In all seriousness I am working on mine, but I am both busy and slow

Looks like they go into C:\. I think you need administrator permission to write to that location, so it doesn't work without running terragen in administrator mode. Open skycreate.tgs in notepad and replace
initanim "C:\", 1
with whichever location you want to use.

For example, initanim "E:\Modding\Skyboxes\", 1 correctly outputs them to E:\Modding\Skyboxes\

The downsides to having a moustache

This is a tricky one, reviewing having a moustache is easy, listing downsides is easy, but reviewing those downsides? I'm going to have to rate them out of 5 stars, where the more stars there are, the more significant the downside.

The hairs of the moustache catching the air when you breathe out of your nose	⭐⭐⭐	This is annoying and distracting, but you do eventually get used to it so a star gets knocked off
Food getting caught in it	⭐	Not as significant an issue as one would expect, assuming the moustache is trimmed
Shaving	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Best facial hair is no facial hair, but shaving is a pain to have to do. A lone moustache means you have to shave the rest of your face anyway, so you get the worst of both worlds
Hygiene	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Blowing your nose, food and drink, etc. It's an area of the face that is adjacent to two sources of mess, it can require more attention than the rest of the face. Why would you want hair there? It's like having a carpeted kitchen or bathroom
Hairs falling out and getting in your mouth	⭐⭐⭐	This happens occasionally, and it's annoying. Especially with Covid and guidelines against touching your face
People telling you that you look like a paedophile	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Doesn't happen too often, but it is an association that is there, and is yet another reason to not have a moustache
People telling you that you look like Tom Selleck	⭐⭐⭐	Not too significant, but it brings attention to the fact that I have never seen an episode of Magnum P.I., which is a shameful secret of mine
People telling you that you look like Ned Flanders		Hi-diddily-ho Neighborino!

Music

How long ago did that happen do you think? I just noticed a few weeks ago that I still had the extension, I'd assumed it had been removed or something because I hadn't seen a notification for a long time.

Asphalt
Asphalt is not a versatile ingredient. The can I've kept in my fridge has sat there unused for at least a year, no matter how sweet a snack I feel like. Neither adding it into a cake nor putting it between pastry sheets improves the flavour by any measurable amount.
I suppose it might be useful for paving roads or something, it would certainly make more sense than eating it. If you were going to do something like that then it could actually be a useful thing to have around, provided you actually got around to repairing the road surface when it needs repair and don't just leave it to develop potholes.
cough cough local government cough

Discord

Toast
Toast is a type of food that I often see as a last resort, something only to be eaten when I'm too tired to cook a proper meal. Yet that is largely due to the simplicity of preparation, surely something so quick and easy to prepare can't be a good food to eat?
It's is one of those foods that probably isn't anyone's favourite, but nobody disliked it either. It's not my favourite, but with the right kind of bread and the right stuff on it it can be pretty damn good. My current go-to toast type is thus; get some cheese bread. I don't know if it's a common type of bread but you can get it in a lot of bakeries around these parts, basically bread with chunks of cheese speckled throughout. Cut some slices off, and then toast them. Apply some good quality butter, and then some vegemite. Enjoy.
Shit's magnificent.

Whisky

I've thought about this in the past, and for me at least I think it's because locations feel like they're not secure. It's a combination of two things.
The levels are designed to be populated, but aren't. There's often ambient noise which indicates the presence of a wider world, but it's not one that we can get to. There's life here, but you just aren't seeing it.
Combine this with the fact that a lot of levels are designed to flow well, with a lot of areas having a minimum of two entrances, and you end up with a situation where there are things that hint that you're not alone and you can't keep watch of every entrance.
There might also be an element of uncanny valley as well because the game is attempting to show you a world and make it seem believable, but there are flaws that you just can't ignore.

