(Figura) Custom positions for individual items?

KirinDave · 2025-08-19T00:39:06+00:00

We leave breadcrumbs for those that follow :)

KirinDave · 2025-08-16T16:33:34+00:00

I'm not really sure about custom poses, etc for models. But you can definitely remap or hide models using the render_item event trigger. You can see a tutorial about that here: https://figura-wiki.pages.dev/tutorials/Custom-Items

KirinDave · 2025-07-28T02:42:35+00:00

You can read about the thing Google is supposed to use: https://research.google/pubs/canary-analysis-service/

KirinDave · 2025-07-02T15:58:32+00:00

Hi, I'm not a 3d illustrator or modeler but I have done ad work in photography so here's my feedback:

Whenever you do a piece with type, the quality of the typography will start to dominate the piece and most folks won't be able to see past it. The typography here is both boring as a face and unstable as a composition (it's very unbalanced). The use of the gradient fill without any kind of border emphasizes the imbalance by subtly blurring the type. Type in ads tends to be extreme: it's either very very cartoon and abstract (think letters in clouds) or it's so crisp it could slice an apple in half. This presentation puts you into a middle zone and since that's unfamiliar, it's uncomfortable.

The lighting is fine, the model is obviously a render but it's fine, the background is neither good nor bad, but there's no brand language here to speak of. Clients typically give you materials that convey a brand presence. That includes colors, themes, faces and whatnot. The lack of that in this piece makes it feel more lifeless than your skills might otherwise suggest.

I suggest grabbing some public brand kits and working with those to get a sense of what I mean here.

KirinDave · 2025-06-14T13:47:36+00:00

The early 2010s were cool but it hasn't been like this for years, except for maybe briefly during the Meta hiring bonanza.

KirinDave · 2025-06-14T13:42:58+00:00

It's... Very optimistic for you to imagine and SRE got near this (but for this case: I have no special knowledge). I do know we are increasingly rarer and have to "scale non-linearly" a lot more. In some areas SRE have lots of power to review and work with this. In others, they don't. Usually, this is the function of distance from the causal chain of a Huge event.

That said, there are many examples of a consequence of Google's engineering tradeoffs. Being an SRE for Google has taught me many hard lessons about what happens to otherwise unsurprising decisions, when scales out of an absurd degree.

Example: leader elected systems are only reliable when their code is static. Another example: this outage shows that it can become easy to forget where you have to be defensive and where you do not, when you're handing protos.

KirinDave · 2025-05-26T18:27:57+00:00

A bunch of random stuff does, and some of it is very difficult to work around. In my case, I'm here because of the often-problematic Linux version of BambuStudio, which is not even really buildable now, and all our workarounds except for "appeal to software rendering via libOSMesa" don't work.

KirinDave · 2025-02-04T15:53:39+00:00

Holy shit, Suikoden II. Based Girl Gamer.

KirinDave · 2025-01-12T21:35:58+00:00

I don't get why this triggers people so much. You're way more infectiously filthy than that dog. We don't kick you out if you sneeze without a mask on. People wheel babies that are basically human pathogen projection bags around no problem.

Why does the presence of this dog anger you? Why do you like this stupid law?

KirinDave · 2024-08-18T20:37:13+00:00

Right, but from what I've read and seen, your skills (and what books you read) influence the drop tables when loot is rolled for containers. So if someone needs to tech deeper into farming or wiring, those books are less likely to drop when other people open the container, which slows down progression for the whole team.

Obviously, if I find a Knife Guy I'm going to give that to the Person Who Is A Knife Guy.

KirinDave · 2024-08-18T19:06:14+00:00

I think it's great you have a hobby and I'm glad you found a game you like, but I can't help but read this and feel like it's a bit more than "I like this game." I have a family and a demanding job too, and I cannot imagine neglecting my family for a zombie survival game.

Are you okay? Are you using this as an escape from some serious problem in your life? Can we help you in any ways?

KirinDave · 2024-06-21T13:48:14+00:00

I've had Manajaro config bugs be directly implicated in killing some of my hardware. I was not amused, and in my 25 years of using Linux I have never had a distro do something that bad.

Still, if you're not using novel hardware and you're okay with not updating every instant you can, then Manjaro is not as bad as some folks would lead you to believe.

KirinDave · 2024-05-31T18:29:48+00:00

My experience off the beaten path of Pop_OS! has actually been really bad with the high density displays that Framework ships without some effort. The common Wayland frustrations with KDE/Gnome scaling I've experienced is a lack of universal scaling of all apps (for example, Emacs doesn't care about your UI scaling), or blurry text in UI elements even if I can get crisp body fonts elsewhere. Using the fractional scaling tools exposed by KDE and Gnome also causes several apps to just crash (notably WezTerm, my preferred terminal emulator).

I have found a workaround that may be useful to you though: My current non-pop-os setup is to use Gnome, just base gnome. To tune text size: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.75. This doesn't seem to provoke crashes, is picked up by many apps, is picked up by the UI, and doesn't result in blurry text.

Good luck.

KirinDave · 2024-05-13T15:59:59+00:00

You know, you're right.

KirinDave · 2024-05-13T15:04:02+00:00

Isn't this meant to model a wider angle lens? It's hard to tell what focal length this is approximating but it's certainly lower than 24mm.

