Carl's Corner :)

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Beliria wrote: 3 cylinder shapes with that one cause I added the liquid.

That makes sense.

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Beliria wrote: You have these boolean settings that you change and kinda invert one of the cylinders so it makes a hollow space inside the other.

That is very interesting. I do not use booeans very often, but I have used them. They can be a little unpredictable and can generate some crazy tessellation that takes a long time to repair.

You lost me......

Hey, 200th page at Carl's Corner.....

Where is Count Cheekula???

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ronviers wrote: I think he's working on a new series of filters called 'The Transformed Man' – each filter in the set will be dedicated to William Shatner's version of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and will be marked by dramatic pauses while rendering.

Hmmmmm......he's doing that again, eh??? .....

Hey, Capt'n Cheekus Erectus just submitted a new grunge filter.....so I think he's calling you out.....

Ah yes, human nature. Easy!

Well that explains it, then... we can all go home now!

ok, i see where we're disagreeing or not quite lining up here. 'environment' can have several meanings. i was taking it as just the physical environment, like the land, sea, weather and so on. you're taking it as including people.

so, ok, with that in mind, then sure, there are influences from environment, always. but it's also true that different people respond differently to the same influence(s). one person seeing a speeding car coming towards them may just freeze up in a panic, while another might dash out of the way. so, environment isnt the only factor.

'human nature' is too vague and ambiguous to make much of a good arguement with, one way or the other. you need better terminology and definitions and defined parameters to really argue these things well.

Is the last week of my Bryce class!!

I got carried away and did a few images here is the first one I rendered.

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Beliria wrote: did Craig kill the thread?

He just injured it. Carl's corner will never die.


I backtracked too far from my original position. Imo, awareness and morality are largely innate and exist on a spectrum. I have seen, and this is purely anecdotal, children that are fully realized. They can look at other people and tell if they are good or bad. No environment, no matter how rotten can turn them into bad people, but it may make them crazy. While others are born so bad that the best that can be hoped for, with enough love and compassion, is that they will act civilized.
Just like the big E was gifted with aptitude and capacity for understanding the universe, some children have more or less capacity for morality.

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ronviers wrote: Very cool. Do you like working with Bryce or Terragen better?

I like both, Bryce has far more scope though. Were as Terragen is just terrain images unless you add stuff to it after in a paint package.

Did this one this morning is a night time picture.

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ronviers wrote: It seemed like you were getting more detail with Terragen.

Might be because them images was 35000x25000 pixels and took about 10 to 30 hours too render, and I had the settings for quality up high for the Terragen ones too.
With Bryce I kept them at medium and the images are a lot smaller think the last two was something like 940x700 something pixles. First one was 640x480.

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ronviers wrote: My favorite is the one that had the elf in it.

That was done in Daz Studio. But yep she was cool.. mind did another will have to dig her out and show you.

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ronviers wrote: I like the first one too, but I think there is too much blue in the foreground. I think the trees should be almost black. Can you add sunbeams like this?

Am still learning but will keep the sunbeams in mind and have a go sometime.

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Beliria wrote: 35000x25000 pixels and took about 10 to 30 hours

That explains it. You need to get a render computer.

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Beliria wrote: the other elf girl

Very cool. How did you get the wind to blow? I think the end of her staff would look good textured with one of my plasma balls.

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Beliria wrote: will keep the sunbeams in mind and have a go sometime

That's my plan too. I want those sunbeams all over the place. The audience will walk away cursing those damn sunbeams.

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Beliria wrote: booked out

Hopefully you can find another one to take. Maybe something technical, like a Python class, just to feel the wind in your hair.

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ronviers wrote: How did you get the wind to blow?

I used the twist and turn and edit functions in Daz on the hair and other bits to give it a wind blown look . Kinda has an autumn feel to it so I decided it needed a wind swept look.

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ronviers wrote: I think the end of her staff would look good textured with one of my plasma balls

um never thought of that will see if its possible or even have a go at making my own props lol!!

oo going to get poser 6 I hope!! is only $29.99 from Content Paradise until end of this month, normally $200 odd.

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/use...duct_45324

Does anyone know of free software that makes colorful glowy lines that move around? Something like this..

found this http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ might have a look at it when am awake...

lol so Fusion is the way to go then?

Btw, there is a non-expiring PLE.

I did not find the graphics software I was looking for so I made this filter. It should work just fine but I would like to use the command line renderer to increment the rotate, move, color depth, etc. sliders. So the spokes move around, change colors and begin and end in a certain location. Before I post a question in the creating filters forum can anyone tell me if that is possible? From the manual it looks as though I would need to create a preset for each setting but that would require thousands of presets.

directAttention a.ffxml

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Carl wrote: "the sky is falling"

I don't think that was Chicken Little.

Hey Carl, if I figure out a way to automatically generate a bunch of stills with my filter, would Flash be able to take those images and make a .flv or .mov video with them?
I would like to have it spinning in one position and changing colors, with the alpha on the inside (I added a slider to move the alpha from the inside to the outside), then move in an arc to a new position with the alpha on the outside.
Something like this:

I made one that has a kind-of 50's art deco/Sky Captainy look.

And don't forget...

My plasma balls are the exhaust for a Lexus commercial!

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Carl wrote: Flash is a vector program

Vector! Is that good or bad!?

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Carl wrote: pngs - etc, or import a folder of consecutive numbered images

The samples have white as the alpha. I'm not sure how to get the alpha out. When I save an FF image as a tiff or png then open it in PS the aplha channel is in tact but not applied.


Merry Christmas to you too Carl - and everyone else too.

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Carl wrote: I' ll send you my first .flv

Can't wait. I have high speed internet access now! No more dial-up!