Since I Purchased Artisan....(plugin overkill?)

Mistro11

I always browse through this section to find some useful plugins. I have many installed prior to purchasing Artisan. I see that Artisan have many capabilities. Are there plugins that makes no sense installing if Artisan is installed? I'm worried about plugin overkill.

Chris Fullmer

Yes, but it would be hard to list them all. Could you post a screenshot of your plugins folder maybe?

Mistro11

Thanks for the answer Chris. I ended up doing some system cleaning after experiencing 2 full system shutdowns while rendering in KT. I think my cpu overheated. Not sure though because I been rendering much bigger scenes over the past year without any problems. The other things I suspect are the power supply or a bad memory stick. My system is 4 years old now.
Intel Core Quad CPU
Q6600 @ 2.40Ghz 2.39Ghz.
3.25Gb of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512mb.
Windows XP pro with SP2

I did a search around the net to research this issue and I found many 3D artists having gone through this. The most common answer seems to be overheating CPUs from being pushed hard. When I get paid from my current project I plan on taking my rig to the shop and invest in more cooling solutions, a new power supply (just in case) and check my memory sticks. My BIOS seemed a bit off too but not sure if that was heat related.

I ended up nuking(reformatting) my hard drive and so far so good but scared to render till I get to the bottom of the shut off issue. Everything seems ok after cleaning dust off the fans and the reformat but I'm still afraid to do any renders. BTW anyone know if going deeper into complex KT material creation would put more stress on the cores?

For now I have reinstalled Sketchup and the only plugin I have installed so far is Artisan. I will be installing the others in one by one on an as needed basis but attempting anything I think would work with Artisan first before installing another plugin.

Snowy

U can use a program to monitor your CPU and see if ur overheating it.
every CPU is different just look on the net for the right one to compare.

I used coretemp and speedfan to check my CPU as i was afraid i was overheating my pc.

I'm not a computer expert so i can't really help u more with this.