RebelMommy has many at 86% off but not Flash Sale (yet.)
http://www.daz3d.com/rebelmommy

I always check the side menus to see if there's sale products that aren't in the rotating banner, and that store isn't currently listed. (at 3:30am Central Time.)

Anyone have experience with the non-photorealistic renderer?

I've tried several objects - and some show this behavior, where part of object doesn't render at all or much. Fiddling with parameters like cranking length and thickness of brush all the way up to 200 and 500% respectively sometimes helps in conjunction with setting min brush size up to its maximum of 5% along with other trial and error changes - but not really workable at this point.

Looked in the old manual and still not sure why only that central panel of cape was rendering.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Good progress there Dave. Sickleyield's the best. Yep, I'm a fan too and was inspired to get to grips with Blender and create content myself.

I've had the same mirror problem. I think Sickleyield does mention it somewhere, but basically it's an issue with the central point of the geometry (the origin) not being at the edge. It's like holding an actual mirror, and the origin point is where the mirror is going to be held, which means you don't get the entire reflection. So you need to move it to the middle edge by moving the cursor there (click where you want it to be), and then you can do Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C and move the origin to the cursor.

I hope that's some help.

1gecko said:

ps1borg said:

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)

The countryside is kinda pretty. The cities can be far apart.

I found a car that has the steering wheel on the right side. The minimum driving age in most states of Australia is 17 but Julie is younger. lol

Photo courtesy of Yasser Alghofily https://www.flickr.com/photos/4yas/6140034948

I used to dive in the caves at Port MacDonnel not far from Mount Gambier. Gambier is an old (really really old) volcano, has a bottomless lake that is quite marvellous on the edge of a couple of deserts :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lake_(South_Australia)

http://portmacdonnell.sa.au

holy CRAP?!?!? You were a cave diver!?!?!

... and here I always thought you were the sane one of the bunch of us! O.o

don't get me wrong - it's beautiful and all, but that is a pursuit with a shockingly high mortality rate (and, being an unlucky individual, I am prone to being 'risk adverse'!)

Always felt safe and in capable hands and never had any trouble, but was never a proper spelunker either, more a weekend tourist kinda thing. There are spectacular caves in the central Australian aquifer you can only get to with a dive :)

Greetings,
Just a note, @DAZ_Spooky, it was probably lost in the noise, having been posted before a long weekend, but DAZ Studio is REALLY chatty with the PostgreSQL server. It doesn't make much difference when talking to localhost, but talking over even a little bit of a network link it becomes bog-slow.

For example, I notice it commits every action, even when it's doing a bulk set of operations, instead of wrapping the set of operations in a transaction and committing at the end. Also when I go to a directory in Content Manager the first time, it seems to send a bunch of information about the items in that directory to the database...not sure what it's doing (probably the 'new' flagging stuff?) but it slows it down a bit.

Most of this only matters for me because I was trying to set up a central CMS database server for all my systems. It worked which is amazingly awesome, but it's almost too slow to use, unfortunately. (I now have a database with 2590 entries in tblProduct, populated over the long weekend...)

dazcms=# select count(*) from "tblProduct";
 count
-------
  2590

Oh, and I also had the white-out screen where DAZ Studio lost all its styling. I had to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work again.

-- Morgan

I'm sorry to hear you are having issues with the lights. Are you using the pre made presets or are you trying to create your own options from the sub folders?

The lights should load in central to the scene, the same as how genesis does.

If so, if you are trying to create your own presets? Please remember when adding multiple lights in a scene in DS, you need to hold down the 'alt' key on the keyboard so it doesn't automatically delete the lights you have loaded into the scene.

If you load in one of the pre created light presets do the lights still not render?

ps1borg said:

Madbat said:

ps1borg said:

Madbat said:

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.

It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)

Sounds like Saskatchewan.

what a great-sounding place name :)

It's bald, and flat-flat-flat.
And windy.

Ok, the north has trees, but south...holy crap, it's flat. Common Saskatchewan joke: My dog ran away....took him 3 days.

The name is derived from Cree meaning swift flowing.

Oh...Atmospheric camera+IBL=Forevaar! I need more ram. I have 16gb now, but I'd like 32, but for that I need a new motherboard. and likely a new processor to go with it.....
it never ends....

Madbat said:

ps1borg said:

Madbat said:

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.

