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Don't know exactly but can't you open the mode lin v18?
Anyway: It might have to do with missing AM Stuff. You can download it here:
ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/Am2006/
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Here is a very fun and quite astonishing project by Microsoft:
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I just like the style of your models... can't help myself
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I'd say it is not a bug but intentional. It is using the most likely thing by default which you want to do in a certain situation. In modelling mode rotoscope or decal is very likely. In chor a layer and rotoscope is likely. And in an action it is only rotoscope. This is especially true since the decal is always saved with the model, not the action or pose itself. Very likely the abillity to add a stamp in a action (which is very useful of cause) has been added later on.
I'd say a feature request would be good, but it is likely not a bug.
And I definitivly do not see a reason to remove one of the methodes. I am using both and I never stumbled about that since it I do it intuitivly in each situation like it is programmed already, which tells me someone has thought about it very well.
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I stumbled over that a few times already... I think it has to do with the mode you are in.
Modelling mode seems to ignore the setting all along, in chors it is taken in acount sometimes, etc.
I'd say we should post it as a feature request to really take it into account as the button would suggest.
(maybe with default mode set to off so it is as most people are used too already in A:M)?
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Especially for displaysmentmaps I like EXR (with 32bit per channel) very much, because there are just "more" color steps inbetween which makes it less "stepy".
I am not sure about the glitch... maybe it would be worth a try to use a transparency gradient at the start and end of the image?Best regards
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Are you using an EXR there?
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Great stuff, really great stuff
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I talked about that with Steffen about 3 years ago. I am not sure if something changed, but I doubt it.
Long story short: It is quite hard to change that especially to a vector based system, just because the UI-system used (to keep it compatible with Mac and Windows version, which is a big hassel anyway) does not support anything but bitmaps.
Of cause Steffen would have to say something about it himself...
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Actually, a GPU has a lot of cores (up to a few thousands) but they are very different and one GPU core is a lot less powerful than a CPU core itself.
For istancen in general a GPU core is not able to use the same instruction sets as CPU cores and like that it is not possible to do it "just like that".
If GPU rendering would be included, it would need a own rendering procedure which takes such things in account.
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why not use a server to do all that for you and make it permament like that?
Third party servers can certainly be useful but in P2P systems a primary strength is not in storage but in the transfer of bits and bytes between the peers/clients.
And in distributed systems permanency may not be required nor desired.
We may want to simply share a file once especially if it is a work in progress.
Permanency can easily equate to outdated data.
It is interesting to note that in distributed systems permanency is a byproduct.
This relates to an observation made years ago when people were losing their A:M models and someone would step out of the shadows and say... "Here it is. A couple years ago you gave me a copy."
That's one example of (unintentional) permanency achieved through peer to peer distribution although in that particular scenario not something to heavily rely on.
That might be a good test case however, to try to set up a P2P system of P2P backup.
This might be a source of income for the local user who would be incrementally reimbursed for maintaining distributed data.
In turn they would hold a copy of the encrypted data (which not even they could access).
But I digress... (My point there is that permanency through distriubuted backups is entirely viable)
Would that be the same as for instance XAMPP, but by installing/using beaker instead of something from Apache?
I would have to look to see in what capacity XAMPP might be viable.
The downside I must assume is that (as originally designed for local testing) it intentionally turns off security features.
That might not be a problem but needs to be considered.
At a quick glance I'd say that wherever FTP-style file sharing/serving were required XAMPP might be ideal because... as far as I can tell... that is how peers would access each others local servers; via an FTP client. IF serving up html and apps I would think that better suited to a browser and I don't see where XAMPP can be leveraged by a browser.
I really don't know enough about XAMPP to speculate further.
People often mistake a "Webserver" to be a whole different machine than anything else.
Actually a webserver is nothing else than a "normal" computer (a RasperyPi even if you wish), which runs a certain combination of software on it. You can and should use hardware, that is very durable especially for permanent 24/7 usage, but in the end, it can be anything.
XAMPP is a suit of software which includes very powerful stuff like Apache Webserver, MySQL-Databases, FTP-Software, PHP-Interpreter, PERL-Support and more which can be activated and deactivated as you wish.
XAMPP itself should not be used (as provided) for permanent hosting. That changes however if you change the default passwords for the software/services you want to use. XAMPP is mainly unsecure, because they use default passwords so everybody can easily get started without setting it up. Change those and you should be fine (more or less).
So what you get with XAMPP is a full blown webserver, which of cause is by default created to share data with people all over the world. A browser, which can be used as a server too is like trying to build a digger starting with a spoon and attaching all the other stuff needed to make it a digger to the spoon. Everything is possible and of cause you can do that, but I still do not see why someone should.
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Hey Rodney,
that looks very promising... I'll surely have a look into that
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I can understand how it works, but I still don't really get what you want to archive with it... why not use a server to do all that for you and make it permament like that?
In short beaker at least in this video is doing not much more than creating a fake webserver on your machine with very limited abillities, as far as I can see...
Would that be the same as for instance XAMPP, but by installing/using beaker instead of something from Apache?
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Did you copy that from somewhere? I can not write in there in a reasonable way...?
But lets try it without that:
I am talking about 2 persons (or more) communicating with eachother. Of cause at least one needs to be online* (the one who wants to download something),
but do you want to be online all the time because someone in lets say Germany (a couple of hours time difference in general something like 9 hours) wants
to download something/sync something, etc.? That is very unhandy don't you think?And the more interesting part is: To gain what exactly? Waiting two days till someone is online again with the computer hosting the files needed? What are you trying to archieve with the technology which can not be done easier with a FTP server?
