Darksiders 2
June 25, 2016
“Before time was born a bright kingdom was created for the angels, a dark realm for the demons, and a world for mankind. But War, rider of the apocalypse destroyed the earth before its apointed hour…or so it was claimed. To spare his brother from oblivion the second horseman rode forth. And his name…was Death.” […]
Darksiders
June 25, 2016
“He rode forth to take peace from earth and made men to kill one another. The dark rider was the embodiment of WAR and his horse was RUIN.” War: “It’s not Death you should fear.” Uriel: “You would fight this war alone?” War: [Dropping the remains of the Seventh Seal] “No. Not alone.” http://darksiders.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Lore […]
Myst
June 25, 2016
Myst Riven Myst III Exile Uru: Ages beyond Myst Expansion “Uru: To D’ni” Expansion “Uru: Path of the Shell” Myst 4 Revelation Myst 5 End of Ages The stories, the puzzles, the artwork; just amazing. Myst and Riven used cutscene videos to transition the player. Uru offered continuous free view and 3rd person perspective. Then […]
Battlezone II
June 25, 2016
Battlezone II is an all time favourite game of mine and at the time seriously underrated. The gameplay was varied and fun, the grouping of vehicles using [CTRL] + Function keys was quick and easy. The command of your units using waypoints and the [TAB] key worked extremely well. Being able to exit and enter […]
Arduino (Nano) RGB pixel LED clock
June 23, 2016
UPDATE Now using Network Time Protocol (NTP) https://coeleveld.com/nodemcu-esp8266-esp-12e-v1-0-clock/ Bicycle rim Hero Xr-1 27 inch (700mm) 20H clincher, black. 5mm thick (depron) foam strip for padding. DS3231 High Precision Real-Time Clock Module (replacing I2C identical DS1307) SMD pixel RGB strip (30 LEDs per meter, WS2812, 5050 LED) // Code collected and completed by Tobias Floery <tobias@floery.net> […]
Raspberry Pi – Internet connected garden sprinklers
June 23, 2016
The garden sprinkers will run daily using cron, but can also be controlled via a web page (LAMP). A daemon running in the background will poll the MySQL database every 10 seconds. A 433Mhz TX transmitter connected to the Raspberry pi will send out a signal to nearby home automation remote controlled power outlets (Powertrans […]
Koozali – Teamspeak
June 23, 2016
Download the latest version of Teamspeak from their website (A newer version may be available, it’s always a good idea to go and check): wget http://dl.4players.de/ts/releases/3.0.11.2/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.11.2.tar.gz The next step is to extract the files from the downloaded archive. tar xzf teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.11.2.tar.gz Create the user account for which Teamspeak will run on our VPS. For this […]
Koozali – Update Joomla
June 22, 2016
db configuration setprop php AllowUrlFopen On expand-template /etc/php.ini /etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart Logon to the Joomla administration page. Click on the Update Joomla button in the control panel. Download the update ZIP file and apply it. Move the .htaccess file in place (chmod 444 !!) db configuration setprop php AllowUrlFopen Off expand-template /etc/php.ini /etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart
3dsmax – Unwrap UVW and MaterialID
June 22, 2016
Multi/Sub material texturing of an already unwrapped character model with only matID 1 set UnwrapUVW: Very easy to make polygon selections using seams. Can’t change matIDs here; matIDs should already be in place. Editable Poly Sub Object mode: Very easy to change matIDs. Can’t make polygon selections using seams. Solution: Suppose our skinned character model […]