I added eyes and hair, but the back of the hair isn't great and I have to do something about that. I still have not fixed the feet or the hands either.

I uses the sculpting tool on her body a bit, added coloring too her rigged a skeleton to her, made an idle, walk and run animation and exported that to Unreal and did all the things needed to set that up.
So now she is in my game and can walk and run. Imaged is spoiled as she is NSFW now.

The character is not great nor are the animations, lots of work needs to be done but I succeeded in both making a character, making animations for that character, adding that into Unreal and getting it to work.

>>121633
aren't her hands too short
the wrists are supposed to be at the same level as crotch if i remember correctly
can't be assed standing up to check...

made a linux framebuffer backend for my gui programs so now they work without any window server
definitely the simplest way to draw pixels to screen so far

>>121634
it's his first thingimajig. Wouldn't be concerned with anything more than completing a project

>>121642
How did you do this exactly? I wanted something similar in the past and ended up using some X11 hacks like override-redirect, and then a fullscreen window with mouse passthrough and continuously updating what area of the window is clickable.

framebuffer would mean like.. he's rendering a window on top of the window

>>121647
if you want to do what you said in x11, there is the xshape extension exactly for that
in my video there are no windows at all and all programs (including the linux console) render to an area of the screen directly, so any rendering overwrites whatever is on the screen previously even for contents from other programs

>>121633
Looks like she's tensing her shoulders quite a bit

You also have the classic problem with the breasts; the nipples should not be pointing straight ahead, but away from the torso in an angle.

Otherwise, great work! You got farther than I ever did

>>121634
>>121655
The two are related, getting the shoulder right is tricky. as you can see here her right arm which has not been rotated is fine.

I did try to move them apart a bit but because I started with two half spheres for breasts the nipples were just the apex of that and so moving the apex to be inline with my reference image would have distorted it a lot. But yes, it certainly is something that needs to be done in the future.

>>121540
You're basically running into the thing I did when I started out (and probably what most people in this niche do) and that's using 2D images as a direct reference instead of learning anatomy. 2D generally looks horrendous when it's not 2D because it doesn't make sense in 3D space.
Tamamo's breasts here >>121397 don't really form a coherent shape if you compare the front and side views.

Anyway, the thing with breasts is that they start from the shoulders. Above the pink line in this image this girl looks exactly the same as someone that's completely flat, and that's the main problem. Even if you ignore the anatomy issue, for purposes of animation they should start way higher than they do there because that's where their movement needs to start.

In the left part of this image is the side view of the breasts. The top of breasts are a straight line when seen from the side and the perkiness determines the angle of that straight line. From the front, breasts form two 6's and the ligaments extend up and to the shoulders and armpits.
Anatomy is fun!

>>121672
The reference image was not the issue really, it was the method of construction that I used for the breasts, being that they were two half circles, but I did get them to angle down like that, it's just not noticeable from the angles I posted.

>>121642
>>121653
Any reason why you'd want to remove windows?

>>122599
it's not really about "removing" because in the framebuffer backend there is no window system in the first place
but because of the abstraction used by my gui system, the program code doesn't know about this fact and still thinks it's in a window even though there isn't any

Chino-anon, I've been using your software and I really enjoy it, especially the booru browser and the youtube client. I have a question about ikatube though, I know you can make custom themes for it, but how would one go and do such? I'm not seeing a json file for themeing inside of the folder directory. I was looking for the template for the other themes too but I couldn't find them.

>>122961
Where can I get Chino-anon's software?

>>111607 >>118027
Great work! Cute set of tools
ikachan is a great little booru browser. While it's nice that it lists tags alphabetically, as far as I could see it unfortunately omits the tag categories like Artist, Character, and Copyright (the first and most useful (imo) things I look for when browsing Danbooru, for example). Just a small thing, though, all the info is still there. That aside, it's quite a functional and convenient tool~

I got ikatube to browse, but somehow couldn't get it to play. It's probably because I didn't use ikafb+pwm-xft. I've ZERO confidence that I can use ikafb and not bork my system lol

ikamp is great! This is something I'll be keeping for sure. Played with the config a bit and it looks nice. The new borderless option looks good. I likely don't have whatever compositor (probably ikafb+pwm-xft) is needed to draw border around the window, but nothing wrong with rectangles! haha

Thanks for these, Chino-chan ^-^

>>122982
Linked in the replies of the comment I made just before seeing yours. For ease, it's https://chino-chan.gitlab.io/programs

>>122992
>ikafb+pwm-xft
It could be this, but make sure mpv (or vlc) is properly configured in your $PATH too. That's the problem I had on my machine when first configuring the program.

just released a new version of ikamp with spectrogram support!

