#borderless window

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

i found some wacky way to make borderless printing work...!!! it's not perfect but idk it might b ok enough until i can get a decent guillotine cutter and cut a bunch of sheets at once to size. I'll try experimenting with printing my comics and stuff sometime!!!!!

[kutekitty-43]

just started up opposing force and i got a little pop-up from discord that said something like "you're missing out on the new overlay! change your graphics settings to borderless to enjoy the new overlay"

who's going to tell them i'm playing a goldsrc game

[blakistan]

Why was nobody going to tell me that running Elden Ring in fullscreen (as opposed to borderless windowed) tanks your framerate. I've been running this game at min settings and still having stuttery inconsistent gameplay for SO LONG you're telling me this game can run SMOOTH????

[rudhira]

Has something changed about RPC recently? As in, the past ~18 hours? I was playing Sims 2 last night with no problems at all, but when I went to play today it crashed during the loading screen. I haven't installed any new CC since last night. Curiously, it only crashes with the RPC launcher, but not when running the regular .exe.

I've tried updating the launcher, but it was already up to date and asked me to repair it instead, which I did but nothing changed. I've deleted Groups.cache which also did not help.

[perilegs]

ok ok i'm starting pillars of eternity and looking at the options i'm already in love. your mouse is a little gauntlet. you can enable developer commentary, i've never before seen that doen in a video game!! how cool is that!! BIG HEADS MODE?

[blossom-sims]

Hi, I'm getting back into the sims 3 and was just wondering what your settings are and what lighting mod do you use your game looks so pretty 💜

Hi, firstly thanks so much!

Find below my in game settings. I'm playing in a small world at the moment so my settings are higher, if I start to lag then I adjust most settings down to medium but I always leave Sim Detail at the highest.

For lighting mods, I recommend any by BurntWaffles. At the moment I'm using the St Claire water variation with 15% Aurora's (but it's not my favourite variation).

I hope that helps! x

[beanbuned]

ohmy god dude it turns out the secret to making fallout 76 not run like total ass was to run it fullscreened. why.

[balverine2077]

I solved my crashing problem by doing the opposite of what someone on reddit told me to do LMFAO

glad I listened to my GPU app instead of them 😂😂

[ustalav]

whoa I finally figured out my graphics settings and now I’m getting no stuttering

[remodelling]

desperate for apple music to get that feature spotify has where u can control the desktop app from ur phone

[fruitpunchjollyrancher]

playing pwotr why is my cursor so fucking big

[sweetbloodthirstygiraffe]

BG3 Update - wacky video results

It looks like BG3 did some interesting things on the update.

When I went to play the game a couple of nights ago it apparently started in "Borderless Window" mode - which had a lot of wacky scrolling artifacts at the bottom of the screen. Bleh. It's a good thing I don't have epilepsy.

I was able to "fix" it however by putting it into Full Screen mode. Except now, whenever I start the game it's still in Full Screen mode but... not really. It's like a hybrid of Full Screen and and Windowed, with a black border all around the image.

So each time I play I have to toggle to Windowed mode and then back to Full Screen to actually get full screen mode back.

One other odd change I noticed. I can no longer use Command-Q to quit the game. It spawns the "do you want to quit" dialogue but if I click "yes" nothing happens.

However that one I don't necessarily mind. I've gotten in the habit of holding down the Command button while rotating the camera and have lost count of how many times I accidentally quit the game.

So while I have to manually close with escape to get the main menu, I at least know I'm not going to shut the game down with brain farts at least.

[tau1tvec]

Working on a Reshade 6 preset, haven't added any depth shaders yet, but woweee The Sims 3 looks good in Smooth Patch's borderless windowed mode.

