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While learning Unreal Engine 5, I decided to port over most of Hyperion to it to see if I could potentially move my workflows over to UE5. Although it worked decently well, it didn't work well enough to allow me to change over entirely. Hyperion is simply too complex... of an asset for real-time workflows (or at least is limited due to my knowledge of said workflows). 131 4K-8K UDIMs at over 8 channels and a solid amount of shaders with layering being the biggest bottleneck. I couldn't even match the shading setup to what I have in RenderMan, UE gave me a warning that the material was too complex. I was using the new Substrate materials, which mimic RenderMan LAMA shaders. The render below is using the pathtracer. As you can see there are some random flickering parts which I couldn't fix during my tests. This render of course doesn't have any displacement either (which Hyperion heavily relies on). I think Unreal Engine has a very bright future, but it is still limited by todays hardware technology for high end VFX work. Maybe in a few years I will give it another try when hardware improves and the engine becomes a bit more versatile in feature-set.show more

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21,517 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

I've always secretly wanted a PDP-11. When I was a little kid, they were state-of-the-art. When I was in college, they were a staple of our CS program. I rarely got to touch one and never expected to own one. I found it on eBay for sale a couple of months ago, with proceeds going to charity. So I bid (yay, and won it. The price included free national crating and shipping, so I felt slightly cheated that it was only coming from Oregon! A cheerful fellow dropped it off from his liftgate truck, wheeling it and the pallet on which it sat into my garage before leaving. According to the shipping manifest, it weighed 840 lbs. I have a 2-ton portable shop crane (engine hoist), but wasn't sure if it would go high enough to lift the PDP or if you were even supposed to grab a PDP by its chassis and lift it. Nonetheless, the lift had the height, but the legs weren't wide enough to clear the wood shipping pallet, so I couldn't get the lift over the PDP. We set up the lift on top of the palette, then blocked it up so we could lift the PDP and slowly cut the pallet away with a Sawzall. Which is what I did. It seemed super-sketch but was never dangerous. I'm much too good-looking to be killed by a 1970s minicomputer. I then did something that earned me the nickname "YOLO" on the PDP-11 groups: I just plugged it in and turned it on to see what confronted me. The machine emitted a scary roar, like a powerful fan rubbing on the chassis or maybe an arc. The power dipped out every time it made the sad sound. It wasn't happy. It turns out there's a big electrical contactor in the power block, which was cycling intermittently. A helpful forum member told me what capacity was most likely responsible, and he was right! Five cents and some solder later, it powered up! I pulled a VT220 over and connected it, which brought me to a boot prompt! But any attempt to boot from any device (I had 2 fixed drives and a removable as part of the system) just locked things up. Coming out of the back of the machine was a giant 100-pin ribbon cable that daisy chained from one drive to the next. It ended in a unibus card on the end of an 8' extension cable. Clearly intended to plug into another cabinet, which I didn't have. Long story short, the bus wasn't terminated because the termiantor was in the other stack. So I located one on eBay and waited patiently for it to arrive, spending most days on the front steps waiting for the UPS truck in anticipation. In the meantime I redid all of the filtration in the system, which is a lot of it! When the terminator finally did arrive, I installed it and the machine still wouldn't boot. None of the drives seems readable at this point, but at least it was trying. The good news is that I can load old DEC diagnostic packages over the serial port, and it passes all CPU, logic, and disk controller tests. So beyond the physical media (which I can emulate in the worst case) it's up and running, if not doing a lot yet! PS: I bought the M3 new in '03, and it has 12K miles on it now...

