Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Lutfij]

Speaking of Teenage Engineering, I was very interested in picking up the Computer-1;

computer–1

a mini-ITX pc chassis

teenage.engineering

but I saw the reviews on the case and I felt it was too many compromises for a case of that style. Much like an Apple product, you give up so much to gain what can only amount to eye candy. To add, the area I live in is very dusty, don't want to sing Sting/Cheb Mami's Desert Rose while I clean the innards out every so often.

 

[Charagma]

I think the MIDI in/out is for playing it directly off the pads, while not hooked up to a PC. I saw a tiktok video of a guy who had the MPD226 hooked up to what looked like a record player but I assume is like a "digital sampler" - it had a spinning platter but no record on it. I think you load sounds to it and can play with them like you are scratching real vinyl. He used those two together and had it plugged straight to some speakers using the midi output.

I also saw someone have it plugged straight into a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator and that was very cool.... though those are pretty impractical besides just being toys to play with.

Would not know. In my head.........A midi port is essentially a DATA port. Same as USB, but Midi is mono-directional, so you end up with a Midi in and a Midi out.

Looking at the back of your unit, I see is 3 DATA ports which to me says, "Endless possibilities". E.g. Having the unit linked to the PC via USB, having the MIDI out run through a compressor and from the compressor back to the PC to have the same beat but different "Vibe" on separate channels or even having a keyboard on the midi in and the drum unit syncing to whatever I am sending it with the PC just being used as a "Recorder" The possibilities of having 3 ports is pretty much endless........in my head. I might be looking at it wrong.

The no record turn table is possibly a Dj controller but one without a "Beat" generator. It makes sense that you can add something like a Drum controller to it to make different beats etc on mixes live while on stage.

Any Idea how much the unit is pulling on your USB port? Recently had a problem with an extra keyboard (COD keyboard for games) and realised with everything I have running on my USB my mouse started to move erratic. Only after a lot of fidgeting realised my USBs just cannot supply the power to everything I am running. Now just have the basics on the USBs.

EDIT: LMAO the PO35 seems like the kind of thing I would buy but $99 and working exchange rate I can buy a MK3 61key. LMAO But it's just a side note but something that I would sit with and fidget with endlessly.

 

[Zloth]

have you tried making an installer on USB, and running setup from inside File exploder to update the install from the USB? That is how I normally get them unless it shows up for me on Windows Update.

It shows up for me on Windows Update. There's some update for 24H2 that fails and, when it does, it offers to let me use Windows Update. When I do that, it downloads, starts to install, gets 27% done, and fails out.

The main cumulative update stuff got through, so I'm not in a big rush.

Strange, I haven't heard much screaming about W10 updates yet. I expected much complaining about that. I guess Microsoft isn't forcing it yet.

 

[Lutfij]

I've had Windows 10/11 not want to update a couple of times, when I hit check for updates. Instead I left it alone and apparently over time it did it's thing in the background, unbeknownst to me.

I'd keep a bootable USB installer handy if I were you in case that issue you're having is foreshadowing of a corrupt OS.

 

[Colif]

If its an update that keeps failing, you may not get to the point where win 11 will just install the update.

I have been in the position like that before and only fix was a repair install. If you can get a copy of win 11 24H2 installer, you could try a repair install. They basically install windows over top of itself, you lose all the cumulative updates but its one of those that caused the problem you are having

[Article] How to: Perform a Repair Upgrade Using the Windows 11 or Windows 10 ISO file - Microsoft Q&A

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the link on that page to win 11 probably only has 25H2 so you need the installer from elsewhere

It won't work with the 25H2 installer as the ISO needs to match the version number installed.

 

[Charagma]

If its an update that keeps failing, you may not get to the point where win 11 will just install the update.

