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That is a lot more satisfying for people wanting to have a glimpse of ease of use of Blender and what it is capable of.īut we can’t expect newbies to have infuse science. Grant Abbit course, about a modest A to Z course, is around 2 hours 30. Nobody will look at 7 or 8 hours of videos, if they did not already choose to invest time in blender. Same thing for 4 series would probably correspond to 2 or 3 hours more. If all of them are necessary to accomplish the project, that is not a modest one.Ģ.8 Fundamentals videos is outdated and should be redone for 4 series.įor 2.8, that was already 5 hours of videos.Īnd a long list of things have been added since 2.8. Or a modest A to Z project will inevitably have to neglect some basics if it should not take dozen of hours to be followed.īecause basics are too numerous. Several small tours of specific areas will be easier to understand. That is not possible to make an easy tour of all of blender.īlender is too big and some of its parts are complicated.īecause they are for complicated purpose or they are half-finished or in transition. It jumps right in and takes you on a comprehensive tour of all of Blender. I think it might be useful to develop an intro course that’s as simple as Grant’s (ie not a survey tutorial), but caters more to people who have the sort of aspiration towards realism that turns them away from that low poly look. Nothing really sinks in very deep, and I therefore prefer non-survey tutorials, but for many people they’re the “entry drug” that gets them excited, especially people who’re into realism. CG Boost’s course is more like the donut in style, only more clear and methodical, and less rambly definitely suited for beginners who’re brand new to 3D modeling – I call these tutorial “survey tutorials” because they cover a wide range of Blender hard surface modeling, organic modeling, cloth simulation, particles, texturing. Even if you’re not into that retro low poly style, everything you learn here transfers, and the simplicity and the easy forms distill it down to where it really sinks in. I think it’s so good in part because of its simplicity (the rest is that he’s a superb teacher who understands beginners and the difficulties they have). Grant’s course creates a very simple, low poly scene which doesn’t get into many of Blender’s capabilities (there’s just some super easy volumetrics and lighting). Worth checking out at least those two, and maybe look at lesser known ones as well (I have more in my collection) before embarking on your own project could help you define your niche. CG Boost also has a solid, free beginner course. I don’t want to discourage you from making your own, by all means! But there are already other, more beginner-friendly choices than the donut. Now I generally send people to Grant Abbitt’s beginner course. Nope I got frustrated by the donut to the point of almost dropping Blender, and promptly went looking for something that suited me better. There are also many interesting situations about this i would like to describe, but it would take me too long to write exactly what i did and recreating that is quite random. Still though it's an interesting bug, because some really weird things tend to happen. I know this is most certainly a bug and dark matter has almost no mechanics in Universe Sandbox, it's just supposed to show us where it is or something like that. Dark matter is far enough from solar system i.e 100 milky ways.Īfter using option Convert Fragment to Full Body a big sphere of red color appears (about 6 milky ways in radius), dark matter becomes a Dark Matter Nova Remnant(looks like expired sun) and bugged supernova appears again, this time around dark matter. Dark matter is about ~5 milky ways (or less) far from solar systemĪfter using option Convert Fragment to Full Body a big sphere of red color appears (about 6 milky ways in radius), dark matter becomes a Dark Matter Nova Remnant(looks like expired sun) and Sun becomes a bugged supernova, basically like a thousand perfectly spherical supernovas, but not expanding (also, planets disappear)Īlso what i noticed is that when you click "delete supernova" then solar system kind of goes back to normal(inner planets disappear and outer planets just leave, like they were pushed away, actually the way i'd like dark matter to work)Ģ. Now there are two scenarios (in both i will be using simulation in which there is solar system and Andromeda Galaxy)ġ. In order to try it out yourself do as followed:ġ.Choose a simulation with solar system(i'm using climate simulation) in itģ.Now when you have Andromeda Galaxy somewhere in the simulation click on one of the red spots(dark matter)Ĥ.Click "Convert Fragment to Full Body" in Actions tabĥ.Enjoy your whole screen becoming red for few days of in-game time. Therefore i've tried using some options related to it, especially "Convert Fragment to Full Body". Also, Galaxy Sandbox 2 is coming out - with many improvements.Lately