etc)įrom what I've seen with the single family houses I've been able to export out to LumenRT, it seems like a really great program with a very intuitive interface and really smooth interaction (for my system) and a nice fps feedback. ![]() I've been able to export the same models out of ArchiCAD to other render engines (Maxwell,) and also as standard 3D formats (3ds, obj. I have a relatively powerful system (24 GB Ram, 8-core AMD CPU, a NVIDIA GTX GeForce 970 w/ 3GB Video memory and an older NVIDIA GTX GeForce 660 also w/3GB Video memory), so I don't really see what the issue could be. I tried an 20 storey multi-unit residential and also a 5 storey multi-unit residential and both times the program just crashes mid-export and this happens in both ArchiCAD17 and 18. I would be curious to know how to got a clean export out of ArchiCAD with that model since it seems relatively large and so far with my tests with the program I've been unable to export anything larger than a two-level single family house out of ArchiCAD as I always get a crash and the Graphisoft Bug reporter screen when I've tried. The following links explain much better than me. Morph the landscape, add vegetation, people, cars, etc. Change materials in the model to LumenRT 2015 materials where desired Move the building to somewhere nicer in the landscape, and/or replace the tarmac with a different material. Open LumenRT 2015: Your model will be arbitrarily placed on a patch of tarmac in your chosen landscape. View the elements you wish to export in the 3D window, and export using the plugin menu command. Construct the building in ArchiCAD, including adjacent terrain if the building includes sunken pools, basements, etc. The Geo version is for those working more in the fields of urban planning and engineering: The key element being the integration with appropriate software. So far, the software is working very well: The core LumenRT 2015 version allows one to morph the terrain inside the program, and add vegetation, vehicles, people (all animated, with wind effects, etc.).Įqually, there are 'proxy' elements that can be added inside ArchiCAD: There is no obligation to 'populate' your model inside ArchiCAD - my understanding is that it is a useful means of adding key elements to the ArchiCAD documentation that are important even in more 'technical' presentations (trees inside malls, vehicles in a car showroom, etc.). This revolutionary real-time visualization medium is both easy for any professional in the AECO industry to use and able to produce stunningly beautiful and easily understandable visualizations.I'm still getting to grips with LumenRT 2015, so I'm a long way from being even a pimple on a guru's backside. ![]() With Bentley LumenRT you no longer have to be a computer graphics expert in order to integrate life-like digital nature into your simulated infrastructure designs, and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. ![]() No matter your technical experience, you can easily use LumenRT to render cinematic quality in real time, animate models, incorporate digital nature, integrate seamlessly within CAD and GIS workflows, and share your creations with other stakeholders and clients. Use LumenRT to enliven models with life and nature, and produce attention-grabbing real-time visualizations.
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Over 40 people attended a special April fundraising event at The Building for Kids, featuring a scavenger hunt, raffle, great food and fun! Our Centennial Project wrapped-up this year, with nearly $40,000 donated to The Building for Kids in support of its Wash Up! initiative, promoting good hand washing and hygiene habits, dedicated to Dr. Fall also marked the Club's participation in the popular Rhythms of the World event, packing back-to-school dental kits for Tri County Dental Clinic, helping with the Houdini 10k run, Salvation Army bell-ringing and a memorable Veteran's Day program, all culminating with a successful mid-December holiday party at River Tyme Bistro. September saw our inaugural Building Better Friendships golf outing, a fun and successful event that will be repeated in 2022. Event beneficiaries included the Club’s Centennial Project (see below), the Rotary Foundation and Polio Plus. Attendees were often welcomed with beautiful prelude music (piano or guitar) and enjoyed the new Rotarian-of-the-Day presentations, another way to get acquainted and build better friendships.Īugust saw the return of the popular Community Table Event (CTE) fundraiser, with over 60 Rotarians and friends enjoying a beautiful evening at River Tyme Bistro, along with great food, entertainment, Lamers trolley rides and boat tours on the Fox River. It was great to be together again!