Sean Tilley

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If you think your day is bad: my wife accidentally stepped in shit inside of a Walmart today.

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First up: W Don't Have Time @wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social published a deep dive this morning revealing how "Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all #WSocial content" 🔗: wdonthavetime.offprint.app/a/3my2tecrxk... My face today, since reading it: 🤯 #WSocialFacts

wedistribute.orgIntroducing Fedizen, Our Bonfire Project - We Distribute"What's he building in there?" echoes through my mind. In our latest experiment, we are building a new type of Fediverse experience geared towards aiding discovery. Here's how we get there.

I'm really excited about this, but a little bit scared that people are going to read "Fediverse Yahoo" and make fun of me relentlessly.

We Distribute@wedistribute.org

We are thrilled to unveil the #Fedizen project. Powered by Bonfire, built for the Commons, we are creating a new type of #Fediverse instance that aims to aggregate and curate the best parts of the network.

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Ben Werdmuller

@werd.io

Manifesting: backing for a fund that makes a donation or investment in open social web projects (depending on status) on the condition that the full teams attend in-person human centered design training and mentorship, and commit to building based on real needs. Whose problem are you solving?

Naming things is this really frustrating exercise where you balance four things: 1. Does it sound and feel good? 2. Does anything else use it? 3. Is there an alignment between the name and meaning? 4. Can I afford the domain name?

I think what's really driving me nuts is that every really amazing name I come across is taken, but most of them point to blank Web pages and would likely cost thousands of dollars to acquire. Fuck Capitalism.

Been super sick recently due to a GERD and acid reflux. It's annoying, because it's not regular sickness, but I'm dealing with very poor sleep quality right now.

deadsuperhero.com3D Game Development and Godot, Part II: ModelsFacing an Uphill Battle

16 Sept

I blogged a bit about my experience with doing 3D game development with #Godot. This time, I focused on creating character models.

blacksky.cashHome - Blacksky Cash

15 Sept

Playing through Fallout 3 for the first time in ages and…God damn, I forgot this one was so dark and depressing. It’s a lot more somber compared to the later games.

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Rabble

@rabble.nz

24 Aug

I’m really excited to see the new Blacksky.cash from @blackskyweb.xyz come together. Community controlled money is an important step towards autonomy and self determination.

wedistribute.orgThe Fediverse is Throwing a Music FestivalBelieve it or not, the Fediverse has a thriving independent art community. This week, a bunch of them are coming together to perform online.

25 Aug

Please, please check these people out. There's some really amazing musicians with great personalities that are involved.

We Distribute@wedistribute.org

There's a huge amount of talented artists on the #Fediverse, and they're coming together in the next few days to do an awesome live virtual festival. Everyone is invited!

Another day, another learning moment. Here's animation retargeting in Godot. #GameDev

So, the reason this happened: the Root bone used in two different character models are located in different places. Retargeting got confused. My character's root bone is in his pelvis. The same thing for the animation source is between the feet. The difference causes the stretch.

newpublic.orgChicago Public Media and Roundabout partner on chicago.comOne of the country's largest public media organizations is teaming up with a nonprofit digital platform to host online communities in Chicago.

From the waist up, everything works. Once we get to that bone mismatch, retargeting breaks, so my guy's legs don't work at all. The solution here is to do a different kind of retargeting in Blender, to build an animation library that's specifically compatible with MakeHuman models.

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Roundabout

@roundabout.town

21 Aug

Roundabout, our local community app, is going to power chicago.org, allowing millions of Chicagoans to connect and share with each other. Here’s more about what we’re up to, including what sets this apart from messy, noisy, profit-driven social media apps: newpublic.org/chicago

Hair systems in Blender are absolutely wild. This is a plugin called Hair Tool, and I'm just starting to get the hang of it. It feels super complicated at first, but the idea of really digging deep and making super custom assets for characters is really interesting.

youtube.comAny Way The Wind BlowsYouTube video by The Mothers Of Invention - Topic

20 Aug

The rain is pouring down hard in Mesa, Arizona tonight. This song feels perfect for a storm. #NowListening

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Rabble

@rabble.nz

18 Aug

I thought it'd take a few weeks to get @divine.video fully launched when we announced it in November, and it took 9 months, but were here! www.engadget.com/2239070/vine...

engadget.comVine reboot Divine is now open to everyone, no invite code required - EngadgetDivine now has more than 2 million videos from Vine's original archive.

19 Aug

One kind of maddening double edged sword of open source projects: occasionally, you find one that's really cool, but the author disappeared, the code is unfinished between V2 and V3, and you're left trying to understand what this person was doing.

github.comGitHub - NitroxNova/humanizer: convert MakeHuman to Godot4convert MakeHuman to Godot4. Contribute to NitroxNova/humanizer development by creating an account on GitHub.

19 Aug

Right now, I'm exploring a very cool project called Humanizer, which is a from-scratch reimplementation of MakeHuman, implemented purely within the Godot engine.

littlefedi.orglittleFediA small ActivityPub server written in Go. One binary, no runtime, no external services.

19 Aug

The concept is really cool, and there's some practical ideas for what can be done with it. What if your game engine handled what every character looked like, and you could even do character creation / authoring in-engine if you really wanted to?

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Stefano Marinelli

@bsd.cafe

11 Aug

Another step closer to release! The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details. Take a look and let me know what you think! #littleFedi #Fediverse

15 Aug

I'm not gonna lie, my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 has been an absolute journey. There's so much game in this game. But I'm finally at the Raphael fight, after haphazardly breaking into Hell after a sketchy portal-opening ritual, and I'm in awe.

12 Aug

> Look over at dog. > Dog meets my gaze > Wags his tail Life is good.

12 Aug

There is nothing like coming home to your own bed, and nothing like coming home to your dogs. I slept so good last night.

6 Aug

The PA system at this airport has the same automated voice from the Xtranormal meme videos. You know, the "NodeJS is Web Scale" voice.

6 Aug

My kingdom for a proper mobile-friendly view of @nextcloud.bsky.social Office documents. I thought it was going to be comparable to Google Docs, but I was wrong.

6 Aug

My heart and love goes out to my friends attending #FediCon. I'm in the airport heading to California today, dealing with a family health emergency. Please be excellent to one another.

4 Aug

So, Arizona got its first Buc-ees recently. It's 74,000 square feet. My wife and I visited yesterday, and listen: this place looks like an AI-generated fever dream. It's like the shop part of Cracker Barrel plus a food court plus a grocery store plus a gas station.

I should probably first fix the animation stuff before I start developing an entirely new feature... Trying to adapt a 3D model to work with custom animations sucks so much, though...

I guess I could try taking the rig off, or starting over on my character model. That at least seemed to work. But I'm bewildered at why the rig does nothing after retargeting.

Oh, it looks like Auto Rig Pro and Rigify don't play nicely together. Go figure! 🥁 Guess I'll try delving into this further.

I should probably first fix the animation stuff before I start developing an entirely new feature... Trying to adapt a 3D model to work with custom animations sucks so much, though...

Conceptually, this should be an easy fix. Just match up the bones and use a retargeting plugin, right? What's maddening is that this goes completely haywire if your model is already rigged. For some reason, bone animations don't carry over to rig parts?

While I have nothing to show for it visually yet, my #Godot game now supports per-Actor inventories and items! This part was pretty easy; every Character has a dynamic array of inventory items, with methods to add, remove, or transfer. The harder part will involve building the representative UI.

Time to look at screenshots of existing inventory systems and then crudely hobble a basic one together.

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Clinton Bowen

@torrho.com

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

I swear, every time I step back into the AT Proto ecosystem, I feel like apps and frameworks and data have advanced ten times over. People are building really crazy stuff over here. I feel like it's way over my head, which is kind of exciting.

I am 36 years old today. Feels gross, man. 😬

From a hobbyist perspective, #GameDev is all about learning a bunch of different things all at once. This has been especially true in my transition from 2D to 3D game development.

I might sound like I complain a lot, but the past few months have been super productive! I'm getting closer and closer to assembling a framework / template for the exact kind of games I'd like to make, which feels incredible. Just have to master a dozen more things. 😭😅

I'm getting closer to getting animation retargeting to work for my character models in Blender, but dear God, it's painful. So much of this is trial and error just to figure out the "right" way to do things. Hopefully by tomorrow, I'll get a bunch of animations working for my Godot game.

One of my biggest lessons learned so far is that not all model rigs are the same. Some have more bones, some have less, some require weird rig adaptations. I've had my poor character bent into all kinds of positions because of incorrect assumptions. It's not fun.

At least once I try this again tomorrow, I should be able to make my guy walk, run, jump, crouch, pick stuff up, open doors, and so on. But God damn, what a headache.

25 July

My mother in law, a very sweet human being, is finally joining Mastodon. This is all fine and dandy, but the cherry on top is that she called it "MasterDom", which sounds like the FetLife version.

7 July

Weird 3D #Gamedev question: when designing 3D environments for your game, how do you put it all together in your engine? Do you design it all it Blender or a similar tool, before exporting the whole thing, or do you assemble it piecemeal in your game?

5 July

I'm so tired of being sick all the time. Especially on my days off. 😞

2 July

Slowly making progress on 3D stuff with Godot engine. Today's experiment involved staging elements to go in different rooms. Kind of janky, but I learned some new things today. There, uh, were supposed to be walls, but that part didn't work with the Blender export! 😅

2 July

Minor gripes to work through: antialiasing is kind of jank, there's a weird jitter when I move, for some reason I can pass through objects like a ghost, and I still have no idea what the ideal pipeline / workflow should be for moving stuff from Blender to Godot. But it's progress!

2 July

Also: if I want to make a proper "character home" it needs to be 1000 times more cluttered. Which means I have to learn to create a bunch of assets for that.