"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 09/03/2018 at 21:02 • Filed to: wishful thinking

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One of these days I’m gonna have a computer that can render stuff AND do something else at the same time. Goddamn particle systems. Seventy frames at ~three minutes per frame.

Stephenson Valve Gear > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/03/2018 at 21:23

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There’s no replacement for displacement... right?  :-D

Aremmes > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/03/2018 at 22:20

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Build a cluster with a bunch of Raspberry Pis and run your simulations there. Problem solved.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Aremmes 09/03/2018 at 22:24

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Sure, just lemme learn how to go program stuff real quick like

imadick > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/03/2018 at 22:34

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Just get a Threadripper 2990WX, 32 cores, 64 threads. Only $2K for the processor.

TheRealBicycleBuck > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/03/2018 at 23:32

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Have you thought about setting up an AWS account? Our company likes to push compute-intensive tasks to virtual hosted on AWS. I currently have ten VCs set up just to do hydrologic modeling for a couple of contracts. We’ll shut them down when the contracts are up if we don’t have another ready to go. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/03/2018 at 23:50

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I don’t do this for money so it makes no sense. I just dabble in 3D modeling and animation as a hobby.

TheRealBicycleBuck > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/04/2018 at 01:38

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Both AWS and Microsoft Azure have a free tier. They allow a certain number of hours and/ or certain services for no charge.

Echo51 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/04/2018 at 04:14

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That won’t happend, if your renderer scales to use all the cores you throw at it. You can however set the process priority for it to low and your pc will be way more useable during rendering!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Echo51 09/04/2018 at 12:57

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I can get rid of the slowdowns by switching Blender to render using the GPU but I’m using an oldish laptop  so the GPU rendering takes longer.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Echo51 09/04/2018 at 13:30

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There’s also a setting to limit the number of threads Cycles is allowed to use but again, I’m working with laptop power so it’s faster to just suf fer through it

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/04/2018 at 13:44

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I'll have to look into that

Echo51 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/04/2018 at 15:31

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Well ofcourse it’s faster to let it abuse the full power of it, leaving nothing for you to waste on things like, gasp, looking at car parts!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Echo51 09/04/2018 at 15:36

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That’s actually a good thing bec ause I don’t have car parts money right now