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[unavidas]

Young Effie sketches 🌸🥂🎀✨

[nyxemisa]

pretty with a purpose!

[stabbycat108]

They say a good prequel doesn’t try to change anything about the original story itself, but does want to change your perspective on the original story.

So if you aren’t sure about whether or not you wanna read Sunrise on the Reaping, just know that the first chapter is that philosophy like—every paragraph.

If I had a dollar for every time I went “ohhhh nooo” while reading it, I would be rich.

[ooctlt]

Who’s the most/least cleanly? How do you guys decide who cleans? Is it a cleaning schedule? Specific rooms?

the sixth make a chores list. everyones responsible for their own rooms

[maryonaccross]

Hey everyone, I want to make a survey of how Sunrise on the reaping has impacted your perception of the hunger games book franchise as a whole 

[softestaries]

"i guess snow always lands on top" punching a wall punching a wall punching a wall

[lepetitdragonvert]

A Spell for a Fairy

1914

Artist : Claude Allin Shepperson

[fire-emblem-birthdays]

Today is Stahl from Fire Emblem Awakening's birthday!

[orchardflowerchild]

Matching sets makes me feel ✨ pretty ✨

[fieriframes]

[There's a sort of evil out there.]

[balladofmyramblings]

did someone pay her to write the most unnecessary, fanfiction-like book on the planet? thanks for telling us the capital’s bad. yay, more covey. talk about fan service though? just some general thoughts.

[gingerspjce]

okay so i did in fact read sunrise on the reaping in one go and i’m feeling incredibly unwell!

[ngjasper]

Spoilers for sotr (I need to vent about it sooo if you don’t want spoilers skip)

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I read the spoiler about Effie in sotr and im so conflicted about it and lied to in a way (or Susan is preparing us for the fact Effie is lying about who she is)

Apparently she is coming to help the d12 stylist, who is her younger sibling with the outfit (so called). And apparently she is older than Haymitch!!! Which was a surprise in itself cause I feel like we’re given the feeling that she is on the younger side - like the fact she wanted to be promoted. From what I understood she has at least five years on Haymitch, which mean she is at least 45. And if the Capitol is an allegory or a reflection of our modern society - in no way a 45 year old woman would get promoted from the lowest level at that age, they would keep her at her position, and she would have known that (or she pretended to what to get promoted - katniss said in thg about her something along the lines of “as if she have to say something insulting”) before she said she might finally get promoted. And Susan is an exclusive producer of the movies. She could have guided the casting towards an older woman for Effie (I can think on a few, non is as good as EB) and not at the time 38 years old Elizabeth banks, who is ten years younger then woody Harrlson.

So the kiss and the flirting in the movies does not make since anymore, then why allow it? You knew their age difference for awhile, soWhat’s up with the teasing Susan🙃

then the hayffie of it all. (which I’m a huge fan of cause it makes so much since as a sexual relationship, at least one thy started in THG) now it doesn’t make any since to date/sleep/whatever with someone that you first met as a minor when you are not, it is weird. Especially when she is represented is both the trilogy and as of what I heard in sotr as generally good person, so she would not use him. And we know they do have some bond - otherwise why would he save her? And keep her out of the loop of trouble in CF (katniss said something about the silent agreement of keeping Effie unaware) Because she was helping in his games? I don’t buy it. It’s too random. And even if it’s true - they known each other of 25 years. It had to mean something, but they were never the friends type in my mind. They are allies (which is stornger in my opinion).

The whole thing is so weird to me, cause technically we really know almost nothing personal about her from the OG books. We know her character traits and her fashion facade, her caring about her team. Personal stuff? Only her interest in architecture, which shown to us by her knowing a type of balcony 😂 we really know her, but we can assume she is hiding a lot, maybe that’s why she wear wigs (if I remember she is the only one who we see with wigs) she is hiding something from us.

And there is one other thing - in THG when they watch the scoring from the game makes she says something about the fact that katniss and petta are from 12 is not a reason to ignore them, and then she is aware suddenly of what she said but she does not regret it. From other spoilers I saw, it’s not standard for an escort to respect her tributes like that. It’s must have come from within her upbringing. Not just from her working close with the game.

