Dev Update #95


Sorry, I'm a bit late for that Dev Update.

Scene 6 is fully posed. I had to rework a few shots because I decided at the last moment to change Kelly's outfit.

Scene 6 is 109 shots in total.

I wrote scene 7. The first and the second draft are done. I'll probably still rewrite it a bit while posing but I'm confident it's 95 % definitive. It's a pretty short scene: about 1500 words total, split into two parts. There is almost no interaction, so it should be fairly easy to pose.

Now, for a bit of hardware drama.

I took my workstation back to the workshop on Friday so that they could install the new GPU and the water-cooling loop. The new GPU works perfectly. The water-cooling however, doesn't. Temperatures at rest are ok, but not while under load. They are worse than what I previously experimented while on air cooling. So something is definitely wrong.

I should be able to pose my shots without problems but I stopped rendering. I'll wait for my set-up to work properly to resume the rendering.

So, I have to make a new appointment with the workshop to get that checked. I'm a bit discouraged by this situation. I know my hardware isn't at risk and that's just some lost time. But still, it's annoying and stressful.


The quick sum up :

  • Day 6 Part 1 will contain 13 scenes.
  • Scenes 1 to 6 are written.
  • Scenes 1 to 6 are posed.
  • Scenes 1 to 5 are rendered. Half of Scene 6 is rendered.
  • Scenes 1 to 5 are coded.
  • 22 000 words, 3567 lines of code, 391 shots are posed and 342 are rendered.
  • 10 environments have been reworked.
  • I'm currently posing scene 7.


You can follow my progress with this Trello board!


Thank you very much for your support!

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As someone without a steak in this I have 4 guesses as to what might be wrong.  

1) A Bad mount.  Either  with the mounting pressure or  how the thermal paste was applied. This would show up as a sharp temperature increase when put under load.

2) The pump/fan speed is too low.   This would show up as a slow build as the water heats up.

3) The water is flowing the wrong way through the block.  This will have a stable  temp about 10C higher than you expect.

4) Air   bubble(s) in the  block.  This can have a similar  temp profile to the bad mount.

I hope you get this figured out.  I only want to know what was wrong out of academic curiosity.  

I had a very similar issue.  Took a while to  troubleshoot. I don't have the same hardware as our Cptn but a 1080 gtx and I don't render...yet. Every reboot a conflict with two apps (Win10 Weather of all things and the Corsair Cooler software) maxed out all fans, temps on cpu's were 212f,  gpu was around 180f, and it was very loud. Removed weather and Corsair software and that was that. Weird, eh?

Wow, yeah, misbehaving software is a pain to sort out.  I would be surprised if you weren't getting blue screens from over heating.  That is an  interesting cause for the   problem.

Surprise! :)
Zero BSOD's during those malfunctions. Was a very interesting issue, though. I doubt I could recreate it just for research purposes.  I'll admit odds are  high I could be wrong with my diagnosis. Hope things can work out with his/her hardware. Shame the prices are ludicrously high for hardware these days. 

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Some friends gave me pretty much the same diagnostic.
I'm taking it back to the workshop, I hope they can find and solve the issue.
I'll share the results of their investigations with pleasure.

No need to apologize, take your time, do it right!

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