* Not sure if this is a language thingy... with "needs to be online" I am talking about being connected to the internet at the very given moment, not that there is an internet connection available at all to that person.
I fear your hopes are dashed with this technology but you also likely would assess technologies such as Bittorrent as risky. (and you would be right)No, this is something very different. A browser needs to let a website (quite uncontrolled input till it is done and run) communicate with the user with very different things including scripting and every day something newly created with the technology of "tomorrow", etc.
That is the reason why EVERY browser and app (!= software/program) out there is running in a sandbox to secure the computer (which deveice ever) it is run on.Standard software on Windows is not using a sandbox and like that allows access to quite everywhere on the computer, etc.
This is all about security. I am not talking about a user saying "hey, use this folder." but about security structures build into the operation system which is the most important one... we are not talking about sniffing data but about controlling the computer of the other person as a whole (of cause including to encrypt the data on your computer and blackmailing you to decrypt it again, just putting a lot of trojaners on there, using your computer as a crypto-machine, using a bug to get your computer to burn and so on... there is a lot of maleware out there you really do not want to get catch yourself if you are just visiting a website.
Doing only data transfer like a bit torrent is something different because there is software that does it all by itself and in general is not running any script of unknown sources.
To make it short: You don't want that... this is really not about encrypting or using SSL or some other encrypting technology to transfer data to someone else... this is extremly cruicial to everything you do on the internet or in your whole digital life.
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Saying WebRTC is not P2P is really just wrong, as long as you know who you want to talk to. (some kind of possibility to connect to the other party. => IP adresses or whatever. But you will always need that in some way or the other)
There is the possibility to use it as P2P or as P2S2P, depending on what you want.
I am not saying, WebRTC is already fully developed perfectly, but FF and Chrome have been used to do a skype like technology to communicate with eachother quite a long time ago. It is a open standard and at least FF does not need any kind of plugin or extension to do WebRTC. Would be new for me, that Chrome needs it, but who knows... maybe Google did something on their own again...
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I have to admit, that I can not read much more from what you wrote (you have a tendency to write very extensive my friend
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The problem with p2p is most often, that people need to be online for that. Like with any of the old fileshare systems (eMule, bittorrent, etc) this is a problem which can not be overcome easily.
That is the thing that makes server based systems "better". They are really always available. Nobody needs to charge them, restart them, etc.
They are just there to run, at least until some kind of maintenance is necessary and even that they often do not need to be restarted.
What you are trying to do with the browser (which is already possible using WebRTC) is possible, but if you want to sync folders for instance: That will not be possible for security reasons and I do not hope that that will be change anytime soon.
It would be a mayor problem if the browser is broken open than, because they could do close to anything then and list files on your computer (=> very bad thing)
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Wouldn't a Dropbox location be simpler?
Not close to being equal... Dropbox is a cloud based (which in this case does not mean much more than uploading something to a server and making a download link available somewhere else) service in which you really do not know where the data is going to be and who has access to it. P2P would mean a more direct approach transfering data directly to the recipient. (that is technically not exactly true, since a transfer via internet always means, that there a other servers/routers involved in the process).
Before you use dropbox, use at least OneDrive (they at least have to loose something if they give out your data, because they have a lot of companies as customers who would not be amused at all, if the data would be leaked) or better a FTP server at your favourit hoster. (godaddy, blue or whatever is good in your country... for gemany it would be 1&1, strato or netcup for instance)
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Damn...
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There are many things involved like soft shadows, which are distributed to the passes and so on.
If you do not use those neighter and really get rid of all the more advanced things, it might be the same, but I am really not sure about that.
Is it just out of interest, or is it for a specific reason you are asking about that?
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Sounds like you are blocked by the hash-spam-protection or something.
You could try to send information by the contact form at hash.com.
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Hi!
Recently I installed the latest version of A:M, it asked me for an activation code which I looked up and entered and A:M started and worked just fine. However, today I got an error message when I tried to start itsomething about contacting support. In an attempt to fix this myself I uninstalled A:M and reinstalled it but when I enter my activation code I get an error saying that the activation key is already in use. Looks like I somehow I screwed everything up.
I tried sending an email to support@hash.com an it was kicked back as undeliverable... ???
BTW, I have two activation keys; one for my laptop and one for my desktop. This happened on my laptop. My desktop is undergoing hardware upgrades and, for the most part, is unavailable for a few days so I dont know how A:M is acting there.
What do I need to do?
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Rusty
As you are changing your hardware it will (very likely) no longer work and you need to get the lic transfered by Jason. Did you change your laptop too? (more RAM, a SSD or something like that?)
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I'd say he is talking about something programming relevant. If you have to limit it, limit it to at least 64 groups. 32 is a litte bit to tight.
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Are you using 3d models with a thickness or is it only a flat patch which is opening there?
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Hey Everyone,
I'm taking super bowl weekend off and heading to Las Vegas me and a ton of my friends are all staying at the LinQ we have not figured out what super bowl party we are going to but the last 2 years have been in The Paris Hotel. Hash, Inc. will be closed from 01/31/2018 at 5:00 pst until 02/06/2018 at 9:00 am pst. Short of a server fire I will not be returning any emails, or getting out my computer for anything other than betting scores. PLEASE do not email me personally with the head line "when you get back & have time" just wait until my vacation is over. Or you will be a drunken email that may even take longer than solving the problem you emailed about.
Anyways have a good week/weekend
Jason Simodns
I may post some pix on the Hash, Inc. Facebook too
Have fun and party well
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Very cool
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Could you post an image on how the model came in?
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On the fence, and a couple questions about A:M
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