@flowseeker oh, definitely VERY interested. I was looking at buying 1 of those cases anyway. are they any good for protection or just looks?
seeing as my new iPhone 4 arrives hopefully today. any good cases you guys recommend? (apart from the free bumpers)
@spacesimon @meken oh, wait. can’t make it after all. I am swimming in lake Garda at that time. :)
@spacesimon @meken @NickLambert sounds like I’m in as well. :)
@frankjonen got rendertimes down by about 60%
@frankjonen actually no, but wholly mis-configured shaders paired with way to huge textures and a few other things.
@NickLambert hehe. no worries. I’m just playing drama queen over here. :)
@NickLambert sure, pour salt into the wound. here’s the salt shaker.
ah. nice to relax again on a Saturday. now if only the new iPhone @NickLambert shipped to me would arrive today. :)
@frankjonen …the rendertimes where what you’d expect from a mental ray render. until I got my hands on them that is. :)
@frankjonen and probably. but we produced with mental ray over here. the assets came with mental ray in mind and the rendertimes…
@frankjonen can’t speak about the details yet. ;)
@mordecaidesign ha! good find! I totally forgot I put that up there. 2007. yes, that were the old websites colors. good that was long ago :)
@christopher_p hehe. well support in our case means me. so it isn’t that great. ;)
@christopher_p but that is a general problem. or are you saying your workstation is powerful enough and has enough disk-space? :)
@christopher_p yes, farms can be quite helpful or a real pain. depends a lot on the setup and the guy(s) maintaining it.
OH: place a can on the floor, smash it flat, now try to pull it back to how it was. see how it looks like crap? that’s called compression
anyone else ever had the problem that mental ray keeps generating shadowmaps way above 100%. like “300% done generating shadowmaps”?
@christopher_p but when I have time to breathe I will setup the farm properly and to do all kinds of things.
@christopher_p at the moment only render jobs. but that is a broad definition. creating proxies in Nuke counts for that as well.
@meken now I only need to figure out how to get proper progress messages from the renders. at the moment it is very much a blackbox.
@meken yep. with a nice little interface (in Maya & Nuke) to set up the render jobs. pretty neat actually.
great. now that the farm is running smoothly our own new Mac Pro arrives. I’ll never get a calm minute around here with all this admin stuff
@alexlehnert @mattkapp @christopher_p @meken but everything else works great. in-app submission from Maya & Nuke, etc.
@alexlehnert @mattkapp @christopher_p @meken all machines render fine, but some machines are unable to submit to the farm. kind of annoying