[ruershrimo]

softness- kyle rayner x reader

nighttime is a gateway to a different reality. past seven o’clock, the evening sky opens, and with it the stars descend into visibility, covering the world as you know it in a diamond-studded veil. hues of all sorts mix and run across it like a borderless field, and you’re not an artist, but it sure does look beautiful, and you ache to create something to commit it to memory.

you may not be an artist, but kyle is. you wonder how he feels now, because if this awakens an inkling of creativity within you of all people, he must be itching to grab a pen and a sketchbook at the moment.

from your balcony window you gaze out into the skyline, searching for him as if you somehow had the ability to. if you could see him, you’d fashion him the evening star in your head, glowing green or white, depending on the day. when you’re too tired to continue, you head to bed. maybe your attempt tonight, like it has been recently for all of these few days, is futile once again.

kyle rushes back after he’s done with today’s tasks. new york city, buried in its slumber, is oblivious to green lantern as a flurry of energy follows behind him, until he’s back in a dingy apartment that’s only maintained by you. this whole week he’s conjured up his sketchbook and pencil with the ring, drawing you more than fifty times— which is a new record, according to hal. the strokes to form your features and the shading of your face under the sunlight have been ingrained into his brain like second nature. he’s passed through the stratosphere, and now by air planes, skyscrapers and the like. from his ring he constructs a bouquet of flowers— they’re the ones you love, save for the fact that it’s completely green and would disintegrate once kyle willed it to.

“hey, honey,” he goes, landing on the balcony.

“hi.”

kyle holds the flowers out. “here, for you.”

“oh, my favourite,” you smile. constructs are translucent, so when you keep a petal between your index and your thumb, you can see through the bouquet.

“couldn’t get you the real ones, though.”

“the real ones aren’t my favourite anymore,” you say, “it’s these ones, specifically.”

his heart overflows with adoration at that, nearly bursting. “sorry I was gone so long. I didn’t get to tell you, but something came up, and I had to be gone for a few days, I—”

“it’s okay. I’m happy you’re back,” you reply, “by the way, I told them to extend your deadline because of a family emergency, so I hope that’s okay with you. —oh, and I was about to sleep. are you tired?”

he glances around. the kitchen counter is all pristine and clean, his and your room tidied and the bedsheets freshly washed.

“no, no I’m okay,” he says, voice instantly getting softer, “thanks for taking care of everything,” he continues as he kisses your forehead, “you should go rest. I’ll handle whatever else is left in the morning, I promise.”

“you don’t have to promise anything,” you comment, “if you don’t know if you can keep it, it’s okay. being a hero is important.” gently, you pull him into a tender embrace, until the two of you are swaying from side to side a little, languidly and smoothly, and the ring changes him from his uniform to the shirt he was wearing a week ago. he strokes your hair. for the past week he’s been green lantern, a hero, a soldier, a member of the corps and the justice league, and now all he is is a man who wants to be home. a man who’s happy he’s returned to you now.

“is it tiring, having to pick up after me like this?”

you shake your head. “not in a bad way. it makes me feel exhausted, but I still want to do it. you come back at night when I’m asleep and leave in the morning when I’m barely awake, but I can understand. they say that when things are sparse you appreciate them more, so you just become more precious to me.”

“but if it tires you out—”

“then you can help me do it tomorrow. I’m not going to leave,” you reassure him, “not now. I don’t think I will until you want me to, because I’m taking the chance that you feel the same way. to me that’s what this is about. so always remember that I’ll stay here.” you turn your head, looking up at him, boring into his eyes, sweet and brown like chocolate. “—hey, that was good. I think I summed it up pretty succinctly. it was good, right?”

“yeah,” he agrees, “it really was.”

his hand slides down to the small of your back, rubbing it over with his palm. “I love you.”

“I love you too, kyle. let’s go to sleep.”

tomorrow, he’s going to stay. he’ll go pick up the clothes from the dry cleaners, and then he’ll draw until he makes his deadline. he’ll coax you back to sleep when you wake up, and kiss your eyelids when you do. he’ll ride the subway and hold the handle wishing it’s your hand in his, then he’ll come back and make sure there’s breakfast ready on the stove for you.

when he was younger, he would have ruined it in some way— jumped to conclusions, taken you for granted, or something. he’s in his thirties now, and he hasn’t felt his hand without the weight of the ring or the burden of green lantern in ages. you’re his respite from all of that. and in the past, he wouldn’t have wanted to keep you chained, would have let you go somehow.

now he’s different, perhaps wisened by age or by being with you, someone akin to a steady stream of water, ever stable and calm. it’s good for him, and now he knows that it’s not the time to let you go. he knows he can change, to be more fluid the same way you are, to hold on to you and mold himself into someone who can support you and not shackle you. you said not to make promises, so he won’t. the last one he makes is the only one he needs, the one he’ll always keep. that he’ll always be there for you, that you’re all he ever needs these days.

the next morning he leaves the bed only to start cooking in the kitchen. not to set out into the galaxy, or to the watchtower, or to oa. just to the kitchen in your tiny shared apartment, or to his workstation so that he can get his next paycheck. his fingers brush through your hair a little, and the callouses from his pencil and art supplies graze against your cheek and lip. you’re still asleep.

he decides he’ll save the money in the bank (he guesses age has taught him how to be a little smarter with money, too) for the right time to spend it on you or on buying a better place. then when things are settled enough, he’ll finally be able to put that ring on your finger.

for now, though, he’s satisfied that he has this. so he’ll do everything to show you that; to make sure that you feel just as lucky.

some notes about this short piece

I actually like kyle a lot. he’s my favourite green lantern and probably my second favourite dc character of all time. however, I haven’t actually read a lot of his stuff.

right now I’m reading his 90s issues, and they’re really fun to read. but I’ve also read kyle rayner and the omega men, and I’m not sure if it’s ooc or not, but there was such a big gap in personality from his 90s comics and the omega men. I wanted to touch it on it a little, which was what I mentioned here.

still, although this piece may be ooc, I hope you enjoy it either way. I enjoyed writing it a lot, and I really do love kyle

thank you so much!

[nectar-cellar]

Hey, homie! I love ur cc and sims! I wanted to ask what ur graphic settings are. If that's okay to ask, I am trying to take good screenshots. Keep up the awesome work!

thank you! these are my settings. i use the smooth patch so i play on borderless windowed mode, so my screenshots come out at 1920 x 1080 px. i also have lazy duchess shadow extender and less banding mods. i also have the HQ mod where my textures are 2048px instead of 1024px so clothes makeup skin etc looks crisper. plus potato-ballad's clear & bright lighting mod for nice scenery pics.

then i use reshade on top of all that. i have my reshade presets in my downloads page.

i also use dxvk now but my screenshots still look mostly the same as before the switch.

[sideshowsnob]

[sims 3 tutorial] how to make lazy previews of objects with TSRW & GIMP 2.0

bordered, borderless, and borderless with transparency

You can download this tutorial in .docx form here or read it under the cut -->

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P.S for all of these, i made the drop shadow invisible in the mesh tab before starting.

Standard borderless previews for objects without special effects

this circle option is the bump map

this option turns the background white, which we need

Take two pictures of your object, one with the bump map on, and one without.

use the 'magic wand' tool to select the black parts of the bump map version 'copy' the entire regular image, and 'paste' 'into selection in place' on the bump map version. copy while the selection is still active, and paste as a new image.

[black to show no background]

How to make a bordered preview of a standard object with no special effects

this option turns the background white, which we need

Take a picture of your object in TSRW at your desired angle.

Open this image in your desired photo editing program. I am using GIMP 2.0.

Use the magic wand tool at threshold level 1.0 to select the white part of the image. you may need to shift select more parts of the image if they are closed off like the area between the prongs.

go to 'select' and 'invert selection' depending on the image, you may need to use the 'remove holes' tool. in the 'select' tab 'grow' the selection to your desired thickness. i like anywhere from 5-10. 'copy' your image while the selection is active, and 'paste' as a new image.

All done!

How to make a borderless preview of an object with transperency…

i have this fruit parfait that has 3 groups [drop shadow, glass cup, and the parfait itself. these groups can be hidden in the mash tab by toggling 'true' or 'false'. im gonna mark these true or false depending on what i want to take a picture of.

this circle option is the bump map

this option turns the background white, which we need

I need a photo of the parfait only, one regular, one with the bump map on. a photo of the glass only, one regular, one with the bump map on. I do this using "windowed mode" with the snipping tool so that my pictures are in the same location.

Open all of these images in your editing program of choice, however i am using GIMP 2.0 so things might be a bit different.

Open a new transparent image 1000x1000

'select' the black bump map image with the magic wand tool, until it is completely outlined

Then copy the entire regular version and 'paste' into 'selection' 'in place'

copy this while the selection is active and paste it in place to your transparent image.

Now for the transparent part, do what we just did and paste it as a new layer on the transparent image. erase parts of the image that do not appear, for me i erased the top part since its actually behind the parfait.

Much better. now lower the opacity and merge this layer with the one below it

All done!