In situation which I have to get someone up to speed on the code base, learn new language or framework, No. I don’t want them or myself on the receiving end of “trained him wrong, as a joke”. Not out of principle but practicality, hallucination will cost me time, time I can use to actually read the docs, or find expert and consult them.

But if you want to build something only for yourself, run a model locally and go ham. I’m not a purist.

I like this style of shorts only because they look super comfy. Would wear if I’m not some kind of basement goblin.

I am quite positive that it is AI gen.

• RGB light (can be edit in)
• RAM stick contact pins look too dense to be real
• Thin CPU fan with big hub pointing down while cooler fin lay horizontal
• Weirdly large distance between CPU and RAM socket

We have “Schadenfreude”. We’re gonna need a word for physical pain caused by witnessing such stupidity.

Bro be using emperor Thompson-Ritchie era while we plebs use ISO 8601 💀

For anyone using MPV (assuming you do not have any other dynamic range compression already)
add this line to input.conf
Ctrl+= af toggle "lavfi=[loudnorm=i=-22:lra=4]" ; show-text "${af}"

This bind Ctrl+= to toggle loudnorm filter

You can set it as aggressive as you like

I’m so sick and tired of these “people” coming up with solution looking for a problem.

A cooling jacket is neat, but it’s not a new idea. Seeing behind my back is also nice but… idk, can’t you just strap LIDAR to a hard hat or something if you really need an alert? Don’t factories have curved mirrors installed just for this?

The rest of the examples in the article seems useless to be honest. I don’t even know why they have to include bulletproof clothes using kevlar like some novel concept.

I want a simple baseball cap or face mask that defeats facial recognition tech. Not shoes that tell me I walk wrong.

I will have to watch all of Non Non Biyori (and ARIA) again once I clear out the backlog. I need them now much more than when I first seen them.

Watched it on crappy player last time, randomly stutter and breaks subtitle. I was too dumb to setup MPV properly back then.

A bit late for that isn’t it? Like 3 years late.

This is not my area of expertise so I can’t be of much help.

Similar discussion on reddit

Because they’re tangent space normals, and where there are seams, tangent space changes sharply. It is not that the normals (world space or object space) are discontinuous; it is that the tangent space is discontinuous, and so the tangent space normals are discontinuous, even though the world space normals are not. (Tangent space is a space where the +Z vector points in the direction of the sampled normal and the +X vector points in the direction of increasing U, from your UV map. The normal map color is a remapped vector intended to be interpreted in this tangent space. The direction of increasing U changes sharply across seams. Which is okay.)

Seems different on this case where normal map is continuous but tangent normal is not. I guess you can unwrap the ring in one piece to have only one seam and hide it somehow.

People can help figuring out quicker if you share blend file. Remove anything that is unrelated or not sharable, purge unused data blocks, pack resources, upload somewhere.

CD and CRT? That thing should be running… not discord
My dear early 2000

It’s reusing very few nodes for many connections, no node group nesting so it looks messy. Unless it is modular and I can reuse it in other scenario, no point in spending more time on it just to make it look better or save few milliseconds per run.

Didn’t scroll far enough to see third panel. I’d say it is funny enough even without third panel.

Poor Yunyun. (｡•́︿•̀｡)

If you definitely need it to be bitmap texture…

A. Boolean
Make a shallow hole punch and boolean. Then bake the hole, or not. You can set material of the hole in boolean modifier.

B. Knife project
Make a shape of the hole then project onto the spear. Then extrude in to make shallow hole.

Finally you can bevel the hole to make it not look like a cheap CNC cut and bake the hole onto the non-hole version of the spear or keep the boolean mesh as is.

With this level of detail, I’d just use vertex paint or multiple materials on different faces. It’s cheap, it’s fast, no unwrapping.

edit:
Forgot to mention that if you planned to keep sub-d in final, you need pay attention to unwrapping strategy as it can shift seams and distort the texture at different sub-d level.

Discussion on Blender Artists forum. If you want extra cortisol today.

edit:
My prediction… their 2026 financial report gonna see a huge drop for small donation from individuals.

Major titles from Cygames and Mihoyo?

• Granblue Fantasy
• Arknights (Hypergryph)
• Blue Archive (Nexon)
• BanG Dream! (Bushiroad)
• Genshin Impact
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Zenless Zone Zero

And to lesser degree, Princess Connect!

I see a pattern here…
sigh, it’s all gacha games with a lot of waifu material

Gotta have everything for everyone to succeed I guess.

Non games (honestly I don’t see fanart of these as often compare to gacha games)

• Re:Zero
• SAO

It feels to me like Gentlemen’s agreement. If a franchise have any guidelines for derivative works, it always include things like no NSFW, no crimey things, etc. Didn’t stop people from making rule 34 art. Let alone tons of NSFW AI slop.

Can I read up about that anywhere?

In case you’re curious, franchise official website should have it (if they have any guidelines at all)
Should find it following links like “二次創作” and “ガイドライン”

not allow you access to updates on addons, materials, tutorials, etc. a year after you bought them

Oh dang. Totally missed the news as I don’t follow community side of blender very closely compare to developer side.

Usually run blender very lean, no addons unless absolutely necessary, almost exclusively from official extension platform. So, near zero reasons for me to ever visit marketplace.

Almost hundred addons here, haven’t tried any of them so I can’t give recommendation.
https://superhivemarket.com/search?search[q]=hair&search[category_id]=6

Don’t know what kind of look you are going for.

The $0 way, sculpt separated blobs of hair and retopo?

For animation, Mikassa is made that way. May be same for Storm too, not really sure.

If not animation heavy then either curve -> convert to mesh -> sculpt. Or hi-poly sculpt then just remesh.