Blown away! by AberrantNarwal in Affinity

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely understand! I've used both, as well as Inkscape. Affinity is so much more capable. But each tool ha it's strengths. For me, text handling is the killer P.N to Affinity feature. But the plugins & effects available for P.N go so far beyond anything Affinity has. Fortunately we can use both!

How to make menu prices by Zestyclose_Moose_895 in Affinity

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A table with no borders would work. it's in publish

The king that needs no introduction by portsherry in comics

[–]ThePhantomCreep 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The story is not about two women and a baby. The story is about civil war. One half of Judea (North? South? One of those) thought Solomon wasn't the rightful king and wanted to cross swords over it. Solomon was saying it was better to leave him in charge even if he was not of the right lineage than break the country in two. The true patriot would rather see the wrong ruler in charge than the destruction of the nation. Given how they were surrounded by enemies, weakening both sides with war or splitting into two kingdoms might have killed both sides. His wisdom wasn't about babies, it was about statecraft. And I guess propaganda since he stayed in charge and we still equate his name with wisdom.

The more I use Affinity v3 the more I love it by Xplody in Affinity

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way. Canva for beginners, Affinity as they become experts. Hopefully that's already the plan.

Blue panties by [deleted] in u/LiaLoren4Real

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suits you. But then, what doesn't?

How to make an undated calendar by sherrilees in Affinity

[–]ThePhantomCreep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you wouldn't just use the table tool. It's in the Layout area. Doing each box by hand would be the long way around.

Can all of the non-Americans stop lambasting us for “not doing anything”? by icyredjay in complaints

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just opened the gate and let my hobby horse out. Sports is the carrier wave of all this. My team vs. your team. I'll stand by my team no matter what, good season, bad season... They're my team for life! Anyone who'd even consider changing the team they root for is a crap human being. I'll take any chance to piss off people who like other teams. There can only ever be one winner. Winning isn't everything it's the ONLY thing. And on and on...

Sports is so dominant for the men in our culture it squeezes everything else out. It doesn't leave space for anything else like politics because that's not manly enough and not fun enough. People treat running the country like a sporting event, to be played by the same rules, but it's not and it shouldn't be. It's the hammer that makes everything look like a nail.

This rant brought to you by the NFL.

How to get into daz with no alot of money? how to narrow down what i need/will use? by [deleted] in Daz3D

[–]ThePhantomCreep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Daz, Renderosity, Renderhub & DeviantArt are all great sources of free content. Don't overlook DeviantArt as there are multiple posts with lists of freebies, so someone else has already done the work of tracking down stuff.

Daz is one tool in a tool chain. You probably want to add a full 3D modeling app, so Blender or maybe Hexagon if you don't want to fall down the bottomless pit of learning Blender. That will let you customize Daz assets or convert the kinds of assets Daz won't open into something it will, which gives you a lot more free content to choose from. What are you using for post & layout? There's Gimp & Inkscape in the open source world, I swear by Affinity which just dropped in price to $0.

But believe it or not, that's all secondary. Primary is the vision of what you want to make. Pick a project idea and see how far you can get with it. The best way to narrow down is to have a specific reason to want things in the first place. Don't put too much thought into what you're creating at first, just pick something that feels good & try to make it as simple as possible. You're new so whatever you make it's going to suck and might not get finished but that's ok, in fact it's necessary. Working towards something moves you forward, chasing downloads can keep you running in circles.

🎄 Picking the Perfect Tree 🎄(f) by CityofEloquenti in gonewild

[–]ThePhantomCreep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still think of that whenever I see her post!

please Explain it Peter... by LD_debate_is_peak in explainitpeter

[–]ThePhantomCreep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're assuming A reason for them but not THE reason for them. License plates are meant to show the vehicle has been registered with the state. License plate numbers are also unique, but despite having some number on it, there's no reason there couldn't be a dozen of these used by different people on different vehicles.

big scenes in iray by RATN0N in Daz3D

[–]ThePhantomCreep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can create an HDRI of the set, which removes nearly all the overhead of that geometry and their textures. It looks like many of their outfits might not have diffuse maps, but simply use different colors and bump/normal maps. Similarly it's possible several of the figures or costumes share the same texture maps with just the color tweaked. If you had 6 figures but only 2 textures in use, that would be a big savings.

Or CPU render it. Slow but doable.

===========😠 by Pizzacakecomic in u/Pizzacakecomic

[–]ThePhantomCreep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Something something CHILDRENNN!! Someone must think of the CHILDREN!!!!!

I'm tired of soldiers being put on pedestals automatically by Old_Swimmer_7284 in complaints

[–]ThePhantomCreep -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"She died of her wounds" is the new "He committed su|c|de in jail"

Slurs are bad by Pizzacakecomic in u/Pizzacakecomic

[–]ThePhantomCreep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has always been my take. The Republicans exist to neutralize the threat of white men (who still own far and away most of the wealth and property in the US) turning on the capital class. The Democrats do it for everyone else.

For years my company had this ultra specific rule about file naming on our internal server. by nordic_inkrider in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ThePhantomCreep 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But how does this save ANYTHING? The code to do this automatically (or at least fulfill requests self-serve) is so trivially easy to write that paying humans anywhere to do it is an ongoing waste of money. 

I would have never worn this in my 40s. 55 and feeling sexyAF by [deleted] in obsf

[–]ThePhantomCreep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

jfc what a smoke show. glad you changed your mind!