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In the final stages of testing my Blender Compositor Line Art addon before release. Here's a look at how it works on a very high detail character. We have lines based on toon shading and vertex color ID groups. You can see it works very cleanly in some areas,...

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Here is the Geometry Nodes Weighted Normals with Laplacian Blur on a full character (a vroid). It easily improves the shading even on game topology with almost no setup. I built this as part of my quest to improve real time toon shading. 3D anime models are popular, but use of dynamic light is rare even among high quality vtuber models. This is for several reasons, but a big one is simply that it takes a lot of Custom Normals work to make 3D cel shading not look like a jagged mess (other pieces of the puzzle are issues like deformations, multiple lights, etc). And fixing Normals is tedious, especially on existing game topology. I have focused on proxy meshes for priority areas like character faces, but they aren't an efficient solution for the whole body + outfit. I wanted something I could just throw on any model and make it at least not a jagged mess anymore even if it wasn't perfect. As you can see from this clip, this does that very well! And vertex groups can be used to control the style of the effect and power. It still can't smooth beyond what the topology density can support, but the topo itself is no longer a problem (for higher res, could be run on a subdivided version of the model and then baked to a Normal Map.) The only changes I made to this model were adding a weld modifier to merge split edges during interpolation, and a vertex group to select the skirt. I have not yet added full handling and logic for detecting edges with big angles like the skirt, or for handling boundaries like on the hair, so both those areas can get better too. You can also see that while it successfully smooths out the Face, it isn't really stylistically correct there. That is still best done with a proxy mesh to define a new shape. This is part of the tools I am working on for Fondant. We are putting together a Blender Addon to release this + a proxy mesh tool for the face, and are working on resolving other problems in-engine to fully bring dynamic light to real time 3D toon shading. Give us a follow, and send them a DM if you are interested in testing these tools as they develop!

aVersionOfReality

14,679 views • 1 year ago

Being Dominant means being the One in Control. Some people love it and some hate it, but either way, there is always someone in control and the areas where you are not the one in control, are where you have given that control to someone else! Being the one in control means being the one people TRUST to lead, to be in charge. And for us to hold that responsibility, we gotta be not only comfortable with that role, but to love it! To want it. Control holds negative connotations, yet if it is exerted by someone with positive intentions, it is very healthy. It means you trust yourself and don't need to rely on others to direct you. NOT being in control means chaos. It means helplessness. It means inability to make decisions. Or to take initiatives. It means you are the one that follows. And if that is what you actually desire you have to be conscious of that choice. Otherwise you fall into that role and then wonder why nothing goes as you want. And if you choose to follow, choose your leader wisely. There always is someone in control, someone in charge, someone that leads. There is always a power dynamic. Truth is, we feel safe with those in control. Especially when they show us that them being in that role is positive for us. But so many people trust others more than they trust themselves! Which means being constantly influenced by everyone else's option and advice... which makes then the ones in control of your life! Decide WHO you want to take control when you want or need it, but also choose when YOU should be The One in charge. Developing that self-trust requires radical self responsibility. Which is what people struggle with. Nobody wants to be responsible for anything. And then we blame everyone for why our lives are not what we want them to be. And if you DO want to dominate, start by controling your own Self, your own thoughts, your own life. You can't expect others to trust YOU if YOU don't. Think about it... those that are in control are the people that have the most influence in the world. So if conscious people who desire to create a positive change take more control/responsibility, it would literally change society as we know it.

Ms. Malissia

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Following my UFO research shared yesterday there has been a huge reaction, much of it very supportive but the best feedback I've been given is stuff like this! Where another pair of keen eyes and lateral thinking turns up interesting new information Polarity here demonstrates how the traditional Google map search for the base shows what looks like wasteland or construction, from 2017 And now I realise why some people were sending me odd questions about the base because unless you update it manually you don't see what is actually there now in 2025 And of course I am in the UK and we see many different versions of not just Google but other US-based information, some of it actually helps my other research as I appear to have access to some things that Americans don't, but it works both ways However I urge you to watch the full critique that Josh does which is very fair and very constructive helping me know what else I have not made clear or not looked at in enough detail Also I realise people are so suspicious of AI that they simply think I am some idiot that just asks it questions and waits for it to answer them; understandably I know because many people do this But if you listen to the Space that I hosted directly after posting yesterday or indeed look at the complete discussion I had with AI, which I have published in its entirety, hopefully you will see that researchers like myself use it only as a tool. For example I looked at architecture, Electro magnetic security, geology/construction and anomalies in building locations, none of which it volunteered. Thank you very much to Josh for this and anybody else who has this sort of insightful constructive feedback please do let me know.

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