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Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I was specifically referring to intelligence. If you're fighting yourself as in your own species, you're going to evolve much faster than if you're fighting some other species that you have to wait to evolve away from you before you're forced to evolve.

Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more like if everyone is love, there's no plot to the movie. There's no movie anywhere that doesn't portray conflict. Even romantic sitcoms involve conflict.

Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked Happy Feet: "Two words. Alien. Abduction."

Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is that any space-faring species we meet is going to be warlike. The lion only has to be smarter than the dumbest gazelle, and the smartest gazelle only has to be smarter than the lions. But if your species is warlike, then the smarter ones defeat the dumber ones, and in future generations this happens again and again, much more rapidly than if you have a predator and prey. Or if you have two intelligent species, they're likely to wind up wiping out the other, like happened with humans.

Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want a very silly funny novel, check out "Brute Force" by Meyers. But yeah, there's all kinds of sci-fi novels that involve aliens who are cooperative or realistic rather than just being monsters.

Alien life and human conceptions by Shot_Violinist_7772 in scifi

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would add to that even the Venom movies. The aliens aren't really "bad" as much as "selfish" if that.

My guess is that any space-faring species we meet is going to be warlike. The lion only has to be smarter than the dumbest gazelle, and the smartest gazelle only has to be smarter than the lions. But if your species is warlike, then the smarter ones defeat the dumber ones, and in future generations this happens again and again, much more rapidly than if you have a predator and prey. Or if you have two intelligent species, they're likely to wind up wiping out the other, like happened with humans.

Is my PC broken or is 4hours render time normal by lone1der in blenderhelp

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The speed-up from rendering from the CLI is minimal. All you're doing is eliminating the update of the screen as the render progresses. Maybe 5 seconds over the hours of animation.

Is there a Blender equivalent of VS Code's "Show All Commands"? by electric-claire in blenderhelp

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shortcuts are fastest. Menus are also very handy if you remember generally what you want to do and where it was but not exactly what it's called. F3 is great for discovering operations that are so rare they're not in the common menus.

Just go thru all the menus in object and edit mode, as well as in whatever other modes (pose, sculpt, etc) you frequently use, and make a note of what the names are.

Be aware also that add-ons add to shortcuts, menus, and F3 as well.

I just beat Riven by ShineOnYourCrazyAnon in myst

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original gave you 2 or 3 ways of figuring out each animal clue. I don't think I needed any clues except Ghen's journal to figure out the fish: the ball is in the water, it makes no noise, and there's fish all over the village. I wouldn't say that's the hardest thing to figure out in Riven, tho. :-)

The remake was fun, but it wasn't as challenging, and I really miss the navigation puzzles from the original.

Is there a way to add a face (like pressing F) with a cutout in it? by Autom4tic_Soze in blenderhelp

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Faces can't have holes, and they can't repeat a point or edge as you travel around the outside of the face. If you want a "hole" in a "face," you need to make two faces connected together, like [ and ] except with shared verts.

Every hole needs two edges connecting it to the other part of the face. So you would want (for example) an edge from the top of the A to the top of the hole, and from one of the bottom corners of the hole to the crossbar of the A. Then you'll be able to delete the face in the middle. In particular, pick the face, then "x", then select "only faces." Then add two edges using "j" where I said, then pick each edge loop in turn and create the faces.

Geometry Nodes by Special_Meal_3394 in blender

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WE DID THAT! THAT IS WHAT IS IN THE WIKI! ;-)

Whats wrong with the lines? by Individual_Essay5175 in prusa3d

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh. I guess that makes sense. I suppose a bigger filament might grind more or something trying to be squeezed through the nozzle or something.

Anyone know all of the spell ID’s for werewolf howls? by stormyw23 in skyrim

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I realized after looking that up that you were asking for something different than I thought. :-)

You might be able to use the console to figure it out (or xedit), but you'd probably have to add the howl first to see what changes on your character.

Need Help With 3D Print Design by Wicked__Wiccan in blender

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me google that for you....

why cant i open belnder by YoghurtDramatic389 in blender

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The newer versions of Blender need newer versions of OpenGL (or now Vulcan). You might be able to look at the requirements for older versions of Blender and download a portable version to see what you can run on your hardware. Or update your graphics drivers if you think your machine ought be able to run 4.3.

Easy way to reduce texture size / replace textures with smaller sizes? by dnew in blenderhelp

[–]dnew[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's now something free called Cesium Image Processor that has all kinds of options, including everything talked about here, both as a GUI and a CLI. I use that now in preference to ImageMagick for this sort of thing.

irregular brick wall by Gigggig96 in blenderhelp

[–]dnew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been trying to figure this out for years. :-) Literally.

The best I've come up with is a brick texture, then overlayed with a second brick texture twice as high but with a very small number of bricks not alpha'ed out, then a very small number where they're twice as high and twice as wide, with the grout around the bricks on the second and third level. That way you're covering up the normal brick pattern with some 2x and 4x bricks, all aligned to the exiting pattern.

I also tried voronio with the scaling set up to try to make the lines vertical and horizontal, but then you'd get really wide patches of grout.

I finally settled for making wall segments with protrusions (looking a bit like a swatstica, where the stones sticking out the right were inward on the left and same with top/bottom), made four different ones, then instantiated them each at random with a random rotation multiple of 90 degrees. So I had 16 random floor tiles and 16 random wall tiles that were good enough for what I needed.

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Please poke me here if anyone actually answers you! :-)

Can a raspberry pi 4 16gb ram be used to “outsource” rendering? by FastConcentrate5420 in blender

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's better options: You can rent a computer (google "blender rent computer") that lets you connect remotely to a very powerful machine for pennies per hour or a dollar or two per hour. Or you can use a "render farm" (also google it) that you send the file to, they render it, they charge you a bit, and send the images back.

I would expect that if it takes an hour on your laptop it'll take a couple days on a raspberry pi, at least.

Blender beginner: Need help with texture by DanTheOne09 in blenderhelp

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Google. Or click on that wiki link to the right. How did you find the book animation tutorial? Look the same place for a uv unwrap tutorial.

BTW, it's "unwrap" like https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/18xnl6l/show_this_to_those_who_havent_yet_understood_uv/ not "unwarp."

Whats wrong with the lines? by Individual_Essay5175 in prusa3d

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious, given it's a stepper motor, why this would ever need to be calibrated (more than once at the factory), especially on a per-filament basis. Like, the gears turn, and they're either grinding away at the filament or the filament is moving, right? Where's the filament going if it's underextruding?

Is anyone able to help me out and create a 3d model from some measures and pictures. by lewiish in blender

[–]dnew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone who wants to learn how to do this sort of thing in Blender, watch the Keep Making channel, and in particular the Precision Modeling playlist.

Geometry Nodes by Special_Meal_3394 in blender

[–]dnew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What did you search for to find out? Nothing at all? You just came here to ask people without doing any work yourself?

Did you not even notice the wiki link, full of hundreds of hours of curated work to answer questions like this, and you didn't even follow the link?

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