tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67807600069741946932024-03-16T11:52:15.656-07:00Off World Girl's Terrestrial Com ChannelMy blog of geeky, nerdy sci-fi & computer stuff.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-53683354365651405902024-02-11T13:54:00.000-08:002024-02-11T13:59:34.829-08:00ROM Collection Browser on Kodi 20 Nexus + Launch External Emulator<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicbHS_NRbcAfUWwnUao44Yte6kczpJRwmQ66mcCixytkU2T8dq4BirjsCl4dIYcypb6hNTv3vOKRuFRVIUMmqPrUaneM6jt13lUZBzMRbTR81rf5pMZrw2PSIyakV0d0Wfx4fnyyCWgqdYKDssy5O41A__dIUJTn7wuwh_wJMjZBnXXNrUR15sR12kqq5w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="861" data-original-width="1536" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicbHS_NRbcAfUWwnUao44Yte6kczpJRwmQ66mcCixytkU2T8dq4BirjsCl4dIYcypb6hNTv3vOKRuFRVIUMmqPrUaneM6jt13lUZBzMRbTR81rf5pMZrw2PSIyakV0d0Wfx4fnyyCWgqdYKDssy5O41A__dIUJTn7wuwh_wJMjZBnXXNrUR15sR12kqq5w=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>First a little back story: After a failed Ubuntu update I ended up reworking my HTPC built from junk/cast-off parts. I think I'm done with Ubuntu though, which is a rant for another day. I ended up installing Linux Mint on this box again. I don't know why I even bother trying other distros anymore, I always circle back to Mint. Though in this case not the current version of Mint, I had to step back a bit because of the ancient Nvidia graphics card in this computer. The proprietary drivers aren't available on the current version, and I know from messing around with Ubuntu 22.04 that the open-source "Nouveau" drivers aren't stable enough, and you have to extract binaries from the proprietary drivers to get hardware video encoding/decoding to work, except (in my experience) it just froze or crashed the entire computer as soon as I started playing a video. Which rendered my HTPC useless. So, anyway, I ended up going with Linux Mint 20.</p><p>Unlike under Ubuntu 20.04 I was able to actually install Kodi 20 Nexus. Okay, so I was able to install it, but it would crash immediately on opening. So I was stuck on Kodi 19 Matrix but couldn't use Retroplayer because of an <a href="https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=368038&pid=3097360" target="_blank">unmet and uninstallable dependency</a>. So I ended up having to point Kodi to open every game ROM in external emulators. Which thankfully isn't that hard with IAGL or Advanced Emulator Launcher.<br /><br />But on my new Linux Mint 20 installation I've run into various issues. First of all many of the Libretro cores for Retroplayer are still unavailable because they fail to build. Secondly, Advanced Emulator Launcher hasn't been updated for Kodi 20 Nexus so I had to try the development version, with which I ran into other problems. So I tried the Advanced Kodi Launcher forked from it, which is under more active development. But ran into issues with that as well (namely that some browse dialogs weren't working for me). I also didn't like how AKL clutters up my "Games" section with all it's add-on modules. I mean, I get why it's modular, but it's a shame there's no way to hide all of its modules from showing up in the Games Add-ons list, and with the same icon as AKL itself.</p><p>Honestly, what I *wanted* to use was Emulation Station Desktop Edition for a retro gaming library, but I can't get it to run on my Linux Mint 20 system. It crashes on open because it can't find OpenGL. I don't know if that's because it requires Wayland instead of X or something? I didn't look into it. But I can't use Wayland on this system because of the old Nvidia graphics card. I tried the regular Emulation Station as well and hit the same problem. I didn't bother trying to build it from source myself, I decided to just focus on using Kodi for my retro gaming library UI.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">ROM COLLECTION BROWSER for KODI NEXUS <br /></h2><p>Which led me to try the "ROM Collection Browser" (RCB) which I've never used before. It's the closest out of the box to Emulation Station, and unlike AKL which requires you to switch your entire Kodi skin to get the cool UI options, RCB lets you access the cool UI layouts without switching your Kodi skin at all. <br /></p><p>However, RCB also has not been updated yet for Kodi 20 Nexus, but someone did fork it for that purpose. You can find it here:<br /><br /><a href="https://github.com/Trihy/romcollectionbrowser">https://github.com/Trihy/romcollectionbrowser</a></p><p>I needed to download the Master not one of the releases because only the Master branch had been updated to look for Python 3. You also need to install the RCB Service add-on for Matrix or it won't work. I get a moment of graphics glitches whenever I first open it, but it doesn't affect using it.<br /></p><p>Keep in mind that RCB is intended to be navigated with a game controller not a mouse. It is virtually unusable with a mouse. D-Pad Up will get you the left-hand menu, D-Pad Down will get the right-hand menu.</p><p>However, and this isn't anything wrong with RCB, but too many of the Retroplayer cores are missing or broken to run some ROMs in Retroplayer at all. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">BROKEN/MISSING RETROPLAYER CORES <br /></h2><p>If you go look at the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?batch=75&memo=150&start=150" target="_blank">Team XBMC PPA</a> you'll see that many of the Libretro cores fail to build on various Ubuntu versions and so are not available to install via APT. You could try to build them yourself from source, but they may just fail for you too.</p><p>For example, on my HTPC system there are dozens of Retroplayer cores that are not installable via APT. I can download the package and try to install them manually, but they usually have some unmet dependency I can't satisfy either.<br /></p><p>"Zach Morris" who makes the excellent Internet Archive Game Library (IAGL) plugin also maintains a Libretro Buildbox that generates Retroplayer cores. However as <a href="https://github.com/zach-morris/kodi_libretro_buildbot_game_addons" target="_blank">THIS PAGE</a> shows, not all of them work as intended, and I can tell you from personal experience that even some with the status "Works" my not necessarily work for you.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">POINTING RCB TO EXTERNAL EMULATORS<br /></h2><p>For any Retroplayer cores you can't get to work you'll need to launch those games in an external emulator. But I had difficulty finding instructions on exactly how to DO that in RCB. So I'm documenting it here, if only for my future self who will likely have forgotten how to do it.</p><p>First you need to get to the left-hand menu and select "Edit Collections" </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizWsSKjQ7buUU1J__flK3ZIhbUAQbDhKU0XCpWFDAmIJP4riKoAuqLmMytkpTYQEgmsumxo2ucORtSxuFmj8OMLG3ICWH-x60_4eLrjVHk-fqw3l-THr3yuceoS2LGMbNbtZecyIcUpJKo8bosPDWC0W21kjPGOQt9Q2juD6YA9hyFGFYn39Ru95OtUCpm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizWsSKjQ7buUU1J__flK3ZIhbUAQbDhKU0XCpWFDAmIJP4riKoAuqLmMytkpTYQEgmsumxo2ucORtSxuFmj8OMLG3ICWH-x60_4eLrjVHk-fqw3l-THr3yuceoS2LGMbNbtZecyIcUpJKo8bosPDWC0W21kjPGOQt9Q2juD6YA9hyFGFYn39Ru95OtUCpm=w179-h400" width="179" /></a></div><br />That pops up the dialog box. On that you need to go down the buttons on the left to "Launchers" <p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnD5tXJysNVeqEjAGQwciuxP7kJ2AvKNUYFRNINcsEAFZ8cvXl1pohJuUsRMQg6s7qLidEv7RYkwlr53MHmwBs1OlmKhd33_3Z25lCHgX3hJgam---_Ro2GIJ20ZOtAA9cN5g028uMdjc615Rqc5qxY2nhgQgHZdMBTQPjeXSJrz4T1ic6q-PXJhaMGdG9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1303" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnD5tXJysNVeqEjAGQwciuxP7kJ2AvKNUYFRNINcsEAFZ8cvXl1pohJuUsRMQg6s7qLidEv7RYkwlr53MHmwBs1OlmKhd33_3Z25lCHgX3hJgam---_Ro2GIJ20ZOtAA9cN5g028uMdjc615Rqc5qxY2nhgQgHZdMBTQPjeXSJrz4T1ic6q-PXJhaMGdG9=w400-h213" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> <br />...and at the top select the specific Collection you need to set a launcher for.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4I-CsoY7uN1ovc_t5RHhqlUtmj6JpFmb8O9sx-nAKby0_9diOpiYRufnWKUvGxAd1ajuHF_R_4SvxWmShZZkeCV4Jgifkoc4iwY7j3Z_G4tQefdseWG8GybneQUp7xazCxSGQfJHfU97adM-QB3yWda-wpbFzh_28vii3gMjtqa0oi8wM4Jam2xuQkHrR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1304" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4I-CsoY7uN1ovc_t5RHhqlUtmj6JpFmb8O9sx-nAKby0_9diOpiYRufnWKUvGxAd1ajuHF_R_4SvxWmShZZkeCV4Jgifkoc4iwY7j3Z_G4tQefdseWG8GybneQUp7xazCxSGQfJHfU97adM-QB3yWda-wpbFzh_28vii3gMjtqa0oi8wM4Jam2xuQkHrR=w400-h211" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>At the bottom you need to turn OFF the switch for "Use Retroplayer" because, well, we're not using Retroplayer. That will enable all the dimmed out option in the middle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oVwKKkDGLwylzeJg0kqrmyGmKzoYRrWapmWFf4mKiF2C2OaDoZTL1BLmIVRSqe9Sw6znAHdifS1KoaHVX36EanTd_XC5kXoypn-iS5M6Nm-sfm8bu40Ga-1pTkla1Ba2UQcSlRAGytQawMWue3hVJk1DSWi3brwA7ooQmeZ1ImVAh4WdzJeXAq9DAq4_/s1303/3-Retroplayer_Off.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1303" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oVwKKkDGLwylzeJg0kqrmyGmKzoYRrWapmWFf4mKiF2C2OaDoZTL1BLmIVRSqe9Sw6znAHdifS1KoaHVX36EanTd_XC5kXoypn-iS5M6Nm-sfm8bu40Ga-1pTkla1Ba2UQcSlRAGytQawMWue3hVJk1DSWi3brwA7ooQmeZ1ImVAh4WdzJeXAq9DAq4_/w400-h213/3-Retroplayer_Off.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>I'm going to assume you have a working installation of Retroarch on the same system, but this method should work with any external emulator so long as you get the path and parameters right.</p><p>Select "Emulator Cmd" which won't let you just type it in, it makes you browse for the binary to execute:<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDuGSzwM53TCTnxRTTAifF6qMbGYfQoYENUq61I5B4gBKmNn0aglgjjLbLRdnzE_GH_DOpkmJQ-V0pmzmjU8RybCU5dBlwQO2-QuyssqhWyFArPbFhD74-5eML7VdAOBi3EbyZAkbkFZWzmpdIfqIQX2fGyRh2Lar0K6h-S4CKK4bf4HF35rflqAOy8LcK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1301" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDuGSzwM53TCTnxRTTAifF6qMbGYfQoYENUq61I5B4gBKmNn0aglgjjLbLRdnzE_GH_DOpkmJQ-V0pmzmjU8RybCU5dBlwQO2-QuyssqhWyFArPbFhD74-5eML7VdAOBi3EbyZAkbkFZWzmpdIfqIQX2fGyRh2Lar0K6h-S4CKK4bf4HF35rflqAOy8LcK=w400-h213" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEial5Ay54Ek7brajLcKzGUHxG3-RQP8Ro33ncfaiTpRoXD-c-zmgk24VDVwv3UvUEGHrye_nUHmGufdxZcvHd8l7VYxmMYRxToEvFTZLoD2STPOsg_nQUVfaLTGkere6WFNSYkv1dFBmaMaWk4RdXDLXtdzvws-swNv5h9GjJL6o8p7U_Y25ZwbO8F1_sga" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="916" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEial5Ay54Ek7brajLcKzGUHxG3-RQP8Ro33ncfaiTpRoXD-c-zmgk24VDVwv3UvUEGHrye_nUHmGufdxZcvHd8l7VYxmMYRxToEvFTZLoD2STPOsg_nQUVfaLTGkere6WFNSYkv1dFBmaMaWk4RdXDLXtdzvws-swNv5h9GjJL6o8p7U_Y25ZwbO8F1_sga=w400-h261" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYPXnzaC4oGzXFP2-7PtZE1QjbsTspAGJUmgqqEJzAHvoLcc52Tuc5tDcw1VXsl_vshZDTSMyfzkCUHQCoO2LGoUIMp9QFR9OL6u9HLjOplmMoqss5JqcRiThRRSFGM17r1SVt9NpPS3pE9E60_6WJLXttNxtcnIYU8y8l2npUZi2ljE4riDSHVdjqEsyE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="913" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYPXnzaC4oGzXFP2-7PtZE1QjbsTspAGJUmgqqEJzAHvoLcc52Tuc5tDcw1VXsl_vshZDTSMyfzkCUHQCoO2LGoUIMp9QFR9OL6u9HLjOplmMoqss5JqcRiThRRSFGM17r1SVt9NpPS3pE9E60_6WJLXttNxtcnIYU8y8l2npUZi2ljE4riDSHVdjqEsyE=w400-h264" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-GscLYlzTT4i9SBFr3yg-v6nuHDpUvtOvZZNYdP38_LjQU8A1fyt3BUXxUdqYV-yN1h5ybg2_cxlmkNmBKcEjB-OjY3gIUvkh-J_zCoM1Ib_MQw7it_4dXJWdu3Ca1n_b5fT6WKChAXV9Dlzyfi6RJf3tJmUkbAh9XKlSZme72nvFC2D1p2Z2Cc2H_Iu1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="915" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-GscLYlzTT4i9SBFr3yg-v6nuHDpUvtOvZZNYdP38_LjQU8A1fyt3BUXxUdqYV-yN1h5ybg2_cxlmkNmBKcEjB-OjY3gIUvkh-J_zCoM1Ib_MQw7it_4dXJWdu3Ca1n_b5fT6WKChAXV9Dlzyfi6RJf3tJmUkbAh9XKlSZme72nvFC2D1p2Z2Cc2H_Iu1=w400-h261" width="400" /></a></div><br />Note that the path to the binary will be different if you're using a Snap or Flatpack version of Retroarch and obviously will be different if you're pointing to a different emulator. Now we need to send the right "Emulator Params" to actually launch the game:<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmpg1JB-bJZLFheuG857ZUQFLe4olQyC3yOD2aEoFREFMVXJsWu0QtCviyPykxhgqkDQcPToQnrMgXa5jx8dKaaZJyX4jKY86hrxaLNcHsXicZrDARk1vzwa4af6-4RjivPX12tRAGx7RAEsBbd04AGGyee6kyGXF-W9r-eATLlJdQJk-fNd7foLuAZthQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1301" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmpg1JB-bJZLFheuG857ZUQFLe4olQyC3yOD2aEoFREFMVXJsWu0QtCviyPykxhgqkDQcPToQnrMgXa5jx8dKaaZJyX4jKY86hrxaLNcHsXicZrDARk1vzwa4af6-4RjivPX12tRAGx7RAEsBbd04AGGyee6kyGXF-W9r-eATLlJdQJk-fNd7foLuAZthQ=w400-h214" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>In my case these was the magic parameters to enter:<br /> <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHlVYPMoRg_HO5uEXYHLXmMq9zuYehCDj2UHAh74vouKXH-bIPIgdmyR5thiAGbHpCdEfEUSwQ1xFEq5rKtpebFlpTK02BMV8whho5E2tlwjG0TP2ZyYZTEhU1jvLs8fKzuKZmjXaS7viYjDbNuZxYIQs-etyhA-FuXqnwsGLV0DL3omHRTqAs8N5FhCQe" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="1440" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHlVYPMoRg_HO5uEXYHLXmMq9zuYehCDj2UHAh74vouKXH-bIPIgdmyR5thiAGbHpCdEfEUSwQ1xFEq5rKtpebFlpTK02BMV8whho5E2tlwjG0TP2ZyYZTEhU1jvLs8fKzuKZmjXaS7viYjDbNuZxYIQs-etyhA-FuXqnwsGLV0DL3omHRTqAs8N5FhCQe=w400-h209" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>-L /home/htpc/.config/retroarch/cores/bluemsx_libretro.so "%rom%"</b></p><p>Obviously you'd need to make sure the username is yours. I'm using "htpc" because that's what this box is for. For each game platform you need to launch externally in Retroarch you'd need to change the core *.so file it is invoking. So, for example, an NES game to use the Mesen emulator core would be:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>-L /home/htpc/.config/retroarch/cores/mesen-s_libretro.so "%rom%" </b></p><p>I think you get the idea.<br /></p><p>Side note: I couldn't get the Retroplayer BlueMSX core to work even with the extracted "Machines" and "Databases" placed in:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.libretro.bluemsx_libretro_buildbot/resources/system/</i></p><p>But they work fine inside <i>~/.config/retroarch/system/</i></p><p>Which is why I'm launching those games in Retroarch instead of Retroplayer.</p><p><i>(If you don't know what extracted files I'm talking about see the BlueMSX core instructions here: <a href="https://docs.libretro.com/library/bluemsx/">https://docs.libretro.com/library/bluemsx/</a>). </i><br /></p><p>YMMV. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-12501837384307130282022-03-06T11:49:00.001-08:002022-05-13T13:53:17.643-07:00Fixing An Ancient Racing Wheel Controller<p> I recently built up another Home Theater PC with some retro-gaming apps on it. One of the games I wanted to play was an old one I think is one of the best racing games of all time called "Breakneck 2" originally from 1998 (I wrote about it <a href="https://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/breakneck-nice2-excessive-speed-on.html">on this blog</a> about a decade ago, it's from Germany and was originally released as "N.I.C.E.2 Excessive Speed" in Europe). This game is the only reason I even own a racing wheel game controller.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBR2Z4145CnLITG6aKJtuTREoUVptaxY-JxHcvW_MzHmIw5-jhNehgs7G4Y01Yj65xqKzBaCV0nfp49q7ALSd2ApzG28BH5Hde2l1ggKQfq_kzGk1oLU48RSrz4BGTlVjmHr4xH9A73i7-9RBEB4jw87GcsylKntHBHU4gqHmOnblRn-az2FB9rKiEQ/s4000/01_Box.