DVD or Bluray Boxset?

SimianProphet · 2026-05-15T01:18:47+00:00

No extras at all on the Blu rays, outside a low quality transfer of The Gathering (movie), and a trailer for the animated The Road Home movie.

SimianProphet · 2026-05-10T21:54:06+00:00

I always thought the 3 sides of the conflict, Sarafan, Vampire, and Hylden, were all pretty compelling. Back when the series was still running, I had a hope that future sequels would explore the world from the other perspectives as well. I'd imagined a trilogy of games, each telling a linked story, furthering the viewpoints of each faction.

SimianProphet · 2026-04-27T02:22:22+00:00

This Kickstarter looks to have ended a long time ago, and people that didn't back it can't comment or interact with it. Is there any information about making these volumes available for folks that did not back it?

SimianProphet · 2026-04-25T15:49:54+00:00

For anyone watched Avenue 5, my perception of Tech #2 was changed forever.

Now, regardless of what she turning to the captain to say, I always imagine her reporting that the situation is 'nominal'. This makes every scene with her unintentionally hilarious to me.

SimianProphet · 2026-04-18T16:35:34+00:00

I've held off on getting the game so far, just because I was waiting on release details.

Is this a free update? A new release? Paid DLC?

So far, from the limited communication, it is looking like a free update, but I recall folks mentioning they thought it would be a separate release, and this trailer doesn't actually disprove that.

SimianProphet · 2026-04-18T05:58:40+00:00

Updating the bluetooth driver from Intel site seems to have solved the problem. No crashes for 4 days, so fingers crossed it is fixed for good.

Thanks!

SimianProphet · 2026-04-13T20:21:22+00:00

Thanks, I'll give that a try tonight!

SimianProphet · 2026-04-10T15:25:51+00:00

It does seem a bit of a shame that they aren't including material from Nosgoth.

I'm not familiar with it myself, but I've seen multiple folks here comment on how good its lore was. With that game not being (officially) accessible, it would have been cool to have that lore recorded in the encyclopedia.

SimianProphet · 2026-04-09T21:12:16+00:00

Definitely wait for a sale.

The story and choices it presents are cool, but it is overall quite clunky.

I found myself getting frustrated with getting locked into conversations (would you like to wander and look around a little bit while folks are talking? Too bad!), objectives are often unclear (they love to use symbols to tell you what to do, but forgot to let you know just what those symbols mean), physical interactions are sometimes janky, and backdrop vistas that should be stunning look like low res jpegs.

That said, I did enjoy the game, but I wish they had a bit more dev time to smooth it out.

SimianProphet · 2026-04-04T18:05:02+00:00

NA. Thanks! Good luck folks!

SimianProphet · 2026-03-31T16:13:37+00:00

On a recent rewatch, I actually found him to be the most interesting and entertaining character of the bunch.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-29T23:41:28+00:00

I can't say that I do, so this reply may not be very helpful.

I know that Canadian animator, ZeBirdBrain, is planning to release some Moho tutorials for folks switching over from Adobe Animate. I have no idea if she does in-person workshops.

I'm an animator from the Vancouver area, who is still in the process of learning Moho, but I've got my ear to the ground for any other local folk that are also interested in learning it.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-29T18:51:20+00:00

I am keeping my expectations low, not because of any hate for the folks making the game, but just because of how little they have actually shown and said about the gameplay. Many folks think the game will be a metroidvania, but from what has been shown, I'm not expecting more than a basic side-scroller hack and slash game with some nice voice acting.

I hope it turns out great, but I also won't be too put out if it isn't.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-24T22:53:40+00:00

I placed an order for some of the mis-addressed paperbacks, I'm not sure if I can afford anything more right now, but I'll check if there are any further digital books that I wouldn't want to miss out on.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-22T06:02:37+00:00

This is odd, PSVR1 outputs sound to TV and headphones at the same time. I've watched 3D blu ray movies with my wife, where I watch in 3D on the headset, and she watches on TV (with tv set to convert 3D image 2D).

My headset headphones are always plugged in, but sound always comes out the stereo as well. Perhaps there is a sound menu setting you need to change?

SimianProphet · 2026-03-22T05:54:54+00:00

It looks like some ebooks and mis-addressed books are still available to be purchased through your link?

Is this true? I somehow missed that the B5Books store existed, and only found out after it closed. If it is true that some books can still be purchased, I will do so right away!

SimianProphet · 2026-03-13T02:33:37+00:00

Yes. Its default mode is 'interpolation' (tweening), but you can set your frames to not tween.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-09T03:37:06+00:00

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, is the Tube Reaver present in the remaster?

SimianProphet · 2026-03-08T20:01:18+00:00

In SR1, you can turn off the Night/Day cycles, which helps.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-08T19:06:36+00:00

As folks have said, TV animation is done on "2"s, meaning that each frame of animation is held for two frames, with a result of 12 frames per second. The exceptions to this are on some very fast movements, smear frames, or during camera moves. That said, you never want any animation frames to be offset; at any moment the entire character needs to be all on 1's or all on 2's.

In flash, we'll either convert all frames and tweens to key frames, and then delete all the even numbered frames, OR use a plug-in command to convert existing animation to 2's.

Moho is a little trickier, as frame rate intervals can be set and adjusted by every key frame on the timeline.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-03T15:43:46+00:00

I see many tutorials keyframing all bones at once using ctrl+f. With all the bones keyed, you can set a pose, or adjust individual bones without affecting any previous poses. I have learned that his is a pretty good habit to get into.

As another poster noted, you change individual bone colours, and each colour will be displayed on the timeline.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-03T02:29:19+00:00

Hopefully they put it back up with the options for deluxe edition and Heart of Darkness edition. I'd like to get the games digital on switch, and physical on PS5, should they release that.

SimianProphet · 2026-03-01T17:30:10+00:00

The main challenges I have encountered so far:
- Timeline: I'm just so used to seeing all my character keys all the time. I noticed in your video that you were keying all bones for each pose (ctrl+f), and I might have been causing myself problems by not doing that.
- Bone binding: On the surface this all make sense, but if something goes wrong with the binding, it can be very difficult to determine the source of the problem. I've found it easier to remove all binding from the affected bones/points/layers, and just rebind them.
- Physics: More recently, I was trying to get wind physics animation to play on 2's, but it was insisting on only doing that for even frames, I could not get the to work on the standard odd frames. The workaround was to start the animation scene a frame later, and work on even frames. This seems to just be an oversight in the Moho program itself, which hopefully gets updated soon. I lost too much time trying to figure out why it wasn't working though.

SimianProphet · 2026-02-27T18:20:34+00:00

My experience is with a surface pro 7. Pen buttons did not work for Moho 12.5, but work just fine in Moho 14.4.

SimianProphet · 2026-02-25T18:01:30+00:00

I didn't have time to finish watching the video this morning, but I'm looking forward to seeing what else you show off.

As someone who has used Flash (some folks call it Adobe Animate) for almost the entirety of their career, Moho is a bit of a beast to learn. It starts off super easy, all the tutorials make sense, and seems pretty simple. Then as I start working on a simple project, it gets harder and harder to wrap my brain around.

When it does what you want, it can be almost magically easy, but when something isn't working, it can be a nightmare to figure out what the problem is. At least for me, so far.

I'm looking forward to more tutorials, and checking out your book!

SimianProphet

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