#addons for excel

[ideatesoftware]

https://ideatesoftware.hashnode.dev/ideate-software-creates-decisive-increases-in-quality-transparency-and-efficiency

Ideate Software Creates Decisive Increases in Quality, Transparency and Efficiency

pbr complements its use of Ideate Automation with IdeateApp’s XRay and SmartDelete tools to ensure for model health and efficiently manage styles on a larger scale. Ideate BIMLink has also proven itself as a valuable tool for collaborating with partners who work outside the CAD environment.

[my-tamriel-now]

Mod Release: Blackmoon's Brows for Males

This mod is an addon for the excellent mod Blackmoon's Brows, which is female only. It simply uses a mesh with an adjusted UV map and adds the existing textures for the lads.

ESPFE, requires BEES for older versions of Skyrim.

Requirements:

High Poly Head

Blackmoon's Brows

Get it here.

[thatspacepirate]

time to start some fandom beef

vintage story: tiny, very wholesome community

undertale: while they started rough, they really matured over the years and went on to great things

vrchat: if you find the right people it can be great

pizza tower: good game but eccentric fans

ultrakill: excellent game if you ignore the 12 year old fanboys

deltarune: has the potential to mature like undertale but the lack of new episodes has driven some fans insane

rain world: please. never engage with the community. in just a few months of being part of it i met some of the worst people ever. i still think about how much i dislike some of its fans to this day.

gmod: play it singleplayer. please. stay away from the rp servers and just mess around with addons by yourself or with a friend you know in real life.

silksong: the news about the game has completely dried up, lobotomizing the fanbase entirely

[goldenmotive]

Undersiders as WoW players:

Rachel // Tauren Hunter

Beast Mastery Hunter. Rolled a male Tauren because she thought they looked tough. Usually sticks with the coyote she tamed at level 10. Has a surprising variety of pets otherwise. Mostly plays solo and grinds professions (you only see her on raid night where she's top DPS). Picks an endgame zone as her territory and bullies out anyone trying to quest or grind. Gets mad when people won't shut up in guild chat. Struggled because she can't read quest text but got really into it after Taylor installed questhelper for her.

Aisha // Undead Rogue

Combat Rogue. Absolute menace. Ignored IRL but makes up for it by being infamous on her her server. Ninja looter, will roll need even if she can't use it. PVPer, will kill you when you're fighting a bunch of mobs then teabag you. Griefs her own team in battlegrounds just fucking around while she's holding the flag. Spends all her downtime ganking lowbies in STV, but she's actually really good at her class. kills you on your main too

Alec // Blood Elf Priest

Shadow Priest - rolled the same class as Lisa to fuck with her. Really only plays to screw around with Aisha. Has Aisha's password. Used to multibox on his siblings accounts but burned out. Doesn't do dailies, doesn't do professions, relies on guildies for free potions and food. Surprisingly into transmog. He's right there ganking with Aisha and mind controls kid win off a cliff. Stands in the fire.

Lisa // Blood Elf Priest*

Disc Priest but she's a huge altoholic. Toxic trade chat queen, starts shit and baits other players into getting banned. She's got a character in every major guild on the server - she's the one to invite a fill when they need another head. Okay at every class but she'll end up filling healing and crowd control - someone's got to keep this guild from self destructing. Recruited Taylor to the guild, helps Brian run shit outside of raid bosses. She's tracking everyone's DKP.

Brian // Orc Warrior

Prot Warrior. Guild Leader. Tanks because it's the manliest role. Kind of basic - he'd be a human warrior if the rest weren't horde. Maxed mining and blacksmithing because someone told him it's just what warriors do. Knows raid boss strats, knows what's BiS for each class, knows that none of it matters if they aren't going to listen to him. Pulling his hair out trying to run raid nights. Always marks himself with the skull raid icon. Pays for everyones consumables, also pays for the vent server. Quits for a bit, but comes back next expansion to reroll death knight.

Taylor // Troll Shaman

Elemental Shaman. Addon queen. Her screen looks like an excel sheet and you can barely see her character. Rerolled horde after her ex-guildie logged onto her account and deleted all her characters. Skips school to play. The biggest minmaxer you'll ever play with. Has to stop herself from telling people how to play their class. Hasn't noticed she's not even having fun anymore.