I have been in the position like that before and only fix was a repair install. If you can get a copy of win 11 24H2 installer, you could try a repair install. They basically install windows over top of itself, you lose all the cumulative updates but its one of those that caused the problem you are having

[Article] How to: Perform a Repair Upgrade Using the Windows 11 or Windows 10 ISO file - Microsoft Q&A

📌 Note: This article was originally created by Andre Da Costa on Answers Support Community. It provided meaningful insights and proved helpful to many. We're recreating it here to preserve its value and ensure continued access for others. Technical…

learn.microsoft.com

the link on that page to win 11 probably only has 25H2 so you need the installer from elsewhere

It won't work with the 25H2 installer as the ISO needs to match the version number installed.

Not sure but wouldn't the DISM and SCANNOW commands work in this case? Let windows repair everything it should and basically have a clean slate on settings? Not always easy to find a Windows installer disc,

 

[Colif]

dism/sfc could help but I assumed he has tried that already

I just had an interesting experience. Windows Home tab on File Exploder wouldn't finish loading so I ran
sfc/scannow in Terminal (Admin) and it found corrupted files
So a restart can help if that happens and what do you know, it did. Home works now

I then ran
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth
in Terminal (admin)
Ideally it makes more sense to run them in the opposite order but I didn't think it would find anything. DISM came up clean.


The ideal order is:

1. right click start button
2. choose Terminal (admin)
3. If it doesn't open as Powershell, click the down arrow in the title row and choose it from the list
4. copy/paste this command into window: (I have found copy, right click on terminal pastes it)
5. Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth
6. and press enter
7. Then type SFC /scannow
8. and press enter
9. Restart PC if SFC fixes any files as some fixes require a restart to be implemented

First command repairs the files SFC uses to clean files, and SFC fixes system files
SFC = System File Checker. First command runs DISM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-11

 

[Charagma]

Tonight when I got home, I had to find a new series to watch. Finished iZombie but was not really my kind of thing. Wife how ever loved it.

Heard rumours a while ago that there was a series based on Dragon age and started doing some searches. Could not find anything but came across a series with the name "Wheel of time". Never heard of it, never seen any of the novels they are referring too, but took a chance.

Must say first thing that caught my attention when starting it was the music. Pure Ambient legato's. I was busy pouring me a Whiskey when episode 1 started. Liked what I saw so carried on. In Episode 2 I saw the opening video of it for the first time. Very well done and made and it complements the music 1000 times over.

So far (at episode 5 now) it has caught my full attention. Tolkien could have just as well been the author because I am following 5 different sets of characters all headin to the same plave.

Did not post this in the Series thread because I have not finished it and well iZombie, I will ask the wife to say something about it because from me, I would go with "Nice legs" or "No Comment".... LMAO

 

[Zloth]

Must say first thing that caught my attention when starting it was the music. Pure Ambient legato's. I was busy pouring me a Whiskey when episode 1 started. Liked what I saw so carried on. In Episode 2 I saw the opening video of it for the first time. Very well done and made and it complements the music 1000 times over.

So far (at episode 5 now) it has caught my full attention. Tolkien could have just as well been the author because I am following 5 different sets of characters all headin to the same plave.

Those are the worst ones - they got slammed by COVID and had to mess with things even more than intended. The third season is quite good! Unfortunately, they ended it there.

The books are much better but... there's rather a lot of them. 15 in all, and most are 800+ pages long. I plan to re-read them when I retire.

https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Book-Set-Crossroads/dp/B00132BG7U/ref=sr_1_1

Honestly, though, I like Sanderson's Stormlight series better. It's on book 5 of a planned 10. (Living long enough to see the whole series gets me on the exercise bike!) That's one that would be even harder to put on TV than Wheel of Time. The world Stormlight takes place in is alien, right down to the plant life. So, it would be a long series with every episode having a huge budget. (Unless they just go straight to animated or pure CGI.)

 

[Charagma]

Those are the worst ones - they got slammed by COVID and had to mess with things even more than intended. The third season is quite good! Unfortunately, they ended it there.

