![]() I’ve textured over a thousand models so far in Substance Painter, I would say the flow is pretty habitual for me right now. Since I work on many aspects alone, I can’t elevate the art to a level I can actually work at – so the main challenge is being reasonable with what can still look realistic and attractive, but not require too much time. In this example, the character is supposed to exude a sense of regality and confidence The character is a knight (and that evokes a sense of valiance and valor), but has lost his purpose and has a sense of loyalty only to himself (this suddenly informs the design incredibly). I say dynamic because it’s important to think on more layers than one. What is the character evoking? Dread? Stoicism? Valiance? I usually summarize in a sentence a kind of a dynamic description. I always start with the intent (which requires knowledge of the lore). I plan on making an extensive guide one day on getting your own mocap, and then covering some pitfalls I traversed along the way, like creating IP and RM animations and the different hurdles you have to jump through. It’s great because it’s affordable if you know what you’re doing. We used HTC Vive and Ikinema Orion to film the animations. The idea is to have our in-house mocap animations cover everything from top to bottom, focusing on the characteristics of every enemy type and giving them that organic realistic weight. ![]() Of course, we haven’t filmed nearly the amount of animations we plan on, but that wasn’t the goal for the prototype. We can make mocapped animations that will be unique for each enemy, and that can ground the game into the world even more. Finding a pipeline to create animsets and cutscenes was the goal and we’re there now. I bought a mocap suit and set up a studio in my bedroom. ![]() Bleak Faith informs the features it needs to tell its stories, instead of looking at other games for what might be fun to add. There is a very clear world of Bleak Faith, and I’m just staying true to it. The most important thing for the prototype, however, is a strong vision – and that’s something that’s carrying this entire project. A heavily armored giant you hit with a sword shouldn’t sound the same being hit as a lightly armored puppet that you hit with an axe. By the end, you have about 10,000 potential sounds to play for every single case. And each of these choices will play a different sound, from a variable library. One specific example of how far we went with the responsiveness in combat is the sound system for hits, which at every hit makes a varying sound depending on many things: who is hitting, with what, whether there’s any armor, if yes, what kind of armor, what kind of enemy you hit, etc. RPG games are known to usually lack the fast-twitch impact of action games, namely the FPS genre – so we wanted to bring that into our world. And combat is so much more than just animations – the feedback namely is something we really went Tarantino on. For example, for an RPG it was important that combat felt connected and brutal. We cover the main features, and the main feelings we’re going for, and the until we get them we don’t update the list. We laid out a lot of the work in lists that we follow. It starts with you as Forsaken, being brought into a Forsaken outpost as a new recruit – and from there, the world is open and ready to be uncovered. The world is full of problems and the solutions are not readily pointed out to you, you have to really invest yourself in finding out the intricacies of how this new world works. The main mechanics is an open world and semi-procedural AI, some really fast-twitch combat, and choices on how and when to solve problems. Nihei’s work is particularly hard to capture in 3D, especially as a game so I thought that was a great challenge for me. Cooperating with him also allows me to focus mostly on the front-end where I generally belong.īleak Faith is a unique cross between dark fantasy and some post-humanist cyberpunk – two huge inspirations in my artistic life generally are Berserk by Kentaro Miura and also Tsutomu Nihei’s work. I started alone and that was going in one direction, but Mirko reached out to me and even though I was adamant about doing this alone, his work ethic and no-excuse attitude won me over entirely. ![]() The choice was to either make a film or a game about it, and I decided that a game would bring the Omnistructure to life in a way a film never could. Bleak Faith: Forsakenīleak Faith started as a graphic novel, and about 30 pages in I realized it was missing music. We’re both just getting seriously into video game development with this game so our past projects were mostly personal projects we didn’t seek to publish. We’re both from Montenegro but I live in the US right now. My name is Mišo Vukčević, and I’m developing Bleak Faith: Forsaken alongside Mirko Stanić.
