#uv stuff

[bobacupcake]

hi! i wanted to ask if maybe you had an idea how the sparkles on the overwatch 2 iridescent skins work? it looks like they're in a fixed position depending on the character's movement and it's very trippy to me. i made a video, but idk if i can send links through asks - it's at tinyurl "ow2sparkles". hope you have a good day! o7

ohhh interesting..!!

hard to say exactly but it seems like the closeup sparkles are locked to the geometry with a texture.. so i think they might be two different shaders because the zoomed out one Definitely has something going on when you look at it from different angles

it's Possible that it's a screenspace noise texture, but dependent on the object's normal and view direction for making specific noise colors sparkle.. it'd look something like this. wait nevermind not yet i was making the shader to show and example but i made this instead this is #awesome #eyestrain

ok sorry ok so like. here's what it would look like if the sparkle texture was done in screenspace (so just a big texture stretched over the screen), but the computation for when the sparkles should show up are still done relative to the object (like here)

feels close though i dont know if this is the whole story.. it's possible instead of it being screenspace it's some sort of parallax effect, but when i tried it with the parallax effect it looked a little bit too unstable.. though this could be fixed up if you had the budget blizzard has (you can kind of see what it would look like by the way the sparkles move in the eyestrain gif)

it's also possible it's some sort of.. screenspace-object locked effect. like so: where objects closer to the camera have the screenspace texture scaled up, so that the details can scale with the characters. so still the same effect but instead of there being a uniform sparkle texture draped across the screen, it's scaled up or down based on how far away the character is

this is done with some stylized postprocessing effects but i could see it being used here. hard to say for sure though since there is only one genji, though if this is the case then the 1st person shader could be the same shader as the 3rd person one, even with a screenspace texture. but, i tried mousetracking some of the sparkles on the 1st person one and they definitely seemed to followed the object and not the screen.. so either its probably a different shader, or theyre using some sort of parallax instead of screenspace (or some mix of both !?) and its tuned down on the 1st person view

[xiewho]

could i get a fabian pretty pls… possessed would be cool but anything with him is fine

based on that one fake bad kids twt thread that i Cannot find for the life of me

[birchbow]

i really like everything you've done with the concept of troll gender in pof, but i was wondering if you've given thought to why/how they developed the concept of gender as a not really sexually dimorphic species? and who exactly assigns them genders as wrigglers? like are they getting the concept from the lusii? also i was wondering how they can tell each other's genders without asking directly. i know the clowns indicate that with their paint usually, but what about everyone else? i would love to hear any thoughts you have about this!

Okay so. This is only somewhat represented in the actual fic, mostly because I started writing it more than a decade ago when I was a little weenie with no gender imagination, but the grand scope of the xeno loadout I'm contemplating is thus:

in the same way that Lord of the Rings was theoretically a localized+translated legend from another language. PoF is a translation of a troll society that is in some ways localized by its translator (me lol).

THIS IS TO SAY: gender isn't gender. Pronouns are a self-declaration of "the role I take in my use to the Great Hive of The Empire". Trolls we translate as "male" and "female" are just roles of Use To The Hive that a human translator maps to "he" and "she".

If the mother grub, the drones and the trolls are all the same species, I find it delightful to imagine that insofar as trolls have a physical sex, it's BEING "trolls"; "troll"="the farmed ones/caretakers/(trollspecies) servant class" who provide and care for the mother grub.

Some of said class focus more into social violence not intended to kill+loud and posturing to drive away enemies+big emotions for Care About Hive. Because humans are, to quote troll xenonecroscholars, "obsessed with assigning mammal genital configurations to things", humans have dictated these trolls are "men". Some trolls focus more energy into stronger psionics+no patience for posturing/straight for the kill+hone and reinforce the inner strata of the hive. Humans refer to these individuals as "women".

I'll be shorthanding these roles as "masc" and "femme" because I use way too many words already, but just know that's an oversimplification haha.

FIG 1: Karkat by this standard? Very masc, but his insistence that he wants to be the leader/in charge is idiosyncratically femme of him. *cishet bioessentialism voice* Football player repeatedly goes out for ballet.

