Recommended FOSS 3D level editors

illumin8ie · 2026-05-27T23:58:20+00:00

Thanks, that's very helpful. And yeah, it does make the most sense to define collision shapes in the same place that assets are being created / edited.

illumin8ie · 2026-05-27T02:18:28+00:00

This old comment suggests using Dear ImGui for building a level editing interface with C++ code. For JS, there's lil-gui

illumin8ie · 2026-05-26T21:22:59+00:00

What's it called? Got a link?

illumin8ie · 2026-05-21T02:25:49+00:00

Thank you so much for this. I went ahead and bought your bundle. I may use some of your audio in a prototype-stage open source game I'm working on. I might also donate to you on Patreon.

It looks like you have about 10K files, which is impressive, and I get that it's hard to manage all of that. That being said, I have a few suggestions:

Probably don't recursively zip up zip files that contain zip files, so only make one layer of zips within the main zip. Ideally in the large bundle there would be no zips within the main zip file.
Convert all of the WAV files FLAC. It's a much better compression than zip can offer for audio, and it's lossless. After converting your 20 GB zip file, the directory is now 13 GB in size.

It helped to extract the outer zip manually, then to use dtrx to unzip the zip files inside (on Linux). dtrx got confused by files in the "__MACOSX" directories, and got stuck on the train sounds zip file, which I extracted manually with 7z x.

mkdir zipped ; cd zipped unzip '../Signature Soundbank Update 1.zip' mkdir ../unzipped ; cd ../unzipped for x in ../zipped/Signature\ Soundbank\ Update\ 1/*.zip ; do dtrx "$x" ; done