The books are much better but... there's rather a lot of them. 15 in all, and most are 800+ pages long. I plan to re-read them when I retire.

https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Book-Set-Crossroads/dp/B00132BG7U/ref=sr_1_1

Honestly, though, I like Sanderson's Stormlight series better. It's on book 5 of a planned 10. (Living long enough to see the whole series gets me on the exercise bike!) That's one that would be even harder to put on TV than Wheel of Time. The world Stormlight takes place in is alien, right down to the plant life. So, it would be a long series with every episode having a huge budget. (Unless they just go straight to animated or pure CGI.)

Just finished Season 1 (LMAO 03:36am). Not the ending of the season I expected. Will do season 2 and 3 tomorrow (after I get up)

Since I originally looked for "Dragon" as my key search it ended up with that one. When they walked into the "Other World" It gave me a flash of the Storm Coast caves in DAI. And the blight is in there.....sort-off. Guess it sort-off is what I was looking for but not the "Storyline" I had in mind.

Will see if I can get Stormlight. Might be available on Epub or pdf or something. The "Quack" (Eye Specialist) says my eyes cannot take the strain switching between screen and paper anymore. I had to choose, either sell my pc and read books or keep my pc and give the books to my kids. Pretty much a no brainer since most books are available in PDF or Epub format now a days.

 

[Pifanjr]

Heard rumours a while ago that there was a series based on Dragon age and started doing some searches. Could not find anything but came across a series with the name "Wheel of time". Never heard of it, never seen any of the novels they are referring too, but took a chance.

As far as I know the only Dragon Age related series is Dragon Age: Absolution. I haven't seen it and it doesn't seem to be rated very well.

 

[Charagma]

As far as I know the only Dragon Age related series is Dragon Age: Absolution. I haven't seen it and it doesn't seem to be rated very well.

The rumour I heard was that it is pretty much Dragon age Origins but in a series. The journey with the companions etc. Heard about this around the time DAI was released but never found it. Not even sure if it is Anime or what language it is in. Whole thing was just something I read somewhere a long time ago.

I pretty much never found it. Every time I look for something "New" or "Different" I try and look for it.

 

[Charagma]

As far as I know the only Dragon Age related series is Dragon Age: Absolution. I haven't seen it and it doesn't seem to be rated very well.

Just watched the trailer. Pretty much based on Dragon Age 2 by the looks of things.

In the game after the "training and background" section, you end up in a city where your Uncle is (obviously with a twist). part of your path to gain access to the inner city you can join 1 of two "Factions". One being the thief's and other being the fighters. They in return pay the "Gate Fee" after finishing what the ask you to do.

Seems as if this Series is based on that part of the game.

 

[Charagma]

I stand corrected. Started watching it. This is happening after DAI and the defeat of Coryphaeus.

Episode 1 pretty much just started but so far so good.

 

[Charagma]

Was not bad actually. Took a bit of time to get used to the Characters and their respective roles, kind off an expected twisted in the story but was worth watching. I could only find season 1 (6 episodes) of roughly 25min per episode. I am on paid subscriptions so assuming that was all that was made.

 

[neogunhero]

Much like an Apple product, you give up so much to gain what can only amount to eye candy.

Unfortunately that is a lot of their products. Some of their music tools are really nice and intuitive but also cost $2000+. Those tiny pocket operators I linked to are cool, but can only do one instrument at a time, meaning if you were serious about using them to make music you'd have to own one for each instrument and they all cost $100 each. This medieval themed pad is soooooo cool though...

Any Idea how much the unit is pulling on your USB port? Recently had a problem with an extra keyboard (COD keyboard for games) and realised with everything I have running on my USB my mouse started to move erratic. Only after a lot of fidgeting realised my USBs just cannot supply the power to everything I am running. Now just have the basics on the USBs.

No idea really... it's plugged into the front USB 2.0 slot on my 8 year old case and it's working just fine. I also don't have too much plugged into USB besides keyboard, mouse, BT receiver and headphones.

 

[neogunhero]

I've been having a strange issue lately on my phone and computer. Maybe things were always this way and I'm just now noticing it or what, I have no idea.

