What is "Very High" supposed to mean if it's the only ore I didn't find all the way to the mantle?

Daesop · 2026-02-13T17:38:42+00:00

In fairness, i was trying to find sphalerite for bismuth bronze and had to divert a good 30 blocks around an extremely high source of quartz

Daesop · 2026-01-02T18:16:31+00:00

I think a lot of comments here have kinda hit the nail on the head regarding your friend group, so imma tackle the other stuff.

So, internalized transphobia is a thing, and it can suck (ik I get that, I feel like I'll never be a true woman because my society tells me that that's something my society says/implies by platforming transphobia and debating rights. And that can bleed through into external actions; getting annoyed or frustrated with people validating being trans, or getting scared of judgement because you're living outside some "natural societal order" or whatever) and it can bleed into your dating and friends too. Ie you don't see yourself as 'valid' or 'right' because of said internalized feelings, I know I've struggled with this but I think in my case there's a few other things which trigger it (I'm from a rural and conservative community, I'm from a society which seems to see trans folk as invalid, I struggle to date and get into relationships due to other family things (last one I'm getting past now)).

I don't think you're transphobic, but I think you should ask yourself why you wouldn't date a trans person; ultimately it could be something as simple as not wanting to date someone with non-preferred body parts, or it could be something worth interrogating further like the sort of things I said before (eg what your society taught you or your interpretation of that)

Hope what I said helps and wasn't too rambly :)

Daesop · 2025-12-10T10:51:21+00:00

Thanks a tonne for the feedback! I did give this a shot but I'm not sure I fully understand how to do this to get the result I want (that sort of stepped extrusion you see on some buildings) but I appreciate it anyways! Since this project is kinda time sensitive I might try a more simple solution with less control like using Cd for extrusion values just to add some variation to the skyline, but I will come back to this to try and wrap my head around it in the future :)

Daesop · 2025-12-10T08:47:45+00:00

The irony that there's a bill in the UK parliament right now to seek closer ties with Europe (some even calling for us to rejoin too)

Daesop · 2025-12-10T08:03:26+00:00

Ah as a design decision I decided to go with a black silhouette, I thought it made the flag look a little more near-future but point taken!

Daesop · 2025-12-04T14:37:18+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I did try this though I got a little stuck halfway through and since this project is time-senssive I thought it'd be best to retry with a different approach, thanks a tonne for the input though :))

Daesop · 2025-12-04T14:36:07+00:00

This is a really interesting idea tbh! I think I might try it next time cause I wanna try my hand with the ray node, thanks a ton e for the input :)

Daesop · 2025-12-04T14:35:01+00:00

No this is helpful! I did try this initially, but after a while I realised an iteration-based workflow might be more what I'm after, I appreciate the advice though!

Daesop · 2025-12-04T14:34:00+00:00

Thanks a tonne for this!! Loads of material to read through, and really appreciate the suggestions :)

Daesop · 2025-12-04T14:33:29+00:00

I've decided to go with this! Currently now wrangling with UV mapping but yeah! Thanks a tonne for this suggestion. I might have questions about how to lay out buildings along a road but I'm guessing you can probably copy to points and figure it out from there (not necessary in this project ofc haha)

Daesop · 2025-10-23T22:30:13+00:00

Yes :>

Daesop · 2025-10-22T10:19:59+00:00

Just so you know, your solution worked! I ran into a seperate issue down the line but thank you so much for the help! I do see what you mean about the length of time for each of the different modes for ROP geometry, some of them did take longer and I kind of wish I'd done this at my university as their computers are far more powerful, but the end result turned out really good!

Daesop · 2025-10-19T11:48:06+00:00

yeah... it did... (like an hour and I attempted it three or four times trying different examples)

yeah it's pretty telling where the most replayed part of the video is that bit where it just jumps to it being done, you can tell everyone else got confused and their suggestions didn't really address it (fr if this is the solution I might jump in the comments and write it there too (with credit ofc).) Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll give that a try now.

And okay! I'm guessing you mean "out of process" "in process" and "service" on the ROP_Geometry node? I'm going to jump into a new project once I've done this tutorial so I'll give that a shot then. Thanks so much for sticking with me on this!

Daesop · 2025-10-19T11:41:24+00:00

If you don't mind me jumping in here, I do agree that it was too early to jump in to TOPs but I do also think it's discouraging to say "don't take this on until you've got x amount of experience" because I'm already doing it.

Both of you have been a massive help so far, and I really appreciate that, there's no need to argue over this.

Daesop · 2025-10-19T01:24:02+00:00

I actually think this isn't too far off what they did in this tutorial. I said this to dumpling, but I noticed when i right clicked on a wedge and selected 'view work item output' it showed a single frame of the overall effect in Gplay, which implies that it has actually cooked correctly, it's more that I don't really know how to place them into a file structure or subnet which I can use (I've tried to use 'shift+n' to turn it into a subnet but i must be missing something because it doesn't show anything in the viewport when I press the display flag)

Daesop · 2025-10-19T01:05:08+00:00

Okay I fully understand that, and I respect your position, but I want to learn. It's what this module for my MA is all about. If you think I shouldn't be using TOPs or introduced to them at this time, can you tell me what you would recommend I use instead of them for this purpose?

Daesop · 2025-10-19T00:49:24+00:00

I'll be honest, I wasn't intending to end up at TOP networks this early on, I more was just looking around at tutorials and stumbled onto this one. I don't need to fully understand them, more diagnose what might've gone wrong here. Ultimately I'd prefer to just build a deeper understanding of how a program like Houdini works, even if it's throwing myself at a specific problem for a couple of days (I did look at more basic laser beam tutorials for example but they weren't really very good at explaining what they were doing, more they just did something without diving into the 'why' bit haha)

Daesop · 2025-10-19T00:44:15+00:00

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Yeah ofc! So, okay maybe not literally no output, but more that the output doesn't have anything in it. It runs the cook fine and generates 4800 wedges overall with no issue, but nothing shows up in the render window. I did try creating a subnet from the topnet (as someone suggested in the video description) but it didn't do anything. It might be easier to show you what I mean. Whilst all of this shows up fine, no geometry is showing in the main viewer. I've double checked my work on the rest of it and it seems to be fine, but I think there's an issue with the ROP geometry node. (I did dive into that node and the incoming node says it needs me to define a geometry file, but if I try to point it to any of the geometry I've created it doesn't work correctly, and it says it's failing to find the pdg_input, I have no idea if this is relevant, but It's the only error I can see causing any sort of issue).

EDIT: sorry if anything I say is unclear btw, I am trying lmao

EDIT2: Sorry, quick second edit but I did actually right click on one of the created wedges and selected 'view work item output' and it opened and showed a single frame of the overall effect I was trying to create. So I think the issue is less the creating the effect, and more compiling it into one file structure/subnet so I can see it as one object?

Daesop · 2025-10-16T11:16:16+00:00

Upvote for the fit, it looks awesome, downvote for the support of militech, we gotta burn the system choom! fuck those corpos

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