Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

How do I set the DPI in Reality? I wanted something bigger than the standard web size because I'm going to print it.

DPI is dots per inch and refers to printers. Doesn't mean a lot in Reality.

You need to know what PPI (pixels per inch) you want, this changes with the optimum distance the print is viewed from.

A billboard poster could have a different PPI than a magazine advert but may have the same number of pixels.

To change the PPI, you just have to do the math.

Image size = physical size (inches) * desired PPI

So if you want a 6"x 4" photo at 200PPI, you want to render at 1200 x 800 pixels. For a 10x8 it would be 2000 x 1600 pixels.

I would suggest that you do some research on the settings people have used to print images similar to your desired result and go from there.

Quote - Been in a Star Wars mood since the big news last week (still not sure how I feel about that news). 

If anyone knows where to find some decent Star Wars freebies please share. Haven't been having much luck with that.  I found a nice looking Stormtrooper outfit but it's a major pain in the ass to get it to fit to any characters. 

 

There's quite a few scattered around shareCG, like this one http://www.sharecg.com/v/48524/View/11/Poser/Scout-Trooper-Armour

Also the rebel x-wing suit is there as well as Han's belt and blaster, and some misc weapons. I believe I have a link to a magnificent star destroyer model somewhere, but fair warning, it imports HUGE in studio. I'll post when I find it.

Never used any of them, but we had a good line around page 21-27 in this thread on doing the light saber effect. I think John even loaded up some proper modeled blade props and matty manx did several light sabre models. 

Add: Ah ha! http://thefree3dmodels.com/stuff/vehicles/imperial_star_destroyer_imperator/13-1-0-1116

site has tons of stuff http://www.scifi3d.com/list.asp?intGenreID=10&intCatID=11

Thank you for the answer, Reggie68.

I now have a new problem.  This has never happened before.  I'm trying to render a scene and lux crashed and froze my machine.  I restarted and then did a cold boot.  I tried to render again, this time taking a lot of the things out of the scene.  Nothing ever shows up in the render screen, it's just black.  My efficiency is only at 17%, I'm usually at 800 to high 900's. I tried again, this time at 50% output.  Again, nothing.  I shut everything down again and reopened Daz and reloaded the scene.  This time at 50% it started to render. I terminated the render, set the output to 100% and...again I got nothing but black.  I've turned the settings up to 1000 and 1/4.  The efficiency stays down at 17%.  Not hing seems to effect it, nothing ever shows in the render screen.  I am running Lux .9 I think. 

Any ideas what is wrong?  Did I accidentally change something that would cause things to behave this way?  If so, what could it be?  Should I start using the current stable build? It's 1.0 if I remember correctly.  I've tried for several hours now and can't get this scene to render.  I created a new scene with just a naked genesis figure in it and it rendered just fine.  Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Quote - Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

What are you using for cooling? I've noticed core temp is touching 70C at full load, since Win7 was optimised for the FX-81xx processors.  

Mild overclock to 4.2 ghz with artic cooler 7.

Quote - > Quote - Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

What are you using for cooling? I've noticed core temp is touching 70C at full load, since Win7 was optimised for the FX-81xx processors.  

Mild overclock to 4.2 ghz with artic cooler 7.

I thought it was win8 that's been built to use the architecture of the FX?  I've got an 8120 @4600mhz, custom water loop.

Abi.

I thought it was win8 that's been built to use the architecture of the FX?  I've got an 8120 @4600mhz, custom water loop.

Abi.

Win 7 has had a few updates since the 81xx release.  Initially Win 7 could only manage around 70% full load.  Now its 100%, but temps have reflected the increase. 

I'll try an Artic cooling 13.

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

What are you using for cooling? I've noticed core temp is touching 70C at full load, since Win7 was optimised for the FX-81xx processors.  

Mild overclock to 4.2 ghz with artic cooler 7.

I thought it was win8 that's been built to use the architecture of the FX?  I've got an 8120 @4600mhz, custom water loop.

Abi.

Normally I'm not tech jealous, but 4.6ghz makes me drool. Wee little bit.

Not jealous cough 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

What are you using for cooling? I've noticed core temp is touching 70C at full load, since Win7 was optimised for the FX-81xx processors.  