In short, I will wait for the sunrise to assess my thoughts, and confirm the whole thing but I’m sure that something is going on there that we don’t ever consider (maybe we will get a book for her IDK, but she is the most interesting character to explore in a new book)

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

And may the odds be ever in you favour ✨

[dimalink]

Bufcolor – this is a new word

Game about different colors. You need to collect/build columns with colors. Fill every column with its own color. Control with keyboard. Arrows and space. And, also, there is a buffer. It is additional little column, where you put a little cube, that you do not need now. Buffer contains only one little cube. It is need for exchange.

For a long time, I wanted to make lots of small games with Basic. And, this time, I achieve this point. It is, exactly this kind small game. About different colors. Little cubes. There are several columns. For example, 3 or 5.

And, also, there is little column number 6 – this is buffer. Withing this you put little cube for exchange. In buffer it can be only one little cube. And you need to set all the colors in columns, except buffer with same colors. First little column with green, second with red. This is about you. You select colors. But only one idea – each column need to be with its own color. With the result. In this case you complete the level.

This kind of entertainment can be with Ms Dos, Nes, MSX, other 8 bit computers in 80s. It is funny thing, entertainment for engineer at the evening. To collect columns.

There are several color palette. And two types of visual view. First – it is simple columns. Something like to down view. Everything is straight. Second - it is isometrical. Something like pseudo 3d. With some angle. So this way it is more beautiful. But  a little less with understanding. Amount of columns is different from 3 to 5.

I had for a long time lots of ideas. I think they are for Basic. Ideas for simple games. And so this is a moment of realization – it is here. With using of Basic. This is one more small game.

Title is consist with two words. But it is as a one word. New word. Bufcolor. This is after word buffer. And color. This is all the idea. You collect columns with colors. And you need one more little column as buffer for exchange. And here it is to appear a new word – bufcolor.

So, how it is cool to know how to programming with Basic. With suing this language you can do realization of lots your ideas. For example, computer games. Spirit of 80s. 8 bit computers. This is just amazing. Once again, little plus goes to side of the Basic. And dialects of Basic. Such as Free Basic. This time for this thing. And amazing code editor – Gvim.

Little columns and colors. And, also, a buffer for 1 little cube. To replace little cubes, when all of them are full in columns. With most beginning, they are filled with chaos order and random order. And you need to sort them. And to have a situation – that every column is with its own one color. You need this buffer. It is very valuable term. Without it - it will be impossible. And buffer -it is so minimal length little column with 1 little cube. You can put in buffer only one little cube. But this is enough. To start to make exchanges between little columns.  

Select little cube. Put in a buffer. Later, select little cube from columns and put it to the empty place. Later, take from buffer little cube, which is already there and put it at the empty place in columns. For example, this way.

Control is simple. With arrows from the keyboard. And space to select a column. Or cancel your selection. Select you made and next do move. This is a fantasy, dream about little columns and different colors. There are max columns with 5. And number six for buffer, always 6 -it is buffer. So, palette is with 5 colors. But colors for little cubes are random way to go. So, every time you launch -you see different color picture.  Firs little cube was green.it is now red during next start. And alter blue. So, neat again – some else color.

And yes - have your excellent Basic day!

Basic Pascal version 1.18 "Duckling" – most newest version. In this version there are 4 new games! Puddles at Countryside, Duckling Pseudo 3D, Road to Countryside, Duckling Goes 2D. And even more retro games! It is a pack of retro games with modern versions of Basic and Pascal.

It is now in development new version Basic Pascal pack games. This game will be included in a new version.

Basic Pascal: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/games/basicpascal/index_eng.html Website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html Itchio: https://dimalink.itch.io/basic-pascal

[alyss-erulisse]

Morph Madness!

Fixing Exploding Morphs

Marik's Egyptian Choker is currently in production. It is the first accessory I've made that involves assignment to more than one bone and morphs for fat, fit and thin states. So there is a learning curve, and it is during that learning curve that interesting and unexpected things can happen.

