![]() ![]() The process is the same regardless of what letter you’re working on: draw 3/16″ lines from the corners, then connect them. The connections that you draw should run parallel to the edges of the original letter. Now, connect the 3/16″ lines that you drew both vertically and horizontally. Your letter should look something like this: Identify the remaining corners of your letter, and draw more 3/16″ lines that are parallel to your diagonal lines. “rolling ruler”) because you can line up the ruler with a diagonal line and easily roll it forward or backward. I find it easiest to draw 3D letters with a parallel glider (a.k.a. Then, draw along the edge of the ruler to make a pencil line that extends 3/16″ (~ 5mm) from the corner of the letter. ![]() Line up your ruler with that corner such that the ruler is parallel to the slant lines you drew before. To start drawing your shadows, begin with the lower left corner of your first letter. As such, shadows will appear to the lower right of the letters. To make these letters 3D, I’m assuming that there’s a light source coming from the upper left corner of the page. To get started with your shadow, use a pencil to lightly draw several diagonal, parallel lines over your phrase. Our goal here is to make these letters look real, like they’re sitting on the page. I chose “EAT MORE KALE” because that’s exactly what I need to do! My garden is overrun with it. For efficiency’s sake, it’s always best to commit to a couple of words versus a full sentence. Remember that it takes some time to draw 3D letters. This is a thicker version of Sans Serif lettering from the Premium Hand Lettering Worksheet Set. If you’d like to write at a more leisurely pace, try writing your own letters (preferably aided by pencil guidelines), as I’ve done here. If you’re pressed for time, you can type out your phrase in a word processing program, print, and trace the letters. So, start by drawing out a short phrase using thick letters. Letters will only look 3D if you give them a shadow, and in order to cast a shadow, the letters need to be thick. In this article, I’ll teach you how to draw 3D letters using a ruler, a pencil, and a pen. ![]() In the course of the tutorial, I ask you to write 3D letters … and yet, no 3D letter tutorial existed on the TPK website! That changes today. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a tutorial called How to Hand Letter Like a Pro. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sonic Mania combines the best of both worlds, capturing that old-school charm while sprinkling in some modern surprises. Oh, and did I mention the classic gameplay? It's like a warm hug from your childhood, but with a fresh twist. ![]() But don't worry, GameGal's got your back! We'll uncover their weaknesses together and make sure you come out victorious! Each level is a pulsating playground of retro goodness, filled to the brim with loop-de-loops, twisty turns, and secret passages that'll make your heart skip a beat.Īnd let's not forget about those unique bosses! They're like the guardians of the game's coolness, and you'll have to face them head-on with all your gaming skills. Picture this: you're zooming through vibrant and oh-so-pretty 2D landscapes, with your colorful crew by your side. At least Switch players get a physical copy.Hey there, gamers and meme enthusiasts! Get ready for a wild ride with Sonic Mania! This game is like a giant nostalgia-packed cake with three layers of awesomeness - Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles! Would be nice to have it on GoG or something, but I won't be picky as long as this is our only option on PC. So, yeah, I'm not going to feel a single sting owning Mania on Steam. Attempts to run Civilization II or EWJ: Special Edition on modern OSes have been heart-breakingly confusing for me. If developers or fans aren't patching it, or the source code isn't available, you're stuck fiddling with placebo workarounds, or the involving, not-so-intuitive process of setting up a Windows 98 virtual machine in DOSBox, to play certain games. Not all games will run on every future release of Windows forever, as-is without update patches. DRM on older things we own will almost always be defeated in time, but compatibility is an eternal moving target. Everything I own on a pocket-able thumb drive > huge shelf of retail boxes.Īnd to be honest, I have a much greater fear than DRM itself. I currently have over 60 PC games, which would be an impossible collection for me to maintain if I owned them all physically. Now, I simply rebuy my old favorite games digitally, knowing I have available backups on either the cloud, a download on Steam/GoG/Humble Bundle, or thumb drives and spare hard drives. I've lost so many personal possessions throughout my life, to the point that all I had several years ago was a bag of clothes and a DS to my name. :specialed:Ĭlick to expand.This is the greatest appeal to digital for me. One of these days, I want to play it on Wine without a Steam update breaking the Windows version's compatibility on Ubuntu, preventing me from launching Wine-compatible Windows games. Compared to other games on Steam, I had trouble making a legitimate DRM-free backup of my purchase of Sonic CD Remastered onto a flash drive, so I gave up. ![]() If you're going to be upset at anyone in regards to Mania, it should be SEGA for defaulting to Steam's DRM with all their games. ![]() And as you'll read on the list, some developers provide patches or launch commands to remove Steam dependency. Here's a comprehensive list I almost always refer to when I'm buying things on Steam, it lets me know if I should avoid a game with possibly-hidden third-party DRM, or if it's DRM-free. Publishers have full control over whether their games have DRM on Steam, whether it be Steam's own solution or a third-party's. 