Mild overclock to 4.2 ghz with artic cooler 7.

I thought it was win8 that's been built to use the architecture of the FX?  I've got an 8120 @4600mhz, custom water loop.

Abi.

Normally I'm not tech jealous, but 4.6ghz makes me drool. Wee little bit.

Not jealous cough 

hehe, i also have 3 phenom x4 965BE's @4.2ghz ready when lux needs a helping hand ;)

Abi.

Quote - Thank you for the answer, Reggie68.

 

I now have a new problem.  This has never happened before.  I'm trying to render a scene and lux crashed and froze my machine.  I restarted and then did a cold boot.  I tried to render again, this time taking a lot of the things out of the scene.  Nothing ever shows up in the render screen, it's just black.  My efficiency is only at 17%, I'm usually at 800 to high 900's. I tried again, this time at 50% output.  Again, nothing.  I shut everything down again and reopened Daz and reloaded the scene.  This time at 50% it started to render. I terminated the render, set the output to 100% and...again I got nothing but black.  I've turned the settings up to 1000 and 1/4.  The efficiency stays down at 17%.  Not hing seems to effect it, nothing ever shows in the render screen.  I am running Lux .9 I think. 

Any ideas what is wrong?  Did I accidentally change something that would cause things to behave this way?  If so, what could it be?  Should I start using the current stable build? It's 1.0 if I remember correctly.  I've tried for several hours now and can't get this scene to render.  I created a new scene with just a naked genesis figure in it and it rendered just fine.  Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

try having task manager open before you send it to lux to render and watch to see how much memory it is trying to use.. if it uses all your memory and then starts using the hard disk swap file it will slow to a crawl...

Getting out of all the tech talk with this mornings produce from the render oven.  Just did a wee bit of tweaking to Callad's Neve character.  Simple render in a cube.  Only thing different than normal is I took Paolo's advice and used a single mesh light with a reflector behind the character.  Made a discernable difference with the quality of the lighting in the render.  I'm going to play around a lot more with reflectors and lighting as that is what I always need to tweak in my renders.

Nice !!

Quote - > Quote - Just ordered a FX-8350 to swap out the FX-8120 I'm using at the moment. No doubt I'll be putting that somewhere as well.

What are you using for cooling? I've noticed core temp is touching 70C at full load, since Win7 was optimised for the FX-81xx processors.  

Mild overclock to 4.2 ghz with artic cooler 7.

I use the Artic Cooling Freezer 13Pro on the 8120. It's on a linux box (@100% on all cores) but I think CPU temperatures are being reported incorectly as they peak at around 40C at stock speeds. You need a large case for it though.

I also have a X4 965 Black with the Freezer 7 in my Win7 box, not too sure on temp but I thiink it hits 50C max last time I monitored.

I've got a coolermaster hyper 212 evo on my fx 8150 and have had it clocked for a solid 24hrs w/o any heat issues.  At this point, only the heat sink and 2 120mm case fans on the box.  Plus psu fan.  I'm pretty happy with this setup.

My 8120 @4.6ghz has an Koolance CPU-360 waterblock, Laing DDC pump, XSPC dual bay resi and a 480x120 radiator, running occt (stress test) after 5 hours core temps read 48°c, cpu (socket) temp 59°c (max stated temp is 62° for the fx chip).  My 965's all have XSPC RASA waterlocks, DDC pumps, XSPC dual bay resi's and 360x120 radiators - not really checked the full load temps on them though.  Needless to say, I won't be neading the central heating swithed on this winter!

Abi.

No wonder I ned to send in my notebook every 5 to 6 months to have the heat sinc replaced. Glad I have the HP extended plan..

After hours of rendering my motherboard temp is 25 degrees C and the cpu is 38 degrees C.  I don't understand a lot of the tech stuff, but reading the numbers that have been stated, it seems like mine are fine.

Not tonight honey, I am washing my hair

I have often wondered, when I asked her out for a date and were told that, whether she was sitting there all on her lonesome with wet hair in a towel, waiting for it to dry. Maybe with the radio playing a country and western or some other sad song.