[littlemssam]

Mod Updates & Translations

As always delete old Mods Files and the localthumbcache, when updating my Mods!

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Mod Updates

Order More Groceries Added Nectar Bottles to be buyable

Choose Leftover Prepped Ingredients Container should not show up anymore

Craft More Nectar Bottles and more Added an optional Addon for the "Make 50 Excellent Bottles of Nectar" Aspiration. This Addon changes it to "Make 10 Excellent Bottles of Nectar". I could not get the Aspiration to recognize my extra Bottles, so this is a compromise.

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Translations

Improved Practical Spells - New Spell Harvestio - Added Russian by Origamika Improved Practical Spells - New Spell Upgradios - Updated Russian by Origamika More Servings Options - More Servings Part - Updated Polish by livi

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My Site with all possible Download Links: lms-mods.com

Support Questions via Discord only please!

[sweetmage]

I was asked by @x-littlemoth how I do my VGP and I explained the basics here! This is a continuation of that tutorial with my own personal methods! For this tutorial you'll need this mod (in addition to the ones mentioned in the last post):

CharLi This is an excellent lighting mod that allows you to spawn individual lights and adjust their color, brightness, rotation, etc.

And here are some other mods I recommend, though they aren't necessary!:

Additional Portrait Presets I can explain more about why adjusting FOV or rotating the camera 90 degrees is useful below, but these presets save you the effort of tweaking yourself! Photomode Expression Megapack No tutorial needed, this just adds extra facial expressions you can select in photomode! Works exactly the same as the vanilla one and doesn't replace anything.

Appearance Creator Mod (ACM) I won't cover this one here because there is already a wonderful tutorial by PinkyDude who explained it way better than I ever could which you can check out right here! Briefly, this allows you to swap/toggle clothes, accessories, etc. on NPCs.

If you'd like any additional suggestions for pose mods, clothing mods, etc. or wants to know any mods I'm using I am very WCIF (where can I find) friendly so anyone can free to ask me any time! Additionally, if anyone would like a tutorial on my editing process, I pretty much just use my phone and a free app (and sometimes a paid app but that's not necessary) feel free to ask, I'd be happy to share :)

Let's get into the tutorial under the cut! ^^

Okay, let's continue editing our photo of Viktor and V using CharLi! So, open your CET menu and look for the CharLi menu and open it up. First thing I tend to do is go over to the settings tab (the gear) and shut off chromatic aberration and volumetric fog. This is all up to personal taste though, so do what looks best to you! Now, return to the main tab (click the light bulb) and let's spawn a light! Personally I always prefer to start with 1x as the others tend to be way too bright for most scenes. Play around with choosing whichever type of light you like.

In the end, I went with the type called Favelas as my main light source. Go ahead and play around a bit with the rotation, intensity, and other sliders.

Here's what I ended up settling on! I try to make sure that the character's aren't washed out or too dark and I try to make my first light light the characters fairly evenly. Now, for depth and flavor, let's add a second light! This time I chose spotlight and I adjusted the colors until I achieved a relatively blue color.

One last thing, for each of your lights go ahead and toggle these two badboys off. That will hide both the physical light object and the pink tracker so they don't clutter up your photo.

Adjusting the angles a bit more to my own tastes, here's what I'm left with without any external editing!

Now, let's try and outdoor photo! Following the steps in the last tutorial, I am going to teleport to my location of choice (I am using a teleportation preset found in PinkyDude's Roadtrip Through The Badlands AMM location addon). While here, I switch my Nibbles replacer to Fem because I'm gonna take some pics with Panam! Now that I'm here, I notice that the lighting out here could be better! I tend to adjust my weather and lighting outside of photomode because it doesn't always shift correctly in it. To make sure everyone is lit correctly, I tend to pick the character with the darkest skin or clothing that will be in my scene and spawn them from the spawn tab. I'll choose Panam, of course!