Ĭlub meetings evolved during the year, going from boxed lunches, masks-required, and limited seating, to normal seating, buffet lunches and singing our opening song once again. ![]() July 2021 marked the return of in-person Club meetings in a hybrid format at River Tyme Bistro, after 16 months of Zoom-only meetings due to COVID 19. The southern treasure contains a reusable mini-flask, Inquisitor’s Menacing Eye an alternate version of Oralius’ Whispering Crystal which requires a bit more time and effort from a Draenor Garrison Inn. The eastern one contains Vile Stalkerskin Pouch a 28-slot bag, saving yourself a thousand gold on the Auction House. If you happen to have HandyNotes along with HandyNotes Draenor Treasures then you’re all set. Eventually you’ll need Legion Treasures so why not grab it now while you’re at it. This add-on will mark your map with the treasure as seen above.To unlock Tanaan jungle and your factions base which is required for this reputation you will have to build a level 3 Garrison and a level 1 Shipyard (quest chain that unlocks a shipyard starts with Garrison Campaign: War Council for Horde or alliance version for Alliance). After this you should get a quest The Invasion of Tanaan ( alliance version for Alliance) that starts the whole quest chain that unlocks the Tanaan Jungle and unlocks your Daily Quests. Collecting 150,000 Apexis Crystalsįirst things first, if you are grinding all three Tanaan Jungle reputations to exalted for their own faction rewards or a pathfinder mount you will likely collect a large part of the required 150 000 apexis crystals if not all of them, depending on your pace and rep buffs you are using. Build a Spirit Lodge/Mage Tower building in your garrison and power the work orders with Ogre Waystones (they drop from ogres and you can farm them for example in the cave shown on the screenshot below) for an extra ~1000 apexis crystals a day.Check for available follower missions via your garrison scouting map, some of them award apexis crystals too.Complete a daily assault quest in your town hall of your garrison for extra 800 daily crystals (this can be repeated by buying missives from your Garrison Quartermaster).With this you can farm mobs in Throne of Kil’Jaeden.Ĭomplete the Saber Stalker Weekly called Rumble in the Jungle this will give you a buff that provides bonus Apexis Crystals from mobs while in Tanaan Jungle.Complete all daily objectives in the Tanaan Jungle.Now, if you are still missing some crystals, you can obtain them in several ways: In this case don’t rush to grind out the currency the moment you hit Friendly with the Order of the Awakened as you will just be left with a whole lot more of those crystals towards the end of other rep grinds. While you are grinding this reputation or apexis crystals, you might want to do all other daily quests available as they also grant reputations to other WoD factions awarding mounts. ![]() The collection currently includes paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics and photography from the end of the 20th century to the present, from notables like Amos Ferguson and Antonius Roberts. The Gallery is open to the public daily except for Mondays and public holidays. Bahamian artists are the primary focus, but there are works by ex-pats as well, including some stunning Winslow Homer landscapes. Housed in the beautifully restored 1860s-era Villa Doyle, the fledgling National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, which opened in 2003, has managed to collect a number of important works. ![]() There's so much to see and do in Nassau that you might have a hard time choosing which of these ten attractions are your must-sees while you are docked in the Bahamas. Then visit the Junkanoo Expo at the Prince George Wharf to experience this Bahamian cultural phenomenon before returning to your ship. Hit up Junkanoo Beach to get your toes in the sand and soak up the Caribbean sun reflecting off the clear, blue water. Kids will also love seeing the flamingos at the Ardastra Gardens Zoo and grownups will love touring the John Watling Distillery.