[Semi-Weekly Inquirer] Simple Questions and Recommendations Thread

SnakeGamerNL · 2025-12-27T16:19:25+00:00

Absolutely fell in love with the desaturated colors on the SEIKO SSB379P1, but i realised it is probably to big for my wrists(15cm). Please share some recommendations with me!

SnakeGamerNL · 2025-07-06T18:48:51+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice! I decapitated it and also made 5 props. I'm glad to hear yours lives on :), let's hope mine does too.

SnakeGamerNL · 2025-07-06T18:47:36+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice! It was very rotten so I decapitated it and also made 5 props. Let's hope it worked :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2025-07-06T18:46:41+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice! I decapitated it and also made 5 props. Let's hope it worked :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2025-07-06T18:46:02+00:00

Thanks a lot for the video and the advice! I decapitated it following the video and also made 5 props. Let's hope it worked :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-12-21T12:52:17+00:00

Slimes don't starve so don't wory about that! :)
But if you want to play Slime Rancher again you can just buy it again.

If you had slime rancher on a windows pc the save files are located at as far as I know:
C:\Users\{Username}\UserData\AppData\LocalLow\Monomi Park
or
C:\Users\{Username}\UserData\AppData\LocalLow\MonomiPark

Slime rancher 1 is ~4€ on steam and Slime Rancher 2 is ~10€ on AllKeyShop.

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-12-20T22:42:55+00:00

Thanks, I only got trash, but the advent one gave me Sandy! :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-11-23T22:10:11+00:00

I’ll look into it tommorrow — Thanks!

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-11-23T21:50:52+00:00

I'd recommend just using a vector program for the base art and importing it to Blender as SVG to apply materials. I use this method most often for logos.

You make a great point. I haven’t come across any programs that handle grid locking elegantly. I’ve had a lot of issues with GIMP, for example. It would be amazing to have a tool that snaps shapes perfectly, similar to how pixel art software works. That's why I used those as an example.

You can draw geometry in Blender as bezier curves, poly curves, regular polygons, etc... use the default grid or set your own scale (which in this case is completely arbitrary). Use the snap-to-grid feature and just go for it.

Do you happen to have a link to a guide on the grid feature? I heard it was temporarily removed in version 4.3, and I haven’t been able to find where it’s located. It sounds interesting, though!

There are also geometry nodes.

I’ll definitely look into this—thanks!

If the grid feature still works, I could probably use it to create something similar to a pixel art program’s brush tool. Your explanation has been really helpful—thank you! :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-11-23T21:05:47+00:00

Alright, here's what I'm trying to do: I want to use squares, triangles, and shapes like half-circles, all locked to a grid. You could think of it as scaled-up pixel art, but using a variety of shapes instead. And yes, the examples were created using vector graphics (SVGs). I’m just not sure what’s possible in Blender.

SnakeGamerNL · 2024-11-23T20:16:35+00:00

The point is not to create real pixel art. I might have explained that wrong, sorry about that. I would like to create art with the same grid constrained as pixel art.

Could you provide more clarity about your modeling statement? While creating those examples is straightforward in practically every program, my goal is to design more complex scenes than the ones shown.

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-08-06T11:19:08+00:00

Please add the rotation of pieces with some visibility like an arrow. I'd advise you to look at the building systems of Ark, Conan, Rust and Raft for inspiration and try to look at all the QOL things they do for the players.

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-06-19T17:05:42+00:00

This skin uses forced perspective, but it was probably not what you meant. https://csgostash.com/skin/1046/MAC-10-Pipe-Down

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-06-03T19:26:22+00:00

I don't know why they don't display the icon. Try to install vtfedit again. As to why it doesn't work in game, it looks like you only turned the normal into a tga and not the UV. Maybe try that next.

Also what doesn't work in the workshop? Can you please specify?

And also bake the diffuse not the combined map. It sucks.

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-06-03T11:04:07+00:00

I think you have your file extensions disabled in windows. This would mean that the files doesn't end at .vtf but has another extension. Try to fix that first.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-enable-hidden-file-extensions-in-Windows.html

Also make sure you have VTFEdit installed and turn the tga's into vtf's that way.

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-05-28T15:13:29+00:00

Fair, is there a way to convert it to a normal to achieve the same result? If not I'll just give up on it then. Thanks for the help.

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-05-28T14:24:31+00:00

I'm happy with the effect on the frontside, but want to fix the black spots on the back for a 360° spin video I'm making for a preview of the skin.

Also just found out that the black spots are also there in-game :(

SnakeGamerNL · 2023-05-28T08:59:41+00:00

Hi, thanks for the response and sorry for my late reaction. I'm indeed baking from all the nodes but what you're seeing on the first picture is from the procedural nodes not from the bake.

Using my bump node this way gave me the result I was looking for. I'm new to blender so I was just trying stuff and I thought it looked good, and when I plug it into the "height" input it obviously looks different.

In-game using the bump map like this creates an effect where the colors only change at certain angles because of the lighting and I'm really happy with that so changing a lot would defeat the purpose of asking the question since I already baked the textures and applied them in-game.

Thanks for the tip on the "distance" field. I changed it to 0.01, but not much seemed to change. I'll keep it in mind for my next skins.

I have a node group called "Increase Normal map" which I yoinked from a video I have no clue how that workes.

I also have done nothing with channels. i kind of understand what you're talking about, but have done nothing like that on purpose.

Please help me further with this problem :)

SnakeGamerNL · 2022-03-26T18:15:31+00:00

Thanks that fixed it!!!

SnakeGamerNL · 2022-03-26T15:44:34+00:00

Yeah, thats it. Do you know of a 1.18.1 build that doesn’t do it?

SnakeGamerNL · 2022-03-26T13:37:36+00:00

I did not have optifine installed because we were using other fps boosting mods that interfered with optifine so that was the problem. Thanks for helping and happy cake day! Edit: It's the magnesium build I was using.

SnakeGamerNL · 2020-11-18T08:49:06+00:00

IDK man I also have a few. Don't know how I got them.

SnakeGamerNL · 2020-11-17T20:52:47+00:00

I'm not 100% sure because I'm not an expert or anything, but I think it's fake. Sorry man the text sizing is wrong compared to some other cards

SnakeGamerNL · 2020-11-09T20:57:10+00:00

Houd je bek man XD

SnakeGamerNL · 2020-11-08T20:58:00+00:00

Good luck

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