i've been wondering about the way dark matter works in Universe Sandbox 2(kind of hoped that it would push stuff away, work oppositely to gravity). Still, a fun program that will show you our galaxy up close and let you create your own solar systems. So in terms of "game-play" - while it is fun to look at what happens if Earth's mass is increased to that of the Sun's, and to observe how two galaxies collide, if your imagination stops there - the fun factor and replayability pretty much stop right there too. Since this was developed, if i am not mistaken, by one guy - it is a little rough - graphics are not top-notch (not that it matters much in this case), collision and projectile physics are not there (again - programming those involves a lot and also will burden the processing power of the PC), no sound whatsoever (again - not necessary, but would be nice with some ambiance), and not sure if magnetic force is simulated either (again - would be an over-complicated model). Excellent software for school projects - pretty good algorithms (it seems) for simulating gravity and mass. I am not sure if anything like that was available to public before but it helps to visualize where we are in the universe. A very nice space-physics simulation sandbox. If you are age 65 or over, blind or disabled, you can tack on $1,300 to your standard deduction ($1,600 for unmarried taxpayers).Īs written, there will be no personal exemptions for 2018.More cost-of-living and other adjustments are available through Rev. That amount is unchanged from 2017.Īnd remember that passport revocation rule? For 2018, the amount of a serious delinquent tax debt is defined as $51,000 for those purposes.įor federal gift and estate tax rates, check out this post and for retirement numbers, check out this post - both from Forbes' Ashlea Ebeling. Taxpayers that don’t maintain health insurance coverage must claim a waiver or exemption or be subject to the shared individual responsibility payment. For 2018, that penalty is equal to 2.5% of your adjusted gross income (AGI), or $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, up to a maximum of $2,085, whichever is higher. 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For 2018, the kiddie tax threshold - meaning the amount of unearned net income that a child can take home without paying any federal income tax - remains at $1,050. Unearned income is income from sources other than wages and salary, like dividends and interest. The kiddie tax applies to unearned income for children under the age of 19 and college students under the age of 24. Because the "documentation" available isn't helping me at all. It would really help me if you could write a simple model, where this peer-to-peer connection works. I have experience with using Sockets and socketstreams on Java, where one device would send something into the socket stream and the other read it out of the socket stream, but there one device was server and one client. With this I don't even know really, how to write the Dart/Flutter code, to test the connection between two devices. It's possible that I don't understand the difference between them 100%. I've tried both and neither of them managed to achieve what I wanted. The reason why I'm asking for help here, is because I've looked around and found two options for peer-to-peer in Flutter:Ī faulty example of a peer-to-peer connection in Flutter, with practically no documentationĪ better-documented example of peer-to-peer connection in Flutter, which also doesn't seem to work.Īccording to some people, the first option doesn't even work anymore. So if I have one Mobile device, where I send the message, it's seen by all devices. My goal is to make a little chat widget, where when you post a message, you can see it on all devices, which are connected, a bit like this: I'm working on a Testproject, where I want to exchange information via peer-to-peer from one Mobile device to another. You can of course turn it to an exe and combine it with the bat just so it only takes 1 click for the other person to open it. When you are finished with all of the above, open the Coding Software of your choice and put your webhook's URL in the yourwebhooksurlhere part, and then run it. bat file that installs them for you just to save time. For it to run correctly you have to download Python and a coding software (i suggest Visual Studio Code) After you have downloaded python, go to Command Prompt (Cmd) and type: 1.pip install requests 2.pip install json 3.pip install dhooks 4.pip install datetime I'll have a. This program was made for educational purposes only. When it runs it sends your ip and location to a discord webhook of your choice. However Discord-IP-Puller build file is not available. Discord-IP-Puller has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. Discord-IP-Puller has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. Discord-IP-Puller is a Python library typically used in Messaging, Chat, Discord applications. Discord-IP-Puller is a Python library typically used in Messaging, Chat, Discord applications. 