Things to do during the Storepocalypse
Lee Moon
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With the store being fidgety the past few days, I've taken the opportunity to do a few other things with my time.
1) Went shopping in the real world. Bought clothes. I despise buying clothes, but this seemed like a good time.
2) Rendered a bunch of test images in DAZ Studio.
3) Tinkered with ghost lights. Discovered that turning off smoothing on the ghost light plane appears to have solved the ghost light from showing traces of itself in certain renders. This was well worth my time!
4) Took my mom on a day trip to see the sights. This was really fun and worth the time!!
5) Took time to enjoy the artwork that others have shared on Instagram, DA, etc. So much great art to inspire me.
To Do:
1) Hug a DAZ staff person - well, at least tell them how much I appreciate all the hard work they're doing! Like some others here, I come from a software engineering career and know the challenges major upgrades can bring. Keep your enthusiasm going even when things are frustrating. The end result will be worth it!
2) Eat lunch.
3) Work out. This is a dubious goal, but I might as well throw it out there. LOL!
Thank you to everyone who is working to get the store, forums, and gallery running as intended. And an additional thanks to all the customers and content creators for sending feedback to help the DAZ team get things working again!
Lee
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I distracted myself by starting a couple of small fires and tried to teach a trout to sing... But really, I was going to do that anyway and none of that had anything to do with the store problems.
It's damp and windy, so the fires didn't really spread much and the trout was kinda dead, so next time I'm trying this with a live one.
I'm guessing this is gonna last a few more days, so I'm looking at my list of things to do to see if any of it will really distract me... I'm thinking the part about riding an ostrich sounds worth looking into... there is a wildlife refuge nearby that has an emu, which is not quite an ostrich, but might have to do.
Maybe if I duct tape two emus together... ?
We'll see...
I need distraction less from the store than from other more ominously foreboding events at hand which are far more stress inducing.
If you are thinking I'm referring to the annual migration back to the south by Kenya's Wildebeest across the grasslands of the Masai Mara... then yeah... sure... that one...
Either way, especially if one is stressed out by Wildebeest migration, it was a great time to choose a major website upgrade... Just days before the migration... what could go wrong... nobody is stressed already... what are the odds that people even care about the migration... it's not like it's an important event... besides, what's that old saying...?... "Anything that can go wrong, probably won't... because... why not?"
Sigh...
I'm good... as long as I've got rum, I'll be fine...
It seems to me like Renderosity's server has been a bit slower than usual in the past few days. I wonder if that's connected with this.
Hearing christmas carols. The world seems a mess, DAZ store IS a mess. So I retreat to something calming and NOT a mess.
Render all those items I have bought up to now, and had no time because I was constantly buying more products and then having to create metadata for the old ones, or send in technical support reports.
I agree on the hugs to the IT folks.
Just as our museums opened up again, they had to limit acess, as our positivity rates went up too fast. Safer at home again. Just last year I was able to see the Claude Monet exhibit. Life is so different.
So, masked, walk in the parks, crunch the leaves, or brave the snow or rain. Enjoy life.
I got some r/l errands done and then put a ton of stuff in my cart so I could drool over it. <pause>
Feeling a bit guilty about all the potential purchases, I whittled my wishlist down to about 20 items.
(Um, yes, maybe some of the wishlist items did go into the cart.)
I've been binge watching the "BritBox" stream before my cancelled subscription expires on the 24th. Switched to "CBS-AllAccess" for the next few months.
Must be nice! I have been stressed out over the U.S election the past few days and now watching the results come in with a group of 50+ others, talk about stressful
Dusted off EmotiGuy, and had him show how I'm feeling.
He's green partly because, well, "Eden Evergreen" ... and partly because I'm not feeling well today.
Basically, I'm using the time to try new things and experiment with Strand-Based Hair. I saw a post by Lady Littlefox on how she made a fuzzy sweater with strand-based hair and I tried it. I think it turned out pretty cool.
I WISH I could find the thread post where she talks about it so I could link it. But basically, it was said to make sure the strands had small enough segments to curl.
Thank you Lady Littlefox! :D It can see using this technique to "fuzzy up" clothing and stuff more often. :)
That IS cool! Nice impressionist BG too.
