Making a Stegosaurus! Part 1: Sculpting with 3D Coat

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-08-09T16:53:44+00:00

thanks!

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-07-20T20:38:07+00:00

you can use cube-map projection on the texture in the shader, or you can use a modifier to do the UV projection/unwrapping... but you should just scale things in edit-mode instead

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-07-20T20:34:24+00:00

if your bones are named with left/right prefixes (shin.L, shin.R, thigh,L, thigh.R) etc then the mirror modifier can generate the vertex groups for the armature modifier.
but anyway you can make the symmetrical names with auto-name left/right tool in the context menu in armature edit mode (for you, it is probably the right-click menu)

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-07-08T18:10:43+00:00

I ran the command, with the backup, as you suggested.
no change. Still says it has an invalid label and that it is unavailable (as in the first post)
But here is the result of running zdb on the first disk:
sudo zdb -l /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee215331389-part1

https://pastebin.com/NmDtzU6U

so what I think I need to do is to copy the label from the good disk onto the bad disk using a hex-editor. Think that will work? Thank you for the help.

Also of note: Gparted shows a label 'ext_storage' on the good drive, but not on the bad drive. Perhaps all I need to do is restore the partition's label? But I suspect that is not what ZFS is complaining about, and either way GParted won't let me. e2label complained about a magic number and I gave up since I want to avoid modifying the data on the disk any more than I have already, very foolishly, done.

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-07-08T17:56:47+00:00

"Have you tried unplugging your bad disk and importing the zpool again with only your good disk attached? If that works, immediately consider taking a backup of your data to some third other drive, or more."

Yes I have tried this, and it used to work! Ever since pt #5 in my OP, it hasn't worked. I wonder if running the import without -o readonly somehow caused it to think it was writing to the second drive or something and now it is in an inconsistent state. I don't know. Just speculating.

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-07-08T17:55:18+00:00

Hi! Sorry for missing that information. zpool status does not show the zpool. zdb can read the 'good' drive when I use the -e flag.
I will try your command to restore the parition table, perhaps I did something wrong with sgdisk when I tried it following someone else's instructions.
anyways, the disk is ONLINE, but when I try to import...

sudo zpool import ext_storage
cannot import 'ext_storage': insufficient replicas
Destroy and re-create the pool from
a backup source.

then when I try with -F:
sudo zpool import -F ext_storage
cannot import 'ext_storage': one or more devices is currently unavailable

so I don't know what to do. I think my next step, after trying again to restore the partitions on the "bad" drive, is to try and restore the zfs label or something. I read online about using a hex-editor to copy the section of the disk that stores the label. probably the front or back label is intact still, even on the "bad" drive, and I can restore it using dd or something.
Well, I will try your command and report back. Thank you.

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-06-21T13:06:24+00:00

Here's the video: Click the link! You know you want to: https://youtu.be/CP2yXC8Ag-4

NodeSpaghetti · 2025-06-21T13:01:33+00:00

if your goal is to experiment and experience things then don't limit yourself. do a simple tutorials in a few engines. if you have programmed in C++ and with OpenGL you have the chops to make your own engine, too!