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karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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oh yeah?

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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karmic rose

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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karmic rose

oh that LOL

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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and a few more hidden ones

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:39 AM

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wasnt there also a one that said fuck so that if you uploaded to roblox youd be banned

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:40 AM

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night fjord wasnt there also a one that said fuck so that if you uploaded to roblox youd be ...

yep!

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its at the origin of the dolly

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:40 AM

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ah right

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the one that got moved

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yes

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:40 AM

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night fjord the one that got moved

yeah

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had to re-animate the entire dolly sequence

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:40 AM

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LOL

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:41 AM

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this is the trick used for the dolly to go through the glass without transparency issues!

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its really simple

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but it works REALLY well

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:41 AM

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right yes

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the fading glass

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:42 AM

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finally finished shrinking down

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changed the easing on one to be linear, which looks better?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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karmic rose changed the easing on one to be linear, which looks better?

right

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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night fjord right

hm

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intresting

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thats actually the linear one

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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im guessing right was exponential?

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oh!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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yeah

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sure looks exponential though doesn't it?

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thats why I added the easing

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:43 AM

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it sure does

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:44 AM

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alright, tangent over! back to the logo part

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:44 AM

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i like the fog

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:44 AM

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lets just get the thing that hurt aesters soul

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500 smoke emitters

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lots

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of

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smoke

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is this a good way to do this?

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NO!

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ITS AWFUL

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does it matter?

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ALSO NO!

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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500?!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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not actually

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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Jesus-

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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let me count rq

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108!

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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IRL i think a hazer could distribute it over that surface

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But-

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Wow.

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:46 AM

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yep!

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its because the smoke emitter isn't like the particle emitter

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it will ONLY emit from origin

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unlike particle emitters which emit from the whole part

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:47 AM

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could you vary the origin with a variable pos?

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:47 AM

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for example, the dust is done through these boxes in each of the rooms

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:47 AM

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night fjord could you vary the origin with a variable pos?

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this is all you get mate

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:48 AM

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aw man

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:48 AM

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it took some tweaking, but the idea was to make the smoke look like a fog machine

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I think I got pretty dang close

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:48 AM

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you did!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:49 AM

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now then!

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QBC logo, or Monitor array first?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:49 AM

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i wanna see the array, that seemed interesting

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:49 AM

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yeah

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its kinda annoying </3

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one of the MANY dev eastereggs I have hidden on site

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one of them that I'll show is this one!

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just a little dev mark

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nothing crazy

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the TV array is actually a giant copy of this wall

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:50 AM

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oh right!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:51 AM

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and the TV array has 4 copies, the off copy, checkerboard pattern 1 copy, checkerboard pattern 2 copy, and then the text copy

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text copy

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:51 AM

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ooo

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:51 AM

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pattern 1

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pattern 2

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now, the reason I did this?

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I didn't hate my life in the long term

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for the TVs to be on

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the list of things that need to be changed are, material, color, and a decal

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now imagine having an entire space on the animation timeline for each of those

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:52 AM

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right

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:52 AM

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not happening, right?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:52 AM

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right

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:53 AM

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so I made the copies!,

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sucked to make em, but now I dont have to worry

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:53 AM

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well....unless ya like being tortured LOL

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fair enoiugh!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:53 AM

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night fjord well....unless ya like being tortured LOL

already had enough of that simply working with phelidai

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😭

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like I said on the stream, he's fucking great at what he does. but MAN does he like to change shit up

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now, one would think each of the arrays are a seperate model, animated seperatley

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right?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:54 AM

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....are they?

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:54 AM

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night fjord ....are they?

NOPE

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NOT AT ALL

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:54 AM

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God dang it-

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:54 AM

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🎉

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its one BIG ASS model

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with all of the arrays spaced EXACTLY 45 studs apart

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:55 AM

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wtf 😭

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:55 AM

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and to change them I simply teleport the ENTIRE MODEL up and down by increments of 45 or 90

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:55 AM

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welp, i guess if it works, it works

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:55 AM

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now, you might be wondering, "why oh WHY RPD would you do this???? there is no reason to do this 😭"

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its because I didn't want to have to manually align the tvs, and then deal with syncing their keyframes perfectly

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so, array cartridge was born!

