Tamarin

Last night I downloaded 3.7 and was impressed with the new tool icons and live clay feature. I had a program crash and now there are no more tool icons or live clay. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but still the same. Any ideas?

I would like the GTX 280 to find out Wild stab in the dark but I doubt it would be a 100% gain. On most reports the new GTX cards perform around 20% better than the series 8 & 9 cards. Once again, that is pure conjecture so know that I could be totally wrong. It would be able to handle almost 2x as many threads but might be limited by other factors. I settled on a used 8800 GT for $100 CDN.

I am thinking of upgrading my video card and I have looked into this new CUDA technology. While some cards support CUDA, they may under perform your CPU. Here is what I have found. I could be wrong. Each CUDA enabled card has at least one multiprocessor made up of 8 processors, with 8192 registers, capable of running 768 threads. Some cards have many multiprocessors and can run many more threads. Here are some cards with the number of multiprocessors. The worst:Geforce 9300M GS,9200M GS, 9100M G,8400 M G, Quadro FX 370M,NVS 130M 1 multiprocessor :Geforce GeForce 8500 GT, 8400 GS, 8400M GT,9500M G, 9300M G, 8400M GS, 9400 mGPU,9300 mGPU, 8300 mGPU, 8200 mGPU,8100 mGPU Quadro FX 370, NVS 290, NVS 140M, NVS 135M,FX 360M 2 multiprocessors GeForce 9500 GT, 8600 GTS, 8600 GT,9700M GT, 9650M GS, 9600M GT, 9600M GS,9500M GS, 8700M GT, 8600M GT, 8600M GS Quadro FX 1700, FX 570, NVS 320M, FX 1700M,FX 1600M, FX 770M, FX 570M 4 multiprocessors GeForce 9700M GT Quadro FX 2700M6 multiprocessors GeForce 9600 GT, 8800M GTS, 9800M GTS8 multiprocessors GeForce 8800 GTS,GeForce 9600 GSO, 8800 GS, 8800M GTX,9800M GT Quadro FX 4600,Quadro FX 3600M12 multiprocessors GeForce 9800 GT, 8800 GT, 9800M GTX Quadro FX 370014 multiprocessors GeForce 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, 8800 GTS 512,GeForce 8800 Ultra, 8800 GTX Quadro FX 5600,Quadro FX 3700M Tesla C87016 multiprocessors GeForce 9800 GX2 Quadro Plex 1000 Model IV Tesla D8702x16 multiprocessors GeForce GTX 26024 multiprocessors GeForce GTX 28030 multiprocessors The Best:Tesla S10704x30 multiprocessors This is just a rough guide, but shows how different some of the cards are. I'm sure that bandwidth and memory change things as well. I also read that if your card is in SLI mode you will not benefit from the extra card, so a 9800 GX2 will appear as 16 multiprocessors in SLI mode rather than 32. Hope this helps. ***edit*** the tesla might be a computer without a cpu rather than a card, I'm not sure.

I still love Blender, and always will (no disrespect). This 3D Coat has so many features and my computer isn't even that great. P4 with 7600, but the Voxel modeling works great. I have read that some find the program slow, but I can't work any faster. I also saw complaints about the interface. This is also the #1 complaint of Blender. I agree that Blender is tricky to learn, but I have had 3D Coat for 2 days and I have explored most of the features without difficulty(probably because I come from Blender). I haven't tried the retopo yet because like everyone else I start with voxels and cant stop. I'm just figuring out a new work flow.

I am a Blender user for many years. Recently I have been working on normal mapped game models and found the Blender sculpting tools to by useful, but somewhat limited. I noticed a thread on Blender Artists forum about 3d coat. I downloaded the V3 software and loaded it onto my computer.... :o THIS PROGRAM IS INSANE. My jaw is still on the floor. Is this program from the future? The Voxel thing is magic. I have never even heard the word Voxel, I had to look it up. I feel like a guy from the ice age who just took a ride in a Ferrari.

Hi, I'm just learning the program. I noticed on one of the demos the artist appeared to be adding objects in voxel mode. Was this done using the merge command and adding each scale piece by piece?