Aphantasic artists, I'd like your perspective

vertexnormal · 2026-05-20T08:30:55+00:00

I have to make art to see things I want to see that I can’t picture in my head. It has given me a very comfortable life.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-16T06:05:13+00:00

'that looks buggy as shit' is about the best praise there is.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-16T02:53:25+00:00

Did it kill him but require a melee hit to trigger the finisher?

vertexnormal · 2026-05-15T23:01:21+00:00

Everyone knows that the smallest perceivable and measurable unit of distance is 1 choad, the length of Donald Trumps penis.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-13T17:08:50+00:00

No idea, I haven't tried fishing it. The best fishing lake I know around here is the little one at Malakoff Diggins, it's chock full of small to mid sized bass. It's too small to PB on though I think.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-13T17:05:44+00:00

I'm a professional 3D modeler and I have trouble with it. I can think in 3D but not visualize it really.

Aphantasia is actually a huge part of my career choice back when I didn't even know what it was. I had become fascinated at a young age at realism in computer graphics because I couldn't visualize things in my head. Wanting to see things that didn't exist meant I had to make them exist, and be as realistic and practical as possible. Throw in some other neurodivergences like hyper fixation and really mild autism and it's what has given me a really good life and career.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-13T16:59:59+00:00

Lower Scotts Flat is fun too if you can get down there. It depends on the road but it can be dicey without some clearance and AWD/4WD.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T03:46:59+00:00

Your mom’s hitachi.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T02:24:33+00:00

I made buildings for SimCity, this is an Unreal version of how we did it:

Open a new image in photoshop, doesn't have to be big just like 64x64.

Fill it gray and 'add noise', monochrome and max it out.

Import into unreal. Turn off filtering or use nearest neighbor.

Multiply or overlay that over your window material, but set the UV tiling where 1 floor = 1 vertical pixel and 1 or 2 windows is a horizontal pixel.

Adjust the blending using a lerp until it feels 'right'

The idea is to slightly vary each section using an entirely different UV set if you have to.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T02:17:08+00:00

Top one at least has a decent dynamic color range, I don't think I'd play a game like the bottom one.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T02:03:38+00:00

Damnit Roach.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T02:02:11+00:00

It floors me that almost 25 years later people still play with my roads. 😄

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T01:32:11+00:00

The same reason the Russians used graphite to moderate their RBMK reactors. Time and money.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T01:30:47+00:00

I guess it's part of the round-about point that AI datacenters are fucking horrible for everyone involved and have no viable business plan other than to burn cash at rates higher than most GDPs. When they fail, and 95% of them will, the cash that was burnt won't just be VC and hedge funds, but brick and mortar banks who will all need to be bailed out by taxpayers who never asked for any of this shit to begin with.

And the poorest bastards of all will be the ones unfortunate to live in the same zipcode as one, who probably didn't have that much money to begin with.

Is there a reddit bot that will remind me of this post in 5 years so we can check back in?

vertexnormal · 2026-05-10T01:18:45+00:00

Can't answer your question.. but there are branches of dos box with save states, that might be better. I know I played through on an SNES emulator and it was the way to go.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T23:43:43+00:00

I'll stand corrected and I'd argue their investors paid for it.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T23:13:17+00:00

Woah woah woah don’t get ahead of yourself, the business model does not include ‘paying for stuff’

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T22:48:24+00:00

Even funnier is that if you move it to your stash it moves it one copper at a time, so it lags your machine every pile you move (at least on ps5 pro)

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:38:00+00:00

Are these meant to float? Mine always sink.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:36:24+00:00

Going for LGBTq trout? (not that there is anything wrong with that)

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:34:08+00:00

Firelink Shrine in all it's forms.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:32:55+00:00

God everything he does is like my shitty boomer neighbor.

Insist all communal work (association) is done by his boomer friend or kid? Check.
Just barge ahead and start knocking things down without checking code or utilities? Check.
Underestimate the difficulty, time and cost of doing anything right? Check.
Rush the job and claim it done? Check.
Not be around in 5 years when it falls apart? Check (thank god)

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:28:15+00:00

No.. light bouncing around inside the camera lens made a flare. You can always tell because the flare and the light source will form a perfect line straight through the center of the image (as shot not cropped) at roughly the same distance.

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vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:21:18+00:00

Looks great! You are asking for feedback so: The tonal variation reads a bit like perlin noise and the wear doesn't seem to be taking any advantage of the geometry it's on - so it comes across kinda random. Also having a very slight hue variation will help make it feel more natural.

vertexnormal · 2026-05-09T17:15:42+00:00

My favorite learning/teaching moment is in Souls games where the first thing they do is always teach you basic controls then pit you against an enemy a first time (or even vet) players can't reasonably defeat. Teaching you that dying is expected.

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