![]() ![]() Fortunately, city management was still relatively simple.Ĭiv 6 abandoned this and instead went to making city management more important, introducing districts, more tile improvements, builders that have chargers instead of workers, while spamming cities was yet again of primary importance. This was done by introducing global happiness, and later capped local happiness (so that you cannot spam infinite cities just by building some happiness buildings), and by introducing one-unit-per-tile. So Civ 5 came with the idea to reduce the number of cities (and units) and make their management more important or rather to move to empire management instead of city management. The complexity of city-management slowly increased as many buildings were made useful in certain occasions and a variety of tile-improvements also increased. You could easily queue the same buildings and some other games like Master of Orion 2 had even custom build-order-queues you could set for each colony. Fortunately, the city management, as well as tile improvements, were braindead simple. With so many cities, managing them all added quite a bit of micro. Civ 1,2 and AC were well known for ICS - Infinite City Spam/Sprawl (also called Smallpox in Civ2), where you tried to paste as many cities (even bad cities) to on your land as possible. Governments are usually not micro intensive (except in Civ 6 with the policy cards, which can add quite a bit if you try to play efficiently).īoth of those primary sources have micro stemming from quantity and complexity. The insane micro of Civ games comes from two primary sources: units and cities. Nevertheless: What kind of bull is that? Civ 6 has far more micromanagement and overwhelms you with all these tiny choices that neither previous civ had. ![]() Last edited by Nevertheless on 7 January 2020 at 7:10 pm UTC They never got stable network gaming running. I regard Civ 6 as the best Civ since Civ 2 (or Test of Time, which was Civ2 with network support).Ĭall to Power was a nice approach, but especially CtP2 was a complete code mess. The civics system is transparent and easy to grasp, and the two tech trees for cultural and technological advances make complete sense to me too. You have to micromanage far less and with more significance. You could either micromanage hordes of workers, or you automate them, letting them do all the stupid things you never would have done yourself.Ĭiv 6 is a much cleaner approach imho. But I think this applies mostly to Civ 4 & 5. There is also too much specialization needed to get anything out of those systems in my opinion. I agree with you, there has been too much micromanagement inside too many systems. ![]() Yes, I get the idea it's realistic, but sometimes simpler is better. For starters, I absolutely hate having to build my nation around randomly distributed resources and managing city districts. They introduced waaaay too many micromanagement features in the later releases. Quoting: KimyrielleI will get burnt at the stake for saying this, but having played every single Civ game there ever was, the one with the best overall features and mechanics was Call to Power II (which isn't even an official part of the franchise). They do have a lot of plans for the project including user interface improvements, city-state quests, adding in missing civilizations, religion, trade routes and so on. Playable though and always fun to see more open source strategy games appear. Only in the last few months has the developer actually started bundling PC release files with it, so hopefully if it becomes a bit more popular and/or pulls in some help, it can get an improved flow for PC players. Much like the classic Freeciv which is based on earlier rules and features.Īvailable for both Android and PC, you can clearly see with it needing a few adjustments to look good on PC. What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.Ī remake of Civilization V, although it looks nothing alike as it's gone for a much more retro pixel-art like style it's supposed to follow the same game mechanics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() RyanSmithAT: Samsung's fab issues aside, it makes a lot of sense to see Samsung extending its GPU licensing agreement with AMD.….RyanSmithAT: Meanwhile I am curious if AMD and Samsung will be collaborating on future products as much as they did for Xclipse….gavbon86: RT AMD Announces Alveo MA35D Media Accelerator: AV1 Video Encode at 1W Per Stream.gavbon86: Further to reports of core parking issues on the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, I've checked specifically to see if our results w….Aquantia’s Gamer Edition AQtion AQN-107 10 GbE NIC Available.GIGABYTE’s GC-AQC107 10G Ethernet PCIe Card Launched and Listed.ASUS Launches XG-C100C 10 GBase-T Adapter: Aquantia AQC107, $99.ASRock Announces X299 Professional Gaming i9 with 3-Way Multi-GPU, 10Gb Ethernet, & Wi-Fi.The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen.Aquantia Launch AQtion 5G/2.5G/1G Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Cards (NICs) for PCIe.With that said, however, it remains to be seen whether many consumers and small businesses will jump onboard a standard that provides only a 2.5x performance increase over existing networks. ![]() Even though we've seen some progress there in the last year with products such as Aquantia's controllers, multi-gig adapters and switches are still fairly expensive. Overall, seeing a high volume player like Realtek enter the multi-gig Ethernet space certainly boosts our hopes for multi-gig Ethernet becoming more affordable. But now in October it looks like ASRock may be one of the first clients to use the RTL8125 PCIe 2.0 x1 controller, as it's a solid specification match for the company's Phantom Gaming motherboards, which are due in the coming weeks. Previous generation 'Dragon' Gaming 8118AS NIC from Realtek.