Quote - Not tonight honey, I am washing my hair

I have often wondered, when I asked her out for a date and were told that, whether she was sitting there all on her lonesome with wet hair in a towel, waiting for it to dry. Maybe with the radio playing a country and western or some other sad song.

Fantastic scene! Love how you put a screenshot of Person of Interest on the TV....love that show! :)

I've been having some technical issues using reality, likely a war between my OS and daz studio... but managed to get reality to show up so that I could try out Hiro 5.. No postwork... except for the signature.  :D

Nice render are your problems due to attempting to use win 8?

Quote - Nice render are your problems due to attempting to use win 8?

No.. I don't have Win 8... I'm not entirely sure what the problem is. I just know that sometimes after I've set up a scene I click to call reality and it doesn't load... Sometimes it will go as far as to change to the material settings pane, sometimes it doesn't even do that... I have uninstalled Daz Studio, reinstalled.. uninstalled reality, reinstalled.. latest versions of both... although I think I am behind a version now.. it came out after my problems had already started.  I check the log files and generally there is nothing to do with reality at all in them... or there is but no sign of errors... I have had some success with cleaning out files with ccleaner and rebooting.  The processes in the task manager do always show a second instance of daz studio running when I have attempted to call reality... I've done tests with a simple sphere and one light when I've had the problem and it still won't work.. So its pretty much a crap shoot whether I'm going to be able to call reality or not.  I'm not willing to reformat my hard drive, so I'm sort of at a loss.... and reaquainting myself with Bryce somewhat when I feel any creativity coming on.

Turtlefem, if that happens while using the Menu option try using the keyboard shortcut instead.

I had a similar issue a while back. I found that removing the camera and adding a new one usually did the trick.

Quote - I've been having some technical issues using reality, likely a war between my OS and daz studio... but managed to get reality to show up so that I could try out Hiro 5.. No postwork... except for the signature.  :D

 

I like the choice of B&W for this.  Having said that, his face and shirt are a bit over-exposed. Nice composition though.

BTW, is that Mustang a 3D model, or is it a backdrop?

I use the Artic Cooling Freezer 13Pro on the 8120. It's on a linux box (@100% on all cores) but I think CPU temperatures are being reported incorectly as they peak at around 40C at stock speeds. You need a large case for it though

I use my mainboard utillity for core temp. AMDs utillity is not callibrated correctly on my system.

The 8150 auto throttles Ghz at 75C to avoid blue screen/crash.  But if your not monitoring, it will be unnoticed.

The problem I've experienced is that it takes over 10 mins to reach that state, with no aparent indication or stabillity issues.

The only way to spot it is by monitoring CPU parameters at full load and look for auto throttle.

@Surreal3D  I'll try that next time it happens.. :D

@59Burst  Thanks! I debated on the exposure and decided that I liked the way it looked... The whole scene is 3D... I can't remember where I got the car; I've had it for years I think...

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Quote -

I use the Artic Cooling Freezer 13Pro on the 8120. It's on a linux box (@100% on all cores) but I think CPU temperatures are being reported incorectly as they peak at around 40C at stock speeds. You need a large case for it though

I use my mainboard utillity for core temp. AMDs utillity is not callibrated correctly on my system.

The 8150 auto throttles Ghz at 75C to avoid blue screen/crash.  But if your not monitoring, it will be unnoticed.

The problem I've experienced is that it takes over 10 mins to reach that state, with no aparent indication or stabillity issues.

The only way to spot it is by monitoring CPU parameters at full load and look for auto throttle.

My 8120 diesn't throttle back even if you run it over a full day, you can tell as the sample rate returned by the slave doesn't change. Spped wise it is returns around 120kS/s when the X4 965 is at 100kS/s on the same scene.

Also got the 8350 and replaced the 8120 with the 8350 and it was returning samples at around 205kS/s. Again no cooling or slowdown issues with the 13Pro over 4 hours.

CPU load was showing 100% on all cores.

Solid modeling stuff rendered in LuxRender through Reality

Created in Autodesk Inventor 2013, arranged and lit in DAZ Studio / Pret-a-3D Reality.

Cheers!

Quote - Solid modeling stuff rendered in LuxRender through Reality

 

 

Created in Autodesk Inventor 2013, arranged and lit in DAZ Studio / Pret-a-3D Reality.

