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Jan 29, 2019 7:31 PM by Discussion: OS Customization

Its been a little while since my last post, 
hope everyone is doing alright.

I have couple of fences set up on my desktop and while colors are a good way to keep them unique and quick to find, i've thought it would be neat to set a fencepaper(wallpaper) as background for each fence?
Could this be a future feature?

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So since i got tired of the Adobe subscription model, i was looking for something to replace Photoshop.
I looked around and found Affinity photo, it is 54,99 euros, it has a buy once update forever model.
It seems to have all of the functions of Photoshop, or at least i have not found something important missing yet.
One of the coolest things is probably live preview on tools, + it loads PSD files faster than photoshop :D
I know surreptitious advertising of some degree but i think it would be worth looking into for everyone.
Its available on MAC and WIN =)

Homepage: https://affinity.serif.com/

Here is a Video of someone that took the time to actually make a Video about it for you guys in "English"
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGojM3A5t-g[/video]


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Jun 20, 2017 4:34 PM by Discussion: Life, the Universe and Everything

Since the new version ZBrush 4R8 was released they started another free 45 day Trial where you can download and test ZBrush and all of its glorious functions for free.
Here is a link to the 45 Day Free Trial
 If you are unfamiliar with the Program you can also view tutorials for beginners up to advanced completely free on the Pixologic Homepage.
Here you can find Tutorials

However if you want to jump right into it and follow a complete tutorial online i can recommend this tutorial by Steve James: Steve James Tuorial just follow the parts...

Create your own n stop copying, crap DAZ/Poser models [e digicons]:P[/e]  [e digicons]:grin:[/e] .






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Well, I'm not a console guy, but I know what hardware is installed in the current generation, I guess if we talk about stills, as you supposedly said, then this can be quite possible, but a real-time render in This quality? Well not really.
We have decent engines like U4, which with 4K textures is able to bridge some aspects of the uncanny valley, but I just can not see games in photorealism happening any time soon.
Just one model would have to have multiple subdivison levels for the render distance, for example if you are in VR and just walk up to a model and get super close to the face you would need to render pores different shadows, garments, environment that is close and so on and so forth yet alone for this little radius there would be an enormous demand for hardware and i simply can not see that happening for the next gen, if lucky ps7-8.
Even though Sony is kicking the market with steelboots atm in different areas .
I sort of feel that the PS is the "cashcow" used for other projects, it only has to be a tad better than whatever MS drops onto the market and bam people will buy it.
Otherwise there would be better hardware in that little box.(my personal opinion). Back to topic.
Games would need to make use of mocap for the animations a good "still" and animated example as Brad mentioned is the face of hellblade and also the movements of the main character- they also used mocap http://www.hellblade.com/

 

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Hello wanted to share a quick solution for blank Startmenu Icons under Windows10.

My Problem was that all programs besides Windows own little apps in my Startmenu had a blank icon, things like VLC media player, Office tools and so, were all blank and even showed up in quick search as a blank.

Installed Applications at that time Iconpackager10 Beta upgraded from Beta to v.10.02
Start10 have no clue what version number but it was up to date since it didn’t find any upgrades.

Funny thing was that when using Start10 with the "old Windows7 style" Startmenu, all of the Programs showed up with the proper icon in place.
When changing the style to Modern or Default all of the icons were again blank.

So I did try to track down the problem.
[Press for more info warning boring]

What helped me was renewing my index as simple as it sounds.

Hold and press the Windowskey+R  (or type run into the searchbar /cortana thingy)
Now copy this text below:
control /name Microsoft.IndexingOptions
press Enter on the Keyboard 

from this point you can click on change, if you want to redefine places for the index. Not a must though

click on the Advanced button and then under troubleshoot click "Rebuild" in German ("Neu erstellen") - Thank you ZubaZ for the Screenshot with the correct translation =)
Indexing will take some time, so go ahead and make yourself a nice cup of tea or a coffee and then check your Startmenu the icons for the programs should be back.

Hope this helps you to save some time.
cheers

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first problem found was with chrome Version 51.0.2704.84 m (64-bit) , if skinned by windowblinds it simply crashed the explorer when launched.
Did not happen all of the time - keeping it from beeing skinned by the application list helped

Glaswire - if skinned by wb the top windowboarder is missing completely
 
A recently released Game Overwatch by Blizzard will crash when using windowblinds and switching from windowed to full screen or vice versa 

will add more if i find more 

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My mother called me today and told me that her PC was locked and all files displayed as wave files or mp3
So i gave her a visit and had a look what was going on.
I checked Windows it had 53 thousand entrys of _recovery_ +rkyft.html and   _recovery_ +rkyft.png
All files seemed to be renamed randomly for example picture01.jpg - was now picture01.jpg.wav
I downloaded malwarebytes updated it and deleted a malicious file that had random letters and was not to be found on a google search ...
I cleaned the registry but apparently there are still two well hidden entrys that promt to the deleted file since the system tried to launch it on restart.
havent found those yet.

