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How do people create normal maps for surface waves in water shaders?

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Oh my God you can use vertex color channels to paint blended textures onto a model...

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Source 2 Hammer and Trenchbroom have some editing mode where it locks UVs to let materials repeat when manipulating geometry. Is there an analogous option in Blender...?

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I really must be overthinking something about 3d level design... but I really don't understand how people do this in 3d modeling tools. What about texturing? Collision hulls?

covid self, asking for advice 

So, assuming I have mild respiratory symptoms, is it a good idea to go outside for a walk to get my heart rate going a bit? I don't want to exacerbate anything just for trying to do something healthy.

There's a fight halfway through ARC Complex that is destroying me because of how much it throws at you. Three Mancubuses, two Arachnotrons, two Pinkies, and a Whiplash...

What if I learned environmental 3d modeling

Whenever a site puts a login wall in front of an article after a few clicks, I imagine some thirsty product guy salivating and begging you to register an account to pad his quarterly numbers.

I'm finding more often than not what gets me hurt in Half Life: Alyx is my sensors not picking up my controllers. The game is otherwise rather easy.

can't wait for Sunday Stonks in animal town

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christ, why is Animal Crossing's online mode so finnicky

Everything has so many "helpful" popovers and modal windows happening at the same time interrupting you, opening up new browser tabs for different parts of the same UX, inconsistent UI designs, stuff that just takes up WAY too much screenspace, ...

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Is it just me or have all the most popular websites on the Internet gotten decidedly worse to navigate and use in the last year?

Instacart delivery got to hear my impression of the G-man from Half-Life while I was taking the garbage out to my garage

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realm of the mad god, but player hosted servers for small groups

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