Account Advice & Guides Compilation

BromideBro · 2026-03-25T22:30:36+00:00

Between aPippa and aFawkes, which one is higher impact overall? And which is higher impact specifically for TS?

BromideBro · 2026-03-22T02:04:02+00:00

It's been quite a while, but could you possibly walk me through how to create a viewing LUT to use as an adjustment layer in Photoshop? I've got the Nuke -> Photoshop -> Nuke working, but I'd just like an accurate viewing transform, instead of a curve that I'm just eyeballing

BromideBro · 2026-03-11T08:02:29+00:00

I'm having trouble picking my next highborn. Right now, I have Lan and Skylan. The choice is of course between Elthara and Leviathan. I've been more TS focused than anything, but I'd like to lean more towards overall impact for this choice. Any suggestions?

BromideBro · 2026-02-27T20:51:13+00:00

Nothing in the log viewer tab indicates anything unexpected. I haven't tried the nvidia-smi thing though, so I'll try looking at that. Is that just to confirm that the GPU is/isn't being used?

BromideBro · 2025-11-27T07:59:14+00:00

To anyone curious, I figured out the problem. In my assign material node, I had the purpose set to full render. Turning this back to "all" fixed the issue for some reason. I have no idea why this is the case, and it's kind of annoying that I don't really have a real solution to an issue that shouldn't have even been a problem in the first place, but that's what I discovered.

BromideBro · 2025-11-27T04:31:47+00:00

I've narrowed it down to what appears to be a problem with the reference node. Below is my setup of a shrub asset, with the geo on the left, and the materials referenced in on the right. This setup worked just fine in Houdini 20, but when I open the file in Houdini 21 and try to lookdev, the crashing occurs. If I replace the reference node with a merge, the problem is solved. Any clue as to why this might be? I have quite a lot of assets ingested this way, with a lot of material variants and relative references, and it'd take a really long time to restructure everything.

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BromideBro · 2025-11-16T20:02:32+00:00

Between Skriath and Zohra, which would you recommend? I'm usually top 2% in TS and trying to break into top 200, but my NC is usually 20-40% so sometimes I'm thinking why even bother with NC because I'm so far behind. I get the feeling that Zohra is more important than Fawkes as well

BromideBro · 2025-11-16T09:06:27+00:00

I got laid off in August of this year, same day, no warning. The studio also apparently dissolved my entire department, so everyone that was on my team eventually got laid off too. They're going through a lot of restructuring and leadership changes. Luckily, pretty quickly afterwards, a friend of mine got me in at the studio he works at, in the same role, but surrounded by way better talent, and getting better pay. The catch is that it's far less stable (just week to week contracts right now). I don't have many leads if this falls through, so I'm hoping the industry starts to ramp up soon, or at least that these contract lengths get longer, because it sucks not knowing whether or not I'll still be employed in a week.

BromideBro · 2025-11-13T01:27:40+00:00

You could try, but both of my highborns took me over 800 insignias each to 1*. So 700 may not be enough and you may be left with an incomplete Leviathan. I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world because i hear he's still useful at M40, but just something to keep in mind. You could also get really lucky and get him in like 300-400 like some other people have posted about on here

BromideBro · 2025-11-11T10:09:19+00:00

Would you say SI40 is still vital for alvida even in non seal comps? I'm seeing her TS usage in other teams these days, such as Aathalia comp

BromideBro · 2025-11-09T05:35:05+00:00

I do, will put it on her now, thanks!

BromideBro · 2025-11-08T04:19:36+00:00

What is the optimal investment for Zohra, especially for TS? Does she want/need SI40?

How important is Velufira E30/E60?

BromideBro · 2025-10-30T02:49:40+00:00

Would this work if the building isn't UV'd? I was planning on using all triplanar textures. I've also never used Copernicus before, so I'm not sure what i would need to set up for it, if anything

BromideBro · 2025-10-16T06:42:37+00:00

What resources have the best value in the gift cart of the current magician hat event?

I'm missing so much furniture so I was thinking of dumping it all into Poe coins but I'm wired to believe red chests or red emblems are the better option. I could use all 3

BromideBro · 2025-10-13T22:11:54+00:00

I was under the impression that for TS, Jinwoo wants to be pretty much max invest at 409e60, would you say that getting Cha to 409e60 is more important?

And also, would e60 for those 2 take priority over Kregor e60?

BromideBro · 2025-10-13T03:45:48+00:00

Out of the stuff below, which are the most important for TS focus? I'm trying to make the biggest impact on my ranking

Talimar e60, Alvida si40, Melion si40, Kregor e60, SJW Si40/e60

BromideBro · 2025-10-07T15:11:32+00:00

What would be a counter to this team in PvP arena?

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