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![]() Worse, it needed yet more time (again, minutes, roughly as long as the first step) to save the image, almost like it was re-rendering the entire image yet again rather than making use of the image rendered in the first step. Photolemur needed a lot of memory and time (several minutes) to produce a rendering that was pretty similar to something HDR Projects can produce instantly with two clicks to select the correct pre-viewable preset (see below). The problems with Photolemur are of a different nature. Also now added Aurora HDR 2018 as I similarly got a free license via a giveaway. The recent version “with libraries”, as I’ve reported, was found by many users in several forums to be particularly buggy. In forums, Luminar has been described as “beta” software, and it’s been alleged that it has long-standing bugs. You may read more positive things about Luminar elsewhere, but be aware that they have an affiliate marketing program and the people who are telling you nice things may directly benefit through providing a sell button. Having reviewed Luminar after all the others, I can say that in the default rendering, Luminar offers nothing that would lift it above a free offering such as macOS Preview. Update: I got “free” Luminar and Photolemur licenses as part of a bundle and so have added them to the list of tested programs. Similarly, Perfectly Clear could only be installed via a download manager that had to be installed before anything else could be installed. Two versions of ACDSee for Mac also included. Problems encounteredĪll Skylum products (Photolemur, Aurora, Luminar) and ACDSee could not operate without phoning home and did therefore not receive further consideration two three Skylum products now included (but I’m not impressed), see below. Operating system was macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 for most of the Mac testing. Perfectly Clear offered no setting, and exported at 93% quality automatically – I have not done extensive testing to confirm whether it is always 93%.Īs the focus of this article is on raw conversion, Perfectly Clear was used as a stand-alone, not as a plug-in. The “high” setting seemed to correspond to approximately 90% and was chosen. Phocus offered a “high” quality setting as well as maximum and some lower settings. RPP offered nothing between 85% and 95%, so 85% was chosen. Otherwise, the default settings were accepted. When either or both options were given, quality was set to 90 and the colour profile to sRGB. Images were directly exported from the converters to JPEG. That’s all I’m going to focus on, for this as well as part 2. Images shown as part of this review are the default renderings. The test image by Beka Pukhashvili: flat picture preview as shown by Luminance HDR (same concept as ungraded video footage) Note: Later additions to this article have not all been thoroughly reviewed yet. Surprisingly, all programs seemed to support Pentax cameras as both DNG and PEF. Criteria for selection were that the software should support Pentax cameras and be usable completely offline I will mark the differences in the table. If you’re a Windows user, you may find a few names on this list that you haven’t heard of before, as they are Mac-exclusive. So here’s a big comparison of almost all the available commercial RAW converters for Mac, plus six open source ones, plus three commercial Windows-only titles. For technical reasons, it will continue to say Nov ’18 at the top, but includes software that was released after that date. Note: This article has continued to receive updates. ![]() Jones has a crustacean-style claw for his left arm, a long tentacle in place of the index finger on his right hand, and the right leg of a crab (resembling a pegleg). Jones' most striking feature is his cephalopod-like head: prehensile octopus-like appendages give the illusion of a thick beard, a prominent sac bulges from under his barnacle-encrusted tricorne, and he breathes through a siphon located on the left side of his face in the place of nasal features. In the third film, Tia Dalma reveals it is the fate of the captain and crew of the Dutchman should they fail or abandon their duties on board. The physique of Davy Jones and the other crew of the Flying Dutchman was designed by the films' producers to be a mixture of various aquatic flora and fauna features. Several reviewers have in fact mistakenly identified Nighy as wearing prosthetic makeup or a latex mask due to the computer-generated character's photorealism. Davy Jones briefly appears as a human for a single scene in the third film, played by Nighy in costume. In addition, he also wore make-up on his lips and around his mouth, to assist in the motion capture of his character's Scottish accent. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes, since the original plan was to use his real eyes in the digital character if necessary to get the proper lighting. Nighy's performance was recorded using motion capture during actual filming on the set, with Nighy wearing several markers in both a grey suit and his face, rather than in a studio during post-production. Like the entire crew of the Flying Dutchman (except "Bootstrap Bill"), Davy Jones's physical appearance is completely computer-generated. See also: Industrial Light & Magic, Motion capture, Computer-generated imagery, and photorealismīefore officially casting Bill Nighy, producers also met Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen and Richard E. The character is based on the superstition of Davy Jones' Locker. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects for Dead Man's Chest. The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by Entertainment Weekly as the tenth favorite computer-generated film character in film history, behind King Kong in 2007. Once a mortal pirate of Scottish descent, Davy Jones is the tyrannical captain of the Flying Dutchman (based on the ghost ship of the same name) and the dark lord of the Seven Seas. He is first mentioned in The Curse of the Black Pearl, appears in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, and makes a cameo appearance in Dead Men Tell No Tales. Armada (temporarily)ĭavy Jones is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, portrayed by Bill Nighy. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)įlagship captain of Beckett's E.I.T.C. Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ![]() ![]() (photo © Jaime Rojo)ĩ weeks, 8,000 miles, 20 murals, 13 cities.ĭozens of species going extinct every day. Looks like Pepe Le Pew is lurking around for some lovely lady skunk to walk by so he can use his famously suave pickup lines “Permit me to introduce myself, I am your new lover.” “Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.” “Is it possible to be too attractive?” This piece of plywood was tagged several times by different artists at different times. Some writers couldn’t resist the white huge canvas that was the Houston Wall, freshly primed for Pichi & Avo’s turn to paint on it this week. Jeffrey Gibson with a quote from James Baldwin for #artinadplaces (photo © Jaime Rojo) This is the wheat-pasted mural of Ai Wei Wei before Hebru Brantley added goggles to it. Luckily they didn’t find any information to influence Trump in any way. In other words, light artist Vicki Da Silva is referencing the apparent influence of the Russian government over the presidential election by smearing Clinton publicly with information they had found. Such materials can be used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty. Here’s what Wikipedia says: Kompromat (Russian: компромат IPA:, short for компрометирующий материал, literally “compromising material”) is the Russian term for compromising materials about a politician or other public figure. Yeah, we didn’t know what it meant either so we looked it up. ![]() First image above: American Puppet (photo © Jaime Rojo) So here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adline, City Kitty, D7606, Drsco, El Sol 25, Hek Tad, Homo Riot, Jerk Face, Jose Feliz Perez, Lunge Box, Meguru Yamaguchi, Michael Vasquez, Nimai Keston, Not Art, Shepard Fairey, Sheryo & the Yok, and Vicki Da Silva. You can be sure that Street Art will be probably be there to respond! We’re keep our eyes open. Not sure if his popularity would go up or down if he triggered a crisis in the financial markets, but it does feel like absolutely anything is possible with this wildcard. Obama inauguration numbers were pretty stark, and this week Trump’s national approval ratings have tanked, although a fresh war always tends to perk up a presidents approval numbers, so maybe he can start one of those. looked giddy and relaxed (despite a poncho battle) perhaps because he might not be the most disliked president of the century after all. In the early and mid-2000s there was a lot of anti-Bush/ anti-war street art. He certainly wasted no time by signing his first executive order within minutes of being sworn in, one that aims to repeal Obamacare and that would deny health care. This president, more than any one in decades, is galvanizing people to take action and get involved, just not in the way he might have preferred and we’ve been seeing a steady dialogue on the street about him since last fall. Inauguration week was just as bumpy as you could have expected with an incredibly divided country discussing the outgoing president, the incoming president, the foreign interference and weird circumstances around the actual election, the nearly all white all billionaire cabinet nominees, and the Women’s March‘s that vastly overwhelmed Trumps ceremony attendee numbers while “sister” marches took place in nearly 700 cities around the world. ![]() Origin Story is a set of 5 brand-new levels of Affordable Space Adventures that take players through the hardest areas of the game so far. KnapNok Games and Nifflas’ Games, the developers of the critically acclaimed Affordable Space Adventures for Wii U, are announcing the release of the free Origin Story content update and a temporary discount to celebrate the launch on November 12th 2015. Below you’ll find KnapNok Games’ press release for the update and some screenshots. There are a few puzzles that I could live without, but most of them are solid in this linear but imaginative space trek.KnapNok Games’ acclaimed Wii U exclusive Affordable Space Adventures is getting a free update with some new content this week. The game is long enough without overstaying its welcome and there are plenty of interesting environments and obstacles to check out (and avoid, as the situation dictates). With a team, though, you can remain calm and discuss your options on what to do next. However, the game can understandably be overwhelming for the solo player and it can cause a lot of stress while playing through the game. There is not much replay value, however, in that ASA loses some of its intensity the second time around.Īffordable Space Adventures is a brilliant ride from beginning to end. The game will last you roughly eight hours, which is reasonable. The load times between levels are a bit long though and I can only hope that these will be improved at a later date through a patch. There are really clever backgrounds and an omnipresent feeling of unease which helps the game from growing stale. They are surprising and will shock you, but they don’t try to overcomplicate matters. You will mostly move about in very dark environments and that is something you’ll have to adjust to. You have to put a lot trust into one another to assess situations and react accordingly!Īffordable Space Adventures has an interesting look to it, but not everyone will appreciate it. There is some good back and forth action going on and I had to really communicate effectively with my mates. The engineer will tackle the engines and all the options that go along with it, the Pilot controls the ship across the environments and the Science Offers scans obstacles at every turn. The GamePad player becomes the engineer, while two Pro Controller/Wii Remote players tackle Pilot and Science Officer duties. However, I enjoyed myself more when playing Affordable Space Adventures with a group of people, as you and your friends all share the load. There are some throwaway puzzles in the journey, but the majority require critical thinking. That is a lot for a lonely player to take on, and while overwhelming, it can certainly be done. You will have to use the Small Craft’s flight control system on your Wii U GamePad, control the ship and spot all obstacles that are slowly coming your way. If you are playing the game on your own, everything will be mapped to the Wii U GamePad. The game’s enemies—largely stationary drones and robots-all react differently to heat, sound and electricity and careful manipulation of all your control options is essential for survival and victory. Surprises can be found around every corner and I needed those new skills dearly to avoid danger. You will be able to scan objects, stabilize yourself, use a secondary electrical engine and make use of different landing gear. As you progress through each linear 2D puzzle stage, you will gain access to more options which allow you to tackle a larger variety of problems. This is all done intentionally and it works brilliantly within the context of the game. There are only limited resources available at the start which makes the ship a bit unwieldy. Unfortunately, your ship took some major damage due to its rough landing. Now it’s up to you to find a way home and be cautious of anything that crosses your path. Your little ship landed in a 150–year-old crash site and the mothership that brought you here is totaled. After the introduction ends, you find yourself in a drab-looking area, but it’s clear that things have gone terribly wrong. A slickly-produced commercial promises safe travel and organic environments to explore. In Affordable Space Adventures (ASA), you take control of a Small Craft spaceship and explore the apparently wonderful world of Spectaculon. Now these folks, working with game creator extraordinaire Nifflas have crafted one of the most original Wii U eShop titles to date-Affordable Space Adventures is a bold and ambitious project with gameplay that only be achieved on the Wii U. They made a wonderful little game that they constantly supported with new content and it truly stood high on its own merits. Their last title, Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party, showed how well the Wii U GamePad could be used in party games. Knapnok Games are an interesting bunch of developers. In space, screaming is your very last resort. ![]() Here, the red team starts with the blue team's princess locked in its dungeon and vice versa. There's stuff like team deathmatch, but the game's calling card is Rescue the Princess. If you're just joining us, Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake is a game that pits two teams - one red, one blue - against one another in one of several game types. "Fumito Ueda Wants To See ICO and Shadow of the Colossus on PS3". ![]() "Rumored First Project TRICO Trailer Hits the Web". ![]()