Īt the time of their June announcement, Realtek did not have any customers to announce for the new controllers. With its 2.5GBase-T solutions it may see more success, For several years now the company has been offering its GbE network controllers with its Realtek Dragon Software that prioritizes packets generated by games, however it has not gained a lot of traction among gamers. In any case, as far as use goes, it looks like Realtek is particularly betting on gamers for these new controllers. Realtek plays in the high volume/low cost space, so while we'll likely never have an answer, I'm curious as to how much they saved by not also integrating 5G support. As an aside, it's interesting to note that these are the first multi-gig controllers we've seen released that don't also support 5 Gigabit speeds. And even though these are just 2.5G products, that's still a 2.5x improvement in Ethernet bandwidth, a significant jump over today's devices, which have been stuck at GigE speeds for the better part of a decade. Realtek's 2.5GBase-T Solutionsīeing single-chip solutions, Realtek’s 2.5G Ethernet products should allow PC and network equipment makers to build relatively affordable products supporting multi-gig speeds. All of Realtek’s 2.5GBase-T products are fully-integrated ASICs that feature a QFN package and do not require any external flash or firmware. Realtek’s lineup of 2.5G Ethernet solutions include three chips: the RTL8125 PCIe 2.0 x1 controller for PC applications the RTL8156 USB 3.1 controller for dongles and docking applications as well as the RTL8226 transceiver for routers and switches. Aimed primarily at consumer devices, Realtek’s 2.5G Ethernet controllers should enable more reasonably priced and more varied multi-gig network devices. As it turns out, this was the case at this year's Computex trade show, where previously unbeknownst to us, Realtek introduced a new family of multi-gig Ethernet controllers. Every so often, an interesting tech announcement flies under the radar, especially on the component side of matters. ![]() ![]() ![]() This prevents you from accidentally opening a 'Client A' Google Drive document from 'Client B's' Gmail account etc. When Wavebox looks for an app to match, it will only look for apps within the same cookie container*. Wavebox is unique in the way it handles links and multiple accounts. Why do I only see some apps in the dropdown? The dropdown will show a list of all apps that share the same cookie container. (3) App - finally, we need to tell Wavebox where to open the links. The options are the same as in the Link Action dropdown from the Rule Manager (described above). (2) New tab action - so now we need to tell Wavebox how to open links that start with the URL you just added. If you're unsure about the URL, find an example link in any Wavebox window and hover over it - the URL is shown at the bottom-left corner of Wavebox for you to copy and paste. (1) Match - type in the URL you want Wavebox to detect. The add rule box will appear, with the following settings: To create a new rule, click on the app icon to reveal the Rule Manager, followed by the blue + icon. Open as a tab in a matched app- the link will always open as a tab, regardless of sleep status.Open and replace matched-app - the link will always open in the main app regardless of sleep status (replacing the existing page, note that you may lose work).If the app is sleeping, it will open in the main app and replace what was there. Auto-open in-app - the link will open in the matched app: If the app is awake, it will open as an app tab.Open in a new window - the link will open in a new Wavebox browser window.Open as a tab- the link will open as a new tab in the app you're using.The default setting here is 'Auto-open in-app,' but you can click on the dropdown to bring up other options: On the right side of the Rule Manager, you'll see the Rule Actions. ![]() This option can cause issues with some links, please refer to this KB article for more information. ![]()
