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00:47
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ um... then who was logign on to your steam account?
it kept saying you were last online (always less than a day ago)
but you had no activity in any game, as it still shows your last playing activity on TF2 on the 10th.
and can you warn us before going off the grid next time? Radish thought you mutated into a dinosaur, and you couldn't use your front paws because of a keyboard infection... or something like that.
 
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03:01
Wow
Someone actually made a website for that...
03:27
waow
@someonewithpc but wouldn't the same be true for normal cars; if you get more energy out of a smaller amount, then gasoline actually is cheaper.
@ARadish Please don't take advantage of that :P
@TARDISMaker what do you mean>?
I don't want you to use messages from that site in any of your commits
I want to know what you're actually doing when you commit :P
04:06
oh
 
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09:33
Hi guys!
Um... I kinda managed to get the renderfarm to work
Here's a tip for anyone else who makes one...
If you don't have administrator privileges, you won't be able to get past this:
In that case, you can use the method I'm about to explain.
Basically, windows has a (surprisingly documented) feature to turn windows firewall off without administrator privileges:
copy the following in notepad and save it as 'firewall_disable.reg'
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall=0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall=0
Run this on every PC which you plan to use as a master, client, or slave
then open blender, and the PCs should be able to communicate.
 
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10:54
hi :D
the render farm worked initially
 
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12:14
is there any irc chats about 3d stuff we can join?
12:26
@hghjgjh There's this chat, for instance
Haha yeah
But there is like 7 people
Yeah, but different people come in during the day
Also could I just lay it out here incase anyone knows something good sorry for spam
@hghjgjh Those are not loading
Like, the page loads and there's a missing image icon thing
I've stumbled upon this reference cgmascot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/posts/… and tried getting the chest area loops onto it but failed after 5hours of retop. What do you guys think unnecessary to add/ model seems decent or a lot of room to improve
oh that's odd
are you getting any errors it loads for me
12:38
Some thing's off... imgur is not loading either
Did that screenshot show up?
12:56
github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator Really cool addon, although I'd never use it, still cool.
13:16
@TARDISMaker Thanks ;-)
@hghjgjh It's working now
@AbhishekSaxena So, I've missed most of the discussion about renderfarms, but I've had a lot of success rendering on multiple computers in several different setups. What are y'all trying to accomplish?
@Matt For animations or stills?
Animation
Both
13:20
@Matt Really?
How?
There are a couple of techniques. It depends on what your goals are.
Like, distributed rendering of single images?
@someonewithpc Yup, exactly like that
@Matt One way would be to divide the image into tiles and distribute those
Or to render the image at lower sampling levels and do some trickery to combine them
@someonewithpc Yeah, dividing tiles and compositing them together is one option, but it's difficult to balance. You end up with one really slow computer that you just wait on that one.
@someonewithpc That's the best solution
13:23
@Matt Let me introduce you to gnu parallel
The "trickery" turns out to be pretty simple.
Yeah, I know
The other ones is much harder, but seems more efficient..?
I'd like to implement that, but I only have these two computers so doesn't really seem worth it
My favorite method is to setup the scene with "progressive" turned on and let it run on all the machines overnight. Then, you stack them
And I think I totally could
With two computers it's actually much easier.
13:24
@Matt Oooh That's nice
The balance is easier to "math"
So, render just a few samples on both machines and calculate how many samples per second each one can do.
Then, give each machine the inverse percentage area of the image
So if one machine renders 100 samples in 5 minutes, and the other does it in 2 minutes
You give the slow machine about 30% of the image, and you give the fast one about 70% of the image. Then they finish at more-or-less the same time
13:38
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Is there any way to get the red holiday light before December? I need one so planes don't fly into the tower.
Am I correct in remembering that you didn't have the recipe?
 
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15:34
Man, I haven't played Minecraft in a while. It always annoys me when they change the terrain generator. I wish the old terrains I had built upon were available as auxiliary dimensions. (like the nether, or the end are)
@MutantBob that isn't exactly minecraft
tis' Creativerse, a Free-to-play on steam.
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I figured I could pester someone on the forum who has the recipe to come and craft some, but that could get annoying.
I think my main storage HDD is dying. Any suggestions from any of you guys?
@X-27 yes it could
btw, nice runway. Going to put heading numbers on it?
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Here is a suggestion, back it up before it does fail (because it will), and you have to go through the hassle of trying to recover the data.
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ sadly no, if it was maybe 4 times as big, I may have the resolution to do that, but as it is, with each block essentially being one pixel, the numbers would either look garbage, or be Way too big.
@Matt Abhishek and I were trying to set up a renderfarm in school
For both Animations and Images
Not really
Ah, I also installed Creativerse. I consider it inferior to minecraft because I can't edit the world data like I can with Minecraft.
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ It started rendering, but then this happened:
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Q: Renderfarm ERROR:EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Abhishek SaxenaI have 4 computers running blender where 2 of them are slaves, one is a master, and one is the client. I am using the Network Render Add-on. After about 50% of the render is complete, I get the following error: The slaves are idle, but the job just shows as queued: I'm getting this error...

