5. You see a rock as you go about your day and wonder what parameters you'd need to recreate it in TG2.
4. You get excited about the high-end machines in a computer store, not because of the games you could play, but because of the incredible TG2 render times.
3. You leap out of bed in the morning as soon as your alarm goes off, excited to see how your overnight render turned out.
2. When someone comes out with new models or theme packs, you're as giddy as a kid on Christmas morning, excited to try them out.
1. When you see an actual sunset over a lake with distant mountains, you find yourself critiquing God's render settings. ("I'd have used larger fakestones...")
Feel free to add your own.
This pretty much describes my life ;D
I used to go wandering about in real nature. Now I prefer to sit behind my screen (close the drapes to see better when the sun's out) and wander around in my self created landscapes, and create more, more, and even more of it. Am I lazy, or just plain crazy?
I often get caught up with interesting cloud setups (and sometimes take pictures :P) in the sky. Annnnd basically all those on the list too... hahah
6. You dream about your overnight render crashing, (or not crashing)
You set up a great node of functions that in the end does nothing, and don't get upset. The node tree itself looks cool and impresses your friends.
You get excited when the GI pass is finished and you can watch the first sky area start to render.
All of the above, except the overnight ones, as I don't have a box I can run overnight :'( ;) Oh, and I've never had the non-functional node tree one - njeneb, you must have a special talent!
I learned how from Marc's Turbo Konfabulator tutorial.
Driving to work in the morning leaning on the steering wheel looking up at the clouds with polarised shades on, not watching the traffic in front of you
Quote from: Hetzen on April 13, 2010, 11:00:03 AM
Driving to work in the morning leaning on the steering wheel looking up at the clouds with polarised shades on, not watching the traffic in front of you
guilty. also at sunset... and on cool cloud looking days
7. You start a render just before you go to bed, then you think you hear a beep in the middle of the night, get up, then turn your monitor back on to check for a BSOD, only to find that nothing's wrong, then go back to bed.
And about that taking pictures of clouds thing, I do that too. I also take pictures of rocks and pavement to use in Photoshop to make planet textures.
8. You think about setting a password on your computer so you can make TG2 load at startup.
9. Walking up to the doors at school, wishing you had a camera to shoot the clouds/ground.
10. You get mad because you've been told, told again, nagged, and yelled at to log off right in the middle of a render.
And yes, I've done (or thought about doing) all that.
when i'm at work, i have a tendency to stare out my window from time to time, looking at the real life trees, other various objects & wonder what their polygon counts must be.....and think about how long it would take to render it all.
:o ;D :D
Nice post, I do number three all the time.
Quote from: Hetzen on April 13, 2010, 11:00:03 AM
Driving to work in the morning leaning on the steering wheel looking up at the clouds with polarised shades on, not watching the traffic in front of you
lol, same here.
Pausing or even skipping the dvd back to a scenic shot & thinking it`d make a good render ;)
10. You stare at a small puddle of water for five minutes and wonder how to recreate those caustics.......
Ghehe, fantastic topic ;D I'm guilty on almost any reason given here :D
11. You know virtually every single post made on these forums, made by who and about what.
Ah yes, the forums...
12. You re-check the forums every *hour* to see what's new. :)
I don't do any of those.
.. naaah, of course I do. Especially I have to be very disciplined to hold myself back when driving, to not stare out the window for too long. That's why I prefer someone else to drive whenever possible. ;)
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on April 14, 2010, 02:01:42 AM
Ghehe, fantastic topic ;D I'm guilty on almost any reason given here :D
11. You know virtually every single post made on these forums, made by who and about what.
Guilty, sometimes I do forget who made the post. :-[
12. You buy you'r self a external drive, just to back up your terragen stuff.
13. You consider doing a hostel takeover on the rest of the famelys pc's, just to make a renderpark.
14. You see the whole renderprosess, even if it takes 2 hours.
15. You start another terragen when rendering to make you'r next scene.
16. Whenever you will be gone for a week or longer, you make sure that you have an animation to render while you are gone
Quote from: dwilson on April 15, 2010, 10:27:24 PM
16. Whenever you will be gone for a week or longer, you make sure that you have an animation to render while you are gone
They shoud make a terragen render screensaver. starts calulating when you'r afk.
17. You get severely depressed when on holiday longer than a week or so (without TG possibilities)....
I just did a #3 just to find out that my render wasn't even half way done. I think you are spot-on with #2 thru #5. But...
Quote from: kevnar on April 13, 2010, 12:12:17 AM
1. When you see an actual sunset over a lake with distant mountains, you find yourself critiquing God's render settings. ("I'd have used larger fakestones...")
Doh!...I hope I never lose my set of priorities. God doesn't have to use fakestones because nature has realstones. What you see in nature IS the standard that we are trying to achieve. If you want realism, everthing we do in software is only a fake, a counterfeit, an approximation. However, if I ever do get to be as good as some of you are, I'll probably be catching myself doing the same thing :D
Quote from: Dune on April 16, 2010, 01:39:02 AM
17. You get severely depressed when on holiday longer than a week or so (without TG possibilities)....
that would be terragen 2 withdrawal
you have more than 30 days connected on the PS forums !
You can not make a render in TG2 for some strange artistic mental block and instead do posting in the open discussions topic after topic and hoping it will go away :-[ ;)