It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)

Sounds like Saskatchewan.

what a great-sounding place name :)

ps1borg said:

Madbat said:

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.

It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)

Sounds like Saskatchewan.

Madbat said:

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.

It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)

Madbat said:

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.

I remember the F-Troop episode about the Burglar of Banff. :-P

Dana

starionwolf said:

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

Madbat said:

[I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.

Kyoto Kid said:

ps1borg said:

Sangeang Api is erupting off the Indonesian coast, maybe there will be a red dawn tomorrow as the plume heads for us, long way from here tho :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-31/volcanic-ash-plume-keeps-darwin-flights-grounded/5491870

...pretty impressive.

Interesting that teh 34th anniversary of Mt St Helen's eruption was two weeks ago Sunday. That was quite the experience. When I got to Seattle I remember in the days that followed, watching the weather reports that not only gave the chance for rainfall, but "ashfall" as well. On July 22nd of that year, there was another large ash eruption which occurred in the early evening just as I was walking through the UW campus to a class. It was a clear day out so it was quite a sight. I believe it shot up to something like 48,000'.

...needless to say I was late for that class.

I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.

starionwolf said:

DanaTA said:

What were your courses in college?

Dana

IT related courses: Intro to Information Systems, introduction to networking, C++, Java 1 and 2, Oracle 1, Oracle PL/SQL. I did not learn any of the dot net or web services stuff, just the desktop software material with the exception of introduction to networking. So, I can create java programs that run under the JRE, but not a java applet over a network. My skills are outdated. The software engineering course was lousy because the book was terrible. I don't think I learned much.

My mom thinks that I should've gone to a technical school instead of a business school. If you want any more details out the IT courses then I can post them later.

I know that syntax is a bugger, but with C++ and Java, plus Oracle, you have a good basis there if you paid attention! Because the fact is simple...programming is programming. The basic concepts of logic and good practices are constant throughout any programming language. It's just getting to understand the syntax and the unique libraries of the particular language. Until things happened to me in 2006/2007, I could pick things up really fast. I worked on my AS in Computer Science at BCC in the early 90s, got it in 1993. There was one course in Assembly (yuk!), three accounting courses, one course that was the first time they had it on dBase (I already knew everything in it from working with FoxBase+ at the time, which was a better application than dBase, always a few steps ahead of them through the upgrades), two semesters of RPG-II, and three semesters of...COBOL. Wordiest language I've ever worked with. But as I said, the concepts of good logic and good practices are the same. You just have to get used to the syntax of the new language, and the libraries it uses. That's been the bugger for me. My site is my classroom for ASP.NET, with VB.NET and a little C#.NET, a little javascript and AJAX and, of course, SQL Server.

Take some time to look at some sample code. Get yourself a free version of Visual Studio at the Microsoft site. It might be a little pared down, but you can still do a lot with it. I have Visual Studio 2010 Pro. You can also get SQL Server Express and SSMS and work with those on your computer.

Actually, an Oracle job pays really well if you want to do that. You'd have to start in an entry level position, but even those pay pretty well from what I'm told. I wasn't impressed with Oracle. I went to Oracle University in Boston for several course, paid for by the company I worked for at the time (COMDEX/Key3Media), They had a new CEO and he decided that Visual FoxPro was dead (it was not) and old tech and wanted to use new tech. I told my boss it was going to be bad. I knew the users. They didn't like slow. When they replaced the custom VFP application with Oracle Financials it was terrible. One user came down to my office and told me that a process she does all the time that used to take 15 seconds to run in the VFP app, took 15 minutes in Oracle Financials!

Anyway, if you want to learn the .NET stuff, do what I said. And check out these sites:
Code Project Heavy focus on .NET tech, but other things too like HTML5 and others.
4 Guys From Rolla A lot of .NET stuff there.
Both sites have a lot of tutorials and downloadable sample code.
SQL Server Central Name says it all. Lots of good stuff there, articles, forums, in-depth tutorials.

Dana

Central air conditioner broke. Parents now need to fix it. Yes, I'm an unemployed college graduate who is living with parents. Can't wait to find a job so that I can spend money on the Daz Store. Dragon 3 looks good but I can't afford it now. lol

Hi all,

I'm currently using one of the staffs from Mystical Touch in a graphic novel project, and for a portion of the story, I need to be able to show the staff without the central orb.

