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the early days of photoshopped?  ;o;

Now that is just too much hair right there.  Like hair to infinity squared. 

Can anyone say "hot wax?"

I meant to quote tjohn's post.  I quoted the wrong post.  Quote does not like me tonight.

 

...I remember spinning hot wax as a DJ bck when radio still had a human element.

I'll bet that was fun. :-)  Almost everything nowadays on the radio sounds the same.  Makes me want to go hunt down the golden oldies.  Like heavy metal and the runaways. 

 I call it "homogenization".  It's a fine tuned attribute of modern commerciallism.

But it isn't "old" unless it was written by guys in powdered wigs and stinky wool suits.   But the very fact that some of their music is still played means it has survived a half dozen generations (more or less). The cream rose to the top.  Each generation found something about some of it that endured. Something about some of it made it "classic". 

But if you dig deep enough into the archives of that old music and dig up the crusty ashes you find that a lot of it was boringly homogenous, unoriginal and clumsily constructed too.  But like all arts, some of the devotees deeply involved can't bring themselves to admit that in some cases the Emperor has no clothes and happily throw the ashes around just because they're there.

It isn't really true that the stuff in the central repertory today has lasted - Vivaldi dropped out of sight for centuries, both Sibelius and Mahler were pretty much neglected in much of the world for several decades.

I admit, some of the ashes prematurely buried are still glowing and if they land on tinder they can rekindle.  Some of it was ahead of its time. others though had its day and blew away.   Just like 99 and 44/100ths % of todays music.  Oh, and except for a couple pieces, I feel that most of the revived Vivaldi and Rossini should have stayed buried."   And even some of Beethoven should be reburied.  But that's sacrilege.

And of course this is just me being opinionated.  But being without an opinion scares the hell out of me..  Mustn't become an unthinking sheep.  And don't for a minute think this is a serious conversation.  This is, after all, a complaint thread.

 

...the later works of Liszt actually fit better with the Impressionistic period.  I consider even Chopin to have been ahead of his time.

As to Beethoven, I especially like his later quartets.  Interestingly I am not a huge fan of Mozart and some of his contemporaries (though I do like Haydn) which for some may be considered "heresy".  I felt both the Baroque and Romantic periods which bookended the "classical" era to have more expression and feeling.

 

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the early days of photoshopped?  ;o;

Now that is just too much hair right there.  Like hair to infinity squared. 

Can anyone say "hot wax?"

I meant to quote tjohn's post.  I quoted the wrong post.  Quote does not like me tonight.

 

...I remember spinning hot wax as a DJ bck when radio still had a human element.

I'll bet that was fun. :-)  Almost everything nowadays on the radio sounds the same.  Makes me want to go hunt down the golden oldies.  Like heavy metal and the runaways. 

 I call it "homogenization".  It's a fine tuned attribute of modern commerciallism.

But it isn't "old" unless it was written by guys in powdered wigs and stinky wool suits.   But the very fact that some of their music is still played means it has survived a half dozen generations (more or less). The cream rose to the top.  Each generation found something about some of it that endured. Something about some of it made it "classic". 

But if you dig deep enough into the archives of that old music and dig up the crusty ashes you find that a lot of it was boringly homogenous, unoriginal and clumsily constructed too.  But like all arts, some of the devotees deeply involved can't bring themselves to admit that in some cases the Emperor has no clothes and happily throw the ashes around just because they're there.

It isn't really true that the stuff in the central repertory today has lasted - Vivaldi dropped out of sight for centuries, both Sibelius and Mahler were pretty much neglected in much of the world for several decades.

...it was interesting though that the music of Bach gined popularity from two seemingly unlikely sources: Wendy (then Walter) Carlos and the Switched on Bach albums where his music was realised on the early Moog synthesiser and Virgil Fox with his Heavy Organ concerts where Fox toured with a large classical styled electronic organ and accompanying light show playing at such venues as Winterland and Filmore East. 

On the  more academic side, there was the revival of baroque period instrumentation in the 1970s including the renaissance of the harpsichord (spearheaded by Hubbard, Dowd, and Zuckermann here in the States) and return to traditional baroque organ building practises (Flentrop of Holland, Von Beckrath of Germany and Brombaugh here in the US) which allowed for more historically accurate interpretation of his music.  This also led to a greater interest in other baroque composers as well such as Vivaldi Handel, Scarlatti, Rameau, Telemann Corelli and Soler.

