#mx3

[untouchvbles]

Autozam AZ-1 (PG6SA) at WCEC's Season Opener (2024) in West Bend, WI.

[calumsta]

I was doing EP right now.

And something inside me clicked. I listened to the works that I wanted to #release as an album and I didn't like them... unfortunately, I'm not able to create everything as it is conceived in my head, because mostly some of the works are homage to the past. I tried to replicate the whole process of recording and working on the project, but unfortunately... not that.

So I will add these tracks to the EP which will only be on online services like #mx3 and #soundcloud.

And that's probably 8/6 tracks ready. I'll do the artwork and maybe some of the works will be #singles

[alanianatkinson]

HOKKIEN NEW YEAR, SILENT, CLIKITY-CLACK

This Sunday marks the Hokkien New Year with vibrant celebrations. A quest for enhanced productivity led to the writer switching to a mechanical keyboard, finding it offers a deeper typing experience. Despite initial typos, the decision..,.,

Sunday afternoon. 9th day of the lunar new year or more commonly known as Chinese New Year, here in Malaysia. It is the Hokkien New Year, celebrated by…yes, the Hokkiens. They seemed to have set off every firecracker and fireworks in the country, beginning from a couple of hours just before midnight. This did not affect my sleep. When I was sleepy, I just went to sleep, which was around…

[flmboyz]

Some Ford Probe love ❤️

[discoidal]

exciting news im trying fruits ive never tried before, had a grapefruit for the first time earlier; only had a tiny amount before i took meds, was good salted. tomorrow will try a persimmon or a mangosteen. heres to widening my fruity horizons

[vmantras]

Komaki MX3: Aesthetic Appeal, Build Quality, and Durability

1. Design and Build Aesthetic Appeal: The MX3 is available in three vibrant colors—Jet Black, Garnet Red, and Royal Blue—making it visually appealing for different tastes. The overall design is sleek with clean lines, accentuated by modern lighting elements like LED headlamps, DRLs, tail lights, and brake lights. Build Quality: With a 2-seater capacity and alloy wheels, the build exudes…

[tadaolan]

MSN - The Loving days

In the practice room

They were exchanging ideas between their weapons after saw battling result.

Statistics

Ring vs Glow

5 - 0

Noted

Ring Boomerang was very effective damaged for Glow Woman and most advantageous on overall

Glow : Oh.... I don't know his weakness at all. Even though I've used my gymnastics skill, it still doesn't work. wondering if I should practice fighting again.

Ring : *Glad* Not now, Your skills are nice too! your weapon looks quite useful to supporting and dexterity be like me but your strength seems very weak. Sorry for just knowing that.

Glow : Eh? Normally you are serious and quiet, and now you looks amiable than normal.

Ring : *Blush* Oh hey! I came to compliment you, not to complain at all!

Glow : Mmm.... ok don't mind, I don't argue. *Shy*

Ring : But how could she use that back for healing? I've never seen this weapon before.

Glow : I just know after battling semi-final, It has a hole magnetic energy to suck the glitters automatically. So my armor wasn't damaged by glitters because my armor can drain glitters slowly when damaged.

Ring : So interested... uh I mean..... Her heal weapon.

Glow : Ok, Thanks the inspector Ring. I'll upgrade my weapons soon.

Do you have free time?

Ring : Yes, I'm no business.

They go out which the snowy, they all wore sweaters to protect the system. Both of them took each other to find happiness. but by chance a book fell in the snow.

Glow : Oh! Who dropped the book in the middle of the snow?

Ring : Huh? What is this?

Glow : It's journal, I suspect for the owner accidentally dropped the book.

Ring : You should deposit it at the library. And deposit the guard.

Glow : Uh... It's true, If the owner found the book. *Collected journal*

Ring : But in the middle of the snow, there seems to be no guard at all. Let's go back to the original place before.

In the practice room

Both of them sleep together, Also Glow wants to read journal. Most of them are quotes and morals. She read page by page until one page had an amazing moral.