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this concept does get reused quite a few times

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:57 AM

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karmic rose its because I didn't want to have to manually align the tvs, and then deal with ...

if you dared to do so, you could also use a script to change their states at runtime :3

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:57 AM

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night fjord if you dared to do so, you could also use a script to change their states at run...

bold of you to assume I can script in LUAu

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:57 AM

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karmic rose bold of you to assume I can script in LUAu

this is where you conscript katsumi

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:57 AM

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night fjord this is where you conscript katsumi

time, my boy! Time!

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there was very limited supply!

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wow, that rhymed

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lol

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:58 AM

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ah well, snl can wait anyway :PPPPPP

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it did indeed

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:58 AM

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for the spotlights, they're a bit better

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so, there is some trickery (as always)

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during the zoom in, you know how the logo fades in?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 5:59 AM

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yeeees

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 5:59 AM

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that is due to the aptly named AnimSpotlight

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made visible for educational purposes

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:00 AM

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aaaaah cool

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:00 AM

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this little guy actually does a LOT

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:00 AM

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i gotta go have dinner now, but very interesting regardless!!! thanks rpd!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:00 AM

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night fjord i gotta go have dinner now, but very interesting regardless!!! thanks rpd!

I'll continue yapping lol. NP though

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so on top of the animated spotlight doing the fade in, it also acts as the main light source for the actual spotlights, as they mostly do rim lighting

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the lights teleport in, and on the same frame the animated spotlight changes from a gray to a spotlighty yellow and jumps to insane brightness of 6

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then during the bottom spotlights it jumps to 10

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same color, though

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during the back up into the CR the screen actually has to raise up in order to not be just peeking into shot, so it moves back with the same easing as the dolly to make it harder to notice

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it only fully hides a short while before the dolly teleports to the pitch black cube

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but its enough to give a nice feeling

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the on air sign actually has a nice detail to it, it flashes brigher before settling down

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now, moon animator can't change surface GUI brightness, so it instead lowers the transparency of the text

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and increases the color of the brick in the back

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the monitors simply do the teleport trick

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the lights for the room also do that too lol

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cameras cut to black is actually just teleporting it into this black cube

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true size of the production and personnel managers in the credits scene

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because phel&bob, and spxxdy&grey use the same animation and positions, just swapped order they are actually layered ontop of each other so I can use the same location settings in both

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mostly laziness, partially because I was worried their easings wouldn't be the exact same

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this was made the day before the deadline, we realised we didn't have a 3d QSP logo, so phel grabbed the up to date version, converted it into an SVG, and sent it to me so I could make it 3d in blender, which is why if you look closely at it, its a bit lumpy in places

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where the credits sequence takes place

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just an inverted, black sphere with two giant animatable bricks

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they actually use highlighs for their color, as we didn't want shading and neon glows with brigher colors

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grey&phelidais for refrence

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I'll show the vertical version too, past that its just flipping the order and changing who is where

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the other side of the arrows were actually never used, but in an earlier version, they actually slid out of frame

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hence their existence

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:15 AM

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karmic rose cameras cut to black is actually just teleporting it into this black cube

JACK THE BLACK CUBE

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:16 AM

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karmic rose grey&phelidais for refrence

how do the decals move? are they on seperate plates?

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:16 AM

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here is actually one of the earliest videos I have of the animation

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:16 AM

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night fjord how do the decals move? are they on seperate plates?

surface GUIS on invisible parts that have the capability to move

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:16 AM

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karmic rose this was made the day before the deadline, we realised we didn't have a 3d QSP l...

[mine was lumpier](#1376840685113577513 message)

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:16 AM

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karmic rose surface GUIS on invisible parts that have the capability to move

interesting

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:17 AM

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karmic rose here is actually one of the earliest videos I have of the animation

I actually had to re time everything because I timed it based off of a storyboard with bad timings

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so, I can now confirm that the timings are very dang accurate

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I calculated the specific frames that things should activate

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this was me convincing phelidai that a dolly zoom was a good idea

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it was

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a HUGE success

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oh yeah, during the retract there is actually a dolly zoom being applied

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in case it wasn't obvious

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:19 AM

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ah, i did see that yes

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:20 AM

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first time the dust particles were added, and also a scrapped idea which was using fogstart in lighting to make the room darker till you go into it

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:20 AM

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karmic rose first time the dust particles were added, and also a scrapped idea which was usi...

mmmmmm interesting

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:20 AM

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phel had to make me add fog, this is the first take of that

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I like it now, but back then I really didn't lol

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it used to be worse FYI

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:22 AM

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karmic rose first time the dust particles were added, and also a scrapped idea which was usi...

In this first version, the dust also applied to the outiside of the CR

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we changed that

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:22 AM

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karmic rose it used to be worse FYI

6kW to produce this effect irl is crazy

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:23 AM

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this is actually when I started caring about timing lol, and the first recorded instance of the hallways (pardon the quality, they had to be 10mb or under)

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:23 AM

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night fjord 6kW to produce this effect irl is crazy

real

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:24 AM

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karmic rose this is actually when I started caring about timing lol, and the first recorded ...

the music sync is a nice touch

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:24 AM

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yeah, helped a lot with animating

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in editing you can just add it

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but while I was doing it I needed a consistent way to sync

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so I added a two beep, and once the second beep hit I start the animation. then 2 seconds later they should both start at the same time

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made it easy to sync/tell when it wasn't

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oldest video of the intro credits

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the credits change A LOT

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there was also a short while where we tried layered letterboxing

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the idea was nice, but it just wasn't possible with the layout

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:27 AM

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karmic rose there was also a short while where we tried layered letterboxing

(I still think it looks pretty cool ngl)

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:28 AM

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karmic rose (I still think it looks pretty cool ngl)

that's cool!

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the fact that the whole thing slides is interesting anim

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:28 AM

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First time where the animation actually started to take shape to what you see now

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:28 AM

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night fjord the fact that the whole thing slides is interesting anim

ikr?

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:29 AM

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karmic rose First time where the animation actually started to take shape to what you see no...

the extra black bits give it a very 3d feeling

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nice work

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:29 AM

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from this one out its a lot of minor tweaks, but you can really start to see the final product in it

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:30 AM

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night fjord the extra black bits give it a very 3d feeling

they're actually still there lol

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:30 AM

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karmic rose they're actually still there lol

aaah

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:30 AM

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just harder to see with the black bg

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:31 AM

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aaaaah right

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:31 AM

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font selection was a nightmare 😨 I ended up downloading every font roblox has to offer, and we went through EVERY SINGLE ONE

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before eventually deciding on Josefin Sans

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:32 AM

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karmic rose before eventually deciding on `Josefin Sans`

~~Josefin Stalin~~

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:33 AM

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night fjord ~~Josefin Stalin~~

👁️

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oh!

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one more thing before getting into funny photos

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during the animation, the dust emitter in the CR actually turns off once you leave it, to make the online CR feel more clean

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:33 AM

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aaaah that's a good idea

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undustification

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:34 AM

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before

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after

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its VERY slight

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but its a nice attention to detail

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:34 AM

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enough to notice i think

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yeah

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i mean you can always fade them out

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:34 AM

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and the dust was actually hand made by me lol

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dust particle PNG, go nuts lol

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:35 AM

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oh my png

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:35 AM

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(its just a blurred beige circle)

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:35 AM

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yep LOL

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:35 AM

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if it works, it works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:36 AM

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lipsync???? 😭

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:36 AM

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old before coming up with the DEPT for suspence we ran through a few possible joke ideas

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:36 AM

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night fjord lipsync???? 😭

if you know, you know 🥀

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:36 AM

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karmic rose if you know, you know 🥀

wish i knew

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:37 AM

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the start of the phelidai trashcan ritual

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:37 AM

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LMAO

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:37 AM

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:37 AM

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NOOOO 😭 yearn for anything but that

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:38 AM

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night fjord NOOOO 😭 yearn for anything but that

(he has like 4 total hours in studio, and still barely understands how to use it)

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:38 AM

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me frfr

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:38 AM

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:38 AM

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(i made a core game in bbaft)

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LMAO

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:38 AM

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karmic rose

and a tasty blooper from the end of a film session

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and with that, I think thats everything!

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thanks for coming to my insane asylum TED talk

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:39 AM

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no worries LOL

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:39 AM

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and I hope it was worthwhile

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:39 AM

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it was a worthwhile insight into QBC for me since I don't usually get to see them in action

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:39 AM

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oh wait... one more thing!

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really tiny though

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gonna screenshot some cut content still in the set, and some silly easter eggs

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:40 AM

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karmic rose gonna screenshot some cut content still in the set, and some silly easter eggs

we love the silly

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:40 AM

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:40 AM

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bytcon 😭

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:41 AM

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little underhanded nods to all of the QBC sections

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in the womens restroom there is a bytcon shrine

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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karmic rose

sexist bathrooms at qbc

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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karmic rose in the womens restroom there is a bytcon shrine

oh LMAO

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god damn it katsumi(?)

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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night fjord god damn it katsumi(?)

raz actually

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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ah

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lovely

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:42 AM

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this one is visible IN THE VIDEO!

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:43 AM

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ah yes that one

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XD

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:43 AM

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silly locker names

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fire alarm stack and explosive barrels

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another raz special

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and... this

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was originally this

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why?

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ask phelidai

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one fire was removed because phelidai did such a good job editing the video

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and this is the scene used for the image and event banner!

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all of the stuff on the screen was done in paint.net

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got a "glow" layer, the image layer (minus the tv screen), the QBC logo, and then some cassete static

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:47 AM

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theres a lot huh? LOL

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:47 AM

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same thing, but with a different aspect ratio, for the event banner

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:47 AM

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night fjord theres a lot huh? LOL

oh yeah

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:47 AM

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karmic rose fire alarm stack and explosive barrels

yea i saw the storage room

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:48 AM

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15-18 hours worth of recorded footage from all of the QSERF film sessions

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:48 AM

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dang 😭

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:48 AM

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nearly blew up my PC compressing that video

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also, stay tuned for some QBC themed wallpapers, I'm going to see where I should post them

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:49 AM

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karmic rose

LMAO

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:49 AM

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karmic rose also, stay tuned for some QBC themed wallpapers, I'm going to see where I should...

oh good yes please

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i have no good wallpapers other than my dslr nonsense and i wanna rep qs irl

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:49 AM

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night fjord oh good yes please

they also come with mobile variants

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I think I got the aspect ratio wrong though :/

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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put them in #🎥┃broadcasting surely?

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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thats moreso for announcements

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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ah

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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going to ask around and figure it out

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dw abt it

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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you could send them to meeee

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:3

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:3333333

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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🤨

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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🙏

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i want some cool wallpapers

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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Ig I could, till I figure out where they go

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:50 AM

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YAY

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:51 AM

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for all of the wallpapers, they all have custom color grading

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per image

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took a day for them all

night fjord Jun 2, 2025, 6:52 AM

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wow, thanks!

karmic rose Jun 2, 2025, 6:57 AM

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one more, just for fun!

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ok. Now I'm done

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#❗┃other message

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sword my goat

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free QBC wallpapers

wide agate Jun 2, 2025, 10:16 AM

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fucking adore tricks like this in digital media
no stairs?
no problem

wide agate Jun 2, 2025, 10:33 AM

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karmic rose (I still think it looks pretty cool ngl)

AGREED
so underrated lowk

south needle Jun 2, 2025, 11:25 AM

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this is cool

karmic rose Jun 14, 2025, 11:40 PM

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Gang I'ma be real nothing new to show as I had like mega burnout after this

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Something new at some point

night fjord Jun 19, 2025, 11:31 AM

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karmic rose Something new at some point

I'll help! When I'm in.

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(Once QIAD lets me in.)

karmic rose Jul 10, 2025, 4:05 AM

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fixed a bug where your settings would be overwritten if you close your settings menu by pressing cancel 722,000 times

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I hate that this is an actual bug I had to fix

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DAYNOTMADE

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sims4 ahh patch notes 💀

wide agate Jul 10, 2025, 4:06 AM

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lol??????

night fjord Jul 10, 2025, 10:08 AM

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karmic rose * fixed a bug where your settings would be overwritten if you close your setting...

What the hell 😭

karmic rose Jul 20, 2025, 4:18 PM

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Update

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Cooking

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🔥

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no more information at this time shhcat

earnest warren Jul 21, 2025, 11:41 PM

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karmic rose no more information at this time <:shhcat:1308582270034247740>

woooow

crisp drift Jul 22, 2025, 4:56 AM

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be a knower, not a teller

karmic rose Jul 22, 2025, 7:33 AM

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crisp drift be a knower, not a teller

:eye;

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Fuck

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Y'know what

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Keeping it for integrity sake

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Anyways small update, my bank account with like $70 is now $19 down, got a pbr texture painting solution, so I'll be trying that out and giving a review after

karmic rose Jul 23, 2025, 5:38 PM

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Review of armorpaint

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The features it has feel pretty half baked

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It is release 0.9 so it's not too surprising

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Like its missing things like lock to plans, so you end up having to use the full bucket on per face, along with having crashing issues, and being just a bit clunky

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It has the beginnings of good software, and I'd say it was worth the cash I spent

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Especially when I get updates for life

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The documentation is seriously lacking though

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The manual is just an overview

karmic rose Aug 11, 2025, 9:36 PM

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made a split flap display GUI!

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pretty happy with it, gonna send a video in a sec

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nice little sample video

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I wanted to make the split flap display work like an actual split flap, so it will actually cycle through all of the characters in its "barrel" to get where it needs to go

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and it can only go forward

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which is why 0 to 1 makes you cycle through all of the characters in the barrel

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is the code working this the best ever? no lmao

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it creates a separate thread for each digit because I use task.wait() for the delay in cycling

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but it works well and creating 4 threads that self terminate after completion really isn't worth worrying about, and to fix it I'd need a for loop, or a heartbeat service and I'd rather not tbh

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I'll post the code and explainer soon ™

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want to see if I can do some more tinkering on the backend first

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 1:57 AM

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update, did lotsa tinkering

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final design 🎉 (till I go insane and try to make it fully dynamic)

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the code for the demo thing in the video is absolute garbage, but I also dnc 🔥

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 4:06 PM

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karmic rose final design 🎉 (till I go insane and try to make it fully dynamic)

I realised why my dynamic implementation didn't work, I defined the local varables in a local loop, the one fucking time a global variable would work I didn't use it

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😭 I'm kicking myself rn ngl

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thats just coding tho lmao

wide agate Aug 12, 2025, 4:13 PM

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karmic rose update, did lotsa tinkering

this reminds me of Grace's timer

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really cool

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 4:14 PM

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wide agate this reminds me of Grace's timer

made as a timer to contribute to grace lmao

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just also made it a coding challenge for myself

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 4:59 PM

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karmic rose just also made it a coding challenge for myself

and in that vein, while reviewing the code with my friend, I learned I didn't actually understand how modulo works!

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and because of that I had a useless if statement 😅

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anyways, yeah TIL -1 mod 17 = 16

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which, in hindsight makes sense. but only after I spent like 15 minutes having my brain short circut about how thats possible

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anyways! have this so you can learn from my mistakes ```lua
local Distance = NewTextLocation - CurrentTextLocation
if Distance > 0 then
Steps = Distance

elseif Distance < 0 then
Steps = Distance+RolodexTableLength
end``` is the exact same thing as

local Steps = (NewTextLocation - CurrentTextLocation) % RolodexTableLength```

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1212012579841642536.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=agony

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 5:28 PM

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the reasoning behind this for anyone confused why is

8 mod 4 = 0, because 8-(2)4 = 0

9 mod 4 = 1 ,because 9-(2)4 = 1

4 mod 3 = 1, because 4-3=1

-1 mod 17 = 16, because -1 - (-1)17 = 16

-3 mod 17 = 14, because -3 - (-1)17 = 14

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hope this helps

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another way to think about it is

a - floor(a/b)*b

karmic rose Aug 12, 2025, 8:05 PM

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karmic rose I realised why my dynamic implementation didn't work, I defined the local varabl...

update, table

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🔥

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wide agate Aug 12, 2025, 10:42 PM

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peak

royal ermine Aug 13, 2025, 8:57 PM

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peak

karmic rose Aug 14, 2025, 4:01 AM

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Update 2 electric boogaloo, made the GUI an actual clock

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Older version of the clock but its the only video I got of it atm, not at my PC you see

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All of the changes are decorative anyways so it dont matter

halcyon hill Aug 16, 2025, 6:01 AM

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karmic rose Older version of the clock but its the only video I got of it atm, not at my PC ...

woooahh

river raft Aug 16, 2025, 9:09 PM

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Don't worry, you are not in any trouble, this thread is just being monitored for moderation purposes.

-# <@&1391570609523396759>

karmic rose Aug 16, 2025, 9:10 PM

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Wowie

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Fancy

karmic rose Aug 31, 2025, 2:29 AM

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doing crazy work

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update, writing a command system fucking SUCKS

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holy

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why did I challenge myself with this

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😭

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oh yeah, and I made a neato morph system for qbc, I'll get a video of it working shortly (sorry, no code this time)

karmic rose Aug 31, 2025, 5:30 AM

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karmic rose oh yeah, and I made a neato morph system for qbc, I'll get a video of it working...

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I forgor

wide agate Aug 31, 2025, 5:32 AM

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me ngl

karmic rose Sep 1, 2025, 1:29 AM

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Video

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yeah I just stole the avatars from ppl who chatted in here

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also, area used was made by @crisp drift, pretty nice looking area

crisp drift Sep 1, 2025, 1:30 AM

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wawa

karmic rose Sep 1, 2025, 1:31 AM

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wide agate Sep 1, 2025, 1:50 AM

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ooh thats pretty cool

karmic rose Sep 1, 2025, 3:19 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/rigby-cat-tong-car-gif-18327859063546042856

Tenor

karmic rose Sep 4, 2025, 11:49 AM

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I love refactoring code I made less than a week ago because a better way to do it came to me in a dream

royal ermine Sep 5, 2025, 3:49 PM

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karmic rose yeah I just stole the avatars from ppl who chatted in here

hey thats me (the mobile task force avatar)

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im like a week late

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but thats fire

karmic rose Sep 6, 2025, 2:08 AM

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yeah I just stole the avatars from ppl who chatted in here
I mean, to be fair 😭

karmic rose Oct 9, 2025, 2:14 AM

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Cool shit dropping

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back to working on my own projects for a bit, so I've had a lot of time to do things

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I finally finalized the tiles for my game, they're rather basic but they're a very good starting point, currently I have the hallways done as thats what I needed for another part of this project

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they're incredibly similar so I won't show them individually, so I'll move onto the thing that has taken most of my time

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making a procedural generation system, and because I hate myself I chose the one that has its performance get exponentially worse the larger the grid is

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and that algorithim is wave function collapse!

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🎉

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over a weeks and a few all nighters worth of time later I got this decently fast implementation! It's able to fully solve an empty 100x100 grid in about 1.6 seconds (not counting model placement)

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each tile is 30 studs by 30 studs, and its pretty damn customizable if I do say so myself

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each tile is handled by a metadata modulescript which has these values!

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Name and model reference are mostly for QOL, but the rest of this is just to tinker with generation

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You have your connections, which dictates which areas of the tile can connect to what, this can be anything- meaning unlimited non-connecting tile variants!

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then fallback tile, which tells the generator to only look at the tile if its attempting to place a tile but none of the current ones follow the required rules

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I used to use that in this tile, hence it being there, but its completely optional

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Weight is pretty self explanatory I feel

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Type isn't used by the generator, but instead for tile by tile blacklists

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I like to call them "soft" blacklists because they will instead just HEAVILY avoid connecting a tile with a blacklist to that type

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so for example, with this turns will be very adverse to connecting to other turns. But they still can if they need to

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a great exanoke being right here

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now, this blacklist only takes effect if the tiles would connect, but wouldn't if they don't duh

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However I personally saw a few usecases where I'd like tiles to not be next to each other, connecting or not- such as dead ends!

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which is what this data does

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it'll soft blacklist a tile of this type if it is simply next to the newly generated tile

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and just using these basic weights you can get a LARGE number of different outcomes

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for example, increasing straight hallway weight to 100 while leaving the rest alone makes this happen!

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I'm still working on optimization, but I took a few approaches that I really think helped out

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those being that the generator is "lazy"

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normal WFC has you update all neighbors in a "wave" till there is nothing to update, this one only updates a tiles immedate neighbors

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which, while causing some possible issues in some cases, didn't cause enough to sustain the ASTRONOMICAL preformance cost

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2nd technique I use it to generate the WFC in chunks and "stitch" them tothether (they really just share the same grid data so they can check, and update the status of neighboring chunks)

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Now normally I collapse, then generate, but for demonstration purposes I do the first 3 chunks, then build. and for the last one I had it generate "live"

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the solver is much faster than this in reality, but its not as cool to watch a grid just appear, yeah?

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The way the chunking works is pretty bad 😭 I wanted to make it dynamic, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to do it in a way I wanted to

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If anyone can think of a suggestion feel more than free to let me know

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