As with my other content, I'm making the choker fit sims of all ages and genders--that's 8 different bodies.

Adding fat, fit and thin morphs multiples this number to 27 different bodies.

I'm also making 3 levels of detail for each of these. The number comes to 81 different bodies, 81 different bodies for which I need to tightly fit a cylinder around the neck and avoid clipping.

That's a lot of work. I can see why most custom content creators stick with one age, gender and detail level. At least, they did in the past. Our tools are getting better day by day, and that may partly be because of creative, ambitious and somewhat obsessive people like me.

There are usually multiple ways to solve the same problem. Some ways are faster than others. This I've learned from working in Blender3D. You can navigate to a button with your mouse or hit the keyboard shortcut. You can use proportional editing to fiddle around with a mesh or you can use a combination of modifiers.

If I am going to be creating 81 chokers, I don't want to be fiddling around on each one of them for an hour. I need something automated, repeatable and non-destructive so I can make adjustments later without having to start over from the beginning. I need to work smart rather than just work hard.

This is where modifiers and geometry nodes come in. After you develop a stack to work with one body, the same process pretty much works for the others as well. That is how it became easier for me to model each of the 81 chokers from scratch rather than to use proportional editing to fit a copy from one body to the next.

But I was about to confront an explosive problem…

Anyone who has worked with morphs before probably knows where this story is headed. There is a good reason to copy the base mesh and then use proportional editing to refit it to the fat, fit and thin bodies. That reason has to do with vertex index numbers.

You see, every vertex in your mesh has a number assigned to it so that the computer can keep track of it. Normally, the order of these numbers doesn't really matter much. I had never even thought about them before I loaded my base mesh and morphs into TSRW, touched those sliders to drag between morph states, and watched my mesh disintegrate into a mess of jagged, black fangs.

A morph is made up of directions for each vertex in a mesh on where to go if the sim is fat or thin or fit. The vertex index number determines which vertex gets which set of directions. If the vertices of your base mesh are numbered differently than the vertices of your morph, the wrong directions are sent to the vertices, and they end up going everywhere but the right places.

It is morph madness!

When a base mesh is copied and then the vertices are just nudged around with proportional editing, the numbering remains the same. When you make each morph from scratch, the numbering varies widely.

How, then, could I get each one of those 81 meshes to be numbered in exactly the same way?

Their structures and UV maps were the same, but their size and proportions varied a lot from body to body. Furthermore, I'd used the Edge Split modifier to sharpen edges, which results in disconnected geometry and double vertices.

Sorting the elements with native functions did not yield uniform results because of the varying proportions.

The Blender Add-On by bartoszstyperek called Copy Verts Ids presented a possible solution, but it was bewildered by the disconnected geometry and gave unpredictable results.

Fix your SHAPE KEYS! - Blender 2.8 tutorial by Danny Mac 3D

I had an idea of how I wanted the vertices to be numbered, ascending along one edge ring at a time, but short of selecting one vertex at a time and sending it to the end of the stack with the native Sort Elements > Selected function, there was no way to do this.

Of course, selecting 27,216 vertices one-at-a-time was even more unacceptable to me than the idea of fiddling with 81 meshes in proportional editing mode.

So… I decided to learn how to script an Add-On for Blender and create the tool I needed myself.

A week and 447 polished lines of code later, I had this satisfying button to press that would fix my problem.

Here are the index numbers before and after pressing that wonderful button.

My morphs are not exploding anymore, and I am so happy I didn't give up on this project or give myself carpal tunnel syndrome with hours of fiddling.

Marik's Egyptian Choker is coming along nicely now. I haven't avoided fiddling entirely, but now it only involves resizing to fix clipping issues during animation.

Unfortunately, I'll have to push the release date to next month, but now, I have developed my first Blender Add-On and maybe, after a bit more testing, it could be as useful to other creators in the community as its been to me.

Looking for more info about morphing problems? See this post.

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