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We are helping the family and doing everything we can to assist law enforcement.”ĭisney closed all beaches, ferry boats, and marinas until further notice Wednesday.įlorida has had at least 41 unprovoked "major" alligator attacks since 2010, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission records. Jacquee Wahler, vice president of Walt Disney World Resort, said Wednesday morning: "Everyone here at the Walt Disney World Resort is devastated by this tragic accident. The search effort was complicated by the large size of the man-made lagoon, which has signs around it warning people not to swim in it. Rick Scott called both the sheriff and the Florida Fish and Wildlife director during the search, and officials said they had been in touch with Disney executives. "We are terribly heartbroken at this outcome," Wiley said.įlorida Gov. A search boat passes Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings Chapel, located near the Grand Floridian resort, as police hunted for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged by an alligator into the Seven Seas Lagoon at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 15, 2016. Wiley said there was a "good chance" the gator was one of the five trappers had already caught, but said the investigation is ongoing and his agency wouldn't rest until it captured the alligator involved. Officials did not yet know if they had located the alligator who grabbed Lane. "They have to be euthanized to be analyzed," he said, adding that his agency has a "very good, close working relationship" with Disney to remove nuisance alligators. He told reporters it wasn't possible to examine the alligators without killing them first. Nick Wiley, executive director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, had said earlier Wednesday that five alligators had been trapped and euthanized for analysis. The alligator was described as between four and seven feet long. The Graves family has requested privacy, the sheriff's office said in a post to Twitter. The body was found about 10 to 15 yards off shore in about 6 feet of water, Demings said. The boy was playing in about 6 inches to a foot of water when he was attacked. "I just happen to have a 2-year-old grandson, so for me, this is a very human experience that we are talking about, where we are dealing with this family now who there's no question will lose a 2-year-old child," he said at the earlier press conference. Initially a search-and-rescue operation, Demings said at a noon press conference there was “no question” the boy was dead after so many hours underwater and that the hunt had turned into a recovery effort.īut he had vowed to continue searching until the boy’s body was found. The tragic discovery brought to a close a search that involved more than 50 law enforcement officials, including Marine units who relied on sonar equipment to scour the lake. The alligator is believed to have drowned the child, he said. While an autopsy has not yet been done and a formal identification has not been made, there is no reason to believe the body is not that of Lane. In the dialog box that pops up, name your layer (calling it whatever you like) and click OK. With your image open in Photoshop, right click your Background layer and click Duplicate Layer.If that’s the case, you can use any methods described here to polish up the result. Using Photoshop Quick Action will do most of the work for you, but the results may fall short of your expectations, depending on your image. With speed, however, comes less accuracy. It was introduced in Photoshop 2021 (in the Creative Cloud subscription) and provides an Adobe background remover that’s effective and easy to use. To remove the background, click the Eraser Tool (making sure your brush is large) and start erasing the background.īy far, the quickest method discussed here is the built-in Photoshop Quick Action for removing backgrounds in Photoshop. The layer name will change to “Layer 0” if you have no other layers. Next, click the lock on the right side of your image’s layer to unlock it.Depending on what you want the background to be (in my case, I want it to be transparent), you’ll likely need to unlock your image, so it’s no longer considered a background.Next, go to Select > Inverse to invert the selection (meaning that your background is now selected instead of your objects).This shortcut will auto-select each object for you (showing you the marching ants around each entity). To erase background material from here, press the shift key while selecting all objects you’d like to keep in the photo.In an instant, your subject is ready to be selected.