Here’s a little video. I have another one with animations that’ll be released on the weekend. :melon: I have a couple teaser pics in the Tomala Fanclub Chat and a little Discord server I put together for anyone interested.
Steam: https://s.team/chat/iQcjDkBk
Discord: https://discord.gg/4GSjAx
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I’ve pretty much been sick with hay fever since last weekend, between that and work becoming more and more of a pit of everlasting despair I’ve been mentally and physically wiped. I spent a good chunk of the morning in bed today doped up on antihistamines, and trying not to gag from this damned sinus infection. After some rest I’m feeling a little better now. Maybe I can actually do something to make up for the first half of my weekend going to shit.
I did manage to complete my video! But it wasn’t easy… For some reason when I went to export the video it would die at around the 56% mark when rendering under Shotcut. I tried all kinds of tricks like lowering the resolution, changing from one preset to another, among other tricks, but it wasn’t until I added a blank video track that I found success. Finally, I can sleep knowing I did one thing right today.
I started off the day with another good breakfast, this time I made a breakfast wrap with some bacon, egg and some red pepper and chili sauce. This time I experimented with a wheat flour and quinoa wrap. I have to admit that I do like the texture. Also had some Greek yogurt on the side and a spot of pureh to kick off the morning. Got some digital housekeeping done, and even had time to do a little bit of animation and scene prep.
I’ll pick back up on animating tomorrow. I also played a bit with Vortex this afternoon, but not really enough to know if I like it or not. I was interested in playing Dark Souls Remastered, and from what I can tell it only supports the original. I can’t remember if Nexus Mod Manager supports Remastered or not, but I’ll have to either find an older installer or see if a newer version than the one I currently have is still up for download. If I remember correctly it does. In the meantime I’ve played a bit of Dark Souls Remastered, and it was a bit rough at first… not really so much the gameplay mechanics as trying to get the damned HUD to appear was a nightmare. After I finally figured that out it wasn’t too hard to configure my controller and begin my killing spree in the usual way.
Much like Sekiro I can tell there will be a learning curve that I will need to traverse. Though thanks to my short time in Sekiro I already have a good idea of what buttons to press when engaging an enemy. I’ve also installed other armors for equipping down the line, and plan to possibly install some texture mods and different weapon models if I can find them. If it’s one thing I like to do is make my own adventure.
Not sure if I’ll pick up on it again tomorrow or not. I’d like to try and finish the next video if I don’t immediately pass out after work.
I haven’t felt too well these last few days, and on top of that my schedule has been keeping me jumping. Yesterday I chilled with Yutram in the Gmod Cinema after work, and got motion sick afterwards for some reason… that resulted in an accidental 12 hour nap. I felt better though. Well enough to make breakfast:
I made an egg and bacon muffin with some colby pepperjack. It was a nice small and quick breakfast item to get the day rolling. I baked some cran-apple muffins:
I bought some apples for dirt cheap, and figured muffins sounded like a nice thing to both keep the house warm and make things smell good. Plus I prefer making my own munchies anyway.
Got a little further in Sekiro. Defeated Lady Butterfly, made a bracelet out of the anal beads of my enemies, killed Shrek, killed almost anyone I crossed paths with and had a big white snake show up in my face.
At this point I decided yeah… I’m doing pretty well. I looked into mods for a couple other games, and I found some additional fun ones for MGSV and the Dark Souls games. Those will have to wait for another time. For now I’ll try not to have nightmares about White Mamba… the Siberian ass slugs are enough of a problem.
Got most of the polishing done! Also managed to do a small recording session with Yutram and did a little photoshopping. I even took a nap earlier in the day, felt nice. Been snacking on pralines all day, think that might be my current sweet addiction. I was thinking of using them in a muffin recipe, but ended up eating the entire tin by mistake (small tin but still). My muffin experiment will have to wait another day…
I may or may not make a post tomorrow. Things are looking pretty busy.
Finished piecing my latest SFM work into the current video project. Right now I’m rendering another SFM composition to add as an “intro” for this particular video I’m working on. I won’t make a habit of doing that (or at least I’ll try not to) but since this video is pretty pointless I see no reason not to include an “introduction” of sorts. I still need to do some polishing on the audio and start a recording session for the final bit. I think I’ll have time for that tomorrow; it’s gonna be a short and early day which will present me with an opportunity to get some more stuff done, video or otherwise.
I was feeling a little artsy today and decided to play around in Shotcut and build the final scene for this episode I’m working on. Just need to find the time to do the voice recording and then off to animating. I also took a break and played the Linux port of Trine, Played a bit of Left 4 Dead as well, and we ran into one problem after another. We downloaded a fan campaign and it was so out of date that it caused both of us as well as the server to crash, resulting in us playing vanilla. We played public and got some new people that did a good job holding themselves throughout the game. It’s always nice seeing new blood in an old game, really shows its success.
Unfortunately my stream audio was futzed up, so you mostly just heard game audio… I’ve since fixed the issue, hopefully we won’t have a repeat next stream… and we’ll actually test the campaign before launching it in the first place.
I survived another holiday work week, and celebrated by playing some Sekiro and TF2. I also decided on a whim to look into modding the Dark Souls games… my god what a bountiful harvest. Definitely adding to my leisure to do list. I can’ believe it but apparently I’ve spent over 8 hours in Sekiro.
I’m thinking that I might take a break from it though, at least for the weekend. I got to the Madam Butterfly boss battle and died after a long fight that demanded my hands and ego take a break. I really do like the game, as hard as it is it feels good when you finally figure out how to take down the bosses. One of the mods that I have installed gives random status effects, and for some reason I managed to earn permanent regeneration that would only run out if I died. Even after respawning this regen effect would continue.
Now onto the next favorite part of my weekend…. sleep!
To everyone in the US who reads my blog; I hope you all had a happy 4th. I took a nap after getting home yesterday so I could stay up and watch the fireworks (may as well, the noise alone would keep me up anyway). We had a nice view of the fireworks from our backyard now that we are minus a giant tree. I spent today finishing up animating the dialogue. It’s all exported and ready to compile in Shotcut.
Now I just need to think of what to end on.
This was quite satisfying to play today. Work was a little rough (though not as rough as yesterday), and I think I might be improving at this game. Maybe playing during my lunch break is paying off? :melon: I’m still having issues timing certain moves on enemies, but every time I play I seem to get a little further…. and not just through the air:
I’ve also been continuing work on an upcoming video. I’m not sure if I’ll have time to work on it tomorrow but I’m hoping to have all the SFM work finished up by the end of the week… or at least animating the livestream dialogue.