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I used to mainly game FPS on PC (Battlefield, Red Orchestra 2 & Squad). My Steam account is full of games that I bought on sale but never even installed. Ran into a few issues with game drivers conflict with some Octane drivers so stopped gaming. When they announced this I was tempted to get the collector edition but decided not to. Looks amazing. Don't know how you'd have time to even play it lol. On console the only game I play is pro-evo. On PS4 I have Witcher 3, Spiderman, God of War, Last of Us and Pro-Evo. Pro-Evo Master League is still the only one I'll play each week. I think it's because I can have a few quick games in less than an hour whereas playing other open world games it'd be a few hours of commitment. The amount of detail gone into cyberpunk is amazing. I might get it on sale in a few years to add to the library 😛

Good stuff @Igor!

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Does each incremental release require a new install or does it update over the existing install? Say if you have a custom layout and lots of plugins do they all have to be configured again?

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@Cerbera - I noticed in the other thread about R23 crashing and you mentioned the Studio drive update. Since I've done that it's been stable for modeling. I got a number of crashes after installed SP (changing display to Isoparms and applying SubD would kill the app) but ran Nvidia update and it's smooth. I'm a bit wary of updating GPU drivers after had a nightmare with drivers before. Haven't updated driver on main machine as I'm in middle of render project on that but the issues I was experiencing were replicated across the different machines here. Update: might have jinxed myself. Will wait until go through more

Yeah mine is up in March so I'll definitely avail of it if it's included

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Very straightforward install. Will get to use it properly after work and over the weekend but from the small sample tests it's running noticeably smoother than my previous version. 🙏

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See, the place is falling apart since you left 😛

Cool yeah will do 👍

It did cross my mind that it might be related to subscription and the forgotten perpetual users 🙂 Should I contact support or just wait? I'm sure Dave or Rick mentioned SP's are available to Sub and Perpetual. The issues I encountered were random crashes on Redshift (freeze and disappear) and not copying materials between scenes (freeze and nothing). Want to wait until SP installed before log any tickets to support.

Ah fair enough. Sure I'll see if it drops in the next day

Also @Cerbera is the SP available to you for download?

Yeah I wanted to stress it's from my own experience. Out of curiosity do you use Redshift in your workflow? I've found most of my crashes have been in conjunction with using Redshift

Absolutely. I've been using R23.008 solid for the last few weeks and from my own experience I wouldn't use it in a Production workflow.

Hmmmm.....

Oh good I'll update and see if it's fixed some of the issues I've been experiencing.

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Brilliant! 🤣🤣

That's an awesome story! I was lucky enough to do 4 month work experience in an animation studio when I was on a year break from college. I studied classical animation back then (2000). I got to spend time in every department of the studio, Storyboarding, Animation, Layout, FX and Admin. Amazing few months. Actually, that experience put me off wanting to pursue a career in an animation studio. In college I had all these ideas for little short animations I wanted to do, but in the studio I realized I'd basically be working on a factory floor following someone else's creative ideas with no input, long hours and on low pay. One day I spent 4 hours in cleanup drawing 2 perfect ovals on 6 frames of animation paper. These 2 ovals were frames of glasses in a larger scene. That was my 'Nope' moment. I dropped out of animation college a few months after returning. With the progress of 3D over the last 20 years it's opened a creative avenue for me again. Only recently doing some side gigs for a small studio I can tell the full time employees work long hours to very tight deadlines. I'm not sure what their pay would be like though. I think it depends on project to project. C4D in an animation studio I don't think is commonplace. If I was pursuing a career in VFX then Houdini is the tool of choice without question. At least you are familiar with Redshift which also can be used with Houdini so that would give you a good lead into it. From what I've read of Houdini is the learning curve is steep but the payoff is great once you become familiar with it. This short documentary about VFX studio that won an Oscar for Life of Pi was a an eye opener when I seen it

Good stuff, I've never considered those type of offers. You're a bit of a mind reader though! The few side jobs opened a window of opportunity which I jumped at. The 4th machine I got is a very recent upgrade. 3970X 32 Core with RTX 3090. I'm thinking this is the last machine I buy for a good few years...unless I get a lot more of those side jobs. Not sure I'm utilizing the 3090 in Redshift properly though. Need more time learning it over the next few months. Hopefully will post some shiny rendered cubes or something under a different alias 😆.

😄😄 I could have worded it better. Really I actively use 2 PC's and a laptop but all of can take part in a team render. 1 PC more geared towards music production, the other is 3D beast and laptop good for light 3D. Only recently I did get a couple of 3D side hustles but won't be changing my username just yet 😄.