[Ahart]

zolo wrote:

Update:

If you have a Mac Pro, there’s no advantage to running Combustion under Windows vs. OS X unless you need a particular plugin that is Windows-only.

I can’t see an advantage to use it under OS X either 😀
scnr

how was the test comp setUp?

-k

[Ahart]

I worked HD 12Bit. Setups were massive, never had problems with burn but much more with the local work (Octane2) when using contexts in batch sometimes when setups were really big, you could simply not use contexts cause certain nodes would not update anymore giving you junk.
Stepping a frame forward (which would take forever) and backwards would sometimes help but not often. But burning was always right (except for a certain instability). One had to keep a look on the backburner manager but images I got were always correct.

-k

[Ahart]

paul_round wrote:

We get this kind of crap all the time when using Burn. I have to say from my experience the best thing to do with Burn is turn it off!

I worked with Burn for more than two years most intensively. Though it was not exactly stable on the client side, I must say I never had any render issues. Not with any of the 3d stuff nor with bicubics. This was flame 9.0.3 though.
Without Burn FFI feels alot more dated than it already does. I can see the economics why so few people use it but still….
Turn it off? I can hardly live without it now that its “gone” for me.

-k

[Ahart]

you can’t.

You have to use autopaint. Do your paint and set stroke length to 1.

Maybe new versions have different options but I doubt it.

-k

[Ahart]

alatteri wrote:

no smart ass. it has a single core, dual Xeons. again, it is my Sparks development machine, so it doesnt have any video IO and you dont need a stone either, just some SCSI drives. I have one seagate 15K rpm, get over 70 megs/sec.

No need for this kind of language here!
I can’t see why autodesk should give so much discount and then having to deal with complaints of single students that result from not using the officially supported config.

-k

[Ahart]

is that the quad core machine with quadro gfx card with gen lock option all the necessary FC adptors, etc.? ~800$ you say? I doubt it. Plus you’d still need to pay the stone..
In any case I don’t know if they still offer that much discount anymore and I seriously doubt they will give it to single students. Does not make sense.

-k

[Ahart]

I don’t know how it is these days but not so long ago there was discount of 90% but only on the software(!). No discount on machine, video boards or stone! That still makes for an awfull lot of money and our academy was lucky to already have an onyx 2 and an octane, so we could get an inferno & flame setup.
Plus I don’t see autodesk to give discount to single students. Does not make sense in so many aspects.

-k

[Ahart]

3offtheTee wrote:

That’s odd….I’m running Flame 9.5.11 on linux (on the IBM workstation)..I even exported the file to tmy mac and it didn’t recognize it either…I’ll keep poking around..Thanks for your help

Yip. Tried it with the old gimp thats preinstalled and it would open but not show me what kind of file it is. But in “import image” dialog in flame it said “sgi file”
Try just adding .sgi and open in graphic converter…? not so mac experienced.

-k

[Ahart]

3offtheTee wrote:

What kind of file is the splash page? It shows up as unknown…I suspect sneaky Autodesk coders.

sgi (even here on the linux flame). That’s at least what the flame says when I try to import 😀

[Ahart]

paul_round wrote:

It’s a 2k 12bit bug, been around since version5 (inferno), whereby if you import a 2k 12bit clip with a LUT, when you go into Paint all your brushes are corrupt, they look like “2bit” brushes, only fixed by a restart.
Repeatable every time. A real PITA!!

Paul

I had a similar bug with corrupt brushes. What helped was going to the brushes’ curve and just moving one of its ends. Then moving it back to its original position. That would fix the corrupt brush. No need to restart. But maybe these are different bugs.

-k

[Ahart]

rohit wrote:

well…this says it all dont it ?…”In November 2005, Autodesk launched a Linux-based configuration of the Discreet Inferno 6.5 system exclusively for the Japanese market. As a result of global customer interest and immediate success in Japan, Autodesk is extending a similar offering worldwide. The Linux-based Discreet Inferno system will be available worldwide on an IBM dual-core AMD workstation. The Discreet Inferno system is already available on the IRIX operating system.
“

I don’t quite get it? 4 dual-core opterons (8 cores) or 2 dual-core opterons (4 cores). Isn’t the later the same config as the linux flame…?
So the inferno would just be a flame bundled with burn…?
Hmm.. not that impressed then.

-k

[Ahart]

eltopo wrote:

Comments anyone?

Yip. It just once again shows, that all that talk about the G5 being superiour compared to intel Pentiums, all Steve Jobs nice little comparisons between his fancy G5s and an oh so slow Dell Workstation, etc have probably been complete BS. Not that we did not know that. I just find it amazing that people still think Apple would not bend the truth just like all the other companys do.

-k

[Ahart]

rohit wrote:

yeah these are way too small and not really fun to work with SIGH

I shot a few with the SpheronCam HDR. Send me a pm with your email.

-k

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