everyone is still in a panic mode, uneducated investors are dumping shares everywhere whether the company turns profit or not, and even seasoned investors are doing it. This has everything to do with the downturn and the industry doldrums that people say come and go.
Per the ee slate 121 "CPU/GPU Core i5 with integrated HD graphics" IE Intel Graphics. Bleh. If someone comes out with the new ATI with integrated graphics, that might be just enough for 3d work.
Yah I can't really afford a new CPU atm, I'd rather wait for the Six Core's to come out or the i7's to drop in price. So I have $200 to spend on a worthwile upgrade still.
I am attempting to render "smooth" meshes for a scene in Maya. Renders fine in Maya Software mode (but doesn't show smooth meshes) but when I switch to Mental Ray the render comes out black. All materials are Lambert, all textures are jpegs.
Have you tried an AI upscaler yet? This sounds like the perfect method since your graphics already exists but are just a bit too small. It might add the detail that you need without the need to redo the graphics from scratch. There are online services that allows you image upscaling. Also free ones. It must not be Topaz…
I've put a couple of hours in with the model graphs now and.... Its basically in a beta state at the moment IMO - it's quite crashy, there's a pretty rudimentary set of prebuilt nodes, documentation is incomplete and you can't work with subgraphs (yet?) - I find that last bit the most frustrating. The initial learning…
You can get the median by finding the halfway point between the outputs of a min/max node As you say, you can get the mean (ish) by blurring or downsampling. If you want the mode or some sort of weighted value you're kind of buggered - any kind of histogram analysis is highly impractical in designer
thanks man , smoothing groups are a core functionality on my workflow and this script would have come handy lota of time contact me if you need me to help on anything !
haha guys, these are great ideas. Thanks much. Without a doubt, i'm going to look into all (okay, almost all) of them. keep them coming! i'm in sponge mode!