The "baroque revival" in turn rekindled an interest in traditional performance of earlier music from the mediaeval and renaissance eras as well, which included the reconstruction of instruments from those periods and even use of different tuning temperaments.   I've actually played on a small positif organ tuned in Meantone (the temperament used during the mediaeval days) and it sounds quite different from the tuning we use today.

 

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the early days of photoshopped?  ;o;

Now that is just too much hair right there.  Like hair to infinity squared. 

Can anyone say "hot wax?"

I meant to quote tjohn's post.  I quoted the wrong post.  Quote does not like me tonight.

 

...I remember spinning hot wax as a DJ bck when radio still had a human element.

I'll bet that was fun. :-)  Almost everything nowadays on the radio sounds the same.  Makes me want to go hunt down the golden oldies.  Like heavy metal and the runaways. 

 I call it "homogenization".  It's a fine tuned attribute of modern commerciallism.

But it isn't "old" unless it was written by guys in powdered wigs and stinky wool suits.   But the very fact that some of their music is still played means it has survived a half dozen generations (more or less). The cream rose to the top.  Each generation found something about some of it that endured. Something about some of it made it "classic". 

But if you dig deep enough into the archives of that old music and dig up the crusty ashes you find that a lot of it was boringly homogenous, unoriginal and clumsily constructed too.  But like all arts, some of the devotees deeply involved can't bring themselves to admit that in some cases the Emperor has no clothes and happily throw the ashes around just because they're there.

It isn't really true that the stuff in the central repertory today has lasted - Vivaldi dropped out of sight for centuries, both Sibelius and Mahler were pretty much neglected in much of the world for several decades.

I admit, some of the ashes prematurely buried are still glowing and if they land on tinder they can rekindle.  Some of it was ahead of its time. others though had its day and blew away.   Just like 99 and 44/100ths % of todays music.  Oh, and except for a couple pieces, I feel that most of the revived Vivaldi and Rossini should have stayed buried."   And even some of Beethoven should be reburied.  But that's sacrilege.

And of course this is just me being opinionated.  But being without an opinion scares the hell out of me..  Mustn't become an unthinking sheep.  And don't for a minute think this is a serious conversation.  This is, after all, a complaint thread.

 

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the early days of photoshopped?  ;o;

Now that is just too much hair right there.  Like hair to infinity squared. 

Can anyone say "hot wax?"

I meant to quote tjohn's post.  I quoted the wrong post.  Quote does not like me tonight.

 

...I remember spinning hot wax as a DJ bck when radio still had a human element.

I'll bet that was fun. :-)  Almost everything nowadays on the radio sounds the same.  Makes me want to go hunt down the golden oldies.  Like heavy metal and the runaways. 

 I call it "homogenization".  It's a fine tuned attribute of modern commerciallism.

But it isn't "old" unless it was written by guys in powdered wigs and stinky wool suits.   But the very fact that some of their music is still played means it has survived a half dozen generations (more or less). The cream rose to the top.  Each generation found something about some of it that endured. Something about some of it made it "classic". 

But if you dig deep enough into the archives of that old music and dig up the crusty ashes you find that a lot of it was boringly homogenous, unoriginal and clumsily constructed too.  But like all arts, some of the devotees deeply involved can't bring themselves to admit that in some cases the Emperor has no clothes and happily throw the ashes around just because they're there.

It isn't really true that the stuff in the central repertory today has lasted - Vivaldi dropped out of sight for centuries, both Sibelius and Mahler were pretty much neglected in much of the world for several decades.

Richard, that's deep.  Clair de Lune survived.  I think I'm out of my league.

 

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the early days of photoshopped?  ;o;

Now that is just too much hair right there.  Like hair to infinity squared. 

Can anyone say "hot wax?"

I meant to quote tjohn's post.  I quoted the wrong post.  Quote does not like me tonight.

 

...I remember spinning hot wax as a DJ bck when radio still had a human element.

I'll bet that was fun. :-)  Almost everything nowadays on the radio sounds the same.  Makes me want to go hunt down the golden oldies.  Like heavy metal and the runaways. 

 I call it "homogenization".  It's a fine tuned attribute of modern commerciallism.

But it isn't "old" unless it was written by guys in powdered wigs and stinky wool suits.   But the very fact that some of their music is still played means it has survived a half dozen generations (more or less). The cream rose to the top.  Each generation found something about some of it that endured. Something about some of it made it "classic". 

But if you dig deep enough into the archives of that old music and dig up the crusty ashes you find that a lot of it was boringly homogenous, unoriginal and clumsily constructed too.  But like all arts, some of the devotees deeply involved can't bring themselves to admit that in some cases the Emperor has no clothes and happily throw the ashes around just because they're there.

