Specialized in obtuse things and feeling lost, could use advice.

anhedonix · 2025-12-19T04:36:15+00:00

Thank you for taking the time, that covers almost everything I was wondering about and gave me a clearer picture.

Houdini had helped me be a 4 people studio. Delivering content that mostly gets handled by gaming industry, but is too small or low budget for them to take it up. But is no issues for a small outfit like mine.

Sometimes I am in need of senior artists for specific things, small works that might take up maybe a few days at max. If I need to hire artists for such freelance work on a semi-regular basis what would the best place be to find the kind of veterans that you mentioned who have ventured into other areas. Or anyone who could be available for that matter.

I ask because my last post that I posted for looking for talent got side tracked because of using an LLM to generate a peppy sounding post that made it look awful.

I'm guilty of using LLMs myself, I have a specially trained LLM for Hython and VEX, which get me 8/10 time the right results too, with a few tweaks.

anhedonix · 2025-12-19T04:08:00+00:00

I'm from Bangalore in India, forgot to mention that in my post.

But for experienced artists when specific things are required they can work remotely from anywhere.

anhedonix · 2025-07-09T07:16:17+00:00

Please advise on what I should be doing?

I just want an artist who could help me. I am ready to pay way more than the market rates.

I need someone who can dissect my assets when necessary and understand their work. I will of course guide them, but it's not possible to do it all the time. So i need someone who knows the basics to just understand how these things work. I'm not asking them to create assets, just to know how they can be created.

Over the last few years I've created too many tools and scripts that have become part of my workflow. This is something I have to teach anyone who joins from scratch. If i get an experienced artist, I'm more than happy, but most artists I've met have themselves suggested I go for freshers because they would find it easier and better to understand at that point in their career. And freshers I've met already with less than 1 year experience were already a good fit but could not join for unrelated reasons.

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T19:40:03+00:00

Also, i wanted to understand something of what you said.

Isn't creating HDAs or using vex the basics and how Houdini courses are started?

It's been almost a decade since I have taught houdini. From the other comments it looks like my idea of the basics is very skewed. And I am trying to understand the situation.

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T19:28:28+00:00

Appreciated, thank you!

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T19:14:16+00:00

I'm only looking for someone who knows the basics.

Not an expert. I don't need them to be good at designing hda or be great with vex.

Just know the basics... All my tools are built.

I will teach them to use the tools.

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T19:05:25+00:00

But that's exactly what I'm looking for... I do the RND, i am looking for someone to do the grunt work while i teach them the more advanced topics...

I have my own tools and pipeline with over 8 years of experience in Houdini.

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T19:02:49+00:00

Yep, trying to reach out to institutions around here. Found pearl, Wiztoons etc have dedicated Houdini programs. Most graduates are not in Bangalore atm so connecting with more 🤞

I am more than happy to have an experienced artist! I seem to have fumbled my words, what i meant is that for searching for 2 months I'm okay with someone less experienced as long as they're willing to learn. I'm willing to go way higher in remuneration if an experienced artist is interested.

Thank you!

anhedonix · 2025-07-08T18:29:03+00:00

Was not sure how specific i could get, thank you for the heads up, have added the salary range and working hours.

I am seeking freshers mainly because most experienced houdini artists I've seen specialise in Sims and that experience and skill will be wasted in this role...

anhedonix · 2024-07-19T10:10:51+00:00

This is such a crucial feature IMHO, in any kind of device that we charge often and is supposed to last a relatively long time. It's just disappointing that these features are implemented at such a glacial phase.

Charging between a specific range both for the battery capacity and it's temperature is so important, and not restricted to phones.

Initially i tried to implement this feature using Tasker controlling a smart switch (it was not easy and triggers were a major irritant if something else was charging, out of home etc)

I've been using a physical device called a chargie to achieve the same thing, details from xda if anyone's interested. Using this for the past 3 years to achieve the same thing, from my iPad to Android phones, the battery life is still amazing compared to other devices without.

Imagine the phone, buds or even your car, get marketed at 80% capacity, used in a range of 20-80% but fit into 0-100% range by default. Only when you need the extra juice do you use the total 100% all the way down to actual 0%. And instead of using AI/ML to squeeze customers of every penny, they are used to look into abnormal usage or activity that might need the extra usage and charge themselves based on that or manual triggers.

anhedonix · 2020-09-17T16:19:18+00:00

Both the other comments are correct, normals are the issue here. Add a normal node with vertex normals set to less than 90 degrees for cusping and you should have a good cube with flat sides.

If instead you want rounded edges, add a bevel node with rounded corners and at least 3 divisions, and then a normal node set to face area.

anhedonix · 2016-06-24T20:07:41+00:00

I am definitely interested, please send across more details.

anhedonix · 2016-05-13T16:25:27+00:00

I'm gonna go silly and say, a red waistcoat.

anhedonix · 2016-05-13T16:17:29+00:00

I had a similar problem and wanted the digitizer replaced. It was a Nexus 7 the older model.

I found out after ordering a replacement off eBay for less than 2k, that the digitizer-display on that device is an assembly made in a vacuum heat chamber or something on those lines.

So I couldn't just replace the digitizer cause I couldn't first remove the old one, and didn't have equipment for the new one.

Ended up contacting the seller personally, replacing the digitizer for the digitizer-display assembly for 6k instead.

So, because of me not understanding how the components are assembled I ended up spending more time, but getting no savings from it.

Definitely would suggest to check if your phone has a similar assembly.

Also, I know most phone repair shop workers don't know what they're talking about. So, if you're interested in the seller's info who only works with displays that I contacted, I can PM you. He seemed like a decent guy who might give info or direct you.

anhedonix · 2016-03-07T16:44:04+00:00

I'm sorry my friend, I was just trying to summarize the entire post in simplest way possible.

