JTxt

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by JTxt 7y ago
Yes, there's some parametric things you can do in Blender. You can have a beizier curve that you can later change the facet count on... and you can use a spin modifier on a shape, but you're not going to get a perfect tangent li
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by JTxt 7y ago
You can use Blender for some CAD work... But it's not a solid modeler like solidworks/inventor. It doesn't have many of the precision and parametric tools. Blender's internal representation of objects is vertices (def
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by JTxt 7y ago
Doesn't Hacker News shadow ban too? When did that start?
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by JTxt 7y ago
"Merge doubles" is renamed "Merge vertices" (alt-m) > "by distance"... in the "Vertex" menu. (Though the change makes sense to me, I wish they kept an alias so people can still find it.)
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by JTxt 7y ago
It bends over backwards to be discoverable for new users, but it's still a powerful 3d program with many features... an understanding of those concepts are needed to make any 3d tool to work. There's already a ton of 2.8 video tu
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by JTxt 7y ago
It still has the powerful tiling window system. There's no overlapping windows so you don't close windows, you combine and subdivide windows to make the tool layout you want. But now there's Tabs for different default window
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by JTxt 7y ago
I'd recommend video tutorials on YouTube. There's many great ones already: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut... And use forums if you get stuck. https://blenderartists.org&
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by JTxt 7y ago
People have been making 2.8 tutorials for months. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut...
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by JTxt 7y ago
UV editing has a tab at the top now. There's a few things to keep track of to be successful with this tool and hook up with materials, but I don't think the difficulty is much different then similarly powerful tools. There's
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by JTxt 7y ago
Yes, Eevee is a fast pbr renderer and can give very similar results to cycles with no effort, except there's some setup needed to do indirect lighting and reflections... and some tweaking needed for good lamp shadows in some cases, but
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by JTxt 7y ago
Youtube has several people frantically creating tutorials for 2.8: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+2.8+tut... 'Too hard to learn' was a legitimate concern in the early days... even though the
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by JTxt 8y ago
Seems like it. Did you try this?: https://www.google.com/search?q=onenote+file+parser https://github.com/dropbox/onenote-parser
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by JTxt 8y ago
https://logz.io/blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/ https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads Perhaps also consider influxdb
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by JTxt 8y ago
Exactly I wanted to hear doom soundtrack music but "doom" did not work. https://bitmidi.com/search?q=doom I had to dig more to remember the level format and search for https://bitmidi.com/search?q
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by JTxt 8y ago
killing robots -> harvesting robots
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by JTxt 8y ago
Rituals can come before scientific knowledge, like cleaning.
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by JTxt 8y ago
Why Python? (Why code?) -What do you want to make with it? Who will that effect? How? Why browse? -How many LOC have you written in the past week on something you want to make? (...or that would get you close to something you want to ma
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by JTxt 8y ago
I'm voting up all the https://scratch.mit.edu suggestions. I was active in that community and with the developers early on. I wish I had it when I was little. You can browse projects with the 5 year old then view the sourc
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by JTxt 8y ago
I used team viewer, but not sure if you can login without exchanging numbers in the free version. There's many others. Try this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/logmein/
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by JTxt 8y ago
Right, I remember advanced 3d software fitting on a floppy. But now a simple Android app can be over 50mb. No you don't need a video on your login screen.
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by JTxt 9y ago
TIL: the optical mouse works by taking a picture of the desk surface and does Optical Flow with the previous capture to get relative position. The result reminded me of the old Logitech Scanman handheld scanner. except that had a 1d light
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Optical Mouse Cam (2010)(bidouille.org)
2 points by JTxt 9y ago|1 comments
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by JTxt 9y ago
Nice. For dates we'd go to a library or book store, take random books and dramatically read the first, middle, and last lines. And speculate on the rest and/or make fun of it.
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by JTxt 9y ago
Here's many other implementations of Game of Life in Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=Conway%27s+Game+of... (Warning, some have music.) (I made one before scratch had arrays, in 2008 but it no lo
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by JTxt 9y ago
Impressive! I think a "Lathe" tool could be made from your "Draw" shape tool fairly easily. Interesting problems you have... Balancing flexibility/power/precision and simplicity/low learning curve/f
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by JTxt 10y ago
All I see is "WF" in a box.
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by JTxt 10y ago
I took a picture of my finished Styrofoam hot chocolate cup and straw. Hot chocolate was the first guess. It gave an option for "from mix water added", done. Very cool. Edit: just logged my coworker's lunch in about a minute:
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by JTxt 10y ago
Yes, or at least also point to what it believes is the source. "Original copy. Corrections?" or something. Sometimes the original may not be able to handle the traffic.
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by JTxt 10y ago
Discoverability? It's much better than VIM's at least. (That used to not be the case.) Most features can be found in Menus. Every clickable UI element has a tool tip if you hover. With your mouse over the 3d port, hit the spaceb
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by JTxt 10y ago
I suggest looking at "Who wants to be hired?" posts for ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

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