Cheers!

 

Alright.. if you're gonna go into blades.. I have ALLLLLLL kinds of suggestions for you.  Knives are my personal little hobby.  How about the Sykes-Fairbairn?  One of the greatest fighting knives ever.  The Gerber Guardian(my personal fave as it was my first non-folder ever).  The Gerber BMF(the knive from First Blood).  The Gerber Rambo II(the knife from Rambo II & III).  Then some folders.  The Emerson CQC6, and anything by Spyderco.

Doh...I think it must be my mainboard monitoring software causing the throttle.  I moved back to AMD overdrive and the throttle problem has gone. 

I ordered a 13 pro anyway, plus a 14cm Viper s-flow fan to replace the case top exhaust.

Quote - Alright.. if you're gonna go into blades.. I have ALLLLLLL kinds of suggestions for you.  Knives are my personal little hobby.  How about the Sykes-Fairbairn?  One of the greatest fighting knives ever.  The Gerber Guardian(my personal fave as it was my first non-folder ever).  The Gerber BMF(the knive from First Blood).  The Gerber Rambo II(the knife from Rambo II & III).  Then some folders.  The Emerson CQC6, and anything by Spyderco.

I have a Gerber Mark II that's on my list of things to recreate in 3D.

If you want to play with them you can get the models on GrabCAD, here's the URL:

http://grabcad.com/erik.leeman-1

There's loads of cool stuff on GrabCAD, all of it for free.

Have fun!

Encounter With An Assasin......This one took several days to accomplish....constant fidgeting with the lights and POV, and several days of rendering, but I think I acieved the look and feel I was aiming for.....

Quote - I have a Gerber Mark II that's on my list of things to recreate in 3D.

If you want to play with them you can get the models on GrabCAD, here's the URL:

http://grabcad.com/erik.leeman-1

There's loads of cool stuff on GrabCAD, all of it for free.

Have fun!

 

A Viet Nam era ka-bar would be cool too.  Looks just like a modern ka-bar only with a softened leather wrapped handle.

Quote - Doh...I think it must be my mainboard monitoring software causing the throttle.  I moved back to AMD overdrive and the throttle problem has gone. 

I ordered a 13 pro anyway, plus a 14cm Viper s-flow fan to replace the case top exhaust.

In the bios, disable amd cool & quiet, c1e, c6 state etc, if you are overclocking as they can all effect the stability, one of those is causing the throttling.

Abi.

Quote - Encounter With An Assasin......This one took several days to accomplish....constant fidgeting with the lights and POV, and several days of rendering, but I think I acieved the look and feel I was aiming for.....

I thought he is a driver :) Very nice indeed!

Doc.. you mean you don't know that character is a morph of Jason Statham?  As in the Transporter series?  He's not just a driver.. he's an all-around badass.  One of my fave actors.

I know Jason Statham :) He was primarily a driver in the Transporter series, and a general ass kicker in other movies LOL.

Quote - I know Jason Statham :) He was primarily a driver in the Transporter series, and a general ass kicker in other movies LOL.

Pretty sexy too ;)

Abi.

Quote - Pretty sexy too ;) Abi.

Guess he is, compared to me

Quote - > Quote - Pretty sexy too ;) Abi.

Guess he is, compared to me

Well, looking at your profile pic you do look a little pale.  hehe

Abi.

Alright.. I don't know why I didn't try blacksmith3d waaaay back when I was attempting to do some texturing.  Got a copy of it last night.. watched a few tutes on it last night and this morning.. then tried to apply the newfound knowledge to one of my favorite clothing items.  I completed in 20 minutes with blacksmith(with great results) what it used to take me a couple hours with photoshop(and had horrible pattern stretching issues).  Might actually try my hand at texturing again if I can get these kinds of results.

Quote - I know Jason Statham :) He was primarily a driver in the Transporter series, and a general ass kicker in other movies LOL.

Not just a DRiver, but was actually a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992... `¬)

Some nice renders going on, must try and catch up again...!

StevieC, very nice scene and render.  I like the lighting a lot.

Very nice piece of modeling Erik-nl.

Love the importance pen what a great time saver