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sonoda-oomers · 3 years ago

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i’ve been trying to get umineko on my vita and bc it’s funny i’m gonna document my journey here

while finishing ep5 i look up umineko vita just to fuck around and find out

actually find a whole thing about a homebrew vn reader for the ds that almost got lost to the void with the forum that hosted it, and an alternative of it for the vita that someone made as a side with their higurashi vita port

(this homebrew is super interesting it basically reformats the novels in its own framework, rather than running the actual novels’ software it puts together the writing and art/music assets from the ground up)

i download someone’s vita port of umineko formatted for this homebrew but get a little disappointed as it’s the original original version with no voice acting

either way i finish ep5 tea parties with this but not without suffering. bc the homebrew can’t replicate the quick flashes of images that come with every battle scene in umineko i have to like. sit through these images that were supposed to flash by in a moment but are now each 2 seconds long

at some point attempting to speed it up with the confirm button crashes the app :’’’’’’’’’’)

i finish ep5 and want to fuck around and find out some more. so i download the original package meant for the ds homebrew bc i heard it has voice acting. and this is where the nightmare starts

i spend the next literal 20 hours trying to get these files onto vita using ftp transfer. there are literally 40k+ files to transfer

this is to no avail at the end bc i didn’t realize keeping up the ftp server uses battery so my vita dies and transfer fails at around 23k files.

and then my dumbass remembers that vitashell lets you access root folders on a usb connection aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

copying the files with usb takes like 40 minutes

but when i try to open it in vnds i realize i actually need to convert this thing for the vita fork because of course i do

so i do the conversion. twice bc for some reason i thought it wouldn’t work with the zip files extracted.

conversion finally done and theoretically i’m at the end of this journey but of course not without another bit of dumbassery. because i need to delete the unconverted folder from my vita

even permanently deleting in winexplorer takes an absurdly long time bc there are so many files. so i think oh i’ll just delete it with vitashell bc it can trash the files instantly right bc when i use ftp connection the server files always get deleted immediately and permanently

(that is not remotely how it works.)

to my dismay vitashell also takes an absurdly long time to get rid of these files and actually crashes the whole vita not even halfway through the process

vitashell gets so mad at me it refuses to load up even after reboots and i have to reinstall it.

i try to usb connect and delete the files in winexplorer again and it takes like 5 minutes bc this time it’s not sharing computing space with another task which is what happened the first time. because, to reiterate, i’m a dumbass

now i can read umineko with voice acting on the playstation vita :)

#spud.txt #certified gaming gamer kas #this whole thing is so funny to me esp because it worked in the end. i'm such a loveable bumbling idiot #now that i know there's a dedicated higu port for vita i'll read it after i finish umineko #i'm literally so happy i found this whole thing bc i feel handheld is the ideal way to read visual novels #but we haven't achieved utopia bc visual novel localization on console is still in baby steps...#i do hope a localization for umineko switch release goes through though i think most people including myself would gladly pay for it again #(i actually didnt pay for it the first time bc hik and noella gifted me the steam version NSFVJSDGKDHSLBD #HIK DOESNT EVEN OWN THE STEAM VERSION HERSELF SHE JUST SUGARMOMMIED ME

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jasontoddiefor · 5 years ago

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Title: Mouse Droids and How To Fix Them – A Quick And Easy Guide [Livestream] Summary: Luke has a Space Youtube Channel and Leia watches his videos to de-stress from a terrible day. Mouse droids are named and the Empire and its terrible quality are dragged through the sarlacc pit. AN: Anyway, did somebody said TIE-Fighter story prequel? No? Too bad.

Leia was a well-composed and well-behaved serene princess right up until the doors of her rooms closed behind her. The moment she was out of sight, she kicked off her shoes with such a force that they soared half across the room and crashed against her wardrobe with a loud crack. She took the pins keeping her braids in place out of her hair and threw them onto the dresser. Then as graceless as a regular fifteen-year-old girl, Leia dropped onto her bed and screamed into her pillow.

Today had been terrible.

Leia hated all the pointless festivities that only ever served to make everyone there feel important and powerful but did absolutely nothing for the people they were supposed to govern. She couldn’t understand how her parents managed it. They were good and selfless people, always calm and serene even when the newest governor was basically spitting one insult after the other at them. Leia always wanted to shout back, it was her first instinct. Idiots who couldn’t be bothered to contribute anything productive or kind, should shut up and stop hindering others from doing their job. Leia had kept her mouth shut of course. She had smiled pleasantly as her mother had taught her and acted as expected from her.

But that didn’t mean that she hadn’t wanted to strip the gloves off her hands and show him how much of a bloodthirsty royal she really was. She shouldn’t have desired it, but it annoyed her so much when others purposefully misunderstood her. It had been a year since she picked her coronation color. When would people finally stop commenting on it?

Yes! Princess Leia Organa had chosen white! She’d forgone five-hundred-years of tradition and picked the color of the snow on Alderaan’s mountains, of ice so cold it burned, of the sheets upon which they wrote the names of their dead.

Leia wore the color of war, mourning and remembrance and she wore it well.

How could she not when the Empire was murdering innocents, subjugating whole worlds and waging an unjust war? Picking green or blue would be an insult upon the suffering she had been forced to witness. She didn’t want to be remembered as another impassive royal, bowing to the whims of the Empire. Leia hadn’t been meant to live in a tyrannizing Empire in which she had to watch her every word and step. She wanted to speak her mind and missed the Republic she never got to experience.

Her parents, while displeased she out herself in such danger, had understood it. Most Alderaanians understood it and supported her, but not that stupid new governor. Instead, he went on and on about her image and character flaws – and worse! Talked about marriage.

Leia was already dead set on staying unmarried. Her parents had been lucky. Despite their marriage being arranged, they’d loved each other. Or maybe they had been in love first and the political advantage of the marriage was just a bonus. Leia didn’t entirely know, but she knew to one hundred percent that all her potential Alderaani suitors sucked. They were arrogant and petty or worse, both of that but way older than her as well. She could marry somebody from a different planet, but the Old Houses would frown upon that and then she’d have to deal with more in-fighting and risk losing control of Alderaan’s society and give the Empire even more access to her planet. It was bad enough as it was.

Groaning, Leia rolled onto her back and got up from her bed again. She’d hate herself in the morning if she didn’t dress out of the fine robes completely. She fetched herself her sleeping clothes and washed the make-up off her face. It felt like taking off uncomfortable armor and she was more than glad to get rid of it. Leia didn’t mind dressing up. As a child, she had loved trying on her parents’ much too large clothes and she still loved picking out dresses together with her mother, but sometimes she wished it all wouldn’t take so much energy.

Redressed, Leia returned to her bed, ready to pretend to fall asleep when she knew that she wouldn’t be able to close her eyes now. Her mind was too unfocused, her thoughts all jumbled up. She laid still and waited until another moment had passed before reaching for her bed stand and pulling out her secret private comm.