I read up on how to restore the files and one article pointed out that one should try to simply rename the file.
I did that with no success, each and every file is pretty much useless atm.

and once you have renamed them to picture01.jpg the file becomes corrupted.

My second thought would be ok lets try a restore point.
The pc is setup to make one for every update every new prog and had one done when i was here a month ago.
But guess what... no restore points all have been deleted...
Aint that nice.

So im currently sitting here like an idiot since i dont know what to do to get her files back.
I have no old backup data where i could select an original file and compare it the encrypted ones.

The system AV was running with aggressive settings. ( Bitdefender btw ) and was even updated.
So if you have any idea what can be done to save my mothers files help is greatly appreciated at this point.

Since im out of ideas...

 

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I stumbled upon this amazing video titled "UNCANNY VALLEY" made by 3dar posted by The CGBros.
Enjoy.

 [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk&feature=youtu.be[/video]

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Dec 17, 2015 12:08 PM by Discussion: Forum Issues

Not sure if today is a homage to Doc Brown and Marty. But i know that Forum Tab is strangely displaying old post without having new replies.
 

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So I know it’s been silent for me for a long time - I didn’t contribute as much and didn’t upload anything over the last years.
The main reason was that I had too much to do and because I was under constant stress and pressure  for the most time learning new stuff writing exams and also jumping my own shadow /hurdles and personal matters.
But I’m almost done with all of that and I almost eliminated all of these problems which is huge.

Anyways back to the "I got myself a new camera" part  [e digicons]*_*[/e]   

When I first looked for a nice starter camera I asked this very community for help and received some great great suggestions.
And quickly I found the Fuji HS25EXR to be a perfect introduction for me and for my personal purpose in use.

That Camera served me very well and is also posted some shots here on Wincustomize about it. Bridge camera with a DSLR like feel to it and also it behaves like a DSLR only that you can’t replace the lens but it is also a superzoom camera- well it was meanwhile Nikon p900 is the best superzoom but the picture quality is slacking.
If one would consider buying a cheap user friendly full control Beginner Bridge for Hickes and stuff the Fuji HS50EXR- HS30EXR is probably one of the best and cheapest that will provide good colors and great pictures for a small buck.

Even though my Fuji served me well I always wanted to have better greater picture quality, something that comes close to the pros.
No noise just straight baby butt smoothness. (It was a dream to be honest)
A quite expansive dream maybe not as expansive as wanting to own a Ford GT40 or a Shelby Cobra but it was also expansive.

DSLR`s remain quite expansive unless you buy an entry level DSLR...and in most cases those have that huge Body.
Don’t get me wrong I think it looks amazing to have a big camera with a huge Tele Lens attached to it.

But I always enjoyed small cameras because they serve me better since I often go on Hickes also have dog and therefore walk around a lot.
And it would´ve been too much of w cam for me to carry around all of the time, also i could not spare 4000k for the body and another 3-4 on prime lenses.

But i saved a little money over the time and finally spotted something beautiful.
I’m speaking of the Sony alpha series.
Those are DLSM cameras with a full frame sensor.
Jupp! SONY and Mirrorless

I got myself a Sony alpha 7 II with a stock lens kit and a 35mm prime Zeiss
small looks great feels right modern yet a hint of vintage.
+ functions like wireless transition of pictures directly to your phone, phone controled snapshots inbuild stabilizer and much more.
Great choice of bayonett adapters make it possible to attach all kinds of lenses even old ones and use them on the sony, or use canon nikon lenses on it.
Insanity for a "decent price" compared to the best and its currently the third best Camera on the market.Soon to be the forth since sony alpha7RII will be released but for double the price.

-Sadly i cannot tell you how the Zeiss is, since the salesman dropped it right in front of me in the store.
And not just a little drop, that thing flew over the counter, hit the floor and rolled across the whole shop and came to a stop underneath a heater.
My facial expression probably was speaking for itself, telling him  “what the …. have you done   [e digicons]8O[/e] [e digicons]XO[/e] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]
  
But after looking at him for two second and he just staring at me with a priceless facial expression that was like “ohh shit”” I just had to say “sorry but I’m not buying that in a polite tone”.

Still waiting for my Zeiss at this moment.

I wanted to post some pictures but it’s raining at the moment.
However I plan on taking it to a small trip this weekend and hopefully can show you some decent results from the kit lens then.

Note I will be keeping the Fuji since it’s a cool cam for Superzoom still.
Just wanted to share my excitement.



 

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