(Move your cursor in tiny circles if it doesn’t immediately turn blue.) Now, hover your cursor over your subject and wait for it to turn blue.Open your photo in Photoshop and select the Object Selection tool in the toolbar on the left (in the same menu as Quick Selection Tool).The Object Selection tool utilizes Adobe Sensi AI technology to do just about all the work for you in selecting the subject in your photos. One of the most remarkable features to have come to Photoshop is the new Object Selection tool, which is new to Photoshop 2022. Remove a Background in Photoshop with the Object Selection Tool When I let go, Photoshop then calculated from there on how to remove the background.Ģ. However, it does have the ability for you to “paint” what you want removed and the tool decides what you meant by that.įor example, in the image above I “painted” the background all in one stroke, without letting go. The Remove Tool is handy to remove your background from your image using AI with just one click of a button. Note: If you want to do this in a non-destructive manner, be sure to copy your background layer so that you can use the Remove Tool on the copy layer and not the original background layer. Add to Mask should be used to add back any of your subject that may have been accidentally removed. Subtract from Mask should be used to remove any remaining background that may be left behind. To refine the edges, you can alternate between the “Subtract from Mask” and “Add to Mask” options below the image.You’ll now see the background has been removed from your image.Without anything selected in your image, select “Remove Background.” Below your image, you’ll see a box appear with a couple of buttons.Select the “Remove Tool” (found in the tool drawer with the Spot Healing Brush). Ogrim mentions that he misses her wisdom. She dissipates after the Knight delivers the Delicate Flower to the grave of her lover.ĭryya had a hard front, and Nailmaster Sheo refers to her as "Fierce Dryya", although she is noted to have been a caring type. There is not much known about Ze'mer when she was a Great Knight, but Ogrim remarks on how she told stories.Īfter her Mantis lover died, Ze'mer turned to mourning and retreated to her house in the Resting Grounds. She is not native to Hallownest, originating from "lands serene", a location from which she also brought Delicate Flowers. Sheo refers to her as "mysterious Ze'mer". Located in the Resting Grounds where she is known as the " Grey Mourner", Ze'mer is the only remaining Great Knight besides Ogrim. Beating him grants the Rivalry achievement. He is quite inept in combat and regularly messes up his jumps. He simply has to be attacked until the fight is over. As a boss, he deals no damage due to his nail being made of shellwood. He then becomes the final boss of the first trial. If the Knight saves him both times, he is captured and can be found in the resting area of the Colosseum of Fools, where he brags about his skills and how his capture was part of his plan. If saved, he once again complains about the Knight meddling in his supposed heroics. Once again the Knight has the choice to either save him or leave him, though this time leaving him does not result in his death. He has forgotten the Knight and introduces himself again.įound stuck in spider webs, presumably having been captured by the beasts of Deepnest. Zote can be found in a corridor leading back to the storerooms of the City of Tears. If he is saved in Greenpath, Zote shows up in Dirtmouth, where he once again talks to the Knight in an arrogant fashion. Hitting his shell here grants the Neglect achievement. If he is not saved before acquiring the Mantis Claw, he dies in this location, with his nail and shell remaining. If saved, he complains that the Knight got in the way between him and his "prey", he introduces himself and boasts about his supposed mighty deeds. He is held in the mandibles of a Vengefly King, and the Knight has the choice to either save him or leave him. He regards the Knight as beneath him and accuses them of constantly getting in his way.įound along the path leading to Greenpath. While he claims to be the strongest warrior in the land, he is found trapped by weak enemies or claiming the glory of another bug's deeds. Unfortunately, because it is made of shellwood, it cannot deal damage. He named his nail "Life Ender" because names supposedly have power. This is ultimately revealed to be a promise of glory for himself. Zote is a traveller from outside Hallownest who came to the Kingdom to fulfill a promise. Fragile charms do not provide a percentage point while consumed by Divine. Kingsoul must be complete to provide its percentage point. 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After the Safari app is downloaded, find the installer and open it to start installation. Specify if you want to add Safari as a desktop shortcut or not.Safari Reader – removes formatting and ads from webpages.Full-text search through the browser history.Safari 5.1.7 has become the last version of Safari developed for Windows and was released in 2012 Safari 5.1.7 features Download Safari 1.2 Improves compatibility with websites and web applications. But still, if you wish to use Safari on your Windows then you can download the browser from the download page below. 