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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    the smileys aren't working for me all a sudden

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. Warm today under one of those indecisive grey skies that can't decide whether it is bright or dark, so that we are by turn luminous and gloomy :)

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,975
    edited December 1969

    Murgh. Woke up at 4 am to save sumo wrasslin' stream for SO who is not at home.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Spyro said:
    Complaint/question: I have spent some time at work viewing the threads (when i can) on the iphone...I noticed I see some people 'have avatars', but on the computer they dont. Why is that?

    Safari works fine for me, 5.5 and 6.0 :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    Murgh. Woke up at 4 am to save sumo wrasslin' stream for SO who is not at home.

    *waves* Hoping your migraine has gone away by now :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...well tomorrow I get to check out what may quite possibly be my new home. A large Studio flat (about as big as the 1BR I'm in now) in the west end of City Center with all hardwood floors and everything I need in walking distance including a bus stop on a line that will take me to where I work not more than a block away.

    ...and better yet,

    It is only one bus instead of two or three to get out to where I work saving more than thirty minutes each way on the commute

    It also means I can leave later in the morning as I don't have to try and dodge being stuck on crowded buses and standing since I am travelling in the opposite direction everyone else is during the AM/PM commute and I don't have to go into the heart of the city centre to change buses anymore.

    Now if it only made the fare cost less. but our transit commission went to a system wide single flat fare (with an increase in price of course) and eliminated zones beginning this month. So, if you ride a just a few blocks or across the metro area you pay the same exorbitant high fare.

    Still, the time savings and relatively hassle free commute will be very welcome.


    Also saw there is a flat available in a really sweet little old building not more than four doors down from where I live now. Have to give them a call as well. That would make the move nice & simple.

    -----


    ...OK, that was the good news. Now time for a complaint, after all this is what this thread is about.

    ...finally made it to the weekend after one of the "longest" (wasn't it only four days?) hell on earth work week in some time. Ended up working long days pretty much because having to close the accounts for both my primary client and all the digital print customers put mo so far behind, On Tuesday I still had a couple weeks worth of daily totals and data that hadn't even been entered yet. On top of that our intranet is running real slow at times, usually ehen I need to get a lot fo stuff done. On top of that, Office 2010 sucks asteroids. All my hot keys are messed up. the applications take way too much time to open, the layout is about as cumbersome as Daz Studio 4 (but with no retro UI skin to overlay) and they act stupidly. For one, there is no more nice simple menu bar. The new header tool bars are laid out terribly and require more clicking to do what you need to do. Option that were in one menu have been moved to others or even hidden often requiring a lot of searching and extra clicking to find them. not that may not seem like much by itself, but when you have to do it multiple times throughout the workday it begins to have an impact on one's productivity.

    For example, if you are on one of the activity tool bars and use the scroll wheel, it moves your position . O nthe Menu bar all it did was open the associated "drop down" and change your selection within it. When I would accidentally hit one of my original hot keys out of habit, it often does something completely different (and often annoying) than it used to.

    To say print a document in Word 2K, I would normally go " F, P and [enter]" Now I have to go " F, P, and 'P". This really messes me up in other non MS apps (Like Acrobat or our "homegrown" intranet DB) where " P" changes what printer I'm on instead of printing the document. ARRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!! Why couldn't Micorsquish leave what wasn't broken alone?

    Yeah I know there's the mouse, but I'm old school from the days where hotkeys were your friends and a mouse was household pest. Actually, when using a text or data "rich" application in a busy work environment like I am, hotkeys are far more "ergonomic" (to use a popular industry buzzword) as you don''t have to remove your hands from the keyboard, grab a pointing device, move click (double click triple click etc.) and then go back to the keyboard. Co workers would be amazed how quickly I could change functions screens and swap between different windows often asking me to slow down so they could see what I was doing.

    I have pleaded time and time again with my IT tech to reinstall Office 2K but as MS has changed the file types for their Office apps which now have an "x" at the end (like .docx for Word files and .xlsx for Excel) I need the documents I create to be "compatible" with the rest of the workplace's (this also makes me apprehensive of what may happen to older content with Daz going to the .duf from the .daz format in the next upgrade (4.6) of Studio but that's a whole 'nother room of angry starved wolverines to enter).

    I dread when finally gets around to "upgrading" my workstation from XP Pro32 to WIn7 (personally, for what I am do I see no need to work with a bloated OS that introduces bells & whistles I don't need or care to use).

    This and the system issues have made more work out of what were fairly simple routine tasks because they seriously interfere with what was once a very efficient workflow that I had established over the years. I wonder if anyone in the industry remembers what the "KISS" factor is?

    ...and "yay" a few non complaints.

    Yesterday had a coworker give me a "half month" bus pass he doesn't need anymore. Get to ride the bus for free for through next week Saturday (saving me 35$).

    Summer isn't ready to leave quite yet, actually reached the low 90s the last couple days and we have a beautiful Saturday on tap.

    Going to start setting up the new system tonight. Almost wish I had held out & got XP Pro64 instead as I hear a lot of things about SIn7...er I mean Win7 (typo or truism? ;-)) that sound more complicated than I care to deal with (like all this administrator sign in jazz and having to set up a log in to start up every time even though I'm the only one using the system - isn't that what IT techs are for?).


    Love those lingering summers. Today our weather can't decide what season it is. Gratz on the new apartment, been living inner city most of my life and loving it (but we are between two nice rivers). SIMPLE is a word languishing decapitalised amongst all the post modern cyber confusions :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    And the two renders combined~
    Some postwork done also. Brightened up the grey Wireframe render with a simple curves adjustment, then flattened that. I set that to multiply, then right above the Indigo Clay render but below the grey wireframe I added another more subtle Curve adjustment layer to compensate for the grey color being multiplied since I really only wanted the lines. One more curves layer was added, slightly boosting overall brightness, decreasing the reds slightly, and increasing the blue. :3
    .
    Rezca is a happy dwaggy now, since I always loved renders like these~

    Yes it does look good. Lightwave gives you a preview mode something like that :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    My computer was acting up earlier today but seems to be working fine today.

    Oops I mean it is seems to be working fine right now.

    *waves* :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    the smileys aren't working for me all a sudden

    Here are a few extra then, for when forum starts smiling again: :lol::coolsmile: :smirk:

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,975
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Skiriki said:
    Murgh. Woke up at 4 am to save sumo wrasslin' stream for SO who is not at home.

    *waves* Hoping your migraine has gone away by now :)

    It was around when I went to bed and took some time for the pain meds to kick in. Imma gonna go back to bed and sleep some more.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    the smileys aren't working for me all a sudden

    Here are a few extra then, for when forum starts smiling again: :lol::coolsmile: :smirk:

    :roll: still no smileys

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    it was a couple hours work to make that door open in the back. had to split the prop into two pieces. kept missing polys, several redoos

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Hey teh cuties :) I'm feeling a little like minced meat today - haz 184 new emails and every one seems to want me to do something. Ah well, that's what the mark all as read button is for, I guess :)

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Heehee I've seen several splash imaged for when FA was down, but this is the best yet.
    It's like they're saying: "Yes, we're frustrated too. (After all WE are the ones who have to fix the mess.)"

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Heh cute furry graphic :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Bought stuff :)

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Motion Blur? :D

  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    Lookin good :)

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Murr my raptor in the hallway is looking pretty good too :3
    It should be ready for posting sometime tomorrow, possibly evening XD

  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    Cant wait Rezca!! Did you get the slime Spec/Gloss to work?

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Spyro said:
    Cant wait Rezca!! Did you get the slime Spec/Gloss to work?

    At a default exponent of 1,000? Made it look like plastic XD Very glossy plastic :3
    .
    Anyway, is the Maxwell version of the scene that's rendering right now. I finally got the lighting to be something other than dark (converting the materials helped), but had to add an emitter to the scene for a real effect to be seen~

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Hmm... I don't really like the way he looks with the current speculars I've tried. I think he needs a customized map for a decent looking one.
    .
    .
    Anyways, 55 minutes at it's very grainy. And kinda dark. But from the looks of the preview in the corner, when it's looking pretty good :3
    It says it's at a SL of 8 right now. I don't know what that stands for, (Shading level?) but the higher it is, the brigher and clearer it is. It doesn't get nice and pretty until 18 ~ 24. :<</p>

  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    I'll be waiting :cheese:

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited September 2012

    Spyro said:
    I'll be waiting :cheese:

    Murr... Well here's the current progress. Don't mind the stuff in the MultiLight section - the two "TV Screen" items were emitters I had to help light the scene - I just never bothered to rename the preset I based them off of afterwards XD
    .
    .
    Hmm... The Indigo scene is a lot more saturated and bright. And I only needed a single sunlight D:
    Well I did do some postwork on it, but still :3
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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    From what I can see, it's lookin GREAT!

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Motion Blur? :D

    Yes, quick and fun :)

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    422MB file. 12kb per second (Sometimes I get lucky and it d/l's at 30kb). It's been going since 10:20PM >_>
    .
    *Sigh* I hate it when it does this.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    The bump map on this raptor is terrible. At 12% it's already seeming too strong XD

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited September 2012

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/03/post-production-trends-in-3d-visualizations/
    http://www.scorpiocgi.co.uk/1010
    .
    :)
    I found both of these to be interesting :D
    When I get to post-working my images, I just sit there with a blank stare on my face thinking "Durrr.... Whaddo I do?" XD

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,609
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Heehee I've seen several splash imaged for when FA was down, but this is the best yet.
    It's like they're saying: "Yes, we're frustrated too. (After all WE are the ones who have to fix the mess.)"

    Yep! That's how I used to feel when I was the administrator for a large corporate system. I had the system working so nice then just when I'm getting comfortable something up and breaks. :-( It's a sinking feeling when the computer says "ask the administrator" and you ARE the administrator. I wanted to just get the system working nicely then turn it off. It always worked as it was designed to while off. Could stay that way indefiniately. But I had all those (*shudder*) users to deal with.

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