I've always secretly wanted a PDP-11. When I was a little kid, they were state-of-the-art. When I was in college, they were a staple of our CS program. I rarely got to touch one and never expected to own one. I found it on eBay for sale a couple of months ago, with proceeds going to charity. So I bid (yay, and won it. The price included free national crating and shipping, so I felt slightly cheated that it was only coming from Oregon! A cheerful fellow dropped it off from his liftgate truck, wheeling it and the pallet on which it sat into my garage before leaving. According to the shipping manifest, it weighed 840 lbs. I have a 2-ton portable shop crane (engine hoist), but wasn't sure if it would go high enough to lift the PDP or if you were even supposed to grab a PDP by its chassis and lift it. Nonetheless, the lift had the height, but the legs weren't wide enough to clear the wood shipping pallet, so I couldn't get the lift over the PDP. We set up the lift on top of the palette, then blocked it up so we could lift the PDP and slowly cut the pallet away with a Sawzall. Which is what I did. It seemed super-sketch but was never dangerous. I'm much too good-looking to be killed by a 1970s minicomputer. I then did something that earned me the nickname "YOLO" on the PDP-11 groups: I just plugged it in and turned it on to see what confronted me. The machine emitted a scary roar, like a powerful fan rubbing on the chassis or maybe an arc. The power dipped out every time it made the sad sound. It wasn't happy. It turns out there's a big electrical contactor in the power block, which was cycling intermittently. A helpful forum member told me what capacity was most likely responsible, and he was right! Five cents and some solder later, it powered up! I pulled a VT220 over and connected it, which brought me to a boot prompt! But any attempt to boot from any device (I had 2 fixed drives and a removable as part of the system) just locked things up. Coming out of the back of the machine was a giant 100-pin ribbon cable that daisy chained from one drive to the next. It ended in a unibus card on the end of an 8' extension cable. Clearly intended to plug into another cabinet, which I didn't have. Long story short, the bus wasn't terminated because the termiantor was in the other stack. So I located one on eBay and waited patiently for it to arrive, spending most days on the front steps waiting for the UPS truck in anticipation. In the meantime I redid all of the filtration in the system, which is a lot of it! When the terminator finally did arrive, I installed it and the machine still wouldn't boot. None of the drives seems readable at this point, but at least it was trying. The good news is that I can load old DEC diagnostic packages over the serial port, and it passes all CPU, logic, and disk controller tests. So beyond the physical media (which I can emulate in the worst case) it's up and running, if not doing a lot yet! PS: I bought the M3 new in '03, and it has 12K miles on it now...

Dave W Plummer

115,381 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

Jimin my dear YOU ALL DID AMAZING 😭 🐥: ‘ah, but honestly, I also have a lot of regrets about today. It rained so much, and originally… This time, I really wanted to try this new production, even if it meant removing some of the dance parts to make it happen. I put a lot of effort into it. But the smoke from the fireworks didn’t come out well, and there were parts that didn’t work as planned. Because of the weather, there was no wind, so normally it would have dispersed well when it appeared… that was a bit disappointing. 🐥: At the same time, while I really wanted everyone to enjoy it, I also felt a lot of worry before going on stage today. As I said on stage, it was a bit burdensome and difficult. I wanted to see it go well even more than anything…I felt like I had to perform well and repay everyone’s waiting with a good performance. So I don’t think I went on stage with a completely light and carefree heart. So if the people who came were even a little happy, then I think that’s enough. Then I think I can relax a bit and feel that it went well’

Jimin my dear YOU ALL DID AMAZING 😭 🐥: ‘ah, but honestly, I also have a lot of regrets about today. It rained so much, and originally… This time, I really wanted to try this new production, even if it meant removing some of the dance parts to make it happen. I put a lot of effort into it. But the smoke from the fireworks didn’t come out well, and there were parts that didn’t work as planned. Because of the weather, there was no wind, so normally it would have dispersed well when it appeared… that was a bit disappointing. 🐥: At the same time, while I really wanted everyone to enjoy it, I also felt a lot of worry before going on stage today. As I said on stage, it was a bit burdensome and difficult. I wanted to see it go well even more than anything…I felt like I had to perform well and repay everyone’s waiting with a good performance. So I don’t think I went on stage with a completely light and carefree heart. So if the people who came were even a little happy, then I think that’s enough. Then I think I can relax a bit and feel that it went well’

Lore ⊙⊝⊜

48,359 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

This is how my game has played for the 2 days I have been able to lol. The lag is unreal, which although making for some funny moments, makes the game very difficult to enjoy overall. Well it turns out the mowers ran over the internet box by my house with a bushhog lol. The ISP is hopefully coming to fix the damage tomorrow and I will be able to move in game!

This is how my game has played for the 2 days I have been able to lol. The lag is unreal, which although making for some funny moments, makes the game very difficult to enjoy overall. Well it turns out the mowers ran over the internet box by my house with a bushhog lol. The ISP is hopefully coming to fix the damage tomorrow and I will be able to move in game!

Baranox

179,384 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

The addition of Displacement Scale options in Crimson Desert is very welcome as it can help reduce shadow flickering, or even eliminate it in certain scenarios. Here is a quick video I did, first few seconds with Displacement Scale set to High, and then to off. The shadow flickering behind the lanterns as well as all over the building completely goes away. I also gained around 1ms in frametime, so it provides a small fps boost too. I havent seen any downsides of setting it to Off yet. Even the curtains in tents look a lot cleaner with less artifacting and flickering.

The addition of Displacement Scale options in Crimson Desert is very welcome as it can help reduce shadow flickering, or even eliminate it in certain scenarios. Here is a quick video I did, first few seconds with Displacement Scale set to High, and then to off. The shadow flickering behind the lanterns as well as all over the building completely goes away. I also gained around 1ms in frametime, so it provides a small fps boost too. I havent seen any downsides of setting it to Off yet. Even the curtains in tents look a lot cleaner with less artifacting and flickering.

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54,062 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Zara Larsson accepts the Breakthrough award at the ‘Billboard Women In Music 2026’. #BBWomenInMusic “[…] I’m not new and there are so many years of hard work behind an overnight success or a breakthrough. I’ve been an artist for over a decade now but lately things have really changed for me in my life and my career. So I’ve been trying to figure out what was it that happened? What was it that made the change happen? And when I was younger I wanted to be the best so bad and the annoying part of being the best in any art is that it’s subjective and you just have to, what I learned is that you have to be the most you because only you could be the best of that. And I feel like I become the most me around amazing women. So I didn’t suddenly become a better performer. I just changed who I was around and that was my breakthrough…”

Zara Larsson accepts the Breakthrough award at the ‘Billboard Women In Music 2026’. #BBWomenInMusic “[…] I’m not new and there are so many years of hard work behind an overnight success or a breakthrough. I’ve been an artist for over a decade now but lately things have really changed for me in my life and my career. So I’ve been trying to figure out what was it that happened? What was it that made the change happen? And when I was younger I wanted to be the best so bad and the annoying part of being the best in any art is that it’s subjective and you just have to, what I learned is that you have to be the most you because only you could be the best of that. And I feel like I become the most me around amazing women. So I didn’t suddenly become a better performer. I just changed who I was around and that was my breakthrough…”

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210,289 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

On the 13th of Sept, someone transferred 180k for an iPhone Xs 256GB. After acknowledging his receipt, he called, and I told him we don't have it but will ask colleagues and let him know. I asked my friend, and he told me 190k. I begged him to leave it at 180k because that is what the guy deposited (check frame 2 for reference). When he sent the phone from Kano to Jos, then I noticed it was an Xs Max. Seeing that the guy was in a hurry and didn't want to disappoint, I called him and told him what happened and said if he wants the Max, he can take it at no additional cost. I was willing to settle the difference because it was his first time buying from us. I packaged it with a new premium charger because all our used phones are sent packaged in our branded box with a charger, and I sent it to him in Abuja. He later messaged that he has received the phone and truly appreciates it. After months of not receiving any complaints from him, it clearly indicates that he has received a fully functioning phone. It is in our policy that if you find anything faulty within one week, you can return it to us and either ask for a replacement or refund. What this means is that the cost of bringing it from Kano to Jos, the packaging and charger, and the delivery to Abuja are all a loss to me. But I didn't mind because at least I have satisfied him. Nine weeks later, while I was in Kano, I saw a call from an unknown number. When I picked up, he said it was him. He told me that the camera has started giving him problems. I told him it has been months since you bought it, but you can take it to any repair store and tell me how much you spent, and I will pay. He asked if I know anyone, and I sent him someone's number. The guy didn't pick; he texted and informed me and later called me. I told him to go to anyone he trusts and let me know the amount he spent. A few days later, I was stranded between Kaduna and Abuja on my trip from Kano to Abuja because my car engine failed. He called, and I didn't pick; I don't even know his number. Later in the night, I received his messages on WhatsApp with a threat that he will make a video to tarnish the image of my business. Someone I was willing to help after months of buying a USED device from me is threatening me. I said he should go ahead because I can't entertain him anymore. In conclusion, a trade that I incurred a loss from is what some people are trying to justify as a scam. The beautiful part is I have made trades with hundreds of people here, and I would love two more people to come out and present a case in which they are still using a device I sold to them that is faulty and they contacted me for a replacement or refund, and I didn't do it instantly. "The hypocrite will always look for faults" - Ghazali. Those that are looking for a fault in me can justify something as woke as this; it doesn't matter. This is my own side and will no longer entertain him anymore. For those that believe in me without hearing from me, thank you so much.

On the 13th of Sept, someone transferred 180k for an iPhone Xs 256GB. After acknowledging his receipt, he called, and I told him we don't have it but will ask colleagues and let him know. I asked my friend, and he told me 190k. I begged him to leave it at 180k because that is what the guy deposited (check frame 2 for reference). When he sent the phone from Kano to Jos, then I noticed it was an Xs Max. Seeing that the guy was in a hurry and didn't want to disappoint, I called him and told him what happened and said if he wants the Max, he can take it at no additional cost. I was willing to settle the difference because it was his first time buying from us. I packaged it with a new premium charger because all our used phones are sent packaged in our branded box with a charger, and I sent it to him in Abuja. He later messaged that he has received the phone and truly appreciates it. After months of not receiving any complaints from him, it clearly indicates that he has received a fully functioning phone. It is in our policy that if you find anything faulty within one week, you can return it to us and either ask for a replacement or refund. What this means is that the cost of bringing it from Kano to Jos, the packaging and charger, and the delivery to Abuja are all a loss to me. But I didn't mind because at least I have satisfied him. Nine weeks later, while I was in Kano, I saw a call from an unknown number. When I picked up, he said it was him. He told me that the camera has started giving him problems. I told him it has been months since you bought it, but you can take it to any repair store and tell me how much you spent, and I will pay. He asked if I know anyone, and I sent him someone's number. The guy didn't pick; he texted and informed me and later called me. I told him to go to anyone he trusts and let me know the amount he spent. A few days later, I was stranded between Kaduna and Abuja on my trip from Kano to Abuja because my car engine failed. He called, and I didn't pick; I don't even know his number. Later in the night, I received his messages on WhatsApp with a threat that he will make a video to tarnish the image of my business. Someone I was willing to help after months of buying a USED device from me is threatening me. I said he should go ahead because I can't entertain him anymore. In conclusion, a trade that I incurred a loss from is what some people are trying to justify as a scam. The beautiful part is I have made trades with hundreds of people here, and I would love two more people to come out and present a case in which they are still using a device I sold to them that is faulty and they contacted me for a replacement or refund, and I didn't do it instantly. "The hypocrite will always look for faults" - Ghazali. Those that are looking for a fault in me can justify something as woke as this; it doesn't matter. This is my own side and will no longer entertain him anymore. For those that believe in me without hearing from me, thank you so much.

