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.
MonkeMischief
joined 2 years ago
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.
Sorry it sounds like you've had some bad experiences, but let's try not to fall into that trap.
Any field with any kind of specialization in our "competitive market culture" seems to go this way. People hone their skills, learn more, and yet they need to constantly find reasons to justify their existence and skillset in a world trying to replace them at every turn, so things get toxic and everybody's got a "one true way" because everyone sees each other as competition. It's an adversarial system top to bottom.
For honest working people no field is "the right field" right now because we're sandwiched between techbro grifters and idiot despots who are both committed to ruining everybody's job prospects.
Everybody's on edge, everybody's pissed, everyone has to show off "I know what I'm doing more than these people" so they can keep the lights on. I do wish that culture would stop sabotaging itself with toxicity, but that's another matter.
We shouldn't discourage people from pursuing something that fascinates them, unless maybe they indicated "I only took compsci because I heard the money was good and the people are cool." . . .which, in the right environment isn't even untrue, necessarily.
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.)
Journalism has taken such a huge hit in recent history, to readership, to credibility. It seems a lot of our exposure is to obvious slant, disguised ads, corporate propaganda, celebrity rags...
But there are still heroic and dedicated journalists out there like Daphne Caruana Galizia, who risk and sometimes give their lives so that evil, powerful people can't hide their sins in the shadows forever.
The rich and powerful wage a daily war on people like you and me. They rob and murder us in secrecy with systems, spreadsheets, and handshakes.
That they will go this far proves they are terrified of the truth and those who deal in it. Let them have no dark corners left to flee to.
May we never forget heroes like Daphne, who risk everything to drag these monsters out into the sunlight for all to see them for the abominations they truly are.
May she rest in glorious eternal grace, and may her killers bear the fullest weight of all their sins against humanity.