Quote from iFastLT :

with my team skin

Awesome - finally someone who can shut up all the "Blender can't do good renders" ppl

Oh my, oh my... I feel like it's Christmas - I pretty much solved my problem :elefant:

I just tried running 12 instances of LFS - FPS was crap with that many, sure, but regarding the responsiveness of the computer (which was by far the most annoying and biggest issue), it felt like it was 90+% responsive.

I just marshaled the 8h IGTC race last Saturday (before I fixed the problem). Chatting on IRC on the side was painful with just 1 instance running - 2 felt like.. well, doesn't matter - just go watch my Youtube video and imagine having to chat with that kind of updates. Jikes!

Although I haven't been looking hard lately, I found it to be difficult to Google the issue - but I finally found something - so here it is - and I found it when I wasn't looking for it :hypnotize
http://forums.nvidia.com/index ... iew=findpost&p=570733 (post #2. I can't seem to link directly to it).

Who would ever had though that?? Really? Now that I know exactly what the problem is, I also know that I actually saw the first symptom some 1-2 years ago, when I bought a new mouse. It lags badly whenever I render. So bad that I eventually made a .bat file to always start the 3D app with lowest priority - because if not, then once the render had started, I often had to wait for it to complete before being able to do anything with the PC - but the mouse lag is complete gone too. I just rendered 8.000.000 polys and PC was like.. gimme more. I need polys nom nom!

I've had major sound stuttering issues too (which actually were what I was trying to look for when I found that threat - I had completely given up on solving the "LFS issue"). I had them first time when I installed Vista some 10 months ago. then on Win 7 TC.. a little tiny bit on CP 64 - none at all on XP 32 and I just installed Win 7 final tonight.. stutter as hell, which made be go look for a solution again again.. but sound stuttering is completely gone now after the fix (LFS behaved as before too on Win 7 - so it's not a Win 7 thing!).

3 seemingly different issues, but they are all caused by the same thing.. and yaya "now I can see how they connect". So great to be hind sighted

...imma go dance now :monkey:

Oh btw - that app thingy you can test with - before solving the issue: Bars were about halfway up to yellow or even red occasionally. In idle mode. Holding down F5 on desktop = constant red bars.

After the fix: barely come up half way up to yellow line - with F5 or whatever. Epic win!

Edit: an important note - in the guide it's mentioned to set the PCI Frequency to more or less than 100. I fixed my issue by setting it to 90 - more than 100 didn't work for me.

Last edited by r4ptor, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 10:31.

Quote from iFastLT :

I use blender and I'm pretty sure that that's rendering errors, because made some renders before with lower quality and didn't see any of these spots

Looks like very bright hotspots to me (judging by the placement of the different "pixels" - doesn't appear to be random).

See if there is anything called clamp or clip in the renderer options or framebuffer perhaps - I don't know Blender, so can't point to the exact location. But it should be somewhere.. I think.

If I'm right, then whats happening is that the hotspots (reflections of the lightsource or whatever it is) are so bright that the intensity differences to the neighboring pixels are too great for the anti aliasing to kick in. So, what you need is to tell the renderer to clamp/clip the values so they fall within a lower dynamic range. That way they are much more likely to be be antialiased properly and look better.

A real world example would be the very bright sparkles you see on water. Tiny tiny sparkles, yet so bright.

Ps. not seeing them in lower quality only means that the renderer isn't aiming for as great precision, and can therefor miss the areas that has these spots. Try moving the cam to the side and see if the spots shifts places as well (like reflections would behave) - if yes, then that's defo your problem.

Quote from Bose321 :

I might want to render some stuff again. But I'm wondering if I could use CUDA on my laptop (9600m gt) to render faster then my PC's Quad core @ 3Ghz.
I will be using Max 2009 and vray. Thanks in advance.

Nein, you can't do that.

there have been a number of hardware based rendering accelerators for 3D, and so far they have all failed - don't ask me why. CPU is just the way to go.

Edit: Get a renderfarm :P

Last edited by r4ptor, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 00:37.

Thank you all very much

Thanks

Here's something different.

Quote from itsphilthy :

-.-

That's a cool render (FOX render too) - I love the floor. But you really need to tighten up the smoothings on the car which will improve overall shading, and use a different refl map/shape. the current one isn't really doing the trick IMO.

Just my 2 cents.

Few renders I did for nFinity.

Quote from Gustix :

Sway's request

Om nom nom - nice

Quote from e2mustang :

Anyway,here is a project i started 2 months ago,and stopped doing it,maybe it will inspire some,and i can see it all finished.. The scirocco rieger! and the link to the original car

Inspire someone? Dude, you are almost there and should finish it up. Looks great so far

Quote from felplacerad :

Many pies in advance!

Oh boi

Quote from Scatter :

Two funny pics I found. One applies well to forums:

Lal, brilliant

Quote from jonaz lindberg :

@isphility

Well, you can't say I stoled your idea because it's so simple. And I'm not even sure if I've seen those renders of yours before.

It's just a pissing contest

Quote from itsphilthy :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=958364#post958364

*cough* http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=826443#post826443

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

They decided not to upload a hi-res skin to put into the MoE pack and they also decided to delete their SO skin from LFSW. So that's their punishment.

Aww.. that was the day Dave overslept and also had hangovers IIRC so another driver had to start the race - and picked the wrong skin in the rush. I had worked so hard on our über 1337 SO skin :doh:

very nice screenies ^^

But there's no resolution at 1650 - noob

Last edited by r4ptor, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 05:02. Reason : typo

Quote from adamlfs :

But if you have some 3D glasses check em out

How's the colors with the glasses? In the old days, colored stereo looked gray (depended/varied on what colors were used to create the 3D illusion)

No one says "please" anymore?

Skip to 2:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyXOEPOiHmM

Quote from BlueFlame :

Don't understand the big deal, there is an Asian guy on that picture anyway, so different races are a-counted for. Stupid that people take offense to stuff like that, the ironic thing is it's probably not the black communities that complained about it. It's over-pc white folk.

I agree. It's a stock photo being changed according to their particular needs. Happens all the time with these types of images. The editing itself being bad is something entirely different though and more lol to me

Quote from Shadowww :

Yes I do. I know better than you how do I see the world.

Alright. Fair enough (but I think you misunderstood me) - let me rephrase my original statement: A human eye under normal conditions is not able to percieve everything in it's view in sharp detail, without changing the focus point.

Quote from !RAM! :

I do

Quote from Shadowww :

I actually do. If you don't, you need to visit your oculist ASAP.

No you don't - only what you focus on/look directly at will be sharp.

Quote from Shadowww :

Sure you edited mod? Henrique_Drifter did it. + gay quality, you don't see everything blurred in real life.

You don't see everything crisp sharp either