I am SO glad you're back!

[Lorraine]

Fingers crossed! But what a pain for you

 

[Rokket]

Fingers crossed! But what a pain for you

Yeah, I thought I had it. It was perfect. I just hope I can reproduce the results. Since I model pretty much from cube to finished product in one continuous session, I don't have a base model to start off again. I may have to look into my workflow and change it up a bit. Save different steps in the process.

 

[Lorraine]

Sounds like a good plan. I tend to save in incremental steps when I'm putting a render together. That might be a good idea for your modelling.

 

[Rokket]

You'd think after all the tutorial videos I've watched over the last 4 years that I have been learning to model that I would have picked up on that. Most of them do just that: save each time they get to a turning point in the process. Not me. I guess it's because I get caught up in the process and want to see it through to completion. I use Wings, Blender, Sculptris and Poser all during the process for different things, but I always overwrite the file when I go from one to the next. It's time to stop doing that just for the time saving aspect. And because I can't undo once I overwrite....

 

[Lorraine]

Yes, no undoing once you push that save button. I've done that in Photoshop a few times. Doh! But I do usually have an incremental to open with the layers intact.

 

[Rokket]

Yes, no undoing once you push that save button. I've done that in Photoshop a few times. Doh! But I do usually have an incremental to open with the layers intact.

It's funny you mentioned Photoshop. I use GIMP and I always save the session files for that, especially when I am creating textures. They tend to go through several changes before I finally hit on something I like, so I always save those. Well, it's past 10pm here. I am off to bed.

 

[Lorraine]

After 2am here and I've done the same.

 

[Terre]

Yeah, well I am going shopping as a guy does. I know what I want so I am going in to get it. I won't be getting anything else, and I'll be out as soon as I can.

My wife is one shopper that even her girlfriends won't go shopping with anymore. She is known for being in a store for 3 hours.... in one aisle. She dragged me out with her once. We went through the entire store, filled a cart, then reversed track and put it all back. That was the last time I went shopping with her.

That's me in a book store. LOL

 

[Terre]

You'd think after all the tutorial videos I've watched over the last 4 years that I have been learning to model that I would have picked up on that. Most of them do just that: save each time they get to a turning point in the process. Not me. I guess it's because I get caught up in the process and want to see it through to completion. I use Wings, Blender, Sculptris and Poser all during the process for different things, but I always overwrite the file when I go from one to the next. It's time to stop doing that just for the time saving aspect. And because I can't undo once I overwrite....

Saving at every step is something my husband has long since gotten in the habit of doing. It has saved him a lot of time on a number of occasions.

 

[Rokket]

I am going to do that once I get back into the modeling. Tonight it's about finding decent software to expand my capabilities and getting the morph packages and hair I have in my cart in the store here for Dawn and Dusk.

 

[Miss B]

That's me in a book store. LOL

We lost our local Barnes & Noble the end of the year, but I was always quite the opposite. I know what authors I want to read, and I have a small note pad I keep handy with the names of currently released books, and when I would go to B&N, I only looked at the authors who I had new books for in my list. I can't just go from aisle to aisle looking for something I "might" want to read. Just not my style.

Now clothing, that's another story, though since retiring I don't go as often as I used to, only when I need to replace something or other.

 

[Rokket]

I will only spend enough time clothes shopping to make sure pants fit me. Beyond that, I am out of there as soon as possible. I can feel the testosterone leaving my body just walking into a shopping center. And a mall? Forget it. Movie theaters only...

 

[Lorraine]

Oh Rokket, that's sad. Think of all the FUN you are missing

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Oh Rokket, that's sad. Think of all the FUN you are missing

Aww, hell no. I'd be right behind him, hauling tail for the exit ASAP!

I haaaaaaaaate shopping. Of ANY kind.

I go in. I get precisely what I need. I get the heck out as quickly as humanly possible.... shopping, blech! LOL

 

[Rokket]

Oh Rokket, that's sad. Think of all the FUN you are missing

No, no... remember, I experienced that "fun" with the wife. Not my cup of tea. And nowadays those places are filled with teenagers who dress badly, need a haircut and swear like sailors. I should know, I am a sailor.

 

[Lorraine]

I am surrounded by shopping philistines! Must admit, I've seen enough midriffs whilst shopping to last my lifetime. But as I am a sailor too...

 

[Rokket]

I am surrounded by shopping philistines! Must admit, I've seen enough midriffs whilst shopping to last my lifetime. But as I am a sailor too...

Yeah, but I am a drunken sailor of old. And we could swear up a storm! But kids these days make us look like monks.

 

[Lorraine]

That is true. I do at least have a few more adjectives than they do

 

[Satira Capriccio]

I shop online ... for everything.

While it definitely makes shopping for groceries much faster and easy to see what I'm spending with each item added to the cart ... shopping on amazon can take a lot more time than I'd spend in a store. Though, I end up not buying a lot of things I probably would have bought in a store because I check the reviews before buying anything. On some things, I'll even check several other review sources. I don't spend money lightly

Heck ... I even check reviews on the free books listed in bookbub. No way do I want to waste time on a book with poor writing or editing. And if it doesn't have an ending, I don't bother with it. And ... it irritates me beyond measure when an author "hides" that it's really a "romance" (aka erotica) book when it's listed as a fantasy or historical or mystery ... well then, that's the last I read from that author.

Mind you, I don't mind relationships in books. Just not the ones that add in pages upon pages of explicit sex which if removed ... changes the story not a bit.

 

[Terre]

Aww, hell no. I'd be right behind him, hauling tail for the exit ASAP!

I haaaaaaaaate shopping. Of ANY kind.

I go in. I get precisely what I need. I get the heck out as quickly as humanly possible.... shopping, blech! LOL

With most things I'm the same way. lOL