The Renderfarm - 2015-01-30

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12:14 AM

Lol, I don't understand the people on this site. SE is a rep game it seems.

12:41 AM

@iKlsR what don't you understand about us? we're pretty simple (both meanings of the word) people.

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3:10 AM

@iKlsR Absolutely NOT! During hat mania, or trying to get a last 10 rep to meet some quota, I may have asked, but 99% came from normal voting activities.

I love this place... The water smells of sulfur, and when you let in a bath, it looks like diluted lemonade!

6 hours later…

9:13 AM

@iKlsR could blender graduate even if it does not meet all criteria?

10:06 AM

@Vader I'm pretty sure the "criteria" are really just sort of rough guidelines

I mean, SO doesn't even make the criteria

Different sites will have different patterns in the stats

e.g. blender is sort of fundamentally low answer ratio

@Vader I've seen sites graduate with less than 1/4 of what we have now. Those are just public stats, the more detailed stuff is excellent. We are already in the queue.

10:33 AM

What do the private stats show that the public ones do not?

@iKlsR what queue?

Rumour has it that there is a backlog of sites to be graduated

So the graduation queue

oh

then we get our own site design right?

And all the things :D

time to revisit that meta

I found the worst bug I've ever seen (in terms of trying to track down)

It appears to happen totally at random

And never happens when you are trying to make it happen :(

10:42 AM

what's the bug?

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Q: How should the site look?

What kind of color scheme and style should the site have? Should it be similar to blender's UI and default theme? Should it look like other blender related sites? E.g. Blender.org BlenderNation.com BlenderArtists.org What are some opinions on this?

Sometimes all rigidbodies with non-primitive collision shapes (i.e. convex hull and mesh. dunno about capsule) will get changed to cube

oh, sounds like fun

And then you must go through and set them all back

only to have it happen again

try copying it all to a new blend file

Right now I'm trying to make it happen, while I'm watching

10:46 AM

oh

I've never seen it happen, it always just sort of suddenly sneaks up on you that all your rigid bodies are not working right

But I've never actually watched it change

Too busy modeling

@gandalf3 You could use a script to set them back more easily...

It's probably faster for me to set them back manually, as I need to set the right collision shape per-object

Not all the objects affected had the same collision shape

And I don't really have many rigid bodies anyway

But I want to see the bug fixed :P

It's been around for a while now

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1:33 PM

hi

@NoviceInDisguise , @someonewithpc

1:50 PM

@Shaiq Hello

1 hour later…

2:55 PM

@GiantCowFilms

hi

Hello

NoviceInDisguise

3:12 PM

Hi

3:29 PM

@Shaiq @NoviceInDisguise is ths the morning renderfarm talk?

NoviceInDisguise

Sure ...

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4:35 PM

hi @NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

@Shaiq Hi

sup

anything new

The licecap dithering problem is really annoying. So for anyone wanting to record high quality gifs with small filesize, try GifCam.

3

@NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

@Shaiq not really

4:39 PM

okay! hey what should i model

@NoviceInDisguise, @iKlsR

NoviceInDisguise

I don't know . . . maybe start with something fairly simple?

like??

NoviceInDisguise

Uh, not a car, or plane, or something really hard . . .

Just find a tutorial on something you really want to make, and follow it.

@Shaiq model a car tire with the rim, the treads should be a nic exercise using the curve and array modifier

user image

Example gif with gifcam

@gandalf3 Time to ditch licecap

hey @iKlsR i am a pretty new user and dont know much

maybe you can guide me

4:43 PM

@Shaiq poke around ;)

gotta run for a bit

ok

@NoviceInDisguise still writing music

NoviceInDisguise

Yup

lol check that guess

@NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

?

the music one

NoviceInDisguise

4:49 PM

ah

@NoviceInDisguise why not model a piano and then with a speaker put your music at the back

NoviceInDisguise

Pianos are VERY complex

hi@David

hi

~~@vader~~ @ComicSans why the name change?

@iKlsR looks very nice.

i like it

@David

5:03 PM

@Shaiq I'm still here

hey @David what should i model

something fairly simple

what do you like?

umm..

I dont know

u tell

@David

well my recommendation would depend on how advanced you are with blender, and what you like to make.

umm.. ok I can model but not that good

5:07 PM

however, I would stay away from organic and nature scenes for now (not easy to model.)

and i am good at materials

Why not try a building, pick a skyscraper in your city and model it.

The LOD you choose will directly control how complex it is to model.

well around there are no skyscrapers

@David

really not in my city

really? where do you live?

cant tell

you know privacy

5:11 PM

understood

so

how about you try the

The Willis Tower, built as and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower, is a 108-story, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States. At completion in 1973, it surpassed the World Trade Center towers in New York to become the tallest building in the world, a title held for nearly 25 years. As of December 2013, the Willis Tower is the second-tallest building in the United States and the eighth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. More than one million people visit its observation deck each year, making it one of Chicago's most popular tourist destinations. The structure...

ok i willlis see

it is a fairly straight building, which makes modeling easy.

yeah I was thinking just cubes and then UV unwrapping

5:14 PM

like I said, you pick the LOD, so you pick how hard it will be to make.

later

LOD

??

wats LOD@David

@NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

Not sure .. .

hey i have never made fire simulation how to in cycles @NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

Use Quick Smoke, you can look it up

Making an off-road tire right now ...

nice

hey @NoviceInDisguise how is he doing that with the plane at 04:12

NoviceInDisguise

5:30 PM

On what vid?

off-road tire

you aint watching

NoviceInDisguise

The command is Ctrl+Click

ok

5:46 PM

@iKlsR thanks for pointing out GifCam, It's much nicer than LICEcap!

hi me back

hey@cegaton

@Shaiq hi

hey anyquestion i can answer

@David I liked Vader, but it was time

LOD is level of detail @NoviceInDisguise

NoviceInDisguise

6:00 PM

Ah

@Shaiq Level Of Detail

yes

@cegaton Strangely I've had it for over a year now but never got around to using it. T_T

i know now

ok byr

@ComicSans just to keep people guessing :) It really threw me for a minute, different image and name.

6:10 PM

I had to exploit a bug to change my name

@iKlsR The biggest challenge with giffs is keeping them small so they fit within the 2mb limit of SE

@cegaton host on imgur

@ComicSans really, interesting. What did you do?

@cegaton I actually recorded a 2 minute one that was 1.6MB

@cegaton You can always upload to gfycat with as large a size as you want and share the raw .gif link.

@David you know how there is a 30 day limit to change names?

6:11 PM

@cegaton I have not had that problem. I dont record large parts of the screen either.

@ComicSans yes

imgur has a 50mb limit

When we graduate, might push for SE to get webm or imgur mp4.

@David if you join a new SE site you can change it again

@iKlsR mp4 would be great!

@iKlsR plus permanent blends

6:12 PM

so I joined the apple SE

@ComicSans cleaver, new site, and make changes across all sites.

yeah

not my idea though

its a known bug

when was the last time you changed your name?

(I have never changed mine)

after winter hats left i went from Comrade Vader to Vader

ok, I remember. you are a man of many ~~hats~~ names.

6:14 PM

yeah

6:57 PM

@iKlsR Looks very nice, but why do none of these things work on linux natively??

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9:16 PM

@gandalf3 because!

Anyways, this is interesting, used to love this program years ago gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/…

NoviceInDisguise

@iKlsR Wow! Nice!

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11:10 PM

o.o Blender on Azure Batch

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