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBR2Z4145CnLITG6aKJtuTREoUVptaxY-JxHcvW_MzHmIw5-jhNehgs7G4Y01Yj65xqKzBaCV0nfp49q7ALSd2ApzG28BH5Hde2l1ggKQfq_kzGk1oLU48RSrz4BGTlVjmHr4xH9A73i7-9RBEB4jw87GcsylKntHBHU4gqHmOnblRn-az2FB9rKiEQ/w640-h360/01_Box.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the "Windows 98" compatibility!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKKIk3aPrsKpb1RolGU1yjNzLTx9L3otOY8JmsbXWoChqArI_7T8xczZpYYIx5QCMQuJFH6N4xX7YrVjaBOxxIv7-ZxLUn3wPmB_keL3S6DakDoUPwnF8fE4KSDVGRRbU8M75lvJtKbJf1smcOJlYPTkgPomzluI5LRqwNs5-vfJ4f4f0PMoh3iGmog/s2973/02_Wheel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2973" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKKIk3aPrsKpb1RolGU1yjNzLTx9L3otOY8JmsbXWoChqArI_7T8xczZpYYIx5QCMQuJFH6N4xX7YrVjaBOxxIv7-ZxLUn3wPmB_keL3S6DakDoUPwnF8fE4KSDVGRRbU8M75lvJtKbJf1smcOJlYPTkgPomzluI5LRqwNs5-vfJ4f4f0PMoh3iGmog/w303-h400/02_Wheel.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><p></p><p>But the wheel is 24 years old and over the years it has been stored in basements and attics and garages, not to mention the actual use (abuse?). So I'm not surprised it broke inside almost immediately after I started using it this time.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQphSSfQ-OhTbhPx4lEIRMEoBRds_OKgPq7B5CLooylvVEqfsI91gh-AarKoc-JvA1-oH_aaWsYp36M25XjuOy6l1rH6cJ8kbFe16pcuUjcevCSsAWpGkTU6TJqFcAQB4WIk2i3Px8n46EwexfgwCh_CzgygJuGAZqzFcsPCaYtwzOUsSjUau0sDl1Q/s4000/03_Busted.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQphSSfQ-OhTbhPx4lEIRMEoBRds_OKgPq7B5CLooylvVEqfsI91gh-AarKoc-JvA1-oH_aaWsYp36M25XjuOy6l1rH6cJ8kbFe16pcuUjcevCSsAWpGkTU6TJqFcAQB4WIk2i3Px8n46EwexfgwCh_CzgygJuGAZqzFcsPCaYtwzOUsSjUau0sDl1Q/w360-h640/03_Busted.jpg" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shattered plastic "yoke" from inside wheel<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><br /><p>But the part that broke is a textbook case for using a 3D printer: to reproduce a plastic part that is unavailable. And I happen to have a 3D printer.</p><p>Granted the 3D printer is not a good one. It's garbage. LITERALLY. It was intercepted on its way to a dumpster. It's a "Tiko" delta printer that was part of a Kickstarter campaign. On the plus side, unlike a lot of crowdfunded tech projects, they actually DID deliver some units. But they bankrupted themselves in the process and went out of business.</p><p>The biggest issue with this printer is that the built-in "slicer" software is terrible. But if you use some other program to slice your models and feed the printer raw "gcode" files it works a LOT better! But you are still limited by the actual capabilities of the printer, and if you need precision parts that will fit together? Not gonna happen. Not without doing some filing and shaping, and even then the still may not fit together.</p><p>Anyway, the tldr; is after a number of false starts and failures I FINALLY got a 3D printed replacement part to work and got the wheel working again. Below is my frustrating journey to once again drive some windy old virtual roads at insane speeds.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Plan A: Fix The Original Part</h2><p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgL1lf0fbiPESdwd_t7jtIQ_-Yvo5VCsmAtA18uBOKY8CTn2J31mbW_fnJW3Tyx8InWXMwfMi6L3nDKrKgFLz9k57qvEMM17YbaXFfiTsc--nv247PIWVAoJDxMNW3kBa-O_zyJN2qord_xa2uo_5prKQJ96emExO8CEeXrGf39XkrgHA6aVu6IRl8g/s4000/04_Yoke_original_glued.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgL1lf0fbiPESdwd_t7jtIQ_-Yvo5VCsmAtA18uBOKY8CTn2J31mbW_fnJW3Tyx8InWXMwfMi6L3nDKrKgFLz9k57qvEMM17YbaXFfiTsc--nv247PIWVAoJDxMNW3kBa-O_zyJN2qord_xa2uo_5prKQJ96emExO8CEeXrGf39XkrgHA6aVu6IRl8g/w640-h360/04_Yoke_original_glued.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">original part glued back together<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p>My first thought was just to try and fix the broken part. Using some superglue I was able to reassemble it. But this is a part that has a lot of torsional pressure and other forces acting on it. I thought it would probably just break into pieces again, so at this point I took as accurate measurements off of it as I could. I thought maybe if I just clad it with some 3D printed pieces to strengthen it then it might work. So I made a model in SketchUp 2017, exported it as an STL file, generated a gcode file, and printed it:<br /><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yQgNfeqXhlXn3R2RDThzRdsM1U1DYyPNc5oD2j7X23Sv0LjvWSg774_9f1lEeDtR1SGP8RcODbmRiEIhc-hVNxUZuGq_xJz5I6KtSkwVSe0sHe4rBFit89xCqzI_qOtcFzbwCVTu2yYEGRp5MdgBMmWLTVc-6YGu0T37XzelvKtErJlaz49puqKIog/s2000/05_print1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yQgNfeqXhlXn3R2RDThzRdsM1U1DYyPNc5oD2j7X23Sv0LjvWSg774_9f1lEeDtR1SGP8RcODbmRiEIhc-hVNxUZuGq_xJz5I6KtSkwVSe0sHe4rBFit89xCqzI_qOtcFzbwCVTu2yYEGRp5MdgBMmWLTVc-6YGu0T37XzelvKtErJlaz49puqKIog/w640-h360/05_print1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Printing the part<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>In case you're wondering, this printer doesn't have a heated bed. After many frustrating attempt to print things I discovered that putting a piece of printer paper over the bed was the perfect thing for PLA plastic adhesion. My models no longer break away from the bed and get dragged around by the print head. You have to tear the part off the paper, but you can simply use water to get all the paper off.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Byg6vIM6E0i0to6VhX6GQtEJT5aWvPzZqLSJEYNwH4sklqgkQSVxOgseOjbZ-OzTBZLbKTAzZjPkJH6wd85id6HeHOtHo7NmxN9Wr5jB9caWgoX2_-s1kx-eXLwPQi0hH7NqJjly0CsAQsW9oo6fMFuugqiu1GvSyLRRrkTaj00rzSjn7-xEX2q3Bg/s4000/07_Yoke_original_clad1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Byg6vIM6E0i0to6VhX6GQtEJT5aWvPzZqLSJEYNwH4sklqgkQSVxOgseOjbZ-OzTBZLbKTAzZjPkJH6wd85id6HeHOtHo7NmxN9Wr5jB9caWgoX2_-s1kx-eXLwPQi0hH7NqJjly0CsAQsW9oo6fMFuugqiu1GvSyLRRrkTaj00rzSjn7-xEX2q3Bg/w400-h225/07_Yoke_original_clad1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EqJS5wSQHGBxgWzQuNLlTluTvv_UPxo-kf_ADUMuQWMlemP-DFrPjiWB9bxPKBXOZtOr_Wj2yS763AQRgtErt68TiJnyW_KAMB9EkuRff0oN0dmdNANXWen7QkKarrdoTFT1p9R20znX8VhiBo56SH2PKPkUp7TjpDgMxa5_GNnC1am68-LNyZjiiA/s4000/08_yoke_original_clad2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EqJS5wSQHGBxgWzQuNLlTluTvv_UPxo-kf_ADUMuQWMlemP-DFrPjiWB9bxPKBXOZtOr_Wj2yS763AQRgtErt68TiJnyW_KAMB9EkuRff0oN0dmdNANXWen7QkKarrdoTFT1p9R20znX8VhiBo56SH2PKPkUp7TjpDgMxa5_GNnC1am68-LNyZjiiA/w400-h225/08_yoke_original_clad2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>So I made flat pieces for both sides of the Yoke and superglued them to it, then filled in the gaps with expanding Gorilla Glue. There are rollers that are supposed to go on those pegs. The rollers ride against a piece of bungee cord to create resistance (this is not a force-feedback wheel). The rollers were only held on by a tiny peg, one of which was broken and even if could find the piece it would never hold. So I drilled out the pegs and held the rollers with screws and washers:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IR0irXaushAI8wohHi7GGl4A3NOElJvJYZnBXoMDNMd09_WHuxYrBd2JwnL0nRYWRN_GSb63WFP7JCoAP3VEwZ2leE0TXuOcZq_txQL7zTVvY6cvUdLe9S_1nq5wVTL4Jr7Wg_Y4e3_YBP9KidSuyqFPBcLsL37sDt6CMMjLoNk8WDJbYsuhDGrTtg/s4000/09_yoke_origional_rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IR0irXaushAI8wohHi7GGl4A3NOElJvJYZnBXoMDNMd09_WHuxYrBd2JwnL0nRYWRN_GSb63WFP7JCoAP3VEwZ2leE0TXuOcZq_txQL7zTVvY6cvUdLe9S_1nq5wVTL4Jr7Wg_Y4e3_YBP9KidSuyqFPBcLsL37sDt6CMMjLoNk8WDJbYsuhDGrTtg/w400-h225/09_yoke_origional_rollers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>I have no idea if this glued-together part would've worked because I could NOT get it reinstalled. The steering shaft is knurled and you could see the imprint of the knurling inside the "tower" on the Yoke, but I couldn't actually get the part to go back down over the shaft. I suspect it may have been pressed into place at the factory or heated and pushed on, gripping itself as it cooled and contracted. I couldn't hammer it down onto the shaft because I was sure THAT would just break it into a million pieces again.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh57bR10K7-6waOTn4fiR6ed2jMrZRoPtBk4Fqag3eHUH4P_gRets48NFBgVuKo-UZifzngroKAPTOTdRjJwjDYgBLbDXzrpTR8n20mZ4lT0T_6TSWCGLUHEZ8whn8yO7ljkXS-4vueDiod2dnuHGzwcpek_wqXUmrwgDmkhpmqdP_nqkkrqbyOF8r1Q/s4000/11_disassembled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh57bR10K7-6waOTn4fiR6ed2jMrZRoPtBk4Fqag3eHUH4P_gRets48NFBgVuKo-UZifzngroKAPTOTdRjJwjDYgBLbDXzrpTR8n20mZ4lT0T_6TSWCGLUHEZ8whn8yO7ljkXS-4vueDiod2dnuHGzwcpek_wqXUmrwgDmkhpmqdP_nqkkrqbyOF8r1Q/w640-h360/11_disassembled.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Okay, so on to Plan B!</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Plan B: 3D Print A Replacement Part</h2><p>My first thought was, since the original piece is very dense, heavy plastic, and has a lot of forces acting on it, I should try and print my replacement part with 100% density too. Which would take forever, but it would be literally solid plastic. But I had to quickly abandon that plan because at that density the little Tiko printer starts experiencing pronounced layer shifting:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwsnY4zotqzoMrOa5YNVq111duYq7fbnXwMEp7vMg-R2MdgMEOhPNM5VksomGysPX-CBIzUTtElv138BopGIYmGipTFFJ2UlRj-sT-Vj82rGEnOBIM-ghGpkxipquYAglO_U_gy4e8uvScNfhkTsc3x4mN0Q30wRi8imRBHousdNLGrQ0msS5laEtxQ/s2594/06_print1_stopped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="2594" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwsnY4zotqzoMrOa5YNVq111duYq7fbnXwMEp7vMg-R2MdgMEOhPNM5VksomGysPX-CBIzUTtElv138BopGIYmGipTFFJ2UlRj-sT-Vj82rGEnOBIM-ghGpkxipquYAglO_U_gy4e8uvScNfhkTsc3x4mN0Q30wRi8imRBHousdNLGrQ0msS5laEtxQ/w640-h434/06_print1_stopped.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>That meant I had to rework my model a bit to create some interior structure so I could hopefully stop the layers shifting on me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1zy8X8m20yxGR2o6gn0ywMN2wrYukM6AlmB4YXvFUu8sx4-f14Ur7_nuLRcHVVwm4kF28XkPeKWUbb2M51FyGYD3GyhwuRP-GZQ2O3_VYg3jF5DiBNZBVD_kBdjzviCcvzSAWzfw7UW-hIF2Y2IDt6w2njTPqwMkXEcVohCh8h8PU_4yA8aQ-BWUdA/s4000/13_print2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1zy8X8m20yxGR2o6gn0ywMN2wrYukM6AlmB4YXvFUu8sx4-f14Ur7_nuLRcHVVwm4kF28XkPeKWUbb2M51FyGYD3GyhwuRP-GZQ2O3_VYg3jF5DiBNZBVD_kBdjzviCcvzSAWzfw7UW-hIF2Y2IDt6w2njTPqwMkXEcVohCh8h8PU_4yA8aQ-BWUdA/w640-h360/13_print2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>But there was still some layer shifting, especially when it got to printing the "tower" that goes around the knurled shaft. Also, because of the limitations of the printer's precision (or severe lack of it) I could NOT get the inside diameter of that tower correct. I ended up printing a whole bunch of revisions:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-q6JoAZEERXV50IsMlfYIwHoFDFgwYhzRvV9Ak0wQcuCeycQ4BgFSETHdx3Yiw-GfUsPKHxdSu38PUTiLUGUJrOc4Qvwmz8mcsT3tw39OsIeLZftM8eZk9st_HlRhxtAg9TGPBs-822MCMhKDUnOIpe-iyWezi35Vw-21eB6eoSh-YALy6I1l8aYscA/s3893/14_variations.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="3893" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-q6JoAZEERXV50IsMlfYIwHoFDFgwYhzRvV9Ak0wQcuCeycQ4BgFSETHdx3Yiw-GfUsPKHxdSu38PUTiLUGUJrOc4Qvwmz8mcsT3tw39OsIeLZftM8eZk9st_HlRhxtAg9TGPBs-822MCMhKDUnOIpe-iyWezi35Vw-21eB6eoSh-YALy6I1l8aYscA/w640-h228/14_variations.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> And STILL couldn't get it right. The inside diameter of the tower not only has to fit over the knurled shaft the outside diameter has to fit inside the "resistance arch" with the bungee cord. So on that last one on the right I tried to slowly, and carefully hone out the interior large enough to install it. Which resulted in it eventually breaking off entirely:<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuZEnazSydO6oD2j9hAGwivsHERMsMqcOEGrMa8r1LKdtw95XlbYPcPShmFMCf6BRG2_Lr9r4S-XtE4yRCsv-H3HmwmjVIKlxEwDLkQ5JVPbgwUwMNiallxRuKbcjGG9ACLlkIVKK8p1TDjSMcJdyL2eCdlymNcp-I25LbrLQmsySP4oEN-xa1ew_Rw/s2250/15_broken.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2249" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuZEnazSydO6oD2j9hAGwivsHERMsMqcOEGrMa8r1LKdtw95XlbYPcPShmFMCf6BRG2_Lr9r4S-XtE4yRCsv-H3HmwmjVIKlxEwDLkQ5JVPbgwUwMNiallxRuKbcjGG9ACLlkIVKK8p1TDjSMcJdyL2eCdlymNcp-I25LbrLQmsySP4oEN-xa1ew_Rw/w640-h640/15_broken.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DOH!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>This project went through MANY revisions on the fly:</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrocp95v_5Gq39i9PskWjxn--dgNVfxxHcYZYIVt8-W8NhPZwlK3C15bVymoYWuCvX4OTxhr7eemSW7u_Ij04k05zk2NW9CKQrblgrvido8aRs_ycbp3DJdBTFud8Al8kaoa8IimnjShhiQDvdKLLZNAlACoDy0XJRmmx-iJoDeKaQa6CzFwJ2c638g/s3552/Revisions.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3032" data-original-width="3552" height="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrocp95v_5Gq39i9PskWjxn--dgNVfxxHcYZYIVt8-W8NhPZwlK3C15bVymoYWuCvX4OTxhr7eemSW7u_Ij04k05zk2NW9CKQrblgrvido8aRs_ycbp3DJdBTFud8Al8kaoa8IimnjShhiQDvdKLLZNAlACoDy0XJRmmx-iJoDeKaQa6CzFwJ2c638g/w640-h546/Revisions.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The many revisions of the Yoke<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p>These were all done in SketchUp 2017 which is the only 3D modeling software I really know how to use. I've tried to build things in Blender, Cheetah3D, and FreeCad with great difficulty. At least with SketchUp I know I can slam together something really fast. <br /></p><p>So in that last revision I decided to approach this a different way. Since I absolutely could NOT get that inside diameter right I figured I'd design a multi-part model that could CLAMP around the knurled shaft. That led to this:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnm-uHaUkAKaWXSlmnPKZCoSSaPphtOoVSZEmRHRCGMg8c6ZqLOK_2i4QxsDWxc-kMBHDGxU27HRdnuufrwKLJ-lNM4hRqv4C8Y8fGW0QbXG3TlUJ9IlIGGdXmqeh_XSB7n4wA9O9rImXyc8zucrkxPn3sRT4pUHGzjow8D7KvRruC-5z51DIQAanJRw/s2823/16_two_piece1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2823" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnm-uHaUkAKaWXSlmnPKZCoSSaPphtOoVSZEmRHRCGMg8c6ZqLOK_2i4QxsDWxc-kMBHDGxU27HRdnuufrwKLJ-lNM4hRqv4C8Y8fGW0QbXG3TlUJ9IlIGGdXmqeh_XSB7n4wA9O9rImXyc8zucrkxPn3sRT4pUHGzjow8D7KvRruC-5z51DIQAanJRw/w640-h348/16_two_piece1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "tower" is printed separately and superglued to the base parts.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOisdlsH3ECxmGCc7eOPvdPrtq3SKY6lVZgJBmAg73LR5QszSxYcSxZ5FBhw0sGMWISZy2gbKK9uhKMKBYGlLkM_27SrTKPTteb_yYhWRsKCY-1G8sgKT7UnB77jzOay_rRQ5hkp3J2J289F23ciS0_bM229bBmhiNqWXlcmIwOPHNnvFEwcmKA3iMuw/s4000/17_two_piece2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOisdlsH3ECxmGCc7eOPvdPrtq3SKY6lVZgJBmAg73LR5QszSxYcSxZ5FBhw0sGMWISZy2gbKK9uhKMKBYGlLkM_27SrTKPTteb_yYhWRsKCY-1G8sgKT7UnB77jzOay_rRQ5hkp3J2J289F23ciS0_bM229bBmhiNqWXlcmIwOPHNnvFEwcmKA3iMuw/w640-h360/17_two_piece2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With some screws I found in the kitchen junk drawer. <br />No idea what they're from, but they went through the holes and were long enough.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Okay, so another problem you run into with 3D printing (and not just with my literally garbage printer) is prints that curl up on the ends as the part cools. It's more of a problem with ABS plastic than PLA but can happen with either, especially on a printer without a heated bed.</p><p>So, to get the parts to match up and be flat I had to heat up a cup of water in the microwave. For PLA you need it about 150 degrees. Dip the part in the hot water for a few seconds until it just become pliable enough to reshape it. If you leave it in too long or the water is too hot, though, you're part will become TOO pliable and will also shrink. See how the top piece in that photo is a little narrower than the bottom piece? It shrank a bit. See that little dip in the top edge next to the longer screw? My thumb made that.