MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today Posts 4Comments 1,990Joined 2 yr. ago
A needle in a tumbleweed, if you will. :p
Yeah, it's crazy it was hiding this long but I see this as a win that they dealt with it so swiftly and show they take their package security seriously.
100%. Retopology kinda drives me up the wall because I always seem to end up with mismatched loops and stuff.
One day I'll save up and support Retopoflow, but in the meantime, check out a new fork of Poly Quilt! it's freely available in Blender's extension repository!
I see a lot of people say it works a lot like Maya's poly-build/paint/something(?) function, and a lot of people would say they import Blender meshes back into Maya just for retopology, so that sounds like quite high praise if this works similarly.
Looking forward to trying it myself. :)
I don't know if retopo will ever be fun, but maybe at least it won't be miserable? Hahaha.
Blender 3D Artist here:
If you already use Blender and want Inkscape-like functionality, grease pencil has gotten REALLY impressive! Worth checking out! But let's talk about materials real quick:
I personally got burned when I dropped hard-earned cash on Substance and they sold out from under us.
It might not be 1:1 for the most powerful features found in Alegorithmic's traitorware, but the PBR Painter add-on has been AWESOME for painting materials in Blender.
There are some other add-ons for materials and advanced effects too.
(For designing, I'm glad fo see Material Maker mentioned! It's impressive and legit! I hope that project goes far!)
I honestly think a majority of that stuff is totally doable in Blender right now, add-ons just make it easier and/or a bit more efficient, and these devs are worth supporting.
Armorpaint looked pretty cool, but is it still being developed? Seems like it's been awfully quiet, which is a shame because it seemed very promising!
It's sad because Substance was the ONE time I relented and said "Hey, maybe this commercial software will be really worth it." Fool me once.
Heya! Sorry for taking a minute to get back to you. :)
1000000% with you on not giving a cent to meta or throwing out perfectly good hardware with plenty of life left!!!! For real!
So, last time I tried, VR is a little bumpy right now. I have a Samsung Odyssey+ set that's simply fantastic...if Microsoft weren't deliberately turning it into a paperweight.
Wonderful strides are being made by the FOSS community however!
It's bumpy because a lot of VR kits' only hope right now is a project called "Monado"
https://monado.freedesktop.org/
(Right now it looks like your Reverb G2 is supported!)
I main OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days, and I used this awesome bit of software called "Envision" that attempts to automate the "retrieve all the correct dependencies and build the thing" stuff.
For being so early, I was very impressed, especially since I'm no pro at compiling software and navigating Git branches and stuff. This is relatively turnkey. (In a tinkery Linux way, anyway lol)
https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/
(The wiki here is pretty nice!)
I was able to get the headset to function this way, as in, fire up a game and see through it and look around, and you can enable hand tracking, which is really neat! But I struggled to actually select or interact with anything using it.
The real tough nut to crack is the controllers, but they have made some strides there too! There's a branch that enables controller support, but it's VERY janky right now, like, unusuable, but it's cool that it's going somewhere!
The other challenge is smoothness. Expect a little jitter here and there, it's not so buttery smooth like it was running WMR because they did a LOT of fancy proprietary compensation and prediction code sorta stuff to make that experience work. (And to the surprise of absolutely no one, they refuse to let us folks have it.)
For Elite or DCS, since you'd just be using mouse and keyboard or a standard controller or something anyway, the headset part MIGHT be enough for you! I'd definitely encourage you to give it a shot and have a little patience with it to see if it can be acceptable for you where it's at right now.
You can also get a lot of information and help in the "Linux VR Adventures" Discord. (Ugh, I know.) Link here if you're interested. :)
Unless you're savvy building a bunch of stuff yourself, I'd say check out Envision first, and use that to build Monado for your Reverb and see how that works out for you.
I hope this was helpful! :D
That makes sense. I'm aware of 4chan's anonymity system, but thought it might have to do with that massive user data leak that brought the site down, and thought he might have made an actual username lol.
Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was
Whoody wat now??? I feel like this needs to be more publicized, like posted everywhere right alongside his little saluting stunt.
How can one's character even be assassinated after one has murdered it themselves live in front of billions?
No no you're throwing your heart out to it! /s
Not to mention his specific interventions in designs that lead to various fatalities. (Why the cybertruck/wankpanzer is a complete death trap, despite being designed by some likely talented engineers.)
Nailed it. When casino and packaged goods marketers and executives started malignantly metastasizing into the games industry.
Honestly I have a ridiculous pile o' games like a lot of us do, and I've yet to find something (that's not VR) that I cannot play .
