How many Monitors do you use?

[cyphyr]

This came up in another forum regarding weather Terragen is run maximised or not and I figured this may be down to how many monitors were used. So I thought I'd ask.
At work I'm lucky enough to use two monitors so I can have Terragen maximised on one and various floating windows (shader previews/nodes with "stay open" etc) in the other window. At home I'm stuck with just the one so Terragen is running a two thirds the screen and floating windows are off to one side.
How do you work?
Cheers
Richard

[Seth]

2 at work, 2 at home

[swissAdA]

2 @ Home 

[Hetzen]

2 at work giving me 4480 wide desktop, and two at home with 3320. I miss that extra 1160 pixels. 

I like to use two node network windows open at work, and the render floater is always locked open, bottom far right. And have floaters open when tweaking a node chain.

**Just re-read that, and it doesn't sound right at all **

[Tangled-Universe]

1 here, 22"....so that might explain some things

[Kadri]

1 x 25.5" here at home.

(I would love to say with a grinning emoticon that i use 1   25.5" monitor at home , but i am sure someone below will put a 30" or so below in a post here )

[jo]

I have two monitors but I don't use TG2 maximised. My main monitor is 1920 x 1200 so I don't usually feel the need to make it more than about 2/3 the size of that screen.

Regards,

Jo

[jo]

Hi Hetzen,

I like to use two node network windows open at work,

Cool, I'm glad someone uses the networks in a separate window :-).

and the render floater is always locked open, bottom far right.

Is that so you can start a render quickly, or because you're often making changes to the render size for tests? I'm just asking because if it's the former there is a shortcut key to start a rendering (ctrl-R on Windows I think).

Regards,

Jo

[Zairyn Arsyn]

2 x 21" widescreen monitors at my job, (3360x1050)
i only have one monitor at home. (22" / 1920x1080)  but i want to get a second display for tg2 and other programs....

[inkydigit]

just 1, my trusty 24" mac!

[Themodman101]

Personally I use 2 32 Inch monitors, and my smaller 23 Inch 3D Acer monitor with my Nvision

I love my setup, my eyes have never gotten dry or tired cause everything is so clear.

[ajcgi]

I think it's 2x 21" here at work (they seem that size anyhoo) and I have 2 x24" at home.
Saw a documentary not so long ago about the author Terry Pratchett. They showed him at home. Had 6 monitors! Not content with creating Discworld, it seems he's planning on taking over the universe. Or maybe that should be multiverse!

[cyphyr]

Thanks everyone.
I don't know how relevant it is but it dose seem to be more the norm now rather than the exception to have two or more displays. At some point I'll update my home rig with two 23in displays, probably when I next upgrade!
Cheers
Richard

[Hetzen]

Is that so you can start a render quickly, or because you're often making changes to the render size for tests? I'm just asking because if it's the former there is a shortcut key to start a rendering (ctrl-R on Windows I think).

I didn't know that Jo, I only found out about the 'D' shortcut a few weeks back. I guess I do jump into the render settings quite a bit, adjusting qualities to get general shape, then back in for cropped detail. I also drop the GI a lot, again for shape.

The second node layout is really useful for adjusting textures in a population, whilst still working on masks. Or having an internal network open, whilst adjusting lighting, or what-not.

[jaf]

Two at home.  I used to have them side-by-side, but due to space limitations, I had to place one above the other.  Talk about a tough learning curve; it took me the longest time to get used to moving a window on the upper display to the left to get it to the lower display (even though that's how it was done when they were side-by-side.)  My brain says "drag it straight down to the lower monitor!