About You

Name: Thomas J. Boyle, hence the name TJB
Age: 27
Hometown: Depends how you define it. At the moment I live near-ish to this place, but these days I rarely go into town
Relationships: 1 previous that lasted a few years. I've been single for the past ~5ish years, and I'm intending to stay that way
Occupation: I work for a company that leases aircraft to airlines. The main part of my job consists of reading lease contracts and working out from that when maintenance is going to happen in the future, and the associated costs
Current goal(s): I dunno really. I'm interested in being able to play VR games, and then create things for them
Politics: N/A
Religion:

Apathetic Agnostic

Sounds like a good description

Favourite Things

Food: Steak, usually with rice. I've been preparing my rice like this recently, would recommend
Hot drink: Good quality tea. Coffee can be alright too, I suppose
Cold drink: I like root beer, although it tends to be kind of hard to get here. My go to (other than water) would be Coke Zero
Snacks: If I'm watching a movie I might make some popcorn in goose fat, sometimes with a bit of bacon grease. Makes for a very delicious, if probably horribly unhealthy snack
Movies: I tend to like Sci-Fi, among others. I find it hard to answer as I haven't watched many movies over the past few years due to lack of time.
Videogames: Honestly I've played very few games in the past few years. I like Kerbal Space Program, although I haven't played too much of it recently - whenever I advance enough to start building large stations or mining bases it just kills my processor. It's definitely a game I would like to play in VR.
I like Deus Ex, the first System Shock, Halo, Half-Life (obviously). I've also been playing Deep Rock Galactic recently, that's pretty fun.
Music: A lot of different kinds of music, but mainly Metal and Synthwave. Recently I've been listening to Master Boot Record. I'd say my favourite metal band is Rammstein, and my favourite synthwave artist would be Perturbator. For the past few years I've been collecting music in the form of vinyl records - I like physical media, it's nice to have something you can hold in your hands
Other: I've been watching Star Trek recently, it seems pretty good.

Disliked/Hated Things

Food: There are a good few things I'm not a fan of, but if I had to pick one it would be coconut. Fuck coconut, and fuck anyone who ruins snacks by adding it in.
Hot drink: Poor quality tea, which in my book also includes any tea that's got milk in it
Cold drink: I'm not a fan of most fruit juices
Snacks:

Anything with coconut. The creator of Bounty is a sociopath.

Movies: Hard to say. I thought Suicide Squad was terrible, but I knew it would be ahead of time.
Videogames: The only game I can remember actively disliking would be The Stanley Parable. I would have preferred to spend the money on an hour watching paint dry, because at least then I would know ahead of time not to get my hopes up.
Music: What with the advent of streaming services, I don't know how to answer this one. I can't remember the last time I listened to music that I didn't specifically request.
Other: Daylight Savings time. Whichever sadistic bastard thought that up must be having a great time in hell right now.

And thats bacicly my life story.....

Beautiful place, I learned to scuba dive there so it's also the beautiful in my mind in a way that most places aren't.

I am a fan of home, work, dentist and inaccurate location data

Normally I would have it turned off, but iirc I turned it on last year for reasons and never got around to turning it back off again.

If I had it on for all of the parts of my life I could remember, it might look like this.

I haven't had the opportunity to read through any of the linked examples, but the draft looks fairly comprehensive to me, although disability might be worth including specifically under the section on slurs.

I just had a big order of records arrive today - I'm currently part way through listening to Transhumanism by Tommy'86Interestingly there seems to be an extra unlisted track just before the runout of side A that's not on the digital release.

I've got to say there's a potential issue with this page in that it doesn't say which game/engine each map is for.

@PB
I forgot to reply, I have just checked and no it is not up to date.

I have noticed a few bugs and problems.
A user can display their birthday on their profile, however the field defaults to 01/01 instead of being blank.

This happened when I browsed on my laptop:I don't know if it's because of the screen resolution or the browser but I can give info if needed.

The list of threads in the forums seems to be pretty widely spaced. In general discussion, I have to scroll to get past the stickied threads to view the recently active ones.
Perhaps give the user an option to minimise threads they don't want to see, or something similar.

For some reason TWHL4 doesn't like my website:Also, making the post number visible may result in some unintended side effects

I don't know how important it is, but when you look at Atom's post history the earliest ones aren't in the correct order.
https://twhl.info/index.php/post/index?user=1&page=4

No problem. I'm guessing your printout is to help you construct a real world version of your model? Or perhaps it's a secret?

Honestly I don't know how to help you with that then. I normally use Cycles, and that handles materials differently than Blender internal.
Perhaps try deleting any other materials?
That would be done by shift clicking the 'x' next to the texture name.Try deleting all materials, then creating the wireframe material.
As for the second problem, make sure the camera icon in the top right isn't greyed out.That's the button to toggle an object's visibility in the render, so click it if it is greyed out.

