Roger
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Ok, I think I know what is happening now.
The center panel is closed off properly, but none of the other facets of the panel are. Since none if the other facets are closed off properly, the only one that is rendering is the main one, thus hiding the others. I'm pretty sure that is what is happening, anyway.
Edit: Well, I think some variation on the above must be what is happening, but what I've tried to fix it isn't working, so I'm going to step away for a bit and give it another whack a bit later.
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I'm sure it has, and I'm just rusty as heck and forgot.
However, made the correction and still have a solid surface with no indent. You mind if I shoot you an email?
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Ok, after seeing your example I see how to fix it and was able to close off the inner panel. I just wonder why I didn't run into this before. Maybe I just never tried to create this type of depression before now, or forgot to create the interior patches in order for it to close properly. I guess this underscores the need to get back to daily Hashing.
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I guess they must be, but how could they not be on the same spline? It seems like they would more or less have to be on the same spline.
I see why it would fill with the 3 point patches, but it seems as if it should also fill the other way. But I realize that may just be the way it works.
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Here is an example of what I'm trying to do. Although now I don't know why the inner panel doesn't render, since 4 points should be a valid patch.
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So I managed to settle on a project for the sci-fi contest, and if I finish it early I may do another entry. It seemed like a relatively straight-forward bit of modeling, but something isn't working quite right.
It could be that I haven't sat down in front of AM for so long that I'm missing something obvious.
Here is my problem: I've got one rectangular surface with another rectangle inside, and I'm trying to push the inner rectangle inwards to create a depression or indent in this robot (I would post an image but it will be immediately obvious what my project is, I think).
I thought I knew what the problem was, I didn't have any splines connecting the 2 areas, so I put 2 splines per side and then pushed the inner panel inwards. While it looks right in wireframe mode it doesn't look right in shaded mode, there does not appear to be any indent at all.
What do you figure I did wrong?
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I think that it isn't so much fat that's bad for you as it is sugar and carbs. When I was really watching my carb intake it was a lot easier for me to keep the weight off. Unfortunately it is hard to stay away from carbs forever.
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When young ( a looooooonnnnggggg time ago ), I used to say you knew you were getting old when your age exceeded your waist line in inches.
Now I'm trying not to catch up with the age around the middle !
regards
simon
I'd be happy to get back to a 34 or 36 inch waist. I don't see that happening easily though. I'll settle for maintaining where I'm at.
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I like the ad copy... "After 35, when eating habits may be restricted, it's the easy way to supplement the diet."
I wonder what "eating habits may be restricted" was supposed to mean?
And do you suppose the "regular" version is there just to make the "fortified" version look more powerful?
Maybe it means you're not supposed to eat red meat, so it is to supplement your iron intake?
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you need the t shirt I got when I turned 40 it read
So
Happy
I
Turned
40
I'll be 66 in June
Yeah, that's exactly about how I feel about it, too. I don't too terribly different than I felt at 30. Maybe a little wiser, hopefully.
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Stumbled across this on the web today. Apparently this is from an early 60s Montgomery Ward catalog.
I'm a little bummed out about turning 40 this coming fall (I realize it is better than the alternative). I guess this makes me feel better?
I think someone once said (paraphrasing heavily as I don't remember the exact quote)
"old is about 25 years older than whatever your current age is".
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The advantage of the new stuff occurs to me when I think about this...
My current PC with a Q6600 cpu does the teapot benchmark in about 5 minutes, but the people putting together the machines with the i7-4770 are doing it in only 1.5 minutes.
One core on their machine does almost as much as the four cores on mine can do... and they have four cores too! It wouldn't make sense for me to build another machine like I have now for render farm purposes even if it was half the price of the newer machine.
Wow that is just nuts, that a single core is almost 4x as fast. I didn't think there was that big a difference in instructions-per-clock between the Q6600 and the i7 series. I can only imagine the people that bought those shiny new Macs with the FireGL Pro GPUs are champing at the bit waiting for AM to support OpenCL, that would really speed things up.
I guess I am not in any huge hurry to build the farm, at this point I don't know that I really need to unless I start rendering to 2k or 4k or use some really time-consuming render technique.
When I am ready to build it I guess I can get by with Win 7 licenses, it probably doesn't make sense trying to be too cheap. As Robcat pointed out, you end up paying in other ways.
Fuchur where are you getting Win 7 licenses that cheap? I'm not sure what the conversion rate is but I think that works out to like $35-$45 US? That seems to be too good to be true. The cheapest I have found so far online for Win 7 licenses is $75 US (I only really need 3 licenes tops, right now, and ideally they should be Win 7 Pro licenses so they support two sockets).
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That seems like an awfully specific estimate. Did I miss the joke?
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I stand corrected. Apparently XP licenses are cheaper than I thought, found several for $10 or less. How much longer is AM supposed to keep working on it?
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Fun fact: the packaging for Windows NT had to include a notice that "NT" was a trademark of Northern Telecom, the company I worked for at the time.
One logistical problem with Windows NT might be that although it can use a multi-CPU computer there's no version of NetRender that would run on it that can make use of more than one CPU on a machine.
I think you're right, although I doubt it would work with anything more than 2 cpus or 2 cores. I'm sure hyperthreading would confuse it.
The netrender thing would be a problem. I'm just looking for a low dollar, low resource resource for Windows licenses. XP is a bit too pricey on E-bay.
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So for all of you that wanted a Neolucida but missed your chance to get it on the Kickstarter, here it is:
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/Produ...p;storeId=10001
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Does anyone know what the last version of AM that ran on NT 4.0 was?
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Where are they, exactly? I've got friends and family in CA.
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I wasn't aware that was a requirement, that AM had to run in basic mode.
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Is there a reason AM would be doing this? I think that might be why I'm having display problems.
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Well I wanted to do a Breaking Bad tribute piece. While it is fiction and has science, I'm not sure it would be considered sci-fi (unless I have Walt cooking his meth on a UFO).
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I've got some old 3d magazines, I thought I would post some ads for everyone to have a chuckle at. Maybe after work tonight.
I'm also refurbing a 286 class system (basically my first PC). I haven't figured out just yet what I plan on doing with it. Maybe I'll do a "Money for Nothing" remake on period hardware.
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So does "mad science" count or is it more spaceships, robots, aliens
and such?
I'm interested in doing an entry but need to pick something g I can
pull off with the new deadline.
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I'm a little leery of putting my data out in the cloud.
Put it out there. You never know, maybe someone will animate your movies for you.
Yes, technology is scary but resisting it is worse; frustratingly inconvenient.
Ah, but what would the point of that be?
It is slow going right now but I'm trying to change that.
MS Surface Pro 3
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I'm very tempted to get the Surface 3 as I would love a cintiq but can't really afford one (unless I look for used ones, then I might swing it).
I've also been looking at the Thinkpad Tablet 10, which should be coming out soon. It has one of the newer Atom chips and is supposedly on par with a lower speed Core i3. It comes with a Wacom digitizer.
However, these are very much "wants" and not "needs". I have a Wacom Intuos currently but I have problems with hand/eye coordination given I'm not looking at what I'm drawing. I'm just leery of getting another gadget that will have a limited lifespan.
So maybe I'm better off sticking with what I've got than trying to find a budget solution and ending up with something that isn't all that great.
I don't do a ton of digital painting/photoshoppery and would like to do more, but can't quite get used to the disconnect between drawing on the tablet and seeing the output on a monitor.