Note: Going to the tools section and selecting freeze target can help keep your spawned companion from walking away but I forgot to do that here lol For weather conditions, I like to choose light clouds. This makes the sky look nice and it also softs harsh shadows. This is up to personal taste and the mood of your scene though! Additionally, if you want more weather states and deeper control, you can use the Nova City mod. For now, let's just play with the vanilla weather settings.

I tend to prefer the look of early morning the best, but again this up to taste! I would definitely recommend avoiding middle of the day though as the harsh lighting can greatly overexpose your image while also muting colors. Now that we've got all that set up, let's banish her just like we did Viktor in the first tutorial. Unlike Viktor, this Panam clone won't respawn (the real Panam is safe and sound, this won't affect her). Now let's return to photomode (and ignore my boy's goofy Us Cracks pose). Follow the steps to set up your replacer just like in the first tutorial. Now that I have my replacer swapped out to Panam, I am going to remove her jacket using one of the built-in presets (for swapping outfits with ones not listed in AMM see the AMC tutorial linked above). To do this I am going to go to tools > target replacer > scan and then scroll to the drop-down and list and pick the one I want to use. Let's keep the harness but remove her jacket!

From here, choose whatever poses you like, set up CharLi however you wish, and now let's try taking a portrait shot! This is where those presets come in handy. If you downloaded them, go ahead and flip through to the portrait ones at the end and select the one you like best. Otherwise, let's set this up ourselves! To do this, I will go to Camera tab in photomode and set my rotation to either 90 or -90 degrees. This allows you to fit more into the shot while also allowing your portrait to be higher quality because it fills up the whole screen instead of being a tinier image with a lot of empty space on the sides. Next, I'm going to adjust the field of view. The lower the field of view, the less your image is distorted. While distortion can be nice for some styles and atmospheres, I tend to prefer a lower FOV for my portraits. I tend to prefer to set my FOV lower then 20 but higher than 10. Here I've chosen 15!

Now you can play around with the angles and take your photo! Here's the unedited one I got in the end:

If you have any questions definitely feel free to ask! This is certainly not the only or even the "best" way to do it, this is just my personal way :) Have fun!

[pers-books]

Lesbians in Space: The Anthology (Where No Man Has Gone Before)

Booktopia 2024 📚#Fantasy#Indie#Sci-Fi

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You've asked for it, so Space Wizard provides. Here is the long-anticipated Lesbians In Space Anthology!

Space Wizard Science Fantasy!

Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a queer science fiction and fantasy indie publishing company which opened its doors in 2021 to publishing outside authors. - In 2022, the Space Wizard Science Fantasy Year 1 campaign raised nearly $18,000 to pay authors top rates, create amazing book covers, fund an audiobook recording, and publish 12 books between June 2022 and June 2023. - In 2023, Year 2 raised over $18,000 for 12 more books released from June 2023 to June 2024 with more excellent covers, custom illustrations, and pro rates for our anthology writers! This year we added exclusive collector's hardbacks! - In 2024, Year 3 just concluded in July with another $17,250 raised for for 13 books, one omnibus, and 2 TTRPGs!

We're back again this September for one more anthology, this time with a bunch of incredible authors participating in Booktopia. Lesbians in Space has a stellar (ha!) lineup of writers already on board, including (in order of confirmation):

- Seanan McGuire, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of the Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, and the Incryptid series!

- Travis Baldree, author of Legends and Lattes, shortlisted for the Hugo Award for best novel in 2023, as well as exceptional audiobook narrator!

- Emma Newman, Hugo Award-winning podcaster and author of the Planetfall series, which was shortlisted for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2020!

- Mary Robinette Kowal. Hugo Award-winner Mary Robinette Kowal has written: The Spare Man, The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, the Lady Astronaut Universe, and many short stories.

Also see our "writers" section below for our current roster, and for how you can submit your story!

Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n’ roll. History is full of great pairings.

Get ready for the next great one: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. Focusing on lesbian / sapphic protagonists, this anthology will contain works from numerous established, award-winning, and lesfic authors, and a few new faces as well.

We have an amazing cover already created by Serene Chia, and we have a bunch of great addons and gifts for you as well! This anthology is going to be packed with fully-inclusive, sapphic stories about space, space opera, science fiction, exploration, adventure, and of course, romance. The stories will have representation of all sorts, including cis, trans, bi, sapphic, non-binary, ace, aro, and many other types. There's lots of room for Lesbians in Space!

We have our invited group of writers already working on stories for the anthology, but we're opening up to any and all submissions as well! So if you're a writer, polish off your best story about Lesbians in Space, and send it in!

Are you a writer? Do you like Lesbians in Space? We will be holding juried selections for more stories for the Lesbians in Space anthology. To enter, simply polish off your writing skills and craft a story of around 2000-4500 words, but definitely not over 6000.

This anthology will focus on lesbian relationships of all types, including cis, bi/pan, ace, non-binary, intersex, trans, and others that fall under the ‘sapphic’ banner as long as the primary pairing is lesbian. Give us your best story featuring sapphic protagonists at least partially located in space. This could be on a spaceship, with magic, on a planet or asteroid, in another dimension or realm, or any other connected idea. Surprise us!

Stories will be juried and final selections will be made (hopefully) by end of January 2025. Projected publish date is June 2025. Selected authors will be compensated at semi-pro rates or higher. Send your completed story in by midnight EST, December 31st, 2024 using the instructions at https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/submissions We are hoping to publish Lesbians in Space around June 2025.

-- I've just backed this as it looks absolutely fabulous!

[zydrateacademy]

Review - Star Wars: The Old Republic

As with any 14 year old game, especially of the MMO genre, one can expect that it’s gone through a few changes. I cannot speak for its current viability, as I’ve heard from some players that they’ve been a bit lax with any major expansion update for some years now, in the same timeframe as the COVID pandemic which may have affected their workflow. So getting into this game really depends on what you want out of a game or MMO.

The usual MMO trappings reveal themselves in short order; between not being able to equip purple “epic” gear, only being able to hold a certain amount of credits, and the fact that your level cap will be 60, locking you out of four or so major content updates. A single month purchase will unlock the rest of it permanently. I was lucky enough to have a friend to sponsor a couple of months in my era of unemployment, but I won’t lie to you: The hard cap and content lockout was annoying, but unfortunately not entirely unheard of for MMO operations.

In my recent ~140 hours I’ve only done the multiplayer Flashpoints (the 4-person dungeons through a group finder queue). I highly recommend turning General chat off in the Fleets. 

I’m here to tell you that as a free player, playing this game like an extended KOTOR-3 is an entirely viable way to go about it.

Everyone has their own opinions and tier list of various class stories. Having done up to Chapter 2 throughout most of them and finished only two or three, it really is a subjective preference. I found the Sith Warrior to be highly engaging, while the Jedi Consular bored me to a point where I’ve lost the thread and I’m not really sure what was going on at all after a certain point. I’m told the Jedi Knight is basically the unofficial KOTOR3 on its own, but the shadow of Revan is around regardless of who you play as. 

Ultimately every origin story has their own power struggles that run mostly concurrently with each other with the occasional and rare overlap, until the various expansions where your singular PC morphs into a singular character with vague mentions of all the origin characters being in the wind, dead or missing. This runs the risk of what the original content excelled at, each origin feels very unique and (most of) their stories are engaging. But in doing so they had more or less written themselves in a corner and their way out of it was making the dialog more generalized, my Sith Warrior main barely makes any mention of being Sith but in the rare moments and most of their jerk dialog just amounts to “I will destroy you” rather than “The Sith will return”, because they had to account for all the other characters at once.

I am currently playing through the “Fallen Empire” arc and while I am highly engaged, I do feel like it takes place in a different universe but in a somewhat good way. The aesthetics of the Eternal Empire feel at odds with the aesthetics of the franchise. I have my Sith Warrior dressed in the usual black and red Darth-y stuff, and I look like a cartoon character as I traverse a corridor with more realistically designed Netflix-show-esque outfits.

Gameplay? It’s an MMO. Third person, WASD movement, action bars. Unfortunately the game doesn’t have an Addon/Mod system but it has an ingame interface editor which is fairly easy to use and you can scale the UI to your preferences. 

Frankly I got a lot of WoW flashbacks as I played it after eight or so years away. The Operative/Assassin/Shadow classes effectively operate like a rogue, with stealth and single-target stun abilities. In that way it can feel a bit dated, but makes up for it with the story flow and doesn’t bog you down too heavily with a hundred skills and spells.

At a certain point the whole game feels like a Mass Effect game with a Star Wars skin painted over it, because once you’re in your 60’s you have most of your class’s kit and once you figure out a skill priority and order your action bars around it’s unlikely you’ll need to rearrange it much after that, and then it just feels like a Mass Effect ability bar. So it’s just a matter of running around the story, but there’s a scaling issue where you’re constantly over-leveled for the area so to make sure you’re not one-tapping bosses, you’ll be scaled down to the content for the entire duration of the game, until whatever the endgame loop zone at 80 is. This is unlike a Bioware game where, even if you play on a set difficulty, their games become progressively easier as you upgrade. Sadly here in SWTOR, my Darth is struggling against basic droids. Where it originally excelled at the power fantasy of a lightsaber wielding Jedi, over time you just become some random with a sword.

The game isn’t difficult, just time consuming. But the experience is very much comparable to a distant KOTOR sequel and if that’s the vibe you’re going for, there’s a lot of bang for little buck here. The initial game is free and you can get a couple of hundred hours on it easily. Even when I was stuck at a lower level cap it still took me 40-60 hours getting through one story, but I was doing a little bit of side-faff like Flashpoints and Roleplay. So maybe every class story could potentially be accurately summed up as 20-40 hours of gameplay… and there’s eight origins to play through, each with eight subclasses to experience. There’s a lot of game here, and it’s hard to argue with free.

[valoisfulcanellideux]

A reminder to readers: Download the fics that you love. And a reminder to authors and artists: Keep Making Art

For readers:

This is advice for any season, since an author can decide to pull their fic for whatever reason they please.

But right now there's a strong chance that some of your favourite authors (and especially those who are LGBTQIA+) are feeling worried, scared, or threatened. And - to keep themselves feeling safe, or literally being safe - they may remove their fics from AO3.

If you have fics that you adore on AO3, fics that it would break your heart never to be able to read again, then download them now. Don't wait until you go into your bookmarks, only to find multiple 'removed by the author' notifications.

Whether you just download as a PDF or you use Calibre with the FanFicFare addon (tutorial here), download your favourite fics. You can even pick up a cheap thumb drive for a few bucks and store them on there if you're not willing to trust them to the cloud.

For writers and artists:

Keep. Making. Art.

That's all the advice I have. Just don't stop creating. If you're feeling low right now (or at any time; god knows the world's all kinds of fucked up these days) then read this post by author Chuck Wendig:

How to Create Art and Make Cool Stuff in a Time of Trouble

Excerpt:

Right now, for me — and maybe for you — making art is like oral surgery on a rabid bear. It’s very difficult to just sit down, not look at the news, open a Word .doc, and start writing some cool shit. It feels, nnngh, somehow precious, too special, like you’re eating cake while the house burns. “Oh, I see we have zombies trying to break down the door,” you say. “This seems like an excellent time to watch Cinemax and masturbate.” That’s how it feels. And how it feels is wrong. What I mean is this: if you’re a person who Makes Art, then that’s who you are, and there’s nothing precious or small about that. It’s not masturbation. Not even in times of crisis and duress. It matters because it’s who you are, it’s what you want, it’s what you do. Art is vital, and as such, the artist is vital for making it. Part of the goal of the chaos going on is to put a rope around your wrists, your throat, and your heart and try to stop you from making cool stuff. It’s designed to hamstring you creatively and critically. You can’t let that happen. You gotta carry on. You gotta do the work. YOU GOTTA MAKE THE THINGS. Question is, how? How do you persist? How do you create art in a time of unfolding fuckery?

If you're a creative in this world, do yourself a favour and read that post. Yes, it's sweary (it's Chuck Wendig; swears are a given) but it might just help.

As Chuck himself says:

"Art Harder, Motherfucker"

(Note: I'm pre-emptively muting notifications on this post, in case it blows up. I'm not ignoring you; I just don't want to deal with a potential crapton of notifications!)

[sleepy-hart]

So while working through game concepts and deciding what to work on next, I've been refreshing my Godot skills. Wanting to get back into 3D and prepare for doing more narrative heavy games. Made this demo to learn nathanhoad's excellent Dialogue Manager addon and also test drive Kenney's new Godot platformer kit.

I'm really, really enjoying Dialogue Manager so far and feel it has a tonne of potential. Think it covers a lot of things I've been looking for:

Direct engine integration is super useful, as well as using custom resources to store dialogue. They're also text files so can still use external editor to update

Straightforward syntax, reminds me a lot of ink and yarn. As well it's named node approach feels familiar

Able to access global game variables for conditionals, and having conditional based loops and choices is very straightforward

Also able to call methods directly within dialogue, which is super powerful when combined with signals (showing/hiding coin UI mid conversation, playing sound effect)

Lots of options for random dialogue choices - just used the single line ones for now but in docs have seen they also have option for setting custom probabilities, just ncie to add more flavour

Hyped it has a built in approach for translations (create IDs and reference CSVs) that looks like integrates with Godot's localisation tools - a bit of a future thought but glad it has stuff to help built in

Docs you can mention you can create dialogue resources at runtime. Can imagine this being very useful - an example would be creating a record of all lines seen to replicate Ren-py's "log" feature.

The methods for displaying dialogue are super flexible. At the moment just used their example balloons but looks like it should play nicely to let you build custom GUI - and maybe even multiple forms (e.g. dialogue scenes vs flavour barks in main game world). Think next experiments will focus on this.

There's a few more things I'm keen to learn and see if they're feasible with this - "disabled" choices that still appear but can't be accessed would be nice, also looking at how you can integrate this with an audio system for voice acting - I think they have an example that includes voice acting?

Only thing I'm a bit nervous of is it looks like it can only grab variables from autoload/global scripts, so when putting into actual game will need to take care with save systems and methods for loading choice variables into a choice master global so we aren't keeping too much in memory at once. But if I'm wrong on this assumption, or others have approaches, more than happy to be corrected on this!

Also really enjoying Kenney's 3D platformer kit and it's been fun and . Making the shopkeeper bot was super simple. All the details on the original character model are modelled so just adjusted the face and for changing colours just had to move UV islands for limbs and face to different parts of the pallete textures.

Haven't tried this technique for modelling and texturing before but seen it crop up a few times so will definitely experiment with this in the future. Also might help with optimization - I think most of the materials in the pack refer to this single image texture? By default the pack only has the model glbs and a single colormap png so assuming that's how it's working.

Original plan was to fill in the shop with another pack so there's a few little platform challenges within this, but they all needed collisions adding so might add that in future. But main aim was focusing on the dialogue and think we've got a good approch going forward, and highly recommend the add on for other Godot devs making narrative games!

[ideatesoftware]

Ideate Software

Ideate Software is an Autodesk® Authorized Developer and is a member of the Autodesk Developer Network. Ideate Software builds Revit® software plugins to help customers get the most out of Autodesk Revit software. We serve companies in the areas of building design, engineering, construction, and facilities management. Our guiding mission is to provide the most extensive, high-quality information solutions to our clients.

[quinloki]

For your host club event—Ace and Business Hours?

Portgas D. Ace

Role: Host

Time in the “business”: 3-4 years

Description (Attire): A suit and tie – surprisingly Ace’s tie lasts longer than Shanks’. Ace favors oranges and reds for his shirts, and when the clothes work out in his favor he was don his hat to go along with it. He normally wears dress boots instead of dress shoes.

Description (vibe): Despite the formal attire required for business hours, nothing keeps Ace’s energy under wraps, and he’s certainly one of the more animated and rambunctious hosts in the club. He excels at group dynamics more than 1:1 situations, feeding off the extra energy and pouring it back into the group.

He’s on the beginner’s menu by virtue of his personality alone – Ace tends to effortlessly make friends, especially when he’s relaxed. He’s skilled at including the more reserved clients, and energetic enough to corral the feistier ones. He does well after hours, but honestly, he really shines during business hours.