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Reassembly</h2><p>Now that I had a part that would actually FIT the time came to put everything back together.</p><p>When I was trying to get the other attempted Yokes on I had to cut the wires to the buttons in the middle of the steering wheel. Ironically with the two-piece clamp Yoke I wouldn't have needed to do that. But what's done is done. You may have noticed in that disassembled photo up above that there's a part labeled "Weird Dummy Board." The wires from the steering wheel buttons went to this board that doesn't seem to DO anything:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8cGCSkRIx_wuE9uONkeGffkaX7naC_U4rHhrskP3Lseok5nPEOYnp3jxtXNM4JkurMna4uoA3OswzJMbbY8zPElUg_riXYbFuaFDJNnQnkEmZT7W2lmNRmtPr_rF1uMSPkMQs1APCHa8jm_GyfzpHD_LzPz-migbTZN5cZRw-MRejAobYubEO0KeUQ/s2560/10_dummy_board.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8cGCSkRIx_wuE9uONkeGffkaX7naC_U4rHhrskP3Lseok5nPEOYnp3jxtXNM4JkurMna4uoA3OswzJMbbY8zPElUg_riXYbFuaFDJNnQnkEmZT7W2lmNRmtPr_rF1uMSPkMQs1APCHa8jm_GyfzpHD_LzPz-migbTZN5cZRw-MRejAobYubEO0KeUQ/w640-h360/10_dummy_board.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The wires just connect to one side and there are circuit traces that just go straight across to wires of the same colors. Why? Perhaps there was some other model of this wheel with a different board there for some other features this one doesn't have? No idea.<br /> <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZhREpPGjkFGxD2yJ3m7Q4gd9bSDpoGfZuC0EOke730keX94SgfcojkNwKoGv-i2Qo15AG78OnB_9N4NftJMkqsStBAYV-eL-7gEfeMKZkbq39vgS5xvv39CFFaDfeP2rplBqFo6bM4TY_XphI6TfW_PWB6dogox1w5lTsQSGjSXs4MJFFgNutYf9Jg/s1800/11.5_dummy_board.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1609" data-original-width="1800" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZhREpPGjkFGxD2yJ3m7Q4gd9bSDpoGfZuC0EOke730keX94SgfcojkNwKoGv-i2Qo15AG78OnB_9N4NftJMkqsStBAYV-eL-7gEfeMKZkbq39vgS5xvv39CFFaDfeP2rplBqFo6bM4TY_XphI6TfW_PWB6dogox1w5lTsQSGjSXs4MJFFgNutYf9Jg/w400-h358/11.5_dummy_board.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stupid "Dummy Board"<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The advantage of getting rid of this useless board was the wires I'd snipped were long enough to reach the ultimate board connector without my needing to solder pigtails onto them. So, goodbye Dummy Board!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-v_0EBQODrQfFumiL-TjFqlsQZr4EPzvM6vmJkp5-aMXXb87zXUzUd_gROjmDYN9C-6G9rrHbJ7I4kgo30esmpsGuHd9sEbbi_a5-WvjU3R0HDXiGOUxkIPtQqIqFDDbKBoaz2fhrZUswKCd8w3aEKm4i-YRcTW5Zuu8FyjXqIE_QU7VdmcQgwGFVUg/s4000/18_new_screws.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-v_0EBQODrQfFumiL-TjFqlsQZr4EPzvM6vmJkp5-aMXXb87zXUzUd_gROjmDYN9C-6G9rrHbJ7I4kgo30esmpsGuHd9sEbbi_a5-WvjU3R0HDXiGOUxkIPtQqIqFDDbKBoaz2fhrZUswKCd8w3aEKm4i-YRcTW5Zuu8FyjXqIE_QU7VdmcQgwGFVUg/w400-h225/18_new_screws.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Once I clamped the Yoke on the knurled shaft I had to reinstall the resistance arch over it. That was secured with four weak little screws from the front panel. I drilled everything out a little larger and put in some beefier bolts. Found these Allen-head ones in a box of junk that dressed it up nicely.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSh3SLjUtGhpveWpwk9JgZKO6S_NtRTdUBIVv7UHteRumY-N1gkOm0CB7wgIrEuTaM0xb8_amSDGxgEqlv_xjWtuJEhoQcVWQT8wtMq07uP0ghQ1TDtdiB46VvWvJQ1q8rj3kjSfIoDSIpcO4-4LuCb0zYcSayCvwS7ZirYl1zM6RguQ2zwVwJiE08Qw/s4000/19_installed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSh3SLjUtGhpveWpwk9JgZKO6S_NtRTdUBIVv7UHteRumY-N1gkOm0CB7wgIrEuTaM0xb8_amSDGxgEqlv_xjWtuJEhoQcVWQT8wtMq07uP0ghQ1TDtdiB46VvWvJQ1q8rj3kjSfIoDSIpcO4-4LuCb0zYcSayCvwS7ZirYl1zM6RguQ2zwVwJiE08Qw/w640-h360/19_installed.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Resistance Arch and Clamp Yoke installed<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8KFDbBBZTwYnJZA-xViHNIkZOhzP3oQzw0AkZxo-tgjBS0a4Mx7kvJ0YYHqYEBcJtMH83a1AMT_pUPiV6xEb_eZaQd7TFtMJO7rlCMoTg_xwlGFVucUELPbpy3F5qd_dOFYGlzkaa0_QC1mHyFm1xUrrxLJkCR0OJFU_ZLdg8asFL7A87ycyBBBXeQ/s4000/20_installed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8KFDbBBZTwYnJZA-xViHNIkZOhzP3oQzw0AkZxo-tgjBS0a4Mx7kvJ0YYHqYEBcJtMH83a1AMT_pUPiV6xEb_eZaQd7TFtMJO7rlCMoTg_xwlGFVucUELPbpy3F5qd_dOFYGlzkaa0_QC1mHyFm1xUrrxLJkCR0OJFU_ZLdg8asFL7A87ycyBBBXeQ/w640-h360/20_installed.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Clamp Yoke's bolts sticking out aren't a problem, and give enough extra for some lock-nuts.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Next up is reinstalling the gear-driven potentiometer that actually tracks the position of the wheel. The trick with this is to make sure the wheel is in the center position and the potentiometer is in the middle position and drop everything into place and screw it down. If you get this wrong your steering wheel will be off-center when you're driving straight.</p><p>With everything back in place it's time to reconnect those steering wheel button wires to the connector (sans the "Dummy Board"):</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2X8Vmm4jAdhh0Kzqc-WQPmoF0JbPrRDd6kTMxfL3krMrW0dQ6DZ5yBsjCwG1oLK9M170Rr7MytegyZ7KJNABTl8UhItJ9ee0Tr9WtOBOUXNrSLdkV8SmeW0Zy8tPv2AuwvwyxkBxUHpGLqjRoiatmfKGwuXXvwTA7Vwm2hXYAKaXfPdWu8Z_wQe5zg/s2560/22.5_wiring2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2X8Vmm4jAdhh0Kzqc-WQPmoF0JbPrRDd6kTMxfL3krMrW0dQ6DZ5yBsjCwG1oLK9M170Rr7MytegyZ7KJNABTl8UhItJ9ee0Tr9WtOBOUXNrSLdkV8SmeW0Zy8tPv2AuwvwyxkBxUHpGLqjRoiatmfKGwuXXvwTA7Vwm2hXYAKaXfPdWu8Z_wQe5zg/w640-h360/22.5_wiring2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtbNlpIb_Dkvg4sbnDZlyuHVZPQpnpbAmPnSmATwQe0wqLT0qiwnlYs5MZgHWdXVRvpbFMVMUUGm2iFwmdTlIFboAG2MMLiAgQdK96zcYcDiqglJoWUhjXGRgYMrVb--i6j_1tBHdHd8wZAvcGvK2kIIC50YPFt8usgkzdEzd2Itm2UYioRAy9YwJWA/s4000/22_wiring1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtbNlpIb_Dkvg4sbnDZlyuHVZPQpnpbAmPnSmATwQe0wqLT0qiwnlYs5MZgHWdXVRvpbFMVMUUGm2iFwmdTlIFboAG2MMLiAgQdK96zcYcDiqglJoWUhjXGRgYMrVb--i6j_1tBHdHd8wZAvcGvK2kIIC50YPFt8usgkzdEzd2Itm2UYioRAy9YwJWA/w640-h360/22_wiring1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfjuwfcx1n2BsLbN49W8rqjeLcn-ruIvVGn8nhhNN4pMMCZrilu3Hvleq7t-LRg7r3glFU-qDr-O6MwmalRpPtqPHYcAX3uS56Dq4uu-zQ6-p1tTaWxh20S3hSMSoqmqUhqvBjyFRrSmeFvL-cEq9pLO04U3yGZ-_skoEw0DUeIAtpO6j-NnerusZIQ/s4000/23_wiring3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnfjuwfcx1n2BsLbN49W8rqjeLcn-ruIvVGn8nhhNN4pMMCZrilu3Hvleq7t-LRg7r3glFU-qDr-O6MwmalRpPtqPHYcAX3uS56Dq4uu-zQ6-p1tTaWxh20S3hSMSoqmqUhqvBjyFRrSmeFvL-cEq9pLO04U3yGZ-_skoEw0DUeIAtpO6j-NnerusZIQ/w640-h360/23_wiring3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wires bundled and everything is reconnected to the main circuit board!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>I did ultimately have to partially disassemble this again because on my first test with it the steering shaft knurling just ground out the inside of the Clamp Yoke tower. PLA plastic is pretty soft and the forces acting on it just turned the knurling into a file. My solution to that problem was to permanently GLUE the clamp onto the shaft with two-part epoxy. It means I will NEVER be able to get this apart again, but once the epoxy resin hardened that clamp isn't going anywhere.</p><p>Another issue was that, after 24 years, all the grease had basically gone away. The only grease I had on hand was some plumber's faucet grease. I put that on the outside of the tower and on the steering gears. The only downside to that is the wheel works VERY easily and smoothly. Though, I'm not sure if maybe that's what it was like when it was new? I can't remember. Maybe I just got used to the way it felt without any grease left in it. Of course, that probably played a role in why the original yoke broke.</p><p>Anyway, everything fixed in place again and reassembled it was time to CALIBRATE it!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLW2feC7Q8InwFmRbsid4XpbWeAtZ8n8tqioiapKq3yB4JMeV7bJhGPeA0Z_f2neCIpxVjs5qCZkJGzFtl8U86g-vyYubLMXqTHwIYWfrH5mF3BB-4pyUhmOKcPqcZkLDbakuiRIUDZ2c4Zsy6wHEMUEswQTUxQFQT4zQ9atDnqkK3eHI6cg21DG1Og/s4000/24_config.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLW2feC7Q8InwFmRbsid4XpbWeAtZ8n8tqioiapKq3yB4JMeV7bJhGPeA0Z_f2neCIpxVjs5qCZkJGzFtl8U86g-vyYubLMXqTHwIYWfrH5mF3BB-4pyUhmOKcPqcZkLDbakuiRIUDZ2c4Zsy6wHEMUEswQTUxQFQT4zQ9atDnqkK3eHI6cg21DG1Og/w640-h360/24_config.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calibrating it on Linux with QJoyPad utility<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>And last, but not least, taking it for a test run around the Breakneck 2 Corsica track:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupaBswmFoeVVqp9-KfaIubkstSS-ri0vK5Ra211J46Rs7n9AaPQQ98mf9UIHTsYK4q48AaZu_7SzurbF2b3Kl4XzLcUT0M4SQkH3kcu_CFGm_mii-GwpkT9r60Gum8Mt-4G-jiR9dW6GB6pgknTCwqKbni4VjjkHXW159cdbdRnQL41kycs7KPBC3bw/s4000/25_testing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupaBswmFoeVVqp9-KfaIubkstSS-ri0vK5Ra211J46Rs7n9AaPQQ98mf9UIHTsYK4q48AaZu_7SzurbF2b3Kl4XzLcUT0M4SQkH3kcu_CFGm_mii-GwpkT9r60Gum8Mt-4G-jiR9dW6GB6pgknTCwqKbni4VjjkHXW159cdbdRnQL41kycs7KPBC3bw/w360-h640/25_testing.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><p></p><p>If, by chance, you have one of these old Thrustmaster racing wheels that has also broken the Yoke here are the STL files of my final revision:<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MoDa9UdW1iAWxunVEpHx67vfR_o3kAuA/view?usp=sharing">Thrustmaster_Yoke_Rev9.zip</a></p><p>Of course I make no guarantees for how long it will last. So far mine hasn't broken again, but I've also been careful not to crank on it<i> too </i>hard.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-69245196393837209662022-01-23T17:13:00.004-08:002023-02-07T16:32:31.797-08:00XP-PEN Display Tablet Express Keys "fix" for M1 Mac<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeyl3h1RkM8MEuAtHSS55qlblNfwHAEhF-OhJGP2-8SRBKPUu9AWZVIgaLMeyDXJZz3Vtw3ZuynyCAkBKK7nN9ImiIlRK7sm3ywo7gOQ20aqMuNhNtZoFeeWEDO08dcS6dWLvq9Exk8xkTcBA5cFL0U0_4CY_S0wgCToxLScgs389Hab_5rykg2M9Yog=s912" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="912" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeyl3h1RkM8MEuAtHSS55qlblNfwHAEhF-OhJGP2-8SRBKPUu9AWZVIgaLMeyDXJZz3Vtw3ZuynyCAkBKK7nN9ImiIlRK7sm3ywo7gOQ20aqMuNhNtZoFeeWEDO08dcS6dWLvq9Exk8xkTcBA5cFL0U0_4CY_S0wgCToxLScgs389Hab_5rykg2M9Yog=w640-h484" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>UPDATE 7 FEBRUARY 2023</b><br />A macOS update apparently made the version 2.0 drivers stop working. I also ran into an issue where, because I'm using custom display profile overrides the tablet settings app cannot find the names of my displays nor could it tell there were two of them (it sees both displays as one ultrawide). After some playing around with both newer and older drivers I am now recommending you use the version 2.1.6 driver. It does have a bug that causes it to sometimes lose all your custom settings (like hotkey assignments), which you can mitigate by locking the actual settings file so it's "read only." (You can find it at <i>~/Library/Preferences/com.ugee.pentabletsetting.plist</i> and lock it by right+clicking and select "Get Info" then in that dialog tick the "Lock" box) But don't do that until after you've finished getting everything set up the way you like. Also, some apps simply won't accept your custom settings from this driver. For example, even with the default button assignments on my tablet where K1 = increase brush size, K2 = decrease brush size, CSP sees the first one correctly - but inconsistently - and the second one as "eye dropper." Even if I assign those to "]" and "[" it shows at the bottom of the display that the tablet IS using the configured keyboard character, but CSP ignores it. In Affinity Photo, though, it all works as intended. So this comes with a heavy dose of YMMV. You can still try the version 2.0 drivers and see if they work for you, but otherwise:<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bRNqHTfDbz5hc9sxs9yLnHxAbTqkwP2-/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD THE XP-PEN 2.1.6 DRIVERS FOR macOS</a><br /></p><p>The 2.1.6 drivers *should* automatically create entries for the macOS Privacy settings as shown below in the original post, but you'll want to make sure they are checked, and your tablet will not work until you restart your Mac. On restart you'll likely see a bunch of privacy/security pop-ups and you need to authorize all of them. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>------------ original post follows --------------</i></b><br /></p><p>Both I and one of my friends own the same model XP-PEN Artist 15.6 display tablet and M1 Macs. It's a nice tablet for the money but the support for Mac users is terrible, especially since the M1 "Apple Silicon" chip was introduced. The tablet itself is actually made by Ugee and I think XP-PEN is just one of many "brands" the same tablets are sold under (their websites have the same layout, the driver files are the same versions, the interface for their preferences app is the same, they just swap out some images).</p><p></p><p>So, anyway, the "New UI" version 3.x drivers are garbage. <b>They absolutely do NOT work</b>. Version 3.0.5 would at least detect the tablet if you unplugged it and plugged it back in, though you couldn't configure the pen or the Express Keys as none of the sections would appear in the left-hand column of the preferences app. The versions after that won't detect the tablet at all. <br /><br />I'm using the USB-C to USB-A + HDMI cable that came with my tablet because I'm mirroring my primary display to the tablet through an HDMI splitter. I haven't tried connecting my display tablet with a USB-C cable, but from what I've read on their forums and Reddit, it doesn't sound like that would make any difference.<br /></p><p>The (as of this writing) current 2.1.8.2 drivers are listed as the "Official" ones on XP-PEN's website, and if you have an M1 Mac they will get you up and running, but you won't be able to assign your Express Keys. There's a bug in those drivers that won't let you reassign them properly and I doubt they'll ever fix it because they've moved on to developing their <i>worthless</i> 3.x drivers.</p><p>The Express Keys bug was also present in 2.1.7 version of the drivers and a <i>different</i> bug was present in the 2.1.6 drivers. The 2.1.6 will let you reassign the functions of the keys, but they were inconsistent in actually <i>working.</i> When yo press one it displays a message across the bottom of the screen confirming not only that the button was pushed by tells you in bright green lettering what it's supposed to do. Except on a M1 Mac it wouldn't always actually do it (the drivers seem to work fine on my Intel Mac).</p><p>XP-PEN frustratingly does not provide an archive of older versions of their drivers. And, no, you can't get them through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine either. Thankfully between three computers I had installers for several different older versions.</p><p>After installing and testing and uninstalling ALL of them on my M1 Mac I finally found ONE that actually works the way it's supposed to!</p><p>The <b>Version 2.0 drivers</b> that ACTUALLY WORK are, ironically, the <i>oldest</i> ones I have. The ones I downloaded when I bought my tablet.<br /></p><p>You can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCUNT1vPg_6K2OxSthqzw5e4lRoeBX9v/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">get them from my Google Drive</a> but installing them in Big Sur is not exactly straight forward.