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[2006-06-13 12:43:12 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 3101; Deviations: 177; Watchers: 188
Watching: 150; Pageviews: 25901; Comments Made: 3706; Friends: 150
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Many.Favorite movies: Bladerunner
Favorite bands / musical artists: At the moment Elsiane
Favorite writers: Many.
Favorite games: Borderlands
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Vue, 3DS, GIMP, fingers, eyes, brain, tongue
Other Interests: Art, technology, philosophy
# Comments
Comments: 943
Welcome. Always. Cheers...
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You rant against floating islands and yet have the unmitigated gall to fav one of my Calumpset ploids? Shame on you! (but thank you very much, too!)
Seriously - LOL. I did Calumpset and other 'floating islands' over a year ago, and although I'm submitting them to VuePort now, what I'm doing is presenting my work in chronological order, so everyone can see just how much I haven't progressed!
More ploids to come! Yea!
PS - I do like radiosity - it just takes so darn long!
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(((I know, advanced lighting is time consuming - good news is a decent Core 2 Quad processor is now about $220AU with the i3,i5,i7 processors pushing down the price of the older Intel generation (AMD is still out of the picture). I priced a dual processor i7 Xeon workstation (total 8 physical cores, 16 virtual hyperthreaded ones) and it came to a depressing $2500AU for 2.2GHz which is ridiculously cheap for the power (imagine about 30 top of the line Pentium 4s from 2005 shoved into one box and it isn't a bizarre DIY high temperature incinerator project) but enormously unaffordable for amateurs and the poverty stricken (I fall into mostly the first and a lot the second) considering the two and a half grand was just for the 2 processors, motherboard and 12GB memory. I'll be sticking with my humble Core 2 quad for a while yet. *sigh* )))
It's not a floaty island! It's more an uber-stylised Spore-like planetoid. There is a difference. And there's no jungle or plant roots so you're pretty much clichΓ© free with the whole series. Stamp of approval.
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Re the GI lighting / unticked box , I'm ashamed to say I didn't. I was too lazy to hunt the damn thing out again and wait another five hours for it to - you know - thingy. I'm having a senior moment and have forgotten the word - you get these lapses of memory as you get ... you know ... thingy - more aged.
I'm working with a 2.4 gH P4 with only 2 meg of ram and a GEforce 6200 card. I'd love to upgrade but just don't have the means!
I'm sorry to have to tell you that quite a few of the Calumpset ploids do have jungle and plant-roots - it all depends upon what the owner-deviant wanted as to what I designed for them - I mean what the Calumpset engineers designed for them. There are up to three versions of some of the ploids, the owners often changing their minds. Calumpset itself went through changes too - the time-line is available at the link below. We've had festivals, storms, shuttle-crashes - we even have an inquisitive dolphin who wears sunglasses (he's got 462 pairs, but always wears the black ones)
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Render. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough with the hardware too. Computers are a luxury too many people take for granted.
I'd comment on the Calumpset ploids but my head is in power saving mode an unable to formulate a reply worthy of the original text. Ever read Terry Pratchett's Strata? Black is the new black.
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I've read so many of his, I can't remember! That was before he ceased being my favorite author and I became my favorite author - now I don't read any more, I just write.
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Cool idea! Huge best-wishes things with that. I gave up fiction writing (did it a lot, co-wrote awful fantasy parody book) because I felt too awkward and got tied up in trying to overcome painfully bad sentence structures - sure sign of lack of experience and too much coffee.
Pretty much every Discworld book is like the previous so I've also lost count of what I've read and not read of his.
Apologies for multi-month delay - see journal. Extra points for knowing what I'm talking about without looking at 'Original' and spending a few moments going 'what?'.
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LOL - I knew immediately, so no need to go too pink. I agree with you about the 'formulaic' nature of his writing - I suddenly realised you were right - I couldn't remember which book was which either.
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thank you so much for the fav !!!
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Thank you so much for all the favs!
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Any time, friend. Merci bien.
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Thank you sooo much for the 
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Thank you very much for
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thanks for visiting
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Unusually tidy backyard...
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Wow, wow, thanks for all of the
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