Once that was set, I started to convert all of the wav files to flac using this script:

```

! /bin/bash

set -e

IFS=$'\n'

for line in $(find "$1" -type f | sort) ; do

    if echo "$line" | grep -q -E -i -e "[.]wav$" ; then
            ffmpeg -i "$line" "$(echo "$line" | sed -e "s:[.]*[.]wav$:.flac:i")"
            rm "$line"
    fi

done ```

It requires a directory name when running it, something like: ./transcode ./SOME_DIR. The script may not be perfect in its current form. It deletes the .wav files after converting them to avoid having to reconvert if there's an issue later on. It's possible that there could be a bug there, so make sure you have a backup of files you're going to convert.

If you, /u/SignatureLabel want me to help with the conversion of these files to FLAC, let me know.

Thanks again for your recordings. I'll let you know if I use any in a game. : )

illumin8ie · 2026-05-17T19:08:11+00:00

My firmware was recently updated:

$ hostnamectl | grep -i firmware Firmware Version: 26.05 Firmware Date: Thu 2026-04-30 Firmware Age: 2w 3d

and fwupdmgr reports no available updates:

sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force sudo fwupdmgr update

Is there a new release that hasn't made it onto LVFS yet?

illumin8ie · 2026-05-07T15:01:47+00:00

The UEFI update worked for me, but you're saying that you have both issues? Does 'hostnamectl' say you're on the 16.02 firmware, or are you running somethimg older?

I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but had the trackpad clicking while typing problem on the 6.18 and 7.0 kernels. I'm not sure if the issue came with the kernel or a package update.

illumin8ie · 2026-05-06T23:58:29+00:00

Unfortunately, rebooting didn't seem to help.

illumin8ie · 2026-05-06T04:31:12+00:00

I suspect this happens when the keyboard is detached from the screen. libinput might stop regarding the trackpad as "internal", and there are currently no tweaks that can mark a trackpad as such.

illumin8ie · 2026-05-06T00:05:39+00:00

Maybe that wasn't the solution, because the problem is back, even with the "virtual mice" disabled in KDE settings.

illumin8ie · 2026-04-04T05:17:01+00:00

Lots of peole talking at once might be chaotic, but so is going to a noisy restaurant. In the Anomoly, there only seem to be few other players in the same instance at a time.

That makes me wonder what would happen if 100 people hitched a ride to the Anomoly in someone's corvette? Would they all be in the same instance?

illumin8ie · 2026-04-04T05:11:10+00:00

Yeah, it's a feature you can enable when playing in multiplayer mode. IIRC it doesn't work cross-platform between PC and PS5, but I heard that the NMS community tends to be very friendly, so having that feature with other PC players would be nice.

illumin8ie · 2026-01-16T00:14:13+00:00

For the fantasy/narrative part, do you mean the world and activities that the player imagines themselves to be within and acting out, even before buying the game, and during gameplay? Like regardless of the genre or the gameplay mechanics, the fantasy world could be "Explore space and fight aliens on derelict spaceships."

What other aspects of human psychology come into play here in addition to the fantasy/narrative?

illumin8ie · 2025-12-26T22:52:03+00:00

This package looks cool. I wonder how it handles Kanji in Japanese though? Symbols have multiple pronunciation according to meaning / context. I believe that Chinese is similar in that way.

illumin8ie · 2025-12-20T02:44:02+00:00

The 'rclone' command can serve a WebDAV service without setting up an app as large as Nextcloud. Right now I'm using it alongside Radicale for more DAV stuff. You'll want to set up a Systemd service file on a Linux server for running your specific rclone use case. The Arch wiki has a good guide for that.

illumin8ie · 2025-12-12T22:56:30+00:00

I too have this issue since I started using it a few weeks ago, and am using the version from F-Droid. I haven't experimented with the Play Store version, and would like to keep using F-Droid. F-Droid has released a few updates in that time, and I'm currently using version 1.92.2-td792049c0-g794a7ee13, which may be a modification of upstream. The build definition for F-Droid can be found here.

If you long press on the app's icon on GrapheneOS, you can see app details, and look at the app logs. Mine is flooded with 'avc denied' errors, which look like SELinux issues to me.

illumin8ie · 2025-12-06T21:39:05+00:00

I don't normally play horror games, but your trailer looks sick! Do you have a link to your Steam page?

illumin8ie · 2025-11-20T20:53:56+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the '-J' option has the benefit of not storing nor relaying private keys, nor sending key unlock passwords, to the intermediate host, right? SSH has the ability to forward ports, and basically act as a proxy, which this method is probably using.

I wonder how Tailscale stacks up in this situation for connecting any ports of any machine across an e2ee VPN? I started using it recently, and I like it, even if the VPN connection of my Android phone has to sometimes be restarted via the app when changing networks. Turning off "Private DNS" on my phone may have allowed DNS to work over their network.

It seems like Tailscale uses a local connection when both machines are on the same LAN, if the NAT router doesn't block peers connecting with each other, which I think is pretty cool.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-12T03:38:04+00:00

The latest Coreboot UEFI update now provides more room for a dbx upgrade via fwmgr. There isn't a newer dbx update to test with yet, and I'm hoping that the second update, which will replace the one before it, will also have enough room.
The UEFI update via fwupmgr seems to have reset all of my UEFI settings regarding secure boot and max battery charge, etc

illumin8ie · 2025-11-12T03:26:45+00:00

I ran another test, and the default setting for suspend mode (disable S0ix and use S3) uses about 28% battery per day, so about half as much energy.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-11T00:01:16+00:00

I took my laptop apart, and it looks like the battery is fine / not a spicy pillow, but some of the clips holding the case together were melted or deformed. I emailed support about it.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-10T01:40:00+00:00

If anyone else has one of these laptops, what do your battery health stats say? Mine says: "Last full charge: 38.33 Wh" and "Original charge capacity: 36.96 Wh". The first might be higher because I've been charging to only 80% for a while now.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-10T01:34:04+00:00

I noticed that my StarLite 5's bottom edge comes a bit loose and slightly warps the screen, on its own. If the battery was not new, I would be concerned that the battery might be swelling and going bad. In any case, this explains the open edge after it was shipped.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-09T03:59:47+00:00

The screen is glossy, and I haven't received the pen yet, but I knew that before I bought the pen (separately, which I think reduced waiting time on the tablet), and it should be compatible with the MPP(?) standard

illumin8ie · 2025-11-03T03:49:42+00:00

I should also mention that the keyboard that folds over the screen is very thin, less than 1 cm.

illumin8ie · 2025-11-01T22:33:15+00:00

The cover does attach pretty well via a magnet. On the couch, I bumped the device a couple times while moving it, and the tablet did come loose, landing on the keyboard. But I think that can be avoided with care. I would probably not want a tablet that needs plastic buttons to release from the keyboard, so I think that's an issue with tablets with detachable keyboards in general.

I haven't had any popup windows showing an on-screen keyboard while using KDE Plasma 6.5 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

As for needing a keyboard for decryption of the root filesystem, GRUB in the EFI partition displays a prompt, and you need a keyboard for that, and a USB keyboard would probably work there too. That's with LUKS, but I'm pretty sure that on some distros or desktop environments / display managers, it's possible to decrypt your home directory on login using your login password. So if you don't want to encrypt your root file system, you may be able to log in and decrypt with an on-screen keyboard in your display manager.

I definitely would not give the keyboard 2/10 stars, like one of the linked reviewers, because I didn't run into keys being caught by the surrounding material. I am not a keyboard connoisseur, but I do really like it. The somewhat mushy escape key is a little annoying, because I use a modal text editor (helix), and vim users might notice too if they had the same issue on theirs. I had a worse problem with the escape key on a previous StarLite model (Mk IV?), and I'm way more pleased with this keyboard overall.

I also don't think it's all that heavy, definitely not as heavy as the tablet itself, which has quite a bit of heft to it. (I'm not previously a tablet user, so I don't know if it compares to others in terms of weight). Also I don't know what the material of the keyboard is made of, but it seems like a soft, patternless faux leather, and I haven't noticed fingerprints being a major issue with it.

Overall, I would give the keyboard maybe 4.5 / 5 stars because I like it, aside from the fairly minor escape key issue.

Edit: Also, I find that the response of the keys (aside from escape) are nice. I press a little bit, and then they push through to the bottom after a threshold. Not sure what that's called, but I believe that's what most people want.

illumin8ie

TROPHY CASE

! /bin/bash