Leia had three of them. One for official business, one was the officially private secret comm – the one every important person in the galaxy was supposed to have and hide – and then there was her own, which she used to stay up-to-date with activities unbefitting on an Imperial princess.

She checked the holonet, skimming through articles that made her blood boil and delightfully bright art that called for resistance. She was pleased to notice that more and more Alderaani artists were choosing lighter colors in their barely legal paintings and downright joyful when she saw an account post images of white flags. Those posts would probably be taken down once the meaning behind them spread a little more, but Leia was proud nonetheless. She had caused this, this was her contribution to the Rebellion.

In a better mood already, Leia went through her notifications. She had a few replies to articles she had written and- oh.

[Notification: Scrap Hunting has started a livestream – 1 Min ago]

Smiling widely, Leia clicked on the link connecting her to the video. The livestream had indeed only started recently, and not even properly. Leia had missed the last one sadly because she’d been in the Core, too far away for Scrap Hunting’s terrible holonet connection to reach. Alderaan was just close enough to Tatooine for Leia to watch them.

She couldn’t quite recall how she had stumbled upon the channel. She had just been clicking through some random videos one day and there it had been. Leia wasn’t all that knowledgeable about ships – her parents had kept a keen eye on her since the Speeder accident she’d had when she was ten – and didn’t really have much access to the hangers either. Droids, on the other hand, Leia knew plenty about. They were everywhere and nobody wanted to live without them, which made them the perfect spies with the right adjustments. Leia knew how to wipe a droid’s memory so clean, it was shinier than any crystal and how to hide protocols upon protocols in their storage. Her favorite droids were C-3PO and the R2D2 unite serving on the Tantive IV. Artoo especially had a lot of personality. Leia needed to sort out her Binary so she could catch all the colorful curses the astromech liked to inflict on people.

The two boys running Scrap Hunting – well, only really Luke actually – were sympathetic. They didn’t talk about droids like they were simple tools and they were proficient in fixing them up. Therefore Leia was very pleased to see that the title of the livestream was Mouse Droids and How To Fix Them – A Quick And Easy Guide. This would be fun, the right kind of distracting noise she needed after such a long day.

“Alright, we’re all set up now,” Luke said. “Hello everybody! I’m Luke and welcome to another episode of Scrap Hunting!”

He waved at the recorder and then picked up a small back droid from his table. “This is what today’s livestream will be about! An MSE-series droid! A lot of you guys said you’d like more livestreams and the weather’s been pretty good recently and I fixed the signals so I hope this works out just fine.”

Luke smiled and reached for the first tool lying in front of him. “I decided that fixing up this little guy here should be fine for a shorter video. I don’t have to think so much about what I’m doing and can talk at the same time.”

He began taking off the outer casing of the droid and carefully set it aside. “I know, I know, I’m always talking, but nobody complains about it.” Luke stopped spinning his wrench for a moment to think. “Okay, alright, maybe my uncle complains about it sometimes but that’s what he gets for making me check all the vaporators on my own. Anyway, I talk a lot and so does this chat. Lots of people joining in here! Hi!”

Luke looked through the chat, returned greetings and explained how he had gotten the droid as payment for helping out in a repair shop.

“And I know the owner thought he was just giving me so boring little plaything, but do you know how versatile these MSE droids are?”

Leia definitely knew how useful they could be. She grinned when Luke comically shook his head when people began sending in question marks and began belittling the tiny Mouse droids. They made excellent spies, infiltrators and guides. Underestimating them just because they were cute was fatal. Leia was happy when Luke reacted as outraged as she was and began elaborating on what the droids could be used for.

“And like, I get sending the droids back when they trigger your instincts, I wouldn’t keep around a droid that reminds me of a womp rat or a krayt dragon.” Luke paused, the half-open mouse droid lying on his lap, and apparently considered his suggestions.

“Okay, maybe I would actually want them. Could you imagine a droid krayt dragon? So cool.”

Luke reached for the nearest datapad and took a few notes, then put it next to him on the table and returned to working on the MSE.

“But yeah, point being: Why did the Aar’aa sell them to the Empire so cheaply? Add some extra software and boom, you can sell them for twice the price. Then you’d even make a bonus. Oh, well, I suppose the Empire at least made a good deal there.”

The MSE droid laid bare now and Luke could easily access its memory. He took his datapad once more and connected it to the droid. After a few seconds, he had access to its memory and immediately frowned.

“Or it did not. What is this programming? I researched what I could find before, downloaded some protocols-“ Luke looked away from his datapad to point down, “-links in the description as always. But just- honestly. Who wrote this protocol?”

He gently knocked his head against the droid’s frame. “I’m so sorry, don’t worry, I’ll speed up your processors.”

The next hour, Leia spent listening to Luke ramble on about what changes he made and why. Once or twice she even threw her own suggestions in the chat and watched contently as Luke picked up on them and began to work with them. She wished she didn’t have so many duties and could spend her days doing things she actually wanted, take a more active role in the rebellion. But she supposed that as long as she could escape annoying politicians for a while, she’d be fine.

Leia glanced at her chrono. While it appeared to be midday still on Tatooine, it was already early morning for her. She should head to sleep soon.

Thankfully, the livestream was also wrapping up. Luke had reassembled the droid and screwed the last bolt down.

“And done!” Luke said and helped up the repaired Mouse droid. “A Quick And Easy Guide to Mouse Droids. Now, the only thing left is repainting and naming it. Same rules as always, highest donator gets to choose the color and the name.”

Leia watched as a lot of people began donating. Some just threw in five credits, just to support the channel. She’d done so before as well. It was only right to help somebody else and give him a thanks after cheering her up. Leia typed the first one, then stopped.

She was tired, had been for at least thirty minutes now, but her mind was finally calm as well. She was still and upset, but not so that she wouldn’t be able to sleep.

Leia shouldn’t waste her allowance on this, but Leia had also had a terrible horrible no-good day and wanted to name that Mouse Droid.

“And that was it!” Luke announced. “Many thanks for all your donations. I’ll keep you posted on what my next project will be. Hopefully something a little more interesting than this little buddy here. Now let’s see… The highest donation is one- one thousand credits from @rebelroyal!?”

Luke’s voice was awfully high-pitched, shock visible all over his face. “Is this real- oh gosh. Thank you so, so much! I’m not sure- Many thanks for supporting this channel! You may name any future Mouse Droids I come across, oh Force. Right. Uhm. What is your suggestion?”

Leia eyes her discarded white dress on the floor and chose.

History’s eyes on you @ rebelroyal

Paint it white and name it Emmy! Many thanks for all the lovely content you provide.

Little Emmy, it turned out, look much better in white than it did in the awful black so representative for the Empire.

[Notification: Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot has mentioned you in a new post]

Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot

I have adopted 4 more mouse droids to keep our ship clean!

Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot

[Foto: Five Mouse Droids standing in front of Luke, who was sitting on the ground, smiling cheerfully. The droid in the middle was Emmy. It was a little banged up and had a couple more scratches. On its right were an orange and a blue droid, freshly painted from the looks of it. On Emmy’s left were two black ones]

@ rebelroyal The orange and blue ones have been painted and named already, care to do the honors for the other two?

Leia smiled fondly at the picture and began to type.

History’s eyes on you @ rebelroyal

How about yellow and green? Benny and Penny so it rhymes?

Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot

Done :D

[Foto: The two previously black mouse droids have been painted as well and are furiously cleaning the floor of a ship]

#star wars #leia organa #Luke Skywalker #emmy the mouse droid #fanfic #im back on my social media mess

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thewebcomicsreview · 5 years ago

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hussie said a thing abt the epilogues reddit. com/r/homestuck/comments/cuywff/the_homestuck_epilogues_bridges_and_offramps_new/

I also think many of the negative feelings the story creates isn’t just an urgent prompt for the reader to imagine different ideas, or ways to resolve the new narrative dilemmas. It’s also an opportunity for people to discuss any of the difficult content critically, and for fandom in general to continue developing the tools for processing the negative emotions art can generate. Sorting that out has to be a communal experience, and it’s an important part of the cycle between creating and criticizing art. I think not only can creators develop their skills to create better things by practicing and taking certain risks, fandom is something which can develop better skills as well. Skills like critical discussion, dealing constructively with negative feelings resulting from the media they consume, interacting with each other in more meaningful ways, and trying to understand different points of view outside of the factions within fandom that can become very hardened over time. Fandoms everywhere tend to get bad reputations for various reasons, maybe justifiably. But I don’t see why it can’t be an objective to try to improve fandom, just as creators can improve their work. And I think this can only happen if now and then fandoms are seriously challenged, by being encouraged to think about complex ideas, and made to feel difficult emotions. I believe when art creates certain kinds of negative feelings in people, it can lead to some of the most transformative experiences art has to offer. But it helps to be receptive to this idea for these experiences to have a positive net effect on your life, and your relationship with art.

Christ, he’s gone full Lennon. Imagine a good ending. I wonder if you can.

So, I’ve mentioned this a few times, but the most transformative art has ever been for me was a comic that actually started on the Homestuck forums

Prequel - Or - Making The Cat Cry: The Adventure - is a comic written by Kazared loosely based on the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It’s about a Khajiit girl named Katia who moves to OblivionLand to make a new life for herself, and the comic spent years building Katia up to bigger and bigger heights so that every time she crashed she crashed harder than ever before. The second time she relapses into alcoholism is where a lot of readers give up on the comic for being misery porn.

There’s a point where she she’s solved all her problems and even gets to join the mages guild - her lifelong dream - only for the woman running the Kvatch mage guild to mild control her into giving up all her stuff, including the stuff important to Katia’s only friend. Katia is left naked on the streets literally digging through trash in the vain hope of trying to find a solution to at least one of her problems. And what she finds is a bottle of beer.

Twice already in this comic Katia hit a really bad patch and started drinking again. The comic has twice made us root for Katia to succeed, only to jump cut to her waking up in a stranger’s bed with no memory of what happened.

She wanders into an empty church (OBVIOUS SYMBOLISM ALERT), and alternates between trying to find some supplies and fantasizing about everything magically getting fixed, which slowly morphs into fantasizing about drinking while getting increasingly furious at barrels for not having clothes in them.

One thing. You wanted one thing and you were too much of a fucking idiot to realize it was hopeless and pointless and bound to ruin everything. Stuck on some childish idea that you could be anything, do anything, and just be some selfish bitch that’s never happy with what she has. Fuck, you don’t even know what you’re mad at anymore, you just hate yourself and everything you ever ruined for yourself and everyone and want to stop thinking about what a worthless mindless thoughtless imbecile you are. You just want to stop fucking thinking about it.

You drop onto the chapel floor and just cry. You cry and cry because you’re stupid and easy and can’t fix anything no matter how hard you try. You cry because your best is worse than everyone else’s average. You cry because your parents never loved you and you’re a disappointment to everyone, even yourself. You cry because all you wanted was to be someone and that’s never going to happen. And when that’s done, you cry a little more because you’re ashamed of being such a crybaby.

You try to get all the emotions out, try to clear your mind and maybe, just maybe feel ready to tackle the night ahead of you, feel as though this is the time you finally turn things around. But no matter how hard you try, how hard you weep and bawl and try to get it all out, you’re still just a fuckup. No matter what you try, that knowledge is still there, gripping onto your every thought and reminding you that things are never going to change.

You’re not strong. You’re not a hero. You’re not even worthy of the name Katia Managan. You’re sad and angry and nothing makes sense, but you know this is probably the clearest your head is going to get.

Someday, things are going to get better. Someday, you are going to fight and persevere and everything will feel great. You think.But for now, you know what you have to do.

And at the very least, there is no way you could possibly make yourself feel any worse.

Katia, for the first time, manages to avoid drowning drinking. She overcomes her issues. And you know what happens next?

She accidentally sets the church on fire, because this is still Prequel. She passes out from smoke inhalation, and then there’s….

this, and then she wakes up and reflects on her managing to stay on the wagon.

Honestly, you just feel… kind of numb.

You fucked up. You lost everything you earned, were discarded by the people you looked up to most, gave away the package you were supposed to be delivering to pay your friend back, completely lost control of your powers, and after passing out naked in a church have probably ruined any chance you might have had at a good reputation in Kvatch. You were a wreck last night when this was all happening, but now… you guess it just feels like you’ve run out of sad. You’re just confused.

Personally, I think this stuff is way darker than anything that happens in the Homestuck Epilogues, which is mostly just over-the-top Warhammer 40k grimderp. This shit got to me, man. And around the time this is happening in the comic, I lost my job. And as the storyline continued past this point, I kept applying for jobs and getting turned down, and it started to really wear on me, I felt I had no useful skills, since my old job was supporting software that only that company used because they made it. Much like Katia got into great positions only to fail, I walked out of interviews thinking I’d aced it only to get turned down, while Katia kept making two-steps-forward-one-step-back advances and not really getting any closer to solving any of her issues. And one day, about six weeks into joblessless and starting to get into serious depression over it, I got two “Thanks but no thanks” calls from places I was feeling good about back to back, and I was just done. 10am and I was going to go into my room and lie down on the floor all day but first Prequel updated so I guess I’ll check it real quick oh hey a flash

youtube

This puzzle took me like 20 tries, I’m no good at them. Aggy ran out of inspiring dialogue and started looping. And if you’re not in the right mindset, in the right place, this probably doesn’t seem like much. But right there, a month and a half into unemployment, doing that stupid fucking jumping jumpy peg thing while a ghost cheered me on was life-changing. I was so fucking jazzed when I got it, I was fired up! I was so fired up I tabled my “lie on the floor all day in despair” plan, and started applying for a bunch of jobs. A few of those jobs called me back. One hired me. I still work there now. I always liked webcomics but Aggy Extrapolate is the reason I make them. Because good art is powerful. Good art changes lives, maybe even saves them. And it doesn’t need to be happy to do it, Katia still hasn’t succeeded at her goals (in part because Prequel updates at a rate Dresden Codak would make fun of).

