Indeed.  There it is.  Why did I think it wasn't there?  I know I've put my phone in Landscape position many times for reading posts.

It's possible something changed, but most likely I actually did know that, but forgot about it while I was busy complaining about trying to use my phone to access the forum.  Smart phones are great things, but they are no replacement for a reasonable computer monitor and a real keyboard.

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It seems there is! :)

I just tried it. Rotate your phone sideways to landscape. You may need to zoom out as far as possible. What displays is based on zoom-scale, so just like on your computer when you zoom in or out on the RL forum, different things wink in and out.

Thanks, Rampa.  I knew that, and I've done that from time-to-time, especially if I had a topic or two I was particularly interested in, but it's just not fun to read on the phone's small screen, and then I'm often being left with the options of; a) Painfully replying on the phone, or b) Not replying, or c) Trying to remember to reply when I get home.

On a related note, though, when you open a post on the phone, is there a way to see where the post came from?  (Breadcrumbs?)

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Hi JVK,

For viewing "Latest" on your phone browser, click on the three-liney thing. ;)

Greetings,

Some of you may have noticed I've been unusually quiet around here lately.  There are three reasons:
1) Life has simply distracted me with other things that have absorbed my time.  Nothing bad, just the ebb and flow of life's activities.
2) I always enjoyed posting during 5 and 10-minutes breaks while at the office.  But due to changing internet security profiles, I cannot post there anymore (and I detest trying to do it on my phone).  I can't even view via the "Latest" tab; I have to manually search each category, which makes it a bit of a chore to keep up on things.  One or two days (a few weeks ago) I could post again, but then it went away.
3) I've spent some time with Substance Painter.

So, I'm just saying "Hi" to let you know (warn you?) that I think I'm getting back into iClone land, where I play with some of my favorite software and correspond with people here that I call friends.

Wait, did I say, "Substance Painter?"  Yup.  The good folks at Allegorithmic did a contest to paint a very simplistic model they provided.  It was a lot of fun, and like any "project" if causes a person to learn new things.  I tend to poke at individual bits of functionality in Painter, much like you might tap individual keys on a piano.  Figuring out how the keys and the pedals work is one thing, but playing a song is quite another.

I'll insert a picture here, and provide a couple of links.


Link to the "Meet MAT" contest forum thread:
https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php/board,53.0.html

Link to my contest thread, which shows a bit about a couple earlier concepts I played with:
https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php/topic,17046.0.html

I even opened a Sketchfab account so you can view my model in its full 3D glory:
https://skfb.ly/6qFwS

Link to a "collection of entries" that someone started (with only 14 replies so far):
https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php/topic,17333.0.html

There were a lot of stunning entries.  One major rules was we were not allowed to change the actual geometry (mesh) at all.  Using simply geometry (and using their "sample object" for a head, rather than using a human face) really fueled a lot of creativity.  Astronauts, deep-sea divers, traffic lights, clocks, showerheads, bubble gum machines, and on and on.



P.S.
It wont' be long until I need to start an "iClone 7 corner" thread.

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Thank you, UrbanLamb.

What I confirmed:
a) It does indeed ask you to confirm your desire to delete the Issue.
b) It will delete the Issue even if there are comments added to it.

I "accidentally" deleted a long and detailed Issue, and I couldn't remember if it gave me a "Confirm/Cancel" option or not.  It does.  The deletion was 100% my fault, not FeedBack Tracker.  We get so used to saying, "Yes" that we don't always pause and give thoughtful consideration to that prompt.

The test is done.
Thanks again.

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Greetings people.

I'm doing a little test in FeedBack Tracker.

Will someone kindly add a COMMENT to this Issue?  http://www.reallusion.com/FeedBackTracker/Issue/Doing-a-FeedBack-Tracker-test

Thanks.

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Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

I'm glad you included the winky face.  It helps me reiterate that it''s not my art work.  Both the modeling AND the painting are a sample provided by Allegorithmic.

I just had to share my long-awaited success in running Iray on my new (half a year ago) graphics card.  My old card was an AMD card, so I've always had to do my Iray renderings on the CPU.  I knew it would be a lot faster on the GTX 1080.  The CPU/GPU delta for Indigo was not very impressive in my opinions, but for Iray I am totally satisfied with the 15x improvement in rendering speed.

I'm sure in a week I'll start wishing for more speed.  Isn't that typical?  But for now, I'm happy and I'm going to savor the moment.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Nice render;):)

Today has been a happy day.

I have FINALLY been able to enjoy rendering with Iray on my GTX 1080.  :)  :D  :)

After a long delay, Nvidia finally released Iray with support for the Pascal (10xx) series of GPUs.  It was dependent on CUDA 8 being completed, among other delays.

Then Allegorithmic had to incorporate in their products, test it, and release it.  Substance Designer 5.6 became available a few days ago.  Substance Painter will get it's update at a later date (nothing specific yet).

With much anticipation, I rendered a simple model  and......  got a pure black image.  Long story short, I worked with their support team and there was some gunk in one of my Substance Designer registry entries.  Cleaning that out saved the day and Iray works now.

RESULTS?
My GTX 1080 renders the Iray scene 15x faster than my I7 3770k CPU.  You read that correctly.  Not 15 percent faster; 15 times faster!!!  :w00t:

Here is a sample project I rendered.  I take no credit for the quality.  It is a sample project from Allegorithmic.

At 1920x1080 resolution, it rendered 471 iterations in one minute.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD