My Lease Is Nearly Up On The Complaint Thread
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Yes that's the idea, is like using Image Based Lighting (IBL I think it is called), for interiors you are better off using a practical/actual like a big lamp/sphere set to emissive and work on from there, at least you will be able to see what;s going on.
Complaint: burned my index finger on light barndoor, ouch ouch ouch iz hot hot hot :0
My ownership is almost over, the Complaint Thread will survive under new management.
LOL! I found the same peace in my house five years ago, except I haven't watched actual television since 2010. We discarded all of the TVs in my house after removing DISH-TV. I have Xfinity internet only (which Comcast looks at me cross-eyed after I tell them with great vehemence just how much I abhor television in every way every time they try to offer triple-play packages to me).
These days my visual entertainment comes from YouTube (selected programs) and Amazon Prime if I'm pecking for a free movie that I give a care about.
By the by, this is the craziest post that I've discovered tonight in my insomnia web-browsing. Random much? I love it!
I cut the cord over five years ago. Peace and quiet is nice. When I want conflict, I'll watch "Combat" on youtube. Or open my back door and listen to my neighbors far distant voices wafting drunkenly over the cool night air. There's a reason TV was called "The Idiot Box".
I will admit to having the entire "Dick Van Dyke" show on blu-ray.
This is big right now (really!) "This may be the apex of the "slow internet" — a genre that's gaining viral traction, no matter how oxymoronic its name may be" (Chicago Trib) (click livestream icon if it comes up)
eta a bit like watching a Sam Beckett play
LeatherGryphon said that once, in different words. I agree 100%.
The Iray Shadows Complaint Thread
The It's Dark in my Optimized for Iray Purchased Set Complaint Thread
The Ruddy Complaint Thread
trying again with a plain white dome.
except it doesn't light inside the room.
i don't think there IDL in iray.
can't fake GI without an ambient light and ambient occlusion
or ability to assign a light to objects and tell it don't cast shadows, unless i missed seeing it ??
complaint - tummy bottomless pit this morning. ate all my starbucks snacks.
veggie fruit fruit, veggie veggie fruit fruit
banging forks on my iray table
food waiter waiter, don't fall asleep on yoo feet
blaming iray for my tummy ache
get off my lawn whippersnappers
gingersnappers?
ah haa http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/interface/panes/surfaces/shaders/iray_uber_shader/shader_general_concepts/start#metallic_flakes_weight
Base Mixing - Iray has the ability to use 3 separate types of shader mixing.
PBR Metallicity/Roughness
PBR Specular/Glossiness
Weighted
ahaa haaaa
Luminance Units - This is a list of units of measurement for the emission illumination. Several choices are available. Use whichever you are most comfortable with.
cd/m^2 - candela per square meter
kcd/m^2 - kilocandela per square meter
cd/ft^2 - candela per square foot
cd/cm^2 - candela per square centimeter
lm - lumen, measures the total amount of light emitted over the whole surface.
W - watts, measures the total amount of light emitted over the whole surface
Lumen Efficiency - How many Lumens/watt. Fifteen (15) is a good setting for average tungsten.
The Quantum Leap guy? aka Captain Archer.
well, fun over, need to work for my bread and butter and beer.
think i have my database table all sorted out. now for the interface.
it's a knowlege base, dunno if i can make it pretty?
garbage in, garbage out, need to design it with some business rulez so they can find their notes when they need it.
Omigolly-gosh! <--sorry so, Ned Flanders-ish. I don't want my post deleted for breaking ToS.
That is ultimately hilarious! Hahaha! At first I was looking for the point in the link, then I realized I was watching an intersection in live stream.
Do people really watch that all day, because if so - I live in New Jersey - the idiot driving captial of the world [Everyone hates us...]
I could become rich just by setting up a few live streams around my neighborhood - at those notorious circles that we have. Hahaha!
Ah, New Jersy intersections. The place with no left turns.
Been there, done that, still confused. Perhaps there's a reason, but I've never seen it anywhere else, doesn't seem to be catching on.
Are those called "one-way streets," by chance?
I don't like those either.
Sink Saga -- wow, this is hilarious.
I fought with that sink for days, and the plumbers fixed it in 30 minutes.
Including the leaks in my re-pipe experiment. How does one put a washer in backwards?
Hahaha! Yeah, I know. My dad hailed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania all his life.
When he came to visit on weekends, he used to flip out while driving down our state roads and rural highways filled with jughandles, non-regulated circles with only a yield sign on each entry point, and the totally unneccessary left hand enter/exit lanes (not talking about interstate roads either, where that highway system of left hand entry/exit is common).
He always got so totally lost just trying to find his way back to the PA Turnpike. It was a very verbally colorful car-ride anywhere with him to say the least until we reached the Ben Franklin Bridge toll gate... then, he'd calm slightly down for some nomimal Philly road rage driver language.