Select the object and press shift to enter into edit mode. Then press 'a' to select everything, and click assign under the material.As for the difference, I'm not 100% sure.
As far as I understand it, a texture can be part of a material, so in one material you can have multiple textures. So you could have one texture to define the colour of the material, and another to define the transparency, etc.
So this decal from HL2 is a material:It contains two textures, a colour texture:And a transparency texture which defines what actually shows up on the image:With this you can set the transparency to be a gradient or whatever, instead of the way it's handled in HL1 where it's either fully visible or fully transparent.

[Edit] I just realised I forgot a fairly important step in the first post. Go to the world tab on the right and set the horizon colour to white.This will make the render background white instead of the fairly dark grey it defaults to.

There may be a better way of doing this but:
Set the renderer to Blender internal, instead of Cycles.Create a new material for the part, and set it to wire mode.Now there will be a bit of maths involved. Most printers have a minimum margin size of 12.7mm (0.5 inches). An A4 sheet of paper has dimensions of 210*297mm, so the actual printed area of the page will be 271.6*184.6mm
At 1m long, the object will fit onto 4 sheets of paper, or 1.0864m (once you cut the margins off).
So make a camera object, set it to orthographic mode and set the scale to 1.0864This refers to the x-axis dimension of the image in whichever units you've set blender to, so you may need to rotate the camera/object to get it to fit in.
iirc, most printers will print at a resolution of 300dpi, which is 11.811 dots per mm. So if the total image size will be 1086.4mm, then multiply that by 11.811 to get 12831. This will be the resolution of the image. I only know one dimension, so if we assume this will be 4*4 A4 pages then the resolution needed will be 12831*8721.
Set the render output resolution to this.Render and then save the resulting image.This can be split up in an image editor and then printed out.
One thing that I can recommend is to overlay a grid or some sort of pattern, as this can really help with aligning the printouts.

I once had a problem exactly like this, except I had created the folder yet it still wouldn't allow me to delete it. Looking online I found it to be a known bug, yet none of the official fixes worked.
I eventually saw a comment on a YouTube video about the bug that did work.
The workaround was to use WinRAR to add the folder to an archive and click the box marked "Delete files after archiving", then once that's done you can just delete the archive.

Overall I like Windows 10 but it does have a number of problems that seem to be relatively common yet which Microsoft has made no attempt to fix.

I actually found it by accident, I was typing 'woodcut' into Google images for unrelated reasons.
It appears to be part of a series of works by Brian Nash Gill: http://www.bryannashgill.com/woodcuts/
The original was square so I did add space to bring it to 16:9, and I added a bit of vignette so it wouldn't be quite so eye hurtingly bright at night.

Eagle eyed people may notice the time being different on the two monitors. I moved all the open programs from one monitor to the other while I individually screenshotted them so it would look a bit cleaner.

I rescued a bee from drowning and gave it some honey, it seemed grateful.

That mask looks to be an M17 gas mask with an NBC hood, the HECU mask is most likely an M40.

Been messing around with Blender to try and copy an electron microscope image of a record player stylus.I wouldn't be happy with it normally, but I'm not too invested in this. I actually only started it to test an idea I had for how to convert waveforms into heightmaps, a technique which I used to make the record grooves in the image.
I also added some chromatic aberration, mainly to see if I could make it look realistic enough. I'll just ask everyone to ignore the fact that it wouldn't appear in an electron microscope image.

And Crypt, those are some sexy looking screenshots.

I was cleaning my room and found my microscope and decided to look at one of my beard hairs, at 1000x magnification, and took this photo with the tried and true method of holding my phone's camera over the microscope lens:It's interesting to see how sharp the cut is, I shaved a few days ago using a safety razor and apart from the split in the end, the end of the hair appears to be a sharply defined plane. It's a lot easier to see when using my phone's light from the side of the microscope, although obviously I can't do that and take a picture at the same time.

I then trimmed a little with an electric razor, plucked another hair and had a look:It's definitely a rougher cut.

I am an expert in these matters. It must use this font.

