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PekkaNF:
Bugger.

I have a a friend that has wood clog under everything on his basement, office, lab....after a incident that had faucet to break at the middle of the night. There were maybe 20 mm of water on the floor, but that spoiled a whole lot electrics. Including one computer that was not exactly cheap at the time.

Hope it turns out well.

Pekka

S. Heslop:

--- Quote from: PekkaNF on September 16, 2016, 08:03:42 AM ---Bugger.

I have a a friend that has wood clog under everything on his basement, office, lab....after a incident that had faucet to break at the middle of the night. There were maybe 20 mm of water on the floor, but that spoiled a whole lot electrics. Including one computer that was not exactly cheap at the time.

Hope it turns out well.

Pekka

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That's pretty rough. The flooding isn't too bad for me since i've built everything to be a few inches off the floor, it's just a hassle waiting for it to dry so I can start sweeping up the sediment and get back in. Thanks for the concern though.

S. Heslop:
Haven't done anything on this the past week. I've been working on the slideshow parts of the video and it's become a real chore. I sort of want to continue that corny computer graphics vibe I went for in the title cards of my last video to hopefully make them somewhat interesting to look at, but i've been trying to find a system to make them easier to produce. I tried out Adobe After Effects but it turns out trying to draw a solid 1 pixel line in that is a damn chore since it wants to anti-alias everything. There's ways to prevent that but it was alot of jumping through hoops just to get a single line.

So i've been trying out some terrible software called Game Maker Studio, which was on sale for 1p a few weeks ago. It's designed for producing crappy 2d games so should be ideal for what I want to do. So i'm trying to freshen up on scripting, which I haven't done in years, and it's taking a while since the documentation for that software is really all over the place.

In other news, Rob Wilson dropped off that blower and it looks ideal. He said that fume hoods often use the venturi effect to pull the air through and I didn't realise what he meant till he was gone, but that's actually a great idea for keeping the blower out of the path of corrosive or explosive fumes.

RobWilson:

--- Quote from: S. Heslop on September 28, 2016, 11:14:28 AM ---
In other news, Rob Wilson dropped off that blower and it looks ideal. He said that fume hoods often use the venturi effect to pull the air through and I didn't realise what he meant till he was gone, but that's actually a great idea for keeping the blower out of the path of corrosive or explosive fumes.

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And I got that wee bit of info from Phil (hermetic) , something he pointed out wile we were discussing options for my coke forge hood project .

Rob

S. Heslop:
I did it. Now I can make annoying animated text and get maths wrong with ease.

The program prompts you for text and then dumps each frame as a properly sized series of images (that's a lie, i need to trim the top off. I forgot why I made the letter sprites so tall). It's fairly easy to pull a series of images into the video editing software I use as frames. For special characters you prefix some regular characters with either a ^ or @. The program crashes if you input anything it doesn't recognise though. There's alot of problems in general but my code is so awful i've already lost track of what does what. I have no idea how professional programmers manage actual projects.

There's also a prompt for 3 colours; green, amber, and white. I'm not too concerned about the authenticity of this since it's supposed to be somewhat corny. I'm also going to heap bloom, blur, and maybe scanline effects over it in the video editor to make it look extra tacky.

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