īut your visit to Nassau is not complete without a little Junkanoo. There are museums a plenty to explore in Nassau, from the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas to the Bahamas Historical Society Museum to the Pirates Museum of Nassau, which kids – young and old – will adore. Comfortable walking shoes are a must, especially if you're going to climb the 65 steps of the later that connect downtown Nassau with Fort Fincastle. The must-sees on your downtown walking tour are Government House, the Christ Church Cathedral and the Queen's Staircase. Dive into the history and culture of the Bahamas on your next cruise to Nassau with a visit to one of these 10 attractions near the port. ![]() They only send War to earth to be falsely accused and send back to break the conspiracy. ![]() The Council knew of Abaddon’s plans but did nothing to prevent it. Eventually he learns that is was the archangel Abaddon, Heaven’s general, who broke six of the seven seals, hoping to end the Eternal War in favor of Heaven. War is sentenced by the Charred Council to fix his mistakes, presuming his has been tricked in some kind of conspiracy. Unfortunately due to a conspiracy War is accused of beginning the Apocalypse on Earth, which resulted in the destruction of mankind. ![]() Only when mankind had grown strong enough the seven seals of the Apocalypse would be broken and the eternal conflict would be fought out for once and for all. ![]() And the Charred Council negotiated a truce between heaven and hell for the good of mankind. In return for unimaginable powers the Four Horsemen would destroy their fellow Nephilim, who were just busy to claim Eden, the original plane of existence of mankind. Four of them grew heavy of the ongoing slaughter, which endangered the cosmic balance, and made a deal with the Charred Council. The Nephilim grew stronger and rampaged into destroying multiple worlds or planes of existence. Lilith is a reference to Isaiah 34.14, in which the word probably just meant a certain kind of bird, but which grew within Jewish-Christian folklore into a full fletched night demoness. They are created by a she demon of the name Lilith, who mixed dust from angels and demons to create a race of super soldiers for her lord Lucifer. All four horsemen are from a third race (next to angels and demons) called the ‘Nephilim’, a reference to the mythical creatures of Genesis 6.4. Besides litanies of (very often Biblical) names of angels and demons, the idea of an eternal strife between heaven and hell, the main protagonists of the two games are respectively War and Death, two of the four Riders of Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The references to the Jewish-Christian lore is massive in Darksiders, as was earlier the case in the Diablo and the Devil May Cry series. To maintain cosmic balance an unbiased referee is chosen (or created or whatever, it remains a mystery), the so called Charred Council, speaking in three voices and referring to itself as ‘we’ (like the plural elohiem from the Old Testament or the ‘we’ of Christina Trinitarian doctrine). Heaven and hell are waging an eternal war against each other (like told in the apocryphal Book of Enoch). The One Creator of which only is spoken in the game, but who is never seen or heard, gave life to the three kingdoms of the universe: the first kingdom of Heaven and angels, the second kingdom of Hell and the demons, and the relatively new third kingdom of Earth and mankind. The game universe of the Darksiders series is cosmological dualistic. Unfortunately, the developer of Darksiders II (THQ) has gone bankrupted, which does not only mean that a third installment is highly unlikely, but also that a number of serious and game breaking bugs have not been patched. The right combination of earlier ideas, mixed in the right quantity can make all the difference in the world. The game proves that making a great game does not necessarily mean that you have to be too original. The game is a very good fusion of previous games and mechanics: God of War (Battle system), Prince of Persia series and Tomb Raider series (Plat forming controls), Diablo series (Loot & experience system), Legend of Zelda series (Dungeons buildings) and with inspiration of: Gears of War, Portal, Devil May Cry, Shadow of the Colossus and Castlevania: Lord of Shadows. Darksiders II is a single player, 3rd person, semi-free, single ending, dungeon crawling game series with rpg, acrobatics, puzzle and hack ‘n’ slash elements, set in a fantasy world. The update adds a tool to display geo-tagged images on Google Maps. Another six that are new to Analog Efex are designed to give landscapes a look of old colored film.