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Gallery / Re: That November mood...

« on: 2016-11-03, 12:36:14 »

Well done! I'd like to mention a few things that came to my mind:
- the leaves on the lawn should be a bit more scattered
- the leaves and flowers in the shadow-area look to bright and saturated to me
- the reflection in the windows look a bit strange, because this single window reflects a blue sky
- the leaves in the foreground: Premultiply-errors?

Hello and thank you for ur insight. I think you are right on all of the points, I will work on it :)

About the blue reflection, the hdri itself has some blue sky on it so probably that window is the only one reflecting it, which therefore appears to be wrong.. I will try desaturation on final piece there ..

Have a nice day!

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Gallery / That November mood...

« on: 2016-11-03, 11:25:28 »

Good Morning everyone,

This is actually my first post to this section as I've always prefered to watch than to be watched..
But well today I am in the mood to show you one piece of the project I work on now (which are actually windows shades/nets) as it goes quite well with the current autumn weather outside..

It is still not the final piece, interior has to be finished and some details as well, but I think you may find it quite pleasant :)

I will be happy to see your thoughts on it down below..

I will also post full project once its fully finished... So far it's not about all the perfect technical details, but about that november mood ... ;)

Thank you for your time!

//UPDATE : You can find finished project here:  https://www.behance.net/gallery/45797179/CLIMAX-set5

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[Max] I need help! / Re: [solved] Backburner rendering restarting

« on: 2016-09-20, 17:22:59 »

Hello, sorry for interrupting this thread but I would like to ask how you use backburner to render single frame on your slave?  I have no experience with backburner whatsoever but it would be very valuable for me to know, as I havent found any specific thread on this topic on the forum. As maru asked, could you maybe do some 1 2 3 step "tutorial"?? thanks! :)

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[Max] I need help! / Re: [solved]File Opening takes too long after crash

« on: 2016-04-29, 12:07:49 »

I am not quite sure what you are talking about.. do you mean import - merge option under general 3dsmax tab or is there something more to this?)

I actually saved it as a new scenes, divided by layers so I can find which geometry is false.. and then merged them all together to new project..
Was there easier and quicker way? :D

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[Max] I need help! / Re: File Opening takes too long after crash

« on: 2016-04-27, 13:54:54 »

Hi Maru and thank you very much for your advice! Sorry for the late reply I did not have much time to play with it..

I tried merging it as a whole with ctrl-a and save selected,  but  that did not work..
After hours of struggle, it finally did work, when I went through the model, deleted some useless geometry and then resaved the model to parts according to layers and then merged it to one file..
Now it works again very fast:)

Thank you anyway

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[Max] I need help! / [solved]File Opening takes too long after crash

« on: 2016-04-21, 14:08:19 »

Hi guys,

I would like a little bit of help.

While rendering my PC went blue screen because of some driver I guess, but that is not the issue.
The issue is that the file I was working on now takes few minutes to open, even though before the crash it took maybe 10-20 seconds.. It is really annoying..

Can you guess what might be the problem and how to maybe repair it? I had done a lot since the last save and I would like not to roll back:)

Thank you for any suggestions or advice,

Best regards,
David

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[Max] Resolved Feature Requests / Active render frame/view switch

« on: 2016-04-01, 11:26:52 »

Hey guys,
I am not entirely sure if this was not posted yet, but as there is so many request I was not able to find it.. If it was, sorry for duplicating.

I think it would be really time saving and helpful to have the feature of switching between region/fullview rendering while the actual render is going on.
I bet everyone here experienced that some parts of the image would need more passes while the others are finished, and instead of switching to region render and rendering the region again,
it would be nice if we could focus the render on the parts which are not completely done, while rendering!

I am not really into the programming and I have no idea if this is hard to do, but it would be very helpful, at least for me:)

Thank you guys anyway and keep up the good work.
Cheers

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2016-01-07, 19:29:28 »

Hey guys, It's been quite a while since this topic, and I wanted to thank you all once again for your advices.
I was thinking a little update would be appropriate :)
So after all I spent approx. 2500 euros:

MB: asus x99-pro
PS: Evga 750W
Box: Fractal Design Define S
CPU: 5960x
GPU: Asus gtx 970 OC
Ram: 32GB Kingston 2666mhz 4x8
CPU cooler : Noctua d-15
SSD: 500GB Samsung EVO
HDD : WD Black 1TB for now
and additional 2 noctua 140mm Pwn coolers for the case

So far I am very satisfied, haven't had that much time play with it that much during Christmas break though,
Now I am doing some overclocking via UEFI, currently I am testing 4.5ghz on 1.2v with XMP activated for RAM,
Can you advice me what is the best stability test? and how long should I run it? Currently I am using Aida64 and after one hour it seems pretty stable, I think I have to try at least 8 hours..
CPU Temperatures keep under 80, with average 60-70, motherboard is stable at 30..
When I try 3ds max rendering the temperatures usually stay under 65, which I hope is ok :)