![]() ![]() The only thing I really miss is probably better palette editing (color curve tools etc). You also can restrict the palette to 5bits per color. I'm also using GrafX2, it's great for pixel art and once you get used to it the workflow is really quick (you can work faster than with gimp or photoshop). I've heard that Photoshop also supports non-square pixels, but I know nothing about Photoshop because I don't have it. ![]() After that, go to the View drop down menu and disable 'Dot for Dot'. With GIMP, you can change the proportions of the pixels by going into the Image drop down menu, clicking on 'Print Size.', and changing the X resolution to 63 and changing the Y resolution to 72 if your game is 60hz(used in most of North America, western South America, Caribbean, Liberia, Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, and some Pacific island nations/territories), or changing the X resolution to 52 and changing the Y resolution to 72 if your game is 50hz(used by most European countries, all the African countries that had never been Belgian or French, by Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, most of Asia, and Oceania). You could do the same in Photoshop or Gimp by working in indexed mode.Įven though SNES can use nearly any color, it will make your life easier if you restrict yourself to 5-10 colors while you do Sprite drawing.Īseprite doesn't support non-square pixels, by the way, so what you see in Aseprite isn't going to be accurate when it comes to the proportions of the SNES' actual output. This is something that a Asepite is good for, or similar pixel editor programs, as you are forced to work in a limited palette. I can't guarantee that CQ will be better than GIMP in all circumstances, but it definitely gives you more knobs to twiddle. For high-colour images (as opposed to your typical 4bpp actor sprite, which you can usually palettize by hand), I find Color Quantizer to be helpful, as it's dedicated to the task and much more powerful. * Tricks like this are one reason I don't typically go to indexed colours in GIMP. This can ruin subtle gradients, and it is the reason I began using Matlab in the first place. From looking at the code, it seems that it's adjusting the hue in a crude attempt to preserve brightness, and it does this even if the source image has been posterized to 32 levels already. I've found that pcx2snes does weird things to hues. ![]() The only catch is that it's runtime-interpreted and therefore slow, so if you have a heavy optimization to run (like, say, using HDMA to CGRAM to bust the palette limits*, or quantizing a high-colour image into multiple 4bpp subpalettes) it can take a while. If you don't know Matlab this isn't very helpful, but if you do you'll realize it's probably one of the easiest ways to write your own tools. Mostly I use GIMP with posterize (32 levels), save as an X1R5G5B5 bitmap, then run it through my custom tools I wrote in Matlab (at the time Octave wasn't up to the task, but it should be fine now). If you have a lot of sprite animation to make, aseprite is good. Don't know if any of this is true or if I'm misunderstanding so correct if incorrect.įor now on I want to make sure I do it all successfully, so I just wondered what your whole process is for creating sprites/graphics for the SNES, what all do you do, what programs do you use, and what do you do to make sure it works on the SNES, with the color palette file in mind?Īlso, is there any program that lets you fix the color numbers in sprite image files or anything? ![]() I was messing around with a load sprite source code I found online, tested it with my own sprite (after using the converter in the famous SNES-Starter kit) and in result, the background of the image was not transparent and the overall colors were flickering a little, and the background was rapidly changing colors.Īfter doing a little more research I learned that the color and transparency issues can happen because the color palette numbers in the file are out of order, which happens as your switching colors and drawing in the graphics editor. I'm still new to SNES assembly, but I'm currently using Grafx2 to create graphics for my projects. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If they have there own backup pool you will want to add a 3rd pool and make sure its seperate from the originals. Make sure you setup a back-up pool SEPERATE from the one you are on. (referred to on the wiki as -w -I -g and -thread-concurrency) Make sure you change everything you need changed including worksize, intensity, gpu-threads and thread-concurrency. Although recent reports show that the 270x settings seem to be working for multiple people at around 500kh/s Results may vary and you will likely need adjustments even if using the same cards. The second config is for sgminer and is pre-setup for regular intensity on a 280x with 2 threads. The first config is pre-setup for my 7870 and my 270x at 2 gpu threads using xintensity. You will end up adjusting later to get the most out of your card but for now get a good starting point. Find what others used and insert the information accordingly. Please check me out from there if your part of that community aswell: Because of this I have created an account on reddit and posted links to my guide there. They are taking tips for this and upvotes. Will do my best to get back here and get some work done!Īlso I have noticed many people on reddit trying to make smaller guides and take credit for the effort put in here. I have had alot of offline issues and have not had much time to work on this. Also Please forgive the lack of updates recently. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the legendary cover of Shinhwa’s “Perfect Man” by BTS completely stole hearts and gained popularity, this Jimin focus shows us exactly how he literally drove the crowd wild while portraying his energetic and powerful dance moves alongside his dangerous gaze.Ĭute, sexy, and confident are the perfect words to describe Nancy’s performance. It is no secret that every Jimin fancam out there leaves us in awe every single time, and this one below is just as hypnotizing as the rest of them. In this short fancam nearing 5 million views on the channel below and being uploaded several times by different users on YouTube, we can see the playful GOT7 leader giving his all while delivering a charismatic performance of Park Jin Young’s “Who’s Your Mama.”Įarning a total of 15 million views, a fancam focusing on Suzy gained major attention during miss A’s rehearsal of “Love Song.” Her captivating aura did not go unnoticed as she effortlessly oozed confidence while meticulously rehearsing the striking choreography. On the matter, Yuju stated that they were lucky that no one got hurt and that the performance ended on a high note.Īs if this stage collaboration alone wasn’t mesmerizing, a close-up on JB definitely caught eyes and dropped jaws. As a result, many people admired her for it and praised her endurance and dedication throughout the entire performance. During GFRIEND’s performance of “Me Gustas Tu,” Yuju fell multiple times due to terrible stage conditions, but everytime she picked herself up even more determined. If anything, this 13 million views fancam highlights Yuju’s impressive level of professionalism. Plus, it made this EXID song one of the most iconic K-pop hits out there and shot the group to stardom not to mention that Hani herself was particularly proud and grateful for the video being filmed. Racking up almost 28 million views, this shot of Hani dancing to “Up & Down” is not only the most viral fancam of all time thanks to its longevity, but it is also a major trendsetter, as it boosted the fancam trend in Korean music shows. Here are some memorable fancams that stood out within the K-pop fandom. Be it solo or part of a group, some of these fancams gain so much attention that they even become viral within a short amount of time and shake our cores with their awesomeness! Just don't, unless you know exactly why you are doing so.As much as we enjoy streaming live performances of idols, fancams are a guilty pleasure that allow us to focus our favorites just a little bit more, especially since the spotlight is solely shed on our biases. ![]() In the mean time, I will educate my friends and family to be careful of any website or app that wants you to install a provisioning profile on your phone. ![]() Applications which install a new root certificate theoretically have the ability to deep-inspect network traffic or even inspect / modify network traffic by setting up a proxy server.Īt this point, I'm unsure whether to advise my parents to change their iCloud passwords just to be on the safe side, but probably prudent. Provisioning Profiles seem to bestow all sorts of capabilities, such as creating new accounts, installing new root certificates, and in the wrong hands, posing a certain security risk. ![]() "Ī clue to me is the name of the provisioning profile including the words "Click Install for your FREE." To anyone not familiar with the ins and outs of iOS development and security issues, this sounds innocuous enough. Tapping Install should prompt "Install Provisioning Profile: Installing this provisioning profile will change settings on your iPhone. In either case, the phone is to take the user to Settings, show the profile with an Install button. New profiles may be delivered via an installed app, or possibly, downloaded via Safari. What I have determined so far is the bogus Profile is what's called a Provisioning Profile normally used for installing beta applications outside of the App Store as well as for provisioning phones for employees in an enterprise environment. I then instructed on how to remove the unwanted Profile. I had them look for the potentially offending applications, and suggested just deleting all third-party weather-related applications. The email address was apparently two randomly selected works and ended with the domain The installed Profile in Settings>General was something along the lines of "MyWeatherRadar Click Install for your FREE Weather Radar Alerts!" They had noticed a new "From" email address selectable when composing a new message on the iPhone. I just got off the phone with my parents who experienced this symptom with considerable concern. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the external links we've clicked opened in our default browser, as the app can only open Facebook content.