>>122961
for ikatube you can use the same theme file included with the ikachan distribution (ikachan_colortheme_bocchi.json), you can use that as a template
i actually have worked on a gui theme editor for my programs, so you can use it once it is released, just need some polish
>>122992
>as far as I could see it unfortunately omits the tag categories like Artist, Character, and Copyright
this is unfortunately a limitation of some other boorus ikachan supports, like gelbooru, so they're not always available
>I got ikatube to browse, but somehow couldn't get it to play.
do you have mpv in your path? it should work with that
>I likely don't have whatever compositor (probably ikafb+pwm-xft) is needed to draw border around the window
are you using the native wayland version? window border is not supported on gnome in this case

>>122992
>>123011
>ikafb+pwm-xft
ikafb is a library that my programs use to draw ui and is already bundled in, and pwm-xft is an old window manager that i used previously
so they should'nt have any effect on the operation of the ika* programs

>>123012
Wonderful. Looks great, thanks for that ikamp update! I got the spectrogram working on my end and did some other small tweaks in the UI file to make it look pretty without being too cluttered. Took a while, but I finally understand how to use it properly now.

>>123011 >>123014
I actually figured out what my issue with ikatube was. It was in the .json file where I overlooked the default program was mpv! My $PATH was all correct, but ikatube was looking for a program that just wasn't there. I've used VLC exclusively for everything for the past 15+ years. I didn't even consider that it'd default to another program that I've never used haha
I usually use FreeTube on desktop and NewPipe on Android since they're privacy-focused YT front-ends, but this one works fine now. Nice to have some more fun tools~

>>123020 >>123012 >>123014
I also forgot to mention that I'm on GNOME yep. I got a new laptop recently and can't be arsed to do any ricing lol. Pop!_OS does exactly what I need for daily tasks and it's been good for many years ^^
Cheers!

added zoom mode and an image toolbar to my booru viewer

>>73454
I have been meaning to make a database of Scottish computer science exam questions tagged by topic to make my tutoring job easier, but I haven't found the energy.

>>126334
Thanks for the useful programs, I've been using ikatube+RSS as a youtube alternative for a long time. Is there any way to display all the site content when viewing gelbooru in ikachan?

>>126387
>all the site content
do you mean displaying contents from all booru sites at once or something else?

>>126390
displaying tags that are hidden by default like loli and some others

>>126392
ikachan already displays all contents on gelbooru by default

>>126393
you're right, i guess something wasn't working on my end. clearing the cache solved it

>>123012
just added scrolling text support

>>128867
You have very good taste in aesthetics!

Was doing some studying and went to do some practice exams, and I was struck by the lack of quality multiple choice printables. I ended up spending the afternoon making a bunch of scantron bootlegs... (´･ω･`)

I made them in 50, 100, 150, and 200 question variants, alongside side bordered and non-bordered versions (borders around every 10 questions to improve readability). There's also a few arrangement variants of the 50 question version.

Maybe some studious Kissu fren will find them useful.

I've been working on a modernized version of virtualdub. Basically, a front-end for ffmpeg and vapoursynth/avisynth scripts along with built-in capture card support and importing of various digital audio formats (BD rips, DVD rips, LD rips, digitized tape and so on). I started working on this because I've been incredibly frustrated by all the random tools I've needed to use over the years. Many of which are still Windows/NT-only. Capturing analog sources is very frustrating because they haven't made a proper capture card in 20+ years now and most of the tools to control the proper ones are Windows XP-era software. Most of this stuff doesn't work correctly in wine either.

ffmpeg along with the various codecs can do a lot of this stuff from a CLI. But it's a maze of options and the documentation for a lot of edge cases isn't that great. If you haven't been using these tools and scripts for 25+ years it's almost impossible to get started. You have to spend weeks crawling through old forums and mailing lists to learn anything and you have to stop mid-project often to spend hours reading the documentation.

