Jeff Patton JeffPatton Location: Lexington, USA Language(s):
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Lol I feel your pain. It really sucks. I had about the similiar experience you had except I didn't have to stay at a hotel. When I flew to Washington DC from Oklahoma to visit my girlfriend. I lost my luggages so when I arrived to Washington DC I had to report it. So after that I went to see my girlfriend at her dorm at an University. I have asked the person at the counter if they can deliever my bags to the dorms, and they said yes they can... which didn't happen. So we had to call to see what's up since I had no extra clothes to wear.. I had to wear the same clothes for 4 days.. Ugh! But my girlfriend was sweet enough to wash my clothes so they'd be fresh. After we contacted the airport about my bags they informed us that the security at the University won't let the deliever person to bring in my bags bc I am not an student of this University. So when it was time to go back home, I went to the counter about my bags. They had them so I picked them up and went onto my flight back home. The flight had to stop at a town in Conn. There I went to the next gate, the flight is announced to be canelled. I was like oh gee.. my lagguage is already on the way to Oklahoma while I'm stuck in Conn. The lady at the counter found me a other flight to catch which head straight to my hometown instead of Oklahoma which I accepted. So I jumped onto that flight and got home. I had to have my parents to come pick me up since I'm truck-less now. The next day I had to have somebody to bring me to Oklahoma to pick up my lagguages and my truck. When I arrived, the person at the counter almost wont give me my lagguages back. Finally after a several minutes of agruement with the person at the counter, I finally got my lagguages back. Now I have to go pick up my truck and since the truck has been there for an extra day I had to paid more fees for having it parked there. That weekend is one sweetest weekend I've ever head (NOT!) I wasn't happy at all but had to think positive. So that's my story that happened to me two months ago.
It's a shame what the airline business has turned into over the last decade. I just don't see how people that travel frequently cope with all the hassle from these airlines that have completely lost sight of what matters most to them....the customers. The bus (or train) actually sounds pretty appealing these days.
Wow those skydome is very nice. I've had a techique I'd come up with (But doesn't work as great as that techique) I didn't use Physical Sky to get my background bitmap to show up. I just removed the Physical Sky from Enivorment Map and replaced it with an paranomia sky. I just set the Mr Sun and Mr Sky to .01, turning off the Exterior Daylight in Log. Exposure. Then there it goes, I get a nice, clearer background scene than if I added the background image into Physical Sky and turn up the output. But the problem is.. if I set the Paranomia Sky as enivorment sphere map, the background looks horrible and over stretched. So I just used Screen and stretch it a little. I like your techique much better than what I came up with. I'm surprised we're able to bring some of the shaders into Max 9 from Max 2008.
Hey since the production shaders works with 3.4 versions and above in Mental Ray. Is it possible to bring in the new photo. exposure control into Max 9?
Thanks for all the blog entries - they're always very useful. Can you give some advice on using the new Sky Portal. Should you be using it with FG only or can you still combine GI as well. I'm struggling to work out where i should be controlling the photons. In the mrSun or in the mr Sky portal settings.
I just checked out the production.pdf from mental images. Do you understand well how to use Card/Opacity Shader? I don't fully understand the description of that Shader. Do you know?
is it possible to use GI with the skydome? - i tried different things, but with the skydome GI cant store photons. does this effect the result? - becuase the rendering (indoor) seems to calculate the photons.
is this the right way to ask you about your mr-tips?
