juanmanuel

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So, which would be the "good" sites?

Yay! More 3d-coat goodness soon

I agree with Beatkitano. 3d-coat can get confusing at times unless you follow the development threads.

Eek! You're missing an arm! I didn't know Brekel could do 3d models

bobzilla, that is not a very positive comment, and I would counter-answer that to level the playing field, but I don't want to stoke the flames to an OS war. I DID read a developer post in a forum (don't remember which, though)is that Apple made it very easy for the users, and very difficult for the developers. I'm sure there is a good reason why the mac 64 bit version hasn't seen the light of day yet. To compare it to Blender in terms of development speed, and to quite some other number of apps is not very fair unless you compare it with one that has the same number of developers. That said, I use the 64-bit version of 3d-coat, so maybe if I was on a mac, I would have my panic-frustration moments too.

I had no idea this was an issue, but it is good to know. Thank you for pointing this "newbie frustration" out.

I think I know the reason: You only have 12mb!!!! just kidding, I'm sure you mean 12gb

yes it will

Well I did order the first day, maybe that is why my license has come through...

I knew of the licensing problem after I got my email with the instructions... fortunately, I had no problems with the licensing! I must have been lucky.

Yay, I got my email!

No shame. It is a beta, which is uploaded for testing, right? So haikalle tested it and found a problem. I find it wonderful. The pace of development in 3D-Coat is amazing, on one hand lots of users actively using and reporting on bugs, and on the other, Andrew fixing things really really fast. I just wish this was more common practice...

So the USD$20 is highly recommended then? I'll probably dig into it later today then.

I'm so used to rigging in Poser that lots of the videos I've seen on Messiah seem almost alien technology

I can understand AbnRanger's enthusiastic (?) response. After reading threads (here and everywhere) where 3D-Coat is not taken seriously because it's not "hip" just because it's not developed by Autodesk or Pixologic (or Apple?). I actually believe this a good thing. But back on topic. I bought a license for a friend who was waiting for his paycheck to arrive to buy his license, just in case the goal is reached before his paycheck. And now I have to look for a nice, cheap, usb drive to use a a dongle, as the goal seems reachable pretty soon

I'm tempted to buy an extra license for a friend who is waiting for his paycheck to participate in the sale (yes, times are THAT bad). I'm sure he would do the same for me.

Shock. This is just amazing. Long live Raul! Long live 3D-Coat!

Yes it has moved a bit since I woke up.

Yay, the progress bar grew a bit since last I checked it yesterday before going to sleep!

I think everybody agrees, this are exciting times for 3d-coat.

That sounds just like my Calculus teacher when I was totally lost on what he was trying to explain

That I know. I haven't been able to run that encoding app yet. Could be I'm in XP 64 bits, but still, it IS odd.

Ummm someone correct me if I'm wrong, but OpenCL is part of the driver download for ATI cards from the November build of the Catalyst drivers. And I have not really used OpenCL for anything useful, so I don't know if ATI's OpenCL implementation sucks. I don't use too much of GPU computing (as 3d-coat does not support gpu acceleration on my ati 4850, snif), so I don't know if my workflow in 3d-coat would benefit. Still, for what I use 3d-coat for, it is already quite fast. I do agree on buying ANY video card with a custom cooling solution. When I bought my HD 4850, it came with the reference cooler, where idle would get you 85°Celsius. Unless you wanted the fan to work at 100%, which would only cool it some 10°C. I Attached a big, externally powered fan inside my case, and positioned it so it pointed towards the video card to help, but that only lowered it 20°C (to 65°C) in idle. Still, even then, when doing 3d work, it would quite easily reach 100°C and beyond. (The nice sticker in the heat disipator cover started pealing no doubt thanks to the heat). But the worst part was that it was a feat to sleep when I left my computer rendering at night, it was just too noisy. After installing a third party vga cooler, the temperature dropped to 45°C on idle. Anyway, for today's standards my card is probably old and slow, but I don't see myself replacing it anytime soon, it works perfectly for my needs. This is my personal experience, and since I don't need CUDA prowess, and since 3d-coat is quite fast for me in non-CUDA anyway, I'm quite happy with my ATI card. Maybe if I really need CUDA I'll think of changing the card, but not for the time being.

Excellent! I'm learning rotoscoping and matchmoving in my free time, so this clips will come quite handy, thanks for the heads up