What the hell did the Homestuck Epilogues do, by comparison? What’s the positive net effect on my life, or my interaction with art? “Sometimes things you like are bad”? Shit, man, I already knew that, I’m into wrestling. How is “John recognizes Terezi’s jizz on his dad’s car” supposed to make me a better person, exactly? Do you really think the problem with fandoms is that they’re not angry enough? Are you high, Andrew Hussie?

#Homestuck #Prequel #Prequel Adventure #Also Drop Out was a million times better than the epilogues while also being a million times darker #Anonymous

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studio-emry · 6 years ago

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Tablet Review: Huion New 1060 Plus (8192)

This is the one I have and it’s a great starter tablet! As of August 8, 2018 the price on Amazon is $58.09.

Last year I actually bought the 2048 model, the previous version, and they sent me this one (not complaining tho). Thus far I don’t have any complaints about it. Any issues I had were manageable. Below I’ll outline the main points of owning the tablet.

Tablet

Size: 9.45 x 14.17 x 0.39 inches large

Active area: 10 x 6.25 inches

12 customizable express keys along the left side

16 customizable soft keys along top of active area (these can be deactivated)

Feels mostly sturdy

Slick surface - didn’t find a textured surface accessory like Wacom but you can put a sheet of paper over it and it will still work

The lower left button got stuck once

Stylus

Lightweight

Long lasting battery - it’s only died on me twice and I’ve charged it 3 times

Feels midway between cheap and premium but leans more towards cheap. Especially the buttons

Pen Nibs don’t wear down easily. I’ve used it for about a total of 6 months and I’m still using the same nib it came with. (I draw lightly tho)

Software

The install was pretty smooth. I actually didn’t have to do anything except plugin the tablet and run the installation software. It’s on the MicroSD card that comes with the tablet so no driver download or installation disc (I don’t even have a CD drive).

You can rotate the active area 90 degrees, 180, and 270 degrees. This let’s you “switch” the tablet to left-handed mode at the 180 degrees option.

The above is default rotation as an example, and the below is 90 degrees rotation, so you can imagine the other rotations:

1) Sometimes the mouse pointer would get stuck in the upper left hand corner of my screen when I used my pen. This only happens when you plugin

To fix this, either:

Quit the tablet driver (through the hidden tray icon), Disconnect/Reconnect the tablet then open the tablet configurations. Press apply, then leave the configuration window open. For some reason closing the tablet configuration causes problems.

Plug in the tablet before turning on your computer

2) Sometimes pressing an Express Key would make the tablet stuck. Meaning it was stuck registering that action. So it has two green lights that indicate when the pen is near the surface and when you press an Express Key. They turn off when the pen is away from the tablet’s surface. In this issue, the lights stayed on after I pressed the Express Key.

3) The driver would just crash and not let me do anything. When I tried opening the tablet configuration I would get an error message in Chinese. This has only happened twice since I got it tho.

The fix for issues 2-3 was to Quit the tablet driver (through the hidden tray icon), disconnect and reconnect the tablet.

4) The last issue I found was that Krita and MyPaint wouldn’t recognize the tablet if I opened the program before plugging in the tablet in to the computer This is common sense tho if you think about it. Probably the painting program and not the tablet. (*Need to test in MediBang and Sketchbook Pro0

To prevent this, make sure the tablet is plugged in before opening the paint program

Accessories

8GB built-in MicroSD Card (installation software is on this card so no software downloads. Also good if you don’t have a Disc Drive)

Pen Stand + 8 pen nibs - I haven’t even switched any nibs yet

Pen Cap - safety (cap it before you tap it)

Huion Glove - reduces friction, helps make strokes smooth (for the sweaty handed people)

Huion Carrying Bag - doubles as a cleaner for your tablet (to virtue signal that you do not follow the crowd and buy Wacom)

I originally posted this here:

Digital Art Info - Tablet Review Huion New 1060 Plus

#tablet reviews #huion new 1060 plus #huion #huiontablet

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howsareeasy · 7 years ago

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it isn’t failure; it’s data

Equipment: mac pro 2014 with inbuilt mic. Moto G3 (and then Moto G6) for reading via the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader. For hosting purposes, Dropbox and Mediafire. Software: both GarageBand and Audacity.

There’s 1600 words under the cut. Or you can read here over at Dreamwidth if it’s easier

