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Lesson learned – when adapting to a new audio system and settings, make sure that your video file settings are consistent with the audio. For the last several days, I have been attempting to edit the latest gaming session – something that up until recently was not really that bad. However, this time after the first major editing pass, the computer ended up choking badly on the files – just starting a scrub would take several minutes, and then lag badly, and when I stopped, the system would chug for several more minutes before quieting down. Obviously something was different,…
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As a side project, my son asked me to 3d print him a swan, in gold. Apparently, it is a joke between him and his friends. Not exactly sure what is funny about a golden swan, but ask, and delivered. The print was a bit of a challenge – the neck did not want to stay attached, especially with the overhang. Ended up having to add some custom support, and then hold my breath when it got close to the end. First two prints sadly did not survive, but the third was golden (hehe).
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Slowly we are filling out the rest of the group’s painted miniatures, as the various players complete their painting. For this last game, Legolas was presented, in all his bronze glory. This figure was painted by Craig, who did a very good job, especially since he has not painted very many figures before, and this was done entirely on his own. The painting skills of the group continue to impress me, with their attention to detail and creativity, which adds a lot to the game. It is always refreshing to see the players be that vested in the game and…
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Currently in development, I am looking into the option of running a second major campaign to begin in January or February with the Extinction Curse adventure path, to be recorded and broadcast similar to our Age of Ashes campaign. Right now, I am teaching a whole new cast the basics of the game with a shorter adventure, while I continue to streamline my editing workflow. If all goes well, I should be able to announce more in late December, as I start to firm up the various details. Format would be very similar to our Age of Ashes campaign, but…
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Managed to hold our regularly scheduled game yesterday, and successfully capture the video and audio for the session. This is the first session with the new audio equipment, so I am hopefully the quality will be improved. Now I need to filter, restructure, and edit the footage into the normal format, which will likely take at least a few days. In particular, this did add some complication to my current template, since I now have directional audio. That means I had to change the audio source for each of the various camera angles and compositions – hopefully those should all…
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The first floor of the watchtower project is printed and temporarily assembled. Everything fits and lines up nicely, and the door swings well. Obviously still needs a coating of paint to bring out the details, but that will wait until the full assembly is done. Biggest issue this had (other than general printer problems) is a bit of warping in the first few tiles. This is causing the base to be a bit unbalanced, but not bad enough that a proper mounting on some chipboard or similar can’t fix it.
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Now that I am home from traveling again, I can give some focus to the printing, and the layer shifting it has been doing. Currently, my working theory is overheating in the y-axis motor – I believe I am just pushing it too hard and/or it is aging. So my current option is to slow down the prints, reducing the travel speeds by 33% from 3000mm/s to 2000mm/s. Of course, this makes the print time go up by a similar amount. Fortunately, the current models are not that long either way, only a couple of hours, so it isn’t that…
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New troubles, or returning troubles, with the 3d printer – my prints have started to shift again. This was a problem a few weeks ago, the prints would seemingly randomly shift in the y-axis, resulting in faulty or unusable prints. After my office remodel, I releveled the printer, and tried some other prints, and the problem was mysteriously gone. In the process, I also had to replace the cooling fan as well, since the fan had died (and it was making the x-axis motor overheat). For whatever reason, the printer was working very well again, and I managed to finish…
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