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Hello all!
A little information about myself. I am Stephen Teixeira, a longtime fan of PyGame, RenPy, and visual novels. I have been a fan since way back in RenPy 4.6 days, always lurking about, checking up on new games, and reading the forums once a week for the last couple years. This is a great place, and I am always amazed at people's creativity. Someday I hope to make my own visual novel, with a couple game elements, something fun and creative, but artistic and well-presented.
A couple years ago, I got a job at a cool company called DAZ 3D as a quality assurance (QA) specialist. I'm sure many of you know of us, we sell 3d figures of all types, realistic and anime. Nowadays, I was promoted to run the entire DAZ QA department, including software QA over DAZ Studio and Carrara, as well as all of our content products. It is a fun job, and I get to work with artists all over the world.
I noticed many RenPy novels were being made with DAZ content. I am a fan of traditional art as well; don't get me wrong, I am also trained in fine arts and appreciate the hard work and devotion traditional art requires. I am also a fan of 3d art too, and I wanted to show our appreciation by offering everyone here a special 20% off coupon to any order you make in our store (good until the end of April, and good for all items in the store). Just enter the coupon code below:
RenPyLemmasoft
...before you think this is an ad, let me assure you it isn't. I appreciate all the hard work that goes on here, and we here at DAZ work hard to support the artists who support us. I contacted PyTom to see if this was appropriate, and she agreed, and asked me to put this special 'thank you' in the Game Maker's Corner. I thought of all of you when our marketing lead asked all of us here at DAZ about ideas to help all of the DAZ-related artists out here on the internet; and I asked to see if we couldn't get the RenPy fans something special to show how much we all appreciate your hard work and artistry. Being a fan and member of this community, I felt it was a good thing, and showed our appreciation and support.
Thanks for listening, and this is a great place,
-HakDragon
RenPy Fan & DAZ QA Lead
A little information about myself. I am Stephen Teixeira, a longtime fan of PyGame, RenPy, and visual novels. I have been a fan since way back in RenPy 4.6 days, always lurking about, checking up on new games, and reading the forums once a week for the last couple years. This is a great place, and I am always amazed at people's creativity. Someday I hope to make my own visual novel, with a couple game elements, something fun and creative, but artistic and well-presented.
A couple years ago, I got a job at a cool company called DAZ 3D as a quality assurance (QA) specialist. I'm sure many of you know of us, we sell 3d figures of all types, realistic and anime. Nowadays, I was promoted to run the entire DAZ QA department, including software QA over DAZ Studio and Carrara, as well as all of our content products. It is a fun job, and I get to work with artists all over the world.
I noticed many RenPy novels were being made with DAZ content. I am a fan of traditional art as well; don't get me wrong, I am also trained in fine arts and appreciate the hard work and devotion traditional art requires. I am also a fan of 3d art too, and I wanted to show our appreciation by offering everyone here a special 20% off coupon to any order you make in our store (good until the end of April, and good for all items in the store). Just enter the coupon code below:
RenPyLemmasoft
...before you think this is an ad, let me assure you it isn't. I appreciate all the hard work that goes on here, and we here at DAZ work hard to support the artists who support us. I contacted PyTom to see if this was appropriate, and she agreed, and asked me to put this special 'thank you' in the Game Maker's Corner. I thought of all of you when our marketing lead asked all of us here at DAZ about ideas to help all of the DAZ-related artists out here on the internet; and I asked to see if we couldn't get the RenPy fans something special to show how much we all appreciate your hard work and artistry. Being a fan and member of this community, I felt it was a good thing, and showed our appreciation and support.
Thanks for listening, and this is a great place,
-HakDragon
RenPy Fan & DAZ QA Lead
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Py'Tom's a SHE?!DAZ_HakDragon wrote:I contacted PyTom to see if this was appropriate, and she agreed...
*faints*
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Of course. Can't you see that Pytom is a short haired girl? Yeah, I made the same mistake too when I first came here. It's only after a few weeks that I found out that avatar does not equal to self photo.Taleweaver wrote:Py'Tom's a SHE?!
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Man, that really would screw over anyone trying to identify PyTom in the real world.
The 'Tom' is deceptive, you know!*
Although, now I think about it, PyTom's site is 'American Bishoujo'. NOT 'American Bishoujo _GAMER_'.
:O
*I suppose it could be short for Thomasina or something.
The 'Tom' is deceptive, you know!*
Although, now I think about it, PyTom's site is 'American Bishoujo'. NOT 'American Bishoujo _GAMER_'.
:O
*I suppose it could be short for Thomasina or something.
