I can prolly take an angled shot and get most of them in frame. There are 54 of the blighters, though...

Today's projects, discounting an early morning walk, involved Transport Fever. Worked on what will be EP3 of my blurry Scenic Ride-Along YouTube series. This one's a truck ride of all things. Originally planned to "film" the scenic portion of my Steel Mill to Construction Materials Rail Hub rail line. Got a bit burned out adding one faux crop field or logging operation after another. On a whim, decided to relax riding a truck delivering Iron Ore from a mine high in hills near Kidderminster to the Eastleigh Iron Mine Rail Station Truck Terminal. Scenery along that route was rather interesting, despite a number of floaters. Decided to fix those floaters and film the ride. It's now in final editing. Should be able to upload it as early as tomorrow. By my standards it's super long, over 15min. Gonna take forever to upload, slow as my connection is. I'll start the upload at the end of the day and hope it's finished when I return to the PC next morning.

Otherwise it's same old same old. Create fields, orchards and woodland, lay roads, plop down farmsteads and gas stations. Rinse and repeat.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 17 2018, 09:29 PM

Miserably night, bleeding into morning. Due to my brother not visiting a couple of Sundays and and not staying the night several Sundays he did visit, I've not needed to sleep in bed over a month. Last night ended that fortunate streak, with him staying overnight and sleeping on the couch. Was forced to use my bed. What a nasty experience. Within minutes pain developed in my neck, upper-mid back and the hip I rested on. Got worse the longer I lay abed. Sleep was impossible. At some point after midnight I retrieved a bed topper not in use and added it to two already on the bed. That moved mid-upper back pain to lower back, but otherwise made little to no noticeable difference. By now I had had a headache quite some time. Around 0245 I added yet another not in use topper to the stack, giving me 8" of padding above the mattress. This last addition eased hip and back pain but didn't much affect neck pain. Still, it proved enough to let me get in a bit of sleep before my brother woke me for my 0500 breakfast. Head still ached (and continues to). Neck remains rather painful. Am groggy as all get-out. A long shower right after today's exercise-walk didn't help in the least. Got in my weekly grocery run earlier in the day than usual to avoid heat. Have been back long enough to put away groceries, change into comfy clothes, log expenses in my PC account ledger, and type this.

Had I my wits about me I might have taken a powerful prescription sleeping pill before retiring last night. But no. I thought about it, but decided not to to avoid being groggy today. Poor decision as it turns out.

No idea what sort of projects, if any, I might tackle today. If my head continues to ache and I remain groggy I'll likely vegetate in front the PC.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 18 2018, 03:04 PM

Aww sorry you had a bad night D.

You and me both! I was expecting a rough night, but not THAT rough. Still super groggy. The one development worth reporting is that at some point my headache shifted to the right side. I suspected that might happen if the ache didn't clear soon enough. Took a migraine episode ender soon as it became certain that's what was happening. Because I'd had the headache so long by then, and the shift likely started before I realized it, the medicine was not as efficient as usual. Normally, one pill knocks out an attach within 45min-1hr. Took a good bit longer today. Only within that past 45min or so has behind-the-right-eye-socket centered pain sufficiently lessened. Some remains. I have hopes it too vanishes before long. We shall see.

As suspected, I've done little but mope at the PC desk since returning from my weekly grocery run. Read a while on the sofa while ago and believe I napped a bit. Tried to play Transport Fever after lunch but it was hopeless. About all I was able to do was ride one of my freight trains, and nodded off in my PC chair much of the trip.

Still thinking to upload EP3 of my TpF ride-along series overnight tonight, but much will depend on what I feel like at day's end. Speaking of which. I discovered yesterday before my woes began that viewing my YouTube TpF ride-along videos at 1080p in theatre mode rather than full screen makes blurring introduced by YT processing less objectionable. Not an ideal solution by any means, but a possible lesser of evils. I can of course simply watch the Video Editor renderings on my hard drive, which are far sharper. Or my raw footage, which is sharper still. Either of those is perfectly fine seen full screen.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 18 2018, 09:45 PM

Well glad that you are feeling a little better, at least.

Made this little diagram for my church for 4th of July and Veteran's Day.

You poor thing! You really need a new mattress on that bed, that is the only thing that might make it livable. I'm actually going through the same thing. My fantastically comfortable mattress got moldy in storage and I had to throw it away. My son got himself a new bed and gave me his old one, and it absolutely sucks. It is so uncomfortable that I've done what you have = built a mountain of toppers folded on top of it trying to compensate. I am hoping to find a new bed that suits me, but so far no luck.






Nice!

Thanks...I wish I had a 'MERICA flag but I think that was lost through time.

Also I can't remember if I posted this old silly movie here but I'll post again: https://youtu.be/0_WWNhv6EvI

OMG. this is fantastic!!! Awesome editing, and I don't know how you did the figures to make them move! I love this!

Thanks...Thankfully the figures I used have multi-part articulation and the whole thing took many, many, many shots. I would continue but I don't have the right recording set up.IF I where to continue the second act would have Adrian leaving Summerset Isles with some Redguards followed by a Wing Twilight, Queen Ayrenn meeting with Abnur Tharn who in turned has a Dark Brotherhood Assassin kill her. Then Adrian meets back up with Vaz who leads them to General Talos and King Cuhlecain who heading out to find the Amulet of Kings in Sancre Tor where its given to General Talos who is blessed by Akatosh to be the true ruler of Tamriel but the gets taken by King Cuhlecain and decides to name himself Emperor and will preform the Spell Binding Ritual that night.
Later while the King's drunk in his chamber the DB Assassin waits in shadows just as General Talos enters the chambers and has a talk with the King. As the two argue over who's the real ruler Talos uses his Thuum to neutralize Cuhlecain then slits his throat killing him. Just then Adrian enters and spots the assassin who then jumps out the window and flees. In that moment Talos slits his throat but just enough to barely bleeds but losses his ability to use his thuum.

