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[2013-09-14 13:27:07 +0000 UTC]
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# Comments
Comments: 157
Thank you very much
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You're welcome my friend
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Thank you,although i'm not too proud of the fact that i've reached lvl 30 now
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Soul age is more important ! 
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You're welcome
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Well,i've been better,but i've been worse too. Still somewhat recovering from the flu. How have you been?
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oh darn that must suck
i am doin ewll. just busy with work usually . . .
Sorry for the late reply!
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No prob and good to hear you're doing well
It did suck badly for about 4 or 5 days,ruining a good chance for me to do a contribution to a Halloween project. Hopefully,this will be first and last time for me to get sick this year.
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I pray for the same my friend
At least it didn happen on Christmas!
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Well, i do hope i'll be healthy when Christmas time comes around
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Indeed~ dont want to miss out on that!
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Yep,especially if the christmas contest has some nice prices for first to third place
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Contest for what though? :3
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Blender
During certain times such asΒ Christmas , Halloween or Easter,they always have contests.
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And hail the Night Mother!
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You have done the Vrotherhood quest line ?
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Yes,several times. i always joined the brotherhood whenever i started a new game
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It's the only guild where you can really feel home, in a family
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Only, you'll be betrayed in that family. I really don't like Astrid.
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I got betrayed in mine you know, the only thing I don't like are the way the old Mage was executed and that Veezara diedΒ
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I liked snuggling up with the night mother in her coffin
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The first time it really freak me out, and I was playing at night with a head set and without light
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If you're getting freaked out by that,then i don'T want to know how you'd react when playing Alien Isolation in the dark with headphones on
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I was not That freaked by the night mother but it scared me a bit
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The only thing i thought when playing trough the first time,is that it was a cool idea,but also complained about the blurry textures
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Yea it's a problem
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Hey there! What version of Blender do you use? You seem to make it look easy ^^Β
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I'm currently still using Blender 2.71 and have yet to update to 2.73. It might seem easy,but trust me,it's not. I've spend countles hours to learn how to use the program. Sure,learning how to make something simple out of a cube or cylinder is rather easy,but depending on what it is you want to model,it can become very complex very quickly,especially when you want/need to put in a lot of detail.
But modeling itself is not the most difficult thing,at least not for me. The most difficult part is texturing and especially the shader setups. There's a lot you can screw up there.
When unwrapping a model you need to precisely mark the seams,otherwise the textures will look funny. And to properly setup the shaders,you need to know what each node does and how to properly put them together to achieve the desired effect.
Another difficult thing to use are particle systems and the physic based simulations such as water,fire and smoke. It took me a considerable amount of time to learn how to work with particle systems and i still make very basic mistakes now and then.Β
But despite the steep learning curve,i think it's definately worth it.Β
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I totally get that! I have modeled a decent looking griffin however the normal was opposite and made some parts look inside out. I figured it out, although it wont let all the normas be one way (Theres always a sneaky place where the shading looks wacko). But yeah, seams on character models are hard (especially when there is Β lag). Which comes to my next question...
How do you stop the lag? I seem to have difficulty with lagging problems since there are so many vertices. It keeps crashing and saying my graphics card can't handle it. Do you know a solution? I'm thinking of upgrading the g-card but it seems expensive...
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To fix normals,go into edit mode and on the left hand side in the toolbar,go to the Shading/UVs tab and press "Recalculate". That should fix your problem with flipped normals.
If not,you can select the faces individually and hit the "Flip Normals" button in the same tab i mentioned before.
As for the slowdown/lag you're experiencing,are you using subsurface modifiers by any chance? If so,it's best to not set them too high,wheter it's in the vewport or during rendering. I had many cases where Blender refused to render an object or scene and crashed due to the subsurface modifier bein set too high for one or more objects.
As for graphics cards,they definately make rending a lot faster depending on what card you get. Also,ram and CPU speed play a big role as well,especially when you work with physics based simulations such as cloth,water,fire & smoke.
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thank you!
Yes... I am using subsurface modifiers... at a high standard ^^' the problem is is that i added the modifier already (I think... gotta check that) And Thanks for the normals tip, it really helped out a lot
Yeah, I'm using hair particles and my computer hates it. Hopefully decreasing the subsurface modifier will help.
Thanks again
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You're very welcome and i'd really like to see your model
And as a tip: NEVER apply modifiers unless you really have to. It doesn't really matter how big the modifier list becomes,as long as everything is in the right order. That way you'll always be able to make small adjustments when needed. As for hair particles,yes they can be a real pain when it comes to rendering. You can reduce the amount shown in the viewport however,by decreasing the percentage in the particle settings.Β
Also,you can comb hair,though to be honest i've never done that myself before,so i do not know much about that.
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