There really isn't a proper GUI application for this stuff either. There are a lot of GUI options for editing video provided it's already in a format you want. But taking an old NTSC/PAL source from analog or digital and cleaning it up + producing a good encode (either lossless or lossy) for distro is a huge pain in the ass.

I thought it would be pretty simple to do this considering ffmpeg can do most of it by itself provided you know your way around. But the options for cross-platform GUI applications is still kind of awful. I've ended up using C++ and Qt to do the GUI stuff. I didn't really see another way if I wanted support for the 3 major platforms people use on workstations. While I'm primarily making this for Linux/UNIX I really wanted to retain Windows and Mac OS support because I know a lot of people still use those for video work.

Anyway, I'm calling this a "Video Mastering Application". Aside from the GUI itself the most important things about it boil down to;

- A package manager to manage all the various Vapoursynth/Avisynth filters along with the various codecs needed to do anything
- A new file format to store "projects" to store all the meta data and misc. stuff associated with each mastering project. Basically, a renamed .mkv file with an extra attachment that stores the meta data
- A list of presets/targets to export projects into different formats (e.g. Youtube, BluRay, DVD, lossless "master")

This has been taking away a lot of time from my own backlog of video projects. But in time I hope it will save me a lot of work in the future. Having a GUI for a lot of the things I do would be very helpful. Along with being able to do some tasks on Linux that still require wine/Windows box.

In time I hope to grow it into either multiple small applications (a proper suite) or integrate tasks that are spread over many small applications now into the main mastering application. One example is IVTC. I often have to manually reverse telecine a bad source into true progressive video. It's a huge pain in the ass and both of the applications that try to provide a GUI to *synth scripting for this task have terrible documentation and frankly terrible GUI interface. It would be nice to finally have a proper application for that.

In the long term I'm hopeful that if this catches on professional studios might start using it. Which would mean less kuso sources in the future. Since tons of stuff has been lost over the years and the only source for such things now is a badly done mastering decades ago on rotting discs or analog tapes. Pretty much all Japanese content is on such tapes _if you're lucky_. A lot of studios burned them long ago. So the only sources remaining are second-third generation copies of those tapes that were badly converted over to consumer VHS or DVD.

>>128987
I forgot to mention that one of the main things I'm hoping to eventually do is provide a seamless client to server interface. Basically, you can send off projects to a powerful encoding server that would spit out finished encodes in various formats. In other words; batch processing.

Right now the situation is you have to track down a bunch of stuff manually. The existing repos are a bit garbage. No one has properly collected all that stuff together and documented.

The core of this project is basically an IDE for video editing/scripting. In time I'll provide a GUI for common filters and an easy way for other people to do the same through python scripting. When I started this was basically a text editor with syntax highlighting + mpv to display the results in real time. Then I moved on to providing a GUI for ffmpeg and the codecs it supports.

So instead of loading a .VOB in one application. Splitting out chunks of it. Saving that as its own file. Importing it into my script. Editing it in another application. Saving the script. Opening that in ffmpeg and having it spit out an h.264/265/whatever encode. Which I open in yet another application for muxing. While doing a similar process separately for each audio track. Then another round of editing for subtitles in yet another application. Then muxing it all together. Then testing in mpv. I do most/all of it from one application.

As I said before ultimately my goal is to provide an all-in-one solution to mastering video and audio. With the recent changes in the Linux landscape like pipewire this is finally becoming possible without many hours of configuration to each individual system. Linux finally got something akin to Video for Windows in the last couple of years. So it's ready to take on the role Windows has been required to use for decades now. An application like this is badly needed for both sides of video before and after the editing step. Meaning it would be useful for making clean video to work with from traditional sources (IVTC/color correction/deblocking/lots of other common errors) and the final step before distro (encoding into different formats for distro/creating a true lossless master to store the video long term).

There are a lot of great applications for editing video already. But no one has really bothered to make an application for producing good sources to use within such applications. They all pale in comparison to the filtering you can do with the *synth scripting. I've noticed most "professionals" don't even bother with cleaning up video proper. Since the tools they use for editing are so badly lacking proper filtering.

I think if I work at this hard enough over the next year or so I might be able to turn it into a full time job. I plan to release it for free. But I feel like people would happily donate for something like this. I see so many people requesting fixes and features for applications like MeGUI, Staxrip, Vdub and things like DGIndex all of the time. Most of those haven't been touched in years now.