When I click on a text field, whether it be an email, web search, texting, commenting, it doesn't matter, but when I click on it and start typing, sometimes it doesn't catch the first few letters.

Say I want to Google "mcdonalds near me". I click the search box on my phone browser and start typing right away, but I look at it and it's "onalds near me". What the hell?

Am I just typing too fast? If that's the case when did I become faster at typing? It's like I'm typing too fast before the device knows how to catch up. I see the on-screen keyboard pop up on my phone, or my fingers are already resting on my keyboard at my computer, and I'm typing before it gets a chance to be ready for my input. I seriously have no idea.

To be fair this has happened only maybe ~5 times in the past week or two which is miniscule compared to how much I type and search things. Still though, I'm noticing it more lately and it's so weird.

 

[Pifanjr]

I've been having a strange issue lately on my phone and computer. Maybe things were always this way and I'm just now noticing it or what, I have no idea.

When I click on a text field, whether it be an email, web search, texting, commenting, it doesn't matter, but when I click on it and start typing, sometimes it doesn't catch the first few letters.

Say I want to Google "mcdonalds near me". I click the search box on my phone browser and start typing right away, but I look at it and it's "onalds near me". What the hell?

Am I just typing too fast? If that's the case when did I become faster at typing? It's like I'm typing too fast before the device knows how to catch up. I see the on-screen keyboard pop up on my phone, or my fingers are already resting on my keyboard at my computer, and I'm typing before it gets a chance to be ready for my input. I seriously have no idea.

To be fair this has happened only maybe ~5 times in the past week or two which is miniscule compared to how much I type and search things. Still though, I'm noticing it more lately and it's so weird.

This happened to me just now. I think it's certain websites that show the page before it's done fully loading, which causes the input fields to not function for the first second or two.

 

[neogunhero]

This happened to me just now. I think it's certain websites that show the page before it's done fully loading, which causes the input fields to not function for the first second or two.

I wonder if this is something that has changed across the web recently or if I'm just noticing it now.

 

[BeardyHat]

I've been having a strange issue lately on my phone and computer. Maybe things were always this way and I'm just now noticing it or what, I have no idea.

When I click on a text field, whether it be an email, web search, texting, commenting, it doesn't matter, but when I click on it and start typing, sometimes it doesn't catch the first few letters.

Say I want to Google "mcdonalds near me". I click the search box on my phone browser and start typing right away, but I look at it and it's "onalds near me". What the hell?

Am I just typing too fast? If that's the case when did I become faster at typing? It's like I'm typing too fast before the device knows how to catch up. I see the on-screen keyboard pop up on my phone, or my fingers are already resting on my keyboard at my computer, and I'm typing before it gets a chance to be ready for my input. I seriously have no idea.

To be fair this has happened only maybe ~5 times in the past week or two which is miniscule compared to how much I type and search things. Still though, I'm noticing it more lately and it's so weird.

This has been happening to me pretty frequently even with my "new" phone a Pixel 7 Pro. I've basically just adapted to it now and don't notice it anymore.

Been on the struggle bus myself lately just in general; dealing with mental health issues for myself, which has been fun. Thought I largely had them licked, but I guess with the stress of life they've made a come back. At any rate, it's meant I haven't felt like posting or reading much lately.

One thing I did do for my mental health was sit down and paint; it's been months since I last really painted something, especially something different. I've been doing WW2 for awhile and started on these US Rangers over the summer, but between doing little things on them have taken huge breaks; I didn't really realize it's because I'm sort-of bored painting WW2 right now.

So after I got this 3d Printer, I did print one WW2 thing (a big house, it looks pretty cool) but almost immediately switched to printing Battletech terrain, because it's pretty quick and very easy to print-up, plus I have a whole bunch of STL files from Thunderhead Studio that I've been needing to get printed. So I ended-up cranking out a ton of stuff; I had a bunch of trees from my old printer, plus hills and now with my new printer I made a bunch of roads and a handful of buildings, because I want to have an awesome urban battlefield for my next game.

