The Night of the Epic Fail...
Posted by Twig P on Monday, May 10, 2010
Under: 3D work
Alright, so I have showed you a still image of fire using a particle system with out nodes. I thought that while I was up all night anyway I would give an actual animation a go. I decided on a fluid system this time as I have already done fire and know that Nodes will make Blender crash on my computer. This was going to be as basic as it gets, a nice sized domain with a icosphere set to 4, then I added an obstacle in the form of a cone. Like I said very basic, I didn't do anything more to the "Water" than give it a blue color and the cone was red.
So I baked it, cool that went well. I even rendered a still a single frame, then I rendered the animation. ALL NIGHT!!! No really, I started rendering the animation around 10pm and it finished around 7am. I let the animation run for a few cycles so that my father-in-law could see why I had my computer and my wife's computer running all night. Jokingly I told him that I was never going to do it again, meaning the animation but I digress.
So here is where it became a night of Fail, I min. the animation and go to Blender and open the previously rendered single frame. When I clicked the 'X' to close the still render it stayed up... then (not responding) shows up next to the window title. Oh yea, I thought okay just maybe it is the only the single frame render that I lost... nope when I flip back over to the main Blender window there is the addition to the window Title, (not responding). I could not even save the bleeding animation, then they both collapsed supposedly from my attempt to only close the rendered image. What is worse than this? The animation was still running fine in the background, Task manager had no problems with it and I even managed to bring it up and watch it for a couple of more cycles.
"...that's it, right click and save it that way. That should do it." It did not work obviously, I right clicked and then it hit the animation too, (not responding).
"But wait; There's more!"
Yea, so My wife wakes up and I tell her about every thing and decided to take a break a calm down before I write the blog telling every one about my fail. That is when it steeped one up on me and declared it's self as an Epic Fail. I attempted to sign into the site to write it all out, what did I find instead of my site? "The address is attempting to redirect in a way that could never be completed." ??? Seriously, alright so I will go to the host main page... same thing.
By this point I am certain that if the neighbors didn't think I was a sailor they do now. I attempted four different routs to get to either the main host page, or my site's directory and none of them worked. A little more than 48hrs. with out sleep so I crash out for 3, when I got up the site was back all shiny and new looking. They apparently decided update their site on my worst night to date.
So while I didn't loss anything, and my site is obviously still running, it is not quite as bad as I thought but still an Epic Fail.
Yea, sorry about the lack of a gallery update this morning. I worked really hard all night to give you one, but the god of blender said "NO!" I will try to have a couple more done soon, but no there will not be any animations. Not until something changes and either my system can handle it or a new system is designed to handle it. One day I will give you both Fire and Water animations but no time soon.
So I baked it, cool that went well. I even rendered a still a single frame, then I rendered the animation. ALL NIGHT!!! No really, I started rendering the animation around 10pm and it finished around 7am. I let the animation run for a few cycles so that my father-in-law could see why I had my computer and my wife's computer running all night. Jokingly I told him that I was never going to do it again, meaning the animation but I digress.
So here is where it became a night of Fail, I min. the animation and go to Blender and open the previously rendered single frame. When I clicked the 'X' to close the still render it stayed up... then (not responding) shows up next to the window title. Oh yea, I thought okay just maybe it is the only the single frame render that I lost... nope when I flip back over to the main Blender window there is the addition to the window Title, (not responding). I could not even save the bleeding animation, then they both collapsed supposedly from my attempt to only close the rendered image. What is worse than this? The animation was still running fine in the background, Task manager had no problems with it and I even managed to bring it up and watch it for a couple of more cycles.
"...that's it, right click and save it that way. That should do it." It did not work obviously, I right clicked and then it hit the animation too, (not responding).
"But wait; There's more!"
Yea, so My wife wakes up and I tell her about every thing and decided to take a break a calm down before I write the blog telling every one about my fail. That is when it steeped one up on me and declared it's self as an Epic Fail. I attempted to sign into the site to write it all out, what did I find instead of my site? "The address is attempting to redirect in a way that could never be completed." ??? Seriously, alright so I will go to the host main page... same thing.
By this point I am certain that if the neighbors didn't think I was a sailor they do now. I attempted four different routs to get to either the main host page, or my site's directory and none of them worked. A little more than 48hrs. with out sleep so I crash out for 3, when I got up the site was back all shiny and new looking. They apparently decided update their site on my worst night to date.
So while I didn't loss anything, and my site is obviously still running, it is not quite as bad as I thought but still an Epic Fail.
Yea, sorry about the lack of a gallery update this morning. I worked really hard all night to give you one, but the god of blender said "NO!" I will try to have a couple more done soon, but no there will not be any animations. Not until something changes and either my system can handle it or a new system is designed to handle it. One day I will give you both Fire and Water animations but no time soon.
In : 3D work