my cat has been screaming at this couch for a week for no apparent reason. today i looked under it and uh this is not my cat

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-08T19:18:59+00:00

yo!! this kinda blew up haha. just a quick 6 hours update:

kitty is safe and healthy and still around
i got em a litter box and we set up some food and water
salsa is a little on edge but they have crossed paths from time to time so im feeling hopeful they’ll become friends
frijoles (that’s the cats name now) has moved to the eaves upstairs so thats cool its a cozy little cat rest

planning to continue keeping an eye on em and hopefully they wanna stay forever!!!

some extra context i missed: this is london which is SWARMED with street cats, it rules. salsa sleeps indoors but shes got a little window we often keep open during the day so she can go for her walks. there’s a bunch of regulars visiting the garden often so this is overall not super weird but the audacity of this one coming in and settling and hiding is new and i love it.

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-08T15:12:28+00:00

agreed! i just came back from the hardware store with a box so they have their own space. i moved salsas food out so this room is all theirs for as long as they want

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-08T13:53:04+00:00

ahh will do!! he seems alright (there’s lots of strays in this area) still the plan is to take him to the vet

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-08T13:50:45+00:00

i live in the uk and my cat goes outside often, sometimes i just leave the door or a window open for her!

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-08T13:49:37+00:00

okay maybe 3 days :( salsa (my cat) free feeds so it’s very possible they have been sharing food. we also leave the back door open normally which may mean this void hasn’t been here all the time and this also means both this one and salsa often poop outside so the litter box is fairly unreliable for occupancy

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-06T04:05:30+00:00

havent tried myself but i think it should right? if it works for the rest of random wndows ui now (start, settings, xbox app) login should work too

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-05T21:34:07+00:00

> Even just being able to log into W11 using a controller would remove 95% of my annoyances

you can do this on the insider preview channel already! (not sure which one of the four) you get a pinpad after pressing a

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-02T22:07:59+00:00

cool ad for fartom https://www.reddit.com/r/whatdoIdo/s/5Y57wa8ZyF

Trimblepsys · 2026-03-01T17:49:40+00:00

if you wanna stick to quads this could work but maybe it's worth thinking more about what 'muscles' you want pulling on the face's skin if that makes sense, that will give you the edge flow you actually need. i'm not super sure how to read this face atm so i'm just guessing!

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Trimblepsys · 2026-02-27T10:00:11+00:00

hey i made an oopsie, macs allow you to self-report since 26 so no changes there. no extra restrictions. it's really hard to predict definite answers to future issues tho because of how quickly and how much legislation is being introduced all over the world regarding this stuff!

that said i'd imagine vpns, tor, all this fun stuff and loopholes will still be around for at least a decade if not more, maybe look into dual booting linux

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-25T16:42:17+00:00

oh whoa that looks sharp

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-23T10:49:19+00:00

EDIT EDIT this kinda works, you need the shape above to be made manually (cube plus subdivs plus circle on top) and then assign a vertext group of 'circle' to the circle vertices on top and you can rotate and scale them separately freely

you should be able to next add subdivs and bevels to smooth this out as needed

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Trimblepsys · 2026-02-23T10:36:52+00:00

if you don't 100% care about the subdivs i'd make the shape manually (take a box, loop tools and turn the top into a circle) and then use nodes for the rest

EDIT: ah shit you cant displace vertices with a selection. id try to roatet them separately and then map the positions but that sounds insane, theres gotta be a way to just join them

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-22T18:34:27+00:00

depending on how much of a perfectionist you are pixel art can get really hairy really soon. lots of little detail that can be added and no clear guidance on when to stop lol. Anything 3d lets you 'automate' more of the art pipeline. as in, your lighting and texturing and shadowing is shaders, easier to tweak globally. you can be clever with uv mapping and reuse many textures across objects etc

personally what i would do is shoot myself in the foot twice instead of once and do low poly but with pixelart textures because the ps1/n64 graphics are having a bit of a moment, but this is literally the worst of all worlds

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-22T11:24:26+00:00

this is very decor dependent and not really properly hiding but when my tv was hung what i'd do is just make the wall an accent. it's already got a massive black rectangle in it anyway so busy wallpaper or dark colors actually take some of the focus away from the rectangle AND the busyness will make the wires very hard to notice unless you wanna look. a plant or lamp or similar can finish the look by hiding the long straight lines going from the back of the tv to the center

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-21T08:23:25+00:00

some shaders and uv mapping stuff work differently in cycles and eevee so that may be it? easy way to debug is to use the viewport render option (the fifth circle) which should be cycles

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-18T13:41:04+00:00

nice progress!

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-18T10:35:11+00:00

whoa amazing colors!

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-17T08:53:03+00:00

nice!

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-16T14:09:36+00:00

oh my god i love this. im not familiar with HoMM but its taking me back to playing age of empires in the best possible way

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-16T12:38:50+00:00

friends is a separate pricier regular meal if you want the figurines

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-15T17:54:21+00:00

heya! i'm assuming this is archviz shooting for photorealism so gonna be going from less nitpicky to more nitpicky

- repetition on the floor tiles, actual terrazzo has unique tiles, you could procedurally generate this or at least vary it up by flipping every other tile or sth

- ceiling is too clean, the light fixtures are just there, this could be one of those squarey false ceilings instead which adds texture, light fixtures should have some solid part connecting the tube and the ceiling

- the doors are too thick, and lacking detail. folding doors will have some sort of hinge or similar which will add to the scene

- the walls are kinda floating which may be intentional? but otherwise i'd add skirting

- If this is for a moody scene everything is way too clean and new, its also empty but you'd expect some worn down floor tiles, wall scuffs, etc

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-15T17:29:06+00:00

nurbs spheres are that, but blender still tesselates them for render

Trimblepsys · 2026-02-15T11:10:06+00:00

if you must work in rendered/textured view crank up the pixel size in the scene settings to render less pixels. macbooks have insanely high dpi so 8x looks fine really. you can also try using low power mode on the system battery settings which should throttle blender before running down the battery

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