That's it, anyway Happy new year to everyone and good luck with your renders:)

Kind regard,
David

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-15, 18:06:15 »

Yup, but just for 5 months or so as it was mandatory part of my education and then I had to go back to DK. But still I was really happy to spend some time home and also their team is chilled and friendly hah :) But to be honest, I was quite horrified how low the actual salary is for the starting architects there, I mean Slovakia as a whole :D Considering how much workload and working hours are there..  Anyway, I was doing some visualizations for them and it got me that feeling that this could be the way for me, so here I am)


One question I wanted to ask you for a long time now, do you also take interns to your studio? Or "part-time" workers? I actually was considering asking you back then, but as it was outside of range of my education, I probably couldn't go anyway. And now I am not a student any longer so.. :D

(anyway, I think this goes quite out of the subject here:D)

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-15, 16:24:15 »

Given you buy from Alza.sk I am going to ask where you reside :-  )?

Hah I knew you would notice. I'm from Trencin, but I did my bachelor in Denmark and currently still live here. But I think I plan to move back to Slovakia in few years.
Actually I had a conversation with you on facebook once, about internship at BEEF, and that's what actually got me even more interested in CG world, especially Archviz. I just finished bachelor few months back, and I am probably too lazy to do master's, so archviz seem like a good choice, vs. architecture where I would have to study another 2 years and then get a lots of years of experience to finally be able to do my own work. I am pretty much enjoying both the same, so for now I want to focus on archviz and try to find some first clients and improve step by step (until I'm at your level haha). Well and maybe I could do architecture and interior design as a hobby or so. I'm just 23 so there is a lot of time to figure out:)

Anyways, Thanks guys for your comments here, now I have much more knowledge of putting pc together so it's balanced. Anyway, I think the prices might change within next 2 months, so hopefully I would be able to save some more. This year Christmas will be epic :D

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-15, 13:06:25 »

https://www.alza.sk/EN/components/18852654.htm Here you go, I'm 80% sure I will use this e-store:) That's the one I already used screen from. If you have some spare time and find joy in this, feel free to suggest anything:) Thank you

One question, what do you guys think of water cooling of processor? Is it just overrated because it's new and cool? Or does it have advantage over air-based ones? For example the NZXT Kraken X61 ? Or this one : https://www.alza.sk/corsair-cooling-hydro-series-h105-d1638095.htm?catid=18849473 ?

Ok so now im here(pretty satisfied) :

Power-source :Fractal Design Integra M 650W - 85E
Motherboard: ASUS x99-A - 272E
Processor :  Intel Core i7-5820K - 422E
GPU : EVGA GeForce GTX970 FTW ACX 2.0 - 403E
RAM:  Kingston 32GB KIT DDR4 2666MHz CL15 HyperX Fury Black Series (4x8GB) - 223E
SSD disk:  Samsung 850 EVO 250GB - 110E
HDD:  WD Black 2000GB 64MB cache - 140E
Cooler: NOCTUA NH-D15 - 92E
Case : Fractal Design Define S - 86E

Altogether : 1840E

What do you guys think?

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-15, 00:07:28 »

Ok, I will do so:)

One more question, from your point of view, it is better to buy more expensive processor and worse GPU or worse processor and better GPU ?
Let's say or 5960X + GTX760(maybe something better) or 5820 + GTX 970(980TI maybe) ? If the purpose was sole modeling and rendering?
 

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-14, 23:26:01 »

Thank you for your feedback again, I would love to hear your advice on fans/case options on "tight" budget:)

And about this "gimmicky" motherboard, I found out that Krate edition means that it is black and white, and I think that's it. It was at discount atm, and there was cooler (probably useless) added, so that's why I picked that one. Should I stick with normal ones?

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-14, 22:47:33 »

Thank you for reply Juraj,
I would be really happy for more advice, especially from you.

Anyway, to be honest, I still have 1 or 2 months of saving money, but I wanted to have some idea about how much I have to save up.
So that's the reason I just researched the key components, not fans etc. So I am listening.
I basically added that up there to see that I need additional 20-30 euros for fan etc, the same goes for a case, is it worth spending more money on that?)

About the Ram, so it is better to use more GB of cheaper ones?

I have a lot of time figuring the setup up, so feel free to add some comments when you have enough time:)

Also, is there anything new that is going to be released in following months that would be worth waiting for?
Thanks:)

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Hardware / Re: Advice on new Workstation for beginner

« on: 2015-10-14, 21:22:59 »

I just placed it there so I can see the final price, haven't done much research on HDD:) But thanks for the info, I had no idea haha