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Hi Stéphane, yes you can do that too. It is the more manual approach but should work too. For that you need to set the 4 threads to render other frames manually, but if that is not an issue for you, you can render that way. (have done that before several times before Netrender was released) See you *Fuchur*

you may want to put windows vista in too, just in case. see you *fuchur*

Man that are really, really nice renderings. Thanks for all the insides Yves, it really is very interesting. Concerning including you in the code base is very likely a no brainer. You already have worked on the A:M code and I think that is very likely something no one has a problem with at all . If you are interested now or in future to implement such a cool thing, I will ask Steffen and Jason in an instance about that . //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Somehow I am a little embaressed to show my (first!) approach on the Global Ambiance tutorial right now, but I made a first video tutorial on it. (again: I am not totally happy with it myself and like that I am sure I will try it again, but it may give some interesting approaches for some of you). So here it is: http://www.patchwork3d.de/am-global-ambiance-186-en See you *Fuchur*

using a transparency map as a decal is the way to do this. see you *fuchur*

As far as I know there is a limit of lughts which can be represented in realtime there. it will then leave out lights and render others in realtime and that may be a factor here...

Global Ambiance can be combined with other techniques and that is the key. It is very simple to use actually: put it to lets say 50% and do the rest of the 50% with lights. Then use AO or SSAO on the image too. It takes much less time to render then real lights/radiosity and it will give you a product shot feeling quite easily. I think I will do a tutorial on the subject. It is not creating 100% realsitic lightening situations or stuff like that, but it can create nice looking renderings like product shots and that "high dolar look"-stuff. I have learned that that is what many of your clients want and that it is not really the "extremly realistic" stuff they are after but it just has to look like an very clean and cool product shot. (cool in both meanings) See you *Fuchur*

I have a dual (actually even tripple now if you include the cintiq) monitor setup. So it might be a windows 10 thing. See you *Fuchur*

i am on win 7 with fullhd display and on win 8.1 with Hd+ and it does not happen as far as I can tell. But that does not mean that it is not possible that it is a bug. Just to have ask it: did you change you dpi fontsize level of windows? that could easily create such a problem. I do not use workbook mode. it had been buggy in the older days so i just never work with many windows open especially since it is that easy to reaccess them. and today it is just no longer a part of my workflow. from time to time i use two tiled windows or such things but that's it. See you *Fuchur*

A:M will very likely perform better with a deticated graphic card than with an integrated one. (especially since integrated once from Intel have problems with OpenGL3 and are very slow compared to the other once. The integrated once of AMD (if you have an APU-power computer) are fine, since those just have the better graphic power and have support for newer technologies than most Intel-graphics). Nvidia vs AMD-cards are harder to define. I think, AMDs are better for A:M (the developer uses and AMD-card as well) but it really is not a bigger deal with both of them, since anything you can buy today will be much better than what you have integreated in an i3 (no matter if you get an AMD or Nvidia card). Nvidia can be better if you need CUDA for some other software, AMD can be better if you need OpenCL for some other software. It is not of use to buy a super-high-performance graphic card. Anything beyond the 150 Dollar price-tag will very likely not improve your A:M performance in any very noticeable way. (there are a few GPU-powered effects available which may benefit, but in the end they are all that fast to calculate, that it should not make a big difference) See you *Fuchur*

That does not really matter... whatever you like better... in general I would keep it with the bowl. See you *Fuchur*

That was MUCH fun! Very well done Robert. You really know how to put up a show... ! Well done everybody who entered and thank you very much for your votes . I am very honoured to win the first place in such a great line up . Thanks again *Fuchur*

Hi, go to your A:M installation-folder and rename the file "master0.lic" to "master0.bak" (or copy it to another directory and delete the master0.lic in the A:M installation folder. If you start A:M again then, it will ask you for the access code / subscription key. See you *Fuchur*

Somehow somewhere yes... maybe you had another driver installed back then, maybe some additional library or just another program which helped or interrupted something else... it is hard to figure out and Win98 is that old, that I really have no idea anylonger what needs to be done there... in general these problems occur if your video driver is having some sort of trouble... that the program quits working with Direct3d / OpenGL switch is quite strange for instance. See you *Fuchur*

And what is "in" and what is "out"? That is very hard to define for a software, if the object is not waterproove. I had an idea before about this, involving a "light-like" emitter of rays which a person can put into a object and everywhere where the rays hit a surface (and bounce off again and again like photons/radiosity would do) the normals would face away of the hitzone there... but till now it is only a feature request and I am not sure if it would work in every situation. See you *Fuchur*

Win98? Yes I think exactly that . XP is old enought, but that is really, really old. I am not sure that we can find a good solution for that... this heavily depends on the graphiccard and if you are using a vodoo-gpu there, I just do not know what it can do and what not. See you *Fuchur*

What I remember in that case: 1.) Try to press "CTRL + D" to toogle the visibility of the rotoscopes / decals in realtime. 2.) Change the realtime-driver as John told you. 3.) Update video-drivers. See you *Fuchur*

I really like the hair you've got there... the movement of it looks very naturally. See you *Fuchur* PS: Not that I wouldn't like any other movement in the scene...