</p><p>1. UNINSTALL your current XP-PEN drivers! Use the "Uninstall" app in the same folder as the Settings app.</p><p>2. RESTART your computer to make sure it's gone. <br /></p><p>3. Download the installer ZIP from that link in the line above.</p><p>4. Unzip it and inside there should be one file: <i><b>XP-Pen Mac(20180425).pkg</b></i> </p><p>5. Right+Click on that file so the context menu shows up.<br /></p><p>6. Press the OPTION key on your keyboard and then select "Open" from the context menu.</p><p>7. The macOS Gatekeeper will warn you about opening it, go ahead and do it anyway.</p><p>8. Run the installer and wait for it to finish.<br /></p><p>9. It will finish saying "Installation Failed!" but it's a liar, the installation worked just fine. Close the installer.<br /></p><p>10. Go to <b><i>Applications --> PenTablet --> PenTabletSetting.app</i></b> and open it.</p><p>11. Authorize the app in any macOS security and privacy pop-ups you see.</p><p>12. Open <b>System Preferences</b> and go to <b>Security & Privacy</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOGJHQG0RcG-F7OwVjzZB3s9T_20lZXYDcU3vQ7xcNo77rOFi98XkhoVAsdhWxIwUy4EqgOhbqhmDt7b2tbt7SZtxCg4Xd2eZKp7sPlm8YSJZFleWWYFiBQ7GhGiuPZC27Pcio4D50Byipi_KSqtALrupQwyAWn8am0acn85t3UirqtmAL9AjnPNP3NA=s780" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="780" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOGJHQG0RcG-F7OwVjzZB3s9T_20lZXYDcU3vQ7xcNo77rOFi98XkhoVAsdhWxIwUy4EqgOhbqhmDt7b2tbt7SZtxCg4Xd2eZKp7sPlm8YSJZFleWWYFiBQ7GhGiuPZC27Pcio4D50Byipi_KSqtALrupQwyAWn8am0acn85t3UirqtmAL9AjnPNP3NA=w400-h359" width="400" /></a></b></div>13. Click the padlock icon in the lower left and enter your login password to unlock it.<p></p><p>14. Scroll the left column down to "<b>Accessibility</b>"</p><p>15. Click the [+] button under the list on the right and navigate to:<br /><i><b>Applications --> PenTablet --> PenTabletSetting.app</b></i></p><p>16. Click the [+] button again and this time navigate to: <br /><i><b>Macintosh HD --> Library --> Application Support --> PenTablet --> PenTabletDriver.app</b></i></p><p>17. Now scroll the list on the left to "Input Monitoring" (and we're going to do the same...)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQc5RcaAb-LnUbpglEtOtRar3syWDQPlDYMA3IgFlz-FTpD0c255bCf17IFsV-bdrq-1pqYJwJufASIbheE-WrxlU6j1RfColEBvaqiti3XX7hS1ANis-M3D1n-9V-Lf63TNeCKLePKO1_Urd2l7l9Wv3JGSs898FjU695rZ5SsGsCZ6WjBmYjnDltYA=s780" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="780" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQc5RcaAb-LnUbpglEtOtRar3syWDQPlDYMA3IgFlz-FTpD0c255bCf17IFsV-bdrq-1pqYJwJufASIbheE-WrxlU6j1RfColEBvaqiti3XX7hS1ANis-M3D1n-9V-Lf63TNeCKLePKO1_Urd2l7l9Wv3JGSs898FjU695rZ5SsGsCZ6WjBmYjnDltYA=w400-h359" width="400" /></a></div><p>18. Click the [+] button under the list on the right and navigate to:<br /><i><b>Applications --> PenTablet --> PenTabletSetting.app</b></i></p><p>19. Click the [+] button again and this time navigate to: <br /><i><b>Macintosh HD --> Library --> Application Support --> PenTablet --> PenTabletDriver.app</b></i></p><p>20. Restart your M1 Mac.</p><p>21. Plug in your XP-PEN display tablet.</p><p>22. Go to <i><b>Applications --> PenTablet --> PenTabletSetting.app</b></i> and you should be able to set your preferences for pen buttons, pressure, display mapping, and Express Key assignment.</p><p>23. EXIT the settings app.</p><p>Your settings should now be usable with your tablet. When you press one of the Express Keys on the tablet you should see a gray bar across the bottom of the screen with text telling you what action is assigned to that button.</p><p>When you re-open the settings app be aware you may need to select your tablet from the drop-down list at the top before it will actually load your custom settings. I had made my pen pressure softer but when I reopened the settings app it wasn't showing the curve I'd set for the pen, but after selecting "Artist 15.6" from the list at the top it loaded my settings. They seem to be persistent after that, but if they revert to showing defaults I'd try selecting the tablet in the drop-down first, just to see if your custom settings load. <br /><br />This WILL fix your issue assigning the Express Keys custom functions. Whether using these old drivers ends up causing you <i>other</i> problems I can't say.<br /></p><p><br /></p>OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-80100327379134092642020-01-21T16:58:00.003-08:002020-01-21T17:17:48.508-08:00Running Clip Studio Paint in Wine on Linux<style type="text/css">
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I would love it if Celsys released a Linux version of their Clip Studio apps, but I highly doubt that will ever happen. Though if it did it would go a long way toward me being able to ditch both macOS and Windows (at least for my personal projects). So, without a native Linux version what to do? Try to run it in Wine (<i>read more about Wine </i><a href="https://www.winehq.org/" target="_blank"><i>here</i>)</a>. Emphasis on the word "try" because it can be rather difficult to get programs to actually work in Wine. They have an <a href="https://appdb.winehq.org/" target="_blank">App Database</a> which can often help you decide if it's even worth the trouble, which it often is not.</div>
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Well, with that stellar sales pitch I'll tell you that <b>Clip Studio Paint 1.9.7</b> and <b>Clip Studio Modeler 1.9.1</b> <i>both worked</i> for me in Wine 3.0.1 and Wine 4.0.3 on Kubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS. You should see similar results with just about any Linux distribution, especially the Debian-based ones like Ubuntu and its derivatives. I only installed the "trial" versions, but I tested as much as I could and everything I tested seemed to work just like it does on my Windows 10 machine.</div>
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However, I would strongly recommend if you have an actual Windows machine, or if you have a copy of Windows you can install on a partition on your machine and dual boot, that would be the preferable solution. But let's say you don't have a copy of Windows, or you hate it with passion, or you're not sure you'll use Clip Studio often enough to dedicate a drive partition to it. Ok then, let's install Wine and configure it for running the Clip Studio apps...</div>
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Sometimes the version available in your distro's repo is really old, in which case you'll want to add the Wine repository as a new source and pull it directly from there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm using Wine 3.0.1 (the latest in my Kubuntu LTS repo), though 4.0.3 is the latest stable release available from Wine HQ. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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10. If you have a Wacom tablet and are using KDE as your desktop environment, they have a Wacom Tablet preference panel you can install from <i>Discover (it's sort of like KDE's App Store)</i>, but no guarantees it actually works.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you have some other kind of graphics tablet and it doesn't have a Linux driver (since most don't) you can try installing the generic "Graphics Tablet" app for system settings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Again, no guarantees it will work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Getting your graphics table to work, and particularly trying to get pressure sensitivity to work, can be a real bear on Linux. For example, XP-Pen graphics and display tablets actually do have a native Linux driver available, but you have to run it with "sudo" from a terminal and keep the control panel open in the background (it doesn't appear to be persistent). YMMV.</div>
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1. The desktop shortcuts created by Wine don't always open the apps or take such a long time to open them you think it didn't work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They're far more likely to work if you already have something open in Wine (like the Config utility or Explorer).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Similarly, the links in the Clip Studio app sidebar don't always work for launching Paint and Modeler either.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sometimes they do, sometimes there's a lag in Wine and they fail to open.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's far more reliable to navigate with Wine's Explorer app and open the EXE files directly.</div>
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<br />OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-13091849051066660102019-04-04T16:48:00.001-07:002019-04-04T16:58:32.674-07:00Google Chrome "Managed by your organization" when you don't have an organization?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;">Starting with Chrome 73 when one or more policies are set in the Chrome Browser you'll see "Managed by your organization" at the bottom of the 3-dots menu and at the top of your Chrome Settings screen. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;">I'm posting this because, first of all I posted it as an answer on Googles support forums and it's pretty clear from the many confused, freaked out, wrong answer posts after that nobody there actually read it; and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/3595504" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Google's official answer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;">isn't terribly useful. For starters they don't tell you how to clear it. The links in their answer also aren't helpful if you're a HOME USER who isn't using a Chromebook or your company's G Suite or an organization's computer. I'm going to tell you below how to <b>get rid of this notice</b> and take control of your browser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: #1c1e21;" /><span style="color: #1c1e21;">This notice is normal if you're in an enterprise setting like a business or a school where the IT Department is managing the browser capabilities or if you use G Suite for business and you're logged into an account associated with G Suite. <br /><br />However it's distur</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1c1e21; display: inline;">bing to suddenly see it when you're using your private computer at home with your personal account! If you're using Chrome on your personal computer and saw this "Managed by your organization" appear don't worry, it *probably* doesn't mean anyone hijacked control of your browser.<br /><br />I say "probably" because there <i>are</i> malware and malicious extensions out there that can reset your home page and/or search engine and they do this by creating Chrome Policies, which will trigger the "Managed by your organization" notice. Allowing an extension to run in or even trying to print from "Incognito Mode" can potentially trigger this, but will persist even when you're back in a normal browsing window.<br /><br /><b>Deleting accounts or profiles or creating new ones won't get rid of it.</b> <b>Uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome doesn't work. </b> It might initially seem like it got rid of it, only to have it show up again. You may have read somewhere that </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>chrome://flags/#show-managed-ui</i> will fix it. <b>That just HIDES the notice</b>, it doesn't change any of the managed policies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1c1e21; display: inline;">Hit enter. Do this for each Policy Name until they've all been deleted.<br /><br />5. Restart Chrome. If you did it right the "Managed by your organization" at the bottom of the 3-dots menu should be gone. You can double-check by going back to chrome://policy which should be empty of policies now.<br /><br />Note that if you miss or leave even ONE you will continue to see the "Managed by" notice.<br /><br /><b>WINDOWS</b><br /><br />Windows has tools you can download a fixer app:<br /><br />Chrome Policy Remover: <a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B5uG-tHNHBj5XzNJbzlsd0NONnc" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>uc?export=download&id=0B5uG<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>-tHNHBj5XzNJbzlsd0NONnc</a><br /><br />You can also do the fix manually by deleting a registry entry:<br /><br /><i>\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWA<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>RE\Policies\Google\Chrome</i><br />or<br /><i>\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWAR<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>E\Policies\Google\Chrome</i><br /><br />Then run the Chrome Cleanup Tool:<br />1. Open Chrome<br />2. Go to the 3-dot menu and "Settings"<br />3. Click "Advanced" at the bottom of the Settings page.<br />4. Under "Reset and clean up" click "Clean up computer"<br />5. Click "Find"<br />6. If you're asked to remove unwanted software click "Remove"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1c1e21; display: inline;">It uses a JSON file to set user, rather than group, policies for the browser. It's rather complicated. Here's the Chromium Project page explaining it: </span></span><a href="http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/enterprise/adding-new-policies" style="background-color: transparent;">http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/enterprise/adding-new-policies</a></div>
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Ultimately if you know they're being set at the operating system level (and if you're not on a Chromebook they will be) <i>and</i> you have administrative privileges on the computer (which you probably do if you own it) then YOU are the "organization" that is managing these policies.</div>
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If you're trying to make 3D character models from scratch it is helpful to know the actual dimensions of real humans. One of the best resources for this information that I've found are the dimensions for the Alvanon Forms.<br />
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Alvanon is a company that makes and sells dress forms (aka "dressmaker's dummies") for the fashion and apparel industries. They also do extensive research on the dimensions of actual human beings, both adults and children, all around the world. They do sell 3D model services, but they are very expensive and geared exclusively toward their target industries. In other words, <i>you can't buy one of their standard male or female models</i> to use as a posing dummy in Clip Studio Paint or as a base in your 3D modeling software.<br />
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But they do have a massive amount of data on human dimensions you can use as a starting point. On their website there are PDF product data sheets for each of their many dress forms:<br />
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If you go to the last page of each of those product data sheets you'll find all the dimensions for the dress forms in both inches and centimeters in a chart like this:<br />
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You can glean the dimensions you need from there. In this sample it is for six men's UK clothing sizes, but what are useful are measurements such as the Total Height, Inseam, Across Shoulder, etc.</div>
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Of course it's helpful to know how they arrive at those measurements so you'll also want to check out the Measurement Specifications documents:</div>
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Which have useful charts like this inside:</div>
