Matt McDonald

We've always organized our assets (plants, vehicles, people, etc.) by vendor. This approach makes some sense in terms of knowing from where an asset comes from but if one vendor has provided the majority of assets one tends to only look in that folder missing out on possibly more suitable assets from another vendor. I'm curious how others manage this. Cheers Matt

A few years back autodesk created a post which outlines CPU use among various rendering engines, so you might check the area or the documentation to see if you can find it. You probably also need to look into Windows. As I recall a pro or enterprise version of Windows will support up to a two socket motherboard. I think you have to go to Windows Server if you want to run four sockets. Windows server is quite a bit more expensive than pro.

I've tried to like the PowisVR but I just can't. Ver 2.0 had great optics, comfort and isolation but the button didn't work, they sent me a second and it still didn't work. I recently ordered a 3.0 and while they've fixed the button there is now cardboard ridge in the nose piece which is uncomfortable and keeps your face too far away from the gasket allowing tons of light to get in.

Got it. Thanks.

Cool. Thanks. Is this the cardboard you went with? https://www.halo.com/personalized-office-gifts/personalized-technology-giveaways/google-cardboard-virtual-reality-headset-8360-googl-card.aspx

Anyone had a particularly good (or bad) experience with cardboard vendor who supplied your company with branded cardboards?

When I have issues with front and backside faces on leaves, I find it helpful to strip the material down to just solid red on one side and solid green on the other, turn off translucency and everything else. It might give you an idea what is going on. I also still wonder if there are two leaf objects overlapping. You could go to the element subobject and do a marque select of what you believe to be just one leaf. If it indicates two elements are selected, there is your issue. Though I'm not quite sure how to fix it.

I think some of their models have backface cull turned on and it seems like I've run across a plant or two which had duplicate. co-planar leaves. The solution to the first is to check in the object properties, the solution to the second I'm afraid I don't remember.

Not sure how it works with metric but with US Standard, Revit's default system unit is feet and Max's default system unit is inches which causes all kinds of scaling issues. We eventually transitioned our Max workflow to system units of feet and eliminated this issue.

I think you're right about calibrating. I don't really understand the whole sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc. mode thing, my feeling is that if the display can handle the color range, you calibrate and then your color management aware applications display the colors correctly but I don't have a lot of experience with devices which have these modes. Something I saw in the Dell manual suggests that you can set modes based on application. Maybe that is the purpose of the modes, so that you can run the raw calibrated mode when in color managed application and switch to a mode when not viewing in color managed applications. I'm home now, my monitor which supports monitor based calibration (vs. video card based) still has an icc profile associated with it when viewed in Windows color management. The profile is dated based on my last calibration. I know that I didn't set that up, so the LG application which performs the calibration must have placed it there. I hope that helps. I fear I've provided way too much speculation vs. answers and may not have been as helpful as I intended.

I didn't realize the inconsistency still extended beyond chrome after your reset. It looks to me like your Dell uses the monitor LUT for the color correction. I'm not sure if RGB profiles should be loaded up in Windows color management or not. The monitor I have at home works like your Dell so when I get home tonight I'll check and see how it is set.

I think if you scroll down on the page you should see that chrome is not properly renderings untagged content. See: "How does your browser interpret untagged images and page elements?" And then if you follow the second link in the post above, you can force chrome to render untagged images and elements as sRGB like it is supposed to.

So I see some stuff that says Chrome is color managed, some stuff that says only Chrome for Mac is color managed and some stuff that says it isn't color managed. But all of it suggests either over or under saturated images when viewing JPGs on a wide gamut monitor. here's link to test your chrome install http://cameratico.com/tools/web-browser-color-management-test/ and here's link which tells you how to force chrome to assume sRGB it's a bit old, so I'd do the test above first. http://cameratico.com/guides/google-chrome-color-management/

can you post a screen grab of your photoshop color settings? after your reset, do you still have soft proofing turned on in photoshop?

I'm on my second Powis Viewr. The button on the first one would not reach my screen and eventually the staple which keeps it in line gave up the ghost. They sent me a replacement but the button doesn't work either. Do any of you have thoughts on the button? I like the viewer otherwise.