[Irinikus]

I've got most of the texture nodes sorted out!



Soon I'll get to building up the compute node!

[Irinikus]

I think I'm definitely going to need a much more powerful computer!!! (This rendering brought my Mac to its knees, crashing it once the output was saved!)





This is the initial phase of the node board building process!

This is the current size of the .blend file!

[jenna64bit]

Accurate indeed! That is a huge file. Still surprised it would cause a crash, though.

[Irinikus]

Accurate indeed! That is a huge file. Still surprised it would cause a crash, though.

It locks the system up completely!  Not much memory being used, but it seems like the CPU's being overworked!

[Irinikus]

There was a problem with my model, that I was not aware of, being that every vertex in the scene was superimposed THREE TIMES, so today I spent many hours deleting the "overlays" and now the machine is performing perfectly! (Here's the latest progress, I'll definitely be able to build up a complete board now!!! )

[Irinikus]

The components are now all at least on the board! Next come the "LED CPU status bar", the "securing gear" and the "bus interface connectors"! Finally I will add the required silkscreening to the board and try to sort out the labelling of the components to the top right of the board to the best of my ability, as I don't possess a high resolution image of that part of the board!

[Irinikus]

Here's the latest progress on this: (The machine itself is next!)

Here's how it currently appears in my viewport in Blender:



Here's the rendered output:

[Irinikus]

I was requested to do a video covering this build, is here it is:

[jwhat]

Hi Irinikus,

really nice job.
Great to see how you are using the old and new tools to pull this together.

Cheers from Oz,

jwhat/John

[Irinikus]

Hey John,

Thanks Man!

Cheers from ZA,

Nick