'Round here, we call 'em gnus.
aaaaand of course, i couldn't stop the mental image of a dead trout singing - even if yours, exactly because it was kinda dead, didn't sing.... thanks a million, buddy XDDD
somehow reminds me of monthy python. i'm sure they had trouts, or dead animals singing, or very probably both...
Thank you - and yeah that HDRI is a good one, imo. It's this one from HDRIHaven: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=art_studio
Alas, I turned on the Infinite Improbability drive, and my computer turned into a bowl of petunias. This was not a real problem, but the backup server was now a whale.
Watching Twitter, but I don't think my guy Kanye is going to win.
Also, playing the heck out of Crusader Kings 3.
Started Daurama Daura, but it's a hard run because the Hausa have gender equality at the start... which means both your sons and daughters inherit equally. Equality is nice and all, but that's super bad in Crusader Kings because it weakens your heir in the next generation. Like, equality=bad when you have to pay for it LOL. The other challenge right now is that her husband has a real c-unit as a Concubine (with high Intrigue), so she's constantly plotting to kill Daurama. I don't really have a good way to fight against that, so I just have to maintain a strong Court game in defense.
Played Harald Fairhair, which was way too easy. Unify Noregr, defeat the Lapplanders and Finns (A huge amount of territory), absorb the Swedes, form a Scandinavian empire. My Empire extends to Ireland, and I'm working on making Angle-land and Alba into Norse/Asatru realms. Or maybe I'll go to Hispania/al'Andalus.
If you do find it, PLEASE PLEASE link it because that looks amazing and I want to put people in all the fuzzy things now!
Been watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for the n+1 time. But, I paused it for a bit and went out and bought a birthday cake for a family friend. He's a little boy who came over from Afghanistan with his mom, dad, and brother, after his dad translated for the US military and the extended family was marked for death because of that service.
Dad's now incarcerated here and things are, obviously, rough for his sons and wife (and him). So we try to make sure that the kids at least get to have normal experiences like birthdays, with a cake and candles to blow out, and a nice present, and a positive experience to share with their dad when they talk.
His birthday is tomorrow. We've ordered the present he wanted, I have the cake in my fridge, and I hope he has a good day.
Currently I'm trying to keep my cats from eating cheese wax. It's been an all over the place kind of evening.
I don't watch any of it. That's way less stressful. It's not that I don't care about it. Just watching it won't change anything, Plus we have so many streaming TV services, my TV and movie library looks like my DAZ library. It's like I buy movies on the grounds that I might watch them someday.
I might occasionally watch silly YouTube videos ... (This one is G-rated, entirely safe for any situation ... provided one is in no danger of laughing too hard!
)
- Click to see a clean, funny video with ZERO politics -
Hope everyone has the most DAZ-tastic day that you can.
I installed Poser physics on my Win7 and I needed to reenter my Poser 7 serial number which of course I couldn't find on the PC anywhere
have serials for every other flavour of Poser since
so ventured into my spare room
and I actually found my installation disc first box I looked and it was written on it!
manually typing from handwritten text always iffy but worked
silly as I had used it the other day and installing it it never needed a serial as was in my registry from before
why P7? well because of the ragdoll Physics plugin I own and it is EFrontier so no phone home so still works
Wow lovely render:)
I avoid all the drama and shop at a different store.
oh and hoooray got DSON working finally in Poser11 on my Win10 rig
You're amazing.
Render the million items purchased you never have!
Radical, I know, but just think, you might actually find you prefer rendering to buying stuff.
nah just want working versions of Poser I can use my DAZ stuffs with
obviously only legacy in the P7 one
the breaking of DSON in Poser12 is enough to ensure 11 is as far as I go too
I didn't know they'd broken DSON. That's too bad for them. Their Daz-hatred is really counterproductive. I'm only using Poser Pro 11 now for fbx import.
is more they updated python so it no longer works
none of my other often used D3D python scripts would work then either and he cannot update them because he is dead
likewise the Dyntomorph one I use to get Poser dynamic animations into Carrara and sometimes DAZ studio
I've been reading the latest Peter F Hamilton novel, "The Saints of Salvation". Hamilton, for those not familiar with his work, is best described as the James Cameron of written science fiction. Like Cameron, he has a genius for really big, epic stories but with characters that you can relate to and root for. He's also a very entertaining public speaker.
Cheers,
Alex.
Maybe its time I started reading those tutorials I bought because they look interesting and they were really cheap in the sales.