Huh. Besides the Cambridge Face Memory Test, which is used in the diagnosis of Prosopagnosia, there are also a Cambridge Car Memory Test, used (among others) to differentiate Prosopagnosia from Aphantasia, and Cambridge Bicycle, Body and Hair Memory Tests. That's cool. Also, I love when […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115606790522624001 This shows why I enjoy the very deep diving into outfits / props / characters for #cosplay so much. It started with "I need a rope that's blue and white", then I wondered how close to the "original" I could get, and then I began […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115605947403942005 This is becoming quite the rabbit hole. Now I learned that the white elements indicate the diameter and, at least for some manufacturers, the type of the rope. From how it looks, they actually followed that correctly in the game […]

I found a rope in an online shop that basically looks exactly like Fragile's rope, thickness, color, shade and blue-white pattern, the only problem is... the shop is in Persian and located in Iran. Not exactly the easiest country to import from to the EU. It's probably clothesline rope, it's […]

Almost December already which always means lots of traveling. Last year I spent my train hours in Metaphor: ReFantazio and really got into it. Horizon Forbidden West could take its place, but The Witcher 3 runs much better on Steam Deck so I might finally play the DLCs. Time to finish both […]

Mud Maid — Sculpture by Sue Hill in Cornwall, UK: This moss-covered figure of a woman rests on the forest floor at The Lost Gardens of Heligan. Her face is sculpted from clay and softened by time, while her hair and body are formed from earth and living […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Rayforge, the new laser gcode generator by barebaric / knipknap, looks like it's coming along nicely. It's clearly not stopping at "clean, nice and simple" anymore, but it still has a much more pleasant UI than all other tools I've tried so far. The current release still doesn't have the dialect […]

Sorting photos from Gamescom, I remembered that I need to do something about the shoe laces on Faith's shoes. The shoes in the game and artwork don't have laces, so I could either sew mine a little tighter and they would probably work without laces, too, or I could dye the laces so they are at […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115577885114150033 Last day today. I didn't manage to complete my candle arch, but I can do the remaining work at home. This was fun! Very different work from what I usually do (except the parts used to be bicycle parts, so I knew how to disassemble […]

Looking at my umbrella, I fear umbrellas might actually be fairly complex. That's quite a few joints and movable thin metal parts there. Good thing Fragile's navigator just uses magic to have all the parts floating! Who needs joints! #propmaking #cosplay

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder

oh look, when I don't use my phone, the battery actually barely drains. Guess it is a new phone after all. (dirty work in the workshop - usually I take photos all the time to document my processes, which of course does drain the battery, but not today)

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115577885114150033 This was GREAT. I'm going two days and today was the first. We are basically cutting bicycle rims to candle arch form and then construct whatever holding contraption and decoration onto it. I overcame my fear of angle grinders, so […]

The "collect" icon on Thingiverse has to be one of the worst icons available. The change when you have collected a thing is so subtle, I almost can't see it. This CSS changes that. I use it with Stylus in Firefox. It makes the entire button green when you have collected the thing […]

Apparently my modeling skills are limited. Putting the MagRope aside for now, method is promising, execution is difficult. But I figured that if I take the wig to the workshop at Anime Festival, I could instead practice make-up. I also have the tattoo paper and the elbow protector and if I […]

Hot Reload, a tool I consider essential for Unity, is 50% off in the Unity Asset Store sale. It's a one-time purchase (per seat though). I've been using it for three years now and while it was good three years ago, it has gotten even better, communicating more clearly when it couldn't reload […]

A friend of a friend has taught me Wizard, which I somehow managed to miss until now. It's fun! Definitely in the category of easy to learn, hard to master, but I did pretty well and I liked how the things you need to consider change over the course of the game. Good level of challenge and good […]

I could use a Metaphor DLC. #metaphorrefantazio

Things are moving in VR. Following Valve's recent announcement of a new VR headset with a new technology called foveated *streaming*, Pimax has open sourced their foveated rendering library. If your tool chain includes an Nvidia GPU, SteamVR, DX11 and a VR headset with eye tracking but without […]

Listening to Misery Business live in Chicago, randomly remembered how Hayley Williams once responded to one of my tweets regarding the song. I probably posted something like how it influenced my life etc because I can't stop talking about those things, and it was in the context of her not liking […]

Good news in music: CHVRCHES have hinted at a tour in 2026 since their new album is apparently coming together. Also, Martin has started a solo project with a single done. It's very personal, but it's also very much music CHVRCHES fans might enjoy, too. Also, his singing has improved A LOT. Wow […]

I just signed up for the coolest workshop ever. A joint offer from BUND, ADFC, SFZ and our local Makerspace (which just opened this week) - upcycling broken bicycle parts into christmas decoration. They have all the machines, even a welding station, they have an assortment of parts, they have […]

Finding the right angle for the elevated part of the MagRope bracer and adjusting the lengths of the three segments. Faith seems to have super long arms in some of the artwork but actually, her proportions are very similar to mine (just that I am […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Looking up proper nouns again, this time the answer is probably "bracer" (Armschiene). I often confirm by image search and wow there's some pretty ones. One day I'm gonna do leather embossing, too.