Unfortunately, I realized that this stuff is way too easy to crank out on the printer and I would quickly become overwhelmed if I didn't stop, so I did. Instead, I've been actually painting the stuff, which has been a welcome relief from WW2. Not only can I just do whatever I like with my colors (I love bright colors, which WW2 doesn't have a lot of. Though you won't see that in the picture to come), but I can be sloppy and don't need to concern myself with getting things "perfect"; good enough is good enough, because no one is looking that closely at terrain.

Anyway, in the past 5 or so days, I've painted about 30+ pieces of terrain, here's a little teaser. I'm hoping to have all of what I currently have printed all painted up by the end of the day today. That stack of roads on the left was also painted, but I just didn't have room for them in this picture..

Anyway, I made some more progress this morning, but I need to continue to do some laundry, as well as clean-up my garage after helping my brother in law with some automotive work (a strut broken in two, never seen that before. Pretty impressive) and also apply to a couple of jobs.

 

[Pifanjr]

I wonder if this is something that has changed across the web recently or if I'm just noticing it now.

I think it's been going on for a while. I suspect businesses noticed that if a page took too long to load their users would leave, so they now show the page before it's done loading.

 

[JCgames]

This has been happening to me pretty frequently even with my "new" phone a Pixel 7 Pro. I've basically just adapted to it now and don't notice it anymore.

Been on the struggle bus myself lately just in general; dealing with mental health issues for myself, which has been fun. Thought I largely had them licked, but I guess with the stress of life they've made a come back. At any rate, it's meant I haven't felt like posting or reading much lately.

One thing I did do for my mental health was sit down and paint; it's been months since I last really painted something, especially something different. I've been doing WW2 for awhile and started on these US Rangers over the summer, but between doing little things on them have taken huge breaks; I didn't really realize it's because I'm sort-of bored painting WW2 right now.

So after I got this 3d Printer, I did print one WW2 thing (a big house, it looks pretty cool) but almost immediately switched to printing Battletech terrain, because it's pretty quick and very easy to print-up, plus I have a whole bunch of STL files from Thunderhead Studio that I've been needing to get printed. So I ended-up cranking out a ton of stuff; I had a bunch of trees from my old printer, plus hills and now with my new printer I made a bunch of roads and a handful of buildings, because I want to have an awesome urban battlefield for my next game.

Unfortunately, I realized that this stuff is way too easy to crank out on the printer and I would quickly become overwhelmed if I didn't stop, so I did. Instead, I've been actually painting the stuff, which has been a welcome relief from WW2. Not only can I just do whatever I like with my colors (I love bright colors, which WW2 doesn't have a lot of. Though you won't see that in the picture to come), but I can be sloppy and don't need to concern myself with getting things "perfect"; good enough is good enough, because no one is looking that closely at terrain.

Anyway, in the past 5 or so days, I've painted about 30+ pieces of terrain, here's a little teaser. I'm hoping to have all of what I currently have printed all painted up by the end of the day today. That stack of roads on the left was also painted, but I just didn't have room for them in this picture..

Anyway, I made some more progress this morning, but I need to continue to do some laundry, as well as clean-up my garage after helping my brother in law with some automotive work (a strut broken in two, never seen that before. Pretty impressive) and also apply to a couple of jobs.

I would love to get into 3d printing. i know printers have come down to the point ive been thinking about it.

I dont know much about them though, any tips or places to read up on some info? ive seen stuff in the 500-2ks.. but no clue what the money does. Like a computer i know i can enjoy a game on a 600 dollar system, and at 2500, i can play the exact same thing only at 4k... that doesnt seam worth it to me. But printing i have no clue what the difference is, know what i mean?
I want to do mini building, but the tt gaming stuff seams like fun. Im working on a fantasy dirama now, got a castle made of wood that im adding plaster too, to make it look like stone. the other side has, and a peice of ruin wall with a dragon on top made of ceramic. I'm,m going too make some seige stuff out of wood, maybe a trebutche or catapult? I dunno, havent though about the terrain yet. The while thing is going to be about 12h, 10d x 25w, the size of the shelf.

So heroesand monsters,i have dragons,giants, orcs ,skeletons and some fantasy monsters too. i have abought 80 figures to choose from so it should be really cool when done. A friend said i should do some videos to document the whole thing as im just starting it. Well outside of many figures were painted by me prior, so ill be updating those from a base point. I have many i did as a kid, that can be improved, later ones are much better. though perhaps i should keep a couple pure from my early days, before i learned to mix paints as a 10 year old.

 

[BeardyHat]

I would love to get into 3d printing. i know printers have come down to the point ive been thinking about it.

I dont know much about them though, any tips or places to read up on some info?

I've mostly just watched Youtube, really and then kind of Googled things and looked for info as I've run into problems. I'd probably watch a beginner tips video on whatever format you choose, the choices being Resin or FDM

Resin is fantastic for miniatures and you don't need a huge printer or anything. It has advantages and disadvantages.

Resin Pros:

• Excellent resolution and detail for miniatures (if you're looking to print models for D&D or Wargames)
• Compact
• Very easy to setup, configure and run. Minimal tweaking needed.
• Print time is dependent on how tall a model is, versus how many. So you could print one model in say, 4-hours or you could load up the plate and print 5-10 (depending on how big your plate is) in 4-hours. Which is very nice.

Resin Cons:

• Messy. You're working with liquid resin and it tends to get everywhere. I have mine sequestered in my utility room on a table I don't care about. Going along with that, you need a print cleaner, which can be $100+. I personally use an old plastic jar and fill it with cleaning solution and shake vigorously; haven't felt like I needed anything else. But you're going to make a mess.
• Stinky. Again, working with resin, so it emits fumes. I personally have my resin printer in a box that I've hooked up to an extraction fan that vents out the window, otherwise it stinks-up my entire house.
• A bit dangerous. Some people react to resin, some people don't, I seem to be in the category who doesn't get chemical burns when it touches my skin. That said, I wear disposable gloves every time I handle anything to do with my resin printer, because I don't want to take the risk.
• Curing. You'll also need a cure station. Again you can buy a fancy one, but I just have a cheap UV light I use and a little platform that spins when UV light hits it, works great. With curing you'll need to figure out an optimal cure time for the stuff you're doing. Most of my stuff cures in about 5 minutes.

FDM Pros:

• Excellent for large scale stuff. I use mine primarily for printing terrain for my wargames. I've printed a very large house in 28mm for my WW2 game and lots and lots of 6mm scale terrain for Battletech.
• Easy to use. Hook-up your filament, feed it into the bowden tube and that's it. No messy clean-up or liquid to spill.
• You can use different kinds of medium. So far I've only used PLA and PLA+, basically plastics for printing models. But my printer can also do ABS (which I think requires an extraction fan, may have dangerous fumes, but I'm unsure) and PETG for stronger plastics, think making parts for cars and other things. But my printer can also print in Carbon Fiber. Not sure what I'd use that for, but it exists.

FDM Cons:

• Takes up a lot of space. The printers themselves are physically larger, plus you'll need accessories, such as a filament drier, especially if you live in a humid climate.
• Often needs tweaking. I bought this new printer to replace an old one I had fixed, which was also pretty slow. I thought the new printer would be pretty fire and forget and mostly, it has been, but it still needs tweaking, much more so than my resin printer ever does. For instance, the big 28mm house I printed, it strings pretty badly and I'm not sure where. There's a lot of maybe what I'd call "mysticism" on why that is and tons of settings to tweak to figure out the optimal configuration to stop that. I find that little annoying, because 3d Printing isn't my hobby (though it is for many) I just want to print cool things for my games, I have zero desire to tweak, but if that's what I need to do for good prints, well I guess that's something I'm going to have to do.
• More moving parts = More fail points. I've already had the hot end get clogged and fail on my brand new printer, resulting in me needing to spend $15 on a new hot end. The swap was a bit of a pain in the butt, but things are working again, yet still things can fail, especially with heat and moving parts. I haven't had a failure since then.
• SLOW. The more you load your plate up, the longer it takes. My new printer is pretty fast overall as far as FDM printers go, but it still took me three or four days to fully print this house I was working on. I'm currently printing some very basic, low to the ground streets for battletech, doing about 6 separate pieces and it's going to take two and a half hours. Again, fast for an FDM printer, but slow generally, especially if it fails at some point. Once I start printing taller buildings, it'll probably take the printer 6-10 hours to print what I want.

ive seen stuff in the 500-2ks.. but no clue what the money does. Like a computer i know i can enjoy a game on a 600 dollar system, and at 2500, i can play the exact same thing only at 4k... that doesnt seam worth it to me. But printing i have no clue what the difference is, know what i mean?

Yeah, spend more and you get more, generally. Bambu seems to be the top of the line stuff right now and I strongly considered getting one of them, but for the same amount of money I could get something that had a much bigger build plate, so I ended-up going that direction. But pretty much anything is "good" these days. My current FDM printer (Elegoo Centauri Carbon) cost me about $360 with tax at Microcenter. My friend bought a newer Creality K1 (I think?) for $250 and he has had no trouble with it at all. So even the fairly inexpensive ones these days are pretty good.

Can't speak to resin printers as I've never bought one. My friend gave me his old one, which I think is an Anycubic Photon something or other. It's old, but it still works great. But either way, if you're truly interested, do research based on what you want to use it for.

I want to do mini building, but the tt gaming stuff seams like fun. Im working on a fantasy dirama now, got a castle made of wood that im adding plaster too, to make it look like stone. the other side has, and a peice of ruin wall with a dragon on top made of ceramic. I'm,m going too make some seige stuff out of wood, maybe a trebutche or catapult? I dunno, havent though about the terrain yet. The while thing is going to be about 12h, 10d x 25w, the size of the shelf.

That sounds awesome! I've tried scratch building before, but I just don't have the talent or desire to do it, but people like you come-up with some absolutely incredible, one of a kind things. And honestly, scratch building has got to be a lot easier than futzing with a 3d Printer, so you've got that going for you.

So heroesand monsters,i have dragons,giants, orcs ,skeletons and some fantasy monsters too. i have abought 80 figures to choose from so it should be really cool when done. A friend said i should do some videos to document the whole thing as im just starting it. Well outside of many figures were painted by me prior, so ill be updating those from a base point. I have many i did as a kid, that can be improved, later ones are much better. though perhaps i should keep a couple pure from my early days, before i learned to mix paints as a 10 year old.

Oh yeah, I still have my very first model I pained (an old space marine) sitting on my desk to remind me where I started whenever I'm feeling down about my ability to paint.

 

[JCgames]

Thanks for the info. I live in a studio apartment and it sound like that might not be all that great for this. though i suppose i could open the doors i get a great crossbreeze.

I do have one Q, can you stop and start printing or does it have to keep running till done?

Side note, i got my new shelf for my closet, which is adding another 8 cubic feet of space to my place and ill finally have the pile of boxes put away that have been taking up space where i will be doing my project. So hopefully next month ill be starting! I just need to grab a web cam, and get my new drives stuffed into my comp along with a win 11 upgrade. I grabbed 12 tb worth of space between ssd and hdd for my video archiving project, but that will be more than enough space for both projects.

I think ill just work on this stuff for a while maybe push that 3d printing idea down the road. So thanks for that info
I guess they are not quite up to startrek replicator ease of use yet..

 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiwgjTER1c


This video was reuploaded by the official FL Studio TikTok account today and it's gotten me inspired. I opened the plugin and set the scratcher to be controlled with a slider on my midi pad. It... kind of works... who needs turntables when you have a physical slider to simulate it (somewhat) accurately?