May The Force Be With You.
Is whip using the phone to text back? the quotes are messing with me
Is whip using the phone to text back? the quotes are messing with me
I didn't see that you were texting. I thought it was a phone call. Her texting may not very good while in flight. Texting while flying is likely as dangerous as driving.
Is whip using the phone to text back? the quotes are messing with meI didn't see that you were texting. I thought it was a phone call. Her texting may not very good while in flight. Texting while flying is likely as dangerous as driving.
Use Text-To-Voice/Voice-To-Text. Nearly all smartphone platforms have an app that can do that.
I'm Traveling for the next three weeks. I'll still be posting but will certainly be less predictable.
Wishing y'all the best!
I'm heading out right now. Sorry for any confusion I've called. I haven't had a chance to catch up on all the gameplay posts. Today's been crazy.
Merry Christmas all!
Thought I'd do some practice renders today, work on my lighting and whatnot, and while doing so, sorta kinda came up with a workable Violet model. So, have a few practice renders!
No freckles, sadly, because I don't have a texture generator for those, but these'll do, I think.
Very nice. Always wished I had artistic talent.
Had a cousin who could drawn anything, I mean anything, and wasted it by being a burglar for a living and spending most of his life in jail.
Violet, Those are great!
Aw shucks.
I'm glad you like them. :)
I might throw them up onto my DA gallery later, I dunno.
So I realized that there's a bug in the pose files, so every time I posed Violet in the renders, her measurements were being overridden, so her B/W/H were way off (on the too-big side).
Not the first time I've reported this bug to Daz. Pose files should only affect bones and rigging, not proportions.
Anyway, I fixed it.
So, have some more, and remember that the short girl can read your mind.
Nice, but the hair turned out more red than purple this time.
Oddly enough, I changed absolutely nothing about the hair. It's exactly the same color as the previous images. What changed is the light intensity - if I took the headlamp off the camera, it would be more purple than red.
I'm still trying to figure out why the pose files change the height and proportions. Theoretically, they shouldn't... and yet they do!
I also fixed the shades so they're even more bug-eye than they were.
Heh, I'd wondered if you'd intended Vi to be that voluptuous in the images, as I'd gotten a very different mental image (specifically, because of your character icon, more than anything :p). I'm not sure how difficult that sort of thing is, but I know it's well beyond me, so... nice job. :)
The icon was the closest thing I could get, honestly. But it's sufficing.
If you check that original drawing I linked back when we were getting our combat icons, that's the basic Violet model. She's short but properly proportioned for a mid-20's woman.
To be honest, I thought it was the sweater dress doing all that voluptousness, as the dress tends to pad things generously due to the geometry.
Then I took the dress off and spent a while doing this:
O.O
And then I did this:
>.<
And then I figured out that the "Measure Metrics" script, which allows you to dial in all your models height, measurements, and build, were being overridden by the poses.
It was really frustrating, because basically now I have to do this:
Measure and adjust character.
Apply pose and expression.
Measure and adjust character.
What bothers me is that it's not supposed to do that. I'm supposed to be able to dial Violet in at just under 5', with a 32/20/33 frame, and it should stick.
And it's not.
That pose you see her in in the first image? After I applied it, it dialed her up to 5'8" with a 40" bust measurement.
This shouldn't happen! ARGH.
I had to shut everything down and drown my stress in MST3K on YouTube, at the end.
BUT, now she's fixed and it should be good from here out.
Awesome! :)
All, sorry to be quieter than I'd hoped last week. I'd expected to have cell service at that cabin but turns out I didn't, so my only way online was borrowing others' service. (Still a *wonderful* week, but sorry I missed responding in some good moments there.) I'm still traveling this and next week, but I'm in NYC now so at least will have internet access.
Vi, Nice work. And yes, that sounds like a very frustrating bug.
mdt, no rush on my end (especially with you having been sick, and general holiday craziness) but I didn't see you reply to my Dec 14 question about finishing my character sheet. Just wanted to make sure it's still on your plate.
Thanks!
Ok, holiday's are over, let's get back into the swing of things.
Rocket, you're on my list, just been way to busy. I'll try to get it done this weekend. Remind me again what changes I'm making, my brain is swiss cheese at this point. I feel like Sam after an especially hard jump.
I understood that reference!
"Oh, boy."
