Craigp

Craigp, 1 hour ago to random

Time to find out if updating my drivers will fix the uh (checks notes) CPU parity errors.

I suspect not.

I SUSPECT I'll be taking this lemon back to the shop for a new CPU.

SirTapTap, 1 hour ago to random

It's odd watching bridges fall apart in bridge simulators is so funny, in real life that's pure horror shit even if there's nobody on it

Craigp, 4 hours ago to random

What idiot built this buggy piece of shit?

... Oh, it's me. Ten years ago.

Who hired this asshole.

Craigp, 4 hours ago to blender

#blender / #unreal challenge: I want to have submeshes that are different objects but have seamless edges. IE, a head separate from a body.

But I can't seem to get rid of the seam.

There's loads of tutorials on how to, and none of them work. I think maybe Unreal's rendering engine is doing a rendering trick that ends up highlighting the seam.

To make matters worse, the methods of doing it end up making shapekeys not export, so I couldn't use them anyway.

Anyone know how to actually do this?

mbt3d, 10 hours ago to random

Tip:
When you come to setup Blender 4.2 Alpha etc. I would recommend making backups of your userpref.blend file.
For some reason it gets corrupted and then Blender won't launch, so better to have a working one than to have to start from default.
#b3d

teamonkey, 11 hours ago to random

lol again at Unreal’s water system, which is so “experimental” that it contains assets that don’t compile (and have been in that state for about 2 years, as far as I can tell)

Craigp, 12 hours ago to random

Mobile firefox released an update that, as far as I can tell, does nothing besides funnel you to their useless 'home page' instead of simply allowing you to use Firefox.

It's just a setting you can toggle, but it's one of those settings that is so clearly some management shit saying "home page ads make me money. But nobody uses the page because it's useless. Make them use it."

Craigp, 1 day ago to Unreal

People: "You should use migrate to migrate assets in #unreal! It can help you create clean projects and-"

Unreal: "I don't migrate custom collision/trace values. Because fuck you. I don't migrate build settings. Because fuck you. And also, I randomly crash during migrations. Because fuck you."

Have these people... never tried doing the things they say to do? Or is there some trick to migrate the PROJECT part?

Like, can I clone a project and just leave all the assets behind?

Craigp, 1 day ago to random

For those of you who haven't heard, heat pumps are... fucking astonishing.

They are more than 100% efficient. They are more than 200% efficient. They are frequently 300% efficient.

Not compared to air conditioners.

Compared to MATH.

Like they're more efficient than the theoretical action of simply using magic to cool your house at a 1-1 electricity to heat ratio.

It's fuckin' hilarious.

Craigp, 1 day ago to random

It is deeply entertaining how when you watch a student animation you often cannot tell whether the student is a hardworking 9 or a slacking 19.

mem_somerville, 1 day ago to climate

Had a fabulous #FieldTrip today with Long Now Boston folks. We toured the #DeerIsland wastewater treatment plant. Yes, Long Now Boston is a nerd club.

But it gives me hope: some really smart, thoughtful, and capable people are keeping our infrastructure going and planning for #ClimateChange--no matter what the other noise around is.

Great tour, take one if you get the chance. #BostonMA

The tour starts in this lovely old brick building that retains some of the 1890s pumping machinery around. Now it's set up as a sort of classroom or visitors center. There's an MWRA podium up front and a bunch of state and national flags behind where a speaker would be, but in front of the massive iron pumping equipment. A large American flag hangs down from the high ceiling at the second floor height.
In the visitor center near the pumping equipment, there is a large topological map of Boston. It was reportedly displayed at the World's Fair in 1900. It's about 2 feet off the floor, larger than a typical kid's pool, and the class covered surface holds a real 3 dimensional rendering of Boston and the harbor.
Near the place where they disinfect the water, there's this open gravel covered area. To the right of the disinfection long cement pools there's an odd object that looks like an early space capsule shape, but it's made in cement. It is one of the diffusers that matches the ones sitting 9 miles out in the harbor where the cleaned water comes out from the tunnels. It has a series of small sort of portholes around the cement where the water would come out if it was at the end of a tunnel. This one was defective though, and so it just sits up here for discussion purposes. Off to the background there is some greenery on a nearby hill with a water tank. That water is the stuff that come from the MWRA clean water reservoir system to serve the island.

Craigp, 1 day ago to random

Advanced pergolaling

Craigp, 1 day ago to random

Oh, Unreal namechanged "Set Master Pose Component" to "Set Leader Pose Component".

This is, in fact, a good change.

UPDATE. YOUR. FUCKING. DOCS.

Or at the very least add "master" to the metadata for "set leader pose component" so when the 100,000,000 people looking to follow an old docs search for what the old docs say, they get a valid response.

Craigp, 1 day ago to random

Howdy, it's 4 AM.

Sigh