ĭxO’s own PhotoLab also sees an incremental update, which means that version 5.1 is free to users of PhotoLab 5. The update also brings six landscape presets to the black-and-white-focused Silver Efex. Nik Viveza is great for tweaking colors in an image. Two of the presets aim to create a golden hour and blue hour effect, respectively. ![]() HDR Efex adds five new “Tonal Landscape” options. One, for example, is made to draw out the blue of the sky while another is meant to be applied to a forest. The presets heading to Nik Viveza are made for local edits using the program’s U-Point tool to select parts of the images. The autumn preset slides the green tones towards red, orange, and yellow in what DxO describes as an “authentic sense.” Spring and Summer, meanwhile, draw out different shades of green. The presets don’t fake snow, for example, but adds in cool tones for the winter preset. On the heels of Photoshop’s AI-powered season-changing filters, the four new presets in Nik Color Efex are designed to bring out the tones of a particular season. “Winter” uses cooler tones while “Autumn” warms things up. The Seasons” presets gives images a tone that reflects the colors and tones of that season. ![]() These options are designed to work on landscapes within a specific category, including one for enhancing golden hour, another for Blue Hour, and one for spring greens. ![]() The HDR Efex Pro, for example, gains a handful of new presets in a Tonal Landscape collection. The DxO Nik Collection 4.3 focuses on landscape and travel photography, with several of the new presets designed to exaggerate the look of certain times of day or times of the year. The update adds 32 nature-themed presets to the Nik Collection. This week, the company announced several updates to itsĭxO Nik Collection 4.3, the Photoshop plug-in suite it bought from Google in 2017, as well as a few enhancements to PhotoLab 5.1 and FilmPack 6.1. Once thought to be gone for good after Google marked the program for discontinuation, the DxO Nik Collection suite of plug-ins has a handful of new options. ![]() ![]() Again, these items are very dangerous, and constant exposure is dangerous.Ī good watchmaker can remove the old radium paint and replace it with modern luminescent substances, allowing an old trench watch to have a second life. That said, you probably shouldn’t touch a radioactive dial at all as many collectors prefer the patina and changes that these timepieces go through over time. ![]() If you want to replace your hands or face, the best bet is to have a repairer repaint the dial with nonradioactive paint. How to fix a radium clock or watchĭo not touch or change a radium dial. These paint flakes are equally dangerous and care should be taken not to breathe them in. Many of these watches are probably burnt out because the fluorescent compound is no longer light-emitting.įurther, the radium is often covered in varnish which becomes weak and will flake off hands and numerals. That said, watches only glowed when the radium was mixed with zinc sulphide or another fluorescent compound. Old radium watches are constantly radioactive if the paint is still extant on the face. Miltiary watches used starker symobosl like the nuclear triangle and to signal some radioactivity.The underline on the dial (seen starting in 1963) was used to indicate still lower radiation levels, in line with <25 millicuries of tritium. The “exclamation point”, where a small dot is below the index marker at 6 o’clock (first seen in 1962), indicates that the piece is following Atomic Energy Commission regulations from 1960 and has lower radiation levels. Alphahands writes: Rolex (and Tudor) timepieces will have additional symbols to indicate different levels of radium.Watches with the R marking still used radium. In the early 1960s some watches were marked T (T- SWISS MADE -T appeared on the bottom edge of the dial.) This kind of watch used tritium.If it was made prior to the 1960s then it probably used radium.Further, here are some rules of thumb to tell whether or not your watch is radioactive. This will tell you definitively if a piece is radioactive. The easiest way to tell if a watch is radioactive is to pick up a simple Geiger counter. Radium-based paint was banned in the 1960s and all of the paint was phased out a decade later. Plastic crystals can often exhibit a burn-in from the paint. They tend to “burn” over time, turning the hands a dull brown. Radium retains its fluorescence for a long time and many radium dials might still have a charge in them. What do radium watches look like?Ī radium watch may still be radioactive years after manufacture. Eventually, scientists and medical professionals realized that these workers’ illnesses were being caused by internal contamination from the radium they ingested. Many of these workers developed bone cancer, usually in their jaws. In the body, radium acts similar to calcium, so the radium that workers ingested was deposited into their bones. In doing this, they often swallowed some of the radioactive paint. To create fine tips on their paint brushes for small surfaces, many radium dial painters licked the bristles of their paintbrushes. During the production of radium dials, many workers who painted clock or instrument dials with radium developed cancer. If radium is ingested or inhaled, the radiation emitted by the radionuclide can interact with cells and damage them. If it is inhaled or swallowed, radium is dangerous because there is no shielding inside the body. It emits alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Any luminous watch made before 1970 is almost definitely coated in some amount of radium.