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I’m still grinding through all the side quest. If I don’t already know about those “things”, I would not want the concept spoiled to me. Try it.
The game introduces the “crater” part within first hour and drip feed more explanation later. Some complaints about too many interaction cutscenes.
Having a blast in Rio Carnival does not mean I have to be Brazilian, no? I am supporting local industry XD
Just started going through first few from 2026 Q1
My most satisfying watch recently is Azur Lane Slow Ahead (2021). A surprise discovery started from listening to random Kano’s songs, one of them is 光の道標. Thinking it is nice and I should try watching the series. The main series is not so good.
Laffey voiced by Naganawa Maria (Kanna Kamui) is cute, Akashi is funny, and pretty much nothing else.
Slow Ahead is what should be the only adaptation IMO. Much more enjoyable, even if all fan-service parts removed. I’m saving season 2 (2026) for later.
Now for another entry in song-to-anime pipeline, Cardcaptor Sakura.
I was browsing through Sakamoto Maaya’s songs. Fire Hunter’s ED led me there. Spotted プラチナ, first time hearing it as Miku cover looooong ago. Vaguely remember it’s from Sakura and that I never watch it in full. So, here I am looking for a recommendation.
The only positive thing I find in Oregairu is ED, Hello Alone Yui ballad version. That’s it.
How nice it would be to have the story completely erased from my memory…
Haruno: *being helicopter sibling* You have to start deciding things for yourself.
Yukino: OK, I decided to go into politics.
Haruno: No, not like that!
I just can’t with these characters.
b- but thighs!
Still… if my life depend on it, I’d prefer someone who can explain why they choose what go on their kit and not just “tACtiCooL”
Not a real firearm, nor an AR-15…
But you can have a glimpse of the future, right now
This hurts my brain imagining how I would go about recreating something similar.
What I tried to convey is that…
duplicating nodes = more nodes, shorter noodles, fewer reroutes
reusing nodes = fewer nodes, longer noodles, more reroutes
and I try to find a good middle point where it is not confusing mess XD.
I think it always do this unless all selected faces and the mesh share same boundary. Blender manual says nothing specific about this.
If you want to keep original face, use extrude edge with Ctrl + E
YES! readable tree is overrated! jk
I try to reuse same input node as many places as I can but this is too much.
No sim, no closure, big spaghetti. What the heck is this thing doing though?
Issue #164191 | Conference talk
From what I gather, the direction is cross-platform support for pen + touch style tablet devices and not just android. I think it’s a reasonable choice for first iteration if they have to pick one mobile OS with largest expected audience and donation gain.
Effort won’t be wasted… I hope.
Oh boy. Should we take someone who label themselves Fable Unofficial Fan Club (as in claude fable) seriously?
No. I think Flow is in theater on netflix globally in Feb 2025.
Ah, yes. The Konami’s treatment
Hope they assign someone extra to help review the submission. Not sure whether Nika is employed full-time at Blender. I believe he is doing all extension platform reviews, which is maybe too much work (and slop exposure) for single person.
For other like myself that don’t know how it works…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkIJbpdTujE
I was just kidding, unless…
Another easy way came to mind while I was out.
> Surface Deform or Mesh Deform modifier
I can’t think of a good analogy, probably like sticking stuffs to chicken wires in simple shape, then you bang those wires into more complex shape. Still kind of tedious because you have to make a patch of scales and the binding target.
Still, I don’t think this can beat tissue on speed or control and quality of geometry node or brush. But it is simple if you want to get it done rather than fumbling around with tissue addon.
The extra mesh addon is very helpful. It was updated sometime ago with triangle grid. You can use this with geometry node to place scales on each vertex that offset every other row so you don’t have to place it by hand. Then use modifier to bind it to “wires” so on and so forth.
After re re re read the post body, I decided to trim down to only viable solutions.
You are not making monster dildo, aren’t you? OP?
> Textured brush
There are two approaches if you for some reason want to manually place scales on the egg, one by one. You make alpha map or VDM of the scale and use that to stamp on to the egg. Alpha map is a grayscale map with value applying to strength of sculpt brush. VDM is similar but instead of only height in one direction (normal, the direction facing directly away from surface) you have 3D shape you can glue on with sculpt brush e.g. sticking a goat horn on a head. You get more detail this way.
pros:
relatively easy
intuitive
moderate control
decent result (with time spent)
cons:
requires bump map or VDM (paid/free download of maps exist)
super tedious if you have hundreds to stamp but can be speed up if you make a map containing multiple scales you can stamp at once
keywords:
sculpt VDM alpha map brush texture anchored stroke stencil
-- recommended for low density
> Geometry node
The toy of Blender freaks. Imagine using pure math or programming to decide how scales are placed. You do the hard part once and you can put any scale (not just scales) on any egg (not just eggs), ad infinitum. Once they are arranged neatly, or not, up to you, you can then merge (boolean) it to your base egg to make a watertight model you can print. Since printing will go through slicing step, topology can be absolute trash and they will probably print just fine. It offer most versatility. Unlimited shape variation, slight randomness, adjust size to be bigger / smaller in some area, overlapping, you name it (the same thing donut man did with sprinkles, but on steroid).
You can use UV map with this to give it 2D vector information to use in whatever logic you need. For example, the tangent information to differentiate which direction the scales point to on different area of the egg, however there are easier way to control that.
pros:
ultimate control
great result (with enough skill)
extremely reusable (with enough skill)
cons:
extreme learning curve
upfront time investment
keywords:
geometry node
-- recommended for lunatics
> Tissue addon
https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/tissue/
This is probably the middle point, output quality wise, between textured brush and geometry node. It reduce the tedious part of those methods. You won’t get the same amount of controls as Geometry node but it is waaaaaayyyyy faster than both. I think I have seen a more up to date fork of this addon, I might be wrong.
pros:
fast, very fast
easy
good amount of control
great result
cons:
some learning curve
keywords:
tissue addon
-- highly recommended
note:
https://projects.blender.org/extensions/mesh_tissue/pulls/4
Important Core rules of 3D print model still apply. If the method you choose creates loose meshes, you still have to make it print-ready.
I’m nearly finished everything I wanted to watch from 2025 Q4.
The only one left is Shuumatsu-Touring. The characters are nice but the plot so far (EP9) is not very engaging. I thought this will be the best so I saved it for last. Wrong move.
It seems that my strategy of watching 1 trailer each and bubble sort the whole season based on my predicted enjoyment, is not giving a good result.
Finished this week (kind of)
Second son. Do you want dog kibble?
For 2025 Q4, within the scope of what I watch, I can say without a doubt Campfire Cooking in Another World is the best. (I did not watch the horses)
edit:
forgot to mention Scarlet. I guess that’s how weak it is. Review on anilist already cover most of what I also think.
Made a big purchase of airsoft parts few months back. The parts arrived this week and to set the mood, I’m getting some cute girls with guns ready to binge. If anyone have more, please let me know.
What!? So this is how I find out the 4th one exist!?