Timchi Thoughts

Articles in the Blog category

Missed a day.

Of course, I go to all that trouble of making a nice script to create blog posts, and immediately miss the next day. I was busy though. I've been putting all of the products into a Nocodb (like an Airtable) so that way I'm able to easily upload products into …

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Writing a simple script to create blog posts

I've been trying to write more and more scripts to automate as much as possible. That is the point of technology after all, isn't it? Plus I'm lazy, and have a bad memory, so I always forget what the YAML frontmatter is supposed to look like. And then I have …

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Movie Review - Casino Royale

I haven't watch many Bond movies, but I decided I wanted to watch the Daniel Craig series. I liked the movie, and it maintained a good pace. The first half hour flew on by. My main gripe is the love story just seemed to come out of nowhere. Yes, they …

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Human travel speeds

Random quick thought, but in the book Where is my flying car the author mentions how average travel speed has plateaued out. And also mentions the benefits of personal travel. But how much faster can an unaided person really travel? I don't expect or want someone driving more than 75 …

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A post every day.

In the spirit of Terence Eden, I'm going to attempt to write a post every day, even if it's small, or meaningless. I need to work harder to increase my output.

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Quote on Nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon

Humans are a part of the natural world, and just because we are good at manipulating our world, doesn't make us any less a part of nature. However, nature still rules. Rocks still hurt, the sun is still hot, water is …

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Rough Draft of Retargeting Animations

Output that's buggy

Some examples, using a standard prebuilt animation, and an attempted transferance of the animation to a vrm file.

Pre animated

Pre-animated

Transfered, but buggy, animation

Transfered, but buggy, animation

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Retargeting with Blender and Rokoko

Blender and Rokoko

Apparently Rokoko comes out with a blender plugin that will allow you to retarget animations. Plus it's LGPL as well, which is very helpful in building a fully open source pipeline. Main inspiration comes from this video. Hopefully I'll have a working example done soon.

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Going from premade to sprite sheet.

Skipping a step

Here we will make a spritesheet off a premade walking character. We'll be starting off with this tutorial to import a vrm file into blender.

The first roadblock.

Cats (the plugin used to properly import a VRM model) has an error when trying to 'fix' the model …

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Blender Sprites, methods and approaches.

Automatic conversion of VRM files to 2D sprites.

What a can of worms. There seem to be several issues with allowing automatic sheet generation.

Issue One

VRM files that come directly out of VRoid Studio don't have any animations. Thus we need some sort of animations to apply to a …

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