“So are you two still an item?’
‘I don’t know really. Last time we spoke it was kind of weird.’
‘Define weird.’
‘You know, just, weird.’
‘And how long ago was that?’
‘It’s… Been a while.’
‘Dude, she just updated her Facebook status to “in a relationship.”‘
‘Yeah? So I guess…’
‘With another guy.’
‘… Oh.’
I had actually planned on waiting a few days before posting the second part of my image dumps, but when it rains it pours, as they say, although I don’t really know why, because usually it just rains around here.
I don’t know how long it has been there, but seems like WordPress has a new gallery feature which makes it easy peasy for me to upload all my old drawings again, after my little brush with Internet fame (read: I got hacked). I’m just not sure that I want to have a gallery anymore. That is not what I do anymore and it feels like clinging to the past, which is supposedly bad for you. So here it is, the first of my picture dump posts. I predict that there will be one more.
The Tactical squad shall be your objective holder of righteous fury, your opportunistic transport snipers of furious righteousness. Thou shall take two squads of ten Tactical marines and embark them into metal boxes in every battle. Thou shall not take only one Tactical squad, or three Tactical squads, and certainly not four, but rather two Tactical squads. Two being the number of Tactical squads thou shall take. Thus by paying the appropriate amount (not an inadequate or excessive amount) of Tactical Tax in every game for all eternity does thoust pay thou dues to the Emporium of Man. So says Rowboat Girlyman, spiritual leige of all spess mehrines who don’t pretend they’re Blood Angels.
They are my Tactical marines and they shall know no disembarkation.
So, day 2 of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5: still nice speech recognition when dictating, still bad command recognition when using other software. I suspect this has something to do with the fact that my microphone is of poor quality and my audio interface is even worse. I might go out and invest in some form of USB microphone but I am reluctant to invest in something with only potential benefits.
In my increasingly desperate attempts at finding a way to use my computer, I decided to give Dragon NaturallySpeaking a chance. So far that has not been a mistake. I’m actually very impressed with how well it understands what I’m saying. I started my little project with the expectation that I was in for a lot of tedious work training the program to understand what I was saying, and a lot of frustration when it would ultimately fail miserably. But, lo and behold, it works! Mostly. Having dictated everything you have read so far, Dragon has made few errors and none that I wasn’t able to correct by using only my voice. The biggest frustration yet has actually been installing Windows 7 on my aging MacBook Pro. According to the Internet I have Apple to blame for this, which has been duly noted in my big book of grudges.
I will probably continue to keep you updated with my experiences as I use the program more.
I don’t write much here any more which is a shame because I liked doing it. I broke my wrist in a metaphorical way, which is to say that no bones were harmed in the production of my injury but the effect is still that I am not allowed to use a computer anymore on pain of, well, pain. It is still a problem so, unfortunately, things will likely stay this way for the foreseeable future.
Even if you can see a long way into the future.
In the meantime I wanted to share this little video I made to try out camera tracking.
Another old one I had lying around.
This is a small PyMEL script sript that I wrote for maya 2011 to create a polyplane and add an image texture to it. Just select an image and there you go.
filename = fileDialog2(caption = "Select a file", okCaption = "Use this please", cancelCaption = "No, don't do it!", ds = 2, fm = 1 )
if filename != None:
file = createNode('file', name = "imageplanetexturefile")
file.fileTextureName.set(filename)
shdr, sg = createSurfaceShader( 'lambert', name = "imageplaneshader" )
file.outColor >> shdr.color
filesize = file.outSize.get()
imgplane = polyPlane(name = "imageplane", width = filesize[0], height = filesize[1])
sets(sg, forceElement = imgplane[0])
A while back someone posted a lot of Team Fortress 2 Achievement wallpapers, each depicting a different icon. I thought it would be cool to have all the achievements in one wallpaper and since no one had done so (at the time) I set out to do it. Just for kicks. And then I never did anything with them. Until today. I was cleaning up and old computer when I stumbled upon my two attempts and I thought I would upload them, just in case anyone was interested. There are probably many new achievements in the game now, but I am not going to update these wallpapers unless the demand is really strong.
Here they are:
16x9 wallpaper
4x3 wallpaper