Is there a simple way to edit this object to remove that sphere (and all the internal parts of it), by any chance? Transparencies probably won't be sufficient, because my art style uses "cartoon preview mode" as well, which negates transparencies. I'd need to be able to physically remove the orb from the staff.

Thanks for your time.

PS: I prefer to use Poser Pro, rather than DAZ Studio.

evilproducer said:

diomede64 said:

evilproducer said:

eyesee said:

Hi homey_jay,

I see you found a price you were happy with.

As to your problem, a good place to start would be to give details of your equipment.
Such as Operating system, amount of memory, processor, weather pc or laptop or whatever, any other software that you may have running at the same time (i.e Virus checkers, etc...), I think you said you had an Nvidia Quadro business graphics card but graphics card details would be useful for anyone else that hasn't read previous posts.

Edit:

Silene:

I think I'll move to Bristol. It's been raining all day again here., but hey, it's Manchester, what else is it going to do? Sun Shine is that that big yellow thing I saw once in the sky?)

Eyesee (Jedi Tea Master - Mug fully charged!)

Definitely more info would help!

Sorry for you Brits! It's 78ºF (25.5ºC) with a light breeze and sunny here in north-central Wisconsin. No work tomorrow and slow smoking a small beef brisket from our dearly departed Jersey steer, Whopper Jr.

EP, that looks tremendous. Getting in my car now. Should make Wisconsin in about 20 hours.

Actually, we have the annual pilgrimage of about 250,000 motorcycles here this weekend. To celebrate, I rode a bicycle down by the monuments. Felt a little out classed, but I wouldn't miss it.

Are you referring to D.C.?

Yes, this is Rolling Thunder weekend. Obviously, Memorial Day is all about the veterans, especially with troops still in harms way across the globe, but the motorcycle thing has taken on a life of its own - in addition to its connection to vets.

diomede64 said:

evilproducer said:

eyesee said:

Hi homey_jay,

I see you found a price you were happy with.

As to your problem, a good place to start would be to give details of your equipment.
Such as Operating system, amount of memory, processor, weather pc or laptop or whatever, any other software that you may have running at the same time (i.e Virus checkers, etc...), I think you said you had an Nvidia Quadro business graphics card but graphics card details would be useful for anyone else that hasn't read previous posts.

Edit:

Silene:

I think I'll move to Bristol. It's been raining all day again here., but hey, it's Manchester, what else is it going to do? Sun Shine is that that big yellow thing I saw once in the sky?)

Eyesee (Jedi Tea Master - Mug fully charged!)

Definitely more info would help!

Sorry for you Brits! It's 78ºF (25.5ºC) with a light breeze and sunny here in north-central Wisconsin. No work tomorrow and slow smoking a small beef brisket from our dearly departed Jersey steer, Whopper Jr.

EP, that looks tremendous. Getting in my car now. Should make Wisconsin in about 20 hours.

Actually, we have the annual pilgrimage of about 250,000 motorcycles here this weekend. To celebrate, I rode a bicycle down by the monuments. Felt a little out classed, but I wouldn't miss it.

Are you referring to D.C.?

evilproducer said:

eyesee said:

Hi homey_jay,

I see you found a price you were happy with.

As to your problem, a good place to start would be to give details of your equipment.
Such as Operating system, amount of memory, processor, weather pc or laptop or whatever, any other software that you may have running at the same time (i.e Virus checkers, etc...), I think you said you had an Nvidia Quadro business graphics card but graphics card details would be useful for anyone else that hasn't read previous posts.

Edit:

Silene:

I think I'll move to Bristol. It's been raining all day again here., but hey, it's Manchester, what else is it going to do? Sun Shine is that that big yellow thing I saw once in the sky?)

Eyesee (Jedi Tea Master - Mug fully charged!)

Definitely more info would help!

Sorry for you Brits! It's 78ºF (25.5ºC) with a light breeze and sunny here in north-central Wisconsin. No work tomorrow and slow smoking a small beef brisket from our dearly departed Jersey steer, Whopper Jr.

EP, that looks tremendous. Getting in my car now. Should make Wisconsin in about 20 hours.

Actually, we have the annual pilgrimage of about 250,000 motorcycles here this weekend. To celebrate, I rode a bicycle down by the monuments. Felt a little out classed, but I wouldn't miss it.