![]() ![]() ![]() Another insperation is from Lelouch Vi Britannia from the Code Geass series, as they both are people who seek revenge on those who did them wrong, and wear black masks. although, i'ma be pissed to find that out realize that he can't fly or shoot lasers out his eyes.īy looking at where he got some of his inspiration most likely from Hakumen from the Blazblue fighting game series due to the fact that they both dress nearly the same, except that Hakumen wears something more akin to a hakama for pants and Zer0 wear more of a shinobi's atire and their default colors are completly opposite (Hakumen wears white, Zer0 wears black attire). that said, it would be trés amusant if 0 turned out to be an eridian guardian. that particular section is titled "speculation" because the OP added it to the mainspace page along with his/her/its own rendering of an eridian guardian before it was moved to the talk page. Please note that the page you found that on is a talk page, subject to whatever pops into an editor's mind and not subject to public vetting. By the way, sorry if I messed up anything, I'm new here. The picture at the bottom of the page shows a drawing of what an eridian could have looked liked which bares a slight resemblence to Zer0's general body shape including having only four fingers and two large toes. or a clone sister gone terribly wrong? Dr. F 00:52, Ma(UTC) According to the "Speculation" section at the bottom of this page, it is speculated that the eridian race spoke telepathically since the gaurdians do not have mouths which would support the possibility of Zer0 being an alien as he/she/it never seems to speek. the other char's are drawn so as to clearly look human. :3 ♥ ☮ ✰ Razldazlchick ♥ ☮ ✰ 22:52, Febru(UTC)Ġ's early concept art, the shape of his head specifically, lends credence to my personal theory that s/he/it's not human. well, ok then Shady Cake 03:53, Febru(UTC) Is anyone else feel a faint Daft Punk vibe from the helmet in the "geeky-gadgets" picture? No? Just me?. What interests me is that his helmet bears resemblance to the "Sneaker" Spec ops from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Looking back at all the promo pictures the hole is in them all. It's a design that's part of his sneaking suite but if you look directly above the place your talking about on the side of his stomach you can see a small hole in the costume. ![]() I doubt that he got his suit torn in such a fashion. You'll notice the same pattern above his glove (on each hand) and also on the other side of his suit, all symmetrically placed. I'm pretty sure that 'tear' is just decoration on his suit. Perhaps, he/she is either a sentient Guardian or even the/ one of the last Eridians. WarBlade 23:20, Febru(UTC) Looking at his tabi, he may have only four digits per foot, too. He either has a blue fabric layer under that, or it's the colour of his skin. ♥ ☮ ✰ Razldazlchick ♥ ☮ ✰ 23:50, Febru(UTC) I'm more intrigued by the little tear in the front of his suit. ![]() Pretty cool either way :P 22:35, Febru(UTC) now zero from what i can tell does not talk at all but his mask shows symbols in red in the trailer he shows a cuation sign a smiley face and a 0 his specail ability is that he sends out a decoy goes cloaked and then you can see where the critical point is on an enemy then u slice 38.103.208.51 20:23, Febru(UTC)john bier I noticed the symbols too. 36 Inconsistency with how Zer0 is drawnĮven though it looks as though he only has four digits per hand, I'm still excited about this one.25 Remember that glitch I discovered about Lilith's Phasewalk.?.18 Zer0 is some kind of infiltrator from Mass Effect?. ![]()
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To make planks you activate your saw (starting to see the logic yet?) and right click on your log, choose "create" and then "weapons" and "plank" in the sub-menu of create (plank being in the sub-menu of weapons). Planking is just as simple as any other action in Wurm, which is lucky since you will need a lot of planks to build your house, 20 for every wall actually. Right click on the felled tree while you have your axe activated and select "chop up", now pick up the log and we will go on to planking and creating the mallet. Next you will need to chop up your felled tree in smaller pieces and thus create logs. Once it does fall you will see a felled tree on the ground (or just a log if the weight of the tree was below or exactly 24kg). You will need to do this multiple times before the tree is felled. When you have found a tree that you are happy with, simply right click it while your axe is activated and choose "cut down". It's a good idea to right click the tree and "examine" it before you decide to chop it down, as only very old trees will provide a good amount of lumber. See also digging.įor the planks and mallet you'll need to get some lumber - this is easy - activate your axe and go to the nearest tree. If you do not have enough skill to flatten the exact spot you can dig dirt from nearby and drop it on the tiles to bring it closer to level. Note that flattening affects the eight tiles around the tile you flatten. Select flatten and you will do just that. This should display a menu with a Flatten option. In order to flatten the ground, "activate" your shovel by double clicking on it, then right click on the ground where you want the house. Before you plan your house the ground needs to be relatively flat. It is always best to seek permission, and if declined, do not worry, there are more places to settle.