#nicky's tutorials

[goodguynickachievement]

Tutorials: Making Certain Parts of a Texture Glow & Uploading to the Workshop

Programs required: - Photopea (or other photo-editing tools). - VTFedit - Crowbar or Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools. I recommend Crowbar as it's more user-friendly and deals with even-powered thumbnails. - Notepad++. If you don't have this program NOW, you'll want to use it later for editing the VMT code. I'd do it now if I were you.

Intro: This is a super quick and easy tutorial for those who want to learn about making parts of a texture glow-in-the-dark. This doesn't teach how to make the glowing give off emission.

The second part of this tutorial is geared towards those who are modding for Source Engine only. Once you're done with the first part of the tutorial, feel free to keep practicing until you get the hang of it.

Games required: Any game that allows the textures to be edited and glows in the dark is cool.

Follow the steps very carefully below once you're ready to start.

I'll be using Source Engine, but I've seen @kingfalconcombos using this method when they're modding The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PC) with ease.

1ST PART: MAKING PART OF A TEXTURE GLOW

Open a texture that you want to edit. For this tutorial, we'll be using Coach's body texture.

This is in full resolution, so if you want to save it and open it in Photopea to follow along, go for it!

2. Once the texture is open in Photopea, use another image that you want to put an overlay of. For this tutorial, we'll use a very hungry caterpillar as an example.

3. In Photopea, click on Open and Paste. Put the caterpillar anywhere that you'd like to put him.

I'll put him here for now.

4. Select the space surrounding the hungry caterpillar.

5. Go to the Channels tab of Photopea. You must have the hungry caterpillar's layer selected. Not Coach's texture layer.

If you click on the wrong layer that doesn't have the hungry caterpillar, it will come out wonky.

6. Once your selection is inverted to the item you want to glow, fill it with a white color.

A very helpful tip for remembering what parts will be seen or not when making glow-in-the-dark parts/textures.

White is visible, black is not.

This will help you know in the final result of which of them will be visible once it's rendered in any game. This also doesn't remove any color properties that the original glowing part has.

FINAL STEP

7. Export the image in the format needed. For Source Engine, you can export it as TGA since VTFedit will be used later to convert it into a file suitable for the Source Engine.

If you're using another engine other than the Source Engine - export it to the file format your game requires. I'm not sure how to resolve it if your engine for a different game doesn't accept it.

CONCLUSION

You're done with the tutorial of how to make certain parts of an image glow!

If you're using Source Engine, you'd continue the process of packing the texture and uploading it into a suitable VPK to put within the right directory for it to show in-game.

Let's take a look at how our hungry caterpillar appears on Coach's back!

2ND PART: UPLOADING TO SOURCE ENGINE CONTINUE IF YOU WANT TO USE IN SOURCE ENGINE

If you want to use the texture in Source Engine, follow the steps as you would in creating a VPK to simply replace the texture.

This will teach you how to upload custom textures to Source Engine with more user-friendly tools.

9. Open VTFedit. Click on IMPORT to bring your picture of choice into the editor. Select the new image you should have saved in PNG, TGA, etc (formats) to upload.

10. Once the image is uploaded, it should look like this in the editor.

11. Go to File < Save As. This will save your file in a VTF format.

12. Before saving your file, remember that it must be the same name as the original file you opened it with. For Coach's texture, it'd be labeled as coach_body_color.

13. Create a file directory that mimics Left 4 Dead 2's game directory in which you found the file. For this tutorial, we'll be using:

materials < models < survivors < coach < DROP VTF HERE.

Once you saved your VTF in the folder, it should look like this.

14. Now that your new VTF file is saved, you'll need to create a VMT file.

Go back to VTFeditor, and then choose Tools < Create VMT

When the windows show up, *leave the Textures tab alone* as this is different from creating a custom texture.

Go to your Options tab.

15. What we want to do is to have the model cast a proper shadow with the whole body, not just parts of the glowing images having shadows only.

