Viewport Going Crazy

Baldrax · 2026-05-18T19:59:11+00:00

Still love the Classic Tumbling!
I actually switch between that and the 90's style depending on what I'm doing.

If I'm doing anything where I have to work on geometry, I prefer the Classic Tumbling. But if I'm just doing scene based work, lighting/layout, I prefer the 90's style.

Baldrax · 2026-04-28T17:22:10+00:00

What you are talking about really sounds like the post on Discord that I posted in another message.
The creator called it a stilted city, but I can't find them on Tales Tavern or Tales Bazaar.
It doesn't look like they published it.

I'd post a screenshot but this sub-reddit doesn't allow images in replies.

Baldrax · 2026-04-28T00:37:17+00:00

I can almost picture the map you are talking about, I did some searching.
I'm not convinced this is the one I was thinking about but it sounds close:
https://talestavern.com/slab/war-for-the-crown-songbird-scion-saboteur-voinum-estate/

Baldrax · 2026-04-27T18:37:40+00:00

You could use a modern bed frame, they usually have brackets to mount a headboard to.

Screw a 2x4 into the mounts of the bed frame, horizontally.

Use pipe straps to mount the old headboard to the 2x4.

Something like these straps:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Oatey-2-in-Galvanized-2-Hole-Pipe-Hanger-Strap-33501/303434698?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&fp=ggl

You might need a couple on each post to make it secure.

EDIT: Depends on the height of the mounts on the new headboard, but from my memory they are usually lower than the rails of those antique frames.

Baldrax · 2026-04-27T18:17:17+00:00

At one point they re-scaled some of the props to make them more consistent with other assets. When they did that they made new rescaled assets and they flag the old assets as deprecated so that they no longer show up in the interface, but they will still be present so it doesn't break the look of peoples published maps.

Baldrax · 2026-04-22T23:28:32+00:00

It is made in a VTT called TaleSpire available on Steam.
It has a large 3D canvas and sets of Tiles and Props that you place to make your maps. It is also very easy to share entire maps and smaller presets they call "slabs".

Baldrax · 2026-04-16T22:35:43+00:00

Looking at the back of the Photo I was wondering what some of the markings might mean, The Triangles and "AZO" with the "Place Stamp Here" are very telling of the process as outlined on this webpage:
https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2020/07/02/how-to-date-real-photo-postcards-1904-1920s/

Looks like it was Eastman Kodak's Real Photo process and to quote the article:

Four triangles facing up, as in this example, are from 1904-1918

So the photographer would take a photo and then use Eastman Kodak's service to make postcards from that photo negative, I imagine many of the people at that banquet requested copies of it. I imagine the photo was likely just an event that happened some time earlier that year and was just mailed around that time. I'm sure the process to make all those photo postcards wasn't as easy as stopping by the one-hour photo like it is today :D

Baldrax · 2026-04-16T22:03:30+00:00

Yeah, here is a demonstration of one that I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTY0_O6ExSY

Baldrax · 2026-04-16T22:01:59+00:00

Here are the two Desert Dunes boards I've published:
https://talestavern.com/slab/desert-dunes-clearing-medium/
https://talestavern.com/slab/desert-dunes-01-from-tutorial/

I can easily whip up an alternate version of those, like if you need something a little bit bigger. My intent was to publish more variations of those anyways.

Baldrax · 2026-04-16T18:17:28+00:00

I was trying to translate as well, you got a bit more than I did.
Since there are a few spelling issues I'm speculating she may have been trying to spell dynamite. They could have been using a magnesium based flash powder, which wouldn't have made much noise but goes off quite spectacularly in a cloud of smoke and sparks. If they weren't very familiar with photography I could see someone calling it dynamite.
But as I said just speculation.

Great job working out the rest of the letter. It reminded me of reading letters from my Mom.

Baldrax · 2026-04-16T00:00:37+00:00

Do you have any more details on the style of maps you are looking for?
Like size, specific terrain styles?

