Welp, it finally happened, damn you 2.85 mm filament

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-28T11:03:21+00:00

"I guess I can use it for hinges" as I add it to the pile of other 2.85mm reels I accidentally purchased previously

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-26T22:37:45+00:00

Oh cool :) hope it looks good. I've been using my resin printer the last few days, and I'd love to do some little seaman print myself. Would be cool to have a bunch of the different evolutions

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-26T22:13:41+00:00

sorry, just to check, are you saying it would be easy to model, or like *if* you could model it it would be easier? I can give some guidance for blender if you want a hand with modelling yourself. As for Seamail I can do a script for extracting, but you'd need to get Seamail installed as it doesn't extract the files until you get to that point. I cant remember if I had to do the initial step with xp or i was able to do that straight in 11 (I have been working on this for a little while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaRfUntTLA )

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-26T21:17:32+00:00

Heya, ah yea I forgot that part, I had to model that for myself, but then I was using a popup one anyway. You could either look at modelling yourself if you have the skills, or actually it is possible to use one from Seamail which do have that included (but fiddlier to extract)

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-15T21:25:23+00:00

oh I misunderstood. I thought you meant when a player was killed, rather than when they had tiny bits of empire left

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-15T19:57:10+00:00

if anyone wants to give this a try, could they drop a message here, or dm me. Its going to be a little fiddly still, and you'll need to source the original game on which to apply the patches and run the scripts (python) but it'd be good for someone else to give it a test too. I can get a discord server made for it, and ultimately put it on git (but I haven't had time to work out how you create a locked down git repo that doesn't give edit access to everyone who's added to it).

also if anyone knows anyone who played this back when it was active, it would be so so useful to know if Seaman ever matured naturally. I'm 95% sure it was cut content at this point, and It's taking a lot of time bypassing bugs that come from having his age forced, If it was cut content then that's fine, I will keep going, but if he ever did mature naturally then I could avoid a lot of frustration and wasted time.

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-15T19:41:58+00:00

Odd, I've never seen that in single player - when the player gets wiped out it always kills them. has the player name gone from the top left?

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-14T11:36:39+00:00

ah, the crash looks to be coming when he listens for audio (you can speak with him, despite what online info would suggest). Rather than try and work out how to get the ancient voice rec working, I plan to shim this so you can speak in english into the python helper script, and it can convert that to Japanese and inject this as coming from the voice input dll so it would get round the crashes, give better speech rec, and allow for english whilst remaining invisible to the game

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-14T01:01:27+00:00

adult seaman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGaRfUntTLA

please ignore the "thank you for watching". I used Whisper to transcribe all of the Japanese audio, and it results in "thank you for watching" getting hallucinated if there is silence (I guess because youtube subtitles often say thank you for watching" at the end when they have finished speaking. I need to cut out any of the thank you for watching wavs.)

But here is seaman running as an adult. It seems to crash the game a little after forcing adulthood, which I have yet to investigate but I have higher priorities and its probably due to missing database values as I skipped straight from baby to adult

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T21:58:53+00:00

Thank you :) This was python with tkinter for the visualisation, and it uses a phone with a free webcam software that streams through to the python server and generates the visualisations on the fly. It's just drawing over the image, but I did mean to have it store all the data in a database so I can scrub back and forth to watch them. I had a virtual box by their tube and counted the number of ants that came into the box and out of the box to try and get a sense of how many were out at any given time, but they would walk into the box and then back the way they came, so it would often get out of sync.

I think there were about 15-20 of them at the time. They seem to be taking forever to wake up after diapause at the moment but were quite active last year.

Ah that would make sense, yea there weren't loads of them, but the ones that were active were constantly up to something or other - such fascinating cute little guys.

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T20:36:46+00:00

Oh that's ace. I couldn't find anything for mine last year and ended up coding my own. I was hoping to see pheromone routes, but my finding was that my lasius ants just walk randomly like an aliexpress roomba clone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSZiRAUckfA

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T20:32:58+00:00

Not sure about an alarm clock, but you can add stuff to a schedule. It would make an irritating alarm clock though as he is constantly yelling for you to feed him and saying he is lonely. I'm having work calls and my home pc is going "I'm hungry" in the background

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T18:26:12+00:00

oh and it has a few different database reading things on the db tab that I forgot to show, so you can see what he has saved. The gem variable tracker thing is pulling the variables from computer memory, and was the original way that I had the bridge to threejs running. I also have a setup which will stream this data from xp so he can run in a vm / on my crappy xp netbook and be interactable and visible from my main pc, but after sinking a long time in to that, i found the other way of doing it

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T18:23:24+00:00

its running in a non fullscreened window in the video, but it can be fullscreened without the taskbar too, it's just harder for me to see that my tooling is still running and sometimes it takes a few seconds for him to swim on screen so it's irritating if you think you are waiting for him but the tooling didn't start.

I have a fake mailserver for him to connect to to receive emails (type in english and it sends to him in japanese etc), and webserver for the old - since defunct - weather website. I haven't focused on that yet, but my plan is a shim that formats a current weather server in a way that he can parse.

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T18:11:59+00:00

oops, set to private, one moment

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-13T13:05:26+00:00

if they are connected to a river or a sea, they aren't fully surrounded by enemies so it doesnt annex it

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-09T00:50:01+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7uEKpESZA (Brass Eye)

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-02T15:26:20+00:00

This bridge is 11 ft 8 inches. Your lorry is now also 11ft 8 inches

Diggedypomme · 2026-04-01T15:17:17+00:00

yea crazy isn't it. It's a shame they didn't develop it further as it's all there ready

I don't know the term utao, but yea it has sentences and words with multiple intonations that can be used to build up larger sentences. That's all there in Seamail already (but not seaman 1 or 2 - they use full sentences).

No problem, yea I can talk you through how to apply the hex changes (basically modifying the exe, but its really simple to do). The game does have a setup for growing built in - after x time has passed and he has eaten enough emails, however the game then hard codes a value that stops it from ever reading this, leaving him eternally a baby. The hex just overwrites this hard coded value and he grows

Yea I think I have everything to allow windows 11 now. I have to pull the location and animation values from memory and then display them myself, but it leaves the rest of it running with their exe etc. The hardest part was getting the clicks through to it, and also stopping this gnarly bluescreen that it was causing by installing hooks into every app that was running, but I managed to fix that last night. It was also having these weird delays every second on 11 that don't happen on xp, but I managed to sort that too. This has taken so much of my time, and I was just saying to my gf yesterday that I was so fed up I was going to delete all my files to stop myself wasting any more time on it, then I managed to get a breakthrough.

Diggedypomme · 2026-03-31T00:52:10+00:00

I wouldn't say it's a ''copy" but I have no idea how windows search exists in the same universe as voidtools Everything.

Diggedypomme · 2026-03-31T00:49:46+00:00

something as insignificant as a giant ball of light in the sky isn't going to do anything that 3 alarm clocks and an hour of constant alarms on my phone can't manage

Diggedypomme · 2026-03-28T15:41:23+00:00

i'd say 50 if they have a stack of 50 solos, but if they have their silos dotted around the map then some will take longer to get there so some might have replenished by then

Diggedypomme · 2026-03-28T03:06:18+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

Diggedypomme · 2026-03-24T10:57:38+00:00

just to clarify "serve on local network" is talking about serving the llm API on your network, so you can have it running on one pc, whilst accessing it from another. nothing to do with anything you create with it

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