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@hohaexpress @endless_sine I would like to see your mood board or seminal cyberpunk aesthetic references.

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@cgboost Ah, I see. Dropping the Sun's shadow filter down to 0 resolves the noise causing gradient.

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@cgboost In 4.5.0, Am I missing something? Shadows are ending up noisy in comparison to the video.

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@Kennyufg You mean non-standardized PR questions from the circuit? I wouldn't be hearing the same 10 questions repeated every interview?

I could only hope.

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@Kennyufg Money of this scale doesn't come from individual effort. It comes from economic bottlenecks, exploitation, or force multiplication. It also is below the $300 million economy exit marker.

People don't respect hustle before, why care if they do after?

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@cmzw_ It's wonderful. I wanted to make it in Blender. I started recreating the Shard FBM in OSL script. It is CPU render only there, so wasn't realtime. Then I did it entirely in shader nodes, and without for loops, unwrapping it becomes too heavy to do more than one iteration.

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@SmallzKillin I found that only String to Text was not behaving the same as other curves. Then I recognized it is outputting instances. Adding a realizing instances on the string to curves output, the text behaved as the other curves in fill curve.

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@SmallzKillin I'm currently in 4.4.3
Works cleanly this morning on a fresh attempt.

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@SmallzKillin Then I am definitely not guessing the node tree. I cannot get intersections and differences executed cleanly, only unions.

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Now, I feel like I can start studying modelling and sculpting like I've wanted to the whole time because the simple things now look satisfying, I can dream of complex things and explore them incrementally.

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I have been searching and learning Blender all this time unknowingly for making miniature dioramas. I've been blowing out my scenes with overpowered lights to keep them from being dark/gray, leading to blown out highlights and unpleasant shadows.

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But spots, points, and area lights would require un-intuitive finagling to get a result that would only work in those specific cases. Change the scene, it falls apart.

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@IlyasseL_ Amazing. Can I ask how you are getting that specific soft but glossy metallic shading? I definitely can't get clos to the color gradients, only B&W.