matthewhickey

I can set a safe frame in rhino, but it's not linked with vray, so I have to copy and paste the camera info into the command.

3DS Max is nice, but this is the V-Ray they give at my school. I'm probably going ot buy student v-ray for 3ds Max before I graduate to get the pricing. How would you get the frame to appear in the viewport of 3ds Max? Better to learn now, than to come back. I've used mental ray in 3ds max, but I have never used 3ds max for modelling, each program has it's pros and cons.

Does anyone need clarification on what I need? I thought this was possible, let me know. I'm truly curious.

I have V-Ray for Rhino, at least 2.0 In Maya, there is a film gate button which shows the render constraints as a box in the viewport, is this possible in rhino with v-ray? This is what I want: http://joshuamosley.com/tutorials/MayaRender/CameraPanel.gif I want to know the constraints of the camera in my viewport so I don't need to render to see where the object is. I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I couldn't find it with google. Thanks!

I am trying to model a bamboo structure in Rhino with Vray, but my texture mapping is not working the way I want it to I have tried planar, surface, and cylindrical mapping. I've also tried rotating the UVW map and changing the UVW repeat. I am using my rendered viewport to see how the textures are mapped before rendering in V-Ray. (see screenshot) What would you recommend to have it look like bamboo? I am using a simple texture, I've added my file, the texture maps are made with crazybump. I would just control the repeat to get more segments. Any advice would be useful, I'm getting better at this, but argh, rhino is not great for mapping textures...

Hello all, I am doing a primitive style hut for a school project. I am trying to render my building with a thatched roof. I saw this tutorial and thought it was possible! But I'm using Maya 2015, is maya hair replaced with xgen hair? Darn! Here is the tutorial I am talking about: How do I do this in Maya 2015? Is there a way to paint effect on every vertex without doing it by hand?

I use my laptop for working everywhere, and my workstation desktop for rendering (DR spawner). I recently acquired a second HDD larger than my laptop SSD, so I'm wondering if there was a way to sync my laptop's SSD to the second HDD on the desktop, so I could boot to that if I wanted to, and also to keep a 2nd backup. Which software would I need if possible? I basically want it to copy everything, once a day, over the internet (networked HDD on desktop). It sounds possible... Thanks in advance!

I grew up in NYC in 1992, living in Tribeca, before it radically changed. My parents run a small expediting firm specializing in equipment permits, I have been closely involved with this process since I was 13. My knowledge of NYC code and the changing neighborhood allowed me to accumulate an interest in construction and architecture. In high school I wanted to be an artist, but my mother studied engineering, sharing her benefits of that with me through her work ethic and dedication. I eventually chose RPI for my undergraduate B.Arch and will be finishing in May. I look forward to continuing my career first time outside of internships I've had at smaller firms. MY thesis year is coming to an end. I am designing a self-sufficient house for the slums of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria. I look forward to presenting, as well as sharing any difficulties I come across as I wrap this up. I have a personal website, please check it out as my "beta" testers and let me know if anything doesn't work, or needs fixing. I share it with firms I am applying to and it is still under construction. http://www.matthewhickey.nyc I also run a bitcoin blog with my neighbor (a stock "broker") in NYC. It covers reviews of bitcoin related technologies, altcoins, opinion pieces, interviews, etc. We started the website several months ago in October. http://www.cryptocrooks.com I look forward to being a part of this community and I will offer all the help I can, I look forward to learning with you and sharing my ideas. Thank you for reading!

Without any doubt in my mind, Halo (trial), the demo is free and it can play on any (for the most part) computer. The servers are still running and you can play online on the infamous Blood Gultch level, basically the only one anyone plays. For the most part, it's easy to pick up and play, but hard to put down, the multiplayer is amazing, and the trial is free! If they don't like FPS, table tennis is fine, but I don't think table tennis (by rockstar) runs on the PC. I'm a huge fan of ping pong, but I don't have my own table, and rockstar's game is the only one with decent controls. I've tried plenty of freeware games, and it's nowhere as intuitive as real life, ahhah. Let us know what you choose! have fun.

Oh boy, it's kind of like using a Pentium 4, while the Core 2 Duo were out. Technology is upgrading faster than the software that uses it. I'm in NYC and I believe I could find anything given a day or two. I wouldn't doubt you that they're getting hard to find, especially new. This city is incredible, off-topic, but damn, if I moved somewhere else, I'm satisfied mainly in just wandering cities, going down allies, going into storefronts. There's a fascinating relationship between the moving worker, and the static buildings.

