TAPgiles

@marcoshealey Yo! I saw Anton and Alex on there before. I'll look forward to watching this mate! 👍

Spillin’ somebeans on the Wookash podcast.

There is a free trial, and you can buy it for $40. No subscription, no AI features, completely local.

Over the past few months I (and others) helped someone making an app for writers called Penpoint, discussing feedback/bugs/features... And now it's out! It's a story bible/worldbuilding/tracking tool, plus you can write the story in it too. penpoint.app

@marcoshealey Oh dang!!

Me and a bunch of other old men talking about game we making together (Masters of Albion), including my expert analysis on what is wrong with cozy games, lol.

@dakrrs Oh dang, scary!

Nocturnal tornado created entirely in Dreams Made this to take a break from our main project. #MadeinDreams #DreamsPS5

@timmckay52 Oh man, that Steve...

“You did XYZ in your book. I don’t like books that do XYZ.” – Steve Fair enough, Steve. *two weeks later* “Hey, dude, I’m hosting a livestream next week to tell authors why XYZ is so bad. Want to join so I can explain it to you live?” – Steve Uh, nah Steve, I got it. Also, why would I agree to an hour of getting pointlessly bashed? You trying to build a brand off the backs of other authors? Not cool, Steve.

What's with all the clippy avatars on commenters on Youtube now? Is this a thing?

@EnochRootDreams Not bad, not bad. The power cuts round Queen's Park are getting worryingly frequent though. XD

@tapgiles All good near Castlepoint today mate. There were sporadic ones throughout the town last week too though. Hope you're all good Tap

Any other Bournemouthers out there getting these power cuts too? @EnochRootDreams

@Freako1 Ah interesting. I think we may do it similarly. Mine has 2 zones for X and Z, angled by the camera. Those zones look for an X tag and a Z tag each blip has. Then the blip controls its own indicator. So each blip only has the 2 tags + timelines + a text displayer.

@tapgiles There's a block teleported to the player which has X and Z falloff zones. The zones animate the position on the radar. Each blip has two zones and tracks a unique tag.

Factions radar finished!! I made it round and added companions.

@timmckay52 I see... I had no idea anything was related to an audiobook/Audible at all. I don't think it's clear at all, which is a shame.

@tapgiles He just means that the actual audiobook available on Audible was narrated by me, not him. This was just a free chapter sample.

⛈️ Okay, now this is pretty cool ⛈️ Check out this awesome audio narration of Skyfold's opening scenes. Amazing job by @sonofsonnet — thanks for bringing this fun story to life!

@libbypeteanim Very cool... I'm not sure I understand what the "triangle" is?

What I learned at Pixar for creating fluid animation ⬇️ Focusing on your extremes and making sure each axis in both translations and rotation hits its extreme on different frames is what makes animation fluid. Also make sure the extremes of different parts of the body hit on different frames as well. Essentially this is how I think and approach animating drag and follow through and create arcs

@IndeedRyan @Freako1 Yeah I think that was how it was done--like, a loop going through each position to update them one at a time using ex-gates. I came up with a (I think) better solution that is instant and simpler. x.com/tapgiles/statu…

@Freako1 "stick" tag so your 1st place block stays teleported. Then you turn on your 2nd place block and it'll do the same thing but go to the 2nd most checkpoints one. Very complicated, but for me when I make the clunky version I figure out the better one half way thru.

I'm trying to calculate the order of the racers in my game. The racers have a variable that count # of checkpoint passed. I need to make logic that order those 10 variables from highest to lowest in a selector for a position count. Any solutions?

@HercUk_ @Freako1 And what are you up to, mate?

@tapgiles @Freako1 Hope things are good with you TAP. Still miss those dreams days and tutorials. I should have stuck with it like @Freako1 but good time nonetheless.

@HercUk_ @Freako1 Not bad, yeah not bad. I am proud of my work back in the day. I've gone into teaching fiction writing now, instead. Working on a book teaching it at the moment. But will probably also make videos and other things to help folks.

1 week after seeing the season finale of Pluribus: "Oh wait, that was the *finale*? Huh."

@HercUk_ @Freako1 I still think it's a smart method. Some aspects I'd do differently, or more simply, but I'll leave all that to you. Just learn from it and do your own thing. Good luck 👍

@HercUk_ @Freako1 Hey, fellow kids! I have a few videos on sorting which should give you a usable mechanism. youtube.com/watch?v=sa-krm…