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by nigec
06 Jul 2013, 19:36
Forum: Nigec's Place in the Dirt
Topic: Its been a longer while!
Replies: 3
Views: 5303

Its been a longer while!

I do keep putting my head around the door, I just never have anything useful to say! Some bits n pieces: Gargoyle; Zbrush, Sculptis, Sketchup, Thea render.. plants are Xfrog I think gargoyle.png Bates Motel, I didn't do the model, I needed to use a load of instances to find a bug and I just came acr...
by nigec
28 Aug 2012, 10:23
Forum: TechForum
Topic: Any way to limit hyperthreading to less cores?
Replies: 5
Views: 3845

Re: Any way to limit hyperthreading to less cores?

Run With Affinity def does work, but not sure about Mac,, I know Linux has the option I'm not sure if I would do that over any length of time, the electrician side of me concludes something heating up different areas isn't a good idea If you've had the laptop for awhile make sure the heat sink isn't...
by nigec
25 Aug 2012, 11:30
Forum: TechForum
Topic: Daz Studio 4.5 Rigging
Replies: 16
Views: 11264

Re: Daz Studio 4.5 Rigging

Carrara might be another option, dig around for back issues of 3D world and 3D Artist mags, both had the pro versions for free, probably easier than DAZ to learn and some good tuts It would be so cool if DAZ could take all the best qualities out of Bryce, Daz Studio, Carrara and Hexagon and make one...
by nigec
10 Aug 2012, 19:22
Forum: TechForum
Topic: Considering installing Windows 8 Preview
Replies: 11
Views: 6920

Re: Considering installing Windows 8 Preview

Why not try the developers preview that will clean install from a usb, assuming its still available. I ran it on a 4 year old Intel dual core and it worked fine all be it a bit buggy but this was March so it should be a lot better. It is really quick about on par with Linux on the same machine, but ...
by nigec
06 Aug 2012, 20:27
Forum: tS 6.6
Topic: trueSpace 6.6 service packs
Replies: 50
Views: 35520

Re: trueSpace 6.6 service packs

I had 6.5 updated to 6.6 running on Win8 32bit no problem, I had more issues with Vista and my AMD CPU's! XP it was rock solid I never ran TS6.6 with any more than 2GB of RAM infact at the end of the Cali days I was using a XP2000 office computer running XP and just over 1GB of Ram and a crappy 64me...
by nigec
02 Aug 2012, 11:12
Forum: U3DA Graphic Art Challenge
Topic: 3D Cartoon Character Design: U3DA Challenge COMMENTS
Replies: 68
Views: 34729

Re: 3D Cartoon Character Design: U3DA Challenge COMMENTS

I don't mind the combined contest although I did enjoy the SMC as I liked the idea, do, done aproach

Nice work everyone :worship:
by nigec
22 Jul 2012, 12:13
Forum: U3DA Graphic Art Challenge
Topic: 3D Cartoon Character Design: U3DA Challenge
Replies: 13
Views: 9222

Re: 3D Cartoon Character Design: U3DA Challenge

SteamPunk'd Wall-E: What's He Lookin At...
Maybe not that cartoonie
Anyway its Sketchup, rendered in Thea, baked AO, portraits by Jenn Hawk
walle2a.png
wallies.jpg
by nigec
07 Jul 2012, 20:52
Forum: Nigec's Place in the Dirt
Topic: Its been awhile
Replies: 12
Views: 10733

Re: Its been awhile

Hi Saul sorry I missed this; With frontal projection you can use it to project the background image onto a floor plane, here's an example: Image1.png It doesn't matter what angle the plane or object is at the material will always line up with the background In the below AO is rendered as a channel a...
by nigec
21 Jun 2012, 14:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: sketch up pro
Replies: 7
Views: 3718

Re: sketch up pro

Grab yourself Thom Thom's CleanUp Tool for SU it work's with Pro and the free Sketchup, it wont cure your problem but it will clean up the geometry a lot better: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22920&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=purge" onclick="window.open...
by nigec
20 Jun 2012, 17:28
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Microsoft Surface and 3d...
Replies: 7
Views: 3534

Re: Microsoft Surface and 3d...

I ran Win8 on a 4 year old Intel dual core laptop and didn't need any extra drivers etc, I usually use it as a render node and it was about 15% quicker than Vista and 10% Linux Mint, with Win8 the Render node was quicker than the server desktop running Vista which should be the faster system lol I j...