For reference I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with a 30 series Nvidia card. Wayland, two monitors, main is 144hz ultrawide 3440 x 1440, another is 1080p 60hz.
First off there's a few programs out there to get you "Glorious Eggroll" versions of Proton which add even more stuff Valve can't distribute in their versions.
This beautiful software right here looks about right: https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/
Steam works fantastically. Heck, Proton works better than native Linux builds sometimes! Deck playability is an even bigger mark of quality.
Even EA's silly launcher works. I got Titanfall 2 and that Sims 2 Ultimate they gave away ages ago working like butter.
I also love actually owning my games, so I use Heroic Launcher for GoG titles.
Oh! I even have CD games or old .EXEs windows would refuse to even install anymore! Don't worry, Linux has got this. I use Bottles to have separate environments for those games to install to and run. Majority of the time it works great but this is where things can get iffy. But hey, Windows wouldn't run them at all!
Wanna know what made me switch? Vermintide 2 kept giving me BSODs in Windows 10 with some super vague error code that made me think "Oh crap, please don't tell me my GPU is dying."
Nope! Linux ran it with zero probs once I fixed some small quirk to make their dumb little launcher work.
Cherry on top? All my RGB stuff works with Open RGB or my recently retired Corsair keyboard works with "CKB Next".
The community has made incredible strides. My Win10 partition only exists because it has Windows Mixed Reality, which they're abandoning. But not to fear, the Monado project is making HUGE improvements.
Give it a shot. I think you'll be surprised. :)
But you made that choice because you liked how it looked. If you're making expressive, almost surreal art and not just trying to "trick the eye" with photoreal, I think it's cool!
The ability to break physics but maintain believability is the coolest thing about computer graphics. :D
So, I guess it depends what you were going for, and I think the previous advice wasn't bad, but you'll always get people trying to push that realism perfection even if that's not what you're trying to do.
Beautiful render, I really like what you did with this. :)
Love it! An experience easily applicable to TF2 as well LOL.
What was the hardest part of this project for you? :)
I think they're going through some growing pains is all.
There was that little fiasco a while back where "giveaway" items didn't include lifetime support (understandably) and they didn't denote this clearly, and their standards with participating creators could have been a little better too, which resulted in a lot of items getting review-bombed like crazy.
I admit I even did this to one product because it was actually removed from my account before I had a chance to download it, because the promotion was over. They since fixed that though.
People also do dumb things that hurt everyone involved, like leave 1-star reviews that are essentially customer support questions. "Would not work." Or something.
I dunno, if it were ArtStation or something I'd probably be like "Yeah they're being fishy!"
But the CGCookie / Autotroph / Superhive people are good folk, and I don't think anybody's getting filthy rich off Superhive. Could be wrong, but I'd love to hear what they have to say about it before assuming deceptive behavior.
Ah, I was so fixated on the "pasta" joke, you're right, I missed the other thing! Yeah, I can understand you missing that auto scroll feature.
From what I can tell, it doesn't come as easily as it should natively across all applications, although it appears Firefox has this functionality built in. I found a forum post here from not too long ago. Does this help in your case? :)
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=263528
Edit:
And here, some folks are discussing a scripty way to do it system-wide. YMMV it sounds like, and I'm honestly surprised this isn't just a tick-box feature by now.
Been talking about this a lot lately. Older millennial here. I loved that brief little slice of time I got to experience, when DSL / cable was around and no longer "pay by the minute" and someone answering a phone wouldn't kick you off.
Web pages loaded fast enough. They were fine. Downloads? Just be patient. No problem. WoW and friends, Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 2142, all ran just fine.
But mostly...
I miss when the Internet was a place you went all its own, it wasn't everywhere, it wasn't inside of literally everything. You had to "visit" it. Logging on meant you could also log off. It didn't follow your every move.
Handheld game consoles were still airgapped, the main ones had it optional.
People had blogs for fun, they used the web to express themselves and share ideas and stupid subcultures and memes. It didn't "matter."
It wasn't "the commercial internet." It was just The Web. It was somewhere else.
Everything wasn't built on inescapable addiction algorithms that follow you everywhere, and have already your shadow identity shared to innumerable servers because someone knows someone who used one of those services and you were in a group picture once.
For the younger kids, there was a time when your entire life from birth wasn't shared without your consent for the world to see. (How many people really understood privacy?)
Disconnecting now feels more impossible than ever, it takes a huge effort not unlike fasting, and mental overload is the norm.
So much of it is just corporatized, weaponized, and predatory.
I'm gonna venture he means being totally unreachable...
... by your boss on your day off.
Suburbs and freeways, man. :(
I'm laughing and I don't even understand the random hostility in this image LOL.