Within the Options tab of your new VMT, choose your shader as VertexlitGeneric NOT UnlitGeneric.

VertexlitGeneric makes the vertices of your vector glow. UnlitGeneric will make the whole object in question glow, and this is what we're trying to avoid.

Within the Surface 1 tab, you don't have to choose anything. You can choose to leave it blank, or you can choose one of the surfaces by default. Choosing a surface will determine what sound and type of particle damage will occur if you shoot it.

Within the checkboxes below, leave the Translucent property unchecked.

If you leave this checked, the rest of the object be rendered as transparent except for the glowing texture parts.

This is an example of what it should look like below:

16. Once you're done, click CREATE. A prompt will come up to ask where you want to save the VMT file. Place it in the same folder as your VTF file.

17. Now close VTFeditor. It won't be needed anymore after these steps.

18. If you're using Notepad++, now's the time to open the file. When you open the file, you'll only see two properties appear. This would be your file directory and you should ONLY be seeing $basetexture and $surfaceprop (if you chose one).

The newest value we're going to add is $selfillum with a value of "1".

Go to the end of either line of the codes, and then enter

$selfillum "1"

19. SAVE THE FILE.

20. You're done editing your VMT! Now all that's left is to create an addon out of your new VMT and VTF files.

21. Go back to the Left 4 Dead 2 addon directory.

With your new folder, it should be structured as:

Addon Name < materials < models < survivors < coach < your VMT and VTF files

DRAG AND DROP your new addon folder to the VPK.EXE shortcut.

This will create an addon that'll be available to use in-game.

Voila! Here's a new addon to use.

FINAL THIRD PART: TESTING

Now that you have a new addon to test out, open the game.

Have the game load to a level where you can see Coach.

#photopea #photoshop #nicky's tutorials #tutorials #photo editing #nicky grimes #very hungry caterpillar #caterpillar #coach #coach left 4 dead 2 #coach left 4 dead #coach l4d #coach l4d2 #left 4 dead #left 4 dead 2 #team fortress 2 #portal #portal 2 #amazing spider-man 2 #amazing spiderman 2

[c0smicbeauty]

#love #nicki minaj #makeup #tutorial #black girl beauty #sparkling #2023 #sexy #ticktock #youtube #savage x fenty

[baeway954]

I tried this look but put my spin on it 😍😍😍 What do you think ?

#queen nicki #nicki minaj #barbs #black tumblr #wig influencer #wig styling #wig tutorial

[hydralisk98]

Argdown + Markdown demonstrations

Greetings comrades of the globe, today I show you some Markdown + Argdown workflow with you all. Very useful for lightweight formatted documents to go almost* anywhere you can think of as of 2023.

Sharing some handy resources to complement such because I really love researching & taking advantage of the full stack of features of each innovative data piece:

Basics of Markdown

Extended syntax

Markdown alternate tutorial

Argdown

I really do recommend adding Argdown for additional extensibility and for anything argumentative, like philosophy & sciences (argument maps are awesome, especially to express nuanced yet strong arguments).

I have barely used enough Argdown before because there was no english/multilingual YouTube tutorial for it (only one in Mandarin Chinese and another in German, that's all as of February 13rd 2023), and despite the utility of such by so far, it has barely been recommended in english-speaking academic spaces.

Anyway, showing you a few pieces of Markdown & Argdown in action to demonstrate by example. (gonna swap up some with my very own examples once I get some more content going)

Creating slideshow presentations [to replace with a LibreOffice Impress -> Pandoc Markdown slideshow workflow with concise source files]

Writing white academic papers without GUIs, which is most efficient with text editors with macro systems, like Emacs & Vim are. (also a great use case for adding Argdown) [to replace with a LibreOffice Writer -> Pandoc Markdown academic paper workflow with concise source files]

[Email letters]

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[Notes]

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[Wiki-style documentation pages]

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[Books]

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Markdown is also great for collaborative works (no need for WYSIWYG editors to validate its entirety) and web content / articles, including this site.

By the way, please get yourself some Nicky Case, she makes awesome stuff that will teach you so many things by play. It is hyper awesome. And you can use her tools too, which are under CC0-1.0 aka a public domain waiver.

Cya soon and take care of yourselves, comrades of the globe.

#learnblr #Markdown #Argdown #cheat sheet #tech tutorial #I am unapologetic about plugging some Nicky Case (she/her & they/them) here #for Luke Smith it is a harder sell though

[nicatnite88]

New mesh!  This Nicky onesie is my second ever mesh, and I have to say I’m kind of proud of it.  All LODs are included and there are 21 swatches - 6 solid and 15 patterned.

Please do not reupload my mesh or claim it as your own.  Aside from that, feel free to do whatever you want with it!  I just ask that you give credit and link back to my tumblr.

A HUGE thank you to @powluna and @casteru for the help and tutorials.  The hair in the pic is by @ravensim.

Download

Curseforge SFS .psd (SFS)

#mycc #alwaysfreecc #sims 4 #ts4 child #child CAS #curseforge

[adrianathetransbitch]

Act: Prelude:

You are a kid at the golden apple park named Jessica (OC) with her friend Lucy Yi, Lucy is automatically let in on sight, as for Jessica, the greater stopped her, the greater was one of the mascots named "bo bo the clown".

As weirdly well kept as he looked with his pure white teeth and his almost ringmaster like mustache, he had a sense dread that was instilled within Jessica as he looked her up and down.

He grinned and gestured to her to give him her ticket but Jessica, going to point at Lucy realised that she was already out of view.

Bo Bo showed her the ticket as he placed it in her hand but as she was one step away from the gate, the clown pulled her away from the line with a smile on his face as he pulled her through the Forrest the prelude ends as it cuts to her missing poster...

Blowing in the wind.

Act: 1: intro

Nicky is sitting in his tree house with his corkboard with some missing posters pinned to a map of the town with pictures of the presumed abductions that once took place, the places seem to surround one house, 910 friendly court.

Nicky then looks at his neighbors house as he spots what seems to be his best friend, (Aaron Peterson) who had been missing for a month, being chased by his father (the neighbor) through the house before looking out a window, looking Nicky dead in the eyes as the neighbor pulls him away from the window and towards the basement.

Nicky leaves his tree house and then ends up in the tutorial. Think of the tutorial basically being the same as the one I Hello neighbor alpha 2.

Ending:

Nicky hears crying for behind a door in the basement, as he opens the door to reveal that in truth, it was not only a recording but Aaron was only a way to get Nicky into his basement as the neighbor tosses Nicky to the ground as he holds him down and-

Act:2:

You play as Aaron as he tries to get Nicky out the basement.

Ending: I mean, we've all played HN to know what happens.

Act 3:

Tomorrow

#hello neighbor #hello neighbor 2 #hello guest #mr peterson #theodore peterson #nicky roth #aaronpeterson #re write

[spentimental]

D is for Dendrobates Auratus, the green and black poison dart frog

I put a frog in a turtleneck sweater and that’s as far as I got with this idea, to be honest.

This is our second ace, the Ace of Clubs (or as I like to call it in my brain but not out loud, Clovers).  I didn’t want to be too repetitive with my designs, so I tried a semi-transparent plastic look. I’m really proud of the circuit pattern in his face and the camera lens eye. I made it following tutorials by Ardent Designs and Logos By Nick.

Off canvas is a whole arm with froggy fingers that I didn’t finish in time. I imagine him as some sort of super spy or detective. He’s subconsciously inspired by Nicky Flippers from Hoodwinked.

This is the fourth week of working consistently on the Alphabet Superset challenge and it was a struggle. The hardest part wasn't using Inkscape or learning new techniques, but just working on it at all. The first day or two was fine. But after that, opening the file made me want to close it immediately. When I work on creative projects, I tend to jump into new ones quickly, pursue them with a burning passion, and then burn out really hard and swap to something different as soon as I lose interest. Sticking to one project for six months is almost unthinkable. This week and last, I kept swapping to other projects to avoid working on this one. I wonder how many people doing this challenge are feeling the same way right now.