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The Lover

"Love is the main reciprocity and encouragement for a person. And love is unselfish only when lovers are pure. There was no blood-streaked toxin."

"They are always overlooked because they want a better appearance than a beautiful mind. Like The Ugly Duck who born different than other people. If soulmate They will want the appearance regardless. Few people need a beautiful mind."

"Don't let love carry on others. If your mind is not ready, stay calm. otherwise become obsessed"

Grace

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Glow : Grace... Her nickname? I don't think this name so beautiful.

*Sigh* Ok I'm gonna sleep.

In the Morning

Glow Woman practiced alone seriously and gradually master her weapons. Sometimes she changed to training gymastic skills in the practice room.

Ring : *Yawn* Oh Glow. You practiced alone since morning?

Glow : Yup! I don't want to give up because I don't want to be weak likes Mosquito Woman.

Ring : Mosquito? Don't you talk like that. She's like a firefly with her light can glowing in the night.

Glow : *Shy* .....Wow..... You good as appreciate. Ok Done! Feelings start to fight with you.

Ring : Oh! No Problem, I'm ready before I wake up and i'm already warm up. Are you ready?

Glow : Yes! I'm ready!

They ready to battle to testing before robotmaster tournament.

PLAYER VS PLAYER MODE

DWN-029 RING MAN VS MSN-007 GLOW WOMAN

Get Start!

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Glow Woman launches first by charging towards Ring for a slashing her blade. But Ring Man can self defense. He grabbed her blade and prepare to fight back, but Glow sprays glitter into his face makes blind temporary and he threw the ring until it hit Glow's leg.

Luckily it didn't hit her weakness, Glow dashed attack to Ring made a little damages. And he can stand in.

Ring Man throws the rings with rapid attack her, Glow managed to dodge, but failed hit her back. And Ring threw the rings with cold-blooded attack. She can't focusing him so she will dashing him but failed he takes counter attack with his ring himself.

Their battles are pretty close together. Ring looked no problem for battling but he still slightly visible because her glitters can't pull off. For Glow injured after several hits. But you can still fight.

Glow Woman started to recover to full health without using E-Tank. Next she used a trick by flying around him to confuse Ring. But he seemed to know her position and threw the ring accurately. but accidentally hit her weapon leaked at right hand make can't changed as blade mode. But she can go down sprayed his body make partially unable to move to kicked to finish him. Ring recognized her skills and finally gave up.

TIME OUT

Statistics

Ring vs Glow

4 - 5

GLOW WOMAN WINS!!!

Ring : Nice try Glow Woman!

Glow : You too!

Ring : *Smiled and Fainted*

Glow : Oh no I'm sorry for hurting him!! Be patient, Ring!!

They repair and maintain the system to return to normal operation. And they went to the library to retrieve the journals. And found Fondue Woman who is reading dessert recipes.

Glow : Hi Fondue! Is this your journal, right?

Fondue : Hmm.....? No.....?

Glow : (I forget it! I should opened to find her nickname.) *Opened to reading her*

Fondue : Grace? Oh! It's me! I just make new nickname not long times. *Surprised*

Glow/Ring : *Shocked* Grace!? She made own nickname yourself!?

Ring : I just knew her nickname, Her nickname so beautiful.

Glow : Same. I found her nickname in journal and i loved her morals too.

Fondue : Thank you for encouragement!! By the way, what did you guys do before Valentine's Day?

Glow : Practicing my skills, tell stories with children and help injured people.

Ring : Uhh...... Work hard, invited her to practiced and contact Dr.Cossack everyday.

Fondue : Whoa..... they look really busy. You guys still have rivalry. *Lovable*

Glow/Ring : *Eye contact until shy*

Ring : *Brushed* Hey! Don't look at me like that.

Glow : *Brushed* You too!

Fondue : Hmmm.... There so unstop rivalry. *Lovable*

Glow : Oh, we'll see you later, Fondue!

Fondue : Goodbye, the sweetheart!