Addons: Ace isn’t super good at too many addons. His handwriting is awful, but most of his regulars delight in watching him do his best – tongue sticking out in concentration. He’s not the best masseuse, but his higher body temperature makes up for what skills he lacks.

Tag line: “Maybe my flame do burn a little brighter when you’re around?”

Host Club AU Head Canon Event

[veetri-bitcrush]

Okay I've fuccin had it, I've tried to avoid this rabbit hole so I could focus on making animations, but I think it's about damn time.

I've started working on an actual Blender addon for mass-renaming bones, fixing materials and mesh normals for MGS models imported from Noesis.

I'm way deep in debt for this community and I wanna do right for everyone trying to have fun/learn with these models. Reverse engineering is too steep to climb for me right now, but Blender scripting is not beyond my reach so I'll try to help with that part.

I expect the Master Collection to bring about new breakthroughs in model ripping for these games so I don't think my timing is excellent with this announcement. But even if these tools become immediately deprecated, I'll have learned a bunch of new things and that's enough for me.

[nanalineni]

Coding horrible statistics tests in python with spite alone I am NOT using your proprietary excel addon that doesn't explain its calculations I Will Not !!!

[dotmander]

platonic date taking werevari out to the dog park and getting them a pup cup

EXCELLENT choice here. There is no bad end. there's not even a neutral end. you have a dog and everything is perfect forever. 💖💖💖

i think this would actually be like. a little addon thingy. you can go through it at the beginning and you just Have A Dog through all the other routes, as you deserve.

[kevinaff105]

Which Page Builder Plugin is the Best: Elementor, Beaver Builder, or Divi?

Are you ready to build a stunning website but feeling overwhelmed by the choices of page builder plugins? You're not alone! Let's dive into the world of WordPress page builders and uncover which one might be your perfect match.

The Big Three: Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Divi

Before we start our showdown, let's meet our contenders:

Elementor: The new kid on the block that's taken the WordPress world by storm.

Beaver Builder: A reliable veteran known for its stability and ease of use.

Divi: The Swiss Army knife of page builders, packed with features and design options.

Battle of the Builders: Pros and Cons

Let's break down the strengths and weaknesses of each:

Elementor

Pros:

Intuitive drag-and-drop interface

Huge library of templates and widgets

Active community and frequent updates

Cons:

Can slow down your site if overused

Premium version required for advanced features

Beaver Builder

Pros:

Clean, bloat-free code

Excellent for team collaborations

Consistent updates and stability

Cons:

Fewer fancy effects compared to competitors

Slightly higher learning curve for beginners

Divi

Pros:

All-in-one theme and builder solution

Vast array of design options

Lifetime pricing option available

Cons:

Can be overwhelming for newcomers

Potential lock-in to the Divi ecosystem

Introducing Element Pack: The Dark Horse

While the big three dominate discussions, let's not overlook a rising star - Element Pack by BdThemes. This Elementor addon brings some unique advantages to the table:

Performance-Focused: Optimized code that doesn't bog down your site

Versatile Widgets: Adds functionality without the need for multiple plugins

Regular Updates: Constantly evolving with new features and improvements

Compared to standalone builders, Element Pack enhances Elementor's capabilities without the learning curve of a completely new system. It's like supercharging your car instead of buying a new one!

How to Choose the Right Page Builder for Your Project

Selecting the perfect page builder isn't one-size-fits-all. Here's how to make the right choice:

Assess Your Skill Level: Beginners might prefer Elementor or Divi's user-friendly interfaces.

Consider Your Budget: Beaver Builder and Element Pack offer great value for professionals.

Evaluate Your Needs: Complex designs? Divi or Elementor with Element Pack might be your best bet.

Think Long-term: Consider the ecosystem and potential for growth.

Test Drive: Most offer free versions or trials. Give them a spin!

Remember, the best page builder is the one that helps you create beautiful, functional websites efficiently. Whether you choose the versatility of Elementor, the stability of Beaver Builder, the all-in-one approach of Divi, or decide to supercharge your experience with Element Pack, you're on your way to website building success!

Ready to start creating? Explore these options, and don't forget to check out Element Pack for that extra boost of functionality and performance!