Xreal Air Updating on Windows 10

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cgmodeler

July 11, 2023

So I had to update the xreal glasses and it turns out that the stock USB C – USB C cable doesn’t work very well on windows for updating firmware so here are the steps I followed to update the firmware successfully to version 1110

Connect your Xreal Air to your pc using another USB C to USB A cable (it worked for me using a USB C to Mini USB adapter and then any USB A cable) and plug it directly to the PC, don’t use any dongle or hub and avoid using the stock cable
Open Chrome (preferably on incognito mode) and load the update website (https://ota.xreal.com/en/air-update.html )
Follow the steps to download the firmware, connect the Air and click on the MCU Firmware update.
It should update without trouble
Once you finish click on update DP Firmware
It will say that it CANT CONNECT or THE GLASSES ARE NOT CONNECTED
Unplug your glasses from the pc and plug them back
Click OK on the popup and it will show the connection dialog
Select your glasses from it and continue the update.
Everything should be updated (at the time of writing the xreal firmware version was “air_07.1.02.201_20230228.bin”

Wacom Cintiq and Sai V2 skipping when drawing

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cgmodeler

May 31, 2023

Wacom Cintiq and Sai V2 skipping when drawing

I’ve had this issue for a while and if you have the same problem where the drawing skips when painting or when moving the canvas with your pen, the issue is related to the latest wacom drivers, I have a 24QHD and the latest drivers that work flawlessly with Paintool Sai are 6.3.42 anything newer will lag when using SAI (despite switching from Wintab to Windows Ink)

Symptoms:

Draw a line or move the canvas without lifting the pen
The pen will skip randomly after a few seconds
Restart and reinstall newer drivers won’t remove the issue
Photoshop, CPS, Paintstorm or Tvpaint don’t seem to be affected by this issue
Paintool Sai V2 will skip all the time
This is using Windows 10 x64

Solution:

Install wacom drivers 6.3.42 or earlier (You can get them from wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20210204091015/https://cdn.wacom.com/u/productsupport/drivers/win/professional/WacomTablet_6.3.42-2.exe )
Restart and your problem should be solved

AutoRecon: Automated 3D Object Discovery and Reconstruction

AI
Tools

cgmodeler

May 15, 2023

AutoRecon: Automated 3D Object Discovery and Reconstruction

Extremely impressive work for object reconstruction using a few pictures, neural rendering included (materials). Great work whose code is going to be released “soon”

https://zju3dv.github.io/autorecon/

Download videos from M3U playlist files

Tools

cgmodeler

April 24, 2023

Little open sourcee software to download from M3U8 and M3U playlist files.

This is an m3u8 downloader.

Summary

Supports:

Auto decrypt for AES-128-CBC
Master List
Live stream recording(BETA)
Customize HTTP headers
Auto merge clips(Binary or ffmpeg)
Select save clip by time code or index
Network driver on Windows OS
Alternative audio/video track
Mux without video track
Custom HTTP proxy or Use system proxy
Optimization for Chinese streaming platforms

https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI/blob/master/README_ENG.md

Release: https://github.com/nilaoda/N_m3u8DL-CLI/releases/tag/3.0.2

Just paste the m3u address and the software will give you the options to download the video.

AI Powered PIANO “Piano Genie”

AI
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cgmodeler

February 13, 2023

Piano Genie is in some ways reminiscent of video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero that are accessible to novice musicians, with the crucial difference that users can freely improvise on Piano Genie rather than re-enacting songs from a fixed repertoire. You can try it out yourself via our interactive web demo!

Code and source so you can train it with your own MIDI files.

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/pianogenie

Contraposto for Engaging Posing!

Tips y Tutoriales
Tutoriales

cgmodeler

February 5, 2023

Using contraposto for developing interesting poses, JAP with ENG subtitles.

BiteyCastle Academy 2dFX FREE COURSE

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Tips y Tutoriales
Tutoriales

cgmodeler

January 31, 2023

During many years I followed and took this course for FX animation, covers all the basics from lighting to smoke clouds and motion layering with perspective. An amazing asset that Adam Phillips has made available for free, more than 40 lessons including videos, timing sheets and .fla files to get you started on the wonderful world of 2D Animated FX.

If you feel like trying right away and don’t have a software, here’s a link to my AzDrawing version with the animation capabilities.

Bitey Castle FX Course: https://chluaid.gumroad.com/l/bc a fx

AzDrawing: https://cocoalopez.com/blog/?p=1963

*A spherical flame is something one may have previously thought impossible but it’s nice to know that our reality can surprise us at times.*

Extracted from Adam’s website:

The BCAFX Course is now free!

The decision to offer the course for free was not an easy one. After all, it has been helping to pay my bills for a decade! However, the price point on the course was never intended to make me rich, it was merely to support me in my personal projects, and make animation inexpensive and accessible to animators, whether they’re young, old, amateur or expert.

Sure $20 monthly is inexpensive for a course of this calibre and depth, but it’s still a bit too much if you’re a student or hobbyist; and everything’s a subscription nowadays, we can’t keep up with them all! When you’re starting out on your animation journey, it’s important that you have access to quality learning from mentors who know what they’re talking about and have proven their skill in production. Unfortunately high quality learning from industry professionals doesn’t always come cheap.

Hopefully now that BCAFX is free, we can see more and more up-and-coming animators dedicating themselves to the craft of FX animation.

Wagner PMC documentary

part of a whole
world short films

cgmodeler

January 29, 2023

Found this at RT website, I find it interesting to see many sides of any conflict and since there’s a blockade everywhere for anything that diverts the common speech regarding the war, thought about sharing it here.

How many people would have walked the earth by the time our galaxy dissapears.

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cgmodeler

January 28, 2023

How many people would have walked the earth by the time our galaxy dissapears.

I was thinking of something, the universe is 13 billion years, whereas the milky way (our galaxy) will collide with the andromeda galaxy in about 10 billion years which means that our galaxy is already halfway from it’s lifespan.

Now, it would take 400,000,000 generations of humans beginning with our generation to reach the year 10,000,002,023 (10 billion) when the collision will take place.

Considering that the birthrate of the human race, the number of humans that would have walked the earth (and probably beyond) before our galaxy disappears would be of 620,007,862,000,000 (620 trillion humans).

Theoretically, the earth surface can carry up to 10 billion people, with 8 billion people in 2023 it will still take about 200,000 years more to reach that number (with a birthrate of 17.4 per 1000 and a death rate of 8.4 per 1,000 people) which is still declining and its calculated that by the year 2100 the birthrate and death rate will match by 1 meaning that the same number of people being born will be the same number of people dying.

So despite anyone claiming that the world is ending, that the earth is dying, it wont happen anytime soon, even if we deplete the natural resources the only thing that will die is us, the earth will do just fine…

Remember these dates:
Year 10,000,002,023 “Our galaxy obliterated”
Year 202,023 “No vacancy at planet earth”

Have fun!