robcat2075

If I in the model window with nothing selected there is a menu choice for "Refind Normals" I'm not sure what the intended difference between "Correct Normals" and "Refind Normals" is. A model that crashes "Correct Normals" would be a good candidate for a bug report.

The better identifier for seeing ab-normal patches is to toggle Backface Culling (Shift 6) and view in shaded mode. Inside-out normals are pretty obvious then. >Refind Normals does a pretty good job of getting all normals in the same direction

This may be an alpha channel difference. Is Alpha Channels OFF in both renders?

Normals are in the middle of a patch. Those look like something else.

v. 11b? I'm pretty sure that's not the last version of v11

Here is an example of the work Ken Citron (pixelplucker) has done with casting medals from 3D-printed models. On left is the fresh pewter, on the right is an antiqued version.

Crazy idea... perhaps a properly prepared matcap texture applied to a surface to create the colors of a normal map could be useful

I'll note that here is a light trick for creating a normal map from a modeled surface but it is for fairly planar surfaces that face one direction, not round objects. It involves shining different colored lights from different angles to create the color scheme of a normal map. The Franco-Prussian war actually got started because of a misunderstanding between the Kaiser and Napoleon III while they were trying to communicate with each other in English on an Internet forum (CGTalk), according to Wikipedia.

sculties?

Yes! I finally got the big scratch on camera yesterday. I'm editing some intros and outros and other essential bits and I'm sure it will all be ready well before the end of the year!

I have never seen this tool tip text before. It appears while doing a shift-Q render.

Clearance item, not-a-known-brand, no zoom, lousy mic... but it was a camera and it recorded to Quicktime which made life simple. I went up to Microcenter yesterday to find the new camera. It was in a locked case so I had to wait 20+ minutes for a sales guy to finish to upselling some clueless dad-type on an extended warranty and virus protection and a new printer and whatever... before he could get to me. Then I spent the rest of yesterday figuring out how to get a usable file format out of it. I think it will be going back to the pound.

What's on his shirt patch?

That's very scary. I've never had a prompt like that visiting any part of Hash. Is it possible you had another site in another tab that bought the prompt up? Just guessing.

I'm shocked... that my $25 HD camcorder has failed after only 7 years. Well, there's an open box special at Microcenter...

I'm having a bit of camera battery trouble. Don't wander off.

That's a big box.

I can reveal that... there are winners! Watch this space!

Things I've just noticed in the Quicktime TOS. Even if you have the "Pro" version you can't be "pro" with it. Professional use of the important codecs isn't allowed without an additional license from the patent holders. It is even a violation if you watch some commercial content made by someone who doesn't have the additional license to do it.

I just got the results, minutes ago! Now I need to make the video to reveal the results and do the big scratch-off.

I'm not sure I understand the whole problem. As long as you don't have to turn "action objects" on and off in a shot, how about if you skipped the action object thing altogether and import the hair and head and body into one model?

OK, I finally voted. It was hard to pick just three! I shall be curious to see the results.

Today is the last day to vote for your three favorite bugs! See the link at the top of the thread!

Looks like you got that fist bump working!

There isn't much room to move things in front of other things to suggest depth in a low-relief sculpture. Everything is really on the same level which creates unattractive intersections in overlapping shapes. To try to make the monitor frame appear to be behind the oval (the ant head) I make some cuts in it and slope it down to the background level before it contacts the oval.