HeDaCoM

thank you I'm studying a specialization in landscape architecture also and doing my final project for architecture... a music museum I like landscape architecture very much. I had the privilege to assist to the 3th european biennial on landscape architecture this year.. and it was great. Héctor [ December 13, 2003, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: HeDaCoM ]

I think the main difference is the hard disk.. usually a 5000 rpm. or less.... and the memory speed 266Mhz. it is not a processor problem. the "mobile" thing is that has variable voltage capabilities.. so when you don't use the processor it doesn't consume battery. but it is as fast as a desktop processor.

I think it is better to have only one partition for everything and defrag every night. If you have two hard disks you can have documents in the second disk. this can increase performance. also if you put the pagefile in the second disk can improve performance. But this is another real hard disk. Not a partition. Having multiple partitions in one disk does not improve performance. it is to have multiple operating systems etc. it's a big mistake to make a 3Gb for windows. all programs also put dll and other shared files in the system folder, restoring, temp files.. etc. everything grows in the windows partition... it's better to defrag every day

so. you can open a VIZ6 file with a DWG linked drawing... and render it on max 6.... but you cannot reload it on max 6. :/

maybe you have to customize the toolbar again and add it.. or load the default UI again.

There is no DWG file link reloading capabilities in 3dsmax 6 yet... maybe in the future as an extension or something... but it is a mistake from Discreet. I don't want mentalray or anything if I don't have DWG file linking... so... people may buy Vray or some other render engines for MAX 4 or 5 before file linking is availible to max 6. Me for example. I can't imagine modeling in max. DWG linking is a real need for architectural visualization. cya

Interesting... I was only playing with the post nuke portal system..... but I think I don't like it. Very complicated to administrate. And limited design.... very poor.. I think I will do something more simple, efective and well designed. But this needs some time. greetings Héctor

File link is wonderful. I link all as layers. Each layer being a material. for ADT objects.. a multi sub material works perfect. I don't like the new VIZ render at all. very limited. only for rendering. and can't model or touch anything. Fortunately next version of MAX will read the new ".drf" files.

thanks. As Greg said... turning on SSE only rendered 6 seconds less than with SSE off in a 6 minutes rendering in islands.max at 2048x1536. Maybe SSE is not very well optimized for AMD in MAX. Maybe VRAY is more optimized. I wonder how it will be if max is optimized to use SSE2 and HT also with Intel processors. hmmmmmm I may get a dual xeon.. heh...

well. yes in fact what I wanted to say also is that stability in those XP2400 and XP2700 and XP is GREAT. Maybe the XP1900 has another kind of core. Had rendering all night an animation and recorded all the temperatures in a log. and never got more than 54º in the CPU. And is has a Silent 2700 rpm coolermaster, not a very powerful cooler. SO I think I could overclock them but I don't like to do that. by the other way.. I got one of those athlons becase a Pentium 4 1500 I had crashed. it's completely dead. So we have different experiences with amd and intel I was thinking... a bad thing about a dual system would be the noise of another cooler... I'm quite sensitive to the noise. I was wondering if it is the worth installing a liquid cooling solution. anyone has experience with that?

quick question: any recommendation in MP motherboards? thanks. now if you want to read more.... Hi, I recently had the opportunity to compare render speeds of two AMD systems. a single Athlon XP 2700, 1 Gb DualDDR-400 CL2, FSB333. And a single Athlon XP 2400, DDR333 CL2.5, FSB266. and there was only 16 seconds of difference in the "underwater scene" standard max benchmark scene. rendering in 5:16 and 5:32... so. my thought... is ... it doesn't matter too much if your motherboard has 266 or 333 or whatever... simply.. any new system rocks Having seen those systems. now I want to get a new workstation for me... I always had dual systems. so I will get a DUAL MP 2400. and I think it's not very important if the FSB is 266. It will be great. I don't know how is intel hardware.. but is not the worth for the price.(for me) I haven't seen any problems in those AMD with the latest bios updates and drivers for one month. (with windows XP). one question. any recommendation in dual MP motherboards? because I only have expericence with single ones. I mean in drivers updates. and stability etc... becacuse performance I'm quite sure it will be similar. I'll get an AMD while waiting for those DNA computers and quantum computers, millions times more powerful than today computers, are learning to render PD: hey it's has bee a long time i wasn't posting in CGA. greetings back.

what is the problem of network rendering with the max network render? you can also control the process with the queue manager. I think you don't need any batch rendering script.

maybe I will learn to script in max.. also it would be nice if the script can save light scenes.... some lights turned on/off with each saved configuration.... quite like scenes in autocad old render. so you can change quickly between lighthing scenes in the same model. for example... having one configuration for daylight. and other one for night. and maybe storing different materials applied for each object in each scene would be nice.. hehe.. because maybe you have to change a little some materials for night.. etc...

those would be about 4 minutes in vray.... sure..... nice images nisus.

so sorry th hear that.... but I have to say that is easier to track than you can imagine... everything is logged and there are specialists against this criminal area. and they catch them many many times... I'm sure everything will be ok soon. I didn't know that the store is responsible to that.. not sure if is the same in europe.... but I had the idea of being the banks..... well... they'll catch them... you'll see