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_Christopher_: Member; 766 posts; Joined: April 2014; Offline

Oct. 23, 2016 1:38 p.m.

redaborchardt
If by coil you mean the thread, I can do a 1 minute tutorial on that if you like.

Sure, thanks

Also can I see a larger version of your first screen capture; the one containing the network ?

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 23, 2016 4:10 p.m.

Christopher R
redaborchardt
If by coil you mean the thread, I can do a 1 minute tutorial on that if you like.

Sure, thanks Also can I see a larger version of your first screen capture; the one containing the network ?

There you go. Quick tutorial.


_Christopher_: Member; 766 posts; Joined: April 2014; Offline

Oct. 23, 2016 8:28 p.m.

Good tutorial

I didn't quite understand why the following did not give the proper results but putting @ptnum in a variable worked ?

@P.z = @ptnum;

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 24, 2016 4:05 a.m.

I think it's because ptnum is treated as an Integer, meaning whole numbers only. That would explain the jump you get instead of the smooth interpolation between whole units.

By declaring a float, I get around that issue. There might be a more elegant solution to this.


_Christopher_: Member; 766 posts; Joined: April 2014; Offline

Oct. 24, 2016 7:44 p.m.

How did you do the coil from post #12 ?

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 24, 2016 8:04 p.m.

Let me do a tutorial on that too tomorrow


redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 25, 2016 6:09 p.m.

Here is your tutorial. I hope you will find it useful.


_Christopher_: Member; 766 posts; Joined: April 2014; Offline

Oct. 25, 2016 8:01 p.m.

Excellent, thank you

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chrishebert: Staff; 92 posts; Joined: Dec. 2015; Offline

Oct. 25, 2016 9:31 p.m.

redaborchardt
Here is your tutorial. I hope you will find it useful.

Hi Reda, great work on the project so far! A-ok with you if we publish that tutorial in our social channels?

- Chris


redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 26, 2016 4:46 a.m.

Of course. That would be my pleasure.


redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 26, 2016 7:19 p.m.

Here are some chain links with tutorial

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 10:24 a.m.

Since my entire model is made of SubD cages, it looks like I have reached the stage where my 6 core i7 in Mantra is outpacing my GTX 1080 in Octane. The time it takes to pre-process the scene in Octane is almost 1 minute.

I reached a real low yesterday night because I don't seem to be making the progress that I was hoping for. The mind boggling number of shading and rendering options in Mantra is making me feel really stupid.

Anyway, today I managed to get to a stage where the basic shader I built in Mantra looks somewhat acceptable.

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 29, 2016 10:35:28

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 11:06 a.m.

Slowly getting to a stage where the shaders are starting to look probable at scale and the object seems to be made by man made tools.

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 29, 2016 11:20:21

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 11:58 a.m.

After yesterday's low, I have now hit a high. Looking back at the progress, it does seem like the time I am spending learning Mantra is paying off.

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 29, 2016 12:03:12

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 4:13 p.m.

Today is a good day. It feels like the victory of willpower over fear, uncertainty and doubt.

My confidence in my ability to get Mantra to do what I want is increasing. I have definitely overcome a mental block.
Mantra still boggles my mind tho!

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 29, 2016 16:13:32

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 5:24 p.m.

Lovely chains

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 29, 2016 17:53:49

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 29, 2016 6:45 p.m.

Wrapping up the day.

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 30, 2016 9:06 a.m.

A new day has started

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 30, 2016 9:25 a.m.

Quick test render under different conditions to check that I haven't done anything utterly stupid with the shaders.
I have stopped using the Disney shader and now using Mantra Surface nodes.

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 30, 2016 09:33:15

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redaborchardt: Member; 73 posts; Joined: Aug. 2016; Offline

Oct. 30, 2016 10:36 a.m.

The irregular cog army has arrived

Edited by redaborchardt - Oct. 30, 2016 10:47:48

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