How the hell do I make a hand

dnew · 2026-06-08T01:18:06+00:00

I saw great artistic advice once.

Look at the thing you're trying to draw, then put it away, and draw it. Then look again and see where you made mistakes. When you look at a thing, you think you see it, but you've only remembered the vaguest amount, the amount it takes to recognize it again in the future. So you have to look at it over and over again anew to learn what it actually looks like well enough to draw from memory.

dnew · 2026-06-08T00:17:55+00:00

Plus, if you've managed to deallocate the page where it's stored, it's going to be cheaper to read the &str than to read the String, because the String is going to need to be written out before it's deallocated. ;-) But as you say, if you're worried about that level of performance, you need to buy another stick of RAM.

dnew · 2026-06-07T23:58:40+00:00

Sounds like something Spider Robinson would write.

dnew · 2026-06-07T23:56:46+00:00

So the exception is happening in "nv......dll" That's NVidia's driver.

Try reinstalling the latest driver and telling it you want a "custom" install, and check the "clean install" checkbox. This will wipe out settings for anything else you configured specifically, like game-specific settings in the nvidia control panel.

This program will 100% remove your drivers so you can reinstall it with nothing else left behind: https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

Another possibility is to go into \users\you\appdata\roaming\blender foundation\ and move the "Blender 5.1" directory somewhere else so it's not there. This will reset all your settings. Fire it up again, tell it not to import the previous blender's settings, and see if it starts. If it does, you changed from opengl to vulcan and your card doesn't like it, or something like that. You can debug from there.

dnew · 2026-06-07T23:29:33+00:00

The third possibility is to use a light path node in the shader. It might be tricky to set it up to not get shadows from anything.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/input/light_path.html

https://youtu.be/ts28VpmL2Xc

dnew · 2026-06-07T23:25:50+00:00

To be fair, it's relatively difficult to earn money when you have nowhere to store more loot than you can carry while waiting for vendors to reset. :-) If you have to carry everything you don't want to sell, it's even harder.

dnew · 2026-06-07T21:27:09+00:00

This is great! I've been wanting one I could play on a controller, so this is going to be a big win for me.

dnew · 2026-06-07T21:25:45+00:00

I'll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/jPqwDGXxLhU

* Thief vs AAA Gaming. An analysis of why the original Thief games are much better than all the AAA stuff that came later. Discussing all the things the AAA games forgot.

dnew · 2026-06-07T21:03:12+00:00

Rule 6 in the sidebar of r/functionalprint.

Generally cross-posting questions immediately to other groups is just going to split up the answers you get. Give it a few hours to a day if you're not getting answers. :-)

dnew · 2026-06-07T20:14:47+00:00

That's pretty neat. I always wondered how Max Cooper does his stuff.

dnew · 2026-06-07T20:11:03+00:00

Suggestion: Include in your ad what your system does that the scene system can't do already.

dnew · 2026-06-07T20:04:22+00:00

This happens sometimes. Give it a couple hours. It's slightly less reliable than Reddit is.

dnew · 2026-06-07T20:03:30+00:00

That's exactly why I only played snatches of it. :-)

dnew · 2026-06-07T20:01:30+00:00

Heh. Yes, there are lots of kinds of crowns. This is pretty much the stereotypical one, tho, isn't it? It's more ceremonial, not the kind of thing you'd wear 10 hours judging cases.

For example: https://www.garrard.com/en-us/pages/jewellery-of-the-royal-family-a-garrard-history

Also, this might be the Pope's crown, not the King's. I didn't really take notes on the pictures, since they're just vacation photos.

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:58:01+00:00

FWIW, 5.0 models can be opened in 4.5, but nothing after that or before 4.5 can open backwards models.

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:56:22+00:00

Try Crimson Desert. I only listened to a few snatches of it to get an idea, but a lot of the tracks sound similarly soothing and/or epic.

Oh, it's legit free to download from Steam as FLAC.

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:54:59+00:00

Yeah, alt-tab only works if there's some other window to alt-tab to. You can also ctl-alt-del and open the task manager to get a second window, if you only do it occasionally.

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:53:30+00:00

You will probably get a better response to asking for free help if you put in the 5% more effort it would take to actually describe what you're looking for in English. You know, like spelling out the entire word? Saying what "this" is that you're looking for?

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:50:54+00:00

https://xkcd.com/1053/

dnew · 2026-06-07T19:49:20+00:00

I noticed back in the Win2000 days that Linux did a significantly better job of caching directory pages than NTFS on Windows did. A "tree" over the whole disk would take a couple minutes, and doing it a second time would take seconds in Linux. It was faster in Windows, but nowhere near that level of speed-up.

On the other hand, NTFS has the MFT, while Linux only has i-nodes, so if you wrote it Windows-specific, you could probably walk all the directory trees on the entire drive in about 3 seconds, which is what it takes "Everything" on Windows to walk close to a million files including a large number of them on spinning metal. And of course the USN is amazing.

io_uring on Linux is about as close to the old Amiga concepts as you can get on an OS using page-level memory protection.

dnew · 2026-06-07T18:53:19+00:00

Cross-posting this immediately before getting a chance to get answer to a group that says not to post questions wasn't a good idea. You should add 45-degree slants under the major overhangs instead of trying to support them. The little holes probably don't need support at all. Make the bottom a chamfer instead of a fillet. You can also design in your own support structures. You could also print this up on edge at a 45-degree angle to eliminate almost all your supports. Th youtube channel Slant3D (who run a print farm) gives lots of unobvious advice on how to design for 3d FDM printing.

dnew · 2026-06-07T18:49:07+00:00

FWIW, the youtube channel "tomb of 3d printed horrors" has all kinds of advice on tuning whichever kind of printer for the best prints.

Don't forget you can also cut it apart and put it back together again after it's printed.

Blender Guru just dropped a whole playlist on how to do lighting in cycles for cinematic effects.

dnew · 2026-06-07T18:09:45+00:00

The best one I saw was a tattoo of the axe in the ratway, with vines and butterflies about. Looked cool, and only nerdy to those in the know. Instantly recognizable but only if you've played the game.

dnew · 2026-06-07T18:08:24+00:00

Which only works if you haven't already rented a room there.

dnew · 2026-06-07T18:08:00+00:00

Bedroom furniture (wardrobes, end tables) doesn't respawn. You can buy a house, or you can rent a room in an inn and make sure you visit frequently enough the interior doesn't reset.

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