![]() Another example is a stone wall which regroup some tilling textures to create arch, railing, pillars, and so on. ![]() For example a bookshelf will regroup some papers, book covers. There is also some atlas texture, which often regroup objects of the same nature. That’s another part of the artistic direction of Batman : a simple but strong lighting mixed with a ton of details in the assets (both from the textures themselves and also from the mesh silhouettes which are modeled with a nice level of polygons). However, when you look at a scene, you see a lot of details. The assets are often soft enough in their color to blend together. So, the lighting is here to give the global mood of the scene. Some localized light also add a bit of variation but most of the time they are just a complementary color or in the same mood as the global color of the scene. Then the texture add variations and some subtle tones. You have mostly a global color which come from the lighting and the post-process. On these screenshots you have a very small color variance. That’s interesting because it’s quite close from the way I make/think my own environment : a strong lighting which enhance the overall scene. Which make me believing that the assets in game are often simple and the volume and colors come from the lighting. It’s obvious that when you look at some in-game screenshots that the atmosphere is designed to enhance a very simplified set of colors. My firsts guess are directly from inside the game, on how the environment looks. If you are a developer of the game and are allowed to talk, fell free to comment and tell me where I’m wrong. However, I believe I’m enough rational to think that most of what I say is close to what the developers have done. I can’t tell you exactly if I’m right or wrong since I’m not a developer of the game. The following breakdown is based own my own guesses and how I understand the game from the textures and meshes I have extracted. The purpose is educational and the work presented here go to their respective authors. So the following blog post is a breakdown of the game from my personal point of view (I don’t know at all how Rocksteady works). It’s a really good game and I was intrigued sometimes on how they managed to create the content of the game. The last days I spent quite of time playing to Batman AC made by Rocksteady.
0 Comments
navigation of the waters in and around Pugent Sound response planning and. Rival Dolby Atmos for headphones is priced at $14.99 with similar trial facilities in its app. Please submit two copies of all comments and attachments in an unbound. Get it via the Windows Store and if it works in a pleasing enough manner with your speakers, headphones and software you can in-app-purchase the $19.99 package. If you are interested in trying out DTS Sound Unbound you can test it for free. As well as the above listed games, DTS says that its solution (combining DTS Headphone:X and DTS:X) can help deliver greater immersion in movie experiences. The above list is very similar to that supported by Dolby Atmos.ĭTS Sound Unbound isn't just for gamers. However, initially, DTS Headphone:X for Microsoft Spatial Sound offers enhanced audio in just the following 11 titles (but it is said to be a growing library of games): A database of over 500 tuned headphones (not is supported on 44.1kHz headphones - issue being worked upon) is included in the software for the best experience. The new codec was developed with collaboration from Microsoft and will be on its way to Xbox One consoles shortly too. DTS goes as far as saying its 3D audio positioning can give you a "competitive edge" in gaming as it helps you pinpoint audible movement in the gaming landscape as you can hear sound emanate from above, around, close, far and behind. Now DTS has globally launched its 3D audio for gaming app, dubbed DTS Sound Unbound.ĭTS Sound Unbound is a very similar proposition to Dolby Access (which includes Dolby Atmos for headphones) in that it says the codec can "take immersive gaming to the next level with ultra-realistic, 3D audio that renders clear, rich, and dynamic audio for the most engaging gaming experiences". On some PCs and desktops I have used recently DTS Headphone:X is an option alongside Windows Spatial Sound and Dolby Atmos for headphones. You may already be aware of DTS sound options in Windows 10. The former is a 3D surround system that turns your headphones into a simulated studio listening environment, with sound that sweeps all around your position in 3D. Forza Horizon 5 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Assassins Creed Origins For Honor Final Fantasy XV Resident Evil 2 Metro Exodus The Division 2 Select DTS:X for Home Theater on your XBOX One S, XBOX One X, XBOX Series S, or XBOX Series X and download the free DTS Sound Unbound application to get started. ![]() These sections won't really appeal to RTS fans, of which I am not, nor will they appeal to people who enjoy hack and slash games, of which I am. I can't say these sections have ever been challenging or super engaging, as they mostly boil down to "fly over here, get fans, spam one or two types of units, wait and win" but take a weird and sudden dive into frustrating towards the end, thankfully in just the last two instances of them, both of which can be completely cheesed and exploited in their own ways. You retain your normal hack and slash mentality and controls, but are given troops and units to spawn, geysers of "fans" to take over for currency to spawn said units, and the objective of overwhelming the enemy and destroying their stage before they destroy yours. This part of the game only rears its head in the main story missions and multiplayer modes, but one way or another you'll have to adapt to it, and it is hard to say it really pleases anyone, but it is certainly not horrible for something the game throws at you completely out of nowhere. If you haven't seen this game before, it would be nigh impossible to guess how they'd pull it off blindly, but let me just say that it's shockingly serviceable. Things are made more special with light combo mechanics and offensive guitar solos (Instakill face-melting solos included), but it's all only there to add onto the other main gameplay mechanics, which I'll touch on shortly.