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Thats a backrooms I'd almost enjoy being cursed to be lost in.
When they made it a major part of nemesis I was so annoyed.
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This is Jasper, she is our chief of security.
(lemmy.world)
Jasper (so named for her jasperite like patterning, my daughter likes minerals) adopted our family as a skinny little street cat. My daughter begged us for a cat for months and she just kinda showed up which was perfect. Shes got what we think are siblings that come by but shes the runt of the litter as she has remained small while the other kittens are now big bois. I kind of love that. Smol little cat thats tough as nails is the goods.
Apparently she had a place to crash across the street but stopped going as they had too many cats (her previous staff told us all about her and gave us their blessing to take her in). They think she was born and abandoned by momma cat in the alley out back. But she persevered and now she's got a forever home.
Shes street smart, but now lives with us mostly in doors and doesn't seem to mind. If she does go outside its just to hang on the back deck and take in the smells.
I freaking love this cat. Lots of personality, always down for some pets, constantly wants to be with us but can handle her own and will let you know when you're bugging her.
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I've inherited all my grandfathers radio and telegraph equipment. I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing. He passed away in the mid 90's and I think he would have loved this modern world and all its tools for instant communication.
This piece is likely from Signal Electrics Telegraph learners kit, there appears to be many eras of this kit from the 1920s until the 40s. I suspect he got this around the 30's but I'm not sure. Its a really cool piece of retro tech tho.
GIMP is great but it definitely needs its own Blender 3.0 moment where they just completely overhaul the UI.
I've used it as my primary raster app so I'm way used to it now, but I totally understand the people who just never even bother to learn it because they are so turned off by the absolutely bonkers design decisions.
Old Macs and Trek, two of my favourite things.
Here is Denise Okuda in front of her Quadra 700. She used it to make all the wonderful LCARS and other alien UI panels on DS9. This was her taking a break while working on the DS9 pilot in 1993.
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Sam Spades Office - Maltese Falcon - WIP
(lemmy.world)
I've been working on this scene off an on for about 4 years now. Its become a sort of log of my progress learning blender. From subsurface modelling to node texture creation, volumetric effects, etc.
Its far from done. It's missing some props (the falcon, some desk stuff) and a real narrative focus. Not to mention the janky scenery outside. Its a work in progress.
Its not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of yet but I wanted to share as its getting close to a level I'm proud of.
So long!
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Starting to get the hang of exterior renderings
(lemmy.world)
Got this design and was asked to produce an outdoor riverside rendering. Im not fully happy with it yet but I'm liking how its going. It needs more refinement and stochasm to help drive the realism, but for my first real blender archviz attempt with all assets and shaders my work I'm pretty happy with it so far.
You know that's a true story? Lady lost a kid. You're about to cross some fuckin' lines.
the keyboard is definitely "fine" to type on, its just a blackberry keyboard. The driver for the keyboard is also in development so theres not much support for using the trackbutton as a mouse. The display is difficult for practical use, its a monochromatic screen, there is no backlit, and the pixel density isn't amazing so you can't see full lines of code, lots of wrapping. It's better than having NO display in the field though. I actually really like it, its quirky, but with some struggle it is very usable.
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I grabbed a beepy a little while back (if interested BE ADVISED: they've since gone dark and left a bunch of people holding out for one, I got really lucky and ordered super early) so I could work on some python stuff on the go. I didn't like having all the parts exposed, and the cases available seemed too flimsy for my liking.
I fired up blender and designed a unibody case for it. Printed it out on my Ender 3 and its been pretty great. I use it with some software I'm writing to turn a raspberry pi into a portable sensor data acquisition and visualization platform called a Picorder (Pi + Tricorder).
It took a couple revisions to get here, mostly to get the feel in the hand right. I wanted some bulbousness to make it easier to hold.
It's designed so the PCB slides into it and is affixed by two screws, and then a top cap is secured with four more screws to protect the top.
I've been printing a couple years now and enclosures are still my favourite item to design and print. So satisfying to hold something in your hand that was once just a 3D model and is now a fully real object. I wanted to add some content here as I've enjoyed looking at the other posts!
I wish you all easy first layers and good prints!
I dont get the hysteria, personally.
I came here to escape the crowds, not migrate with them.
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They're always looking for a way to fuck up your day.
(lemmy.world)
It's like it's part of their job description.
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
Blender. I feel pretty confident in saying that there is simply nothing like it in the commercial world. Its feature set is unreal; its like the swiss army knife of 3D modelling programs. I can't say enough good things about Blender. It has replaced so many secondary programs in my workflow and is slowly dominating to become my entire workflow.
It used to suck to use in the late 2010s and then work was done to overhaul its space-shuttle cockpit interface, and now it actually feels concise and usable. I freaking love blender now. Big time blender fanboy right here.
I appreciate that he managed to make both Star Trek and Star Wars fans very angry. That took serious skill.
You can take my steamtroller when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Fucking love that thing. Not just for gaming either, couch computing is all possible via the steamtroller. LOVE IT.
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directive0
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Sure! I found some grass clump models somewhere, they are basically just little tufts of grass of various different orientations and arrangements, very low poly but from a distance they work.
Then I selected the ground plane I wanted to apply the grass to, and in edit mode selected only the areas to apply it to (you can do this using weight painting or vertex groups, I will encourage you to look both those up if you're not familiar).
Then using particles I made the ground plane an emitter for hair particles, but switched them out for a collection which contained all of my grass tufts. It took some time to orient each grass tuft object so they were position with z upward, but in the end I figured it out.
Theres a number of great tutorials on youtube about this technique that would probably do a better job explaining. This video seems really good.