And we (NJersians) wonder why our car insurance is the highest in the continental US. (Seriously, it is. I confirmed this with a California transplant. Asked her if she paid as much in CA as she did in NJ and she basically replied, "Oh - hey-oo, no!")
LOL! Anyway...
My retired engineer brother was trying to fix a leak under the kitchen sink. The whole piping system fell out and our cousin Robbie who does construction including plumbing had to fix it. To be fair, my brother is an "electrical" engineer, so...
We call those jug handles.
the long island parkways haz them too.
that's when you want 8 cylinders,
4 cylinders just not strong enough to ramp up to traffice speed. end up sitting on the ramp, waiting, rule35, no one is going to let you cut in.
those big tractor trailer trucks trying to get on the parkways, see them trying to back up on the jughandle, empathies of pain
right Mcgyver?
dunno if it's true anymore, heard NJ doesn't let yoo pump your own gas, was all full service
A penny saved is a penny earned lot of nothing
It's so true. And so is a dime. I haven't seen a phone booth for years -- let alone requiring dimes, and I haven't seen any vending machine anywhere accepting pennies in the last 20 years or so....
There are vending machines in the mall. The candy ones only take quarters but not sure about the soda vending machine as it almost always out of order.
We no pump gas in NJ.
Is illegal - unless your are a CDL-A truck driver (or some other commercial driver). We have certain privellages, just not in our Class-D everyman vehicles (Fords, Chevy, Dodge, Foreign etc...)
As to the truck drivers - I was a tractor-trailer driver for 2 years with Werner Enterprises, JB Hunt, and Riggins Fuel from 2006-2008`ish. I had to the drive a 53" foot box truck and a Peterbuilt 379 (101 feet of truck total) down the dreaded QE Xpressway three or four times a week (during rush hour: 6am-9pm?) for deliveries to SI. Oh geez-louise, talk about frustration in a nutshell!
Never was I so glad to be dispatched to Texas roads and their 75 MPH speed zones after getting locked into 2 MPH trying to move down any road after Exit 10 on the NJ TP towards Secaucus, 440, and all places NY (city zones).
--Edit: It was a 48" foot - 5 baffled walled tanker for Riggins Fuel, since I delivered fuel, oil, diesel, and kerosine with them plus a Daycab driver, so my truck was not as long here, but QE Expressway was still just as horrific into Staten Island & Long Island (which is really, really, long).
Well, there are places in New Olreans that are full of consecutive one-way streets all the same way. You think "hmmm... one way, wrong direction". So you figure you go up one more block and you'll find a street going the other direction. WRONG! two or three streets later and still no street going the other direction you decide that "you can't get there from here". Oy!
But no, in New Jersey I'm talking about coming to an intersection that is clearly a two way street but you are not permitted to turn left. You have to go through the intersection about a half a block, turn right, then turn right, then turn right again and viola! you're going the direction you wanted to go. Sometimes instead of the three rights, they have the first right, then a twisty little street that wanders between some buildings and eventually dumps you onto the cross road in the direction you wanted to go if you'd been allowed to turn left when you first arrived at the intersection (and waited for the light). It's all so confusing and poorly marked, but I'm sure it is obvious to the residents of the area.
Jughandles. Every intersection on Route 38, Route 73 (South Jersey), Route 130, and some parts of Route 1 & 9 in North Jersey have this kind of setup. At a major intersection of one of those roads - you cannot turn left, but need to be in the far right hand lane in order to go left.
After the light turns green - you pull forward into a jughandle that says, "All Traffic going to 'road name' - turn right here" or some such thing like that. You pull around into a twisty, turny or loopty-loo and reach a Yield. From there, you turn right again into the flow of traffic. Then, you merge into traffic when the light turns green on your side.
From this point you need three pairs of eyes and two sets of hands:
One set of eyes to watch your mirrors, one set of eyes to watch in front of you, one set of eyes to watch your sides as you are competed against in the merging lane - and seguewayed into a single lane again.
Also, you need to steer with one set of hands, and pray that everyone else around you is paying attention with the other set of hands.
Yup! And that's how we drive.
Now you know why NJ breeds mutants. We need those extra appendages in order to navigate our own neighborhoods. Plus - the rumors are true... we glow in the dark.
Sounds like what we call a one way system here in the UK. They can be very confusing the first half dozen or six times you go round them, but eventually you do learn the way. That of course is when the PTB decide tho change the one way system.
So, is this scene actually not exaggerated?
...you wouldn't like Portland OR then, especially the downtown area. A lot of side streets in the surrounding neighbourhoods are narrow enough to be one way as well. On the street in front of my place, cars have to give way to each other at intersections. Some streets are so narrow (with parking on both sides) there's not even room to ride a bike when a car is coming the other way. I don't know how people managed back in the days when the size of the average car was larger than it is today.
Uh huh. Did your brother enjoy seeing his "Oh, hell, I can do anything" streak humiliated?
I sure did.
Especially when the plumber told me nicely to stick to what I knew and not be offended because he and his sidekick fixed the sink so quick.
ROFL