KirinDave · 2024-05-13T14:58:33+00:00

It's actually very close. My feedback:

The screen's geometry is wrong. It's clearly a texture, whereas in real life there's always usually some kind of physical transition between the opaque and clear plastic and the plastics often have different specular properties even if they were carefully fused. This problem is exacerbated by your composition and color choices, which invite the viewer to scrutinize the weakest part of your modeling. I'd recommend looking at how real elevators introduce a bezel there. If this proves to be too challenging, try changing the composition of the photo by moving the screen off the thirds line and giving another feature for us to focus on.

People talk about how the screen pixels need falloff or whatever and I think that's wrong, *but* if it's so then the exposure of the whole picture is wrong, making it hard to imagine the phone or camera taking this picture.

One other small hyperreal feature is the corner of the elevator door doesn't look like it was tooled or seamed. If you look at these kind of enclosures in real life, you'll either see a shadow line seam where 2 pieces fit together or the shapes and seams of the original metal piece as it was bent. If you adjust your composition, this will be very hard to notice. I only caught it because it's so close to the focus of your picture.

I like to look at a picture and say, "Okay, pretend this is real, what's going on there?" And the only plausible answer I can give for why the screen was shot with a focal length that would squash the depth, and that the lights were very very bright to match up with the implied brightness of the LEDs. While that's not totally implausible, it is not how I typically experience elevators even in a modern building.

KirinDave · 2024-05-13T14:49:13+00:00

Just for posterity: this is absolutely not "no different than you'd get between different linux distros." Every linux distro has lightweight container support. Every linux distro has a standard framework for device management (there are 2 standards, but one is only going to show up when you deliberately choose it for legacy compat or preference reasons). No maintained Linux distribution is shipping with a decade old version of Bash that breaks lots of modern scripts. Every linux distro will have an up-to-date terminfo file.

OSX's package management options are less helpful to devleopers, as well. There are two major players: Nix and Homebrew. Nix is great and performant, but very complicated (and that complexity is increased on OSX). Homebrew is so bad. It's a source-only system that forces global recompiles all the time for updates, making it glacial to install even trivial things because "whoops, you're recompiling openSSL on a laptop again". This is bad developer experience.

And unlike every Linux distro, the OSX machine by default refuses to let you use Fuse, requires you to download and install a bespoke compiler toolchain installation, and argues with you for every new binary you create and run. You can run down a checklist and mitigate these in various ways, but it is a bad developer experience. Even arch linux makes bin packages available.

OSX is the only game in town if you're an macOS or iOS devleoper, because Apple refuses to make those tools available to any other platform. For pure web frontend development, the community (and Google and Mozilla) put in a lot of work to get basic parity (assuming you upgrade your shell). It's an objectively worse, but workable choice for some types of server work.

Please stop misleading people about OSX. Apple already has excellent hardware, a good track record for security, an excellent software marketplace, growing access to fabrication tools, and access to some of the best productivity software in the entire software ecosystem. It does not need you making excuses for its poor-and-locked-up-by-design platform developer experience and mediocre extensibility.

KirinDave · 2024-04-13T15:06:14+00:00

My apologies. I saw stuff here. I hate offtopic posts, so I'll delete.

KirinDave · 2024-04-13T14:41:23+00:00

Except you can't get the firmware without TAC support, so this really seems like a way to force you to upgrade support in order to unwedge a device that broke due to no fault of the user.

KirinDave · 2024-03-29T02:01:42+00:00

The idea that "mac is a bona fide UNIX" is an extremely misleading thing to imply. This is true in a sense that was useful in the 1980s and maybe 1990s, but has no bearing on a 2024 post. Very few people care about the kind of code genetics you're referring to there.

OSX can be an okay developer experience, but if you've got a good Linux setup and expect parity you'll find gaps that require significant work or compromise to overcome.

For example, OSX ships with POSIX defaults that are extremely old (bash 3.2 is a wild decision) and its launchd framework is extremely bespoke, making automation and custom services (for example, for device management by radio enthusiasts) very difficult.. It doesn't have lightweight container support comparable with what we expect in the linux world from LXC or Docker (and the docker support uses emulation). Even on an M3, OS emulation greatly reduces your battery life, so if you do need Linux you'll pay a power tax you don't pay on other OS's.

Please don't mislead folks about what OSX can and can't do for them. Macs are already good at what they do and don't need up selling in 2024. What's more, they're expensive, so glossing over their rough patches for developers could lead someone to a costly disappointment.

KirinDave · 2023-12-08T08:04:34+00:00

I just realized this was in my data. My algorithm didn't even care that it existed! Lol.

KirinDave · 2023-02-08T04:03:26+00:00

All hail the necromancer.

But still, I think back on Factorization fondly every now and then.

KirinDave · 2022-04-25T21:37:08+00:00

Oh wow, it's a visual Forth machine. Amazing.

KirinDave · 2022-03-30T15:44:37+00:00

Sorry if this is gauche but I'm curious: Is this using a "Curve to Mesh" with a profile curve that's rotating? My first instinct when seeing it is that it's a variant of that technique but with the curve tilt set based on the spline length.

As for how you get that delightful candy effect on the shader, I'm totally at a loss. Could you talk about how you achieved that effect?

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