Īfter you find a suitable location you normally need to prepare the area. Doing so can cause conflict and even hostility from a large group of players. A good relationship with your neighbours improves everyone's experience in Wurm, and helps avoid misunderstandings.įor towns, however, it is considered to be rude to build with 50 to 100 tiles of the town if you do not have the permission of said town. Normally, an established player will ask you to not build close, and may guide you to a location that is just as nice or better nearby. While the established player does not own anything outside their deeded area, building on someone's doorstep is considered very rude. If you do find some sign of a settlement it is considered proper etiquette to contact the owner before beginning construction. If no one is around, try to check around at least 30 tiles in every direction for existing houses and settlements. Now that you have wandered around a little, if you believe you have found "The Spot" take a moment to check your local chat for other people. Bear in mind that you will want some basic resources nearby such as water, trees, and exposed rock for making a mine tunnel. When you think you are ready to make your first house, the first thing you are going to need is a suitable place to do so. If you are in a village, you may be able to persuade someone with high carpentry skill to plan your house and then hand over the writ. (4 floor tiles) + (8 wall sections) = carpentry skill of 12Helpful tools can be found in the External Tools section towards the bottom of this page. ![]() (total number of floor tiles) + (total number of wall sections) = carpentry skill requiredSo for a 2x2 house you would need: To find the amount of skill you need to build a certain house add the total number of floor tiles and the total number of walls. The largest house you can build is determined by how much Carpentry skill you have. A mallet or an iron hammer (Higher Quality = faster build).This guide should provide the information you need to construct a house. The answer is quite long, so a guide has been set up to help new players, which is here. One of the first questions asked in the kingdom chat is "How can I build a house?". 14 Managing your Writ and Securing your Home. ![]() 8/3/2023 0 Comments Zbrush 2020![]() Subsequent chapters offer in-depth lessons that cover virtually all aspects of the software, enabling the artist to create characters, creatures and props be them organic or hard-surface. Madeleine begins by sculpting a character bust from a sphere while teaching core ZBrush concepts such as dynamesh, subdivision levels, the ZBrush interface, and navigation. With 54 chapters and over twenty hours of lecture, the series begins with a Quickstart tutorial for those entirely new to ZBrush. Boris FX Sapphire Plug-ins 2023.Welcome to Introduction to ZBrush 2020 presented by Madeleine Spencer, the most comprehensive video training series available for Pixologic ZBrush.BigMediumSmall – Modelshop Greebles Collection Bundle.Importing to zbrush and sculpting details How to use a tested and simple texturing workflow And who are interested in taking their character design to the next level! We recommend that you know how to use both Substance Painter, Maya and zbrush, as we’re focusing on texturing and shading workflows, instead of going through features A-Z. This is a fast and industry-proven way of working, giving you a solid framework for all your future characters.Ĭharacter Face creation is perfect for 3D artists with an intermediate understanding of zbrush, Maya, and Substance. You’ll learn a professsional way of sculpting likeness,exporting maps in zbrush, texturing in substance painter, working with xgen in creating hair and look develop for skin and hair in arnold, covering both texturing in Painter as well as skin shading in Arnold. Professional and Tested Texturing Workflow We’re also using the FlippedNormals Eye kit, to make the character feel truly alive. With a first pass of the skin shading done, this is the step where the character is coming together. Skin shading can be an incredibly complicated process, so we’ll be sure to make it simple and easy to understand. ![]() Having done the first pass on all the base maps, we’re bringing the textures into Arnold, where we’ll set up the skin shader. ![]() ![]() You’ll also understand how to create simple and powerful roughness maps to make your characters pop. Once our skin details are done, we’re starting on the color map using fill layers, creating the color map one layer at a time. From there we’ll give the character skin details using tileable maps in combination texturingxyz maps, you’ll learn powerful techniques using Smart Masks to significantly speed up texturing. Then prepping our model in maya and importing it zbrush, covering all specific steps and settings. We’re starting talking about how to align reference in photoshop It’ll allow us to talk about topics such as facial anatomy, micro detailing, garment retopology, and how to solve common texturing challenges you’ll encounter in your work. We’ll be focusing on the face and clothing of the character but particularly the face since it’s commonly the most complicated and important part. By the end of this course, you’ll be able create your own characters vfx/game character from reference to finished 3d model, using simple and powerful techniques. In this realistic female face, you’ll learn how to turn a base mesh into a realistic face in maya! 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AuctionSieve feedback: of 2 1, 2: Author nev Prolific Collector Acaeum Donor Posts: 427 Joined: Last Visit: Location: Sydney, Australia Posted: Tue 7:13 am. Sieves and settings now stored in your user folder!When you next start up, all your info will be copied to your user folderIf you want your sieves to remain in the program folder, look in Tools->Options->Advanced - handy for those who want to run AuctionSieve from a USB thumb-drive.Title sorting now ignores the word 'The' at the start of titles(you can turn it off in options to go back to the old behaviour)Thanks to Bonnie SmithFix for eBay changes - thanks to Larry Keatts!EBay category chooser temporarily disabled - you can still manually enter idsMinor fix for auto-get sieves - Thanks to John Kolesar! Changes AuctionSieve is an application that allows users to quickly browse eBay for specific items and cheap deals, with options to refine a search and customize it for specific browsing. It's amazing how much you'll find AuctionSieve makes sorting through eBay results easier and it should help you land your favorite items far more easily. The interface is very basic but it works logically and is easy to use. Especially designed for collectors, the quick, easy to use interface helps you exclude the stuff you're not interested in and target items of real value. Whereas eBay will reload each page per search you make, AuctionSieve doesn't meaning you get quicker results which is essential if you're bidding. AuctionSieve helps you rapidly filter eBay search results. You can even have JustDeals automatically place a bid for you.The great thing about AuctionSieve is that results are returned much quicker than using the eBay site. A text message can be sent to your cellular phone, so you'll know about new auctions no matter where you are. eBay auction search software tool AuctionSieve eBay auction search software tool AuctionSieve. You can have an email sent to yourself, so you'll be alerted even if you're using the internet somewhere else. ![]() A Desktop Alert can be used, which a small transparent window in the corner of the screen that briefly appears over the top whatever application you're currently in, for minimum distraction. JustDeals searches for all your keywords at the interval you select, and once it finds something relevant it can contact you in different ways. A powerful tab-system lets you easily organize similar keywords into the same group. You can't even do a specific category search on eBay's advanced search page. You can create very detailed searches using criteria such as boolean statements, price range, and specific category search. It will automatically search eBay for only buy-it-now auctions. Ever browse through eBay and find that perfect buy-it-auction at dirt cheap price, only to see that someone has already snapped it up? If so this is the tool for you. AuctionSieve provides a convenient way to find bargains on eBay faster, than using the regular web interface. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hands-down, the control I had with sharpness and noise were far superior in Exposure. I tested the image in Lightroom and Photoshop, trying my best to be faithful to the enhancement in those apps, as well as in Exposure as the third app. With a large softboxlighting them, the image was very contrasty. I recently photographed a wedding where the couple was on a rooftop at night with the city in the background. With an adjustment layer activated, I have the ability to increase or decrease the intensity of the adjustment as well as add to it or remove part of the adjustments, allowing fine control over my enhancing. The fact I can I can make these adjustments on separate non-destructive layers in Exposure is a huge help. With some of my images, there can be many adjustments to balance light, color and detail. Being able to do this in Exposure is extremely useful. I re-name them after the location or shoot, as this gives me a memory-based idea of the shoot and look of the preset rather than the name of a film simulation upon which I based the custom preset. ![]() I routinely add custom presets to my own user preset library. This is a huge deal and one that has pulled me closer to using Exposure as my RAF processor of choice. Exposure has added superb Fujifilm simulations into their library of presets. Assigning keywords also helps when I need to return to the session after I have finished.įujifilm’s film simulations are one of the reasons I love the Fujifilm X-System. When I shoot a large job with several hundred images, this ranking system really speeds up my workflow. ![]() I rarely go beyond the first three stars, but it is nice to know I can. By using the numeral keys, I can rapidly rank my images from 1-5 stars, which makes culling images fast and easy. It is neat and tidy to be able to open these RAF files and have them stay where they belong – less chance of things going missing.Īt the front-end of Exposure X3 is a file management system that makes my life easier by assigning a ranking for my files. I also have a folder for all the finished processed images. For every job I shoot, I have a folder for RAF images and one for the selected RAF files on which I will work. I have used a few different RAF converters and when I began using Exposure, it was comforting to feel like I was already familiar with it just by the look and feel of the user interface.