Shelton

Well the restoration company has started moving our furniture back today. I will hopefully be up and running before the weekend is out or for sure by Monday. I have missed working on Cupids Sick Day and have used this break to refocus and get some final concepts completed. Steve

Thanks David for all the hard work. Looking forward to starting again. Steve

Happy birthday Steve Steve

Gene I am still out of my house should be back a week from Monday. I just wanted to check in on the status of this project? Steve

Excellent! Steve

Stefen This is wonderful news. I will update / upgrade willingly. Steve

Is it possible for a computer to have more than one IP address? If it had more than one network adapter? I asked Jason this and his answer not at this time. Steve

Net render is a client server based piece of software. The server sets up the project file to be rendered. It allows you to change all the settings and render output from the netserver. You then save those settings as a file to be rendered. Each one of the computers that will be rendering the animation will be the client and they will run netslave and rendermessenger. They are connected to the server via these pieces of software. From that point you drop a net salve into the rendering project from the pool of computers listed in netserver. Each frame is rendered my a individual computer in the pool. Once it completes the frame it goes to the net server and asked for the next frame to be rendered. This continues until the animation is completed. I still get a kick out of all the machines rendering at the same time. I would like it to upgraded to take advantage of multi core systems, but it would take a rewrite to recognize each core of the slave machine. Right now net salve recognizes the ip address of the slave machine as only one cpu. Anyway it is a cool piece of software! Steve

David Very nice! I like elephant dream and i dont think this should cause any issues. Steve

Thank you Robert!!!! Steve

My 7 year old has been after me for a year to do the mini figs. He will love this. Great work Stian Steve

I have also found hitting the space bar will refresh. Thanks Nancy I have not tried that! Steve

From what I understand Web render is dead. After talking with Jason they have continued to support Netrender since schools have needed this piece of software. I am glad since I will use it help render my projects. I have offered to help others as well. I am currently rebuilding my network after a water loss at my home. The new server is in and Jason advised me a new version of netrender will be available shortly. Once I have that I will rebuild netrender again. Steve

Mark What has always impressed me about this shot is the layout of the tress which causes your focus to run down the river. I love that tree on the left and the set of branches at the top of the tree. We had a tree out side my window growing up and it reminds me so much of that tree. It looks so real Steve

As a owner of netrender it does what it suppose to do. Robert you are correct it is a network thing. Each IP address is tied to the machine and one version of renderslave on that machine. The program is awesome in what it does. Jason you are correct there are some enhancements that can be made. The problem is the cost and development of those enhancements. I wish I could help in that area but unfortunately I am not a programmer. In my opinion, which does not mean a whole lot, netrender is a wonderful addtion to AM. I have found myself watching it running while an animation is being rendered. On a recent rendering I did for a forum member I had 15 machines running and I was glued to the screen watching which machine performed the best. Netrender was flawless. I would love to see netrender take advantage of multicore systems. But I would love AM to do that too. Anyway I can say that netrender for me was a good investment and I will continue to update it as long as they have it available. Steve

Hi Nancy It is the upper piece of the glasses. The light is up and in front of him and this is casting the shadow across his eyes. Steve

thanks Yes sir. Just dropped in a emitter and it curled pretty well by itself because the way the eyelids turned. Steve

I have not received my workstation yet but used AM on another machine. Here is shot of the eyelashes. Steve

I love the new render. I am having to do some of my web browsing via my Palm Pre as my machines are down. But this looks great. Keep bringing it. Steve

Well after a major loss here at our house (water damage) I hope to be back up and running shortly. I lost the server and my modeling machine. I had backups of almost all the data files. The main problem I have, is I lost all my netrender capabilities. Once I get my server in and the workstation I should be back in business. Some really nice stuff has past through the forum over the last couple of weeks. Steve

Thanks guys and it has been a good day. Steve

Very cool David! Steve

Happy Birthday Jason Hampton! We share the same day. Steve

Beautiful! Steve

Hi Steve, glad to see you back. Was it a vacation? Thailand? Anyway good start! Steve