Īnother advantage of using MenuTab Pro is that it can autocorrect your text when you're typing, an option that can be toggled from the preferences. Navigating between posts was very fluid and the click reaction was as fast as in the browser-based version. The CTRL + F hotkey works flawlessly and so do other shortcuts we've used. By default, the CTRL + F keyboard shortcut is assigned to launch the MenuTab Pro window, but it can be changed from the Preferences window. The global hotkey plays a major role in the way you can access Facebook. It does, however, make the social platform much more accessible through the status bar item and a global hotkey. The WorksĪside from bringing Facebook to your desktop, MenuTab Pro does not include many extra features. Fortunately, these features worked as intended and no hitches occurred during our tests. Although you can resize the mobile window to any dimensions, it might have been useful to allow you to move it anywhere on your desktop.įurthermore, we've also tested the options that enable users to change the opacity of the window and set it to always stay on top of all other windows. The mobile version is, for some reason, always attached to the menu bar, unlike the desktop window that can be moved anywhere. In both modes, a toolbar on the lower edge of the window provides several buttons to navigate the webpage, access the app preferences, or switch between views. We could resize the windows with ease by dragging one of their edges or corners. It also offers two view modes: mobile and desktop. MenuTab is a front end to the highly popular website, which means that its GUI is, almost entirely, identical to the Facebook interface. The resource consumption is comparable to the website-based version of Facebook. In addition, it used an average of 200 MB RAM and took less than 1% of our Mac's CPU power most of the time. We've installed the Pro version without any problems in a matter of seconds. You can purchase each feature individually within the free app or get the full version for $1.99 from the App Store. The latter's benefits include color-coded menu bar alerts, the desktop mode, opacity control and ad removal. The application is available as “MenuTab” for free, with limited features and ads, but users who are willing to spend a few coins on extra functionality can upgrade it to the Pro version. The app offers quick access to the mobile version of the well-known website (Facebook Touch) from a menu bar window and to the full Facebook version from a desktop window. MenuTab Pro is one of the most popular Facebook desktop alternatives. In recent years, more and more “Facebook apps” have been created, generally being targeted towards casual users who want a faster way to interact with the site. From a developer’s perspective, however, this impact is a true gold mine. Facebook has had such an impact on the world that many of its users have become fervent devotees. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Adobe Bridge open on your screen, navigate to the folder on your computer containing the images you want to rename. Let's get started!ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Select The Images You Want To Rename I'll be using Adobe Bridge CS6 here, included with Photoshop CS6, but this tutorial is compatible with any recent version including Adobe Bridge CC (Creative Cloud). In the pop-up menu below Rename Finder Items, choose to replace text in the names, add text to the names, or change the name format. Is there a wildcard character for this function Am I doing something wrong MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13. On your Mac, select the items, then Control-click one of them. I would like to use a wildcard character. In the Find field, type montly in Replace With, type monthly. Using the Finder under MacOS High Sierra, I want to select and then rename several files. Choose Replace Text from the pop-up menu. It even lets us copy the renamed versions to a separate folder to preserve the originals, and save our custom naming structures as presets to quickly access again whenever we need them. Select the target files and choose File > Rename Items. When you are ready to rename them, the fastest and most flexible way to do it is with the Batch Rename command.Īs we'll see, the Batch Rename function in Adobe Bridge allows us to create any sort of file name structure we need, from simple to highly detailed. If it timeouts, you might have another process that is locking your sequence. You might want to add the schema name as well to ensure you are altering the correct one, but this should most likely work. Strip Spaces - remove spaces from your file name. ALTER SEQUENCE idseqplayer RENAME TO playeridseq is correct. That way, you can rename the keepers as a continuous sequence, without any gaps between one image number and the next. You can specify a template with a numerical or alphabetical sequence, save your template for future. Incluye una gran variedad de opciones de nombres con 15 categorías que cubren todas las características de carácter, posición, conversión y truncamiento que pueda necesitar. From the Finder window, click on the cog icon (Action button) or right. Con A Better Finder Rename, el cambio de nombre completo de archivos se hace fácil. In that tutorial, though, I mentioned that it's often better to wait until you've had a chance to browse through your