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If you haven’t played FUT 20 on the console where you plan to play FUT 21, the Companion and the Web App will not make available the market’s earlier access. : You can link one Steam account with one phone number. This script has randomize and humanize no recoil cod warzone norecoill. In order to enter Ranked Mode, players must verify their game accounts using a mobile phone number. ![]() Once you have completed your account, click the following link to proceed. ■ Cod Warzone NoRecoil Macro Script Premium | COD Warzone ■ I got my PS4 recently and i have received the verification email but as soon as i click it it comes up with 'This webpage is not availabe' every time and i have also tried it with several other accounts. Please click the following link to complete your Playstation Account. ![]() So if you’re struggling to find what you want, just ask them to make it for you. You will find that this site supplies almost all of what an architect and/or student will require, including people, furniture, trees, bathroom, and kitchen blocks.īut if you cant quite find the right block, then freecads also provides a free CAD block design service, which we have to admit, we haven’t tested out yet, but it’s a great idea. ![]() This site requires users to have minimum of AutoCAD 2007 to avoid any compatibility issues This CAD block site provides a vast and beautifully straightforward range of free DWG CAD blocks, through its very well laid out and user friendly interface. One of our favorite features of the site, is the way it will select and show similar CAD blocks to the block you are currently viewing, making it very easy to find what you want. These blocks are checked by the websites administrators, by be careful that the scales are correct when using them in your drawings. ![]() This site has an open resource policy, where members can submit and publish their own blocks for other users to download and use. The user interface and appearance is much nicer that most other websites, with a very useful categories bar on the left-hand side This website is another site that offers both paid for (here called premium) and free CAD blocks, and for us provides the best quality of block and user experience when navigating and downloading. So if you have the patience to scroll though to find the free ones that are available, then this site can be very useful. Obviously the paid for models / blocks are of a higher quality, and these are mixed in with the free blocks, but clearly labelled to avoid confusion. This site does supply free blocks, but is actually a mixture of both free and paid for models. The blocks are broken down into categories for easy navigation, and in terms of compatibility, you will need AutoCAD 2004 or higher, which for most should not be problem. It’s a no thrills website and there is not a huge range (not as much as the paid and free sites) but there’s more than enough to get you by, as long as you are not after anything too specialist. So here we provide the only 5 free CAD block sites you’ll ever need: For us this one sat at the top of the Google rankings, and whilst its interface is very dated, it does provide a solid set of basic 2D CAD bathroom, furniture, tree, kitchen, chairs and people blocks, that both architects and students would require …for free ![]() Too many have clumsy and out of date interfaces and fail to provide either a preview of the CAD file, a usable block, or a free DWG file altogether. However there just aren’t 10 CAD block sites that are worth mentioning. Where can I download free CAD files? …The Best free CAD block librariesīefore writing this article, we had set out to provide a top 10 list of the best and most relevant free CAD block libraries available. The term CAD is an abbreviation of Computer Aided Design, and where you may see “auto” placed in front of it (making AutoCAD) this is simply in relation to Autodesk’s CAD program “ AutoCAD”, which also happens to be the industry standard for 2D drawing and thus the most popular. They can also be used to provide the drawing with additional information, such as a lighting or electrical layout. Why are they used?ĬAD blocks are ultimately a form of representation that add depth and meaning to 2D and 3D drawings, by providing the drawings with scale, context and legibility, through the use of furniture, vegetation and people. That said however, with the increasing amount of architects and architectural practices now using BIM, and there are many libraries available that also provide 3D CAD blocks to suit these related programs such as Revit, Vectorworks and ArchiCAD. In the case of this article and in fact for their general use within architecture, they are most commonly used to populate 2D CAD drawings, and can be anything from a tree, person, item of furniture, electrical symbol …anything! Firstly through and for those that do not know, a CAD or AutoCAD block can be defined as a group of 2D or 3D lines and/or elements that are grouped together to form an object in a DWG file format. ![]() Connect the Kindle to your computer via USB to copy the image from the Kindle. Kindle: Tap the upper left and lower right corners of the screen at the same time, and Kindle will save an image of the screen. Want to take a screenshot on your eReader, gaming device, watch, or car? Here are some tips on how grabbing the display from almost any smart device you can imagine: Now click the red record button, use your device to showcase what you want, then save the video in QuickTime. Just connect your phone to your Mac with the USB cable, select New Movie Recording in QuickTime on your Mac, then click the down arrow beside the record button and select your iPhone or iPad. If you have a Mac, you can also record a screencast from your iPhone or iPad with