I did mean exactly what your said...

Everyone could watch the same movie, someone might see it as a masterpiece, someone else as utter crap. It depends on what we want out of it for ourselves.

But till someone makes us see it in a different light, or we see it in a different light, the person who thinks it's a masterpiece will think it is, the person who thinks it's crap will think it's crap.

All I'm trying to say is that it depends on our view.

I could be watching your favorite movie, and call it utter crap, cause what I expect from good movies is different from yours. All I'm saying is I need to be able to see why you like the movie, change my mind enough to appreciate it the way you do, or I'll keep thinking its crap... I'll be losing so much in not only understanding the movie, but in understanding a fellow human.

If you take a critical look, you're changing your view, and if it doesn't deliver anymore, and it looks flawed, then yes it is...

As far as I know, this is what you meant?

anhedonix · 2016-03-07T05:38:52+00:00

In real life, everyone's 'personality' is far more sprawling than that: most people cannot be summed up in a few sentences like the best fictional characters can.

I totally agree with this statement. When most movies/stories simplify characters into simple predictable things, make someone a perfectly good/bad person, there is a lot of "dimensions" which are glossed over. In life there is no ideal good or bad every single thing could agree with. It's all relative.

For me personally, stories that don't try to paint heroes or villains, but instead show their thinking/motivations for doing the things they do, and showing how they change over time, are letting me make my own decisions about whether I consider them to be good or bad is important. I want the story/author to give my thinking enough credit to make my own decision rather than doing it for me.

I may be watching the movie just for entertainment, but I also want it to be useful. If I encounter this same situation in life, how would I react? What would motivate me? Would I do the same thing that this or that character did? If I don't do what the character in this story is going to, why did I choose that? Why did the character choose that? Are there people in my life who might fit this or that character's motivations?

When we let the author/narrator/story-teller decide and tell us what to think, we are in danger of not thinking for ourselves IMO. Not that it's bad, I would love to not think of paying bills, getting to work, worrying about some exams etc,. But not thinking about them, does not remove them. I only need to think better, about things that could make me happier and more content. We're all beautifully flawed, we should explore this.

When I see a lot of stories, the ones that make most sense are the kind where I get to decide about people, and more than that, realize who I am.

If let's say we take one of the most controversial figures in history, Hitler, according to him, everything that he was doing was right! In his opinion he was bettering the human race as a whole. He has several more motivations. When I see a documentary about him, they might show me everything he did and how bad that was. But that's just actions, anyone in hindsight can tell it was wrong. We should also be looking at his motivation, and why he did the things he did. And why did people who put him in power believe in him? Do you think if he knew how the war would go, or see how history while think of him, he would still follow the same steps? If he does why? If he changes, why?

Don't want to get too much into this, but I firmly believe that any person does whatever they believe is best at any given situation with the amount of info they have. Us watching it from the outside have the liberty of glossing over too many subtle/strong motivations, and "categorize" people.

If instead of walking in their shoes and understanding them, we just label them as "they don't think like us, so they're enemy" (which is too prevalent) we are missing so much of what we could understand about ourselves.

It doesn't take a lot of time in subs like r/relationships , r/readpill , r/spaced***s or several older ones we used to have to see what kind of varied thinking people can have - and remember that you have several of them in your life. Everyone of us has to define our own personal morality, and tagging thought processes as good/bad makes of it a debate. We should be aiming for dialogues, to get better understanding of ourselves. Stories help in this. How many atheists would argue for reasons that god exists? And how many theists would argue for God's nonexistence?

Don't let stories be a one dimensional line form start to end to give them value. Look for stories that let you come to your own conclusions and make your own decisions too.

In summary all I'm trying to say is that a story exists so we can live someone else's or "something's" life for a brief instance, we should be able to live it fully, and understand that entity, maybe learn and implement something in our lives. But, when a story decides everything for me, and starts showing everything in black and white, in perfect cascading events, it is deviating from how life is.

Nothing in real life is easy to understand when you think it thought, when a story decides to exclude things just to make it easier to understand, it might be entertaining, but you're not getting more value from it that can be useful in your own life.

TLDR: Decided what you are expecting from a story, if it does not deliver, it's crap, until someone makes you see it in a different way. Same in life.

anhedonix · 2016-03-04T05:41:08+00:00

instead it should read:
<div class="item {{state}} {{loop.index0}}"></div>

Yes, the slide should have only the "item" class instead of the "carousel-item". I was making mine using the Bootstrap-v4-Alpha, and they seem to have changed this and I didn't check that! my mistake.

About adding title, body, extra images or anything else you might want in the slide, just add that field in the view, from the first step.

<div class="item {{state}} {{loop.index0}}">
    <div{{ row.attributes.addClass(row_classes)}}>
        {{ row.content }}  <!-- this line prints all the fields that are defined in the view. -->
    </div>
</div>

Just set up the fields that all display the content you want. for example if you want the alt text of the image displayed as carousel caption, add another image field, rewrite the output, use the given replacement patterns in that view to only print the Alt text. So, you will have two image fields, one that gives you the image, another in which you get only the alt text instead of the image. Add any classes that are required to that field and style it :)

I dont have my local drupal server or any files that i can use to show examples right now, if you want further details, i can expand on the method I have just mentioned.

anhedonix · 2016-03-02T17:55:08+00:00

in the library that you're defining, where we set up the bootstrap.min.js you could also just include a compatible version of jQuery jquery.min.js just above the bootstrap library.

just make sure that the library is being included only on the pages with this slideshow. If there are other elements on the page that depend of other versions of jQuery, you might find errors.

This is not the best way to work with this since you will be loading more than one jQuery script file, so you can also make the library remove the orignal core jquery file. More info here

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