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General / Re: Time for an upgrade!!!

« on: June 29, 2021, 09:11:05 AM »

I also got these 2 quotes...

QUOTE 1
Ryzen 5 5600X  ZEN 3
X570 GAMING X BAORD
HYPER X 32GB DDR4 3200MHZ RGB
1TB M.2 SSD
1TB SATA SSD
850W GOLD GIGBAYTE
RTX 3070 VENTUS MSI
WINDOWS 10 HOME 64BIT
DEEPCOOL L240ARGB DUAL RADIATOR COOLER
AROUS C300 CASE
ALL INSTALLED    AU$3865

QUOTE 2
AMD Ryzen 7-5800X 4.7Ghz AM4, 8 Core, 16 Thread
MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK AM4 ATX MB 4xDDR4 2xPCIEx16 2xPCIEx1 2xM.2 RAID LAN DP
HDMI 6xSATAIII 2xUSB3.2 6xUSB2.0
G.Skill Flare X 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR4 3200MHz Memory
1 x ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB 3500MB/s NVME M.2 SSD
1 Crucial BX500 1TB 2.5" 3D NAND SATA SSD CT1000BX500SSD1 - Interface: SATA 6 GB/s
Gigabyte AP850GM AORUS 850W ATX PSU Power Supply 80+ Gold Modular
Deepcool Matrexx 50 ADD RGB 4F Tempered Glass Mid-Tower E-ATX Case
Deepcool GAMMAXX L240 A-RGB Liquid CPU Cooler, Anti-Leak, E-Shape Micro Water Design, Two
ARGB PWN Fan Included
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
TP-Link Archer T4E AC1200 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter - 2 Dual Band Detachable
Antennas - IEEE 802.11ac/n/a 5GHz, IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz - Up to 867Mbps at 5GHz, 300Mbps at
2.4GHz - PCI Express Interface - Compatible with: Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP (32/64bit) - 3 Years Limited
Warranty
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING Z TRIO 8GB Video Card
Total invoice price including AU$4,199.0

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General / Time for an upgrade!!!

« on: June 25, 2021, 05:44:06 AM »

Ok my GTX900 machine is looking pretty old, so time for an upgrade. I received the following quote (in $AU) and was wondering if these are the right specs and price if i’m freelancing with Blender, Unreal/Twinmotion, Photogrammetry software, mainly for technical or interactive architecture still or animated projects (see my portfolio here https://twistedpancreas.artstation.com for the work I do)…

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3800XT, 8 Core
(Base: 3.90GHz, Boost: 4.70GHz / 32MB Cache / AM4 / 6 Core)
CPU Cooler - AMD Prism Wraith Cooler

Motherboard - ASUS AMD B550 ROG STRIX B550-A
2x M.2 SSD Storage / Wifi 6 / 2.5 Gb LAN / USB 3.2 / USB-C

RAM - Hyper X Fury 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz DDR4

SSD - Crucial P2 1TB M.2 NVMe Storage
SSD - Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" Sata SSD

PSU - Deepcool DQ 850W Gold Power Supply

OS - Genuine Windows 10 Home

TOTAL: $3,058AU including GST

Upgrade to 64GB RAM, additional $280AU+ GST
RTX 3070, Additional $1,550AU incl GST
RTX 3080, Additional $2,400AU incl GST
RTX 3090, Additional $3,400AU incl GST

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Bug Reports / Re: Align chunks issues 1.70

« on: February 09, 2021, 06:06:24 AM »

Yeah sorry Alexey,

I've done a few models now and none are aligning (not even close) and they have enough overlap

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Bug Reports / Re: Merge Chunks not working 1.70

« on: January 18, 2021, 05:03:26 AM »

Actually I worked it out, I had to scale both Dense Cloud chunks up and then re-tried the Merge Chunks button and it worked, thanks for the help though.

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Bug Reports / Re: Merge Chunks not working 1.70

« on: January 18, 2021, 01:33:16 AM »

Thanks Alexey,

since the Align Chunks wasn't working and the edges are very thin I had to manually align the 2 chunks.

Thanks.

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Bug Reports / Re: Merge Chunks not working 1.70

« on: January 14, 2021, 02:06:15 AM »

I'd like to share the project but I work for a university and they're very strict on these sorts of things so sorry I can't share the file.

I've noticed it in a few other projects I have done in the past few months but I fixed it by slightly moving one of the chunks and then Merging and that worked, but not in this particular case.

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Bug Reports / Re: Align chunks issues 1.70

« on: January 14, 2021, 02:04:01 AM »

Ok thanks Alexey,

maybe there wasn't enough overlap with the sides of the hand model here, I'll see how we go with other models, but I've been doing similar models for about the last year and a half and the last few models haven't been aligning very well compared to the others I have done over that time.

Thanks.

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Bug Reports / Merge Chunks not working 1.70

« on: January 13, 2021, 03:44:30 AM »

I'm also having issues with Merging Chunks

Here's one chunk


And the other chunk


When viewing them both together with the "Show Aligned Chunks" button it shows them together like this...


But when I use Merge Chunks with these settings...


It only displays one side, ie


even though it's showing double the cameras and markers etc...



Am I missing something.

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Bug Reports / Align chunks issues 1.70

« on: January 12, 2021, 02:28:51 AM »

Anybody else having issues with aligning chunks?

After using these settings:



I'm finding the chunks are way apart from each other and only one chunk will appear if I click the "Show Aligned Chunks" button (unless I move one of the chunks, as I have done in the above screenshot).

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General / Re: Imported quad models being exported out of Metashape as triangles?

« on: October 01, 2020, 02:17:44 AM »

Thanks Alexey,

yeah manually adding UV's adds to the process time and I'm trying to be as time efficient as possible.

Thanks.

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General / Re: Imported quad models being exported out of Metashape as triangles?

« on: September 30, 2020, 06:50:01 AM »

Thanks for the hasty reply Alexey.

And yes creating UV's worked.

Does that mean I have to do that for each model now?

Our subjects are Anatomy Cadaver models and they're pretty complex, UV mapping will be time consuming.

And how come it was working for me before without UV's but not now?

Thanks.

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General / Imported quad models being exported out of Metashape as triangles?

« on: September 29, 2020, 01:46:34 AM »

Hey there guys.

My process is:

1) Build model in Metashape and export as .obj
2) Lower polycount with Zremesher in Zbrush
3) Check .obj in Blender for non quad faces
4) Reimport .obj into Metashape and apply texture
5) Export into Blender again to be finally exported as a blend4web html5 model.

Problem is lately when doing step 5) I find  the models are now all made up of triangles even though I checked in step 3)

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.