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There are extensions for other tagging websites, like Discogs. For example, I only let it tag the front cover. Tagging from Amazon only updates the tags you want it to update. ![]() There are also five custom tags for you to store extra info if needed. Inside MediaMonkey, if you go into its help, you can go to the "Tag Fields" or "About Track Properties" and it will list how it stores the tags into your files, if you desire to do so. It also means that you will see the same set of fields independently from the audio file you are tagging. So, it can store much more information than what the actual file can store. MediaMonkey stores its tags into a SQLite database called MM.db. Let me see if what I know can help you - although be aware I am not an expert. If I create custom tags, would I be able to autofill them in this way? I see that there is an autotag function that grabs info from Amazon. I would want to keep the mp3 files that are copied from flac out of the library since they would be duplicates, but I'd need to keep other mp3 files (from E-Music, mostly) in the library. So I want to be able to rip to FLAC (which I do with EAC) but then have a parallel mp3 version of everything too. ![]() I seem to be able to create custom flac/ogg tags in the Mp3Tag application - can MM do the same? Will these custom tags transfer to mp3 tags when I convert? I use an iPod for portable playing, and play mp3s there (I know I can rig the iPod to play FLAC but don't want to give up the battery life). And since I will be ripping my collection to FLAC for archiving purposes (I am considering a Squeezebox to play it all over my home stereo), I want to tag all this in FLAC. I have an extensive music collection that includes rock, jazz, and classical albums as well as 300+ live show "bootlegs", so the ability to tag extensively is important - I want to be able to tag info like the original release year of an album and the reissue year, composers, conductors, soloists, audio recording info for the boots, etc. Select a limited subset of music files for inclusion in my library Carry my custom tags (including cover art) from. mp3 using customizable compression settingsģ. Will it allow me to do the following sequence of tasks?Ģ. I'm about to take my entire music collection fully digital and I'm looking for the best tools. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there was ever a marriage between cinematography and pornography, it was officiated by Antonio Da Silva. In the time since its 2012 launch, Cubitt’s work has been viewed over 45 million times in 200 countries. Want to see that a woman is sexual? 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The mainstream industry tends to produce a lot of wham-and-bam content, and while that might sell, there are a whole lot of people who don't find it all that appealing. It’s not hard to find porn online, but it is hard to find good porn online. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. ![]() ![]() ![]() NPC Bailing Addon - Makes it so AI pilots may bail from their ships during combat when their hull is severely damaged. Gate effect pack - Changes the texture and colour of the FX in the jumpgate, a lot of diffrent colours and textures to choose from. This increase in size makes colliding with ships less likely when entering or exiting the jumpgate. No Ring Gate Mod - No more AI crashing into the ring of the jumpgate, this plugin removes the ring around the jumpgate and increases the size of the jumpgate by ~100 times(if not more). The NPC's are able to level up based on the number of kills they obtain, as an NPC ship levels up it's abilities(damage, speed, turning speed) also increase, with level 10 being the maximum. A real time dynamic news system updating news about attacks, missing ships, trading and stockmarket news and more.Īdds explosion shock waves, these incorporate forces that accelerate ships, damage ships and provide screen shake. A open radio channel brodcast all radio traffic in the sector. LIFE V.0.95b - Adds a lot of immersion to the galaxy. ![]() Especially in later game, the HQ can be difficult to destroy, as the sector will be well fortified. As they gain more money, they will purchase capital ships to guard their HQ. The Phanon Coporation will steal trade opportunities, and actively hunt down and destroy your ships and factories with M6 / M7 led fleets. Phanon Corporation - One of my favorites, this plugin creates a new enemy faction, The Phanon Corporation, that is far more aggressive in its trading monopolization efforts than any existing known company. This also works great with "ImprovedRaces". Destroyed carriers will of course respawn after a random while. They will also repair, rearm and refuel at any pirate base when needed. Each carrier run a script that allows it to do various things as sending a squadron to attack a factory, a TS, a TL, or a defense ship.