Very unlikely... . I would recommend to start it, pause it again and just wait for the progress bar to be filled before you start watching the tutorial... it is hosted at my website and there is no real streamingserver there... that means it needs a little bit more progresstime before you can start with it, especially since some are quite large and you need a quite fast internet connection to watch them like that. See you *Fuchur* PS: "rude" in general means "not polite"... I think you mean hard / jerky to watch, right?

Hi Stephane, Sculptris needs to export a map from the real height-informations of the high-poly-mesh. I know that 3dCoat, ZBrush and very likely Mudbox can do that, but I am not sure if Sculptris can. If yes, it would be possible to use the blender- or the 3dCoat-Plugin to bring the model with the displacementmap or normal-map back to A:M. But I did not try it till now. See you *Fuchur*

Hi Mike, please write to support@hash.com. It is very likely that your hostid (a unique number for your PC) has changed with that update somehow. They will tell you what to do. (don't worry, A:M you subscription is not lost... it just has to be rewritten) See you *Fuchur*

The problem with all those other solutions is, that you really do not know if there is something on the computer left, which will infect you again in 2 weeks or which is really only active on certain occasions or which is just logging your creditcard informations right now or which is even doing harm unnoticed somehow else. Virus scanners do not find everything and if the virus/trojaner is a smart one you are doomed. In general you do not know which are really on your computer... 3 can be found, 1 is not... the 1 which is not is the hard and serious one in general because someone has gone through the trouble to make it much harder to find for a reason. There are viruses which install other common and known viruses / trojaners for the only reason to give you the false feeling that your virus detection software is working great... There are viruses which just shut themselves down if they notice a virus scanner is close to finding them. There are viruses which install themselves to new, random locations after a short period of time and delete themselves at the first location. There are viruses which install themselves on USB-drives and delete themselves after that. If you want to become frightened, read further on: There are viruses which use security holes in the UEFI-bios of your computer to put themselves in the BIOS-memory. This means: They will be there even if you format your hard-drive. In laborartories there are even viruses tested which can copy themselfs to computers which are not even connected to eachother because of speakers in your computer. (these are not known to be a problem for private users for now... but who knows what happens tomorrow?) If we are talking in direction of intelligence services it even can be worth... some of them force hardware manufacturer to include stuff in the hardware... You can of course try to eliminate the viruses and trojaners but in the end, you are never sure if you got them all or if some of them are just hiding better. In general the aim of a virus today is not to kill your computer. Real worm-viruses are very rare today. That is because it is not helping the programmers of those softwares to kill your computer > no financial interest there. In the earlier days it was fun for them to just delete important files and stuff like that. Today it is all about getting information or use your computer to attack other, more valuable servers/computers (= bot net approach) and in that case it is often good for them to be just not noticeable... and there are just many different tactics to archieve that. I am system admin at my agency (which means I have come in contact with that stuff quite heavily) and I have had several courses (Information Security I - III = 3 semesters) on the university about that stuff... I may be a little paranoid like that... but I think this is something you can not be too lazy about. The problem with all of this is, that you can not be sure at all (even if you did not have a noticeable infection). Maybe there is already one hiding quite well... but the properbillity of that is smaller than that after a heavy infection there isn't something overseen by the virus scanners. I know it is troublesome but most security experts do just recommend to restart fresh after such an outburst of infections. That is like that just because they first have to find one or even a certian combination of open doors somewhere to get a high-level of user right on the computer before they can do harm or copy themselves, etc. Once they have that... it is over. (it does not have to be over, but you just don't know) If you do not want to do that, that is your decission, but especially if you are not very aware of what you are doing very well (security vise) and you are not running a firewall (no, the default windows firewall is not the one I would trust here) with logging of any network traffic, port-blocks and application-filters (and you looking from time to time what is going on in the logs), just reinstall your computer and be more careful what you install and which pages you surf on next time. Since you will very likely copy files to external devices first, you are still not 100% secure, but at least it is much less likely that you copy one of the infected files and maybe tomorrow, when you are trying to copy the file back, virus scanners have updated too and will be able to get rid of it for you. See you *Fuchur*

more likely you already had something on the computer. often those programs start with showing of advertisements. it looks like the website you visit has a lot of those ads on it but in reallity this is not triggered by the website but is loades like a layer over the website. this is only possible if you have such crapware already on your computer. they make money with that. showing all kinds of paid ads lie that. and if some of the paid ads are bad/harmful (which is very likely since a normal company would not give these guys money) it all goes bad... The only real solution is to format your harddrive (hopefully it could not infiltrate your bios...), get a good virus scan software (like bitdefender for instance) and be more careful which websites you visit and which software you install...

on my website there is a simple video tutorial on the subject. i am not aware about more tutorials in that direction. see u *fuchur*

Okay guys, we figured the problem out: He was running Windows XP SP3 and tried to install v16 non-expiring version. It is likely that this would be a problem with Subscription too. v16 had no Visual Studio 2008 / 2005 combined with the installer and like that you need to install that by yourself. You can find that here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsvc/archive/2008/08/07/part-1-troubleshooting-vc-side-by-side-problems.aspx If you are on Windows XP SP3 you need to install VS 2005 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 and you should be good to go . (users of Win 7 and newer version of A:M or the OS should not need that!) He is up and running now . See you *Fuchur*

You do not need that... I will connect to you... but lets switch this conservation to the private messaging section. See you *Fuchur*