you know you might be a 3D geek when...

[Heavily Tessellated]

So I'm at the Phish show at MSG on Weds 12/02, and maybe it's all the second-hand smoke contact buzz... but maybe it's just me...

OK let's see, those light beams, definitely DMX lighting companies provide IES profiles, but the atmospherics, man the volumetric bounds will have to be thick and highly scattering... and even using low-poly Poser exported meshes for the tens of thousands of phamily, assuming I could script the backface culling to minimize the millions upon millions of verts... well, at least the texturing is simple, you can't see the color of anyone's clothes, it's just the color of the effects lighting, plus all the LED toys and cell phone screens and glow sticks... and since everyone is standing you don't have to model the arena seats, that's a huge savings...

Wait, what song is this?

[Lord Crc]

LOL yeah have it like that sometimes too. It's worse when you look at something (say a chair) and thinks it looks fake cause it looks "rendered"

[SATtva]

Ahahaha, I'm below the table. =DDDDDD Everything's true, that's what most scary. :))

[psor]

Hahahaha, ... I feel ya. Often I catch myself looking at surfaces and and know the parameter I have
to use in a material editor when I did use it a lot. Well, it has an advantage less testing. If I wouldn't
dislike unwrapping/texturing that much it would be great.


take care
psor

[Synthercat]

...when you are out on a fieild peeing on a tree/bush watching nature and feel overwhelmed by the number of faces!

...when you sneeze and think "wow! Now THAT was physics!"

...when you see a really dirty/semi-demolished pavement with some wet moist mud on side and a worn asphalt on the other and go... HOT DAMN! (I do that a lot! lol)

...when you see many leftovers of a stick tape (is it called scorch tape?) to a wall and instantly think "hmm? would I layer it on the material or should I make it as a separate object?"

and last that happened to me...

...when you decorate the Christmas tree with your wife and kids (yes I got 2. I am 32) and just to the though "Hey! I will crap at this but I should propose a luxrender/blender Christmas tree contest for fun!" (are you in?)

[MikeJ]

second-hand smoke

Anyone else's veracity meter quiver?



Mike

[Heavily Tessellated]

Anyone else's veracity meter quiver?

I know, right? At a Phish concert no less. But other than some tasty bottles of red wine, it was a drug-free evening. I must be getting old.

...when you see a really dirty/semi-demolished pavement with some wet moist mud on side and a worn asphalt on the other and go... HOT DAMN! (I do that a lot! lol)

I do too!

[ni-ko-o-kin]

do you know the feeling when you modeling for about 10 or 14 hours and you're realy into it and then you go back to the real world. exactly that moment, when you switch between real and virtual world. somehow it's like the moment between asleep and awake.

...when you see a really dirty/semi-demolished pavement with some wet moist mud on side and a worn asphalt on the other and go... HOT DAMN! (I do that a lot! lol)

yes, me too!!!!!!
niko
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edit: to crazy?
edit: yes

[doby974]

When you look at a tree moving with the wind with thousands of leaves dancing together and you ask yourself "omg, should i use an armature with softbody to animate this ? Damn will be hard to associate vertex groups with each branch ! can gen3 make a tree like this ? maybe treeFromCurves ? What if i put a wind force with an ipo driver ? will it looks like this ? Omg do i have enough ram on my pc for all these blades of grass ? Damn this scene is impossible to model, i'll think of it in 10 years... omg its not possible, can't wait, need a better machine, with more ram, more cpu, more cores, more gpu, have to buy this... maybe amd or intel or Nvidia are on something new, let's take a look at their website when i come back home..." Then your girlfriend get you back to the reality : "What the hell are you looking at ?"

[ZanQdo]

I once awoke from my sleep and my room was in wire frame, then the wall textures quickly faded in from the bottom and the roof's at last