ĪI of those carriers has been improved so they can defend themselves when attacked and flee when in real danger. ![]() It will spawn a configurable amount of Yaki MOBILE BASES (TL or M1) equipped with a jumpdrive and filled with Yaki Fighters. Yaki Armada 2 - Yaki Armada will make the Yaki faction more interesting. Each Pirate Base will now behave on its own, buying new ships(by a loot powered pirate economy), raiding TS, capturing ships, invading sectors. The Pirate Guild HQ gives orders to the other bases. Pirates can in time become more than a simple annoyance. Pirate Guild 3 - Makes the pirates more intelligent and organized. (Use v.15.31(!) not the latest update, more options in v.15.31) They will mostly deploy basic food/minerals/energy plants and Trading stations/Military bases but all stations is possible. Because factories often get destroyed in the wars, shipyards will launch additional TL ships to build new ones. They are able to build stations in far corners of sectors and perform invasions from there. It changes behaviour of Xenon and Kha'ak, making them very aggressive and dangerous, also gives them new abilities. It also allows player to take control over sectors, collect taxes from AI factories and taxes from planets in the system (depending of their size and distance). Shipyards will produce assault fleets of different sizes, and use them to takeover sectors from their enemies, and regain control over lost territories. This plugin is able to initiate dynamic wars between races(depending on their notority with each other). ![]() IEX 1.5b - This fantastic mod revamps the look, mood and atmosphere of all sectors by changing to high quality backgrounds, adjusted lighting and a lot more. Rebalances all the ships(for the better IMHO).Ĭockpit Mod v1.30b - Adds cockpits to all ships, the game become a lot more immersive! Adds a ton of new ships(over 200) and 50+ new sectors to explore. (these plugins is compatible with each other but needs some time and tinkering(5 hours of testing in my case) to get working, make sure to read all readme files and download required addons and compability patches) (I have played 30+ hours with this setup without crashes) (Sorry for my bad grammar and spelling, Im swedish and tired :P ) ![]() ![]() ![]() Primary city showing your feeder city as a friend Is there a perfect feeder city? When your Facebook accounts are friends then you will start seeing the cities in your friends list within SimCity BuildIt. Once linked, you just send a Facebook friend request from your feeder city to your main Facebook account. ![]() This is the point when you link your feeder city to your new Facebook account. I appreciate this is not always practical and further down we share how you can still operate a feeder city on a single device.Īfter playing in your new city for about 15 minutes you will be presented with an option to link your city to an account. Ideally you should use a second device to create your feeder city and the device should not be used by your primary account. This could be to join a club your primary city is a member of, collect VU items, contribute to wars, participate in contest of mayors, or craft those hard to make items. When you progress further in the game you can use your new city for additional purposes. This Facebook account will be used to login and access your feeder city. We recommend that a new Facebook account is created with a new email address. It must be created using distinct login credentials. ![]() What is a feeder city?Ī feeder city is a separate city that is created for the sole purpose of generating resources for your main city. Ideally you want to have a device per city but it is possible to run on a single device. These can either be on separate devices, or all on the same device. It is also possible to run multiple feeder cities simultaneously if you want. A simple city that meets the needs of most players can be setup in about 30 minutes. It is common to hear people say they don’t want a feeder city because it will take too long to setup and maintain. To help with this you need a feeder city. The resources you are likely to be short of are simcash, simoleons, land expansion items and storage expansion items. After a short period of time playing SimCity BuildIt you will be very aware that to progress further and faster in the game you need more resources. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Vue 5 Esprit features some of the most advanced rendering technologies (convincing outdoor lighting, global illumination, HDRI, post-processing, volumetric effects, advanced procedural and glowing materials, blurry effects. Everything springs into life! Amazing Render Quality! Plot a path, select a type of motion (airplane, pedestrian.) and Vue will instantly set up an impressive flythrough of your scene!įine tune your animation using dedicated tools (timeline, storyboard, camera switching, motion blurring.).Īdd pre-animated meshes animate materials, atmospheres, clouds waves. La mise en scène dite moderne se présente au contraire comme une rigoureuse économie du visible mis « au service » de la pensée : elle est à la fois un travail artistique discipliné par l’il du metteur en scène-psychologue, et une régulation du plaisir oculaire et du désir de voir du spectateur : 21. Elles se sont efforcées de suivre et de décrire la pratique de la scène en vue dune meilleure connaissance du phénomène théâtral. You'll soon find out why Vue has gained a solid reputation as the most easy to use and creative 3D application around! Animation Made Easy! Au cours des vingt dernières années, les études théâtrales en France se sont éloignées à la fois dune étude littéraire des textes et dune approche purement linguistique et sémiotique des spectacles. ![]() Instantly create gorgeous atmospheres, carve mountains, grow breathtakingly realistic 3D plants and trees, add water.Įasily create organic or geometric models using metablob and boolean modeling, import fully textured objects from other 3D software, create amazing titling effects. Render an HDRI Scene in Vue dEsprit with Poser Models This is a very basic tutorial on how to export a model from Poser and render it in Vue. Vue is a very powerful 3D environmental building and animation program very similar to Bryce.