Įasily the most divisive part of Brutal Legend is the RTS aspect of it. On the hack and slash end, you have some rather simple combat, you won't find yourself stylishly juggling anybody or doing frame-perfect dodges, you're given a ranged attack and a melee attack and told to get out there. It is a strange mix of hack and slash, RTS, and open world genres, managing to pull off all three of these things to varying degrees of success. How Brutal Legend actually plays as a game is where it becomes interesting. But it does go a little deeper than that, thankfully. If you are a fellow metalhead and haven't touched this game, I would go as far as to call it essential simply on these merits, regardless of how deep into metal you truly are. The soundtrack is almost entirely made up of licensed tracks, somehow spanning almost every subgenre of metal, which appeals to those who want glam metal, those who want industrial, thrash, and even appeals to people like me who want nothing more than Swedish melodeath 24/7. This is to say it is a glorified love letter to all things metal, I mean Jack Black literally voices the main character, you have main characters portrayed by and modeled after Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister and much more I can't quite recall off the top of my head, and you quite literally kill people with the power of music. Despite this, I will do my best to look at this game objectively and not let it get in the way of my judgement.įor those not in the know, Brutal Legend is a game from Double Fine which bottles the very essence of metal music, metal culture, and the imagery behind it, and then proceeds to splatter it all over the canvas of a video game. Over the span of about a decade, I have beaten Brutal Legend 3 times, and recently started my 4th playthrough, which spawned my desire to make this post. I need to preface this by saying, to every extent of the word, I am HEAVILY biased in favor of this game. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. ![]() New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. If you are using Quicken or other money management tools, you can set up accounts for your active. You can use a credit account register to help you do that. ![]() To use a credit card responsibly, you need to keep a detailed record of your transactions, fees and payments. The information you gather from entries about spending will help you with a weekly or monthly. Download a free template for Excel® to track your credit card transactions. Fill in the columns with the date and description of the transaction. Manage your finances efficiently by making accurate calculations of expenses. Also, the report can be used as part of the bank reconciliation process, to decide which checks released have not yet cleared the bank, and thus reconcile objects. Description: Checkbook register templates are a helpful addition to your budget planner or ledger. What does a check register include?Ī check register is a ledger in which all check payment dates, check numbers, payment amounts, and payeee names are recorded. Routinely monitoring your checking account balance could help you save money on banking fees and prevent fraudulent transactions from wrecking your account. The statement held by the bank, a record of all necessary withdrawals. It provides a comprehensive record of all credits and debits that you have made from your bank account. It's much easier to evaluate your revenue and expenditures, particularly at tax time. A checkbook register is an informal record of deposits and withdrawals to and from your account. Even if you regularly check your balances online, the available account balance might give you inaccurate or misleading information. The register reveals what type of purchases you make and helps make spending adjustments whenever needed. Buy a register from an office supply store. A check register forms an important component of your accounting process. Why is it important to balance your checking register? Order a new register from an online check printer or your bank. ![]() The use of a log allows you to capture errors. So long as you use checks, you do not know the true balance in your account until you enter the unchecked checks that you wrote against that account. Will I need to keep a check register? A: The short response is yes, you certainly need to update your test list. What is the purpose of the check register?