "secret" matrix_basis property was not the identity matrix.

David

@gandalf3 who is the character in your image based off of?

gandalf3

No one in particular

I just had an idea for a "steampunky" type person.. :P

wooden

prntscr.com/7i44e2 look funny picture

David

18:34

@gandalf3 He kind of reminds me of the guy in elephants dream

wooden

country that is 400 km from norway gets 5x smaller salary

gandalf3

interesting

(that works as a reply to both David and wooden :P)

RolandiXor

yes,

wooden

heh ;D

can anyone explain step by step what should I do with those repeating textures.... :D

RolandiXor

stop

using

them

gandalf3

18:39

xD

wooden

well i though about that too

RolandiXor

:)

wooden

but i still need it to do my work somehow

Radish of the Opera

you just need to unwrap really well and put seams in obscure places

wooden

I believe i'm such an annoying person :D but i'll improve day by day

RolandiXor

18:43

I don't believe so

wooden

me too

RolandiXor

and yes you wiil

using one hand -eating

wooden

I agree that I won't improve :D

no joking even a little bit i will

with mark seams whenever I put them I can see them

the thing is that I want to clone stamp those places where you can see them

Radish of the Opera

probably need a 2D image software to do it right...

wooden

mhm should be easier

RolandiXor

18:50

@wooden I don't believe you are an annoying person and I know you will improve day by day

(using two hands now)

wooden

could be a way where I just paint on my model but unlike choosing the colour of brush I would choose the texture

gandalf3

yes

wooden

I can do that now but to choose texture instead of colour (it actually would be clone stamp) I need to have texture on my model

gandalf3

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Q: How to paint with the clone option in Texture Paint?

I would like to use the clone tool with texture paint, but as soon as I choose Texture Paint, the mesh is white, and I cannot paint on it. I created a new UV Map, after I project the image from view, the image of reference appears well on the mesh in Object Mode, but I get this white color in T...

wooden

it's text draw brush isn't it?

I think i've found a way in my brains

gandalf3

18:58

@wooden ^^

wooden

right

i was about to write that

gandalf3

:D

wooden

couldn't find how to add new texture

when i added only black was added

but i think i see from your picture

gandalf3

In cycles the image being painted is determined by the active image texture node in the material nodes

wooden

you see I've never did blender render before and actually it's first week with blender so everything is so difficult to me even though it's simple

gandalf3

19:02

o.O You're way ahead of where I was in my first week :D

wooden

i checked somewhere that cycles gives more realistic results with light so I used it with not knowing that it's different in properties

gandalf3

Yes, cycles is a whole different engine (with a different material system, texture system, etc.)

wooden

I've been working with maya back in 2010 but what I can tell that I suck at everything what I do :D

animating is so interesting now even if it's a big challenge for me

you can express your imagination to reality lol :D

I can even create my dream girl and then print it with 3d printer

i bet with my skills she would look horrible

Mutant Bob

Man, i'm trying to figure out why the location property on this object isn't in local coordinate space, and I've gone down the matrix rabbit hole: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15240/… . I still don't know what the relationship between the matrices is because I can't understand french.

as for printing dream girls, you can just buy an anime box set that comes with a figurine: dcmstudiosonline.com/hosted/anime_figures.jpg

wooden

19:22

heh

my question is: when you adjust the size of brush it stays the same no matter if you zoom in or zoom out

what i mean if you zoom too much brush becomes too small

gandalf3

You want the brush size to remain the same relative to the canvas, regardless of zoom?

wooden

yeah

its like in real life my hand would be bigger than tree which is far away but smaller than tinderbox which is near to me

im bad at explaining things lol :D

gandalf3

I think I get it

It does that by default in the UV image editor, but not sure about the 3D view

wooden

and the other thing clone stamp remains too blury even with the biggest strength

GiantCowFilms

20:12

@gandalf3, @David can you randomly ban somebody, the moderator election came to such an anti climax, with nothing really happening. @NoviceInDisguise maybe you could also accuse them of faking the votes, and have a fit? :D That would be appreciated, thank you in advance for helping me fight boredom in The Renderfarm

gandalf3

bans GCF

GiantCowFilms

The on thing that is more jerkish (lightened the term) then eating an apple in a movie is linking to the page you are currently on.

@gandalf3 Good think I didn't vote for you <jk>

gandalf3

@GiantCowFilms Or just redirecting the page you are currently on to the page that you were redirected from, server-side (like this).

GiantCowFilms

@gandalf3 lol

@Andrew Price, get you IT together.... or does your instagram cat do it, in his spare time.

@gandalf3 sysadmin: sacked; guy who hired him: promotion

gandalf3

sysadmin: meow

guy who hired him: awww a kitty!

o.o

They tried to sack the kitty but PETA wouldn't let them

X-27

20:20

0

A: How not to lose quality of image with brush

When creating your texture that you are going to paint to, increase this number. (smaller is lower resolution, larger will allow for more detail) It is a good idea to keep powers of 2, such as 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 Etc. In your case, when you already have an image made, you can adjust the siz...

how is that?

one of my first cycles answers

wooden

amm

wait

trying to find a way to explain what i think

I think it has nothing to do with uv editor

because i paint on the object, not that I put the texture I just paint that

Mutant Bob

20:44

After much flailing around, I have decided that blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15240/… is what matrix_basis is.

How much truth it contains has yet to be determined.

NoviceInDisguise

20:55

@GiantCowFilms lol

@GiantCowFilms Instead of being bored, go take a hike. I did.

@RadishoftheOpera Not too bad!

Not over glossy like hte other one

David

21:49

@GiantCowFilms are you trying to get me in trouble already?

Man the meta is harsh! meta.stackexchange.com/a/258865/278094

(I did not think it was that bad of an idea)

NoviceInDisguise

23:04

Yeah, they can be mean. I think it is a good idea!

X-27

anyone with a main meta account

0

A: Help us identify micro-privileges for top users

More Up/Down Votes The high rep-users are regularly online, and find plenty of really good or really bad posts to vote on. As a result, they frequently run out. Higher rep users should have many more than 40 votes per day. I frequently use all of my daily votes, and I am sure there are plenty of...

I'm sure @NoviceInDisguise agrees,

gandalf3

23:25

Interesting.. I typically vote on most things, yet I rarely run out

GiantCowFilms

23:40

@gandalf3 lo;

@David ikr

@X-27 I disagree

40 votes is enough

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