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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Cats (the plugin used to properly import a VRM model) has an error when trying to 'fix' the model …
What a can of worms. There seem to be several issues with allowing automatic sheet generation.
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 …
After being on the M3 discord for a bit, I saw an article on converting 3D models to spritesheets. It's a long involved process, involving multiple step.
Amazingly enough, I do something similar with both my work on CookieCreate and at ThirdAct. So, I'm hoping that I can come up …
Or, at least the word. I see a lot of hatred for money in some of the anticapitalist circles I watch. Claims of "everything being about money", or "companies would rather see you die if you can't pay them", or varients like so.
And, I can't say …
I've been thinking about old style guilds lately, and they used to dominate production and manufacturing in the past.
Of course they would do that through extreme protection of their intellectual property. And now, hundreds of years later, they have methods and techniques lost to …
My goal is an end to worldwide shipping of items, and Renaissance of local manufacturing. The ability to buy or create a digital design, and walk down to your local manufactorium to pick it up next day.
Complete customization, complete control over all aspects of …