ĭefinition: A check ledger, also known as a cash disbursement book, is the document used to record all checks, cash transfers, and cash outlays over a period of accounting. ![]() The players continue to swing and miss, or chip away for just a bit of damage. :D ) Auldegrund plummets to the ground, near dead from the revoking of his HP and the fall, prone, frightened 3. (Not knowing what he was rolling for, I needed to stop my player from using his hero point to re-roll the result. I had my players make the flat check to see if Alocer withdrew his favor, and sure enough at the end of the first round of uber-Auldegrund: natural “1” on the flat check. His first round was spent missing all of his attacks. Rising into the air on wings of fire, he struck fear into the party! Fortune turned against him, though. Soon enough our villain was calling on Alocer for aid, morphing into Stage-2 Endboss. The dwarf’s past failures certainly came back to haunt him, as Dorlivin-free-willed from the villain’s botched ritual-continued his string of near-max damage crits. The cultists came in first, managed to step on most of the waiting snares (to little effect), and despite critting several times with their bows, were soon vanquished.Ī round or so later Auldegrund was at the door, and a tense combat shifted outside. I set out at the beginning (via Dorlivin, again) that Auldegrund and the cultists weren’t likely to be back before morning, so they had time for some sleep and to set up an ambush in the dining hall with several placed snares and the overturned dining table for cover. They did manage to get through that, aided greatly by Dorlivin’s drawing some of the attacks and getting in another crit or two. Kellsti’s player actually took the deal, which could have gone really poorly for them as the only place left to explore on the map was the workroom and its TPK-ing guardian. It was Kellsti with some ranged support against the imp, who ended up breaking out his Infernal Temptation when he was near dead. In area A9 I reduced the encounter to only one imp, although they really could have handled two. ![]() I kept the stone lions around the cage, but the PCs didn’t see a need to go down there. Fortunately for them that included rolling for Dorlivin, who would have taken home the Al Capone Untouchable Swing of Excellence Award-if such a thing existed-as he began his night of smack downs.ĭorlivin was able to fill in some backstory and other details, as well as warn them of the trap to area 6 as they explored the lodge. I have a growing reputation amongst my players for rolling lots of natural 20’s whenever we play PF2e, and that certainly continued tonight. They performed admirably during the lead-in to dinner, and managed to impress Dorlivin, which in many ways saved them throughout the rest of the adventure. It took us about 5:15 hours to play through to the end.Īll three of the characters poisoned by the meal succeeded at their Fortitude saves right off the bat. I did need to make my own tokens for everything. I ran this on Foundry, using the map and images downloaded along with the PDF, as well as the pre-existing assets available in the PF2 setup within Foundry itself (PCs, villains, and one of the traps are already there in the compendiums just drag them in). Dice luck certainly played a role in how well this played for us. Taking heed of the criticisms in the other reviews here I did alter some aspects of the adventure, which I’ll list below. I wasn’t able to find another player in time to fill the open seat, so I ran the unchosen character (Jaithe) as an NPC. One of my four players was unable to play this week, so I ran this as a fill-in game. ![]() I’ve enjoyed running Sundered Waves, Head Shot the Rot, Band on the Run, and The Great Grav Train Robbery, but this was the best of the lot for my group so far. Despite the mediocre ratings on this product, my group had a blast playing this last night: everything fell into place in a very satisfying way that made it one of the better 1-shot scenarios I’ve played. I still use full-fat ricotta and shredded mozzarella because if you make me choose, I’ll pick cheese over pasta any day. Since we’ve been going to the gym more regularly and refining our eating a little more, I decided to take one of my favorite recipes and give it a lower-carb twist.Įven though there are no noodles, this baked spaghetti has no shortage of richness. I’ve mentioned a dozen times that lasagna is Matt’s favorite food and the same could be said for baked spaghetti. My favorite mac & cheese recipe is the Million Dollar Mac & Cheese from Carlsbad Cravings and I would legit pay a million dollars for that too.Īny type of baked marinara-based pasta dish is always a winner in our house. That being said, I’d put my money on this Low-Carb Million Dollar Zoodle Spaghetti any day. ![]() Eating low-carb has never been this easy!ĭoes anyone know where the ‘million dollar’ term came from? I’m imagining a big state fair where there was a million-dollar prize at stake and the winning dish was creamy baked spaghetti. Baking the zucchini noodles can take some practice, and I’ve given as many tips as possible to help you out.Jump to Recipe You will not miss the pasta in this easy and delicious Low-Carb Million Dollar Zoodle Spaghetti.
![]() According to the Wall Street Journal, when the singers Brandy and Monica competed in a high-profile Verzuz battle, the duo - through the platform NTWRK - managed to sell $230,000 of “Brandy vs. During lockdown, music streaming has led to a merch boom, and Eddy Richman, CEO of the independent artist promoter WMR Music Group, told Modern Retail that merch “is especially crucial at this current moment where tours and live shows are on hold.” Whereas people used to buy a large share of artist products at concerts and events, now streaming - plus online events - are powering those purchases. Meanwhile, from the music industry perspective, Amazon Music’s product expansion seems well timed. As some television experts previously told Modern Retail, it isn’t difficult to imagine that Amazon might soon start selling sports memorabilia directly on its platform. This week, Amazon landed exclusive rights to stream the NFL’s Thursday Night Football on Prime Video. Amazon Music has remained the fastest-growing of the major streaming services since 2019.