įrom e-on Software's website: Powerful and Creative! From skies and volumetric clouds to terrains, large-scale EcoSystems, wind-swept vegetation, open water bodies, roads and rocks: everything is right there for you to use out of the box. Were excited to be able to welcome all the new, talented artists who will at least be able to use Vue on. Vue 5 Esprit is the next generation of Vue d'Esprit 4 (not the follow up to Vue 4 Professional) VUE is the only environment package on the market that includes everything you need for creating beautiful CG environments. 'Dear Vue-er, dear friend, Welcome to the fourth edition of Vue dEsprit, e-on softwares award winning 3D scenery generator And a specially warm welcome to our friends on the Apple Macintosh platform. ![]() ![]() ![]() The player collects golden rings, which serve as a form of health players survive hits as long as they have at least one ring, but, if hit, their rings scatter and disappear after a short time. Robotnik, or one of his robots, including the Hard-Boiled Heavies, elite henchmen based on the EggRobo enemies from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. At the end of each act, the player takes part in a boss battle against Doctor Eggman, also known as Dr. Each zone is divided into 2 acts, in which the player must guide their character past various enemies and obstacles to reach the end. ![]() Remixed stages consist of both new elements and recycled gimmicks and ideas from other past Sonic games. Sonic Mania takes place over 13 levels, called zones the game features eight "remixed" zones, such as Green Hill Zone from the first Sonic game (1991), alongside five original ones. Unlockable options include Sonic's abilities from Sonic CD (1993) and Sonic 3 & Knuckles (1994) in place of the drop dash and "& Knuckles" mode, which allows simultaneous control of any character and Knuckles, including himself. As with Sonic 2 (1992), players can play as Sonic and Tails simultaneously, or a second player can control Tails independently. Players select one of 3 playable characters, each with their own unique abilities: Sonic can perform a "drop dash" which sends him rolling in a dash after a jump, Tails can fly and swim, and Knuckles can glide and climb walls. Sonic Mania is a side-scrolling platformer similar to the early Sonic the Hedgehog games released for the Sega Genesis and Sega CD. Gameplay Gameplay screenshot showing Sonic in Studiopolis Zone, the first of five original levels in Sonic Mania Sonic Mania Plus, an enhanced version with additional content, was released in July 2018. Within a year, it had sold over one million copies worldwide. Several described it as one of the best Sonic games and one of the best games of 2017. Its presentation, level design, music, and faithfulness to the early Sonic games were praised, but its lack of originality was criticized. Many reviewers saw it as a return to form for the Sonic series following a number of poorly received games released after the 1990s. Sonic Mania was released in August 2017 and became the highest-rated Sonic game in fifteen years. The team used Whitehead's Retro Engine and aimed for a graphical quality between Genesis and Sega Saturn games. Art, level design, audio, and additional programming were provided by independent studios PagodaWest Games and Headcannon. Development began after lead developer, director and programmer Christian "Taxman" Whitehead, who was previously contracted by Sega to develop enhanced mobile ports of Genesis Sonic games, presented a playable prototype to Sonic Team producer Takashi Iizuka. The development team was composed of members known for their work in the Sonic fangame and ROM hacking community. The story follows Sonic, Tails and Knuckles as they venture to defeat their nemesis Doctor Eggman and his robotic henchmen, the Hard-Boiled Heavies. It takes place over 13 levels, including several redesigned from past games. Produced in commemoration of the Sonic the Hedgehog series' 25th anniversary, Sonic Mania pays homage to the original Sega Genesis Sonic games, featuring speedy side-scrolling gameplay. If nothing else, the new characters highlight the strengths of your other three party members.Sonic Mania is a 2017 platform game published by Sega for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. Maybe I’m just bad at controlling this dude, but it felt like you needed a lot more open space to take advantage of his flight mechanics. Ray’s powers are less overtly dangerous, though not as useful as Tails. Mighty and his down smash move have actually gotten me killed multiple times, while Tails proved more and more valuable. Climbing and flying are absolute life savers in this game that I can’t believe I didn’t use more when I first played Mania. ![]() On the flip side, Encore Mode has really opened my eyes to how awesome Knuckles and Tails are. There’s hardly any opportunities to really use their powers in any of the stages. I like having two more people to control, but they feel underwhelming. While it’s not impossible to control, expect to suffer through some trial and error before you figure it out. While Mighty has a pretty cool smash attack, Ray’s flight move is a bit unwieldy. While I’m psyched that the Chemical Plant Zone has a more challenging boss fight, Metal Sonic was already hard enough, damn it. It looks like all the bosses who needed tweaking have been tweaked. ![]() Not only that, but Eggman isn’t terrible at playing Mean Bean Machine anymore. Whereas the second phase of that fight used to be impossible, now it’s the third phase that will crush you flat. Not until Metal Sonic did I realize how much things had subtly changed. ![]() |
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