Ī game-changer for me is the fact that I can open my RAF files directly in Exposure X3 from the folder where they are located. I had been familiar with Alien Skin’s film emulations and used them in the past as a plug-in with Photoshop, but now it seems Exposure X3 is poised to change my work flow again! If you have used Lightroom in the past, getting used to Exposure X3 is easy as the user interface is very similar. This workflow was effective for me when I was only editing a few images that I knew I would be printing large, or on images that were truly special to get the full editing treatment. However, this workflow was unsustainable when it came to any kind of volume which I am often doing after weddings, events, or for other high-volume client work. I had hit upon a great, albeit, laborious workflow that went something like this: 1) Iridient Developer to set tonal range and sharpening, 2) Lightroom forcoloring and tone, 3) Photoshop for any alterations/fixes, and finally, 4) Alien Skin Exposure X3 for the final color grading using some of my favorite presets. This was one of the reasons I began looking around for an alternate method of processing and enhancing my RAF files. The sharpening of the Fuji X-Trans raw images lacked detail and accuracy. It was a good solution for my needs and did all that I needed it to with one exception. SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro9 Ver.9.0.12 added Fujifilm GFX100 support.If, like me, you are always searching for that perfect RAF editing solution, you have probably tried Adobe Lightroom. This new update can be downloaded from the Iridient web site here.
8/2/2023 0 Comments Ngu industries early access![]() ![]() The fact that it was a browser-based game was a huge part of this, that low barrier to entry combined with RuneScape's branching depth and complexity were what kept me coming back to it for a long time - which is something I wanted to replicate with Melvor Idle." "Like most people, I started playing RuneScape because most of my friends at the time were playing it. "RuneScape became such a foundational touchstone for the game because it was such a foundational game for me," he explains. ![]() While he took inspiration from other MMOs, the structure of RuneScape was one he followed particularly closely, building out the world of Melvor Idle as a parallel universe to the 20-year-old RPG. Plus it meshes very well with design elements common in most idle games." As it's often so central to what the longest term players focus on, it made sense to adopt this as a core part of Melvor's game design. He adds: "While the numbers and stats stuff isn't what all players enjoy the most about MMOs, it is what the hardcore fanbase tend to gravitate towards once the exploration is done. After toying with the idea for a while behind closed doors, I started meshing ideas and mechanics from classic MMOs with the popular idle game formula, creating something that could be enjoyed casually, on the go, and fit it into a player's busy lifestyle." "I was trying to make something outside of the established idle game mould, something that was feature-rich, and gave players some real choice in how they wanted to progress, rather than just increase numbers on a constant treadmill. "So, I decided to challenge myself to create my own, never really imagining it would end up being released, let alone become so popular," he tells. While he enjoyed them, he felt the genre could be doing something more that would be satisfying in a similar way to Jagex's flagship RPG. Malcolm has been playing RuneScape since his youth, and has also dabbled in many of the leading idle games, such as Clicker Heroes, Cookie Clicker and NGU Idle. Activating combat encounters and winning earns XP and loot that can then be invested into whichever skill tree or upgrades players choose, while repeating activities such as crafting or woodcutting yields their own benefits. Melvor Idle strips away the graphics and 3D environments of RuneScape and similar MMOs and distills it down to a menu-based idle game, where players manage their skills, inventory and quests. This, however, was the case for Brendan Malcolm, the one-man team at Australian developer Games By Malcs, whose idle RPG Melvor Idle is being published by Jagex, the creator of RuneScape - a title that was core to Malcolm's motivation behind his own project. But it's rare to have a derivative work picked up by the company behind the original title. ![]() Many a video game has inspired an aspiring developer to make their own. ![]() 8/2/2023 0 Comments Hologram microcosm review![]() ![]() As you layer more delay lines on top of each other, and the more they repeat, they create new and increasingly complex rhythms until you reach complete chaos. While Repeats controls the number of times each tap sounds. Turning up the Activity increases the number of “taps” or delay lines. A simple example of this would be in the Pattern effect which is a rhythmic multitap delay. They’re also highly interactive - meaning changes you make to Activity can impact the way the Repeats control behaves. In short, they’re macro controls that aren’t mapped to one specific parameter and instead control a host of things depending on which effect you’ve chosen. “In general, Activity gives you ‘more’ or ‘less’ of what each preset does, and Repeats controls how long the effect goes on for.” The manual breaks it down pretty well, though: (The secondary controls in light gray are accessed by holding down the shift button.) I say relatively because, while it’s fairly obvious what “mix” does, the “Activity” and “Repeats” controls are a little vague. The eight knobs to the left all have relatively clear primary and shift functions. Those lights also show value levels, the direction of audio playback and are how you navigate the global menu. Each effect lights up as it’s selected and the four lights above the middle footswitch (which turns the pedal on and off) indicate which particular preset of that effect you have selected. The lone encoder on the right navigates through the various presets. There are a number of buttons, lights and knobs on the front that might seem a bit intimidating at first, but it’s easy to figure things out once you get going. (This turned out to be a real godsend since my cheapo pedalboard power supply introduced a lot of noise.) On the plus side, Hologram Electronics includes a power adapter in the box, which almost no pedal manufacturers do anymore. This is fairly uncommon on synths and other guitar pedals and means you might need a TRS to dual TS cable to hook up your gear. My one complaint here is that the stereo input is a single TRS jack as opposed to separate right and left ones. Around the back, you’ll find the requisite audio ins and outs, along with 5-pin MIDI In and Out/Thru, and an expression pedal jack. ![]() 8/2/2023 0 Comments Boxcryptor vs truecrypt![]() ![]() Technical understanding of regulatory, legal and compliance requirements. Increasing rapidly the last few years and will continue to do so for some years.Ĥ. This means increasing knowledge requirements on the technical security side to effectively manage related staff and vendors balanced with sufficient knowledge on the commercial side to collaboratively determine an appropriate commercial balance. They will need the business acumen to strike a competitive commercial balance between flexibility and cost versus risk. ![]() Due to technical complexity, the technical leader will have to increasingly expand their knowledge of cybersecurity. Technical understanding of data security. No change other than non-tech leaders are becoming more knowledgable about tech resulting in increasing communications fidelity of tech concerns in the future.ģ. Similarly tech leaders need to be business savvy and communicate effectively by translating technology concerns to and from business ones. This is no different than the HR or Finance leaders, each experts in their area servicing the needs of business line owners. ![]() They fulfil P&L owner aspirations and create highly functional fulfilment envelopes around product and service owners. They are at the leadership table to be the experts on how technology can delight customers and enable and grow the business. Technology leaders aren't business leaders, P&L owners or product managers, otherwise they would be in one of those roles. General technical skills vs other business skills. Separation of innovation vs non-innovation business types and resulting change of roles underway now and continuing for the next few years.Ģ. Technology innovation leaders will need to know how to speed up rate of change, decrease the costs resulting from rapidly changing requirements and how to scale. In companies where technology is developed in a unique way to compete and create value, the role should stay at an executive level and require more innovation and advanced business skills. For companies where technology doesn't enable them to differentiate or compete in the marketplace (that is, no technology development just technology enablement), the technology role will be less critical and demoted to a lower position in the organisation and led by a more operational tech leader. I found the article more focused on taking a guess at changing technologies more than changing roles so I decided to take a crack at how I see the role and related skills changing (or staying the same) over the next 5 or so years for technology leaders (CIOs, CTOs, et al):ġ. Infoworld has recently taken a view at How will the CIO's role change by 2020 which was followed up with discussion on linkedin. I won't say much about this other than it became harder using Truecrypt. When I switched to TrueCrypt, I was limited to PC, Linux and Mac only (and one at a time at that), no mobile/tablet access. I could access my Dropbox files from OS X, MS-Win, iOS, Android and Linux. One thing Dropbox did well was to have clients available on all major platforms. One quickly learns to only open the Truecrypt volume on one machine at a time. If you mount your Truecrypt filesystem from two or more machines and make even vaguely concurrent changes (within a sync activity for example), you end up with two conflicted Truecrypt files. While Dropbox is efficient at syncing big files at a block level, it doesn't cope well with changes to that file happening roughly concurrently from two or more locations. Truecrypt stores its filesystem in a single file. While I felt a 1000x better about my security situation, I also lost a lot of the convenience of Dropbox by moving to Truecrypt: Truecrypt felt good as it was opensource, free, stable, secure, and reasonably usable on OS X and MS-Win. When Dropbox had various security issues last year ( the no passwords required for some hours was the kick I needed to sort my security out), I started using Truecrypt to contain all sensitive material I was keeping in Dropbox. (If you want to skip the below and just get the recommended answer, go buy Boxcryptor and 1Password on all your platforms. ![]() |
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