No, this frog is not as finished as I would like. But I still like him and I’m proud of what I’ve done so far. I genuinely love seeing each card when I go to share them. I look forward to coming back to all of these designs when I have more experience. Luckily for me, this next week is a break in the challenge. I’m going to take this opportunity to sketch the next few characters and make a plan to curb my avoidance. I’m determined to get through this and prove that I can see a project through from beginning to end.

#alphabetsuperset #1960s fashion #frutiger aero #inkscape #vector art #character design #robot oc #playing cards #dendrobates #frog #frog art #poison dart frog #circuit #60s

[starlightandetherealshadows]

working on the Contra Spem Spiro prologue! everybody put your hands up!

MC is going through the worst day of their life while I listen to Spotify's Nicki Minaj Radio. It's only fair.

I've also been dipping my toes into Twine, and I think I'll do well with it! I'm no coding connoisseur, but I know how to utilize online tutorials so WE MOVE!

Hope everyone had a great day!! ♡♡♡

All my love,

Cheye

#alien #romance

[papermint-airplane]

You know, maybe not having a roof over your head isn't so bad when you have views like this.

Nicky: You're joking, right? I'm about to sleep on a concrete slab, exposed to the elements, in the middle of the hottest summer in Hidden Springs' history. Get. me. a roof.

Ok fine. We're back on that §100k grind. Things should be a little easier now that I've managed to expand the kleptomania limits significantly.

Mooching food from strangers!

Swiping everything that isn't nailed down!

Failing to load bicycle textures!

Turns out that truck wasn't worth very much due to depreciation, but Nicky is now sitting on a cool §2,225, which is way better than she was doing before. If any of you do something similar to this save, follow my tutorial and change your swiping limits, because otherwise you're going to be at this for a century. 😅

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#sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 gameplay #mine #series: take the money and run #sim: nicky sackman

[fuckyeswednesday13]

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF DEVOLUTION MAGAZINE! 🎉

ISSUE 52 IS NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER!

It is our absolute pleasure & everlasting pride to be able to let you know that Issue 52 – our celebratory twenty year anniversary edition of Devolution Magazine is now available for pre-order featuring The Duke Of Spook - Wednesday 13 who graces the front cover ahead of their UK tour.

This Issue Boasts A Fantastic Mix Of Interviews, Spotlights & Features On Wednesday 13, The Rasmus, Katatonia ’s Anders Nyström, An Exclusive Interview With Andy Copping Of Download Festival, Delain’s Martijn Westerholt, Ward XVI , My Hometown With Freda Conlon - Nxb0dies, Anti-Clone, Olivia Livewire, Alice Bizarre Make Up Tutorial, Festival Coverage For Bloodstock Festival & Rabidfest, MCM London Comic Con, Kt Agogo, Live Reviews, Book Recommendations & So Much More!

For over two decades we have championed the print side of things & believe that print is definitely NOT DEAD – so the pre-order is available now getting you a 100 pages with a free 16 Track CD.

For those that prefer the FREE DIGITAL version - this will be available to read in a few days – so if you want to be the first to receive a copy of this direct into your inbox – don’t forget to sign up! https://mailchi.mp/62322ba3c84b/devolutionmagazine

There is also the usual 16-track cd covermount featuring bands and artists from around the world.

Deadfilmstar / Red Method / Ward XVI / Anti-Clone / Edenfall / Mutant Reavers / The Atlantic Union Project / Theia / Barking Poets / Courtesan / Angerland / Phil Stiles / The Effigy / Final Coil / Dead Blood Cells / Disconnected Souls

This will be available digitally on our BandCamp this week also.

https://devolutionmagazine.bandcamp.com/

So what are you waiting for? Head over and pre-order your copy!

https://devolutionmagazine.bigcartel.com/

As always THANK YOU to EVERY SINGLE PERSON who continues to support us – we are profoundly grateful and continue to be.

