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Preparing for export The first step is to get the mesh ready for export. If you are using tools such as KitOps or HardOps then I find it useful to save the blender file as a copy so that we can apply most of the modifiers, bake any base textures
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How I set up my ASUS G16 as a power Mac user
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My plan for the next 3 Gunpla models this year
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I released my first electronic music album! A soundtrack to a dystopian future where giant, futuristic mecha-robots battle in factional warfare. Journey with me as I sketch out a sonic landscape where only the strong survive. Who knows, maybe we will finally meet face-to-face on the battlefield ;)
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I’ve been building Gunpla for a while now, and if there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate, its having a decent airbrush booth. Now having recently moved to America, I had to get rid one my one that I hacked together years ago. I figured that since
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Coming from a background of building Gunpla, it was inevitable that at some point I would want to learn how to transfer over various techniques to blender when doing modeling. A lot of the stuff I tend to model is mecha stylized which will always include some kind of panel
I have tried multiple times in the past few months to get a decent code-centric development environment up and running on Apple Silicon, and have failed almost every time. This time I thought I would try again and document the entire process. As a professional developer with over 12 years
Slate Why Slate over UMG? Slate is Unreal’s low level UI system upon which UMG was built. UMG is more of a Blueprint superset of Slate and is better suited when using the visual designer. Since I have a long history in developing UI using pure code, I wanted
As of right now i’m effectively working working on three different projects. ETM The first is a an electronic soundtrack to a non existent movie I thought up to force me to learn new skills in music composition. The final product will be an album of about 15 tracks
it's about time I had a new site, so here it is! For those that are new here, I'm MechaFox, a digital artist (outside of work) who has interests in Gunpla, music production, drawing, 3D-art and computer graphics. When I'm not working (in the