Hard to flag as not an answer when in agreement lol

@batFINGER Good lord did apple screw them D:

@batFINGER I added my own slight rephrasing as an answer :p

Yep read your answer.. (was agreeing to mac sucks...)

I got that

btw the <kbd> script has stopped working on linux firefox

I've noticed, I keep meaning to debug it

Thanks for the reminder :P

NP

that cartoon on the link "can't come to bed yet, someone on the internet is wrong" is a pearler.

lol

So very true

@batFINGER Turns out the GM storage API changed, now there's scopes and async stuff. Unfortunately debugging is turning out to be a bit of a pain (GM randomly won't load it at all, the debugger shows the wrong source, console.log statements aren't showing up).

For the time being you can comment out the contents of toggle_extra_markdown() and get_prefs() (they're defined at the top of the script) and it should work. Have get_prefs() return 1 or 0 depending on whether you want "extra markdown" or not (the icons and stuff)

I'll probably overhaul it (strip out jquery etc) along with the blendexchange script when BE 2.0 comes out (@GiantCowFilms), so not too keen on spending much time on it right now..

Hi how can I uniformly sample points from an object, e.g. a cube?

I would like in the end to have something like this:

Found something better to visualize pointclouds than blender: lidarview.com

@gandalf3 I need to do that. Code is pretty much done, only thing now is to deploy

Which means upgrading the PHP version on my server.

Which means upgrading every single sorry little PHP thing I've deployed to that server over the years.

Good evening

Apologies if it's hard to see, but don't the shadows look weird on the bottom right section?

It's like the 3D part is flipped or something

@skiwi Are the normals inverted?

@gandalf3 Don't think so, they're all pointing outwards

I added my backplate again, now it looks especially off

Any modifiers?

The black part is in front of the wood, and a glass plate is in front of the black part, so it doesn't make sense to me

That is odd

What I want is a solid material, so I used a Diffuse BSDF for it

Would it be possible to upload somewhere? Might be faster than playing 20 questions :P

Uh of course, I linked three material files into it though, so maybe I should make a zip

Try copying it somewhere to break the links and see if it still happens

But then the materials are also gone

Right, but if it still happens I don't need them

1drv.ms/u/s!AhphnnSoYyMOgpgQ2C-7OKEL4-U2Kg not sure if this works (from OneDrive)

It did

Ok cool

Although it looks correct on my end, the plot thickens

It does look correct if I press Ctrl+Z (not sure how it's called), but when actually rendering it looks incorrect

oh

I see

It's a hint definitely, but towards what issue :D

@skiwi Try increasing the minimum clipping distance on your camera

Most of the precision in the z-buffer is near the minimum (so that close surfaces are sorted more carefully than far ones where imprecision matters less)

Unfortunately it seems .1mm is so close that stuff is getting imprecise not far enough away :P

1mm looks more reasonable for me

@gandalf3 I'll give it a try! Would never have thought that haha

Good luck :) I have to go for a bit, I'll be back in a short while

I just finished a high quality render on the old settings, only my glass disappeared lol

Clipping values of 1mm and 1cm seem to give the same issues

@skiwi Interesting

Does using CPU rendering affect anything?

I'm suspecting the glass shader, without it seems to render perfectly fine

@gandalf3 That will be a huge setback, let's see if it renders anything :P

Also, see if putting a slight air-gap between the glass and the wood helps. When you have two surfaces in exactly the same place, rays will (kind of) randomly choose to sample one surface or the other. It's possible some rays are sampling the back of the glass and refracting past the inlay, then sampling the wood backplate (again sampling two surfaces, in this case skipping the back of the inlay)

That's not a bad idea... I want to ultimately change my model anyway to make a gap

CPU compute doesn't matter

And it scary how closely my CPU matches my GPU haha

hehe

Are you using the same tile size for each?

Judging from your gif I suspect you could get slightly lower render times using a larger tile size on your GPU

On my GPU I've found the sweet spot is usually around 1 second per tile

No idea why

OMG you are a genius, the spacing really works wonders

\o/

It also seems to render faster now, probably less rays to trace

That's interesting

My PC is quite a beast though... 32 GB RAM, i7-8700K OC'd to 4.7GHz on all cores and a GTX 1080 Ti

I intended it for VR gaming :P

nice :D

But apparently it works well for 3D rendering too xD

I wonder if our difference between renders with the camera clipping was due to OpenCL vs CUDA or something (I'm on a Vega 64 :P)

Hm, yours definitely rendered differently indeed

A lot darker

At least the air-gap solving it could explain why adjusting the clipping to increase precision would help hide the issue

@skiwi you're right

that's even more interesting

Though next render won't be fair to compare as I increased the sun's intensity

Is the sun lamp the only source of illumination? You don't have other linked lamps you didn't include in the zip? :P

I kinda lost the glass effect though (and increased it to 4mm from 1mm), but that mayb e solved by either the angle or a spotlight

@gandalf3 Only the sun

But I'm fine if in real the glass won't do much, because I only need plexiglass for UV protection

which reminds me that I probably should put that refraction into it

ah, the display device in Properties > Scene > Color Management was set to None on my end

Mm I don't see that option

Set to sRGB it looks more like yours

I actually wanted to use inlay foam/rubber instead of just a black texture, but I think this will do

Ah yes I have sRGB indeed

I'm doing this right now for a planned hobby project, but damn 3D modeling does look really interesting

I myself studied computer science, so I was pretty close to it, also did some 3D courses

Nice :D

I'm in computer science as well

That's cool :)

I studied at Eindhoven University, in The Netherlands, where I also live and am from

Cool! I'm in the US myself. Unfortunately my knowledge of the Netherlands pretty much boils down to "that's where the blender institute is" :P

:P

It's almost finished :D

Beautiful!

Sad part is that I need to change it so it can also actually be manafactured haha

The slots are for graded pokemon cards, they are in a plastic case, so they should fall in

I'm thinking to have the glass plate be larger than the backplate, and then add edges on top of it, with one of them mountable

Very nice!

I have to take off again, best of luck :)

Thank you for the help :)

@GiantCowFilms. Or @gandalf3 how hard would it be to make a chrome plugin that just changed the letter n to m everywhere

@Scalia Probably not much. In fact I think something like that already exists

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/findr/…