FIG 2: let's be clear Karkat telling Tavros to "stop playing games for girls" after he got jumped off a cliff was Karkat/Homestuck being classic 2010s shitty. But it doubles in this as "you decided to play with the Scourge Sisters (Deadly High Femme), you moron, you're lucky you're not dead".

how people figure out which one they initially go by... tbh it seems like schooling is pretty much via computers. I feel like you could easily just get like. A module on reproduction, and then a module that's essentially a fucking. quizilla quiz. Assigned pronouns at government-required school module.

Recent chapters have started making characters 'they/them' until the POV character gets a hint what their preference is--in this theoretical setup there would be quite a lot of sussing it out. "Gender presentation" would be a loose constellation of traits with a lot less certainty! The webcomic was not made with this in mind but I do find it fun to willfully reframe the pretty generically human-gendered characters we get.

FOR EXAMPLE!! Long/big hair as a peacocking flair/brag, often by old or powerful classes, or people who are powerful enough psionics they don't have to give a shit about a very grabbable liability in a fight. Trolls whose vocational pronouns translate as "female" often specialize in straightforward impersonal murder and social engineering more than brawling, so longer hair wouldn't be a liability and therefore is correlated, but only loosely.

Feferi has long hair, but so does the Grand Highblood. Equius (reads quite masc to humans) has long hair (nobility fle%), but Kanaya (the most overtly human femme) does not (practical middle-class brawler)! I don't think that's on purpose but I AM taking advantage of it lol.

'They/them' is the equivalent of the "joker" title I made up already for Clown Church--somebody with multiple skillsets, mixed roles, or fields of influence. My gender is undeclared college major. My gender is Jack Of All Trades.

Verato's transness isn't really about his switch from one gender to another--it's more because he plays a "femme" role in society but uses the "masc" pronoun for himself. His self-consciousness about it is more similar to a nonbinary or bisexual human who's used to being told to "pick one" and being told which one they "seem like" or "should be".

Meanwhile the Behemoth's 'it/its' in English stands out as a pronoun usually used for objects, but in Alternian it would be the pronoun trolls use to refer to DRONES. "(Trollspecies) made for thoughtless violence/enforcer/culls the weak". Chilling!!

I would have to go through and edit huge chunks of the fic to drag all half a million words into line with fun xeno shit alongside the clown church worldbuilding I already got in there, but damn if the concept isn't tempting some days.

[knzk8739]

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[sengenism]

love this genre of guy fr

[msmimundo]

sir yes sir 🫡

the joke here is that c.um glows under UV (Perry knows that) also how DARE you not considering my art of them as perryshmirtz

[ricecaqes]

HIIIII GUYS I FINISHED MY BINDING OF ISAAC ANIMATION PLS LOOK AT IT!!!!!! i worked very hard on it and it ate my soul and i fought against adobe animate every step of the way . but it is DONE. yay

[mr-shockwave]

megatron update !!! testing a silver coating on him and he looks REALLY pretty that way, these two were my first trial runs with my old resin, and im printing two more AND shockwave rn!! i want to put out megs, more shockwaves, and FINALLY blurr as well

next up ill be modeling optimus prime, then starscream(and technically the other seekers) and after that i have literally no clue what to do next but id love to look into more than just resin minis

safe to say, ive got plans... :3

also totally thinking about getting into epoxy resin too.. opens a lot of possibilities is all im sayin..

[grandquest]

Lacey!!!! She’s fun to draw for me

[pinkyjulien]

How it started

How its going

[st7arlight]

what are they looking at over there…..

[ilynpilled]

how do u understand everything about asoiaf so easily?? it s like u know everything

this is blatantly untrue ydk how many asks i ignored bc i was like o i dont know in depth enough or have rich enough thoughts about this to answer this perfectly w authority and not say dumb shit possibly god bless

[greenconverses]

got myself some glowy shit as a bday present

[sea-buns]

the meteors. the goddamn meteors. it's one of those moments that makes you wanna get up and do some crafty shit. like suddenly i wanna develop skills and create a masterpiece y'know?

[the-barn-rat]

Even the “sanctuary” mustangs get domestic horse perks

[tamymew]

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