I understand what you're saying and I've worked with computers many years, I've been fascinated since I was a child. I must have looked at the wrong list, because I thought they were still using LGA 1366. I'm spending my free time on this, I've been pretty busy this week volunteering, interviewing, producing. Dmitri's Blog is Great, I love it, he's very smart, and I've taken some of his ideas into consideration. I'm polling from multiple sources, and my own experience. Workstation builds with Xeon aren't worth it unless they're $5000, because of the price for entry isn't as powerful as top of the line i7. I use Intel Extreme workstations at school, it's extremely satisfying watching those boxes go around and reveal an image, these computers are 4 years old, would I buy one? Yes, but at the right price. http://www.arch.rpi.edu/school/digital-lab/ Intel Core i7 980 Extreme w/ 6 dual-cores (3.33GHz, 12MB Cache) There's fast enough, and then there's fastest. Fastest doesn't last long and future technology will be better. I'd rather spend less now, and swap parts out, putting $200 in a year. Here's the last CL, you don't need to click, I posted the specs below, I won't pay $2000, but anyone with an i7 wants a premium, my laptop (T530) has an i7. It doesn't exactly slaughter renders. Fractal Design Arc Midi EVGA Supernova G2 1000W (Gold Certified) ASUS Sabertooth Z87 Motherboard Intel i7-4770K Processor 16 GB Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM 2 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290x 4GB (AMD Crossfire) Crucial m500 240GB SSD Hitachi 2TB Deskstar HDD http://newjersey.craigslist.org/sys/4912897631.html I try to keep the responses short, but it leaves them open to interpretation. Thanks! What can I say, I love craigslist?

Wow, you really know your stuff. I understand alot more about scalability, budgets, purpose, etc. What would you recommend I offer on this computer? http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sys/4912812296.html COMPONENTS DETAILS Motherboard Asus P6t deluxe LGA1366 CPU Intel Xeon X5670 6-core 12-thread RAM Kingston Hyper 12GB DDR3 1866 PSU EVGA 750w modular 80plus Heatsink Corsair H100i water cooling GPU Gigabyte R9 280X 3GB 384bit SSD Corsair 120GB CASE Corsair Midtower I will be using Vray 3.0 for 3dsMax, so it uses mainly CPU, with support for GPU rendering (390x, is possible in future). I think this is a great place for me to start, but the Xeon is an X5670, so it's a tad old. But it's upgradable. If anything, I'd upgrade to an 18 core when it becomes financially feasible. Let me know what you think and once again, Thanks for all the help! I greatly appreciate the knowledge and thoroughness of this community.

I know very little about Xeon processors, as I have literally never cared about them until this point. I do notice that the E5 and E7 from current generation are WAY more expensive. I've done some research and it seems that nobody has bothered to compared ati and nvidia cards side-by-side in vray, but either card will function well, albeit certain issues may exist with specific drivers, although they are constantly updating those and the software. So, in your professional opinion what is a great way to balance performance and cost? In terms of the xeon-style setup mentioned previously. Since those are rather cheap, but still powerful. Is there a specific dual xeon architecture? I do not know the names like the haswell ones in i7(?) (edit: reading into it haswell and ivy bridge architecture are behind the e7 and e5 too) You have been a great help thus far, you should have a bitcoin tip jar!

So those specs were a scam listing... damn, oh well, onward and upward. Ok, so I figured Intel is boss, every rendering program loves cores and clock speeds. Why not double the ante and start with this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z800-Dual-Xeon-Hex-Core-2-67GHz-12GB-RAM-1x1TB-1x500GB-2x300GB-HDDs-/291408713663?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43d95017bf Fill up the RAM slots, add some SSD for OS, and put in a better video card. Then I have a rendering beast! Thanks for the help everyone, this has been a great conversation.

I found this machine for $200, I think it's a great start, I can add some HDD and some Mem, then a new GPU! http://albany.craigslist.org/sys/4935721685.html If you don't want to look at the link, here are the specs: Components: Cooler Master Elite 310 MSI M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD FX 8350 Black Edition 4.0 GHz Kingston HyperX 8 GB DDR3 MSI TwinFrozr III GTX 660 2 GB Corsair CX750M 2x 7200 RPM 160 GB HDDs (RAID 0 (320 GB)), 7200 RPM 1 TB HDD