Rayyan Tilde

855,596 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

THE MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE ON 9/11 WAS A LIE! THE TRUTH IS THERE! COURTESY OF AMERICANDREAM09 🇺🇸 Jack Media ~DREAM AND 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK AT The only other thing that was found was the engine on Murray Street, and the engine on Murray Street is has been identified as either a CFM 56, CFM stands for Sinekma, and or the CF. which was a 76 engine, a 767 engine, which was developed out of the CFM 56. But whichever one it was, the CF6 or the CFM56, it had to be General Electric. And unfortunately, or fortunately, United Airlines use strictly Pratt and Whitney, so that engine that you see flying off, and that engine they say is from 175, isn't from 175. Did they get because the guys whose job was to dump it off there dumped off the wrong engine? My name is Tom Sullivan. I work for Control Demolition Incorporated (CDI) the top-rated explosive demolition firm in the world, owned by the Luwazo family during the years surrounding 9/11, and I worked for them as an explosives loader for two and a half years. As an explosive loader, my job was to place explosives in the buildings to prepare them for demolition. There are many steps that you need to take. First off, you have to weaken the building. To weaken the building, that means the staircase, all the staircases have to be cut at intervals. The firewalls have to be removed. The elevator shafts have to be cut. I look down to my right, and the elevators exploded. Some kind of like a Bruce Willis dialog movie. People just come running out of the out of the elevators on fire, fireball. I mean, it was like, what is going on here? There's something's up here. I mean, the plane's up there, not just flying it down here. Then you have to move to the support columns on the particular load floors, and those are cut by a torch for two reasons: first, to weaken them and also to allow for charges to be placed onto the structure, onto the columns themselves, and that essentially reduces their strength by about 20 percent. And even with all of that work being done to weaken this building, it still remains safely standing, so we can work, continue to work in it. The story that just a few columns can cause a synchronized global collapse, an implosion, is well. That's just a .... MORE 9/11 TRUTH AT THE WORLD'S CONNECTION TO UNSTOPPABLE TRUTH AT 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK AT

THE MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE ON 9/11 WAS A LIE! THE TRUTH IS THERE! COURTESY OF AMERICANDREAM09 🇺🇸 Jack Media ~DREAM AND 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK AT The only other thing that was found was the engine on Murray Street, and the engine on Murray Street is has been identified as either a CFM 56, CFM stands for Sinekma, and or the CF. which was a 76 engine, a 767 engine, which was developed out of the CFM 56. But whichever one it was, the CF6 or the CFM56, it had to be General Electric. And unfortunately, or fortunately, United Airlines use strictly Pratt and Whitney, so that engine that you see flying off, and that engine they say is from 175, isn't from 175. Did they get because the guys whose job was to dump it off there dumped off the wrong engine? My name is Tom Sullivan. I work for Control Demolition Incorporated (CDI) the top-rated explosive demolition firm in the world, owned by the Luwazo family during the years surrounding 9/11, and I worked for them as an explosives loader for two and a half years. As an explosive loader, my job was to place explosives in the buildings to prepare them for demolition. There are many steps that you need to take. First off, you have to weaken the building. To weaken the building, that means the staircase, all the staircases have to be cut at intervals. The firewalls have to be removed. The elevator shafts have to be cut. I look down to my right, and the elevators exploded. Some kind of like a Bruce Willis dialog movie. People just come running out of the out of the elevators on fire, fireball. I mean, it was like, what is going on here? There's something's up here. I mean, the plane's up there, not just flying it down here. Then you have to move to the support columns on the particular load floors, and those are cut by a torch for two reasons: first, to weaken them and also to allow for charges to be placed onto the structure, onto the columns themselves, and that essentially reduces their strength by about 20 percent. And even with all of that work being done to weaken this building, it still remains safely standing, so we can work, continue to work in it. The story that just a few columns can cause a synchronized global collapse, an implosion, is well. That's just a .... MORE 9/11 TRUTH AT THE WORLD'S CONNECTION TO UNSTOPPABLE TRUTH AT 17PLUS WORLDWIDE TRUTH NETWORK AT