They are going out the library. and departed back to them own home. Glow Woman backs to Her dome and Ring Man backs to Dr.Cossack's robotmaster capsules.

Next Day

February 14

It's Valentine day

Everyone including other robotmasters different invites to satisfy, such as.

Harp Man composes love songs for everyone in mini concert.

Mower Man and Flytrap Man helps each other make the garden of love to invite as a photo booth.

Implode Man be an MC, Topaz Man and Fuel Man a model for everyone to invite them to take pictures in the photo booth. And Tide Man going on a trip alone, not knowing they're following him.

Graupel Man with his roommates are putting on heart stickers to communicate love.

Cobble Man and Grinding Man decorate some cooking booth.

Lather Man and Whirl Woman are going on a long trip one by one.

Fondue Woman makes some desserts and cakes to serving.

And Glow Woman sits for dating test to someone who love her.

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She stills sit alone like no happen.

She looked at each couple happily. Some couple walk together and some couple set to tent.

She misses the old days on Valentine's Day. For example, her friends write love messages on student shirts, send gifts with boxes of chocolates, write love poems to people they secretly like, and invite them to the shops who usually go.

She thought that no one would come. So she prepares to return to the dome.

But Ring Man meets her later. So hurry up and grabbed her.

Ring : Glow! Sorry for being late, I have something to given her.

Glow : Oh Ring, At first, no one came.

He gave a box of chocolate and gymnastic ribbons. because she love these both.

Glow : *Surprise* Wow.... , You know my favourites and thank for giving me one. I have a gift that I have prepared for you. At first, I'll give it to someone else.

Ring : Oh well, is that for me?

He opened her gift. The result he got a hula hoop and a box of cupcakes made by Fondue Woman.

Ring : Haha she gave me the hula hoop. Let's go to Kalinka!

*Laugh* Just kidding, I like this one.

Glow : *Laugh* You so crazy, I thought you were quiet.

Ring : *Shy* Hey! Don't say this, You make me embarrassed.

Glow : Oh....sorry Ring. *Shy*

Ring : Well... I'm honest. when we first met I think she's burned out. But I'm shocked that she saved that child. I remember she helped me once.

Glow : *Laugh* Same, I thought that you arrested me confused.

They laughed joyfully as they recounted their first meeting.

Ring : So..... I love you.

Glow : *Surprised* Ring Man.....

They took off their masks and made eye contact. Then gently kiss romantically.

After a while, their hearts began to warm. And gabe a happy smile for them.

Glow : So if you don't waste your time, would you like to take a trip? It's Valentine's Day today.

Ring : *Proud* If there is no business So please go with me.

Glow : Ok Let's go!!

They traveled as a rival couple. But I secretly have some love.

At least even though they had some fights. They understood each other. Perhaps they have met sometime. and they are happy together

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"Like ≈ Love ≠ Delusion"

Grace

[ramonekemono]

Spore multi-legged animation import finding

So, if you guys ever installed my or Mx3's dance mods, you'll notice that the animation for creatures with more than 2 legs tend to mess up especially when the creature spin around to any orientation that isn't straightforward. As seen here:

This is because most available animations out there are made for bipedal humanoid models, and does not take into account of multi legged rigs. This cause for the legs in positions far away from the body to not move to the new positions the torso has rotated to.

However, as you can see with vanilla Test Drive animations such as Hippity Hop, Flowers, Space Walk, these are work with creatures with different leg configurations. So how do they do that?

This is because instead of moving just the Root bone of the creature, they also move the Creature Frame. And naturally, the legs/feet are coded to move accordingly to this frame. But this is isn't the case however if the legs animation info keyframe has -flags 0x2. This cause the leg to simply animate as programmed without trying to accommodate to the Creature Frame.

And from what I found: the Creature Frame bone is responsible for the XY translation of the creature, and most of Z rotation, while the root bone is responsible for the Z translation and XY rotation a bit of the Z rotation (we'll get to that later). the other parts also function the same way as the root bone.

So now the question is, how do you turn a bipedal animation you found online into a Spore's animation that fits for most multi legged models?

While there are many ways I can approach this, I chose to use the Blender hip bone to drive the Spore Creature Frame XY translation and Z rotation, and the other animations will be adjusted to animate only in reference of that creature frame bone. This last part is difficult because the math is quite complex. But luckily, the Bone Constraints in blender has an option to use frame of reference.

What I did was making multiple dummy bones (green - because they have bone constraints) that animate similar to the absolute position of the model, but only in reference of the creature frame.

The bone constraints look like this (example: left feet):

Now, in order to export my animation, I choose the convention of animating the front legs with the -flags 0x2 in order to allow them to be more expressive and normal, while the hind legs don't have that so they will adapt to the creature's frame. And if you put the animation channel of the front legs before the hind legs, it will be used as the default when your creature only has 2 legs.

And the result is this:

As you can see, it's a lot better, but still tend to jerk a bit. This I think is because I attribute all of the Z rotation to the Creature Frame. While likely what happened in vanilla animation, the Creature Frame is only attributed to large changes/ low update frequency animation, while the root and other bones is in charged of smaller changes/rapid animations, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Note: I've also used this technique to adapt the camera motion as well, and while it looks relatively similar to the original camera I imported, it jerk quite a bit because of the jerking of the body.

Here's a sample project with the animation, camera effect and sound if people wanna play with:

And here's the Blender file if anyone wanna have a crack at trying to improve it. Note: this file is easier to work with if you have the MMD Tools, CATS and Retarget Helper Blender Add-on (The Blender version I'm using is 3.2.2):

Have fun and good luck modding Spore!

[jellyjynx]

ART FIGHT ATTACKS (Pt. 3)

I would've posted this sooner but I was out of town for a bit, but these are all the other attacks I did on Art Fight that I hadn't posted already. ( I'm also gonna split them up bc I don't want the post to become super long) Owners of the characters are listed in order down below.

In hindsight, I probably should've posted as I made them but I kinda forgot whoops, sorry

I genuinely love every drawing I received, so a thank you so much to everyone who got me!

@/manachan on AF

@/Mx3 on AF

@noisymartian

@pacificlyarcade

@/Phosphorus_phi on AF

[untouchvbles]

Autozam AZ-1

[calumsta]

Liebe Freunde, leider werde ich für zwei Wochen weg sein.

Ich muss meine Diagnose in Kashchenko bestätigen lassen. Das ist Moskaus erstes psychiatrisches Krankenhaus. Es ist alles für das Militär.

Um erfolgreich umzuziehen und Festivals zu spielen, ist es notwendig, weil ich sonst nicht in der Lage bin, die Länder zu verlassen.

Macht euch keine Sorgen!

7/12 des Albums ist fertig und es wird nur noch besser werden! Vielleicht kommt ja in der Zwischenzeit meine neue Veröffentlichung heraus!

Der allgemeine Plan sieht wie folgt aus:

1. Besorgen Sie sich einen Militärausweis

2. den Papierkram in der Botschaft zu erledigen

3. auf Festivals spielen und mit erstklassigen Musikern arbeiten!

Ich mag jetzt ein Niemand sein, aber ich werde bald dein altmodischer Freund sein!

Sei glücklich und pass auf dich auf!

Sie können alle neuen Songs hier hören:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2VudlgzugG9V7kKPtw8Num

und die neue Veröffentlichung ist hier zum Anhören verfügbar:

https://mx3.ch/calumsta

Herzliche Grüße, Roma ✌️😊

[radracer]

do you have any fun but easily overlooked cars?

mazda mx3, dodge omni, nissan pulsar, hyundai scoupe, etc.

that or lifted subaru imprezzas?

Uncommons are my specialty 👍 I’ll do all those and some of my other favs!

[cambriancutie]

https://mx3.ch/siebob

[daveknowstech]

The other end of the headphone Market

Since a fateful day at Heathrow airport when I picked up a pair of Bose QuietComfort headphones, I've been addicted to the higher end of the headphone market—until now.

I would in no way classify myself as an audiophile. Although I cannot tell the high or low notes, I don't get upset if I can't hear something in crystal clear clarity 100% of the time.

I wear headphones when I'm on the go. Historically, that's been on a commute of about an hour into London; more recently, that's been on flights and holidays.

I've tried a spate of upper-end commercial headphones, all of which were driven by noise cancellation first and sound quality second. I've used Bose QCS, Sennheiser, Sony, and even a pair of Nokia headphones, which a colleague once described as making me look like a cyberman.

I prefer the over-ear style of headphones; the in-ear ones just don't work, and I have an aversion to sticking things in my ears.

The last set of Headphones I owned were the Sony MX3s, which are great headphones. A few years ago, I got them on a recommendation from a colleague at work and was not disappointed. They have got me through many a commute, flight, and boat journey while travelling.

Unfortunately, last week, on a trip to London, these headphones were lost. I can only assume they fell out of a bag or a pocket in a pub, and that left me with a choice.

Do I invest in another expensive set of headphones, with my preference being the new Bose Ultra, or do I realise that my trips in and out of London are not as frequent, and maybe I could spend the money elsewhere?

This led me to have a look at what was available in the 100-200 pound (Pound of Dollar; it's a 1:1 in the tech world) range of over-ear headphones. I wanted something with Active noise cancelling and sound good enough to stream Spotify in high quality and listen to podcasts.

It turns out that much of the technology from a few years back at the top end of the market has found its way to the other end in 2025, which has led to many good, cheap headphones.

The usual searching, reviews, and YouTube led me to the Anker Space Q45, a set of headphones at a hefty discount on Amazon at the time, and generally getting some good reviews. When I say they were discounted, I mean they were GBP45.

The Purchase was made, and my new headphones arrived the next day.

Here are my thoughts on the order in which I assessed them.

Build

These feel solid, possibly more solid than the Sony headphones. I don't mean solid as cumbersome and heavy; I mean solid as well-built. They are plastic, but it feels premium and, importantly, don't creak when you move your head. There is a weight to the headphones, which doesn't make them heavy; it makes them feel like they will stay on your head. The cups are soft and cover my ears, and I could envisage myself feeling comfortable with these during a long-haul flight or an epic bus journey through a foreign land.

Headband

I have a large head. The band between the cups doesn't feel uncomfortable on my head; it doesn't press on the top of my head or cause any other noticeable discomfort.

Soundcore App

I'm using this on Android and can only assume the iPhone app works similarly. The headphones pair either by Bluetooth or using the Anker Soundcore app. This app is minimal, supplying profiles to adjust the sound according to your preference and giving information about the headphones. It's not going to revolutionise your world. However, it does have one interesting feature.

Ear Test

As we age, our hearing changes; we lose the ability to hear some sounds and gain the ability to hear others. The Soundcore app has a feature that runs a hearing test, plays a set of beeps of varying volume levels, and creates a sound profile based on the test results.

This works. This test made a noticeable improvement to the sound I was getting out of the headphones, making it crisper and more depth. I was really impressed by it.

General Sound

So, are these headphones any good? The simple answer is, if, like me, you are after a set of over-ear headphones with great nose cancellation and decent sound that you can use to while away the hours on a long journey oblivious to the crying kids or arguing teens in the vicinity, these headphones are great. The sound quality is really good, the noise cancellation works really well, and the battery life is really 24+ hours.

Final Thoughts

I have to admit, I was a bit snobbish and a bit flexy when it came to headphones. I used to be the same with cameras. This is a welcome wakeup call that in today's financial climate, there are great GBP100/200 headphones out there.

It might just be my age or my ears; however, these are going to get just as many miles as the Sony and previous headphones I've had, and if I lose or break them, I'm not going to feel quite as gutted. I may even buy a spare pair at the Amazon price right now.

[ericemanuael]

https://mx3.ch/ericemanueld