It isn't really true that the stuff in the central repertory today has lasted - Vivaldi dropped out of sight for centuries, both Sibelius and Mahler were pretty much neglected in much of the world for several decades.

When I click into Central Station nothing shows up. Is there a problem with this set?

it is CST which is Central time in North America one timezone west of Eastern. GMT-6 so at 0600 GMT on Sunday morning.

What time zone are you in?

Looks a bit like the place in Manahattan but that's called Penn Station I think. It looks like that product is so old that it is likely Poser format only so you need to check in your Poser format section of your DAZ Studio library.

There are two in Manhatten one is "Grand Central Station" and the other is "Penn Station"

I'm now wanting to visit again. :-)

Looks a bit like the place in Manahattan but that's called Penn Station I think. It looks like that product is so old that it is likely Poser format only so you need to check in your Poser format section of your DAZ Studio library.

There are two in Manhatten one is "Grand Central Station" and the other is "Penn Station"

Look in Environments > Architecture > Central Station. If you still can't find it try looking in your content library > product > Central Station

ETA: Cross Posting Rules! DaWaterRat beat me out while I was waiting for DIM to open so I could check the file location

Smart content -> Environments -> architecture -> Interiors

Alternately in the apropriate directory under DS formats in Environments->Architecture->Central Station

Edit to add - I found it by looking under Products on the Content Library tab, which is my prefered content tab.  I make a lot of use of the Products directories there.  If I can't figure out where something was installed (because the powers that be categorize it differently than I would), I check for it there.

I brought Central Station but I can not find it no where in my Daz3d. It showed it installed and all. So what is going on?

Click on image for larger view

Here's the cover for an RPG that will be published next month by Epic Age Media. First and foremost, I DID NOT DO THIS ARTWORK! I don't want anyone thinking that. However, I did do the following:

1. Created the logo
2. Placed the cover text
3. Enhanced and darkened areas of the image to make them pop or so that the text would be legible (this was a very time-consuming process).

The enhancement was actually the biggest problem after we agreed on the logo design (which was only finalized last night when I added a layter of grunge to the DNA and Radiation symbols). The key armored figure was too dark to be the central figure on the cover -- I had to pump up the yellows to make him pop. I also had to do the same with the "Groot" figure on the back cover -- in the original you could hardly see him. The most agonizing thing was coming up with a color scheme for the back cover. I am not happy with what we chose, but it really is the best we could do. I kept trying different shades of blue, red, black, and even tried dropping a semi-transparent fill box behind the text (it just obscured the art and looked tacky). The yellow with a black outline was finally the best compromise. This is the problem you get when the background uses all sorts of different colors. Nothing is really the perfect contrast color, so you wind up settling. I think it looks pretty good in the end, though. 

You mean Titan X Hybrid  ( Hydro is with only water block for central water cooling )  last year when I purchased my first 2 cards, Titan X was around $1000 , Titan X SC $1229 and Titan X Hybrid $1500

My first was Titan X SC $1229 each , then I upgraded it with Hybrid kit $99  so each card cost me $1328 each still cheaper as original Hybrid and run at the same speed . This year I got additional 2 original Titan X Hybrids 1 for $1099 and the other for $1000  so I spent $4755 for my 4 cards 

The new Titan X P base price is $1200 so it is not going to cost less for a long while , now you add Hydro kit for $99 ending in the same price range as me last year with Titan X SC + Hydro kit but whwn EVGA change the bios , set it at 1800Mhz or more and add more power it will cost no less than $1600-$1700 so in this case everyone will be happy to render with 2 x 1080 at the price of $1200 , 4 core CPU at max with 32GB of RAM .. best perfomance for the money 

you need upgrade your PC 

$1200 for 2 x 1080

$400 for CPU

$250 for Motherboard 

$250 for RAM

1000W PSU or little less if not gaming 

so you have super fast rendering rig for less than $2500 if build yourself and render in couple of  minutes and not hours

I am not even using my 4 cards on a daily basic but max 2 as the viewport works wonderful and it render pretty quick + I can do all other stuff at the same time without even notice something  is rendering 

However you want the power of CPU rendering as well so that is different scenario and different planing egarding you CPU and RAM so the costs will be much higher

 

....true, but as I mentioned, any of the new Pascal series GPUs wil require I buld an entrirely new system as my current hardware is out of date and therefore incompatible.

So what did the EVGA Titan-X Hydros in your system cost?

o

 

....however, only about a 70% chance that a scene would stay in VRAM.  Oh, and there is still the Pascal/IRay driver issue.