AMERICANDREAM09 🇺🇸 Jack Media ~DREAM

50,031 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce

✨ A dream I had finally came true: I can now chat directly with my sites to build any feature or fix any bug just via Telegram I've been playing with OpenClaw for 3 weeks now and it's great but I was always too scared to run it on any production server And I was right a bit as Marc Köhlbrugge was able to hack it by social engineering and acting as if it was me, and with enough tries it believed him, and was able to modify the server, change SSH keys etc. of course I had it isolated properly on its own VPS and it didn't touch anything sensitive (as it should!) Marc then reported that bug to Peter Steinberger 🦞 who patched it fast But I wanted to try something more basic and simple, and I think maybe more secure: to just connect Claude Code on my server to Telegram which would be hard locked to only messages from me So I installed claude-code-telegram by Richard Atkinson on the server and run it as a system daemon and it works really well The cool thing is that I was already using Telegram for server errors like this: > Photo AI - ❌ Random credits giveaway failed (Attempt 30/30) with an exception: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 5 database is locked So now I can just reply, "Ok fix this", and Claude Code on the server in production will try (and probably succeed) in fixing it In the video below I asked it to make show [🌳 Parks ] on the map by default on load, it did that, then I reloaded the page and it instantly worked One thing it still needs is sending actual messages while it's doing stuff which OpenClaw does really well, it's annoying to just wait while it says "Working..." but that's probably next

✨ A dream I had finally came true: I can now chat directly with my sites to build any feature or fix any bug just via Telegram I've been playing with OpenClaw for 3 weeks now and it's great but I was always too scared to run it on any production server And I was right a bit as Marc Köhlbrugge was able to hack it by social engineering and acting as if it was me, and with enough tries it believed him, and was able to modify the server, change SSH keys etc. of course I had it isolated properly on its own VPS and it didn't touch anything sensitive (as it should!) Marc then reported that bug to Peter Steinberger 🦞 who patched it fast But I wanted to try something more basic and simple, and I think maybe more secure: to just connect Claude Code on my server to Telegram which would be hard locked to only messages from me So I installed claude-code-telegram by Richard Atkinson on the server and run it as a system daemon and it works really well The cool thing is that I was already using Telegram for server errors like this: > Photo AI - ❌ Random credits giveaway failed (Attempt 30/30) with an exception: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 5 database is locked So now I can just reply, "Ok fix this", and Claude Code on the server in production will try (and probably succeed) in fixing it In the video below I asked it to make show [🌳 Parks ] on the map by default on load, it did that, then I reloaded the page and it instantly worked One thing it still needs is sending actual messages while it's doing stuff which OpenClaw does really well, it's annoying to just wait while it says "Working..." but that's probably next

@levelsio

642,896 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

When I was 17 I lost my mom. I only have a handful of pictures and zero videos of her. A couple years ago, on my birthday, I got a text from a number I didn’t recognize. It simply said “happy birthday” with a YouTube link. I clicked it and my heart stopped. It was my mom. I had to pull over immediately. She was telling me how proud she was of me and how she wondered what I’d become. Maybe a policeman, a preacher, or even a clown. I couldn’t believe it. Well, it turns out the random phone number was my friend Jon’s dad, who had found this video on an old VHS tape they made before a 1999 school event. I was 16. This experience got me thinking... what if we could have one last conversation with someone we lost? That question led to the creation of the Crossing Over Express. It was my most personal film to date, and to my own surprise, reached more people than anything I had ever done. The film went viral and millions of people saw it within the first couple of weeks. Messages flooded in from people I had never met, but who were deeply touched by the story - especially those who had lost a loved one too. It was a good reminder to me that sometimes the most personal work is the most universal too. Big thanks to for letting us tell this story. Mini-doc by Noam Kroll and myself. The Crossing Over Express pinned to my profile.

Luke Barnett

14,662 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce