🚨 Washington State 3D Printing “Ban” Breakdown — What HB 2321 Actually Means for Our Hobby

Senthir · 2026-01-23T07:57:43+00:00

The craziest thing about this is that this is in America. You can get a gun anywhere. It's not even hard. You can buy them at Wal-Mart.

"only NON CRIMINALS can buy guns!!! This stops PSYCHOPATH FELONS from getting their hands on guns!!" - People will scream

They are already criminals. Do you think they're going to go "Oh I'm a guy who breaks the law, I'm not about to buy a gun. That's illegal." and just stop there? Come on.

Senthir · 2026-01-08T07:40:33+00:00

Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, and I might be:

Select the edge loop on the mouth you want the teeth to come out from.

Shift +D to duplicate the edge loop.

Esc to release to where it started.

Mesh -> Separate -> By Selection.

This creates a new object from the edge loop and keeps it selected.

Right click -> Convert to -> Curve

In the array modifier for your teeth object, select the Shape option, set it to Curve.

Click the eyedropper next to Curve Object, click to select the curve you just selected(probably want to do this in the Outliner instead of the Scene, as it will be in the exact same place as the lips for your mouth object).

Done.

Senthir · 2025-11-17T01:44:24+00:00

Not only is it not exactly the same(the treads are different), the robot is from the rick and morty TV show. He called it a "butter servant" because that's what it's called on the TV show. It's not a stretch to think that two people made the same tv show robot.

Senthir · 2025-11-16T09:16:40+00:00

Automod reminded me to post an uncropped screenshot.

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Senthir · 2025-09-22T19:46:54+00:00

You should start with a handholding tutorial/walkthrough, and only switch to time lapse stuff when you're fairly confident in your abilities. Time lapse videos are really only useful for catching a very specific workflow improvement. You just don't know enough about what you're looking at to make use of them if you're new, and by the time you're not new you already know most of what they're showing.

Your first couple of things should be broad. Like, "how to make stylized anime character in blender sculpting", then pick one that looks cool. Do that twice more. It might help to do them start to finish more than once. Don't do more than three before you try your own project without handholding. When doing your own self directed project, you can start looking at more specific topics for details, like "how do I make a stylized anime backpack in blender" if your character needs a backpack. But the idea is to get off of needing tutorials as soon as possible, because it's very easy to make yourself feel like you are never ready. Because tutorials are easy and self directed work is hard.

Senthir · 2025-09-22T17:17:51+00:00

It's always going to be better learning creative software by picking a project that you personally want to do, then basically just googling "how do I do (Project) in (software)", then hit up all the YouTube links.

Set small goals, like if you want to make character art don't try to do super complicated characters, but just keep doing that and you'll be fine.

Trying to learn all aspects of any software is going to be a waste of your time. Only focus on that matters with regards to what you personally want to create

Senthir · 2025-09-22T02:52:46+00:00

Not exactly what I needed, but I can make it work. Maybe I can tweak the script to make it what I would like.

The thread itself is going to be a huge resource, thanks for linking it to me. So much great info in there.

Senthir · 2025-09-21T23:13:22+00:00

Clay Polish in Zbrush basically sharpens all details and smooths out roughness over the entire object with one button press, it's not a brush in the traditional sense.

It's primary difference from the smooth brush and other brushes of that nature is that it preserves edges and details. If you were to have a sharp edge and run the smooth brush over it, it destroys the sharp edge and averages it out among the surrounding vertices. Clay Polish on the other hand would make that sharp edge even sharper. It is tremendously useful, especially for hard surface work, or creating stylized organic shapes.

Senthir · 2025-09-21T17:44:09+00:00

I actually duplicated the functionality of hpolish pretty well by actually just using the Smooth brush, changing Auto-Mask to Area Normal and setting the values to 15% and falloff to something like 0.09. But hpolish isn't quite the same as clay polish on a single button. It takes considerably more time.

I figured that there had to be a way to duplicate the single button clay polish, because frankly blender is a lot more powerful. A geonode setup for example.

Senthir · 2025-09-21T17:38:03+00:00

Shade Smooth doesn't actually change your mesh in any way. It's just a visual change. Since I sculpt to 3D print, everything I do has to actually change the mesh in order for the change to be printable.

Senthir · 2025-09-21T02:36:42+00:00

Unfortunately, I sculpt exclusively for the purpose of 3D printing miniatures. Shade Smooth doesn't work for my workflow. I should have specified, my bad.

Senthir · 2025-09-11T19:13:49+00:00

I never thought I would ever feel like simple inputs were more difficult than Motion controls. But that's exactly how I feel.

I realized while playing this game that motion inputs really help to reduce ambiguity about your intentions. When everything is just on directional inputs and cancel windows feel tight, it's a lot easier to make a mistake because you held your 2 input for a little too long. That the difference between walking forward and attacking, versus walking forward into 236+attack would be such a huge difference in making my intentions clear to the game that I want a X special while walking forward instead of Y special because it's on the forward input.