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Universities are also doing this kind of work for other industries. For example, here is a 2018 survey published by the University of Malaysia Engineering Department which gathered anthropometric data on Malaysian, Thai, Filipino, and Indonesian men and women:</div>
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<a href="https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/sadh/043/01/0010">https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/sadh/043/01/0010</a> (PDF file)<br />
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I took a bunch of data from various sources (including the CDC, EU, the Malaysian survey mentioned above, an architectural design website, etc.) and put it all in a spreadsheet to get these "Average Human" dimensions:</div>
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<pre> AVERAGE HUMAN DIMENSIONS
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MALE FEMALE AVERAGE
HEIGHT 1715mm 1588mm 1651mm
EYE HEIGHT 1599mm 1478mm 1538mm
SHOULDER HEIGHT 1411mm 1302mm 1357mm
SHOULDER BREADTH 418mm 382mm 400mm
ELBOW HEIGHT 1072mm 991mm 1032mm
HAND LENGTH 189mm 174mm 181mm
HAND BREADTH 77mm 76mm 76mm
REACH UPWARDS 1724mm 1540mm 1632mm
LOW HIP WIDTH 376mm 382mm 379mm
WEIGHT 77kg 62.5kg 69.7kg
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The data sets were based on the geographic location of wherever the particular study was being done, with no break-down by race or ethnicity, just male and female. So it's probably not as globally encompassing as it could be.<br />
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In addition to the apparel and fashion industries, knowing these numbers could be useful to engineers, architects, furniture designers, industrial designers, and probably video game, 3D animation, and other artists who work with or from 3D character models.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-22692506036357695002018-08-31T12:44:00.001-07:002018-08-31T18:37:09.480-07:00Clip Studio Modeler FINALLY officially in English!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The version 1.8.0 release of Clip Studio FINALLY has an official English language version of MODELER!!<br />
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Ok, here's the catch: it's not the FULL version of Modeler.<br />
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You'll still have to create your models in some other program. This is just the FREE bits, which is everything Clip Studio Coordinate (also a free program) could do for setting up 3D assets. However Coordinate never got an official release in another language or outside of Japan, so this pared-down version of Modeler is more than we got before!<br />
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Presumably, at some point, they'll also unlock the other features of modeler for an additional license fee. But for now you can't actually MODEL in this version of Modeler.<br />
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You can go download it here:<br />
<a href="http://www.clipstudio.net/en/modeler">http://www.clipstudio.net/en/modeler</a>OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-63735647547984283232018-04-27T14:16:00.000-07:002018-04-27T14:16:02.746-07:00HaiPad M701-R Firmware & Hacks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I bought a "Haipad" M701-R back in 2010, shipped directly from Shenzhen China, about a month before even the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 was available. For a no-name Android tablet it turned out to be surprisingly well built. As I write this in April 2018 it's usefulness isn't so great, but it still works!<br /><br />I used to run a user group over at AndroidTablets.net for this tablet. But during one of the redesigns of their website the user groups were apparently eliminated - along with all that collected knowledge. Now, only those things that were copied into the public forums survive...and what I archived offline.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">I strongly recommend you use the custom MalaRom firmware on this tablet! </span></b> It is superior to any of the stock ROMs, 1.1.0 is already rooted and tweaked, and there is also an optional pack of drivers for almost any USB device Linux supports that will make the micro-USB port a lot more useful. You can get MalaRom builds here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.michel-lange.net/tcc/">http://www.michel-lange.net/tcc/</a><br /><br />
Be aware that Haipad sold this exact model number in both 2GB and 4GB versions with Samsung, Hynix, or Micron flash storage - so <b><span style="color: red;">make sure you grab the <i>correct</i> version! </span></b> The ZIP should also contain the FWDN firmware flashing app (but it's Windows only).<br />
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If you're running one of the stock firmwares (there were about a dozen releases) you'll probably need to root and hack it. I've collected all the useful hacks for the Haipad M701/M701-R in one place so you don't have to hunt for them.<br />
<br /><b>USING ANDROID DEBUG BRIDGE (ADB)</b><br /><br />
You will need the Android SDK from Google for these, so go get it here: <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html</a><br />
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If you are using Windows you need to also get the USB Driver: <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html">http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html</a><br />
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<b>HACK DRIVER android_winusb.ini FILE</b><br />
You may have a problem getting the ADB Driver to connect to your tablet. That is because the drivers from Google only support a small list of devices (all phones) and you need to add your tablet to that list!<br />
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1. Copy one of the existing sections with two parameters something like this:<br />
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;Moto Sholes<br />
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_41DB<br />
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_41DB&MI_01<br />
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2. Paste it in between a couple of the other entries<br />
3. Change the device name (";Moto Sholes" in my example) to ";Haipad M701"<br />
4. Go to the device manager<br />
5. Double-click on ADB (which should have an question mark next to it).<br />
6. Select details.<br />
7. From the dropbox select “Device Instance ID” and copy the VID and PID<br />
8. Paste the VID & PID values into the entry you created<br />
9. Either reinstall or update the driver<br />
10. Open Console, cd to the SDK /tools folder and type "adb devices" (without the quotes) - your device should now show up as connected. However it may show it as a gibberish-looking device ID instead of the name, which is normal. I start every ADB session by first checking that I can connect to my device.<br />
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<i>Things to keep in mind!</i><br />
1. Back up your tablet if you can, any little mistake in ADB could brick it!<br />
2. You MUST have changed directories into the SDK /tools/ folder to run ADB<br />
3. When PUSHING files the first path is referring to your desktop computer, 2nd to the tablet<br />
4. When PULLING files it's the other way around (and it has to be a directory you can write to)<br />
5. You type [B]adb.exe[/B] on Windows and [B]./adb[/B] on Mac & Linux<br />
6. The "#" hash sign indicates the shell prompt on the Android tablet, don't type it in.<br />
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<b>ROOT YOUR TABLET</b><br />
You need the "su" and "SuperUser.apk" apps. SuperUser.apk is available from Market. Google for "su" or download it from <a href="http://bit.ly/su2361ef">http://bit.ly/su2361ef</a> (this may only be for Eclair, I'm not sure).<br />
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adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system<br />
adb push su /system/bin/<br />
adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su<br />
adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/<br />
adb shell reboot<br />
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Once Rooted, on the device you can enter the following in a terminal app to get "write" access to the file system:<br />
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mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system<br />
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<b>REMOVE CELL STANDBY SERVICE</b><br />
A tablet is not a phone. It doesn't have a cell radio. Yet if the OS <i>thinks</i> it's a phone (because it is a phone OS) the cell standby service can drain your battery. Best to get rid of it:<br />
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adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system<br />
adb shell mv /system/app/Phone.apk /system/app/Phone.OLD<br />
adb shell mv /system/app/TelephonyProvider.apk /system/app/TelephonyProvider.OLD<br />
adb reboot<br />
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(This technically doesn't remove it, you can always reverse the process and change the .OLD back to .apk and it will restore them - so it's easy to undo). I just did this myself so I'll have to update this post when I know how much (if any) extra battery life I got out of it.<br />
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Also, put your tablet into "Airplane Mode" (Settings>Wireless>Airplane Mode) and turn off GPS (Settings>Location & Security>Use GPS satellites) since the tablet doesn't have a GPS module either. Turning these things off can also help improve battery life, and you can still enable Wi-Fi while Airplane Mode is on. You won't, however, be able to use Google Maps or Latitude - they require the GPS option be checked even if there isn't actually a GPS module and the apps are using wireless networks to find your location.<br />
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<b>REMOVE EOE MARKET APP</b><br />
If you don't intend to ever use the EOE Market for apps you may just want to get rid of it. Here is how to do that:<br />
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adb remount busybox<br />
adb shell<br />
#rm /system/app/eoemarket.apk<br />
#cd /system/bin<br />
#sh pm uninstall com.eoeandroid.market<br />
#sync<br />
#exit<br />
adb reboot<br />
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<b>ABOUT GOOGLE APPS (GAPPS)</b><br />I've never been clear on whether Haipad paid the license to include Google's apps on this tablet or not, but the real problem is that Google Play Services, Play Store, Maps, etc. continue to increase inside and are very, very bloated compared to the versions originally installed on this tablet. If you have the 2GB version of the tablet you probably won't be able to install anything else if you update the Google Apps to their last compatible versions.<br /><br />Therefore I would recommend you de-Google-ify this tablet entirely and either download apps via the browser from some trustworthy website providing APK files (I would suggest <a href="https://www.apkmirror.com/">https://www.apkmirror.com</a>) or side-load the apps to the device instead.<br />
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<b>UPDATE GOOGLE MAPS</b><br />
You may have already found out you can't update Google Maps. You first need to get rid of the pre-installed one:<br />
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adb remount busybox<br />
#rm /system/app/Maps.apk<br />
#cd /system/bin<br />
#sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps<br />
#sync<br />
#exit<br />
adb reboot<br />
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Now, go to Market and install the current version of Google Maps. The newly installed one will be able to update normally.<br /><br />Again, though, I'd recommend just uninstalling it and not reinstalling it at all. This tablet doesn't HAVE a GPS chip in it, so the usefulness of the Maps program is questionable.<br />
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<b>CHANGE BUTTON LAYOUT</b><br />
I don't really advocate you do this, but some people want the buttons to do other things or want to swap around which button does what. <br />
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I should start by mentioning there is one button alteration you can make without hacking system files or even needing a rooted tablet!<br />
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If you have the app "SpareParts" (either the ad supported or sdk version) on your tablet go to the "End Button Behavior" setting. You can change the behavior of the Top Left button to either "do nothing" (why?), "Go Home," "Sleep" (what it is already set to), "Go Home and then Sleep."<br />
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Now, if you want more control than that there are apparently TWO different files you have to change to reassign all three buttons:<br />
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/system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl<br />
/system/usr/keylayout/telechips_keypad.kl<br />
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Just pull those with adb to your desktop, MAKE BACKUPS, and open them in a text editor.<br />
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The magic key scancode values are:<br />
107 = Top Left<br />
139 = Top Right<br />
158 = Front<br />
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Some guides I found said you only need to change the first one, but to get it to work I had to change values in BOTH files so they matched.<br />
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As for changing short press and long press values, the long press functions are kind of paired up with a short press one as follows:<br />
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HOME | RECENT APPS<br />
CALL | VOICE DIALER<br />
SEARCH | VOICE SEARCH<br />
MENU | SOFT KEYBOARD<br />
SLEEP | SHUTDOWN (actually ENDCALL=SLEEP on this tablet)<br />
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So what you do is assign the short press function to a button and it automatically assigns the matching long press function as well. I found out that since Android 2.0 this isn't actually "hard coded" behavior, it can be programmatically over-ridden so apps can change what the buttons do while the app is in use. But if you want to change the default behavior to what you suggested it requires editing Framework files to change the pairings - which I'm not comfortable messing with.<br />
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So what I did was found the following lines in each .kl file:<br />
key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED<br />
key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED<br />
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED<br />
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and changed them to:<br />
key 107 MENU WAKE_DROPPED<br />
key 139 HOME WAKE_DROPPED<br />
key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED<br />
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Then I saved the files and pushed them back to the tablet with adb and rebooted.<br />
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In case you're wondering (I know I did) what the heck the "WAKE" and "WAKE_DROPPED" flags are all about, they refer to what happens to a button call when the device is already asleep. Does it wake up and send the command or does it wake up and drop the command? Most keycodes appear to be the latter.<br />
