Sombody shoot me pleeeze?

[kiwi]

Ever spent hours setting up a light rig and not being able to get rid of illum somewhere only to find out the default light is on....doh!!!:scream: ......I have.....maybe we should share the bullet bud :D


Ok what other doofus things have the members here done come on this could be a good laugh thread as we will be laughing with yas not at yas:thumbsup:



Stu.

[Grey]

lmao! Yes I do hear you... oh the complex life we lead... thank god there are people out there who understtand :D

[LucentDreams]

ever get frustated withan image in your alhpa or bump channel that just wouldn't show up, you fool anfd fiddel and it jsut won't render, and then you realise you forgot to check the box to activate that channel :)

(the auto light gets me a lot on GI scenes so I turned it off by default)

howaout the ol "I can move the object for dome odd damn reason" whe your in point mode or axis mode or something other than object/model

Or getting frustrated with a littl piece of mesh that doesn't stick to its bone, only because you spelt the vertex map differently in the restriction tag.

Or having a light turned off in the render, as a child of seomething else so you don't look at it when doing test renders, and oyu wonder where the light is.

Or you can't select polys only because your in point mode.



Yeah I knowI get brain farts all the time, like where are my glasses, when they are on my nose.

[Grey]

<---just did something else stupid :D

I'm playing with decal mapping on a Star Trek mesh I downloaded in LWO... so the thing comes in with the textures all out of whack, but basically intact...

anyway, so the guy has the ncc-1701 decaled onto the saucer and I noticed: no alpha map? So I used the same IFF file with Colorizer to make an alpha map. and put it in the alpha channel...

Doi, there's no map underneath it so everything but the letters went away...

[prayas]

boom right now you were shot by me! I think everybody had the same problems somehow. Don't care on this! Drink a bear!

P..:

[kiwi]

Ah now I feel sane again :scream:


I have done all of the above....hahahahaa:D


Heres one for me yesterday.I had an area on the side of a Castle tower I wanted to extrude,the tower was cylindrical so when I extruded all the points went to hell,so I meticulously pulled them all back into line,taking about 20 minutes I think it was,when all I had to do was select the polys,select inverse hide the rest,line up the points of the selection,extrude a dribble then drag the selection out straight,the difference being 15 minutes :D


Something I have found helpfull for a texture you need to re use on the same object in differing places is give it a number instead of a name ie 1 as your copy becomes 1.1 and so on,saves a bit of time I find.



Kai have you noticed how the static from your monitor screams party party party to the lens of your glasses all the time and they continously end up all gunked?,a workaround I have found is a glass cleaning cloth beside the monitor,no smearing,and the bonus is they are also brilliant for rubbing down Wacom overlays to smooth them just a bit more and reduce that horrid scratching sound that arises from time to time :thumbsup:



Stu.

[LucentDreams]

got the cloth always next to my computer (have on at school at my desk, they a;lso com in handy for cleaning monitors and animation disc glass.

[say-g]

the other day i spent 3 hrs playing around with mayas hyper shade to get my texture to show in the workspace and all i had to do was press 6 on the keyboard lol

[Grey]

Yesterday I was rendering an animation... (Poser animation in Cinema).

So, I did everything right...

The framerate in Poser: set to 12fps
the framerate in Cinema: set to 12fps

Set it, let it go...

It's a three second animation, so two hours later it was on frame 38... more than three seconds...

I had forgot to set the render engine to 12fps... it was still on 30...

BTW, this the animation I was working on is here:
http://iangrey.0catch.com/index.html

Warning NUDITY :D

[kiwi]

I love this thread :D


Last night I was making a snakes tail for a kind of statue type object to connect to a head.I used a cube and started stretching and rotating points into an arc,got about from say 0 degrees to 70 and realized I could just use a spline.....doh!!! :scream:


say-g I have had a really busy view window setup before with every object nicely in its place,gone for the 3 key {rotate} and hit 4 {move} and ended up spending quite a while fixing it :D



I would like an AI plugin for our apps that is cross platform across all progs.What it does is works out when you are about do a big doh! and sounds a Titanic type fog horn and one of Robert Deneros psycho type voices screams at you "Dont touch that button!!,then an electric pulse is sent through your key board to re start your heart again :D


Stu.

[neilyb]

There are people that can help you Stu.....but only as long as you take ALL the tablets! :wavey:

[kiwi]

Hahahahhahaaa :scream: :scream: rofl rofl.


I will take that under advisement Dr Neil :thumbsup:



Stu.

[Grey]

Stu would do well to get away from a computer for about a month... in the Outback :D

[kiwi]

Ya youre probably right bud....only problem I need a stick to walk with,and I am not allowed to drive anymore,or drink for that matter.they do however let me breathe :D



Stu.

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