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Having met somebody claiming to be PyTom at the last NYAF, I can only conclude that PyTom is the name for a collective of human-like interfaces, embodying the physical form of a rogue AI. Written in Python.
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I was deceived by the 'Tom' part :OAsceai wrote:The 'Tom' is deceptive, you know!*
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And while you're at it, maybe you should import wealth, import fame, import a_lover as well.PyTom wrote: Code:
import soul
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I bet if Tom is the bishojo we think he is, he wouldn't need Python for the lover.
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Eh I just realized that wealth, fame and lover is external stuff so the code won't work. Maybe it should have been money_making_skill, fame_acquiring_skill and plenty_of_charm that be imported...JQuartz wrote:And while you're at it, maybe you should import wealth, import fame, import a_lover as well.
Maybe he has a code that makes him want to have a lover even though he wouldn't need it?Samu-kun wrote:I bet if Tom is the bishojo we think he is, he wouldn't need Python for the lover.
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Interesting. I've been tooling around with Bryce for awhile, but I haven't been able to make it do anything that I'm proud to show off. I still have a long way to go.
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Hello again all!
Thanks for the welcome, and apologies to the forum mod...I usually go by the avatar, so I though PyTom was a she. I feel it's courteous to do so, so I hope I didn't offend. DAZ figures can be seen in many avatars, and our company does a lot of cool stuff in this field. We recently put out a texture converter so people can take character skins into games like Second Life, so it's fun, cool cutting-edge tech, and I'm happy to work here.
Bryce! I love that program. Currently over at DAZ we did a huge upgrade to Carrara 7.1, and we're working on DAZ Studio 3.0. We love our Bryce users too! Bryce has a long, happy future ahead of it, so keep learning and having fun with that awesome program. I did my first webcomic in Bryce, so it always has a special place in my heart. I used it for just backgrounds at first, and then brought those into DAZ Studio as my backdrop image. Bryce still does some of the best sci-fi and space imagery I can think of easily and quickly. I can render asteroids in that program all day long lol
We have a lot of codies and developers over here at DAZ too, and yes, we use Python too in our production environment. Our devs put in long days, sometimes 16-plus hours, and it happens here in QA too. Anything that can help script things and make our lives easier is a godsend. I even have PyGame installed on my workstation, with the icon right on my desktop. People at work ask what it is, and I always tell them, "You gotta see this...."
Thanks again all,
-Hak
Thanks for the welcome, and apologies to the forum mod...I usually go by the avatar, so I though PyTom was a she. I feel it's courteous to do so, so I hope I didn't offend. DAZ figures can be seen in many avatars, and our company does a lot of cool stuff in this field. We recently put out a texture converter so people can take character skins into games like Second Life, so it's fun, cool cutting-edge tech, and I'm happy to work here.
Bryce! I love that program. Currently over at DAZ we did a huge upgrade to Carrara 7.1, and we're working on DAZ Studio 3.0. We love our Bryce users too! Bryce has a long, happy future ahead of it, so keep learning and having fun with that awesome program. I did my first webcomic in Bryce, so it always has a special place in my heart. I used it for just backgrounds at first, and then brought those into DAZ Studio as my backdrop image. Bryce still does some of the best sci-fi and space imagery I can think of easily and quickly. I can render asteroids in that program all day long lol
We have a lot of codies and developers over here at DAZ too, and yes, we use Python too in our production environment. Our devs put in long days, sometimes 16-plus hours, and it happens here in QA too. Anything that can help script things and make our lives easier is a godsend. I even have PyGame installed on my workstation, with the icon right on my desktop. People at work ask what it is, and I always tell them, "You gotta see this...."
Thanks again all,
-Hak
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From DAZ3D and we goes on to talking about PyTom ^_^
Well, just remember the general rule of recognizing users from their avatar: usually the real users has opposite gender of their own avatar. Since PyTom's avatar is a girl, so... (so actually, your rule is upside down when it goes with internet avatar, sorry)
Well, just remember the general rule of recognizing users from their avatar: usually the real users has opposite gender of their own avatar. Since PyTom's avatar is a girl, so... (so actually, your rule is upside down when it goes with internet avatar, sorry)
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Ah... Carrara... used to use that program in my internship in Japan. My employers were really happy with my work too and really wanted to hire me for another 2 years or so. Too bad it didn't have an Japanese language translation or I could have actually taught them how to use it.
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I want to try out Bryce, the problem is I want to make any environments created with it 'walkable' and I am intimidated by the game engines out there... I was wondering what's the easiest to use in terms of importing your 3D model and using it as a base to walk around in with a generic third-person sprite.
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