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Now the top left and right buttons actually match the little icons printed by them. But this creates a new problem - there's no button to properly shut the tablet all the way down! The easiest solution I could think of was to open a terminal and type:<br />
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reboot -p<br />
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Which, sure enough, shuts the tablet down instantly. The only way to turn it back on is to slide the on/off switch from off and back to on, which immediately begins booting the tablet BUT ONLY IF IT IS CONNECTED VIA USB TO THE DESKTOP! So if you make this hack you will only be able to let your tablet go to sleep when it's disconnected from the desktop.<br />
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Thankfully any button will wake it up if it goes to sleep. So it's just the shutdown that is annoying. If you want to put your SLEEP/SHUTDOWN back in just assign "ENDCALL" to your button of choice.<br />
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That's all there is to it!<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/telechips-based/2212-need-help-rooting-changing-button-layout-m701-r.html#post12782">http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/telechips-based/2212-need-help-rooting-changing-button-layout-m701-r.html#post12782</a><br />
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<b>CHANGE REMOTE CONTROL BUTTON LAYOUT</b><br />If you have a M701-R and want to play with changing the button assignments on the Remote Control you can do that to:<br />
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pull /system/usr/keylayout/telechips_remote_controller.kl<br />
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save a backup copy. Open it in a plain text editor.<br />
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The currently assigned values will tell you which button goes with which number, for example here is my stock file:<br />
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Code:<br />
key 1 POWER WAKE<br />
key 2 MUTE<br />
key 3 MEDIA_REWIND<br />
key 4 DPAD_UP<br />
key 5 DPAD_DOWN<br />
key 6 DPAD_LEFT<br />
key 7 DPAD_RIGHT<br />
key 8 DPAD_CENTER<br />
key 9 BACK<br />
key 10 MENU<br />
key 11 HOME WAKE<br />
key 12 VOLUME_DOWN<br />
key 13 VOLUME_UP<br />
key 14 SEARCH<br />
key 15 MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE<br />
key 16 MEDIA_PREVIOUS<br />
key 17 MEDIA_NEXT<br />
You can assign any valid values to those buttons, just like the hardware buttons. Might be confusing given how they are labeled on the remote, but if you're the only one using it you can customize the layout however you please (YAY!)<br />
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On a related note there is also an Audio/Video Remote Control Profile file (AVRCP.kl) which defines some remote control media operations. These are typically associated with Bluetooth devices (such as a set of headphones with ff/play/rw buttons) but is not limited to Bluetooth devices. These settings are repeated at the end of the the "telechips_keypad.kl" file, so I'm assuming if you change it in one you have to change it in the other for the new settings to take effect. I don't know, however, if these settings are for the tablet as a "control" or "target" device ("control" means the tablet controls other A/V devices, "target" means other devices control A/V on the tablet). It's also possible that this file is intended for Bluetooth devices, which this tablet can't actually use. If anyone wants to play around with the AVRCP stuff and find out you're welcome to it.<br />
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As long as I'm digging deep into the key layout files I may as well mention the "h2w_headset.kl" - it only has one button defined in it for a wired headset with a "call" button, which should wake up the tablet. I don't have a phone headset like that so I can't see if it works, but in theory you could assign the button to do anything you wanted.<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/telechips-based/2212-need-help-rooting-changing-button-layout-m701-r.html#post21977">http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/telechips-based/2212-need-help-rooting-changing-button-layout-m701-r.html#post21977</a><br />
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<b>FORGOTTEN SCREEN LOCK PATTERN RESET</b><br />
If you have already set up a Google Account on your tablet and locked yourself out by forgetting the unlock pattern you should be able to get back in by attempting patterns six or more times in immediate succession - after which it should ask you to enter your Google Account (remember to put the @gmail.com on the end!) and let you in. There is also an Unlock Page: <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha">https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha</a> for Google Accounts (I don't personally know exactly how this works) but it's supposed to be an alternative if the device isn't asking for your account info.<br />
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Despite the fallbacks/safeguards it is still possible (especially on unofficial/unsupported devices like our tablets) to be locked out. This is also the case if you bypassed the Google Account setup and subsequently locked yourself out of the tablet, which would have no Google Account associated with it yet. Here is the possible fix over ADB (no guarantees this will work for you though):<br />
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1. Plug the tablet into the computer via USB and turn it on/boot it up.<br />
2. Open a Terminal/Console and change directories to your Android SDK /tools/ folder.<br />
3. Enter ADB commands.<br />
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adb -d shell<br />
# sqlite3 data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db<br />
sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autolock';<br />
sqlite> .exit<br />
# exit<br />
adb reboot<br />
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If all went well the tablet should now boot WITHOUT the pattern lock enabled!<br />
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It will probably ask you for account info again like the first time it was booted. You can bypass that by pressing in all four corners in sequence upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left (if I recall correctly). Once into the tablet perform an actual factory data reset or it will pester you for setup info EVERY time you boot it. <i>Go to Privacy>Factory Data Reset>Reset</i><br />
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Last resort is to reflash the tablet firmware, which will wipe out whatever is on it and let you start fresh.<br /><br /><b>WILL THERE BE FUTURE UPDATES?</b><br /><br />No. Most of the no-name Chinese tablets had little to nothing in the way of customer or software support after the sale. The Haipad was the exception, by providing about a dozen firmware updates before they ended support. Unfortunately Haipad ran into the same problem as custom firmware developers did - the South Korean chip maker Telechips wouldn't release their source code, so nobody could cook up any firmware for a later version. Ok, I take that back, they did ultimately release the source code for a Honeycomb kernel on that chip, but nobody was ever able to successfully build from that source. And it took a massive e-mail campaign and complaints about them not abiding by open source rules to get them to release anything.<br /><br />So the lowly M701 tablets are forever stuck on Android "Gingerbread" and of the ROMs for this tablet the MalRom custom firmware remains the best.<br /><br /><b>WHAT GOOD IS THIS THING ANYWAY?</b><br /><br />Well, the screen on it is pretty low-res but it doesn't hurt your eyes with terrible contrast or abysmal viewing angles, so it's ok as an e-reader, or for checking your POP/IMAP email, webmail, some web browsing (keeping in mind the browser is badly outdated and never got security patches). It streams audio and video pretty well (considering it only has a 802.11/g wifi chip in it) and plays audio and video files from a micro-SD or USB flash drive quite well. Combine that with the full high-def HDMI output and the infrared remote, and it's an okay way to get some digitized movies up on a TV screen without having to muck about with Airplay or Chromecast or Miracast.<br /><br />The resistive (rather than capacitive) screen means you can use it with gloves on. You can use any pointy thing as a stylus on the screen. I used to have a sketching app called "Maple" on it and, so long as you're not expecting pressure sensitivity, it was ok for dashing off quick drawings.<br /><br />What it's good for depends on what uses you might have for it, and what compromises you're willing to accept. ;)OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-74624206458081852692018-04-18T10:27:00.002-07:002018-04-18T16:04:51.327-07:00Stop Avid Composer Background Java Processes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I noticed in Activity Monitor that there were multiple “java” processes constantly running under both CPU and Network and wondered what they were. Double-clicking to get info showed they were launched by “bash” and owned by "root." That didn’t tell me much so I ran this command in the terminal:<br />
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That gives you TON of info, but most importantly it revealed that it was <i>Avid/EditorTranscode/rnc-central/lib/</i> and then a bunch of things after that. I wasn’t using Avid, and hadn’t in a while, so why was it seemingly running a bunch of transcoding processes in the background!?<br />
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No idea. But I wanted it to stop. Since the processes were owned by “root” but there are no Avid launchers in <i>System/Library/LaunchAgents</i> or <i>System/Library/LaunchDaemons</i> I figured they were probably owned by "root" only because the system "bash" had been used to launch them. That led me to look in <i>Library/LaunchAgents</i> or <i>Library/LaunchDaemons</i> (the "Library" folder that's at the root of the Mac drive, not inside "System").<br />
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There are some com.advid… plists with “transcode” and “editor” in the name set to “RunAtLoad” so I changed the <true> to <false> in these:<br />
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com.avid.interplay.editorbroker.plist<br />
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Then, because I'm not using Avid's Cloud Service I didn't see any reason for it to be doing stuff either. So I changed the “KeepAlive” to <false> for the Avid Cloud service too:</false><br />
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com.avid.transport.client.plist<br />
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That seems to have successfully killed all these java processes that were constantly running in the background.<br />
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I like Avid Composer, but I don't use it very often and I hate that it assumes you want it - and all its components - ready to go at a moment's notice so it keeps all these bits and pieces active in the background all the time. It's obvious it's meant to be installed on a dedicated video editing workstation and not your everyday computer.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-7388199438947146022017-10-09T16:21:00.002-07:002017-10-09T16:21:24.205-07:00Soundflower No Audio [FIXED]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Like a lot of people I've been using <i>Soundflower</i> and <i>Soundflowerbed</i> forever to capture system audio on my Mac. But it's not something I do very often so I didn't notice when some system update at some point broke it.<br />
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The original developer, Cycling74, handed it off to "Rogue Amoeba" which stopped developing the free, open-source "Soundflowerbed" app in favor of the proprietary pay "Loopback" app. The free, open-source "Soundflower" driver (aka kernel extension) has continued being developed by Matt Ingalls.<br />
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Depending on what version of the Mac operating system you're using you <i>might</i> be able to still use the last release of Soundflowerbed (1.6.7) with the Soundflower 2.0b drivers. But don't count on it.<br />
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The new, preferred method is to use the built-in "Audio MIDI Setup" utility (it's in your Applications/Utilities folder).<br />
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1. Click the [+] and create a "Multi-Output Audio Device"<br />
2. Check the boxes for "Built-In Output" and "Soundflower (2ch)"<br />
3. Set the Multi-Output Audio Device for your Sound Output (you can do this either in the MIDI utility or in the regular <i>System Settings --> Sound --> Output</i> control panel).<br />
4. Set the "Soundflower (2ch)" as your Sound Input device.<br />
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Seems simple enough right? Except no audio app would actually record the sound I was hearing!<br />
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I also tried creating a "Aggregate Device" in the MIDI Utility. Unlike a "Multi-Output" you can select an "Aggregate Device" as an audio input source, so I created one of those with "Built-in Output" and "Soundflower (2ch)" checked. Then selected it as the input source in my audio recorder and...nothing. Didn't work.<br />
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After installing, uninstalling, reconfiguring, and trying everything in every troubleshooter or tutorial I could find online, fighting with this damn problem ALL DAY LONG then I stumbled onto this post: <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/music-audio-and-podcasting/340016-solved-tricky-soundflower-giving-audio-quicktime.html">http://www.mac-forums.com/music-audio-and-podcasting/340016-solved-tricky-soundflower-giving-audio-quicktime.html</a><br />
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What the author of that says is they discovered that even though the Master and individual channel volumes in "Soundflower (2ch)" in the MIDI utility said they were turned up, they actually weren't! The solution was to slide them down to nothing and then slide them back to the volume you wanted.<br />
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Somewhere behind the scenes this must write new values into a configuration file that, despite the appearance of the sliders in the Utility, were apparently actually set to nothing.<br />
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Once I slid them down and back up I was able to record system audio, while also monitoring what I was recording, just like I always have before.<br />
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You can still adjust the INPUT volume in the <i>System Preferences --> Sound --> Input</i> but when you select either a Multi-Output Audio Device or an Aggregate Device you lose the ability to adjust the sound OUTPUT with your volume keys or the menubar slider. The MIDI Utility becomes the only place you can adjust the sound output.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-36253153202638460282017-09-21T15:52:00.000-07:002017-09-21T15:52:13.686-07:00RE-Enable Old Default Clip Studio Materials in 1.6.7<div class="p1">
When you install Clip Studio Paint 1.6.2 or 1.6.7 it will automatically disable all your previous default materials (that huge ZIP file you used to have to download separately and install manually) and automatically download the new default materials from their Assets “cloud” site.</div>