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![]() Once media has been added to DaVinci’s media pool, it will look something like this: Keeping video content organised in this way will be very helpful as you add more media to your project over time. ![]() For example, video files for a section of your film devoted to an outdoor dance section might be called ‘Outdoor’. If you want to keep your project organised, you can also create subfolders called ‘Bins’ where specific video files might go. This will add your content to your project’s media library. To do this, either go to ‘File’, ‘Import’ and then ‘Media’, or simply open your files in a separate window and then drag them over into the ‘media pool’ are in DaVinci. To begin working with video, we’ll first need to load the video content we want to use into DaVinci. When you open DaVinci Resolve, you’ll automatically find yourself in the ‘Cut’ panel, with your media pool visible to the left-hand-side. These are: Media, Cut, Edit, Fusion, Colour, Fairlight (sound), and Deliver (shown below). ![]() This will take you to DaVinci’s default setup page.ĭaVinci has seven major functions as a programme, which are handily divided into distinct sections at the bottom of the programme window. You’ll be asked to enter the name of your new One installed, open DaVinci Resolve and click ‘New Project’. You will need to register your details with Black Magic Design in order to download the software. We recommend that you download DaVinci Resolve 17, as that is the most recently released version and will be the one we refer to in these tutorials. To download it, click on the link on the provided page and select the software type appropriate to your operating system. Step 1: Install DaVinci ResolveĭaVinci Resolve is available from the Black Magic Design website here. We will cover how to create a new project in DaVinci Resolve, how to select and import video and audio media to your project, and how to place, cut and resize footage. This article, the first in a series on post-production, introduces readers to DaVinci Resolve 17, a free video-editing software. ![]() If you will be using an intermission screen, with a chat box, there is a browser source available that you can add your preferred chatbox from (SE or SL).ģ. Head back to Live Scene and add your game/capture card source into the bottom layer.ġ0. Head over to that scene and point the camera source to your one.ĩ. Camera and Overlay is a scene that is used in Live Scene to group the overlay and camera together. When all files are located click on apply, and everything should load with your new Elements assets.Ĩ. If files are in the same folders, it should locate them all. OBS will open a missing filed popup, click on the 3 dots to locate the folder they are in. Click on Scene Collections again, find your new scene collection, and select it.ħ. ![]() Click on the JSON file related to your package.Ħ. At the bottom, click on Add, and locate the unzipped folder.ĥ. In the top toolbar, locate Scene Collections, followed by Import.Ĥ. Download and unzip the folder from your dashboardģ. If you are using Streamlabs Desktop, you can do the same as OBS.Studio, or create and alertbox in app, set the resolution to 960x540 and move to preference.ġ. If you are using OBS.Studio, create a browser source, set it to 960x540, then paste the link provided by Streamlabs. When you are happy you can head back to themes while in browser, locate and click the link icon, followed by the clipboard icon next to Alertbox in the following popup window, and paste this as a 960x540 browser source in your streaming app. If you would like to to customize the alerts, you can do so in browser or in the streamlabs desktop app (assuming the correct theme is set to the correct scene collection)ġ1. These One-Click alertboxes come with custom code that contain our recommended use case of the alerts designer recommended font and splitting of name and amounts data to 2 lines for all alerts.ġ0. While in the themes menu, make sure the new theme you created is the active theme, and select the correct scene collection if you you are using this on streamlabs.ĩ. This will save our alertbox over the new theme you just created.Ĩ. This will return you to the previous popup with all your current streamlabs themes, select the new one you just created. Name the theme what you’d like, and click on Create again.ħ. Scroll to the bottom and select Create next to “Create a new Widget Theme”.Ħ. This will bring you to your streamlabs account, with an option to replace one of your themes. Locate the SL Animated/Static Alerts and double click on the shortcutĥ. Start by logging into your streamlabs account.Ĥ. If you are using Streamlabs Desktop, you can do the same as OBS.Studio, create a browser source, set resolution to 960x540, then paste the link provided.ġ. If you are using OBS.Studio, create a browser source, set it to 960x540, then paste the link provided by Streamelements. When you are happy, click on the link icon in the top right corner (copying the link for the overlay) and paste it into a browser source in your streaming program.ġ0. Our alerts are designed to be 960x540, so make sure to set your browser source to that resolution if you are using our one-click alertboxes. To test the alerts, locate the small panel in the bottom center of the screen, click on emulate, and test all the alerts out. If you would prefer to use the default streamelements alertbox, just create a new one and add the files in.Ĩ. Google Font, Font colour, Top & Bottom line vertical placement can also be changed for preference.ħ. These One-Click alertboxes come with custom code that contain our recommended use case of the alerts designer recommended font and splitting of name and amounts data to 2 lines for all alerts. Find that by clicking on overlays in the left dashboard panel.