Best of Witchtorture / Hexenfolter

[doe.1971]

I'll probably try my hand on this composion ... it's inspiring ... not bleumune grade but still worth a try ... speaking of which, where's that guy nowadays?

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This one's really good.

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[wulf]

I'll probably try my hand on this composion ... it's inspiring ... not bleumune grade but still worth a try ... speaking of which, where's that guy nowadays?

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This one's really good.

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I was wondering the same thing. If he has posted recently, I missed it. I do hope he's ok.

[Bastndo]

A few 3D arts finds

[wjhk93]

He posted three witches burning a little while ago.: http://ralphus.net/thegimpforum/viewtop ... 8&start=40,
that was very good. Will Burner

[sado969]

[wulf]

He posted three witches burning a little while ago.: http://ralphus.net/thegimpforum/viewtop ... 8&start=40,
that was very good. Will Burner

You're right, and I even posted to that message. Shows ya how well my memory is working these days.

[bleumune]

I'll probably try my hand on this composion ... it's inspiring ... not bleumune grade but still worth a try ... speaking of which, where's that guy nowadays?

I was wondering the same thing. If he has posted recently, I missed it. I do hope he's ok.

"That guy" has a computer that is toast at the moment. Really, really toast. All my efforts to resurrect it have failed utterly (and I'm an experienced software/hardware engineer!). The bid I got for finding and fixing it ran to well over $500, since the tech suspected a new motherboard might be required (which would require a new Windows 10 installation, since Microsoft tied each copy of Windows 10 to whatever motherboard it was installed to).

So I decided to get a complete new system (except for a few items like hard drives and other stuff I can reuse). I'm trying to pull together the $$$, but it'll be at least 3 weeks before I can receive the new machine. And than I have to configure it!

[bleumune]

He posted three witches burning a little while ago.: http://ralphus.net/thegimpforum/viewtop ... 8&start=40,
that was very good. Will Burner

That was when my computer problem first stuck it's ugly head up. The image took forever to render, so I reset my machine (which usually clears the Daz Studio resources and starts fresh).

However, my system would not boot. At all. It never booted afterward, even after lots and lots of trying by this previously skilled technical troubleshooter.

Computers are great, aren't they?

Until they aren't . . .

[doe.1971]

That was when my computer problem first stuck it's ugly head up. The image took forever to render, so I reset my machine (which usually clears the Daz Studio resources and starts fresh).

DAZ is terrible for hardware, it's common knowledge. Many a motherboard, GPUs, power sources met their untimely demise at its withering grasp ...

[bleumune]

That was when my computer problem first stuck it's ugly head up. The image took forever to render, so I reset my machine (which usually clears the Daz Studio resources and starts fresh).

DAZ is terrible for hardware, it's common knowledge. Many a motherboard, GPUs, power sources met their untimely demise at its withering grasp ...

Based on my recent research, it's the long render times associated with Iray rendering by either Daz or Octane or even Blender that's to blame. Consumer grade computers and associated parts like GeForce GPUs are made for like 4-8 hours of work even with gamers and 16 hours of downtime. But the big scenes I like to render often take hours and hours and hours.

Workstations, on the other hand, and the parts that go in them are designed to stand up to near-continuous use for days on end. For example, the servers that support the internet are 100% workstations, and they never have any downtime. However, they cost like Bloody Blue Hades, which is why I'm having to scramble to accumulate the $$$ to buy a workstation rather than a gamer computer.

Oh, well. What's money for, anyway? Other than being necessary for food to eat and a roof over your head, of course . . .