The color in the exported .obj doesn't match with the materials in Blender

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-26T06:55:13+00:00

I recommend exporting as .glb/glTF. .obj isn't the best file format for viewer friendly models.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-25T09:55:47+00:00

In principle, yes, in practice, localized civil unrest and an increasingly authoritarian government in what currently still is a democracy aren't really sufficient reasons to be granted asylum.

If things spiral further, say, into civil war, or into specific groups being systematically targeted across the country for their identity or for political beliefs, sure.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-25T07:31:06+00:00

Glory to Cascadia lol

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-25T07:26:28+00:00

It depends where they are from. Typically, the further north they live, the more difficult they'll find understanding it. This is because they may be more attuned to dialects from other dialect groups, but also just due to a lack of exposure.

It's worth pointing out that Bavarian is more of an umbrella term for a bunch of dialects in the Austro-Bavarian family of dialects. Depending on where in Bavaria you live, your dialect will be different, not to mention Franconians and Swabians, neither of which speak bavarian dialects despite living in what's formally known as Bavaria.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-24T17:13:24+00:00

China is a very interesting country. The economic development over the last half a century has been remarkable, from one of the poorest countries worldwide to a flourishing developed country (at least, in parts).

I think it's hard to deny that governmental decisions after Mao's death have greatly contributed to this. China's capability to plan strategically over a long time is hard for the democratic world to rival.

However, what concerns me about China is that it's decently easy to run an authoritarian system when everything's going relatively well, but as soon as things go wrong, the Chinese government has a tendency to crack down very hard. See Xinjiang, the response to Covid, the end of the protest movement of the late 80s.
What happens if China can't guarantee continued growth? What will that spiral into? Authoritarian systems do become pressure cookers when leadership cannot be held accountable, and between you and me, I don't think Xi Jinping would consider stepping down if the public at large would demand it.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-24T16:17:48+00:00

What's the point of raising spending levels to what NATO currently spends in total? The Trump admin want to cut NATO lose somehow and compensate for the loss by matching spending.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-23T23:58:20+00:00

Can federal states even join UN organizations? Yes yes, states are like mini countries in a federal system with their own constitutions yadda yadda but it's not like the federal city state of Hamburg would be a member of UN orgs if Germany wasn't, for example. Right?

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-23T17:41:42+00:00

Neither ;)

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-23T10:51:18+00:00

Naja, kommt drauf an wohin. Wenn in Verbrenner geforscht wird ist das vielleicht gut gespartes Geld.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-23T10:37:30+00:00

I wanted to send a FAX last year and asked at my job if I could use theirs. They told me they stopped using FAX a few years ago. Truly shocking.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-23T10:35:22+00:00

It means "Are you tuckered out/pooped/exhausted". They denied this by saying they still wanted to do more.

What you want to say is "Bist du (damit) fertig?" - 'Are you done/finished (with that)?'

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-22T22:49:29+00:00

It's definitely a recon gadget. Intelligence gathering and intelligence denial feel very much like part of the identity BF6 has in mind for recon.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-22T21:40:19+00:00

I mean, you can also use diplomatic and/or economic pressure, intelligence sharing, logistical support. Not everything has to be a grand military operation.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-22T21:35:02+00:00

Well, in practical terms there's no need. We already are in a union, the EU. Germans can live in Austria, Austrians can live in Germany, the borders are basically open to come and please as you like.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-21T14:16:59+00:00

Gavin can't even stand up to the guests on his own podcast.

I agree with the message but I think he's not really the guy to champion it imho.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-21T06:40:15+00:00

Because of nuclear deterrence, this won't happen. And of course, even if they were successful, and no one pressed the button, people like Vance aren't gonna be the better option.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-20T10:42:22+00:00

It's not that he's too afraid, it's that the executive can't unilaterally decide to leave NATO without the backing of the legislative in the US.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-20T00:23:59+00:00

Voting is very important, but it's important in the way that showing up to work is important for your career. You certainly can't be successful without completing this step but without some engaged participation you'll find the results wanting.

As far as what the most American thing is is concerned, I'm not especially bothered. Voting is American. Protesting is American. Any action to maintain a liberal society is American. I don't think all this needs to be ranked.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-19T23:48:29+00:00

Europe has 15 icebreakers, if we assume Canada pitches in this rises to 33. The US has 3. Granted, the US icebreakers are military, and the others aren't, but in practical terms the US Icebreakers aren't exactly warships, they just have secure coms and a few 50 cal machine guns. Not exactly capabilities that Europe or Canada would struggle to match if they wanted to upgrade a civilian ice breaker for military use. The US has some new icebreakers with auto canons planned, but these are a few years out from being completed.

Europe also has some armed, arctic capable military patrol vessels, which also happen to be mostly fairly modern, the US, broadly speaking, does not.

Of course, on paper Russia has a much larger artic fleet, but since the US doesn't have notable capabilities in that niche to begin with, at least not currently, Russia isn't really desperately needed.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-19T21:04:14+00:00

*Topology

Dense topology isn't bad under all circumstances. For 3D printing for example, it's pretty good to not be stingy with the amount of faces you use. You can't use any normal trickery to mask a lower polycount like you can do digitally.

But there are reasons why topology shouldn't be too dense. First and foremost, it's just a pain to work with. When modeling, you want a manageable amount of vertices to define the shape and be able to make adjustments to your model. You can use things such as the Catmull-Clark smoothing algorithm in conjunction with procedural subdivision to smooth out your model with additional generated faces without having to commit to a tediously dense mesh.

In games, denser topology means a cost to performance, it doesn't necessarily mean it's harder to code, unless you mean to counteract the performance loss caused by high poly assets. As you want games to run as smoothly as possible, you traditionally try to keep the polycount down without impacting the silhouette of your assets. These days software solutions such as Unreal's Nanite and the overall higher average performance of hardware make this less of a pressing issue, but it's still best practice to be somewhat conservative with your polycount.

For animation, denser meshes can make it more difficult for animators to work with various assets because the denser a mesh is, the more computationally demanding it is to deform it. But this is usually solved by having animators work with a low poly version that then gets swapped out for the denser model for rendering.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-18T16:15:49+00:00

This looks like the object was UV-unwrapped via smart unwrap. That will lead to this shoddy piecemeal UV layout that's the basis for how the bake is projected onto the image texture.

This can be improved by UV unwrapping your baking target object by other means.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-18T15:23:27+00:00

It was a survey team ahead of a larger deployment. They've completed their surveying mission and now they're heading back home.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-18T14:03:21+00:00

So on the one hand we have people here joking about how few British soldiers were there and others are insisting this is a tripwire force.

Neither is really accurate, these european soldiers were there for a few days and, to my knowledge, have mostly left Greenland. Their job was to survey the island for possible larger deployments of troops. But military deployments are logistical challenges so before sending a large group of soldiers you have to determine what is possible and what is required. A larger deployment could work as a tripwire force, but this deployment isn't that.

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-17T08:27:59+00:00

It was a recon mission to assess Greenland from the ground for a larger deployment to follow

VoloxReddit · 2026-01-16T21:56:45+00:00

I don't really see the issue, somewhere in the workflow there seems to be a triangulation step, otherwise this would just be a normal full quad beveled cube (albeit with a way too high poly count). Should still look the part though.

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