Apparently the job's all ready for me back in Bucharest. I wanna pull a Tom Ridge and go, "I can't tell you where, I can't tell you how, I can't tell you who..." But anyway, it's done. In a week I'll be back in Bucharest, on a gov't salary (yay for $230 a month). Internet access will be patchy. Rendering time will most likely be zero. So two things: 1. I gotta get a move on with the CGChat thing, finish it in 4-5 days flat. I think I can do it. 2. I gotta pack like a madman. Drac

What are you doing here then? :)

i finished a masters a couple of months ago. now i'm doing nothing in korea, enjoying my vacation after 5 years of studying :)

You should finish that challenge image. Especially when its going great! :)

thanks dude. i was actually going to thank you for showing us how to do those lightsy thingies. I hope I'm not tresspassing on your style, btw. Drac

No problem. Now i just have to figure out how you used them as a texture. :)

alpha maps :)

As ambient? Problem is, im using cinema. Going to have to experiment there. The settings are slightly different. :)

yeah, ambience. i really don't think it would be a problem with cinema. plus you could always postwork them. in my case, postwork is going to be hell :(

You studied for 5 years so you could make $230 a month ?!? You could work in a carwash here in Winchester and make twice that ! Geez,.....no wonder the world is so messed up,.....you guys(diplomats) should make the big money. Well, good luck to you anyway.

well, it's romania, for one. i mean for 250 bucks you can live decently. if you had 1000 a month you'd live royally. a beer is 75c-$1.20. A bottle of good wine is $3. a pack of smokes is around 75c as well. food is relatively cheap.

a normal salary in romania is that. mind you, i'm just starting out here, it's my first job. an ambassador gets paid around 5000 bucks a month or so at the height of his career. plus, if i end up outside the country, they pay you extra every day you're out.

drac

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why would they pay Drac to leave the country?..oh..never mind..;) Yow..you couldn't even pay rent on that here..even the welfare housing costs more than that..ah, to be young..;)

once we're in the EU and so on, the pay will rise with the living standards. that's not a problem. as for leaving the country, don't worry, ww3 isn't planned for another 10 years or so :D

You know, if i would still live in Hungary, we would practically be neighbours. :) They dont have any good payments either, but its become better, and i think Romania will get a boost once its in as well.

Well all I can say is good luck with your move, hope you are still able to do some art work and frequent the Bryce Forum, and I hope that your career will take you as far as you want it to. Would be nice to know that by this time next year you would be making that $5000 per month. Probably won't, but you will eventually get there. 8) Oh... and yes, you NEED to get that image for the CG challenge done. You have done too nice of a job so far to just let it go. Best of luck to you and all your future endeavors Mihnea. 8) Wade

You have such an outstanding start to your contest entry Drac, you gotta finish it! Best of luck, and may neccesity be the mother of your invention.

Aw man :o( so sad to hear you leave. Iam only new to Renderosity, but i've seen many great works of you and its a shame to see you leave. I hope you will be happy with your job, make new friends, etc. i'd say 250bucks isnt very bad. I've been there on holiday onces, everyone is nice to ya, great culture and beautiful scenery. I'am sure you'll enjoy yourself. Good Luck CZ

Hey, I hope you'll drop in at least occasionaly. $230 is not bad if a pack of cigarettes (I hope not the cheapest ones) is 75c. Here an average sallary is about $600 and a pack of good cigarettes (Marlboro, Winston, Lucky Strike) is $3. BTW, Rochr, put the maps in the luminance channel and enable glow. Heh. I can tell you something. Isn't it ironic? :-)

The final proof that even guys with boolean tentacles have a limited knowledge. :) Thanx man. Drac, you know you cant leave for good. Well hope to see you here from time to time.

Also you could load a filter or layer control into the luminance channel as well to play with the texture. You can pull off some very cool tweaks with those.

I bet the Irish start WW3. It'll go something like this: Patty O'Brian on the phone to Jacques Chiroc: "Yeah, me and the boys are down here and the pub, and we just want to let ya know, we're wagin' war on france." "Oh...well...what's your troop strength?" "Yeah, we got me, Timmy over there, and the whole dart team. That makes about 8. We think we can take ya." "I think it's important that I tell you that france has a troop strength of over 100,000 soldiers." "Yeah, I'll call you back." the next day: "Hey, Chiroc, i want you to know, the war's still on. We've managed to acquire some infantry equipment." "What kind of equipment, Patty?" "Oh, yeah, let's see, we got two tractors, a bull dozer, and a couple of jeeps." "Well, Patty, I think it's important that you know that France has over 400 tanks, 600 armored personnel carriers, and about 200 artillery units. We've also increased our troop strength to 150,000 since we last spoke." "Aye...i'll call ya back." "Hey, Chiroc, the war's still on. We've gone airborne." "What kind of air forces do you have?" "Well, we got ourselves an ultralight we modified with a few shotguns, and we think we can still take ya." "I think you should know that France has a fully equipped air force, we've increased our troops to 200,000, and we have a laser-guided surface to air missile system surrounding the country." "What's that you said about the lasers?" "Laser guided surface to air missiles?" "Aye, I'll call you back." The next day: "Jacques, me and the boys have been talkin...and even though we increased our troops to 16 by adding the dart team from the pub down the street, we're callin the war off." "Well, patty, i'm not surprised, but just out of curiosity, can I ask why?" "Well, Jacques Chiroc, me and the boys have been thinkin it over, and there's just no way in hell we can feed 200,000 freakin french Prisoners!"