@Stu:
Yep. For that save I actually had a few systems in place for that Mun base. One example, probably the most efficient, non skill dependant way to land at a specific location is to drop the periapsis to just above the landing site, then when you get there you cancel any horizontal velocity and drop straight down. The problem is you have to do that first burn from the opposite side of the Mun, so when you get to the periapsis the Mun has rotated and it's now no longer over the landing site. I had a line of marker flags out east of the base for that. If the initial orbit is at 20km, then drop the periapsis over the 20km flag, something like this.
Working for that level of efficiency really wasn't necessary with the setup I had, but I had fun coming up with it.

On my last computer I had set up a fairly effective Mun ferry system that used very little funds to bring kerbals to the Mun and back.
A kerbal would launch on a small rocket and dock with a station in low Kerbin orbit. They'd then take a munar transfer ferry which would bring them to a station in orbit around the Mun, where they could get into a lander and be brought to the Mun base. They could then go back to the Kerbin station, deorbit and land with parachutes. Since I had ore extraction and refining going on at the Mun base, everything apart from the initial rocket from KSP was free to operate as the Mun station was effectively a fuel station.
The original plan was to bring Kerbals to the Kerbin station with a single stage to orbit spaceplane; if I refuelled that at the station, and landed unpowered on the runway at KSP, then I would even get the funds back for the initial launch. Unfortunately I've never quite been able to get the hang of spaceplanes.

My advice would be to try and go for Minmus first. You'll spend a bit more fuel getting there, but the landing and return are much more forgiving. You can actually get into orbit using only a kerbal's jetpack.

I've been experimenting with making a Cycles material in Blender to generate fabric type textures, as even with CGTextures I could never get a nice looking fabric or carpet in GoldSrc. Hopefully this way I can mess with the fabric contrast and scale to get something that looks pretty nice.At the moment it's only set up to make single colour plain weave fabric, I'm going to try to set it up to generate multiple colour and twill fabrics.

@Unq: I had sent a PM to Tetsuo about joining the project in February, although I hadn't posted in the thread because I couldn't guarantee an entry due to a lack of free time.
Same again now, I'm expressing interest and have the beginnings of a map but I've got repeat exams for college at the end of the month so I've got no time until then to work on it. It's up to you if you want to include me in the project.

I had the same problem when I tried to compile a model the other week, I have W10 also. I didn't manage to get GUIStudioMDL working, but I found out that Jed's HLMV has the ability top compile models, and that worked for me. It might be worth giving that a shot.

Why thank you Strider.

I've been trying to figure out the eyes.
I tried static spheres, but I don't think it worked very well.

I then tried flat eye shapes:They're func_tanks, so they follow you around the room.This thing is creepy as hell.

I had an idea for a cool hologram effect:It's a bit rough around the edges, but I think it could be used for some cool effects.
To make it I first modelled this creepy-ass head in Blender:I then ported it into SketchUp and used the geometry intersect feature to intersect a load of planes with it:I then exported each of these intersected planes as an image file, which after some processing in Paint.NET were made into textures and stacked on top of one-another as func_illusionaries with rendermode additive.

I'll have a go at refining it tomorrow, but for now I think I need to go to sleep.

Very Black Mesa-ish, I like.

And I like your map African, it looks much better than anything I've ever done and I've been mapping for years.

I've been learning about character rigging in Blender.I still need to work at it, and I need to learn more about character modelling. Maybe by the end of the summer I will be able to make an animated short film or something.

If you use Wally to export the texture to an image file, you can use an image editing program to rotate it, then make that into a custom decal. It's not perfect, but it should work.

The Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack


Wonderfully dark.

For some reason I thought only point entities were allowed, so all I could think of was cycler_sprite.

Perhaps expand it a bit beyond just entities? Mapping-related things in general?

That's probably a good idea, so many entities start with the same word.

Here's my one.

@abbadon: I'm an aircraft engineer, but my end goal is to be a NASA man, or perhaps an ESA man.

@Stu: Purely manual at the moment. My timetable doesn't change during the semester, so there wouldn't really be any point in connecting it to any online service. Also, I'm sorry to disappoint but you never appeared on it. You made your shout before I'd figured out how to get it to ignore the first 42 shouts, and by the time I had it was too late.