įor Amazon, adding merch to Amazon Music might be a sign of much more to come in the streaming space. Still, Amazon’s dominance in the audio space, especially thanks to the growing popularity of Alexa devices, has helped it make up for lost time. At the same time, Amazon Music also added podcasts to its platform, a move that culminated with the acquisition of podcast maker Wondery at the end of last year.Īmazon Music first launched in 2007 as a MP3 store in the vein of iTunes, but it didn’t add in a streaming service until 2016 - far later than most of its competitors. In the last few months, as Amazon Music continues to surge, the company has continued to integrate other aspects of its business with it: in September, for instance, Amazon added livestreams from Amazon-owned Twitch into the Amazon Music app, so that artists can do live performances or streams with fans. According to research published by Counterpoint last year, Amazon Music claimed 12% of all streaming revenue - still below Apple (25%) and Spotify (30%), but above both YouTube Music (9%) and Pandora (5%). In terms of size, Amazon Music remains a third-place competitor to Apple Music and Spotify, but it isn’t as distant of a third as it once was. Although Spotify and YouTube each partner with Merchbar, “they don’t have the exclusive merch deals that Amazon now has,” Samadpour said. Instead, he said, the biggest draw for Amazon may be the existence of exclusive products - which adds another reason to subscribe to Amazon Music. “It’s a natural progression for them.”Īccording to Samadpour, the ease of sale of merchandise on Amazon Music could help some artists move more products, but he said that those sales were unlikely to drive big enough revenue numbers to matter to a behemoth like Amazon. “Amazon already has the infrastructure in place to handle the production and fulfillment of artist merch,” Ali Samadpour, founder of the music marketing firm Prescient Digital, said in an email to Modern Retail. It also shows the way in which Amazon, as its empire expands, is tying consumer products more deeply into its ecosystem. ![]() Until now, Amazon Music has remained distinct from the company’s larger e-commerce business, but this recent development suggests that these two sides of the platform may become more tightly integrated down the line. That requires slightly more friction than buying from Amazon Music, which lets people make a purchase on the same panel as they are streaming. The difference is that clicking to purchase those items on Spotify sends customers to a third-party company called Merchbar. Spotify artists can add products to their artist profiles. Amazon isn’t the only company to tie merch with music streaming. ![]() on other devices: iPad, iPhone, iPod, Samsung Galaxy, HTC, Kindle Fire. It depends on what's stopping you from restoring them. NotesReader ebooks: The output from an encrypted eReader file is a. pmlz zip file of the unencypted PML and images. (123568) Posted on 1:55 PM View in context All replies 2 replies Best answer Niel Level 10 696,048 points 1:55 PM in response to hsigab 1. Kindle for mac 10.6.8 download mac os x If you have DropBook, a free application available from installed on your Mac, DropBook will be used to also produce an unencrypted eReader file. The offer is valid for anyone purchasing a copy of QuarkXPress, including education, non-profit, and government organizations. Download Any Video for Free on your Mac Download Playlists Free Video. It depends on what's stopping you from restoring them. ![]() Respecto a Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update, es un programade tamaño considerable que no requiere tanto Utilidades. La versión de la aplicación es 1.1 y se actualizó en. Mac OS X y versiones posteriores, y está disponible en Español, Inglés, and Portugués (Br). Gluon’s ProPack 9 contains 14 Mac XTensions and 9 Windows XTensions, and augments the desktop publishing program’s features and functionality by automating and eliminating repetitive steps. Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update está optimizada para dispositivos con S.O. Quark also announced that anyone purchasing or upgrading to QuarkXPress 9 between May 31 and Jwill receive Gluon’s newest ProPack 9, (a $219 value) free of charge. Thousands more free classics are available in the Kindle Store. Start reading immediately with three free books: Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, and Aesop’s Fables. More information on this update, and a list of known and resolved issues in the new version, is available on Download time: 17 seconds on broadband, 4 hours, 31 minutes, 24 seconds on dial-up. You may also read your book on your phone, tablet and Kindle e-Reader, and Amazon Whispersync will automatically sync your most recent page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights, so. The Kindle app gives users the ability to read eBooks on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. This control is located in the New Project, New Layout, and Layout Properties dialog boxes. Download Kindle for macOS 10.14 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. In addition, you can now control whether odd-numbered pages are allowed on the left (in left-to-right layouts) and whether even-numbered pages are allowed on the right (in right-to-left layouts) in facing page layouts. It offers new support for inline tables of contents in ePub files and various fixes and enhancements to EPS/PDF display, PDF boxes, page reordering, and more. QuarkXPress 9.3 has other new features, as well. ![]() When using tear-off menus, bear in mind that the concept isn't typically used on Microsoft Windows so some users may not be familiar with it. If you want this functionality for a particular menu, insert a tear-off handle with setTearOffEnabled(). This makes it possible for the user to "tear off" frequently used menus and position them in a convenient place on the screen. A tear-off menu is a top-level window that contains a copy of the menu. You clear a menu with clear() and remove individual action items with removeAction().