Ziggy says you're supposed to be a showgirl in this one, buddy.
GM is just waiting on the drama to wind down. :) No worries, drama is good (IC that is).
Yup! And I'm trying my best to guide folks through the drama and to a decision without upsetting anyone too much. In fact, focusing on sparing feelings, in character :p.
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OK gang, I'll be back home tonight after 3 wks on the road. Posting should be a bit more predictable. Thanks for your patience!
mdt, here are the revisions we agreed on and here is the mental defense I'm working on developing via my practice with Vi. If I've had enough time to develop this, I'll take it too. If not, I'll keep this as XP for now. Thanks again!
Poke Poke
Don't look at me. I posted yesterday and asked the NPC for a description of the surly white-haired dude that was more than "surly with white hair." ;)
Stuck in bus can't do much to advance the story :(
We need to get goo one of these.
Also waiting on actions to resolve. :) I don't like the idea of rolling untrained on something someone else would be good at. Can I still aid people that are good at it, without being trained? Likewise, if I mess up, do I hinder them?
I'm in the same boat, er, bus as Goo. And staying way away from him if he's wearing one of those! :)
Working as intended!
Do we have a way to contact our trainers? Specifically Shimmer would be ideal, I think. Cause Eidetic Memory and Insomnia. :)
Yes, you have a number to call in emergencies.
I don't think this constitutes emergency :|
Apologies to any real Russian speakers out there, if I make some mistakes, blame Google translate.:)
Real World Trivia:
I used to game with a guy who had been in the intelligence community (for real and true, not one of those guys who pretends to have done so and then goes on about his "black ops" work - dude was a translator and cultural expert), and whenever speaking about the russian mob, the term he always used was "Bratva."
Not "Russian Mafia," but "Bratva." Brotherhoods. I figure it's not out of the realm of possibility for Violet to have picked that up, whether or not it's a valid term in this case.
Also, every time someone writes "Gridlock," I read "Grimlock," and it's all downhill from there.
I don't have that problem, but now I have a problem with Grimrock... :|
Real World Trivia:
I used to game with a guy who had been in the intelligence community (for real and true, not one of those guys who pretends to have done so and then goes on about his "black ops" work - dude was a translator and cultural expert), and whenever speaking about the russian mob, the term he always used was "Bratva."
Not "Russian Mafia," but "Bratva." Brotherhoods. I figure it's not out of the realm of possibility for Violet to have picked that up, whether or not it's a valid term in this case.
Ah, I see. Makes sense.
Do you guys mind if two of us play the field a bit and make characters for the other table as well? We're looking for another game, soooo. It's ultimately up to you and the other table as to whether or not we do so. :)
Perky Purple Pollyanna isn't good enough for you? :P
It's never enough until it's too much. :)
Not at all! Enjoy. Maybe we'll have a Team-Up one day, and you can team with yourself.
If there aren't any more posts today between characters, I'll assume you head to the arch and look around.
Good with me :)
Is it just me, or is my dice luck the WORST when doing a GM-requested roll, but not so bad when I volunteer a roll?
It happens. I just rolled two knowledge checks for something that was *Definitely* in my character's realm of knowledge... but rolled two natural 1s in the same post. :P
It's just too bad that my initial volunteered PER roll didn't count. Although I sometimes wonder if the RNG on the dice tag is sloped toward D20 games, where higher is always better...
I don't think there's any weighting, though I haven't exactly done any sort of sample size. I have thought about it though. Probably while keeping individual players separate as well. I've had players at tabletops absolutely hate a game, and because I kept track of how everyone was rolling, I was able to tell them why they probably had a good time.
Rolling five natural ones in the ~20 rolls you make is a great way to have your night kind of get busted. Assuming you don't have fun by making it comical. When there's a ton of tension, though, you really, really can't.
Same game as above, three of our martial characters got grabbed by black tentacles, and spent I think 3, 4, and 5 rounds respectively inside. Despite only needing to roll like a 6 to escape, for some of us. :S That was probably my least favorite combat of any I've ever been in. It's no fault of the GM... just the dice. The fact that those rounds took upwards of two weeks to complete just meant I was checking in to roll a d20, say I couldn't get out, flavor it up, and then move on. :(
Yeah, it doesn't really bother me, just makes me curious and simultaneously amused and confounded. :)