@PB: I thought that TWHL4 might change things, but mainly I was making the shoutbox to familiarise myself with getting it to fetch information from the internet.

Speaking of that, I was intending to make a feed for my YouTube subscriptions, but I found out that as of last year that's not really possible anymore. Rainmeter's not really able to interact with websites if a login is required, so I couldn't figure out a workaround either.
What I ended up doing was making a system where I choose a channel from submenus and it will display the last five videos from that channel.
So for example:Clicking the YouTube tile opens a group of categories. Clicking the 'Educational' tile opens a group of educational channels, and then clicking on the DeepSkyVideos tile opens a list of that channel's five most recent videos. Clicking on any of them opens the video in Chrome.
Unfortunately however there's no tile to fix the fact that hexagonal tiles don't fit well visually with rectangular tiles.

Something seems off with the lighting in the second screenshot, like the areas of the rocks which are in shadow are still quite bright. If the undersides were lit up by light reflected by the ocean, you'd expect the light to be tinted blueish or perhaps for there to be those rippled reflections from the wavy surface.

I've been experimenting with Rainmeter in order to display information on my desktop a little more neatly. For the past few years my wallpaper has been a picture of my college timetable, and I've had several text files of information I don't want to forget in my startup folder. This is fairly messy however, and since it's a pain in the arse to add/remove stuff from my startup folder whenever I want a reminder of something, I've decided to give Rainmeter a go, so this morning I installed it and spent some time on the tutorial pages.

I spent all day making this:It's my timetable, but it's only visible when I mouse over the black bar on the left of the screen. The Windows 8 aesthetic isn't really intentional, it's just that flat colour rectangles are easy to make.

As well as this, I've spent the last hour or so on a desktop Shoutbox:I'm not sure yet how I'm going to deal with links, or shouts that are very long. As well as that, at the moment it only shows the 8 oldest shouts, rather than the newest. I suppose I'll fix those problems tomorrow, and I might see if I can get it to play an alert sound if anything is different after it refreshes itself.

I've been experimenting with making textures out of Cycles materials in Blender, rather than hand painting them in Paint.NET or using an image from Textures.com. So I make a hi-poly model, bake the materials to an image, and then apply that to a low-poly version.
Here's a cooking pot:And the hi-poly verion in Blender:I spent a long time trying to get the soup looking right, although now that I actually see it on the low-poly model I'm not sure if I like it as much. It looks a bit silly as is, like there's no air gap between the soup and the lid.

I also made an aperture lamp, on and off:And the way I made it in Blender:I only have in-Sledge shots for now, as the map they are intended for isn't complete enough to show them in a normal environment.
I'm not sure yet if I prefer this method. I feel that I could eventually make much better looking textures this way, but at the moment the whole materials system is fairly new to me, so I'm spending a day doing something that could probably be done in an hour the other way.

If you delete a private message, there should be an extra step, rather than it being done with just one click. I've just accidentally deleted a PM while writing a reply to it.

After using a lot of CAD for college, I find myself missing a feature that most CAD programs I've seen share. When you're editing measurements, you can do simple mathematical expressions, like this:I could see it being useful for things like having a texture fit n times onto a face, where you would fit it to the face and then just add '/n' at the end of the scale fields.
I had the idea when I was making a curved brick wall last night. I used Alt + Right Click to position the texture at the top of the wall, but I had to move them all by 40 pixels to get the seams of the bricks to line up. Since the wall was curved, I couldn't just select them all and do it in one go as they all had different y-positions. It would have been a lot quicker to just select the face and then paste '-40' into the field like this:

I forgot to post in this thread.
Lulu is a dog who seems to love everything, although she was frightened of some horses the other day. She ran over to them to see what they were but she wasn't expecting them to take an interest in her.This is a cat, who doesn't have a name:She has an absolutely lovely personality and I wish she could be an inside cat, but as my dad is allergic to cats they all have to live outside.

I completely forgot Steam in-home streaming was a thing until this weekend. I've been playing some Batman: Arkham City in the living room, which unlike my bedroom actually has some form of heating:I'm thinking of buying a mini HDMI to HDMI cable so I can play it on the TV.

Interestingly those graphs seem to approximate a P-distribution, as does the daily view count graph on the YouTube video for Gangnam Style: