Do you have the alpha channel selected/active when you colour the insides of the selection? Because alpha channels are 8-bit gray scale. Make sure you have selected the rpg layer, not the alpha (or mask or anything else like that). Of course the image itself can't be 8-bit gray scale for colours to show.
You sir, are a god among men. I had the RGB channel selected, but then I scrolled down to find the selection channel was also selected. Thanks for the help man xD.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
I have another photoshop question. Is there a way to make a line segment selection? I suppose you can use the line tools to and then subtract from the selection it makes until you get your desired segment selection, but that only works for horizontal or vertical segments, and it's kind of a clunky method. Is there another way that would allow for selecting vertical segments of varying slopes?
edit: I guess what I'm asking is, is there a way to create an "open" selection, without closing it into a polygon or some other closed shape?
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"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
I took a look at this list of games containing time travel and went through some of the games that dated back to the 90s. There are youtube playthroughs and intros for most of them. Not that I've personally played any of these, but if it turns out that Myst is not the game you're thinking of, it might be either a game from "The Journeyman Project" series (probably the first one), or the "Time Commando" which while it didn't look like a first person game, the intro fit the description.
If it's not any of those games, that list is a good place to start looking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ng_time_travel
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
I have an mkv file with subtitles in it (vobsub?). I want to exact them, stick them into google-translate then remux them back into the original file.
I want to keep the timing and everything the same.
How should I go about it?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Mkvs typically use text based softsubs, so you should be able to extract the subtitle file and then just copy-paste to the google translator.
I'd download mkvtoolnix to do the job. Use mkvinfo to check which track is the subtitles, then mkvextract to get it out of the container. Do the translation, pray the format remains as it is (I wouldn't count on that), fix the formatting, mux back in, taking also out the old subtitles. You might want to use the mkvmerge gui for muxing, which is so simple it's idiot proof (I know because I can use it).
Mkvinfo and mkvextract are command line executables. So, you gotta bring back the good 'ol memories from times before guis (assuming you have those, being so young). They give you help with the switch -?. If you install the packet somewhere (like under program files (x86), you need to path it for easier access when you switch to the working folder containing the actual video file. (It's just path "C:\Program Files (x86)\MKVtoolnix" or wherever you installed it (the quotation marks are needed because there are spaces). This is so that the cmd finds the exes without needing to write the whole fricking path in front of them every time.
Still, I'm nothing but an amateur. Somebody wiser might have a more straightforward solution.
I thought it would be pretty straight-forward too Kraco when I tried that idea this morning, but I got stuck at the extraction part when I tried to extract the subs.
mkvextract extracts the subs as .idx and .sub files. I'll have to look around to see what opens those (notepad opens, but displays a mess of unintelligible stuff - possibly because of the language), so I was hoping there was some other way to extract it into .txt or something copy/paste friendly.
I think Aegisub would open the .sub file to let me edit.. but it'll involve copy/translate/pasting every single line of the file, wouldn't it?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
How about:
- Extracting it,
- opening with notepad,
- slapping it on google translate
- replacing the text in the notepad with it and save changes
???
- possibly profit!
Google translate is shit for long text though so it will probably still be unwatchable.
Ark, I just said that opening it up in notepad is unintelligible.
Google-translate should be alright since I'm translating from Simplified Chinese (as mentioned above, might be the reason it was unintelligible) to Traditional Chinese, so it just needs to change less than half of the characters without changing syntax at all.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Open with aegis and then export the subs to plain-text
Just recently, I found out one of my friends is homosexual.
I've only known him for the last three months and it was a bit of a shocker to me (I'm a bit dense with extrapolating hints because I never like to judge or mind others' business). I know we all live in a modern society that preaches that it's a must to accept homosexual people in our productive society. I haven't been living under a rock, though, as I've perfectly fine with other LBGT individuals on campus (talked, interacted, worked together).
In fact, a few months ago, I found out that one of my friends from high school was actually a lesbian and I was perfectly fine with that, but I don't understand why I feel so fixated on the fact that my male-friend is homosexual. I can't seem to reinforce the idea into my brain that he has always been the same person I've met and known before I discovered his sexual orientation. Is there something wrong with me? How can I fix this ordeal?
What, specifically, is bothering you about him now that you know he's gay? Are you avoiding him, now finding yourself too weirded out by his orientation to interact with him? I'm going to guess it has something to do, as you implied, with the fact that he is a male homosexual. Rest assured he does not secretly have a crush on you and isn't going to molest you after a night of drinks. Talk with him about the subject and remind yourself that while it's been a struggle for you to come to grips with his identity (and there's nothing wrong with that) it's way worse on him.Originally Posted by enkoujin
Thanks a lot, guys.
I found that the hardest thing about accepting someone coming out is that the image you had ingrained into your mind of them got shaken. An example of this effect (but not as extreme) would be similar to your long-time friend telling you one day that he's a necrophiliac. I've seen many works and been to workshops about accepting LGBT individuals, but I've never really dealt with a friend coming out before.
I think it has a lot to do with first impressions. When I meet someone, I'll learn their names and create an character class of them. If I interact with them quite a lot, I can easily adjust to any changes as I go along when I learn anything new about them. It's just the revelation that had a lot of impact.
I can see myself in an alternative situation where if an individual I recently met told me that he was homosexual, I'd just add to his data that he's homosexual. It wouldn't have had any impact at all and I wouldn't speak anything of it.
Sexual tension came to my mind at first, as Bill said, but I'm just adjusting to a more social setting in college. There wasn't a need to talk to him because I slowly learned to accept him for who he is.
Does anyone have any good websites to teach you how to argue effectively?
I've noticed that there's been a huge decline in my arguing and writing skills (maybe it's due to a changing personality or the fact that I'm getting dumber, I don't know), but when I was in my mid-teens, I was able to take down most adults in arguments and thought I was top shit when I aced my Social Studies written diploma in high school.
However, at this day and age, I find myself making lackluster arguments, hypocritical statements, poor examples and making general theses (i.e., correlation does not imply causation). My first rebuttal/riposte are often stellar quality, but as arguments drag on, I lose steam and I focus on nitpicking their words or examples due to a single technicality before I stop posting anything back. I should probably see my local campus writing resource centre for improving my writing, but I need to start with my basics first.
tl;dr: I suck dicks at arguing and writing now; does anyone have any websites for improving those skills?
Look more attractive and talk more smoothly than the other guy. If you're putting it in writing, sound more attractive and smooth than the other guy. If the last 100 years of presidential debates have taught us one thing, it's that having the facts on your side is not helpful, and is often a detriment in the face of rhetoric that cares nothing for the facts.
This friend is you, isn't it? Don't worry, you are not your sexual orientation. Look in the mirror and know you are still you, just that you like dudes. If it was a sin like the religious folks say, then God would not have created homosexuality.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I find guys accept lesbians more readily than gays because lesbians don't really have anything to do with them (unless they wanted to hit on her, but they wouldn't have gotten very far anyway). Do you think you might be trying to pick up cues that your friend's approaching you or other males?
If I had to rationalise it, I'd say it's because you're realising now that sexual tension may be present on his part, whereas you expected none between you and him and vice versa before.
I just had a lecture on disability and consent. One lady who talked was a social worker, and she revealed to us that she couldn't quite hack it at first when she had a baby with Down Syndrome (even though she would often say that the world can do with diversity and such before), and cried a bit that she feels shameful to admit that at one point she wasn't sure whether she wanted the baby dead or alive.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
>2012
>Taking anything that enkoukin says seriously
Really?
He's using the help thread.
I give him the benefit of doubt.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Good luck with that.
By the way did you solve your own problem? The one with the sub text.
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