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  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032
    edited October 2019
    RAMWolff said:

    Saw and bought right away.  Need this for content creation.  By the by... you ever loaded and looked at this for Dusk and Dawn from Hivewire?  

    I haven't, but I'm guessing the V3 and M3 sets would work with a few tweaks, given that Chris built them all?

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  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032
    barbult said:
    Canary3d said:

    People shut down their computers? surprise laugh

    It's only an OPTION, you don't have to. cheeky 

    I admit, I do turn off my son's computer after he goes to sleep at night...gotta save electricity for MY computers! 

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,608
    Canary3d said:

    People shut down their computers? surprise laugh

    With a 1000 watt power supply I have to. I also bought your product and so far so good. If I have any suggestions I will post here.

  • rrwardrrward Posts: 556
    barbult said:

    I've found it kind of fun to play with the hand cameras on a posed character. I get some interesting camera angles that I never would have thought to try.

     

    Nice... angle on that render.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249
    rrward said:
    barbult said:

    I've found it kind of fun to play with the hand cameras on a posed character. I get some interesting camera angles that I never would have thought to try.

     

    Nice... angle on that render.

    Doesn't violate TOS yes wink All's good. try it. you might get some interesting surprises.

  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744
    Silver Dolphin said:
    Canary3d said:

    People shut down their computers? surprise laugh

    With a 1000 watt power supply I have to. I also bought your product and so far so good. If I have any suggestions I will post here.

    Mine's 1200; so I know what you mean. :) I can see a difference in my electric bill if I don't shut it down very much within a given month. Also, I'll say that with my SSD system drive now, I can do a cold boot to having the desktop available in under 20 seconds; so it isn't that painful to shut it down either.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    Canary3d said:
    RAMWolff said:

    Saw and bought right away.  Need this for content creation.  By the by... you ever loaded and looked at this for Dusk and Dawn from Hivewire?  

    I haven't, but I'm guessing the V3 and M3 sets would work with a few tweaks, given that Chris built them all?

    yes

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,891
    JonnyRay said:
    Silver Dolphin said:
    Canary3d said:

    People shut down their computers? surprise laugh

    With a 1000 watt power supply I have to. I also bought your product and so far so good. If I have any suggestions I will post here.

    Mine's 1200; so I know what you mean. :) I can see a difference in my electric bill if I don't shut it down very much within a given month. Also, I'll say that with my SSD system drive now, I can do a cold boot to having the desktop available in under 20 seconds; so it isn't that painful to shut it down either.

    Does putting it to sleep help? I usually just put it to sleep...

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,608
    JonnyRay said:
    Silver Dolphin said:
    Canary3d said:

    People shut down their computers? surprise laugh

    With a 1000 watt power supply I have to. I also bought your product and so far so good. If I have any suggestions I will post here.

    Mine's 1200; so I know what you mean. :) I can see a difference in my electric bill if I don't shut it down very much within a given month. Also, I'll say that with my SSD system drive now, I can do a cold boot to having the desktop available in under 20 seconds; so it isn't that painful to shut it down either.

    Yeah, I upgraded myself to a 1tb ssd for my windows 7 pro system what a pain. 7 is not like win 10 you have to set it up right or you shorten the life of your ssd. I setup programs and OS on the ssd and have a large spinning HD for my content. Windows 7 pro works well on a ssd as a fresh install with a ssd setup, I am sticking to 7pro till windows fixes the secondary video vram useage issue on windows 10. MS could fix this issue but they don't care. It is such a small percentage of the user market that is affected by this they may never fix this.

  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032

    I have an SSD for my operating system but I hate waiting for all my apps to open - particularly photoshop, which is *such* a slowpoke.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249

    I'm trying out the Distance cameras. They are really helpful! Some sets load with the camera Scene Set visibility Off and other load with camera Scene Set visibility On. Is there any significance to that setting? It doesn't seem to affect the cameras themselves.

     

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  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032

    The ones where it is set to invisible were created before I realized that nulls are always invisible. So the later sets are left at the default setting. The cameras are all visible - this is just the null parent objects.  

    I initially had sets for 1k, 5k, and 10k; then I used them for a while and decided to add the 2k, 3k, and 20k sets. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249
    Canary3d said:

    The ones where it is set to invisible were created before I realized that nulls are always invisible. So the later sets are left at the default setting. The cameras are all visible - this is just the null parent objects.  

    I initially had sets for 1k, 5k, and 10k; then I used them for a while and decided to add the 2k, 3k, and 20k sets. 

    OK, thanks. I'll just ignore that then. I'm really enjoying those distance camera. Here are two renders I did today where they gave me a great veiw to render an interesting image from. These are 3K High and Low NW.

     

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  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032

    Wow, cool! That Collective3d set looks really nice and I love your lighting & angles here. I'm glad you like the scene cameras - I'm definitely using my heap of environment and architecture sets a lot more now that I can actually get a decent view of them :) 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249
    Canary3d said:

    Wow, cool! That Collective3d set looks really nice and I love your lighting & angles here. I'm glad you like the scene cameras - I'm definitely using my heap of environment and architecture sets a lot more now that I can actually get a decent view of them :) 

    That Collective3D set is in today's $1.99 PC+ for a day. Grab it if you don't have it. I am very pleased with it.

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,608
    Canary3d said:

    I have an SSD for my operating system but I hate waiting for all my apps to open - particularly photoshop, which is *such* a slowpoke.

    I installed both the OS and the programs onto the ssd but everything else went to the 4 tb seagate. Something I learned about ssd's is you can not fill the ssd past the halfway point so it will last longer otherwise it will die sooner rather than later. Something about not writing too many times to a small area wearing out that ssd faster.

  • shootybearshootybear Posts: 139
    Silver Dolphin said:

    I installed both the OS and the programs onto the ssd but everything else went to the 4 tb seagate. Something I learned about ssd's is you can not fill the ssd past the halfway point so it will last longer otherwise it will die sooner rather than later. Something about not writing too many times to a small area wearing out that ssd faster.

    That advice depends on your usage scenario. For the scenario where you use and SSD to store your DAZ content, it doesn't matter. Because you're going to write the data once and then it will sit, largely unchanged until the drive dies from other causes. For a drive like this I'd run it at 100% utilization (i.e. don't reserve any extra blocks). BUT NOT 100% FULL by the way - Windows doesn't like drives that are 100% filled up.

    For more info (that is reasonably accessible depending on technical knowledge) see: https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/ssd-lifespan.html

  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032
    edited October 2019

    Hi folks - I'm going to ask that we not drift completely into a general PC setup discussion in this thread, ok? I know I'm guilty of it too, upthread, but it's better(for me!) to keep s on topic, since I am watching the thread for any product questions or issues. There's a "what is your rig" thread out there, I think.  Thanks!

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249

    I'm finding these camera excellent for use with UltraScenery. They provide interesting render angles and good top down "see it all" cameras. If your scenery has real high elevation, you may need to move the cameras up for a good view. Since they load in in a group, it is easy to grab the group and move the whole set of cameras up.

    Currently I'm using the "CCam Scene Set - Distance 1K" camera group with the Woodland 2 ecology and getting very nice results.

     

  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032

    Cool, glad to hear it! Howie's sets are always terrific.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,249

    Thank you for the update to support Genesis 9.

  • mdingmding Posts: 1,243

    barbult said:

    Thank you for the update to support Genesis 9.

    +1 

  • Canary3dCanary3d Posts: 2,032

    You're welcome! I added eyeball cams for Genesis 9, too. They're handy if you're making a custom G9 shape and want to check the fit of the Eye and Tear wearables.

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