Chose: GaragageBand or Audacity: For the sheer scope of the information gathered alone, Audacity. I held out on using Audacity until I got my head around GarageBand, because GB was Apple. I did five of my first podfics in GarageBand (and the last six in Audacity). I'm glad that I did GarageBand before I got into Audacity, because Audacity didn't feel that difficult when I got my head around it, because I already had my wars with GarageBand. Although I do like GarageBand for the ease of rerecording (you literally just record over the offending area), and insertion of silences, it has a lot of drawbacks. For instance, when it comes to longer files (about 180mins) it will start to eat your files. In addition, because not many people use GarageBand, information on troubleshooting is pretty rare, and Apple insists on upgrading and changing the interface ever so often. As a result, a lot of people I know are working from their legacy interface from 2014. It doesn't help me with what I have now. I only know one person (other than myself) who worked in GarageBand, and got tired of bugging her (she's busy and took ages to respond to my questions, because she's BUSY). whereas with Audacity, there are enough people to have a wiki. There are guides everywhere in terms of how to use Audacity, especially podfic specific guides. Overall, Audacity is a bit more straightforward, once you know what to look for. The wiki is relatively comprehensive and easy to follow. For instance, once I got my head around recording edits and putting them in the spaces where they needed to be, the process of recording patches then patching them for reedits is fairly straight forward. Audacity has the advantage of doing more pin point edits when it comes to mouth noises, and general cleaning up of fic background noises with noise plates. Audacity's envelope application is a lot better and smoother than GarageBand's fades (in terms of say, if you want to have music fading in or out of your narrative). Now, I don't think I'm going to be the sort of person to use music in a podfic unless the writer is pretty much waving semaphore flags and going - this piece of music here!- but it's a neat effect. Hardest thing about podficcing: For me, it was getting the reading down pat, to be honest. When I listen to my first five podfics, I'm surprised at how fast I'm reading, so every reading it's been me telling myself to slow down. It's one of the reasons why I started to edit as I go, because it forced me to refocus, and check my speed when rabbiting along. Then because my reading got slower, I could engage in the process of the fic more. However, as I grew more confident with the reading flow, I'd allow myself to read through a chapter or so, and then go back and edit. I didn't really get the concept of what a read/performance was until podfic 7, I guess (AO3 is down now, so I can't remember what it is. I want to say Cloud City). The whole concept of pauses in podfic and how that's a part of hitting the ear didn't really strike me until about podfic 10 (Stay In My Eyeline to the point where I took it down and recut for silences). But I think podfic 9 (Good Timing), made me happy enough with my narrative and voice bits. As much as podfic 11 KICKED MY ARSE, I'm more or less happy with the pauses and spaces in the fic. I mean, I could have done more, let the quiet spill out, especially towards the ending, but you can only learn by doing. I'm not going to beat up myself with the first podfics, tbh, because no one is born a master. Now, that last podfic. I don't think I had any hubris with the first ten podfics. I tried to improve on every one as I went on, and I think they got better quality wise when I jumped over to Audacity, because again, because of noise plates and edits made for a cleaner product (I could get rid of the 'clunk' sound when I'd stop the recording), but that last podfic (Now That I'm In Madrid) almost made me rage quit many a time. Between the file deletions, Audacity freezing, my files crashing, having to borrow someone else's PC to get my three hour files on as well as the edits, the installation of my mpegg plug in refusing to deal on my macbook (until I had to manually install it, after overriding Apple’s admin permissions to accept the plug in), only to export the chapters and not being able to bundle them into a book. Plus my voice turning to gravelly mush in the last third of the reading, it's been a hard knock on my confidence, to be honest. To the point where, I'm like, "Yeah, I liked podficcing, I guess? But erm... I don't think it likes me much." That being said, I really like the last story, and I'm sorry that I didn't do my best by it, but it was beyond my ken. To the point where, if I had to redo the podfic (lol, no), I couldn't do it any better right now, and that's fine. Reading source: A lot of people read their fic on screen while the recording is going on in the background. I tend to read directly from my smartphone, using the Adobe PDF app. I do like the app because you can highlight bits, and insert comments on the document, it's also smooth scrolling experience reading wise. My Moto G6 has more power and a better screen so it's an easier read. File hosting: Dropbox and MediaFire are relatively straightforward. They are fine. Most annoying bit of podficcing: Podfic covers. As much as I know that they didn't have to be made, I pretty much did it, because people do expect them (before Itsadrizzit started the push to overturn the practice). I wouldn't do anything beyond a text box now, but podfic covers came at the worst time for me. After recording, edits, and listen throughs and before uploading for hosting. I forever whinged around that. Most surprising bit of podficcing: The edits, I guess? I didn't mind them at all. I can do edits while being sociable, whereas for preprepping and doing the reading itself, I had to lock myself away and put my phone on 'do not disturb' mode. Would I podfic again? I don't have the resources, nor will I be in a position to get a new laptop for the while so, no, I don't know. More no than yes. It depends? As it is, I can't risk anything more than a 60 min run time (no more than 9.5k word count) and even then, I do wonder if I should review that to 30 mins (about 3-4k word count) because I can't trust my equipment. It makes no sense to set your stall up for anything less than a 2k word count. It's too much hassle for me to find an empty space and record for anything under 1.8k at least. Not to mention the edits, listen through (ugh) and hosting. I can't do anything chaptered in terms of podbooks (because I don't know how to bundle the chapters to export without having ppl downloading 24 separate files and I don't have the bandwidth to deal with that right now. I'd just do a basic .m4b file, although I hear that people aren't fans and NEED. CHAPTERED .m4b podfic, but these madams will have to deal). My computer cannot be trusted to splice various files together (for instance, if I wanted to do a fic with a run time of 180mins, I'd have to do three 60min files, then splice them together. My computer crashed twice doing that feat, so no). This is tragic, because it's knee capped what I wanted to do. Liiiiike that 25k fic to pod in my bookmarks is now deleted (170 mins run time, three files of 57 mins give or take). Overall, yay or nay? Yay! I'd like to think that I have shown respect for podficcers before, but after doing it for three weeks (11 podfics in three weeks, but I spent two weeks before doing the research) my respect is tenfold. It's not just reading what's on the page, but reacting to it with a mixture of control with the air of surprise. There's an art to it, as well as the technical bits, be it just having a fluid and enjoyable listening experience. Hell, just reading aloud alone is its own feat of stamina. There's the weighing up of file hostings, and this on top of the lack of Blanket Permissions, so if you find a fic that you want to do but there's no BP, you're out of luck, and there are far too many writers who are really arsey toward the whole medium. Conclusion: So, yeah, my experiment ends here! It wasn't a total failure, but it hasn't been an activity brimming with triumphant successes either. Thanks for the weigh ins and the advice from the podficcers who've been doing this for a minute. If you're a writer and are reading this, please think about including a BP in your profiles, even if it's a yes, maybe so (please ask) or hell no (so you won't be bothered).

#podficcer's log #podfic phase 2: audacity bugaloo #adventures in podficcing #adventures in podfic

