I wish to replace my dependency on Adobe software. The subscriptions are expensive, the AI features are intrusive and crippled by terribly-implemented censorship (can’t process an image with an armpit), and they still crash/lockup. So I’m investigating Open Source alternatives, with a fall back to some acceptable but click-bait-riddled commercial products (cheap but Ok). A comparison of the “best” open…
To assist in development the aim is to have: I managed this previously but it needs reworking to accommodate Godot. 🔥 Achieving point 1: VM Linux MPF Godot 🔥 Achieving point 2: VM Copies Super easy - VirtualBox takes care of it all. 🔥 Achieving point 3: Same Godot and MPF projects on Windows and VMs VirtualBox provides a shared…
With the assistance of Mr Anthony van Winkle, I've managed to get a simple attract slide functioning in Godot, and extended it to a (working) rudimentary carousel: I'm back where I was a year ago, but with better options for the future! I also don't want to say that it took 15 hours to get here, but it took 15…
The Mission Pinball Framework is a complex creature I've written about many times. Recently there has been an upgrade; version 0.80 has a major change in how graphics, and sound are implemented. Previously there was mc, the inhouse media "thing" developed by the MPF people. It worked a bit like a spreadsheet program with the sheets being strung together in…