3 Results for 'Safari' Safari: Get the Latest Version Get the latest version of Safari Download Safari 5.1.10 for Snow Leopard Safari 5.1.10 for OS X Snow Leopard includes security fixes and is recommended for all Snow Leopard users. With more modern and secure browser codes released to protect user data and privacy, an old Apple Browser is a bad idea. Coming to the main topic of the post, Safari is not available for Windows and the last supported Safari browser for windows was version 5.1.7 which is good if you are still on Windows 7 OS on your PC. It is not considered a strong or principled opening, but it can be quite effective against inexperienced players or those who are unfamiliar with its ideas. I am going through! I also think this was perhaps my best game of the round.Grob's Attack, also known as the Spike Attack, is an aggressive opening that can lead to a quick and easy checkmate if the Black falls into the trap. Well played chitranshbadgainya in both games! Well above your paygrade my friend! He decided to protect Rook instead and got checkmated in 17th move in the middle of the board. Ke2 I decided to trick my opponent into taking pawn on a7 and save the bishop at the same time. I figured out that Bishop f5 can be sacrificed for rook a1 in a complicated line and knight on c7 will be also hanging. 13.Nb5 fed into my suspicions but in this crazy position I found a crazy solution. I found 10.e4 risky but I could not help myself to try and open up the position and try to prevent white from castling. First opposite castling with decent pawn structure in the middle of the board was kind of a good sign for me. After e5 the most logical moves tend to give me an advantage and I wasn't entirely sure whether to recapture with 5.Nxf6 or gxf6. I was familiar with 2.e5 sicilian but again I was very suspicious not only by way of white playing but mainly because of his very slow play which is atypical for player of his rating. Game 21: This game probably brought the best in me. Unfortunately lots of e5 pawns you can win in Larsen-Nimzowitch tend to be poisoned. This one was rollercoaster of emotions where I suspected Raf for most of the game but in the end it may have just been luck that there was so much compensation for him. I have premoved one line of possible checkmate with 35. Raf then managed to trap his own Knight on c2 in 22 moves and after consolidating my position, the result was no longer in question. Ba5 I finally gained some material and unpuzzled some of my problems but diagonal a1-h8 remained terribly weak. I have found interesting idea with Nf5-d4 trapping c2 bishop but Raf again found brilliant counter with Nd5. I had to give back a pawn on c2 and pray. To my surprise 9.Ne4 was not played and couple of other moves felt very strong also. 8.Nc6 (very simple move to make) highlighted issues in my position which are both dark squares, c2 and also d-file. After early Queen exchange and taking pawn on e5, I got what looked like really bad position and Raf simply played that part brilliantly. Game 19: In this game I decided to play Nimzo-Larsen and got immediately suspicious of Raf. Let's have a look as they went: In my first game, my opponent have quickly lost two pawns after his 7.Nf5 and then Knight after another mistake of playing 9.Nh4 and rest was just matter of technique, the game was sealed with underpromotion in 19 moves. There is 11 more points needed for me to get promoted to round two and hopefully get a game. Out of 12 players in my group, at least nine of them had timeouted two or more games. I was wondering how can I submit my best game, when only 3 moves have been made. all of these opponents have lost within first few days without making a move or maximum of couple of moves. These could be for different reasons.įirst we had a quick start, the ever so important is to make a first move and then keep checking at least once a day to make one or two more. There have been already some upsets as you can see. At first I thought that this tournament will attract lots of cheaters but there might be enough room for me to snatch prize or two as I get painfully removed from the tournament by a man and an engine.Ħ3352 players have joined, in first round we need to finish nearly 700000 games alone, there is no vacation, groups by 12, only one person advances per group (or those who tie for first). For a chessplayer this is the simplest task to do. It is $100 per each task, per round.Īll I had to do is to join the tournament and play. In round 1-4, is offering $300 for 3 video analysis prizes, 3 best blog prizes, 3 best move prizes and $1000 for 10 best game prizes. Didn't take long for me to subscribe to the idea. Last days of 2024 brought upon us Daily Tournament of the Year 2024 as far as I can see!! My friend Threexk alerted me that out there is a tournament with actual prize money for playing dailies. |
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