Īccording to the EPA, radioactive antiques are still highly dangerous and were made more so by safety failures in the painting process: Rolex, Omega, Patek Philippe, and any major watchmaker used radium on their dials. Radium became more popular in the intervening years and almost every watch between 1917 and the early 1970s used a form of radium paint. These watches, called Trench Watches, had luminous faces for reading in the dark trenches along both sides of the battlefield and often featured big, bold numerals and hands to maximize the radium’s surface area. Radium was commonly used on many watches built during World War I. Read the book Radium Girls for more info on this topic. Horrible things happened to watchmakers who used the material in painting hands and numerals and devasting diseases like jaw and stomach cancer often plagued assembly-line workers in the days when radium was still in popular use. ![]() Before we begin, please remember that radium is a dangerously radioactive substance and repeated exposure is very dangerous. ![]() Great appearance, health, temperament, intelligence, and beauty are all influenced by an American Bully genetic background. Once matured they are paired to suitable male/female to complement each other and lock-in more consistency in the traits and/or our ideal look which our team is focusing on. We selectively pick which features and traits from our puppies to continue our program. Those traits become the foundation of a new breed like the Exotic Bully. They are also known as American Bully with Exotic features. The more generations of American Bully (features/traits, characteristics) in a breeding/pairing, a higher percentage outcome of consistency and/or breed type, desirable traits (rather than throwback look/traits of their ancestry/foundations).ĭue to Bulldogs influence from past generation some Pure Breed American Bully with more traits that make up the Exotic Bully feature are sometime present in a breeding/pairing ( Click here to learn more Exotic Features). The American Bully is still a young breed and there will be traces of the breeds old school blood and foundation breeds used such as Staffordshire, Pitbulls, Ambully, Bulldogs and so forth. We focus on Purebred American Bullies with breed type/traits and many generations deep of selective breeding from top quality pedigree American Bully, with breed type and/or desirable traits both in our Females and Studs. ![]() Our puppies are purebred and pedigree registered with generations of the breed, to ensure higher percentage of consistency, good temperaments, breed type and/or desirable traits. Find your Bullymon puppy today! Click here. ![]() ![]() When the shape design area does not refresh when loading in shapes/presets use the +/- zoom buttons below it to force hexels to update.Switch to vector mode in your document settings to avoid this.You can choose presets or load in user shapes (.hfk files) but the shape design area can look broken and creating your own shapes would be difficult.This menu is bugged when your document is in pixel mode.If you change shapes you will not lose any painting on your grid, so you change shapes back and forth however you like! The Custom Shape Menu This shape setting is what this guide is about! You have a lot of control about the kind of grid you want to work with. You can get thing between squares and hexagons with some jiggle. This lets you morph your own kind of grid with it’s settings. You can set the x-y ratio in the settings, in conjunction with transform/scaling you can mix any kind of settings together. It got its own subset of grid shapes which you can switch forth and back without losing any vector information. This is probably the most powerful kind of grid you can have. There are 4 different kind of shape settings in Hexels which define the the grid for ALL shape layers in (and if you are in vector mode the size of) your document: The three by three dot symbol lets you know you are working with a pixel layer. When you look at your layer list you can identify the layertype by the small icon in the preview image.Ī small triangle indicates this is a shape layer. A pixel layer does not have a grid and is the typical classical approach to drawing.A shape layer comes with a grid that you can move, rotate and resize without pixel bending/stretching because it is based on vector shapes.Hexels allows you to work with two different kind of layers: Guide to Custom Shapes Introduction to Shapes in Hexels |