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extraguynews · 6 years ago

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Wellp! E3 has come and gone and I am feeling the crash. Hard. Sometimes it feels like I wait all year for this event to come along and tell me how long I can expect to wait some more. And wait I do! I wait so good. I huddle in the darkness with the other nerds. We draw fan art and listen to gaming podcasts and start blogs. We remember the teachings of E3 and keep faith that the nintendos it told us about in the long long ago will come to us from the video place! We believe and we wait and we pour sacrifices of blood and mountain dew into an old Commodor 64 that we call "Father"... And so! In that collective spirit of anticipatory agony, here's the list of things from E3 that I am exceptionally pumped about! Fallout 76: As you will learn rather quickly throughout this list I am a bit of a sucker for anything even vaguely MMO-ish. It's a sickness that began in high school with EverQuest and yes I am taking medication for it. Anyway, Running around an open-world wasteland, killing nuclear monstrosities with my buddies? I mean, that's where I thought I would be by 2018 anyway. Sign me up. Elder Scrolls 6: Oh bethesda. You old Honeydripper you. So coy. So Flirty. All it took was one glistening flyover video of a nondestript fantasy land that could be rural New Jersey for all we know, and the entire gaming community is nervously shifting their trapper-keepers over their boners. Topping Skyrim will be no mean feat, but I'm pumped to see how they try. Anthem: This one looks like Destiny and Borderlands making out in a James Cameron Movie. Yes. Yep. Mmmhm. Cyberpunk 2077: Here's what we know so far about the much-anticipated new property from CD Projekt Red, Aka the studio that has repeatedly blown our minds to smithereens with The Witcher franchise: It's Cyberpunk It's 2077 It's an open world, First Person RPG with stealth/hacking elements and my sexy cyber-cop character can have a sick undercut and a robot eye and it's all I've ever wanted in a video game. Sounds pretty amazing to me but it wont be coming out until FOREVER so, if anyone wants to join me, i’ve found a fairly comfy cave in Yellowstone where I plan to hibernate until the release. See you there! Bring salmon. Destiny 2 - Forsaken: Ok. I know what you are thinking. Why the fuck am I still even PLAYING Destiny, let alone getting excited about another expansion when I've been burned 6 out of 7 times before. Well the simple truth is, I have no fucking idea. There’s something so immensely cool about the world, the gunplay and co-op space-opera sentiment of Destiny 2 that I just can’t stay away. Does the game somehow do a terrible job of telling stories within what seems to be an infinitely compelling world? Yes. Does it have next to no respect for the time, hopes, and dreams of it’s player base? You bet. Does it have a seemingly zero foot view of what it’s game could, should and hopefully someday will be? You betcha. But does it also send my pupils agape, weekend after weekend, as I delve, guns blazing into the heart of an epic space fantasy with my best online buddies, only to emerge, sweaty, victorious and heavy with cosmic treasures untold? That’s a big, fat-ass, yes. I know I should leave. I know she’s bad for me. But what can I say? We don’t get to choose who we love. Plus I get a poncho in this one so… fuck you? Spider-Man: Insomniac has spent years building what it hopes will be the Batman: Arkham Asylum of Spider-Man games. Which is great because, if anyone needs a good Batman: Arkham Asyluming it's Spider-Man... I promise this sentence makes sense. See, in the long history of people trying to make Spider-Man into a video game, nobody has ever really done a good Job. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 came close with some very dope web-swinging mechanics, but ultimately, the franchise has been seemingly snakebit from even the earliest attempts. The studio that brought us Ratchet and Clank, Resistance and Spyro the Dragon aims to end all of that with this open-world adventure game that promises cool gadgets, unlockable suits, and the best web-slinging to date. It is an independent IP, has nothing to do with any movie franchise and this one has my full support. I am officially overhyped for this one and I don’t care who knows it! Metro Exodus: Never played a Metro game but the graphics look slick as hell and there is a big land-bat thingy, so yeah! I can chuck some bullets into you, land-bat thingy. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: Samurai with a skeleton hand? Cool combat with parries and zombie powers? From Software? Yes. Obviously. Last of Us 2: The Last of Us is one of the most poignant, terrifying and truly moving video games I have ever played and I have been waiting for the follow up from the second I finished the first game. They took their time with this one and I can’t wait to see what's next for Joel and Ellie. Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee: 35. The answer is 35-years-old. Don’t judge. And that’s it! Everything that is not one of these games can go ahead and suck silence for the next 3 to 17 months. And when I emerge, blinking and dehydrated, from my self-imposed exile, I will have all of the games that I’ve ever wanted to play ever, and everything will be good and peaceful for the rest of all time. Unless, of course, they decide to do this E3 thing again next year, but that seems highly unlikely. I mean they wouldn’t. Would they? Oh god…

#playstation #xbox one #nintendo #pokemon #pokemon lets go #cyberpunk #fallout76 #destiny 2 #destiny 2 forsaken #metro exodus #last of us 2 #sekiro shadows die twice #spiderman #anthem #the elder scrolls

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tumblunni · 7 years ago

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awaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaa fuk u overworld sprites

this is a brief example of how overcomplicated it is to edit these things, compared to everything else for some reason they’re stored as ‘btx1′ files, which seem to be like.. 3d textures?? Everything else can be ripped as a png, edited in an outside program, and then reinserted back in. but cos these use a different file type to the in-battle sprites they can’t use that particular editing software and the only one I could find was this thing

THIS THINGGGGG

like man i am grateful to the person who made it but also yo its kinda KINDA awkward! and crashes every twenty minutes!

i can’t just import a file in, i have to manually recreate it using the in-program rudimentary paint editor, which for some reason only works in 1 quarter cubes. like man i already have loads of trouble with hand-eye coordination between two things. its why i can never use a drawing tablet, my dumb brain cannot process moving the pen in one place and looking somewhere different to see the results. this is EVEN WORSE because i have to look at some super zoomed in grid frame and then like.. try and zoom my sprite up to the same size and draw the same grid frame on it, cos otherwise i can never count the right amount of pixels to get it in the same place... not to mention the fact i also have to key in my own palette via colour codes. and like.. can’t even open multiple codes in my art program at once, gotta keep clicking back and forth and dragging the whole thing out even more...

so yeah it takes me like a fuckin hour to recreate each frame! and the thing crashes every twenty minutes so i’ve already lost loads of progress twice. “loads of progress” is ONE TINY HALF OF A HAT, that’s how damn slow it is! its soooo frustrating aaa i’ve only done two frames and i’m already wanting to start my nervous nail biting habit againnnn

So I think i’ll just maybe limit it to doing one frame per day, so i don’t get burnout? I’m still recovering from a migraine and i made it worse yesterday burning out on that other game hacking stuff I’ll just chill it out like this so I’ll eventually finish it in a month or something? And I’ll do the mystery dungeon lets play before the randomizer nuzlocke. Its maybe a better game for a first try, anyway?

Oh and I’m also holding on to the recording of the ‘bunni plz rate 77 of our favourite anime characters’ follower interaction meme, cos i got a bit self concious and didnt wanna make it the first thing on my channel. i mean at several points i blabber about LGBT issues and that might put off new watchers, i guess? i still wanna do it though, just build up my confidence a bit first. Also learn a bit more about video editing so i can show the pictures over the recording instead of just trying to film my screen as i click on the links

#bunni plays platinum randomizer #aaaa #at least i did get better at using that other program tho #so now i know how to export and import edited stuff and i actually could make a more legit everyone-is-charon hack #but there's still one small part of the intro that can't be edited #the bit showing the starters is stored as a background texture that applies a bunch of different palettes to #different sections of it #yet there's no way to do that in a regular image editor so #changing it would mess up the palettes #everyone-is-charon-except-that-one-monferno-in-the-back hack

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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Cyberpunk 2077 Review Roundup

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Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the most highly-anticipated game of 2020, and after several delays and other controversies, it’s finally here. Fans will be able to get their hands on CD Projekt Red’s new RPG on Dec. 10 (unless you pre-ordered from Best Buy). Ahead of the global launch, here’s what critics are saying about the game so far:

Andrew Reiner, Game Informer:

“Cyberpunk 2077 is a work of awe-inspiring ambition, dazzling with its massive scale and creative vision. The world of Night City is a metropolis of futuristic art, stealing your eye with stunning neon-lit architecture and streets filled with citizens made of flesh and metal. Night City is an open world that immediately pulls you in and keeps you engaged with its dark narrative, meaningful player choice, and overwhelming amount of side content.”

Score: 9/10

Kallie Plagge, Gamespot:

“It also bears a mention: Cyberpunk 2077 is phenomenally buggy. I played a pre-release build that was updated during the review period, and there’s a day-one patch planned as well, but the scale of technical issues is too large to reasonably expect immediate fixes. I encountered some kind of bug on every mission I went on, from more common, funnier ones like characters randomly T-posing to several complete crashes. I didn’t notice much of an improvement after the update, either. In a very late-game, very important fight, the game froze on me–twice. I ended up taking a break out of frustration before attempting, and finally succeeding, the third time.