I opened my blog in Lynx, a text-only browser. Apparently using proper HTML standards pays off, not many issues I didn't expect. It doesn't seem to respect aria-label though, which is what I just learned I'm supposed to use for links that only consist of an icon. Those links show as empty and […]

You have Cloudflare problems, I have half-baked salt dough which has the consistency of marzipan, which is super satisfying to cut. So... more experiments! I have settled on a design for Faith's MagRope, mostly a mix of two concept art versions, so I'm now trying to actually create the shape I […]

I'm not joking when I say I turned down the heating a bit before going to sleep but left the PC on for lightbaking and the temperature is still as always.

Leaving my PC on overnight, since it's doing computationally heavy work. Generating lightmaps and unpacking part of a 4.5 GB 7zip file

My German teacher is working at Jetbrains now as it seems. Also my writing habits seem to be the same across languages...

There's an event labeled EAT in my calendar and while yes, eating is good, I am pretty sure this is a con or something. Unfortunately, that is probably the most ingoogleable term I ever wrote down.

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Odin Inspector has been released in major version 4. It now includes a visual designer, promising custom inspectors without writing code. I like writing code, but I'm curious how they did it, and also I like to use Odin, so if this helps more people use it, cool. The upgrade is included in my […]

I'm still waiting for the timetable / more info on the program, but I'll probably go to Crafting Com in January in Dresden. It's a convention, but it's focused on workshops and learning new techniques, so regular tickets come with materials included (1/2/3 days 35/65/90 €). It's also inside the […]

Why does most music sound better live? I used to work in the concert business, so I know some things: Most music sounds better loud for psychoacoustic reasons; live mixing can be intentionally less balanced; good live speakers and crossovers (the components that route different frequencies to […]

My friends and family mostly don't do gifts, but I do keep a spreadsheet of wishlist products. It's not much more effort than keeping an Amazon wishlist, since Amazon products tend to change prices and disappear all the time anyway, but this way I can put links to all my favorite shops and even […]

Looked up drybrushing to confirm if it is what I think and... it's basically just not using water with your paint (for thick acrylic paints aka all the paints I own)?! I FEEL SCAMMED. I do that all the time! I want fancy names that are used in fancy ways to stand for fancy techniques. At least I […]

I was considering trying to get Faith' wig ready until Anime Festival Kassel, since I basically have the outfit for OG Faith complete and could have gone as OG Faith with new haircut. But wig styling is scary and there's also a wig basics workshop at that con that fits my schedule, so I could […]

TIL from talking to @brezeldrache that everyone can access the full Unreal Engine source code for free, as opposed to Unity, who only published the C# portion of their source code and also don't allow compiling, except for pro licenses, where you can get all the source code. That's nice. I often […]

RE: https://mstdn.games/@AltheaValara/115556331657494668 Besaid from FFX as opener. Yeah, that's me crying minute one. One more reason to play more FFs (the music, not the crying. Well, ok, both.)

Met a guy in an Evangelion shirt yesterday at the concert explaining to another guy how great the battle animations in his favorite Anime are. Now there's someone sitting next to me on the train watching some Anime with Arabic subtitles. Good thing I have zero subscriptions, there's probably […]

Kochkraft were fantastic again tonight. It was their final show of the tour and also the biggest one (it had been moved from a smaller location due to good sales), so they were both a bit emotional and very energetic. Band of the decade for me. Very punk but also very electronic (omg those […]

Holy fuck. I am seeing Kochkraft again today, same tour as last week, but they brought a different opener, Koj (from Münster). Very different! While scheitern3000 were all about charisma and punk, Koj were all about SOUND. They opened with a quiet song, but within two bars I went like HOLY those […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115555090738985642 Also Berlin, very much: Where the fuck is the club? EVERYTHING has lights, but nothing has labels! Lido did have an illuminated logo though. Just very high up. They have also added a heated tent since I was here last time. It's […]

Arrives in Berlin: aaah Berlin, one day I would like to live here. (takes nap) Hanging out in Berlin: wow Berlin is huge and crowded, I could get used to that but it's also a little exhausting Tomorrow, leaving Berlin: thank God I'm going back, this was nice for a change but not for a long time […]

A friend was wondering if it was possible to stream VR games from PC to smartphone to then use one of these cardboard attachments that convert your phone into a VR device. I don't even know of any way to stream games to your phone at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with […]

Continuing in exploring music, Deezer managed to transfer from Magdalena Bay to Lorde. That's interesting on its own, but it wasn't just any Lorde song, it was "Take Me to the River", a Talking Heads cover from a Talking Heads tribute album. Deezer wrongly assigns this song to the works of LordE […]

A friend showed or reminded me of DubFX yesterday and since then I've had an earworm of Love Someone. I'm pretty sure I've known the artist / the song before, it would fit the time period when I also discovered Beardyman, who does similar stuff, but I can't figure it out. Anyway, here's fun 2008 […]

tfw you're in VR at 1 AM, you live alone and there is a noise outside of the headset you can't identify 😶 (I had moved the PC and the cable was swinging against the PC case)

I hate cleaning, and I also kinda loathe running 3D printing test sequences since they always have such an annoying short, but not super short print time, like 10 minutes. Turns out those two combine really well! So today is investigate stringing and clean bathroom day. Print temp tower, clean […]

TZ's powerball lives longer than a steel ball, but even it isn't forever. Here's a cleaned up replaced one. It's full of nicks and scratches, that could be cleaned, but it's going to end up looking like this very soon again. Anyway, one for the collection. #pinrepair #pinball