Revolution | Absolution | Devolution

Nickie & The Devolution Magazine Team

Please feel free to share this post and invite your friends to follow our pages and join our world!

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#wednesday 13 #devolution magazine

[goodguynickachievement]

Tutorial: Spawning L4D1 survivors in L4D2 levels (Hammer World Editor for Left 4 Dead 2)

Here's a very short tutorial I've learned in spawning Left 4 Dead 1 survivors for a Left 4 Dead 2 level.

Programs: Hammer World Editor for Left 4 Dead 2. Found in L4D2 Authoring Tools.

Slower-paced video if needed: Youtube. STEPS BELOW

STEPS:

Create a prop_dynamic with these values: World Model: survivor_CharacterName Name: Custom_PropDynamic_Name

2. Create a info_l4d1_survivor_spawn Character: Name of chosen L4D1 Survivor Name: Custom_CharacterSpawn_Name

3. Create a logic_auto with these outputs.

1ST OUTPUT Output: OnMapSpawn Target entity: prop_dynamic (with your custom name) Via this input: Kill Delay: 0

2ND OUTPUT Output: OnMapSpawn Target entity: info_l4d1_survivor_spawn (with your custom name) Via this input: SpawnSurvivor Delay: 0.01

REFERENCES:

"Creating NPC-Controlled Mounted Guns" on Valve Developer's Wikia

"info_l4d1_survivor_spawn" on Valve Developer Wikia

#left 4 dead 2 #left 4 dead #l4d #l4d1 #l4d2 #hammer world editor #nicky's tutorials #nicky grimes #nicky grimes l4d2 #nicky grimes left 4 dead 2 #valve #source engine #hammer #l4d2 hammer #hammer editor #hammer l4d2 #tutorials #tutorial #hammer tutorials #hammer world editor tutorials #Youtube

[stonyponyofficial]

well i simply must know. which adam movie would you say is your favorite? <this ask to be redeemed for future adamposting at any point starting...... now!

this is a very good question to start off with! consider this adampost REDEEMED okay no fucking around the bush here, i think Little Nicky (2003) starring Adam Sandler is my favorite adam sandler movie. its one i think anyone with an open heart and mind can get into on a lot of levels! its so silly, just the premise right. little nicky is the son of the devil with a heart of gold. he loves metal and looking emo and talks with a trademark adam character voice. he gains some metalhead followers bc hes the son of the devil and they think thats sweet. he always wears that coat cuz its cold for him (hes from hell) the twin towers are in the background of the poster jsut look.

shows u this image again SORRY but its true its funny 2 me.... look they even tried to cover it up lmaoooooo.

but like. its so not fucking talked about hello? granted i didnt know about a lot of these until i started my adam crusade, but this one especially. and its alright! its a pretty okay one! its so free of adam baggage its so easy to love this one but nooo we have to love the ones with the bigotries. look they even made a gameboy color game

its not very fun lemme tell ya. actually. let me tell you. so the first level is a tutorial about how to platform and its 'supposed' to be new york simulator bc he goes to new york and hes training to go to the real world i guess. the theming of 'new york city' btw is a bunch of random building stand-ups. but what do i find tucked a bit into the level? the only time two of the exact same, skinny, antennaed building are next to each other? i think u know what i found.

ahmmmm sooooooo and thats why belittled nicky is my favorite adam sandler movie thanks u for asking char ^w^ <3

#violet originals #adamposting #have mentioned little nicky a bit in previous adamposts but ill make it official #its just is the best one. the one u should watch right now probably #and thanks u for immediately heeding the call for more adam sandler questions to give me an excuse to adampost :3 <3 i live for this

[yuliares]

Earlier this month I got ~ambitious~ and decided to draw Joe and Quynh being Chaos Buddies. They didn’t need to be naked, but I figured it was a good artsy challenge before I did outfits, so I went all-in. I tried/included a lot of new/challenging/awful things for me, such as:

New brushes! (Paint brushes from HABOOK - very soft and lovely)

New technique! (Gradient mapping tutorial from Deb JJ Lee - 10/10 blowing my mind)

Shading!

FEET

HANDS

Naked bits (but I can’t show you those here)

Anyways I’m tired now and I don’t want to finish the clothes part.

Draw/imagine the mission wardrobe!

What are Joe and Quynh wearing that have Andy and Nicky so distracted? You are invited to use your imagination or, if you like, you can draw on top of them! You can download a layered file here!

Here are some MS Paint ideas:

[Art description: A title says “Old Guard: Mission Distractions”. Joe and Quynh take center-stage, holding champagne and smiling at each other. Joe has his arm around Quynh’s waist, which Quynh is leaning back into, her own arm around his neck. The artist didn’t draw clothes because she got tired. To their left, a cartoon Nicky (with heart eyes, in an apron) and Andy (in sunglasses and drooling) are peeking around the corner at Joe and Quynh. Booker, dressed as a waiter with a bowtie and tray of champagne, is giving them a side-eye. Above them, an amused Nile is speaking into her headset, saying “Can everyone please get back into their undercover position? Andy you’re supposed to be a bodyguard. Nicky go back to the kitchen.”]

#the old guard #fanart #comic #quynh the old guard #yusuf al kaysani #nile freeman #andy andromache of scythia #nicolo di genova #nicky x joe #joe x nicky #immortal husbands #andy x quynh #immortal wives

[all-f0r-the-gay]

I JUST SAW ONE OF MY STUPID LITTLE TUMBLR POSTS ON PINTEREST JFKDJDB

In celebration I present you, Nicky Hemmick as an influencer:

Nicky decides on a whim he wants to be an influencer. He spruces up his dusty Instagram account, starts actually posting on Twitter, and posts funny little ‘pranks of the day’ with the Foxes (they’re starting to be less funny for the Foxes). He’s the kind to post aesthetic ‘OOTD’ pics, and cute couple photos with Erick, and nice pictures of his food. He has a story highlight thing of ambush selfies he took with every member of the team- even Andrew, Kevin, and Neil. He gloats about that often, even though everyone knows he got punched three times for that. Because of his fame from being a fox, he quickly racks up followers, and eventually starts doing Q&A’s every week. Dan and Kevin both immediately take great interest in making this an opportunity to get good press for them, and get permission from Wymack to make it exy oriented. He agrees, with only one condition, “Keep Neil the fuck away from the camera, and try not to have any footage of Andrew weirdly staring down the camera like he does with the paparazzi.” That immediately fails, and Neil becomes a sort of partner with Nicky to get more followers. Neil thinks having his own social media could be a fun way to piss of a lot of people. Nicky continues growing his online empire, eventually going to the girls for ideas of things to do. Allison jokingly says makeup, but oh jeez if he doesn’t run with it. Allison is somewhat shocked, and demands to do his makeup during the next Q&A. Thus, makeup tutorials with Allison becomes its own weekly segment. Nicky honestly does a bit of everything from that point on, rating books, reviewing cosmetic products, funny videos with friends, but the main thing is he drags everybody into it.

Ok, I kinda like this, let me know if you want specific things he does with each of the foxes.

#aftg #all for the game #aftg trilogy #the foxhole court #aftg textpost #nicky hemmick #nicky is everything #aftg series

[ratsoh-writes]

Nicky has her switch under her sleeve so they take turns to play Mario kart lol

Ajdgjdhdhd that’s something no one has done with him before. To your horror he’s never played and needs a tutorial first. He does have fun and salt does pop in and flirt with him. Seeing one of his best friends is points in Nicky’s favor

[yaki-iimo]

New 3D model with the help of Nicky Blender ‘s tutorial on Youtube ! Made in few hours on Blender

#blender #Blender 3D #art #digital art #3d art #3d artwork #blender cycles #sushi #food #japanese food #so cute #cute aesthetic #cute #kawaii #kawaii aesthetic