These bugs, more than any game I’ve played in years, took me out of the experience often. Non-interactable items like cardboard boxes will explode when you interact with something next to them; UI elements will stay on-screen long after they’re meant to, which is only solved by reloading a save; characters will interrupt themselves during proper dialogue sequences by repeating a throwaway line they’d say in the overworld, seriously disrupting key moments; I died once and, upon reloading my last save, found my hacking ability no longer worked, forcing me to roll back to an autosave 10 minutes prior. The list is extensive.

Score: 7/10

James Davenport, PC Gamer:

“I found it moving and life-affirming in the final moments, even in the face of near certain death and a relentless onslaught of bugs. I suppose it’s an appropriate thematic throughline though: Cyberpunk 2077 is a game about V coming apart at the seams, in a city coming apart at the seams, in a game coming apart at the seams. Play it in a few months.”

Score: 78/100

Tom Marks, IGN:

“Cyberpunk 2077 kicks you into its beautiful and dazzlingly dense cityscape with few restrictions. It offers a staggering amount of choice in how to build your character, approach quests, and confront enemies, and your decisions can have a tangible and natural-feeling impact on both the world around you and the stories of the people who inhabit it. Those stories can be emotional, funny, dark, exciting, and sometimes all of those things at once. The main quest may be shorter than expected when taken on its own and it’s not always clear what you need to do to make meaningful changes to its finale, but the multitude of side quests available almost from the start can have a surprisingly powerful effect on the options you have when you get there. It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, but Cyberpunk 2077’s impressively flexible design makes it a truly remarkable RPG.”

Score: 9/10

James Billcliffe, VG24/7:

“In the midst of such intense anticipation and scrutiny, it’s easy to get carried away with what Cyberpunk 2077 could have been. The final experience might be more familiar than many predicted, with plenty of elements that aren’t perfect, but it’s dripping with detail and engaging stories. With so much to see and do, Cyberpunk 2077 is the kind of RPG where you blink and hours go by, which is just what we need to finish off 2020.”

Score: 5/5

Carolyn Petit, Polygon:

“One of my fears about Cyberpunk 2077 was that it was going to be so cynical and nihilistic that playing it would be like wallowing in grim hopelessness, that the cheapness of human life in the game’s world would be mirrored by the game itself. But that’s not the case. It’s easy to lose the human thread in the overwhelming glut of stuff Cyberpunk 2077 puts on your plate, with your map plastered with crimes you can violently “neutralize” for a reward from the police, and fixers constantly sending you text messages about underdeveloped one-off jobs you can take on to earn a bit of extra cash. But the humanity is there, if you look for it.

“And that humanity is the saving grace of this alluring yet uneven and deeply flawed game. I can’t deny that Night City wowed me with its scale, its verticality, and its sense of history. But I wish I could see people like me on its streets as something more than objects. I wish that the game’s politics were more radical. Yes, I know I shouldn’t look to a colossal game that was itself produced under exploitative labor conditions to lead the charge of anticapitalist liberation, but I wish the sparks of Johnny Silverhand’s ideological rage got to burn brighter, that Cyberpunk 2077 felt more interested in envisioning new futures than in reminiscing over bygone glories. Neither its gameplay nor its narrative can imagine the bold possibilities that I find so central to the best of cyberpunk. But what it does offer is visions of people trying to make do and get by in a world that’s trying to eat them alive, and sometimes those people get by with a little help from their friends. It’s not the revolution I hoped for, but it’s something.”

Riley MacLeod, Kotaku:

“I haven’t fallen in love with playing Cyberpunk 2077, but I haven’t loathed it either. Some moments have been exciting or moving, while others have just felt like stuff to do. I’m middle-of-the-road on it so far—having fun in spots, left wanting the game to be more like what made The Witcher 3 great in others. The game itself wants so badly for you to think it’s cool, that it’s the cutting edge of graphics and game design, that it talks about edgy topics like body modification, corporate power, and the internet. It tries too hard, stuffing itself with a tangle of complicated roleplaying game systems; with so many cyberpunk tropes, plots, and slang; with neon and holograms and so many in-game ads, most of them for sex; with car chases and hacking and corporate espionage and double-crossing powerful people; with a world where the human body is made obsolete with money and technology, while also chewed up and spat out for the sake of capital. There’s an admirable diversity of races, sexualities, genders, and body types, but they feel like a veneer. It’s not a politically progressive game: these identities are all in service of the game’s vision of the cyberpunk future, one that can feel implausible and alienating but also has hints of the world we live in today.

Chris Tapsell, Eurogamer:

“It’s still early on for me, I should say – after 30 hours I was still, no doubt to the horror of many with vanishing spare time, just finding my feet – but much of that focus is placed on Cyberpunk‘s central story, which has so far been a welcome surprise. Beneath the noise – and Cyberpunk is truly cacophonous – there is a lingering thread of tenderness to it. I’ve opted to play V as a woman, with a ‘Corpo’ background, and she’s been voiced impeccably by Cherami Leigh and written with some skill. There’s real tenderness here, real vulnerability – a lot of “this city’ll chew you up and spit you out” stuff, sure, but there’s a waver to the tough talk, and from more than just V. Cyberpunk‘s story so far is one of fear, the surface of it plated in chrome and angst and body horror gore, but still built on a core of humanity. It’s more than I expected, and more than we’ve been taught to expect, frankly, by the brashness of the marketing, the pitching of Night City as this great, submissive, ultra-hedonist playground. Night City is a vile swamp, in actual fact, and Cyberpunk‘s characters are drowning in it. It is, so far, more than just a synthwave skin on another puerile open world.”

Rob Zacny, VICE:

“Cyberpunk 2077 is a game of the past and its forgotten futures. Its setting is a pastiche that was overtaken by history and technology. It is a piece of software that is a throwback to PC gaming of the 1990s and early 2000s in every possible way, and its aesthetic and narrative sensibilities of a teenage boy’s bedroom in the 1980s. Yet its lavish and utterly sincere devotion to its influences recalls what has made these dated visions so alluring and enduring. Cyberpunk is too tacky and graceless to be cool, but it’s very big, and very loud, and sometimes that’s all it takes to be awesome.”

Brad Chacos, PCWorld:

“Even if the main narrative somehow stumbles at the finish line, it wouldn’t take away from that sublime core gameplay experience. After a dozen hours, I haven’t come close to exhausting the available activities in just the first of Night City’s six districts and surrounding Badlands. No matter what happens with V, I can’t wait to discover all of Night City’s secrets. I’m in love.”

Richard Scott Jones, PCGamesN:

“Retroactive trigger warning about ‘politics in games’ for whoever cares about such things, by the way, but if that’s you, then you’d best steer clear of Cyberpunk 2077 if you stand by your claimed convictions. This is one of the most explicitly politically charged games ever made – Mike Pondsmith designed the tabletop game upon which it’s based as a “cautionary tale,” and after the killing of George Floyd back in June, reiterated that his universe is “a warning, not an aspiration“. Anyone who insists it’s pure, meaningless escapism is hopelessly deluded.

