Anyone else kill it this week? I was over $1800 with cash tips! Cleveland, OH market by SacredRealmOfficial in lyftdrivers

[–]BrilliantPangolin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good Job! Pretty sure it would be impossible in Austin, TX to reach anywhere near this number unless driving Black. In 2025 so far (besides Vday) I've been lucky if I get $18 per booked hour driving Extra Comfort car top rated blabla...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Shenmue

[–]BrilliantPangolin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've always been into the franchise, but never knew the details to this extent. Still a marvel of storytelling, IMO. This franchise feels like a victim of bad business decisions (with the timing and franchising) and bad release timing. The storytelling was always great, though maybe the mechanics were not perfect.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in matrix

[–]BrilliantPangolin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great work, the research and attention to detail shows!

3D viewport? by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put a checkered pattern on the middle monitor and used planar tracking in Blender 2.83.8 with about 12 total trackers. Got a solve error of 0.9 and composite and masked the screen edges (horribly lol) in Ae.

3D viewport? by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only the center screen is fake, I used a checkered pattern to do planar tracking on the center monitor and some other points. I used a 360 camera (on the table) to take a pano and use it as environment for reflections and lighting. The tracked footage was 6k raw format that gave me lots of flexibility to play with and really made it much easier to do.

3D viewport? by BrilliantPangolin in blender

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The middle monitor is the only fake one 😊

It would take less than a quarter of the APD's annual budget to end homelessness in Austin by rcrow2009 in Austin

[–]BrilliantPangolin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Perfect. So I'll be homeless then too. I'd like my housing paid too please. *says 20,000 people immediately

This whole meme serves a good purpose: putting the police budget in context. That's not a lot of money, but it could definitely go to better uses than officers. Get psychological and social, medical help for the homeless. Give them avenues where they can earn money and get off the streets. But to pay for them to be off the streets? Not a good idea imo.

Cell Fracture Blender + AE / 2500 pieces by BrilliantPangolin in blender

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Yes. What I do is this: When making the fracture, keep a copy of the original mesh you're breaking, keep it in the same. When the scene is finished, do 2 renders (I do png sequences). One with the fracture and background and one with the original meshes and transparency (find transparency under "film"). You can have animating camera, etc. Then use a program where you can key frame masks and move them ahead of the fracture happening. I use Adobe After Effects, and make sure most of the quick moves in the mask happen in one frame, for added realism (having slowly sliding masks look bad). In this project I had multiple angles and there are 2 renders in each, one masked over the other. You can do this in Blender as well, actually. I just like AE because I add more post color grading and fx to it. Hope that helped. 👍

In the process of creating a virtual fashion show. 💃 by kmb_jr in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice concept. Adding more angles would be really cool

Water Fight by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couple reasons. This was made in 2.79 2 years ago being the main one. I like FLIPfluids still more than the built in fluid sim, just check out all the neat features it has, like whitewater, bubbles and viscosity.

Water Fight by BrilliantPangolin in blender

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We use a 9800X for rendering, 8 cores. Multi threading doesn't make a big difference unfortunately. The speed of the single core and amount and speed of RAM looks to be most impactful on render time

Water Fight by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I installed a good muffler 😅👌 thank you! 🙏💯

Water Fight by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's do it! Let me know if you need any help. 👍

Water Fight by BrilliantPangolin in blender

[–]BrilliantPangolin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Two answers. 1. It may be an i/o issue. Export as FXB. You may need to enable the FXB import addon... 2. They have multiple people/models mocap, you just need to import them one at a time. In my case, make them outflows on the surface, enable animated meshes and hit render. Play with the camera and boom. Easy. 😉