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This is the Model 2
It is an 8 channel number processor capable of calculating Pi to 7 digits in under 3 hours.
With its assistance I have also updated ytdlf to v0.7.1, adding small fixes. One of them is better support for merged files, like video files on reddit where it is better to use the merged format of bestvideo+bestaudio. You can try this on the following textual string called https://v.redd.it/wecmcu4wsa1b1, which was submitted by B. R. Ewton, author of Ten Gallons of Trouble.
I have also provided a new streaming link to this post (very important).
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Did this today
He’s full of shit
$500 billion for Ngubu
What if…
I hadn’t done anything in Blender for months, so I started a project to re-make a prop from the 2002 film The Time Machine. The film itself is moving art. You could watch it simply for the visuals, or the music. It has been a favourite of mine since I first saw it. On reflection and despite appearances, it is remarkable what a dark story it has. It is sad at the beginning, it is sad in the middle, and dystopian doesn’t begin to describe the ending.
It took me 7 or 8 weekends to make, I have lost count. It is the most complex thing I ever made in Blender by several orders of magnitude, and I learned a lot about detail.
I put in as much detail as I could bear, and ended up making a few things that aren’t visible in the final render, like most of the battery bank console pictured below left. I knew the display on the main console wouldn’t be visible, but I just had to make it.
It might be the most excellent steam-punk contraption ever constructed.
A Chair
Gran Turismo’s Historic Racing Car Cup graphed
I have been playing Gran Turismo a lot lately, and the one race series that most players will agree is most difficult, is the Historic Racing Car Cup, where only cars from 1979 or before are allowed to participate. The problem is, the fastest cars of this era are expensive as hell.
I find that the in-game prices are roughly analogous to a car’s real-world price. Old racing cars are rare collector’s items and so are extremely expensive, in the real world and in the game. For instance, here are all the old cars over 1 Million credits. Cars that weigh more than a ton are left out. (more…)
The one that got away
Many months ago there was a game jam with the theme “a glass of water”, and I made this:
I had come up with a setting that has a very low art burden, and in my brain this meant I could fill up development time with fancy blender water physics sequences and groundbreaking new mechanics for adventure games. But time is something you have very little of in a game jam, and this I had yet to fully appreciate.
In the end the new mechanics were too good for such a small game, and I didn’t work on it any further. All I did for this project was this test scene and a lot of design. It is probably the cancelled project I spent the least time on, but the one I still feel most guilty about abandoning, because just look at it. It’s beautiful.
Memes: Stonks
By the way, I have recently updated Starship Light to v0.7. I added a few things and made some other minor improvements. It’s quite a fun game if you have some frens online that are nurds.
Background Blitz: Trash