I'm kind of amazed that we're halfway through the 2020s and most of the serious video work is still being done in 20-35+ year old software. When I said "XP era" software before I was wrong. A lot of this stuff is Windows 98-era software. A lot of it is still 32-bit only!

It's a pipe dream. But if I had the money I'd love to make something like a modern Amiga system. Where my own Linux distro came pre-installed with a suite of video/audio editing software. It'd have some custom hardware to do stuff like rip raw data from Laserdiscs and a proper capture card to get at analog sources. It'd be powerful enough to do all the processing locally. But if the end user wanted they could also purchase a powerful server from us that they could offload the processing work to (or rent a server from us). It would be very useful for studios that process a lot of video and re-master old video for release on modern formats like BluRay or the web. If I could offer that I think I could turn it into a thriving business and compete with the existing players in the market. I'm not kidding when I say no one is offering this and hasn't since the late 80s-early 90s. Professional studios only very recently got away from analog formats and went all-digital. So the market is ripe for someone to swoop in and offering an all-in-one solution to these problems.

I plan to spend the next year or two working on this full time. I'm hopeful that my choice to use Qt won't come back to bite me in the ass. One of the reasons I picked it was the fact that I could build cross-platform GUI using python. Since python is what is used for modern *synth scripting. Similarly, I'm building it on Gentoo right now since python is used by portage. I've been building it on Gentoo and testing it on Arch, Fedora and Windows 10. I want to throw an Apple device into the mix but I can't afford one right now. I'm hoping one comes up on the used market for cheap soon.

Sorry to ramble.

I'm remaking the OPED videos that are there in the kissu threater to serve as intermission time and so on.
Basically I use ytp-dl to download NC OP/EDs from youtube and throw them all together. Unfortunately, Davinci Resolve has issues with the downloads from youtube so I have to convert them with Handbrake and THEN add that and encode it again or whatever. The resulting file is multiple gigabytes, but I split them out and again put them in handbrake to compress them.
I really don't know any of this video encoding stuff, but it seems to work so that's enough. This time I added about 5 Utawarerumono songs hehehe

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>>133331
I have access to AnimeBytes and I downloaded the raw BD, but for the torrent https://nyaa.si/view/507347 it's still stuck at the metadata download so I can't actually consolidate the files. Surely my client's connectable... private trackers I'm on report a green light

you know I forgot that all you have to do is use the .torrent file instead of the magnet link and you get all that metadata
seeding it now, let's see if it does anything overnight

>>133337
Very leet.

wow... im finally seeding https://nyaa.si/view/507347 to someone... sorry my upload speed is so slow

>>121642
didn't know ikaanon posted here

It's not really a project. Out of sheer boredom I finally opened the tablet I purchased a year ago and started to draw. I usually have concentration issues but have found I can concentrate on this for longer than most things and I really appriciate just being able to start and stop whenever I feel like it. This is my first picture, I tried to draw an ear but it didn't look too good and I want to go to bed.

>>133727
looks good but if your really going to one day take it seriously, study anatomy and don't fall into the trap of "drawing everyday = progress"

study and observe the artists that you like and incorporate it in to your art

>>133727
better than I could ever imagine my first day turning out
looks like you really like 90s anime from it though

>>133735
>>133736
Thank you. I don't want to treat it as something that I have to spend hours practising instead of just drawing for enjoyment - before I purchased my tablet I was drawing on paper and a friend linked me a website with drawing exercises that quickly sucked the fun out of it. I do intend to do some, although I'd rather learn by trying to emulate artists I like, and there are plenty of those.

For this picture I was just following some guides I found on Pixiv, although I do like his art style.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/56572916
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/56546373
Getting used to the tablet is another factor and I've already damaged my pen nib while trying to draw clouds

>>133727
I'm using my tablet that sat for too long as well; still can't get into a regular habit of daily usage yet. I find that if I stop for any reason it's so hard to get back into the rythm. Been working on Pippa in my own style off and on for two weeks now.
I had a face I liked more and all her hair decorations done but somehow I hit something I don't quite understand that deleted or covered my page and I accidentally closed it without saving which was a huge demotivator.
Lets goooo self improvement!

>>133756
pippa the self-ripper

>>133737
if you open up the pen there are nibs inside

>>111607
just released my youtube client as a mpv plugin!
now i can search and play youtube videos in the player