Ħ. This will automatically add it onto your account overlay list. ![]() Find the platform you need and double click on the shortcut.ĥ. Download and unzip the folder from your dashboardĤ. Start by logging into your streamelements account.Ģ. ![]() The Counterfeit Lady series is different in tone than her popular Gaslight Mysteries with more humor. Relatively recently, Victoria Thompson also began a new historical fiction mystery series. The duo reunite again and again in each subsequent book to help bring murderers to justice. After a routine delivery she is pulled into a murder investigation when another woman is killed and Sergeant Frank Malloy asks her to help by searching the woman’s room. The first book in this series introduces Sarah Brandt who is a midwife in New York City during the turn of the nineteenth century and has a fierce sense of justice. Again, these books should be read in order of publication because this will provide you with the best introduction to the characters. Our list of the Victoria Thompson books in order begins with the Gaslight Mystery series. That is because while each book contains a new mystery, there are recurring characters and each book builds upon the previous installment. It is best to read these Victoria Thompson books in order of publication for the best reading experience. While Victoria Thompson had already been a published author for more than a decade when her first mystery hit bookstore shelves, this is the genre in which she has found the most success. Victoria Thompson Books in Order: Mysteries She says that if she knows who the murderer is at the beginning of her writing process that she makes it far too obvious, so she lets the inspiration come to her while writing as the puzzle pieces slot into place of who wanted the person dead the most. However, for her mystery novels, Thompson does not utilize an outline at all. She would read the previous day’s work each morning and make any necessary edits before moving on. When she was writing historical romances, she would create an outline and generally follow it every time. She re-wrote her very first book three times and it took so much work that she made the decision to learn how to do it right the first time going forward. Uniquely, Thompson also says that she is a one-draft writer, but admits it is primarily due to laziness. ![]() She can remember creating stories in her mind since she was a child and everything she overhears or sees is the genesis of her ideas. She also says that she comes from a family of storytellers. Thompson has her own favorite sleuthing pairings too which include Hester and William by Anne Perry and Inspector Ian Rutledge and Hamish by Charles Todd. Readers adore the dynamic of her characters Sarah Brandt and Frank Mallow and how they work together to solve the murders that plague the streets of New York City. Like many other authors, Thompson never imagined that her Gaslight Mysteries would last as long or become as popular as they have. That period comes to life in her Gaslight Mysteries and Counterfeit Lady books. Victoria Thompson credits her start as a historical romance author for inspiring her passion for the nineteenth century. Both the mystery and romance Victoria Thompson books in order will be collected here, alongside everything you need to know about the author. However, before she turned to that genre, Thompson was a romance author for many years. Bing, but Frank and Sarah find that nothing is as it seems in their puzzling, dangerous search for truth.Victoria Thompson is most well-known for her mystery series Gaslight Mysteries and Counterfeit Lady. But who was driving it? The obvious suspect is Mrs. A few days later, the newspapers report that millionaire Alvin Bing has been found dead, pinned beneath one of the wheels of his very own motorcar. The following week, Frank and Sarah happen to be attending the first ever auto show in Madison Square Garden when they meet the woman’s husband, Alfred Bing, who has invested in a company that produces one of the electric motorcars on display. ![]() Frank explains he won’t manufacture evidence for her and sends her on her way. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the reason she absolutely must divorce her husband and admits she has no legal grounds. įormer policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state. Although Mrs. Sarah and Frank Malloy must catch a scheming killer in this latest gripping installment in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries. ![]() It makes available a truly magisterial compendium of human knowledge for a sum that many more of us can afford.ĭaniel Akst welcomes messages at Dan.A His World Wide Web page is at But like many people, I find the price daunting, and so I can’t complain too much about Britannica Online. So yes, I’d prefer to have Britannica right here on my shelf, where I could consult, browse and explore it any time the spirit came over me, without the trouble of logging onto the Internet. And finally, with none of these products can you easily illuminate a dinner-table debate by bringing down the volume and reading the gospel according to Britannica right from the book. Sure the world is changing fast, but that doesn’t mean that everything we have thought about the Civil War until yesterday is folderal. I also think the advantages of being absolutely up-to-the-minute are exaggerated. When I consult a good encyclopedia, I want to learn a lot about a subject in a short period of time. The problem is that, in turning to an encyclopedia, I don’t just want to look up a single fact-especially when turning to Britannica. McHenry says Britannica is working on better breaks those in the current on-line version simply occur wherever hypertext markup language headings appear, and most were made by computer, without human intervention. The article on the United States, for instance, runs to an astonishing 300,000 words, the size of two or three regular books. One reason for the bite-size chunks is the length of many Britannica entries. (The CD-ROM edition of Britannica, by the way, suffers from the same problem, since it is basically a snapshot of Britannica Online.) Unfortunately, it’s hard for this material to cohere as any kind of narrative because, after every couple of hundred words, you have to click “next section.” I found this extremely annoying, and longed for a way to access one long account of the subject, perhaps one that I could print if I wished on my fast laser printer. It included not just official doings, but astrological omens, gladiatorial results and other clear-cut precursors of features in any modern newspaper. For instance, starting in 59 BC the Romans had their Acta Diurna, an official publication written by hand and posted in prominent public places. Look up “newspapers,” for example, and you’ll find wonderful information. ![]() My biggest gripe is that longer articles are divided into brief segments, many filling less than a single screen. Yet another virtue of Britannica Online is that the maddening division of the printed edition into “micropedia” and “macropedia,” deplorably imposed on the 15th edition when it first appeared in 1974, becomes almost invisible, so that I no longer feel I have to look everything up twice.īut the on-line setup isn’t perfect. ![]() For instance, adding entries to the on-line version doesn’t mean eliminating others, and a worthy article that comes in unexpectedly long doesn’t have to be cut. The company says the on-line version already has fully 1,200 articles not in the bound volumes, and Editor in Chief Robert McHenry notes that on-line distribution of the encyclopedia removes a number of constraints that limit the print edition. For instance, an article on Agnes Scott College includes not just a link to the related Britannica topic, “Higher education: colleges, universities, and professional schools,” it also includes a link to the Decatur, Ga., school’s home page.īritannica Online takes further advantage of its medium by covering even more ground than the print edition. Moreover, the on-line version of Britannica makes use of the new medium’s special features. Searches are fast, and the articles, as you might expect, excellent. I’m also happy to report that Britannica Online is great fun. 1118), Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in 1099 and again from 1112 until his death.” Evidently Arnulf never had enough votes to make it until now. And lest anyone think Britannica is abandoning its historic mission, the list of new articles when last I looked included Arnulf of Rohea, “also called ARNULF MALECORNE (d. The article on Lou Gehrig was adjusted with similar dispatch to reflect Cal Ripken’s new consecutive-games record in baseball. Simpson verdict, for instance, made Britannica Online the day the jury announced it. Another nice thing about the on-line version is that it promises to be more current than the print version, which is updated annually. ![]() Made other minor improvements and bug fixesįormat for Screen Recorder on Windows 10/11.When recording speakers" to Options -> Audio Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch).Support high-DPI/high-resolution/ 4K monitors.Auto capture screen repeatedly at user-specified time intervals.Combine images into a single image file.Proprietary and loss-less format that preserves annotation objects together with image data for future re-editing Save images in FSC (FastStone Capture) format, a.Save images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF,.Each workspace remembers its last-used folder and works like a separate instance of the internal editor Support tabs that allow you to capture and edit.Resize, crop, rotate, sharpen, brighten,.Apply effects such as spotlight, drop-shadow, frame, torn-edge and fade-edge.Draw annotation objects such as callouts, straight/curvedĪrrowed lines, highlights, watermarks, rectangles, circles, step numbers,.(internal editor, clipboard, file, printer. ![]() Under various resolution and quality options To MP4" tool that converts or resizes video files (MP4 and WMV) That allows you to draw annotations, apply zoom effects and cut Screen Recorder has a built-in video editor.Webcam, mouse movements and clicks into highly compressed video files Onscreen changes, speech from microphone, audio from speakers, A handy Capture Panel that provides quick access to its capture tools and output optionsįull screen, rectangular/ freehand/ fixed-size.Built-in screen recorder saves videos in MP4 and WMV formats. 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