The Counting Eurohippuses Doesn't Help Me Sleep Complaint Thread
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I enjoy doing that with all sorts of critters and objects. It's fun =3
I don't see why not. I played with V5 and managed to gummy green her head with the SSS shaders! (bug eyed face) Creepy as heck...
I'll have to play more with it this weekend... (chortle)
Oh sure. It's just a matter of how many years you want to spend rendering it. :D
...I turned it into amber and it didn't take too much longer.
This took about 18 min. It's 600x600, and was rendered with a raytrace depth of 8 and a shading rate of 0.5 on my Intel quad core. It's a purely default shader - in my testing and fiddling it appears that refraction + raytraced reflection = decent water, so SSS or other fancy shaders are pretty unnecessary for this specific thing (although you definitely want them for other stuff, I LOVE them on skin). I turned off the mouth, teeth, tongue, eyelashes and sclera. Next time I would turn off the nostrils too, I think.
Like I said, it's resource-expensive. :D But I was excited to be able to get this result in 3Delight without special shaders, Luxus, or Reality.
Well, I do have the TV and phone, too. But I was paying the same price for my sister's Internet, and she only had the very basic TV service, not many channels at all. I think it's called Lifeline service.
I don't think Comcast does contract periods, but I'm not sure. But that's not always a bad thing. I've been with Comcast for a lot of years. Their customer service has only gotten better. Years ago, when I complained about dropouts of Internet service, or times when it got painfully slow, they'd tell me it's my fault, and I had to go through this bull of shutting down my computer, unplugging the router, then the cable modem, then turning it all back on in the reverse order. Then if it didn't work, maybe they'd send someone out. But in the past few years they've gotten much better. A few years back, I called about slowness. The rep stayed on the phone with me and sent a ping to my modem. She said she noticed it was slowing down a lot as it approached my modem. She sent someone out the next day, the guy checked some things, then went to his truck, dropped a new cable from the pole to my house, and gave me new equipment. It's bee great ever since. And more recently I called about my rates and got a reduction, more channels and was put on the highest speed tier of Internet service. So I'm pretty happy with them. I met someone who had gotten Verizon FIOS and he said it was not ready for prime time, there were all kinds of problems with it. And a friend of mine has it and I saw his HD TV and it didn't look all that great compared to my other friend's HD with Comcast, and they were about the same size set and both were the same brand. So I'm sticking with Comcast for the foreseeable future.
Dana
...the thing is I don't even have a telly, and not about to go out and buy one because after all these years, I really don't miss it anymore. Besides, I find it more of a distraction as it demands you pay attention to it, unlike radio or a CD which I can listnen to while doing other things. All the basic channels are pretty much crap, the networks rife with stupid reality shows and vapid sitcoms, 20+ public access channels, glorified infomercial channels, and even such networks like History and Discovery have gone the sensationalistic rather than educational route.
As to the contract, because I am out of work for the time being finances are slim and If I have to cut something out for a month or so it will be services like internet. If I'm stuck in a contract, I have to pay extra to get out of it. As I mentioned, with my current plan I just don't get any service until I go in and pay up for another month. No penalties, no restart/hook up fees.
Ssssssssssslllllllllliiiiiiiiccccccccccckkkkkk! (big grin)
Hot and humid. Distant thunders getting closer. Watching little pop-up storms get larger on radar as they move down out of the northwest toward me. Was mowing the yard but it looks like I'm done for the day, Eep! D^8
Kick back and have a nice cold beverage (beer)
I really miss thunder. I used to love the thunder storms in Arizona. Washington state seems to have sound proof padding in the atmosphere or something.
I love sitting and watching thunder storms. The worse the better.
Ooh ooooh! My turn, my turn! :D
Also using default Specular material (That's the transparent/reflective one in Indigo) and hidden the mouth stuff and eyelashes :3
Using Michael 3 and rendered for 17 minutes
Yep. Is no mo' mow today. Thunder has stopped; a typical summer T-Storm in East Tennessee. Heavy rainy rain for now.
Would have to be O'Doul's™ for me. Alcohol and my diabetes don't get along. Is OK though. I quit drinking long before I knew I was diabetic.
Enjoying an ice-cold caffeine-free Diet Coke™. Ahhh, yummy yummy Aspartame™ and caramel-colored carbonated water. : )
Product placement: not just for Movies and TV anymore. : D
I really miss thunder. I used to love the thunder storms in Arizona. Washington state seems to have sound proof padding in the atmosphere or something.
You are welcome to steal my thunder. : )
"Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou" in search of the elusive Burger With Cheese™.
C U L8R.
Today has been stupid insane at work, and soon I'll get to sit in 97f temp at the bus stop. (ahhh face)
Thankfully my diabetes is mild enough that I can get away with a few beers if dinner is almost 100% protein. I've monitored my blood glucose and it stays under 180 even when I'm getting seriously blasted (heh).. I just need to NOT take my pill as metformin and alcohol are a very very bad mix. No booze for 8 hours after I take my pill, the doc said!
There's a weird effect - if you drink enough, your blood sugar DROPS! (shock face) I read about it online, asked my doc and he said yeah - it happens. Soooooo, being willing to experiment on myself in the name of SCIENCE, one Saturday night I started in and took my blood glucose every hour.. and despite eating and drinking beer.. indeed, the sucker dropped from about 192 down to 125 without meds! (shock face) Of course, you have to get pretty buzzed and if done daily you'd croak from liver damage, but it's an interesting data point.
I'm going to go home, whip up some smoked sausage and cheese (about 4g of carb) and have a few cold ones! (cool smile) I'll drain one on everyone's honor! Maybe I'll try a glass demon render too!
A burger with cheeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! *running in circles yelling wheeee emote*
Render of glass half full, or half empty? ;-)
Render of glass half full, or half empty? ;-)
It's a demon, it's gonna be full.. just not saying of what! (evil evil grin)
It's a demon, it's gonna be full.. just not saying of what! (evil evil grin)
Ohhh... thought you were going to drink it while it was rendering... (^_-)
It's a demon, it's gonna be full.. just not saying of what! (evil evil grin)
Ohhh... thought you were going to drink it while it was rendering... (^_-)
It's hard to get beer into a 3D glass, especially since DS doesn't have fluid sim... (hee hee hee)
I will be drinking a physical one whilst rendering, though! (smirk)
AGAGAGAGAHAHAH!
I went to bed, played for a while, then got ready to fall asleep, and my nose begins gushing blood like Niagara Falls. (It was already doing that earlier during daylight hours.)
This sucks!
Considering how I had migraine yesterday, it is most likely an issue with blood pressure and hot weather combo... but it sucks!
Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwww poor you! *hugs* hope things clear up ASAP!
I have hankies up my nose and I'm vegetating upright. I wanted to sleeeeeeeeeeep. :(
Perhaps refrain from inhaling squirrels next time? :p
20 minutes and I can go shopping. (blank face)
Sausage, beer, cheese, and maybe some microwavable pre-cooked chicken. Then home to sip 'n render! (grin)
Blech uber-hot outside. No fun going home today.
Perhaps refrain from inhaling squirrels next time? :p
I think a squirrel would be nicely absorbant.
...heh.
...ugh, not good.
Used to get them regularly back in college. Discovered it was due to prolonged contact with turpentine fumes as I spent a lot of time in the painting studio. Turpentine is not only a paint remover, but also used as part of the medium for oil painting, particularly when building colours using thin layers of paint like the Renaissance masters would do. Mixing a bit into the paint would speed up the drying process so the next layer could be put down without pulling up or mixing into the previous one. Very tedious process but one that would give such lovely depth and that characteristic glow to skin tones.
...ugh, not good.
Used to get them regularly back in college. Discovered it was due to prolonged contact with turpentine fumes as I spent a lot of time in the painting studio. Turpentine is not only a paint remover, but also used as part of the medium for oil painting, particularly when building colours using thin layers of paint like the Renaissance masters would do. Mixing a bit into the paint would speed up the drying process so the next layer could be put down without pulling up or mixing into the previous one. Very tedious process but one that would give such lovely depth and that characteristic glow to skin tones.
A bit like AoA's SSS shaders? ;-)
I think a squirrel would be nicely absorbant.
But somewhat bitey. Tissue is probably safer.