Not about to go back to duo channel memory either.   One of the reasons I had better render times with 3DL was because of the way tri channel memory works. If I am going to shell out to build a new system, I'd like it to be a reasonable step up from what I now have, just like my current one was over the last.  Again, I am looking to render in higher resolution for gallery quality printing.  For ray trace (3DL & Carrara), that means a more memory and CPU cores. 

There are still things that 3DL is capable of (and which I already have utilities/plugins for) which Iray does not support.

You mean Titan X Hybrid  ( Hydro is with only water block for central water cooling )  last year when I purchased my first 2 cards, Titan X was around $1000 , Titan X SC $1229 and Titan X Hybrid $1500

My first was Titan X SC $1229 each , then I upgraded it with Hybrid kit $99  so each card cost me $1328 each still cheaper as original Hybrid and run at the same speed . This year I got additional 2 original Titan X Hybrids 1 for $1099 and the other for $1000  so I spent $4755 for my 4 cards 

The new Titan X P base price is $1200 so it is not going to cost less for a long while , now you add Hydro kit for $99 ending in the same price range as me last year with Titan X SC + Hydro kit but whwn EVGA change the bios , set it at 1800Mhz or more and add more power it will cost no less than $1600-$1700 so in this case everyone will be happy to render with 2 x 1080 at the price of $1200 , 4 core CPU at max with 32GB of RAM .. best perfomance for the money 

you need upgrade your PC 

$1200 for 2 x 1080

$400 for CPU

$250 for Motherboard 

$250 for RAM

1000W PSU or little less if not gaming 

so you have super fast rendering rig for less than $2500 if build yourself and render in couple of  minutes and not hours

I am not even using my 4 cards on a daily basic but max 2 as the viewport works wonderful and it render pretty quick + I can do all other stuff at the same time without even notice something  is rendering 

However you want the power of CPU rendering as well so that is different scenario and different planing egarding you CPU and RAM so the costs will be much higher

....true, but as I mentioned, any of the new Pascal series GPUs wil require I buld an entrirely new system as my current hardware is out of date and therefore incompatible.

So what did the EVGA Titan-X Hydros in your system cost?

o

thanks for that ;-)

Central question when you use Iray as a renderer, do you use Iray surfaces? Select the item (Michael in your case) in the scene tab and switch to the surfaces tab, that should indicate if you use the Iray surface. If not, you can look in the materials if there are Iray materials for the surfaces you need ( the eyes in this case, but it is better to have everything switched or render time goes up or strange results come up). In case you don't have preset materials select your surfaces and go to the content  Library /My DAZ 3D Library/shader presets/ iray/ ands apply the Iray uber base to your surfaces.

One here as well

https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/architectural-exterior/street-infrastructure/building-row

Unfortunately I need lots of points before I can download from CGTrader.

 

 

 

On another subject, has anyone seen any store fronts or street fronts? I currently have AntFarm's Window Shopping http://www.daz3d.com/window-shopping, as well as Victorian Street Front http://www.daz3d.com/victorian-street-front, but would love suggestions for others. The Central District Subway is great, but it's got a subway station. http://www.daz3d.com/the-central-district-subway

--MW

take a look at this one.   it's a whole street!

http://www.sharecg.com/v/33439/browse/11/Poser/Aemis-Shop

Was that the correct link? It looks like just one shop and not a whole street to me.

On another subject, has anyone seen any store fronts or street fronts? I currently have AntFarm's Window Shopping http://www.daz3d.com/window-shopping, as well as Victorian Street Front http://www.daz3d.com/victorian-street-front, but would love suggestions for others. The Central District Subway is great, but it's got a subway station. http://www.daz3d.com/the-central-district-subway

--MW

take a look at this one.   it's a whole street!

http://www.sharecg.com/v/33439/browse/11/Poser/Aemis-Shop

Greentoken has a free online converter that will do 3ds > obj conversions: http://www.greentoken.de/onlineconv/

 

On another subject, has anyone seen any store fronts or street fronts? I currently have AntFarm's Window Shopping http://www.daz3d.com/window-shopping, as well as Victorian Street Front http://www.daz3d.com/victorian-street-front, but would love suggestions for others. The Central District Subway is great, but it's got a subway station. http://www.daz3d.com/the-central-district-subway

--MW

http://www.sharecg.com/v/50625/gallery/5/3D-Model/Coney-Coffee-Cafe and there is this one from page 65 of this thread: https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/architectural-exterior/cityscape/nyc-block-set-8#