Roger

Interesting. I've been thinking of exploring something like this for my film. I would probably go with animation on 2s for a smoother effect, though, this looks like you used 3s maybe?

Don't know how I've missed you in the years I've been a forum member, but welcome back!

Version 5 was my first "proper" version of AM after MH3D. Can't find the damn manual for love or money though. I imagine it will turn up when I'm looking for something else.

So what's the earliest version of AM that you'd consider "modern AM"?

I've sent my availability to Rob in a pm, M-W-TR-F I can do 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm CST or I could do basically anytime between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Saturday or 10:00 am and 3:00 pm on Sunday. Since it doesn't sound like mornings are likely to be good on weekdays I've modified my availability a bit.

I agree with you, but if you want all this stuff then you need to find some way to raise $1-$5 million to hand to Hash Inc. so that this stuff can be implemented. I believe that there is only one programmer working on AM at this point, and AM is very much in maintenance mode, although we do get some major new features from time to time. And this is not in any way a criticism of what is going on with AM, but when you only have one guy actively working on it, there are only so many features you can spend time on.

As someone who is running AM with 20 gig of RAM right now, I don't think there is any point at all in going past 32, and the sweet spot is probably between 8-16 gigabytes. Would AM use the extra RAM? Yes, but I think you'd be hard pressed to model a scene that would use that much data. If I recall correctly, the hash patches are much more frugal with resources than an equivalent model made of polygons would be. Rob, how large was the largest scene in TWO? As a feature length project, that might be a good yardstick for people wanting to "stress test" AM.

You could also fake it. Maybe you could use a projection map and/or volumetric lights?

That's disappointing. Part of the reason I bought my 480 was for compute, disappointed now that I can only use it for single-point precision FP. I couldn't afford to spend double on a graphics card for the same functionality.

Bug report?

GPUboss.com shows the fury pretty close to the 480: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-480-vs-Radeon-R9-FURY Fury has better floating point, though. FWIW, I recently upgraded to a 480 and I'm happy with it. Haven't yet used with AM.

We have those in the US too: https://www.humblebundle.com/yogscast-jingle-jam My family also celebrates on Christmas eve. Sometimes we go to another relative's house, other times we stay home and then go to my aunt or cousin's house Christmas day.

I must be missing something incredibly obvious because I haven't figured out any way to make pine branches with the Treez plugin, only deciduous type trees.

I dimly recall that my Win2K machine stopped running the alphas I was getting from Steffan at either v16 or 17. He went to a new compiler and Win 2K was not supported so i needed to build a new machine at that point. By that time everyone was on Win 7. Really? Win 9X/NT/2k support continued through v16? That's a pretty long run.

Ok, I think I have a really good start at a pine branch here, what do you guys think? Now I just need to clone a few hundred of these to build my tree. Too bad I can't turn them into some sort of fractal hair emitter, that might make it quicker.

Well I just checked and I was quite surprised to find out that the Dennis CD is Win 9X/NT/Win 2k kernel. What version was the switchover to XP?

Well I'm going to do both the twinkling lights and the old-school, I think. I've been playing around with generating a pine tree via the Treez plugin and so far I'm not happy with the results, I don't really think it is meant for conifers/evergreens, and due to the nature of the branch and trunk style I think it may be better to just model the trunk and branches separately.

I don't really need to do either. I haven't decided if I want to go old-school lights or if I want to do the mini lights. Maybe I will do a mix, or try both and see which I like better.

So I've got a good start here on an old-school Christmas light. Not sure if I should add a point source light to it in addition to the glow material.

What year was version 10.5? Would it run under 95/98/NT? The oldest version of AM I have that is still marked as running on those is AM 99. I have the CD with Dennis the Wolf on it, that is the year 2000 CD which I thought was v12? I'm pretty sure that one had some major updates in terms of functionality. The reason I'm looking for something that will run under Win 9X/NT 4.0 (or worst case, Win 2k) is I need something that is fairly low resource, for purposes of my experiment.

Well, in theory, it should be possible to emulate an x86 system on another platform, so I was thinking of emulating a 500mhz pentium and attendant hardware on an android tablet, just to see if I can. If that does not work, then I'd like to try running an older version of AM on a lower-end modern Windows tablet (say some sort of Intel Atom based device).

Which version of AM was the 1999 year version? Was that 8 or 9? I remember 9 as being the buggy version, and the 1999 year version is the most recent one I have that still supported Win 95/98 and NT. I've been planning on experimenting with an older version of AM in a vm on Linux and Android and I thought those versions might be lightweight enough to manage it, but still have a more modern feature set (in terms of having unibody models, hooks, 5 point patches, etc).

Weekdays are generally bad for me. Saturday or Sunday is pretty much it. Unless we did a Friday morning around 10:00 am or 11:00 am cst.

I'm up for this, count me in.

The Sapphire R480 looks to be pretty competitive with the Geforce 1060. Only mark against it is it runs at about 150 watts full tilt compared to 75 for the Nvidia card. Going to be hard waiting for Black Friday / Cyber Monday this year.