DizzyDoo

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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
Yes, in the past I've both rolled my own localisation system and used Unity's localization package, and the official package is really excellent. There's Google Sheets integration[0], Pseudo language generation for testing[1]
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I've been regularly devblogging the development of my spooky monster zoo management game (The Eldritch Zookeeper) for a few years now - https://www.youtube.com/@CranktrainGames/videos The game project has gone qui
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I thought Adyen had a minimum payment volume threshold set? 1000 payments a month, or something similar?
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I'm really just using Blender for modelling and UV unwrapping (and I've used the paint-to-texture feature once) and I think it's pretty solid, but I really haven't gone near sculpting or anything soft-surface/organi
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
Early in the year I made the switch from Modo (by The Foundary) to Blender 3.x, and I've been enjoying it. Since I use 3D software for my video games business it's quite daunting to switch a significant part of your workflow over,
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
In the UK it's really easy too, perhaps even easier, the registration form is entirely online [0] and then you pay £12. [0] - https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/register-your-c...
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
As a counterpoint, The Atlantic ran an interesting article[0] yesterday suggesting that it's not really clear what the Octopuses' aims are when they do this, and that we do really like to anthropomorphize them. [0] - https:/
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
> The phenomenon of precession — in which Earth slowly wobbles on its axis by around one degree every 72 years — means that the position of the fixed stars slowly shifts in the sky. The researchers were able to use this to check when the
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
> - Blending colours is just a matter of linear interpolation. I recall there being a particularly contentious bug report for Adobe Photoshop eight or nine years ago. The original thread is here: https://community.adobe.com&#x
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I think Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a fantastic documentary and recommend it also. I came away with a different impression, in that I certainly don't admire or want to share Jiro's attitude to work, because the perfection-at-all-costs
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
"Having none is better"... but there are some incredibly useful assets on the Unity Asset store? Here are three off the top of my head that I've used for a while now and they're worth every penny: Shapes - https:/&
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
On one hand, BlitzBasic and BlitzMax represents a key moment for me, ~15 years ago, of finally 'getting' programming - I clearly remember as a teenager, in front of a Blitz IDE, when some basic concepts clicked together, and here
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
Of course, he just called it a "handheld mobile telephone", that's tongue-in-cheek.
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I'm really going to miss the behind-the-scenes year-end posts about Candy Japan! I've been reading them for a decade or so? I hope you'll keep blogging and sharing what you're up to, but even if not, thank you for all th
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I believe it's this one: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/07/31
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
One feature that audio editing software really needs, if you're working with voice over or podcast audio, is a decent range of basic compression filters to apply. Whether it's just one person's voice or multiple people's
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
Yeah, I've done some useful things with pygame. My game business almost entirely uses Unity, but I do find that Python is helpful for tool development as, like you, I know the language well. Often it's a lot speedier to write a qu
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
GPU prices have been dropping steadily since January[0], which is nice to see. Still plenty of demand, but I hope my poor GeForce 960 can hang in there another 6 months before I have to upgrade. [0] - https://www.tomshardware.com
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
A slight correction here, the download of the exe does take place over https. As does buying the software, and signing up to the forums. But everything else doesn't? The software itself is some of the smoothest and most stable I'v
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
There's a piece of animation software that I use in my game development called Spine, and it's truly fantastic and the developers and staff are great... but the PHPBB forums don't have https enabled. I've brought it up o
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
The sort of things I have had running on a schedule (using Celery[0] or something like it) are sending a set of emails at a certain time, running a report or generating the data for reports, even running a backup of some data. [0] - https:
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I think we'd all probably welcome that... except Apple, because I just did a quick Google and it does look like Apple have successfully patented (Patent 7,932,897) the clicky wheel input. So I don't think a US based company like A
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
I imagine that Apple would never bring back an iPod in the future with the clicky wheel because it could be perceived as 'backwards looking' and cuts against their desired image as 'innovators' who bring out the 'ne
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by DizzyDoo 4y ago
Your camera-based solution would be trivial to cheat at though; simply have two cubes where one is in the solved state. So, incredibly time consuming to implement while also not really helping much aside from security theater.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
John Cleese had a joke about the Baseball World Series where he would quip "I notice you didn't invite Belgium this year."
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I think you may have gotten mixed up between Shopify and Spotify - this is an announcement by the latter, not the former. They're spelled so similarly so it's an easy mistake to make.
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
One quite interesting use of Ruby outside of Rails was its inclusion as the scripting language in various versions of RPG Maker, a popular piece of game creation software. The developers of the software are Japanese, like Yukihiro Matsumoto
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
A naive grid-lock would not quite be good enough for Factorio. Yes, there is a grid, but there's also a grid within that grid, if you mine a rock for instance there will be four pieces of rock lying within that one grid cell, and perha
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
> America has blacklisted big Russian financial institutions, preventing its own banks from dealing with them, and imposed strict export controls. These measures are much narrower in scope than disconnecting Russia from SWIFT, but they c
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by DizzyDoo 5y ago
I do love that you can use this to listen to 'Tatooine' radio: http://radio.garden/visit/tataouine/QhlNhiHM (Tataouine in Tunisia is where Lucas filmed the opening of Star Wars, it was originally named &

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