@MutantBob yes, it is still in early alpha
@MutantBob but it does have its strong points,
to start, everything looks Immensely better.
15:58
That too
that should be first on the list :)
I wrote software to generate this terrain: pasteall.org/pic/104375
@MutantBob wait, you can use your own terrain generation algorithms in minecraf?
wow
ok, so I guess there are some valid reasons why people still play minecraft....
yes
that and redstone are why
16:22
@X-27 Mods
16:37
@someonewithpc Gandalf, Iklsr, The Other Guy
lol
lol
Not quite :P
17:23
x-27 , My terrain generator was a java program that modified the terrain files of the world. I had to turn off minecraft, run my program, then turn minecraft back on. it was very annoying. If I worked at Mojang my first project would be a protocol that let a remote agent read and write blocks while the server was running.
I'm also on the lookout for some kind of shared VR software that lets you upload your own models. Sort of like 2nd life, except you can just run it on a Rackspace VM without paying lindendollars (although I think you could buy a lot of 2nd life pixels for the monthly price of a VM).
 
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18:42
@Rahul2001 :/
Pro tip: Don't lose your house key while everyone else in you family is on vacation.
@ARadish Generally a good idea...
It can also be helpful to give a spare set to a trusted friend
yep. how do you think iḿ back on my PC? lol
friend
18:44
Ah, okay :P
@TARDISMaker didn leave any unlocked...
not in my area of town lol
:P
We don't lock ours...
. . .
We have to have them open anyway though
@TARDISMaker living on the edge there matey
18:45
We don't have AC so having them open is a whole lot better than having them closed and being stuffy all the time
@ARadish Eh...
So far it hasn't been a problem
@TARDISMaker no AC either
And we live on the edge of a sketchy area
@ARadish How can you survive with the windows shut then?
i live in that sketchy area
@TARDISMaker i open them when iḿ home
but not when iḿ at work...
Sounds like a lot of work...
You should automate it...
So you can press a button and all the windows close and lock
:P
@TARDISMaker that would be awesome
18:49
Yeah
give me $2000 and iĺl make on for mine, and you house.
I want that for my door
deal
My sister makes us close the top one when we leave her home alone
And it's really annoying because you have to use the key
wow
why can she close it?
18:50
She's usually upstairs or something
But I agree with you
But it's really contrasting, because I'll generally just leave the door open when I'm home alone
If I'm home alone with her, the door gets shut, and I can't do anything that makes a moderate amount of sound (play piano, percussion, etc)
Because "then people would know that we're here"
@TARDISMaker and if people know your there..... why is that a problem?
Yup exactly
if anything, your more at risk if someone thinks the house is empty.
Eh... Maybe...
@ARadish pick the lock?
19:35
Normally we don't ever open our windows (no idea why.... well its kinda cold here)
Once though, I managed to leave the front door wide open for several hours in the morning.
19:58
@GiantCowFilms do u have AC?
@ARadish We have a horrible window mounted one that works for one room
We do have central heating though, which we make good of the 364 not sunny days of the year
oh
i have a wood stove, heating, and a plethora of heating radiators.
it gets cold here
20:13
Its like Christmas, but with more... me.
itś like nerdom 9000
you need a life, and a better game
@ARadish naa, I just need some red lights to put on the very top, so no unfortunate aircraft slam into it.
there are nmo aircraft in that game
@ARadish that is a sad fact, that I'm presently ignoring.
I just finished a massive hanger, that connects to the runway
20:42
you are a sad life
i pity you
lol, have as much pity as you like.
21:09
i will. : iḿ crying for you right now
and iḿ crying for your mother
who had such a sad life as a son
21:42
@ARadish Maybe that layout is not working so well for you...
ye
is weird
but you guys can understand what i say still
22:01
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Replace it ASAP!
Actually, sooner than possible, if possible.
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22:50
@GiantCowFilms lol i love that. i will quote you forever now

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