Afterwords a healed Talos (thanks to Adrian) and his army storm the Imperial Palace, Mannimarco abandons Tharn who is dethroned and killed by Talos who then changes his name to Tiber Septim. Adrian chases after Marco but looses him.

Act Three: We begin with Adrian in a bar in Suran on Vvardenfell reading Talos/Tiber Septim letter telling him about his anointing and gives Adrian rumors to Mannimarco's possible location somewhere on the Morrowind's mainland and that he's wanted by the Dominion now going by the name The Thalmor. As Adrian and Lena the Gold Saint leave the bar Lena stops and Adrian realizes her time with him is up and she gets her one and only line "It's been an honor." As she hugs him vanishes back to Moonshadow Adrian is ambushed in the same spot as Umbra the orc is in TES 3 by Le'Anna who betrays him and has her army shot Adrian with a volley of arrows killing him. As she tearfully says farewell and it was never meant to be for them. Azura stands over Adrian's body and retrieves the jewel that she gave Adrian which changes into a fully powered up Star (basically Adrian DID indeed have Azura's Star). Her Gold Saint Ay'lah ask what she's going to do with her star and the sword Adrian had to which we see an orc walking towards them. There she gives the sword to the orc and give it the name Umbra (Adrian's Last name) and she uses the Star's power to heal Adrian's fatal wounds then teleport him to the Imperial Dungeons in Cyrodill in 3E 399 where he wakes up to the voice of Ria Silmane setting in motion the events of TES 1: Arena.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jun 19 2018, 06:05 AM

Oh, that would be Awesome!!! I love the early lore of this game; really wish they would re-master the early games so we could play them in today's graphics!

I just installed a heavily modded Morrowind. It looks fabulous.

Doh!!!!!! Started my TpF ride-along EP3 YouTube upload at 2000 yesterday evening. Uploaded a custom thumbnail, added description and gave it a LOT of tags. Knew upload would take forever so hit the sack circe 2100. Woke circa 0315. Upload/processing was almost done, about five minutes to go. Then I noticed a red YOU'RE VIDEO IS TOO LONG indication. What the....? I went through the process of verifying my YT account some months ago, right before submitting my two Mashinky videos. That's supposed to allow uploads of more than 15min, monetized or not. Checked my YT account details page this morning after noticing the flag. Yup, long videos is enabled. Nor do I have any strikes against my account. Yet my 15:15 upload can't be published and is only available privately, at an unwatchable 360 resolution. Not sure what to do. I SHOULD be able to publish the video. I can of course re-edit to bring it just under the 15min mark. But a new upload eats well over 2g of my monthly data limit, and ties up internet use another seven-plus hours. Dang it, I was looking forward to getting the video online, and yesterday evening was an ideal time to do so with my feeling too crappy to want to do anything beyond getting in a decent night sleep.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 19 2018, 11:24 AM

Wow, some creative stuff in here!

Hope you enjoy your 'new' Morrowind, Saki!

Thanks. I tried to keep my "movie" as close to lore as I can or at least take liberties with it but still maintain respect to the lore.

*Applause* I like that a lot. I always preferred stories that were built on the original Lore, especially if in places the interpretation of events might be seen from a unique perspective = to me that always made it more interesting to see the different ways other people might interpret the same information or use it in their stories.

This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 19 2018, 05:38 PM

Nice !!!







I'll bet SubRosa will know what caused that error to throw, but it may be your upload speed causing the error message. The forum for that site might have tips on what to do if this happens, try Googling the issue before giving up.

Thanks for the input. Turns out the video length "problem" was nothing more than a misinterpretation on my part. When YT flagged my title as being too long, as assumed "title" meant the video as a whole, as this one DOES, or did, exceed the 15min mark. My first YT upload to do so. In the end I reluctantly deleted the upload, edited my local copy down to 14m55s, and re uploaded. At the very end of the second upload WHAM...hit with it being too long again. At that point I began to question myself. Rethinking what YT's message actually said, I deleted part of the video's title. Sure enough, the flag disappeared. DOH!!!!!! Redid title to fit within YT's limit and all's well. Discounting my tying up the internet another 8ish hours and eating up another 2gb of my monthly data cap, that is. Can't be mad about it as I've no one to blame but myself.

This episode is appreciably less blurry than its two predecessors. Likely coz trucks move more slowly than your average train, and there are no fast moving railroad ties to process. It's not blur free by any means. But more so than EP1 and 2 it can be watched at 1080p full-screen.

Here it is: Transport Fever Scenic Ride Along ep3 - Kidderminster Iron Mine to Eastleigh Iron Mine Rail Station Truck Terminal and Back Again. (My original title, the one YT says is too long.)

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 20 2018, 01:26 PM

I never even heard of this game before, I love how you were able to determine the year model fo the vehicles on the road to keep that feeling of it being an earlier era - really like how natural a lot of it looked. Does the train just show up if you lay tracks down? Also loved the muddy water canal, nice touch! I really don't know how this game works, like how much of the buildings along the route you did (or all?) = but you did a fantastic job of making it look realistic! Also - definitely liked the contrast of the "sand" under the trees on the right side, it really did add a nice touch. Nice vid!





WOO HOO! While there watching your "Transport" vid I took the opportunity to watch your Oblivion vids again! LOVE those Oblivion vids, they are my favorite gameplay vids EVAH!