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r/BudgetAudiophile r/Twinmotion r/pasadena r/boardsofcanada
Image 1 — Mismatch between Media mode viewport and rendered image
Image 2 — Mismatch between Media mode viewport and rendered image
Image 3 — Mismatch between Media mode viewport and rendered image
▲ 3 r/Twinmotion

Mismatch between Media mode viewport and rendered image

I'm very new to Twinmotion and 3D in general and I'm trying to set up a viz template to align a 3D object into a backdrop image. I've created an image in Media mode and very carefully adjusted the camera until it looks exactly right against the backplate, clicked the refresh icon and everything, yet when I render the image out, the camera settings don't seem to hold and the object is pushed out of alignment and cropped at the top. I can see that the misalignment is bound to happen when I click Media Preview too.

My understanding is that when you create an image and modify it in Media mode, the expectation is that when you render that image, it should look like how you set it up, but that's not happening for me–am I wrong in that assumption? If I adjust all my settings so that the alignment is correct in the preview, it doesn't look right in the viewport instead. How can I get the two to match?

Apologies for the blurry backplate, this is client work under NDA.

EDIT: Right after posting this I found a possible culprit: Barrel distortion. When I'm out of Media mode and I set the regular viewport the same way, adjusting barrel distortion from 0% to 25% replicates the issue exactly the same. HOWEVER, barrel distortion within Media mode is greyed out and locked to 25%. Why is it greyed out and how can I unlock that?

EDIT 2: It can be unlocked by temporarily disabling the backplate in Media mode. Adjust back to 0%, re-enable backplate, done. Viewport and preview/render now match!

This issue is solved, happy to delete this or leave it up in case anyone else runs into this issue!

u/Hecface — 7 days ago
▲ 3 r/pasadena

Energy Usage Audit services?

My electric bills have been absolutely insane for a few years now. I was just looking at this recent thread in astonishment, and think something must be going wrong in my house.

I just received a bill for about $1370 for 2,783kWh of usage over the last two months. My average daily usage is somewhere around the 40-46kWh a day mark. This seems insane to me and although I absolutely believe we're above average energy users, I can't imagine being THAT above average. Some facts:

-My home is 1,850sqft, 3 bed 2 bath.
-Insulated attic space.
-Me and my wife both work from home, so AC usage is heavy. It's central air, and we have it set to 77° during the day and 68° at night, since my wife is quite heat intolerant, running off an Ecobee smart thermostat.
-I own a plug-in hybrid car and recharge it overnight at home. The battery is 18.1 kWh capacity, and I usually only have to charge like 1/3 of that.
-We do own a 120V hot tub, most definitely an energy hog but I can't imagine it eating up more than $60 a month.
-I have an extra freezer in the garage besides the regular fridge in the kitchen.

Again, all of this is heavy, but it still seems wildly out of scale. It doesn't seem like PWP offers any testing services to find sources of actual drain, only basic look-around stuff for leaky windows or bad insulation. We've had this done and all seems good. What I'm looking for is actually testing out how much my AC is pulling, the car, the tub, etc., to find out where the problem is, what can be cut back, if anything is leaking, etc. Does something like that exist? Any recommendations?

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u/Hecface — 20 days ago
▲ 1 r/BudgetAudiophile

ARACRAFT Tedius AL100ND - Anyone ever heard of these?

Just ran across a FB marketplace listing for a pair of these for $200. They certainly have "the look" of high-end but there's barely anything about them online except some auction websites and some old German and Japanese store listings. Trying to discern if these are legit rare Japanese speakers or just another white van special situation.

u/Hecface — 2 months ago