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Slideshow player: Score based image duration

Figured I'd top the recent changes with yet another feature; Image duration now depends on the score of each image, weighted against the average score of all submissions in the active slideshow. This means submissions with a high rating may last twice as much, those with a low rating will appear for a shorter amount of time, images with a rating equal to the average have their duration unchanged. A setting is provided to customize this functionality and retain a fixed image duration like befo...

Slideshow player: Proper volume & brightness sliders

The HTML based slideshow generator received a new update with a few goodies. I'm hoping it helps this seemingly overlooked project gain more traction and users now that it's more feature complete.

The volume slider has been changed from a global setting to a property of the player. It's now located under the song's thumbnail below the info label: This allows adjusting in full screen while removing the needless volume parameter from the URL.

Further more it's accompanied by an iden...

Cycles-X is awesome!

Took a look at the Blender 3.0.0 Alpha, hopefully to be released before the end of 2021. It contains the new Cycles-X render engine, pretty much a remake of Cycles from scratch using a more modern code base. The improvements it has are significant: Less render times per sample, more quality with fewer samples when denoising, and there's now even an option to set a time limit for your renders which will be extremely handy! Tiles are gone and have been turned into a separate feature to break up...

Beach scene test renders, night

Night shots, the most beautiful in my opinion. This is achieved by blending a second Nishita sky for the moon on top of the sun's at a far lower intensity. The stars are produced using a voronoi texture to obtain the random little dots, contrasted then piped into a blackbody temperature node to get the proper color... they also scroll across the sky over time to simulate the Earth spinning. The sky is arguably a bit bright at the horizon, but in this case I think a little realism can be sacri...

Beach scene test renders, day

Some test renders from the new beach scene at various times of day. Very pleased with the result, albeit I feel it could be even more realistic and needs more work. Thinking of turning this into a full landscape with trees and mountains and so on, depends on how well a standard computer can handle that amount of detail.

I'm using the Nishita sky, without it this detail wouldn't be possible especially with a procedurally animated daytime cycle. The clouds are volumetric and using a noise...

SJW attacks moving to Xonotic forum, VT presently abandoned

The madness lives on: As of sometime during the last days, I no longer have access to the Xonotic forum either. The reason is identical to what went on in Darkplaces: SJW's gone mad over something they believe I supported long ago elsewhere... once more without asking for any clarification on my end so I even know where this is coming from and what those people are seeing, them caring if I as a person or my approaches might have changed ever since, nor the community having any explicit rules ...

About what went on in the Darkplaces engine community, how this affects VoreTournament

Found some energy lying around to talk about this one here: The whole thing was a big drain on me in the moment, to the point where I had issues sleeping the night it took place. As it's related to a landmark project many people follow me for, it's fair I post about it here as well... by which I mean Vore Tournament which through Xonotic uses the Darkplaces engine to run.

Later this month I was planning to announce on Patreon a change to the lighting system I planned to develop for Xono...

Blender model: Anthros 2.0 16.08.2021

I'm proud to offer the new version of my anthro characters to the world! It should be noted this is not a finished 2.0 release, though for an ongoing model which will be constantly improved it's less relevant and you can treat it as such. Once it's done I'm likely going to post it on https://smutba.se so it can be enjoyed by even more of the 3D artist world.

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Announcement: Anthro wolf + fox + cat 2.0 for Blender

For all fellow Blender artists out there, I'm happy to inform you of a major upcoming update to the anthro model set. You're likely familiar with it from my renders featuring the red vixen... they're also the basis for the player models in the Vore Tournament game, as well as the anthro characters for TheDarkMod. You can find the previous version published 5 years ago on Blendswap:

https://blendswap.com/blend/19859 2021-08-26 19:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post

TheDarkMod - FM forest WIP

Wanted to take a break from working on the anthro model and Blender stuff for a bit. Got back to my favorite FOSS game of all times, TheDarkMod. Working on a new map / mission which is turning out to be one of the most massive projects I've made for it so far!

This FM is going to feature three city hubs the player can travel between, completing several missions around the various cities apart from the main objective. It's also going to have an interesting story I think folks will like. ...

TheDarkMod - FM mountain WIP

Wanted to take a break from working on the anthro model and Blender stuff for a bit. Got back to my favorite FOSS game of all times, TheDarkMod. Working on a new map / mission which is turning out to be one of the most massive projects I've made for it so far, potentially one of the most complex FM's for TDM in general!

This FM is going to feature three city hubs the player can travel between, completing several missions around the various cities apart from the main objective. It's also...

Lake of Bunny

Tonight is the night we call "the night of the respawning" (in pro gamer fashion) according to Romanian Orthodox tradition. As personal tradition requires, let us tribute a new Easter Bunny render for this lovely year! Which in my bible represents the one time I'm allowed to come out of miss bunny... fun and games for one night then it's time to go back to swimming in a stewy realm of molten carrots and veggies.

This time I'm using a fully procedural landscape made entirely from scratch...

M1nt3r F0r3zt

Christmas 2020: I created a render series called Winter Forest in Blender. All of the simulations, including volumetric smoke with cloth physics and other pre-baked effects, were compiled in a range of 100 frames... this was enough to give me satisfactory results at low build times, the final render taken at frame 100 obviously. What I never mentioned is an inexplicable behavior which manifested in the Blender software upon completing the last render in the set; This is intended to document m...

Temple lizard: Mawshots

The camera is going in.

Temple lizard: Close shots

Some closer views of that big bulgy belly.

Temple lizard: Distant shots

Made some progress on the temple scene I announced a while ago. We got a lizard person who is looking pretty full!

The Dark Mod augmentation addon items

Figured I'd show some progress on the player damage / augmentation mod I'm working on for TheDarkMod. The plugin is still in development with a few things left to do but it's getting there. Once ready it will allow TDM players to enhance their character with various upgrades (similar to DeusEx) further paving the way for the cyberpunk modification I've been dreaming about creating for this game. The screenshot shows the items you'll pick up in order to upgrade the player.

Notice: As The...

Alien lizard tube feeding, far previews

From the distant camera angles. In the actual film the view will jump between several of those cameras. The bright white surfaces will be screens.

Alien lizard tube feeding, close previews

Previews from a new animation project. It's one of the first Blender animations I'm making which will be semi automated, meaning I animate keyframes for a handful of modifiers to blend between poses rather than animating the character rigs manually: This should make production a lot easier... of course it only works for simple actions thus isn't a technique that can be used for every film.

Purged from Eka's Portal for talking about COVID

It was a slow beginning of the year as usual, but I'm hoping to have more things to show soon from Blender projects I've recently been working on. More previews and still renders from new animations should be coming out next month. For the rest of January I'm hoping I can find enough time to recover from recent events.

A few days ago I was hit with a shocking decision by the admin of Aryion (Eka's Portal) to permanently ban me from the platform with no warning. The ban came from a polit...

The Dark Mod: Player system update

The next update is here! I consider the damage component as finished as it gets, it should be mainly bug fixes and minor tweaks from here. I polished everything and restructured much of the code, and can now recommend players to install and enable this during everyday gameplay. Fixes and improvements include:

• Better patterns and algorithms for correctly distributing damage to the proper limbs.
• New protection: Holding an object in your hands exposes the arms more but the t...
  2021-01-13 15:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post

If Attack On Titan was realistic

Secret footage of what really happened, released by the same top agents who leaked FAF Comic's Hetty. Certified to be just as real as Joe Biden's victory!

Disclaimer: No acts of encouraging or sympathizing with heit, insuwwection, or tewwowism occurred in the making of this drawing. This might however instigate to errection or vorrerism, please consult law before calling police on artist.

The Dark Mod: Per limb damage, skill system

I created an addon that implements detailed player functionality, inspired by the first DeusEx game (The Conspiracy). It's NOT a mission script but an addon, meaning you place the pk4 in your TDM directory to enable the system and it will automatically work in each and every FM. Note that due to using tdm_user_addons.script / user_addon_init() it may disable or get disabled by other addons you have installed... this is a design limitation which can hopefully be lifted at some point in the fut...

Winter Forest - Backwards View (Landscape)

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This view shows the landscape from the back.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set up and makes i...

Winter Forest - Frontal View (Landscape)

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This view shows the landscape from the front.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set up and makes ...

Winter Forest - Vixen's maw view

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This is the view seen from the back of the vixen's throat.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set ...

Winter Forest - Person's view

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This is the POV from the viewer's eyes.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set up and makes it so ...

Winter Forest - Backwards view

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This view shows the person from the back.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set up and makes it s...

Winter Forest - Frontal view

The intent was to finish this on Christmas Eve, however it was delayed due to long render times mixed with electricity going down on several occasions. Very happy with how it turned out in the end! This is my holiday gift for the community this year which I hope everyone enjoys. Four angles were rendered in total: This view shows the vixen from the front.

Notice: This is my first set of submissions posted with PostyBirb. I simply love this application: It's easy to set up and makes it s...

Brick temple render

Rendered result with tone mapping / color correction / compositing applied. Contains volume dust which rises over time... no simulation, uses an animated 3D noise texture.