images and delete the ones you don't plan on keeping before renaming them. To batch rename file extensions using Mac: Open Finder. To rename them, all you need to do is drag and drop the files to the application and set your criteria. Better File Rename is a comprehensive batch file renamer that transforms the tedious and time-consuming task of changing multiple file names into a simple matter of seconds. Previously, we learned how to transfer photos from your camera or memory card to the computer using the Adobe Photo Downloader, and we saw that one of the features available to us in the Photo Downloader is the ability to rename the files as they're being transferred. It may take a bit to wrap your head around it but let me know if you need more help with the above.In this tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly rename multiple image files at once using the powerful Batch Rename feature in Adobe Bridge, a free companion program included with every version of Photoshop. It will be replaced with whatever text was captured from before. Just drag that in where you want the name to go. Now when you go to the rename action, you will see your new custom token available. Editing individual names is great for making small changes which the macro (or other batch operations) may not have got exactly right. Make sure to give the custom token a meaningful name. Here, you can drag in the Anything token. ![]() You will be presented with a new panel where you can specify what text this token "captures". They all have default names like IMG0014.png. Renaming Items (example) Here we have a folder with several iPhone screenshots. Drag in the Custom token instead of the Anything token. Renaming items (step by step) Select the items you want to rename Choose Rename Items from the Finder’s File menu Make some choices in the box that appears Click the Rename button. What you want is to capture the text that matches the (.). What this does is create a pattern which will match a opening square bracket (""). In the condition, you want to do something like: If Name matches The (.) is the "Anything" token which you can drag in. Note that this is more of an advanced feature. I'm not sure where the characters are appearing in the filenames but here's an example assuming that the name you want is within the 's. You need to use the newly added pattern matching feature for that. ![]() ![]() Nodenv installation instructions are maintained on its Github page. Use nodenv to pick a Node version for your application and guarantee that your development environment matches production. A rich plugin ecosystem lets you tailor it to suit your needs. Nodenv is a lightweight node version manager, similar to nvm. Or install a binary package (if available for your platform) using pkgin: pkgin -y install nodejs Node.js is available in the pkgsrc tree: cd /usr/pkgsrc/lang/nodejs & make install If you already have npm then installing n and then the newest LTS node version is as simple as: npm install -g n See the homepage for install methods (bootstrap, npm, Homebrew, third-party), and all the usage details. Targeted use you can run a version directly from the cached downloads. The versions are installed system-wide or user-wide, and for more Or select from a menu of previously downloaded versions. Specify the target version to install using a rich syntax, N is a simple to use Node.js version manager for Mac and Linux. Or build manually from pkgsrc: cd pkgsrc/lang/nodejs & bmake install Install the binary package: pkgin -y install nodejs If you want to download the package with bash: curl "$.pkg" > "$HOME/Downloads/node-latest.pkg" & sudo installer -store -pkg "$HOME/Downloads/node-latest.pkg" -target "/" See this support document for more details macOSĭownload the macOS Installer directly from the web site. Node.js can also be installed with the IBM i Access Client Solutions product. To install Node.js 14.x from the command line, run the following as a user with *ALLOBJ special authority: yum install nodejs14 ![]() The package name is nodejs followed by the major version number (for instance, nodejs12, nodejs14 etc) LTS versions of Node.js are available from IBM, and are available via the 'yum' package manager. Node.js is available in the portage tree. Or compile it on your own using ports: cd /usr/ports/www/node & make install Install a binary package via pkg: pkg install node The most recent release of Node.js is available via the www/node port. It allows you to perform operations like install, uninstall, switch Node versions automatically based on the current directory, etc.įnm has cross-platform support (macOS, Windows, Linux) & all popular shells (Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, Windows Command Line Prompt).įnm is built with speed in mind and compatibility support for. fnmįast and simple Node.js version manager built in Rust used to manage multiple released Node.js versions. Packages compatible with Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions are available via Node.js snaps. Node.js binary distributions are available from NodeSource.
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