Ī QMenu can also provide a tear-off menu. In addition, QMenu provides two signals, triggered() and hovered(), which signal the QAction that was triggered from the menu. The receiver will be notified whenever the item is triggered(). When inserting action items you usually specify a receiver and a slot. ![]() Separators are inserted with addSeparator(), submenus with addMenu(), and all other items are considered action items. There are four kinds of action items: separators, actions that show a submenu, widgets, and actions that perform an action. The existing actions held by a menu can be found with actions(). In addition, actions can have a text label, an optional icon drawn on the very left side, and shortcut key sequence such as "Ctrl+X". ![]() An action is represented vertically and rendered by QStyle. Actions are added with the addAction(), addActions() and insertAction() functions. ActionsĪ menu consists of a list of action items. Menus can also be invoked in response to button presses these are just like context menus except for how they are invoked. They can be executed either asynchronously with popup() or synchronously with exec(). Context menus are usually invoked by some special keyboard key or by right-clicking. Use QMenuBar::addMenu() to insert a menu into a menu bar. Pull-down menus are shown by the menu bar when the user clicks on the respective item or presses the specified shortcut key. It can be either a pull-down menu in a menu bar or a standalone context menu. Popup(const QPoint & p, QAction * atAction = nullptr)Ī menu widget is a selection menu. InsertSection(QAction * before, const QIcon & icon, const QString & text) ![]() InsertSection(QAction * before, const QString & text) InsertMenu(QAction * before, QMenu * menu) That way, if you ever decide to get rid of a specific "feature", the comments can help you identify which key/value is responsible for that.QMenu(const QString & title, QWidget * parent = nullptr)ĪddMenu(const QIcon & icon, const QString & title)ĪddSection(const QIcon & icon, const QString & text)Įxec(const QPoint & p, QAction * action = nullptr) PS: I recommend using comments, so you know what each key/value does. reg file.Ĭollecting all of Tom's Hardware's registry edits into a single file is probably not a good idea, because not every one of their edits is relevant to everyone. You should decide for yourself which registry changes are relevant to you, and mix them yourself into a. reg file to the next (minus the "Windows Registry Editor Version" part).Īnd if you need to remove the registry value again, just to get rid of the entire key: reg files by copy-pasting the contents of one. reg file, and it'll automatically apply all entries contained within.įor this particular example, the. reg file, which is basically just a text file containing all the entries within that folder (as well as the path of the folder). DataMeister said:Can Tom's Hardware start making a running list of these Windows 11 registry fixes in a single text file that can be applied to any new computer?Eh, just right click on the key (left side of regedit) where you modified a registry value and select the "Export" option. There are a few moments of greatness – the trip through the Helghan slums for example – but on the whole the game fails to take advantage of its setting.Īnd it’s a real shame because for the most part Killzone Shadow Fall delivers in other areas. This isn’t a terrible campaign by any stretch of the imagination but I was left deflated by the end of it (and my word the ending is poor). The characters are uninspiring, Echo is probably the best of the bunch but is criminally underused, and the story plods along with no real urgency or sense of exactly what you’re fighting for. ![]() And sadly Shadow Fall squanders a glorious opportunity to deliver a memorable and interesting story. Which sounds like a fantastic opportunity for some ‘Cold War’ style espionage missions behind enemy lines and a chance to see the fight from both sides of the wall. A huge wall is built between the two societies with covert ops being run by each government on both sides of ‘The Wall’. Following the last game’s conclusion, Helghan survivors are granted refuge on Vekta and are eventually given their own territory within Vekta, called New Helghan. You play as Lucas Kellan, a Shadow Marshall for the Vektans. In Shadow Fall we say goodbye to Sev and Rico et al, with the game being set 30 years after the events of Killzone 3. ![]() The characters have always been fun and memorable (yes, even Rico) and the story was usually decent sci-fi fare, which is cool with me. While the multiplayer is a huge draw for Killzone titles I have always loved the campaign modes as well. With a new console, Guerrilla Games is again pushing the graphical envelope with Killzone Shadow Fall but as the game breaks away from the plot and characters of the last two titles can it live up to expectations? The Killzone titles have been one of my favourite game series in recent years, the superb Killzone 2 and 3 both spending plenty of time in my PS3. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |