robcat2075

what is that getting that you can't get from rendering in A:M?

Or... it's possible the problem would be solved without side effects. AMD makes fine cards that are widely used by many people. I think it's unlikely that AMD would be a general problem with other software. I think it is more likely this is a specific NVidia-with-A:M problem that you are having. If you ever do break down and try it, make a snapshot of your system before you put the AMD card in, just so it is simple to revert back to your Nvidia state. Denmark is right next to Germany... maybe if you dropped by Steffen's place one day he'd be able to diagnose the situation. Say you just happened to be in the neighborhood hunting butterflies.

I remember my super-8 camera was my first bit of serious dissonance with my dad. $50 for... a movie camera? Oh dear, oh dear oh dear! The problem wasn't that it was a movie camera, it was that I spent money at all. Even my own money that I made on my paper route. And there was more hand wringing every time I spent $3.50 to get some film developed at the Fotomat. Remember the Fotomat? You'd take your film to a girl sitting in a tiny shed in the middle of a parking lot. It sounds crazy to say that. It didn't even appear to have a door on it. I just figured she must be crawling in thru the window every morning.

Cool! That is somewhat more advanced than my first attempt, also with a super 8 camera.

Perhaps he is saying that the CD versions stop with the insert-correct-CD message but he has also bought and installed the license version which runs but very spottily. Integrated graphics are slow and pokey. Game people hate them but most A:M user with laptops get by with them. So we have two different problems. With v15 or earlier it's the CD, with v16 or later it's some sort of graphics problem. Being sure the graphics driver is up to date would be my first gambit. Hostler... to try...If v16 at least starts running, run it and got to Tool>Options>Global and switch the "Real-time Driver" setting to whatever choice it is not set to currently and restart. See if this changes anything. EDIT: I just saw that your license has expired. Ouch. I do certainly wish you had brought this up before that year ran out.

I think that's a fair conclusion. The mystery is why it affects your computer and not other people with similar equipment. What is the particular thing that is different? I still think getting a cheap AMD card and slapping it in there would be a worthwhile experiment.

I've done that when I didn't see the glass door.

Welcome back to A:M! Too bad it's a laptop, where replacing a disk drive is such a hassle. What model is it? maybe there's a cheap drive replacement on ebay. However, I have been able to start a disc-based A:M on a tablet computer from an external drive so it is at least ... possible. When you say v16 etc... won't work on your computer, why is that? Possibly your problem is as simple as changing the drive letters associated with the CD drive? Something like this... How To Change Drive Letters in Windows Vista - PC Support Or... disconnecting the original CD drive to force the computer to look elsewhere?

Pixar Renderman is a powerful shading and rendering environment but it is a very difficult one to use. Anyone thinking of using Renderman should study this manual and ask themselves, do i really want to have to do all that? It would be necessary to digest and understand that manual to get something going with Renderman. Pixar Renderman Manual The great results Pixar gets for their films is the result of hiring extremely capable Renderman gurus and paying them to spend lots of time on small details. Substantial coding skill will be necessary to get the sort of custom results that make people admire Renderman... The shading and texturing environment in A:M is dramatically easier to use and can already do 90% or more of what is typically done with Renderman anyway.

U.S. Leads Multi-National Action Against “Gameover Zeus” Botnet and “Cryptolocker” Ransomware, Charges Botnet Administrator According to this article you have two weeks or less to undo your cryptolocked computer... Global police operation disrupts aggressive Cryptolocker virus

Did I say you had five weeks left last week? I was wrong! Yesterday you had five weeks left to finish your sci-fi image entry! Today you have five weeks minus a few hours.

Currently it takes about 30+ seconds between choosing the bookmark for the forum and when it appears in the browser.

I looked at their site but I can't quite figure out what it is. A hair maker? A renderer?

I notice that a used Surface Pro 1 goes for as little as $99 on ebay if one is not picky about details like a shattered screen and missing essentials like the charger and pen.

I just looked up the original price of my Cintiq 18SX... $3499.95! I'm glad someone else took the initial depreciation on that.

Cute knees!

Maybe that's what the special version of Photoshop they hyped was about? I haven't seen any screen shots so i don't know what was different about it.

I wonder if I could send them my catbox and get a Cintiq back for $300? I think 12" is enough for drawing purposes, the sketch book I carried around for drawing out-and-about is only 8.5 x 5.75... lessee... that would be a diagonal size of about 10" 2160 x 1440 pixels ought to be enough res to use most programs. I'd have to actually look at it to see if that is packing too many pixels in too small a size for the menus to be readable with normal eyes. The big negative for me is that it's more expensive than I can justify for my need for it. But maybe a used one someday...

Five weeks to get your Sci-Fi entry together! And the top ten entries will win something... you could be one of them!

Perhaps a spreadsheet could do the conversion?

I'll try again... I too found a regular Wacom tablet awkward to use. i was doing and re-doing strokes until I got it in the right place. Generally not usable for me. Drawing on the screen is way better. I'll note that I got my 18" Cintiq used, for about $600 on ebay several years ago and the same model goes for much much less now. The stand is handy in that it tilts down to a regular drawing angle but I also need my adjustable chair that boosts me up to a high enough level to feel right with the drawing surface.

Weird... I posted a reply here and what appeared was a copy of Roger's last post.

This is from a production design commentary on one the the Mad Men DVDs, a series I'm only now getting around to watching. Their premise is that the series is set in the early 60's so they want period furniture on their sets. They found these secretarial desks and ordered them in beige because they wanted them to appear not too extravagant. To make the beige panels photograph more interestingly, however, they put a larger than normal desktop on them so it would extend over the sides and cast a shadow (two really ifyou look close), breaking up the color without explicitly adding another color to the object. I also think the overhanging shadow gives a depth cue that is interesting to the eye and adds a 3D-ness to the object that might not be there other wise.

Written and directed by Frank Tashlin, former Disney and WB animator and director!

If someone wants to contribute an example PRJ of something they tried and couldn't get to work, that might be useful for this series to give me something practical to talk about and show. It could be sent to me privately so you don't have to make your PRJ file public.