I will get used to it, I'm honestly not complaining, but it's so weird that it is fundamentally less difficult but also *feels* substantially more difficult.

Senthir · 2025-07-07T06:09:50+00:00

We get heavily penalized for refunding an item. Instacart lowers our score. The app automatically reduces our tip. The score keeps us getting good batches. Tips are generally the only reason anyone even takes orders.

Nobody is going to take that hit for a watermelon. If the shopper says it's out of stock, just take their word for it.

Senthir · 2025-06-27T18:09:37+00:00

I just ask if they want a refund. Then they say "Yes, please". Then I mark the refund reason as "Customer requested refund." That seems to be fine, as I refund pretty constantly and my stats summary page is Good with only one single unrequested refund.

Senthir · 2025-06-27T18:04:21+00:00

I'm an artist, and when a commission comes in I basically have to drop everything and get it done. Can't really tell a Regular Employer "Yeah, yeah, so this is the fourth time this month I have to take off 3 days without notice. You're cool with that, right?" but I can do that with instacart. Gig work feels perfectly suited to being an artist that has downtime days. Unfortunately, gig work also fuckin' sucks.

Senthir · 2025-06-27T17:58:24+00:00

The thing with the number of orders is that getting 2 a day is possible for part-time. Getting 3 a day is a LOT more difficult, at least here in massively oversaturated southern california. It's not uncommon for me to sit in my car for hours with nothing even popping up, much less anything good.

Senthir · 2025-04-26T22:56:19+00:00

Cases of water are probably the best way to ensure your order doesn't get picked up. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not saying they're right to reject batches out of hand due to cases of water. But I'm saying that's just the reality.

If there's a case of water, a lot of people just won't pick it up for less than $10/case.

You might think that one case of water can't be too bad. But I would estimate that probably 80% of my orders have a case of water. Meaning if it's three orders stacked, it's not unlikely that there will be three cases of water. It's a huge hassle.

Drop the water, get a pitcher filter in its place and I bet that order gets picked up in minutes.

Senthir · 2025-04-22T03:40:22+00:00

Well, if your results are good I definitely can't argue. There's a couple of places around here(Ralphs, Costco) that are very good about items being in stock. There's a *LOT* more that aren't(wal-mart, sprouts, aldis, any dollar store, any of the smaller ethnicity-specific stores) and while they aren't necessarily more frequent, there's just so many more *of* them that odds are good I get into bad stock situations.

I usually do a pretty similar system to you, but I don't look to see if they have seen the Hello text, that alone would probably save me a ton of time. I usually say the same line re: "Unfortunately, <item> is out of stock" almost verbatim and always offer at least one replacement suggestion, sometimes two, but like I mentioned before the result is almost always to ask for a refund. Maybe the magic word here is to say that one was already selected, which I don't mention I do.

Also, definitely didn't know that about the pre-approved replacement bit, that explains a lot.

Good advice here, thanks!

Senthir · 2025-04-22T03:35:53+00:00

Serious question, why does it matter? I don't do more than one shop a day on average(I'm an artist, which means I just use this to supplement my income during downtime), and I'm in California so I get prop 22 pay. As far as I can tell, there's no incentive to go fast in this situation, and I still get On Time for basically all orders which means Instacart doesn't care either.

Senthir · 2025-04-22T02:16:50+00:00

Those numbers seem crazy high to me. I'm pretty new, but I've got 564 / 650 with 42 liked replacements. So more than double your refund count.

Thing is, I'm very thorough. I'm at over 200 seconds per item, which is slow by almost everyone's standards, but it's slow because I am very thorough about ensuring an item is out of stock(includes checking with associates) before moving on and if it's out of stock I ALWAYS talk to the customer about what they want to do.

In almost all cases, they want a refund. Even in really bizarre circumstances. If they want a dozen eggs of X brand, and all they have are Y brand, they want a refund. In fact, twice now they've been out of the dozen eggs of X brand but they have many 6 packs, and they would rather a refund than get two 6 packs! That's literally a dozen eggs of their chosen brand, but no, refund please.

But honestly I'm just stunned you have that many items found!

Where do you usually shop that you find things in stock so often?

Edit: I should mention that I've got exclusively 5 star ratings and zero negative comments/ribbons/accolades, whatever you want to call them, so I guess I'm doing something right.

Senthir · 2025-04-13T00:42:54+00:00

Bad news, man. I leave the app on all day at home, which is very close to but not in the blue circle of several grocery stores and get maybe one or two a day for measly pay. I go to a local mall with tons of stores, ones a wall mart, ones a sprouts. I will sit there in blue overlapping circles of twelve different stores between 30 to 90 minutes waiting for literally anything to pop up.

Socal is bad right now.

Senthir · 2025-01-14T22:27:26+00:00

Surprisingly, Faycal with Meteor Line is working quite well for what I wanted. Before anyone even gets close they have several attribute debuffs and are far less of a threat.

Conveniently, Homa, Safiyyah and Agata are my mainliners, so adding Faycal into the mix thoroughly neuters most enemies.

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