QuickTime. Add the Screen Recording widget from your iPhone or iPad's Control Center settings, then tap Record from that new widget in Control Center to save a video to your camera roll. ![]() You can also record a video of your iPhone or iPad screen. In newer versions of iOS, you'll see a preview of your screenshot as soon as you take it-tap that to annotate and share the screenshot directly. ![]() Screenshots are automatically saved to the Screenshots album, so you can see all screenshots in the same place. On an iPhone or iPad, press the home button and the power button at the same time, and iOS will save a full-screen screenshot to your Photos app. One of the reasons screenshots are so popular today is that they're easy to capture and share your phone. Typically, it's best to share a screenshot of the full app or at least the main parts of the app. A screenshot of only the bug might not give enough context, though. Instead, crop the screenshot to show just the app-then perhaps add an arrow to point out the problem.ĭon't show too little, either. Trying to point out a bug in an app? Don't share a full-screen screenshot. When it comes to your privacy, the convenience might not be worth the risk.ĭon't show too much. That's handy to share a Google Analytics graph with team members quickly, but be careful about sharing sensitive items. Some third-party screenshot tools like Droplr can automatically upload screenshots. Be sure the app you're screen capturing doesn't show private data-and if it does, either crop or blur that part out.īe careful with auto-upload. They're usually secure on your device, but if you take a screenshot and share it, anyone can see whatever was on your device when you took the screenshot. Our devices brim with private info, from phone numbers and email addresses to more sensitive data including ID and credit card numbers. ![]() And just-for-fun screenshots should be double-checked to make sure they only have the info you want to share. Bug reports might need to show the broken part of the app. Making a software tutorial? You'll want to show the entire app, and perhaps add an arrow to point out features and guide your readers. Here are a few pointers:Ĭonsider what the screenshot is for. Think carefully about what's on your screen and why you're shooting it, to make sure your screenshots are perfect for their intended purpose. That's why you shouldn't just snap a random screenshot.
![]() ![]() But you can actually buy them as "Contraband" for double the key cost. Originally posted by Waryth:I have to pay for CHL to get the last 3 remaining spacecraft upgrades.To an extent, that is true. If it's free and I get to play it then what about a DEMO? A demo isn't listed as free? What's the difference between this and a demo if I couldn't get to unlock everything. It's NOT free as you don't get to access everything. This is when they require you to pay to unlock the final spacecraft and other paintjobs. Its their own game I understand but once you've unlocked everything then now what? the rest are NOT unlockable. It's the game business model that is ruining the free-to-play genre. It doesn't matter if they do it or not as long as they have the upper hand than what others don't have. there's a PAYWALL in the system! and that itself is pay-to-win. However, mountable slots are limited to 30, so a pay-to-win not-so-pro player will use up all available superweapons earlier.Yeah I get it, a pay-to-win not-so-pro player won't be able to do much about it anyway.īUT THE FACT REMAINS that. ![]() Dimensional Phase-out makes you invincible for 4 seconds(also the first superweapon to receive a nerf), and pros often use Damage Amplifiers to triple the damage out for 10 seconds for quickly killing enemies. Originally posted by _someRandomDude:Projectile clearing isn't the best thing superweapons can do through. Yes, you can pay to speed up the process, but currently nobody does that, and it's not a requirement to play. Tl dr the game suffers heavily in terms of MMO design but it's nowhere near pay-to-win. There's even bonuses for doing it equipmentless and for flying it with a starter ship for crying out loud. Even if you end up on the leaderboard, if you're tanking up equipment you're going to lose money anyway, and to stay there you need to grind, which ironically is what you see as "loyal", and that is exactly what they have been doing. The CHL isn't a paywall, it's a joke with no real benefit. You do realize that these players (whom you call "whales") have been playing the game since the release when there were no microtransactions to speak of and have been the heart and soul of the community for a long time. People who pulled this stunt off gets rewarded multiple times than what an average F2Per would do. You can't attain first place and be the best when your opponents have superior spacecraft than everyone else and equip it with a lot of consumable enough to blast through the difficulty missions with ease and even ascend through the ranks for completing it very fast. There's leaderboards here and the sad truth is that the leaderboards can be dominated by the whales. Originally posted by Waryth:I have some suggestions to solve this matter: |
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