Carl's Corner :)

We'll know how it went if Manon posts some pics of it.....but the question is, will Carl be in them from crashing the wedding??? ..... LOL....

Hey Sam, I really like your Quicksilver filter. I came up with a variation you might find interesting. This is in no way meant to be an improvement or critique because I like your filter very much just the way it is. I was only hoping to enhance the what the filter already does. I think it creates beautiful textures, among the best in the library, and if you ever want to revisit it maybe you can keep these ideas in mind for the next release.
Keep up the good work, I think you have a tremendous natural artistic ability.
Because it is raining where I am I cannot post samples of the new variation so I changed the presets to examples I like. I could not help adding a ron mode (checkbox) in addition to the existing sam mode – I like them both very much.

Btw, set the distribution slider to zero to return it to your original. And the curve components off to the left were an experimental profile for the cells but it never panned out.
I especially like presets 7, 8 and 10.

Quicksilver var a.ffxml

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ahimsa wrote: Less than two weeks before the wedding and I am still not done with everything.

It will take a week to decompress.

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ahimsa wrote: I'm surprised the credit card companies won't be there too

I'm sure they will make their presence felt eventually.

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ahimsa wrote: Toy shopping day, park day, and balloon day are some things we plan to do. No, he won't be spoiled..

LOL

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ahimsa wrote: Toy shopping day, park day, and balloon day are some things we plan to do

Who wouldn't enjoy it, as long as there was icecream

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StevieJ wrote: Carl be in them from crashing the wedding???

Still waiting for the ticket over to USA that Ahimsa is sending

yep exactly, the render times start to get ridiculous with the tracks

here is agrvel I'm working on but have to use a simpler version for tracks

I wonder if it would be possible to embed the tracks into the gravel the way I embeded the sphere in the stones in Generate Tiles.

I think it looks fantastic. What are you getting for render times? How many backgroujnds are you giving the user to choose from?

I thought I was slow.

42 sec's, at moment guiltly only of the gravel as B/g, again cause of time

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Carl wrote: 42 sec's,

I think that would translate into more than 3 minutes on my machine. I think the average user will have something closer to mine than yours - just a guess.

I tried it and got two minutes and forty seconds.

I think that means yours is about 60% faster than mine but I'm not good with that kind of thing - it could be 40% faster.
No wait. I divided 39.82 by 162 and got .245. I think that means your's is 75% faster.
Anyway, it's faster. That's something to keep in mind when you are designing.

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Carl wrote: update your pc

While I'm in this learning Maya mode speed is the least of my concerns. Most of the time the computer just stares back at me waiting on me to do something.
If I would have been in school I would have fallen hopelessly behind. I would be devastated and hating myself for being so stupid. That's why it's better for me to learn by myself. Even though I'm slow on the uptake, the fact is, I eventually do get it.

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Carl wrote: your a big brain but hard on yourself

You got me all wrong Carl. I don't want to be quick. I trying to be an artist not a f-king technician. I want things to be hard - I want to fight the whole time and earn every bit. I'm going to leave this world a spent force. That is, after I take it over!

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Carl wrote: compulsion that needs external confirmation

Hey I resent that.
Btw, you really do like my orb filter, dont you? Because I spent a lot of time on that one.

Does that mean you don't like it? Because it's been five minutes. If you like it you would have said so right away. Ok, that's it, I'm having it removed.

Wow! you just got that in, with only seconds to spare.
I guess I'll be ok. I'm putting the gun away.

LOL

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Carl wrote: real world textures

"more real than real - that's our motto"
Haven't you heard Carl - reality no longer sets the bar. I want Yellowstone to look like a pale copy of my virtual worlds.

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Carl wrote: I'm so last century

You're in-between centuries. Come into the light Carl...

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Carl wrote: any more sample maya pics

No pics but I have a new mel command of the day - listConnections. A cool little command that will return a matrix of vectors allowing me to shift context with a click of the mouse.

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Carl wrote: very handy

I might have over simplified that just a tad. I'll be able to tell you if I get it figured out myself.