Great news Drac... ... so finish up your entry, because it's cool, then go telling diplomats how to be diplomats. :) S.

Excellent news Drac....Wow, I have to make 230 bucks a day here to live decent. Smokes here are almost 5bucks a pack. a beer: 2.50-5.00 depending where you are. You'll get to the 5k a month...No doubts. Hurry that entry!

I wouldn't get outa bed for $250 a month.......!

keeps bryster in bed Drac (perverted)

Well...good luck to you, Drac. I've enjoyed seeing your fabulous renders and will miss you terribly my fine Romanian friend. sniff

awwwww... hugs ardiva

Sheesh..I'm crying already and your not even gone! :(

Think long and hard about every posting abroad, and do a search on the net for some mysterious illness with hard-to-define symptoms that can't be positively tested for and lasts only three or four months then clears up leaving no lasting damage whatsoever, that you can trot out in an emergency. In ten years's time when they're saying "Quick, pack a bag, the Ambassador to Saudi's just been blown up and we need someone there in a hurry to take his place" you'll remember these words, and be glad you lissened to Aunty Pog ;^) PMH (who lives in a country where it's not unknown to burn down embassies, blow up ambassadors etc. etc.)

PS - I'm not joking. A broken leg is good too.

some of the friends we have here in seoul were telling us about that actually, they had a couple of postings in the middle east and africa. in africa they needed to drink tonic water and take tablets of the thing in it (chinine is it spelled?) so they wouldn't get that specific disease that's linked to the mosquitoes. so yeah, i'll be careful, Poggie, thanks :) m

quinine, for malaria. ramble ramble ramble - in the seventies I worked in London in an insurance office, with a very yellow-skinned guy who was often out sick. turned out he'd been on the Burma railway during the war, and got malaria. he had frequent recurrances(sp?) of it. even further OT, malaria is one of the reasons that sickle cell anaemia is so prevalent in Africans from a belt across the middle of Africa, and their descendants in America. I THINK that what happens is that sickle cell anaemia causes thickening of the outer surface of the platelets in the blood, so the malaria bug can't penetrate. So people with sickle cell anaemia had a better chance of survival in those areas where malaria was prevalent. I don't know anything that's actually useful in day-to-day life, but have a large store of such useless knowledge :^( snore........

that was quite interesting actually :)

Thanks, Pog! Have you thought about starting your own medical website? I could give you a list of unusual diseases to start with, mainly what's wrong with me......;-)

$230 wouldn't cover my tab at the pub Slakker just mentioned. Me to Paddy: "Would ya like to buy a French rile, then?" Paddy: "Wot kinda shape is it in?" Me: "Never fired and only dropped once!" Sorry...

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for the love of god don't turn this into a political thread... ;)

see - Drac dons his 'Dimplomat' hat :^) no worries

Wow, I hope you mean no rendering temporarily until you get settled in. Where I live in the US Cigs are $3.60 (2.8). Crap wine is $6 a bottle. A decent Romanian wine if you could get it would start around $18(14). Have you thought about using your Diplomatic Credentials to ship cigs and wine to the US to sell? You'd make a killing!

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...I mean his 'Diplomat' hat lol

Good Luck Draculaz. I will be in Romania too in Feb next year for a visit. Maybe I see U there, who knows. Take care and dont forget us here. Good Luck with your new job. Hope U get around that $5K Salary everyone wishes, lol.' Take Care...

i'll be happy to meet up with you cornel. i'll probably lurk around renderosity once i get a stable net connection so we'll keep in touch :)

hey, I've seen at least one person from Rumania at 'rosity Besides drac, so I know there has to be internet access somewhere..and now that I think of it, she was in the Poser forum somewhere..ah..beautiful renders together..;)I use more than $230 a month in gas (and that's with a Ford Focus..though I'm a travlin' tech..;) and now that I think of it, she was in the Poser forum somewhere..ah..beautiful renders together..;)

I forgot to say congrats, Minh!

Congrats Drac, hope this job works out well for you. Best of luck and don't be a stranger here! Hugs