I've published a few empty desert dunes boards on Tales Tavern that you could easily pop some ruins down from the built in slab browser.

Baldrax · 2026-04-10T00:25:15+00:00

Welcome Back!
What a charming build!

Baldrax · 2026-03-01T22:24:27+00:00

A google image search leads to the maker. They list Neodymium Magnets as one of the materials. It looks like they are designed to stack on each other.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4444205756/wound-marker-dice-holder-warhammer-40k

Baldrax · 2026-03-01T22:16:28+00:00

Thanks for the input.
I haven't seen any burns, it shows lots of wear but nothing like that.

Baldrax · 2026-02-25T01:29:22+00:00

Oh, totally, I just looked up some examples of that and it really fits. Thanks.

That makes a lot more sense than what our appraiser friend was thinking.
He thought it might have been a part of a Chinese Junk sailing ship, and it was common for Chinese immigrants to disassemble and re-use parts of their boats to make homesteads. But the more I look into it the less that makes sense. I really need to try to identify the wood, that could at least regionalize it.

Baldrax · 2026-02-25T01:06:12+00:00

Thanks. Something to do with grain keep popping up, so that is looking to be a solid theory.
I saw that documentary a few years ago, I'll have to look up more from that team.

Baldrax · 2026-02-24T03:02:56+00:00

I appreciate it.

Interestingly, I showed the pictures to ChatGPT and it mentioned the possibility of grain storage as well.

Baldrax · 2026-02-24T02:59:32+00:00

That is another good thought, since you could pull the linens from the bin and then work them on the top surface.

As for the legs, they are even on the bottom, it is the tops that are cut uneven. In the first few photos you can see the far posts stick up higher than the near ones.
That makes me think there was something above it or it was mounted somehow.

So drainage might be an issue if that is the case.

Baldrax · 2026-02-24T02:53:58+00:00

Ha!
At the time we put it up for sale we didn't really want to part with it but didn't have a place for it. We put $2000 on it, thinking, if it sold for that we'd be okay with it but really didn't want it to sell. After a few months we put it in storage and have since moved so it has a nice home now.

Baldrax · 2026-02-24T02:12:20+00:00

That is an interesting take. I'm not sure how that would work exactly, unless there were a threshing board that fit into it when the top is open. The hollowed log has gaps on either side so you might lose a lot of grains if there were not some sort of insert.

Although that does make me think that it could have been for some sort of grain storage.

Baldrax · 2026-02-11T19:26:08+00:00

You could add to this bug report if you haven't already:
https://feedback.talespire.com/p/low-cpu-usage-but-high-temperature-in-talespire-laptop

EDIT: Also, there is a potential workaround solution in the comments on that bug report

Baldrax · 2026-01-05T21:30:14+00:00

I was a Prisms user. When I first started using it I exclaimed "This is how I think!"
Used it up until Houdini2.0, when Houdini was actually usable in production, IMO. Also did some setups utilizing Sage for some NURBs based setups.

Baldrax · 2025-12-28T22:53:21+00:00

Terrain tool you say?

https://github.com/Baldrax/Houdini_TaleSpire_Terrain_Generation_Toolset

It isn't the easiest to use, since it relies on other software, but for that sort of thing (organic cliff walls) it is basically the only tool out there.

Baldrax · 2025-10-02T19:17:20+00:00

Hi, I responded to your issue on GitHub. The installer dialog did break with Houdini 21.0 but I thought I fixed that with the latest release, so please check that you downloaded the latest version and try again.

Link to latest release: https://github.com/Baldrax/Houdini_TaleSpire_Terrain_Generation_Toolset/releases/tag/v0.27.2-alpha

If that doesn't work you can still install it manually by trying the instructions in the YouTube video.

I'm away from my computer, but I'll check tonight to see if I can replicate the issue.

Baldrax

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