“Even if such sentiments are uttered in sincere good faith, I think it’s a tragic diminishment of our medium to insist that it shouldn’t tackle politics. Cyberpunk 2077 might not push quite as many boundaries in game design as a landmark release could, but if it can convince more people that games can and should take a position on issues of substance rather than peddle mindless thrills, that’ll be a worthy legacy.”

Stay tuned for Den of Geek’s review of Cyberpunk 2077 next week!

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oscar-randle-bct · 7 years ago

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3D Modeling/Animating

Another of my responsibilities was to make and animate the three characters of our game including Ricardo, our main character Mads and our villain Mr Glacey.

I know this sounds complicated and somewhat impressive, but it’s not. Earlier in the project we realized that animating and modeling our characters was going to be an issue as nobody had experience doing it and it seemed like a lot to learn before we would be able to pull of sufficient work (would require more time than we had). However @isthisprogress introduced us to Adobe’s beta software “Adobe Fuse”, a 3D character model creator which removes the bulk of the talent needed to create 3D models. The models can then be exported to a website called mixamo that fits the model with a skeleton and has a variety of free animations for you to download and import to Unity. Using fuse comes with a number of drawbacks. The most irritating thing being the fact that as a beta program, it crashes constantly. Once it even crashed and somehow erased the model I was working on. It also takes about thirty clicks of the desktop icon to even open it (not exaggerating). On top of this it also has extremely limited use and options. Fuse simply cannot create characters to the exact specifications you want in a chosen art style. @synergybct additionally ran into many problems with the mixamo animations not being able to function upside down, a vital part of our game’s mechanics. A lot more work needs to be done on this software before it is released in my opinion.

However, at the end of the day, it gave us what we needed.

First came our protagonist Mads - a name given to him because he vaguely resembles Mads Mikkelsen.

Mads Profile -

The process of modeling in Fuse isn’t complicated, essentially you pick one body part that best matches the specifications that you desire. You then warp and adjust the body structure to your liking. You fit the model with the clothes from the limited selection and then texture everything with the colour, material and resolution that you want. In the general use of the word when not related to actual 3D modeling - I wouldn’t necessarily call using Fuse “easy”. It takes a bit of practice to get used to warping the bodies how you want. It’s extremely easy to do something wrong and, turn your model’s face into a monstrosity and not be able to correct yourself. But that’s not the reason why its not easy - as I said, you would be lucky for it not to crash at least twice a session. Loading and working with the texturing feature is a sluggish nightmare of thrills as you wait to discover if your work beyond your last save will be deleted because of another crash. Anyway I think that concludes my rant about the software...

Basically, the idea behind Mads as a character is a simple office worker, disgruntled with his role in the world. I aimed to make him quite plane and not particularly unique in anyway you wouldn’t expect a normal person to be.

Ricardo Profile -

Conceptually, Ricardo’s model was easier to make than Mads. This is mainly because I was obviously basing it off an actual person rather than something out of our group’s imagination. It wasn’t difficult because Ricardo has quite a distinctive look.

In this game Ricardo acts initially as a mysterious ally to our main character, communicating to him through a walkie talkie and giving him strange abilities. Ricardo later shows himself and aids Mads in defeating the enemy...

Speaking of which -

Mr Glacey (AKA “Hiroshima”) Profile -

I definitely had the most fun making this guy. The basic premise behind his design is a mean, lazy boss who abuses his employees. Ultimately, he would also be a keeper of a conspiracy within the company about secret research into super powers.

Because Fuse is a bit weird, I couldn’t seem to get rid of a large hump on his models back - So I just kept it. I also gave him the greatest belly the world has ever seen.

#@ctech503 #ctech503final

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Daily Doodle 237/365 - August 25, 2017

Just this one situation managed to change my whole doodle

But even if I’m tired, that won’t stop me from doodling!!

Today started fresh and stayed that way since I quickly cleaned both my fans, opened all windows and left my door open all day.. and my room NEVER got hot!! :D

Other than that, ate a quick breakfast and sat down to catch up on videos but eventually got bored as there was nothing

I then hopped onto Skyrim and played for about an hour or so before stopping, but it wasn’t cuz of boredom, but stress of not answering to messages in time and not drawing.. I get that lingering anxiety when I’m busy trying to play a game, I can’t play games to relax anymore.. unless I’m playing with Pixie, then it’s fine

Anyways, I answered messages and started inking a commission I was doing before stopping to test out a collab piece between Pixie and I. We want to do collab commissions anyway, so why not try testing how it’ll work. Pixie gave me a drawing of his that was already finished and I took out his shading and replaced it with mine and.. I felt bad.. like I had downgraded his work.. sure, the collab’s purpose is to have both his and I’s work in it, but being able to compare his fully done version with mine just made me feel bad. It looks like I’m not putting my all into art anymore..

I then took on the difficult task of helping someone figure out a pose in a drawing which even I couldn’t figure out.. at this time of the day I was already at an art low while watching a friend stream with other people. I felt double the bad since the stream was making me feel like I wasn’t doing enough with my art, and the fact that I couldn’t figure out this pose and failed that friend made me feel even worse. Sometimes streams motivate me, other times they remind me that I’m not drawing enough or taking on big projects.. like that animated music video I’m still postponing..

Anyways, during this time I also noticed my phone was getting spammed with notifications like a few days ago, then I realized I got featured in Furry Amino AGAIN!! Which is a great achievement, featured twice in such a short time span sure feels awesome and I’m very very grateful for that. It cheered me up a bit, I mean.. this doodle was gonna highlight that too

But later at night when I was getting ready to doodle, I decided to do a quick video card driver update and shower, so I would come back and be ready to doodle.. but my drawing program, Clipstudio, wouldn’t open, it just kept crashing when it opened.. I did everything. I restarted the PC, reinstalled Clipstudio but nothing.. so I had hoped it was the video card update. So I started downloading an older version of the driver in hopes of reverting this problem.. but my net speed was unusually slow tonight, so it took a long while. In the meantime I blew the dust off my old Paint Tool SAI and started the doodle. It seemed the update only broke Clipstudio for some reason..

I wasn’t going to do the doodle in SAI though since it was already late and I didn’t wanted to spend too much time relearning the minor shortcut differences. I build my shortcuts for speed, but it didn’t hurt to do some progress. I did so and when the update was ready, I opened Clipstudio, crossed my fingers and toes and it worked!!

This wasn’t going to stop me either way, I made the promise to do the doodle daily at ALL COSTS, meaning if I don’t have access to my desktop or laptop, I would do it on paper or even a wall and take a picture with my phone, and if none are available, I’ll just do them and stockpile them. Writing the story on paper or doing my best to remember, but the drawing will be somewhere, no matter what

Though it scares me that I had such a big panic over losing a piece of software. I got reminded how old my drawing tablet is.. I sure cannot afford losing that

By the way.. every time I write the doodle date, I get reminded that time flies.. and that makes me feel so bad.. so many things to do, so little time, I feel like I won’t be able to do the things I want to do in time

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