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Actually if the material file size is >250KB it will only download the thumbnail and overlay the “cloud” icon it, indicating you have to manually tell it download it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, that still means it automatically downloads a LOT of the materials with smaller file sizes.</div>
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That can be a significant problem for people who have limited internet bandwidth or low data caps on their internet service.<br /><br />Ok, so how do you STOP it from disabling the materials you’ve already downloaded and installed, or at least RE-enable specific old default ones you already have?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or make it not download everything from the cloud?</div>
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<i><b>DISCLAIMER: </b>you do this at your own risk, I make no guarantees, don’t expect Celsys or Smith Micro to help you fix it if you mess everything up.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also keep in mind the old default 3D materials are also in a “legacy” format, while the versions from the Cloud may be in the “new” format (or will be updated to it sometime in the future).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For now that legacy format is still supported, but Celsys could drop support for them in a future release.</i></div>
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Go to your “Local User” Materials folder:</div>
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You’ll have to drill down into each folder looking at the contents of “thumbnail” to find the material(s) you’re looking for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When you do, one level up from the thumbnails is a file named “cloudSyncAlready” which you can open in a plain text editor.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It only has a “-1” in it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Delete the minus sign so it just says “1” and save the file.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Repeat this process for every old Material you want to re-enable.</div>
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Open Assets app and run “<i>Gear —> Maintenance Menu —> Organize Materials</i>” and wait for it to finish.</div>
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Your old Material should now re-appear in your Materials list.</div>
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Note that many of them have EXACTLY the same names as the ones available in the Cloud, and if you also download the ones from the Cloud you’ll have no way (within the Materials list) to differentiate the two.</div>
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It is possible that a future update could re-disable them if they’re in the “Install” folder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you want to prevent that potentially happening you should drag them to your canvas and then use “File —> Register as Material” and re-register the material with a custom name or tag (something that will help you differentiate them from the originals).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They’ll be copied into a new User Material sub-folder (one of those ones with a number for a folder name like “56” or “94” etc.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You can go ahead and delete the original ones from your Materials list in Paint if you want (note that doing so only deletes them from the Local User Materials folder, it does not delete them from the Global folder).</div>
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An update to the software should NEVER disable your custom materials, so the re-registered default material will now be treated as a custom material and won’t be automatically disabled or deleted.</div>
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Ok, so all that stuff above is about re-enabling the old default materials, but it has no effect on Assets also downloading the Cloud versions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But re-enabling ALL the old materials can trick the Assets app into not downloading everything.</div>
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First, get the Materials back-up from the “Global” folder:</div>
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If you don’t see the “PAINTxxx” folders in it, try looking in the \CELSYS\ location instead, assuming you’ve never had the Japanese language versions installed, the “Install” contents there should work too.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you can’t find them elsewhere then you can use the contents of the “Install” folder in your Documents folder, but you’d have to edit each and every one of the “cloudSyncAlready” files - and there are a LOT of them.</div>
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Navigate to the “Local User” Materials folder:</div>
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DELETE any sub-folders that are already in “Install2” (those are Cloud stuff) and paste the copies from the Global “Install” folder into the Local “Install2” folder.</div>
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Run “Organize Materials” operation from Assets app.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Assets will mistake the copied local materials for the identical ones it usually downloads from the Cloud.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However there are some that are different and it will still want to download those.</div>
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Subsequently, if you run “Gear —> Sync All Materials Installed from Cloud” it will still take forever and a year to go through them, but it will ONLY download the new materials that weren’t included in the original, old default download pack.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At least when I did this it didn’t overwrite any of the materials that were already present, it only added the ones I didn’t already have.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t know if the Assets app does the “Sync” operation on its own or not.</div>
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Ok, let’s say you decide this arrangement sucks or you get better internet service or whatever and you want to put it back the way it’s supposed to be.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How?</div>
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1. Inside the Local User Materials folder DELETE the “Install2” folder. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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2. Open the Assets app (if you look at “Material” many of them will be blank)</div>
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3. Go to “Gear —> Maintenance Menu —> Organize Materials” (the blank ones will be removed)</div>
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It will take forever and a year, but when it’s done you should now have a bunch of materials in your list with the little “cloud” icon on them.</div>
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OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-6195595589074904722017-09-08T13:48:00.003-07:002017-09-08T13:48:57.665-07:00Clip Studio Assets 1.6.7 Adds UPLOAD MaterialsThe English version of Clip Studio Assets now allows users outside of Japan to upload their original materials to share with other users. Any Material you can "register" for use in Clip Studio Paint can now be uploaded to the Assets site. Users outside of Japan, however, still do not have non-Japanese versions of the apps for creating native 3D content. Nor can users outside of Japan SELL their custom materials through the Assets site.<br />
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<br />OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-17475853972885805582017-08-28T17:43:00.000-07:002017-08-28T17:45:56.786-07:00Make Avid Media Composer First open Help Docs in a specific browser (Mac)<div class="p1">
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I was going to post this on the Avid Forums, but their new "Master Account" login is a confusing mess. Or maybe it's just me. It asks me if I want to "Link Accounts" but after having that fail several times I realized they meant if you already HAD an account on their forums. Well, I think I did like 1,000 years ago. What they really meant was to use "Create Account" to create a new forum account controlled by the Master Account. That failed several times too. As it did for a Download Account and a Support Account. Basically it seems like their "one login to rule them all" was coded by Orcs.<br />
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So I can't actually post this on the Avid forums right now. Fine, I'll post it here instead.<br />
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I’m trying to familiarize myself with <i>Media Composer | First</i> I wanted to right+click on the “What’s this?” context menu and get the Help page about that thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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However, it would try to open it in my default web browser, which is Google Chrome.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chrome will not open local files.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It requires web pages to be sent from a web server.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Obviously the solution is to open the Avid Help files in Safari (or Firefox) which WILL open local files.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But how do I do that without changing my default browser?</div>
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The first thing I tried was third-party preference pane “<a href="https://www.choosyosx.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Choosy</a>” but no matter what rules I set in it Avid Media Composer would always open the help documentation in Chrome, where it won’t load (you just get a pulsating blue bar across the top of the window).</div>
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The good news is you can do this with setting already IN the operating system, no third-party tools necessary.</div>
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<b>METHOD #1</b> (if you want ALL local .html files to open in Safari)</div>
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1. Go to Applications —> Avid —> Media Composer First —> Help</div>
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2. Select any one of the files ending with .html, right/hold+click and select “Get Info”<i> OR </i>press CMD+I</div>
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3. Under “Open with:” set it to “Safari.app”</div>
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4. Click the “Change All…” button.</div>
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Now ALL local .html files will open in Safari.</div>
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But I do web development, so that wasn’t what I wanted.</div>
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<b>METHOD #2 </b>(if you want JUST the Avid Help files to open in Safari)</div>
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1. Go to Applications —> Avid —> Media Composer First —> Help</div>
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2. Select ALL the .html files there (Help_ix.html, Help.html, MCHelp.html - it doesn’t matter if you also select the .js file too)</div>
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3. Right/Hold+Click or Go to “File” in the menubar and while those are all still selected hold down your Option key.</div>
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4. The “Open With” will change to “Always open with”</div>
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5. Select “Safari” from the list of apps.</div>
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6. It will immediately open all of them in Safari, but you can just close/quit Safari.</div>
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7. Now, go into the “Help” sub-folder</div>
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8. Select ALL the files in that folder (CMD+A works, or select the first one, scroll down, and with the SHIFT key pressed click the last file in that folder.</div>
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9. Again Right/Hold+Click or go to “File” in the menubar, hold down the Option key, and under the “Always open with” select Safari.</div>
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It would be nice if the Help documentation opened in the same <i>Online Resources</i> window as the Knowledge Base and Forums under the Help menu.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Why is it opening an external browser for the “Media Composer Family Help” when there’s already built-in webview window? It makes no sense.<br />
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Oh, and the last thing is that every time I intentionally QUIT Avid Media Composer First - you know with Command+Q or selecting it from the menubar, it thinks it CRASHED instead!? I get both a "Report this Crash" from the OS and another one from Avid's Application Manager. Dammit, I quit the app ON PURPOSE.</div>
OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-15902143563697037102017-05-31T16:41:00.000-07:002017-05-31T16:41:07.695-07:00BIG BLOG UPDATE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that the english-language version of CLIP STUDIO PAINT has an Assets/Launcher app, the Japanese version has actual Cloud storage, and the format for 3D Materials has changed it was time for another Big Blog Update! Here's the rundown:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/introduction-to-clip-studio-suite.html">Introduction to Clip Studio Suite</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/introduction-to-clip-studio-suite.html"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More like a "re-introduction." This is based off what was originally written on the Unofficial Translations page but has been rewritten and moved to it's own page.</span><b><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/clip-studio-unofficial-english.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/clip-studio-unofficial-english.html">Unofficial English Translations</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have completely new english translations for both the “legacy” and 1.6.3 versions of the Japanese suite, plus I wrote patch scripts for both Windows and Mac. Should be a lot less painful process now, but still requires installing specific versions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/installing-synching-sharing-materials.html">Installing, Sharing and Synching Materials</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, this used to be at the bottom of the translations page, but it's grown into a enough info to be on its own page now. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is now possible in version 1.6.3 to share installed materials between different language versions and, with a cloud storage drive, between installations on different computers.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcherassets-16x-japanese.html">Assets/Launcher app (Japanese version)</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It used to be mostly an app launcher front-end and storefront. Now it does a lot of other stuff so I dive deep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-clip-studio-16x-assets-app.html"><b><br /></b></a></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-clip-studio-16x-assets-app.html"><b>Assets/Launcher app (English version)</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is new territory for users of the english-language version. Unfortunately it isn't as fully featured or functional as the Japanese one, but it's a start. We in the West *finally* have legit access to the Clip Assets Site!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcher-legacy-version.html"><br /></a></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcher-legacy-version.html"><b>Assets/Launcher app (Legacy version)</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The good ol' Legacy version ain't what it used to be. Lots of functionality has been purposely hobbled in favor of the new version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/part-7-old-vs-new-model-formats.html"><b>Old vs. New 3D Model Formats</b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since version 1.6.0 the native format for 3D materials has changed, as have the apps you use to create them. COORDINATE is (kind of) done. MODELER is the future, but it's not free - except when it is. If you're making 3D materials for PAINT you're going to want to look this over.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>NOTE:</b> The following screenshots are of the Japanese app with the <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/clip-studio-unofficial-english.html">Unofficial English Translations</a> applied to the user interface. However, any content which is loaded from the Celsys servers is still shown in Japanese.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Notice all those extra buttons at the top? Notice the big “Cloud” button that says “0.0GB / 10GB” at the top? Yeah, that’s because the Japanese users get an actual cloud with 10 gigs of storage. Whatever document they’re working on will automatically be backed-up to the cloud, that's what the "Works" section up top is about. It shows the four most recently opened documents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whenever you are uploading/downloading anything from the Celsys Assets site or Cloud the double-arrow icon in the toolbar will show how many transfer jobs are in process. Note that this is not the number of <i>files</i> being uploaded or downloaded, but the number of <i>connections</i>. For example, when you do the initial gigantic download of materials from the Assets site it will show as a single connection, even though it's about 1,500 files. If you want to see what's going on in detail, click the double-arrow icon and this <b>Communication Management </b>window will pop up, where you also have some control over those individual connections:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have the pre-1.5 versions of the apps installed you'll also have an earlier version of Launcher to manage Materials and Work for the "Legacy" apps. The Legacy apps cannot make use of the Cloud, newer format 3D materials, or use an alternate location for Materials or Settings. This is why 1.5+ install into a different folder isolated from the Legacy apps. It is possible to share one set of materials between the Japanese and English 1.6.3+ apps, but not between the Japanese and English Legacy apps or between the Legacy apps and the current ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Click <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcher-legacy-version.html">HERE</a> to read my post on the last Legacy Launcher release, version 1.1.7.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s an entire sub-section called “Work” in this Clip Studio app that lets you pick documents to load from the Cloud. Clicking the "Work" button in the top bar takes you to a full-fledge, cloud-connected, project management section: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some default "drawers" for All, Favorites, Work (including PAINT docs), and that last one that missed getting translated says "The Works" which shows documents excluding PAINT docs. You can organize your work any way you like, including creating new drawers by either right+clicking in the middle column and selecting "Create New" or pressing the [+] button at the bottom of the middle column. Here I've added a new drawer for all things related to my caveman character:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, if you click the "Trash" icon to get rid of it you'll see the following warning about deleting an entire Work drawer:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately it's not a great translation. It should read:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please note the following points in deletion of Work drawer:</span></i><br />
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<li><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This only deletes the labeled drawer. To delete the actual files move them to the Trash.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the data in this drawer is not synchronized with the Cloud, the cloud data will also be deleted.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are using the same data on another PC, that data will not be usable if it was not completely downloaded.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Works "Not Found" will be deleted from this list and will not affect the actual file.</span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can also right+click on individual items in the drawers which pulls up this context menu:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you select "Delete" from that menu you are asked to confirm it first:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's because it doesn't just remove it from the organizing drawer, it puts it into the Trash for actual removal just like you dragged it out of a Finder/Explorer window.</span><br />
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<i><b>NOTE:</b> If you select a Work item and intend to open it in PAINT be aware that it will open in the Japanese version of PAINT. Also be aware that the latest version of PAINT will likely be set as the default for opening .clip or .lip files when double-clicking them in your operating system's file manager unless you change the default opener for those file types. </i></span><br />
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<i>This can get confusing if you have multiple installations! For example, on my computer if have the Legacy Japanese Paint 1.3.2, Legacy English Paint 1.4.4, Japanese PAINT 1.6.4, and English PAINT 1.6.2 installed on my machine. It wanted to open all .lip/.clip files in the Japanese 1.6.4 because it was the latest version and the last one I installed/updated.</i></span><br />
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<i>You can always override this behavior by right+clicking on the file and telling it which specific version to use when opening the file. But simply double-clicking may open it in an unintended installation.</i></span><br />
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SEARCH FOR MATERIALS/ASSETS</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the left-hand column there is an option to search for materials. This is the same as the "Assets" section in the non-Japanese versions of the Launcher app.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Clip Studio Launcher 1.6.3 Materials Search Screen</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first thing you'll notice is that most everything is still in Japanese, which can make it difficult to use assuming you don't know the language. This is because Launcher is just acting a web browser to show you the Assets website. I strongly recommend, therefore, that you just open the website in your web browser directly instead. Specifically in Google Chrome since it will offer to auto-translate it for you. The direct link to the Japanese Clip Studio Assets website is: <a href="https://assets.clip-studio.com/ja-jp/">https://assets.clip-studio.com/ja-jp/</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Japanese Clip Studio Assets Website (auto-translated by Google Translate) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One big difference you'll notice between the Japanese Assets site and the one presented in the English version is that many of the items have PRICES listed in "G" (Gold) or "CP" (Clippy Points). This is these are the currencies of the Assets website. You can buy "Gold" and like real money it doesn't expire. You can earn "Clippy Points" through various actions (like rating materials) and use it to buy goods that will accept them, but unused points expire at the end of each month. At least that's my understanding of how it works. See the section below titled "<a href="#passbooks">Gold and Clippy Passbooks</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you've downloaded a Material it appears in the Materials Manager and in the Materials Palette of all the installed Clip Studio apps linked to that Materials collection (I state it that way because, unless you've specifically set different language installations to share Materials they are otherwise isolated from each other).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Downloaded Material in the PAINT Materials Palette</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once it is in your collection you can move it under whichever Materials Folder make sense for organization purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, so what happens if you accidentally DELETED the downloaded material? You can simply go and re-download it! There are a couple different ways to go about that:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Download from Assets Website</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then you either click on the Download icon in the lower right corner of the item(s) to download or you can click on the thumbnail and go to the Item Detail page:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You'll see the same page as if you had gone to the website in your browser, the difference being that it will be in Japanese with no option to translate it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, again, either click the Download icon in the lower right corner of the item(s) to download or click on the thumbnail to go to the Item Description page:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Again, because you're in the Launcher app there is no option to translate it. But the big red rectangle button in the upper right will re-download the item to your local Materials.</span><br />
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PLUG-IN STORE</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the left-hand navigation column, right below the Material Search you'll see something called the "Plug-In Store." In my opinion the lack of plugins for PAINT is one of its greatest weaknesses compared to other graphics software. Part of this may be because the ONLY source for plug-ins, third-party or otherwise, is through Celsys itself. Even if you acquire them by *cough* other means, or download them into the Japanese version of PAINT and manually copy them across to the English version, they won't do you any good. Because every time you start PAINT it does a validation check on all the installed plugins and won't let you use ones that don't pass the test. That means for users of the non-Japanese versions of PAINT the *only* plugins available to us are the default ones Celsys includes with the program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Store" page is pulled from the Celsys servers and isn't available through the regular website (at least not that I could find), so it cannot be translated in-app. However, I took screenshots and ran them through Google Translate on my phone and here's what the list says as of 27 May 2017:</span><br />
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">TITLE</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">SELLER</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">OS</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">DATE</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">UPDATED</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">PRICE</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">DL'd?</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stripes Filter</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/05/23</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">190 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2 Tones Alpha Filter</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/05/23</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">70 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scale Filter</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/05/23</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">190 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Posterization Alpha</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/05/23</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">70 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stellar Glow</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Koizumi</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/05/23</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">500 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fluctuation distortion (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Koizumi</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/04/18</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">200 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Replace white with transparent / Replace black with transparent (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/04/18</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">120 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stripes (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/03/30</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">190 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Add noise (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">tempura</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/03/30</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">190 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Radiation glow (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Koizumi</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2017/03/30</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">400 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hue Saturation Lightness modification (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yumeimoto play</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/12/27</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">500 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Glow (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Koizumi</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/12/26</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">100 G</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">HSV band correction (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">uochang</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/07/11</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Layer 3 D (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Koizumi</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/07/11</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Α value Level correction (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreaming music</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/06/01</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">500 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pixelate crystal (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">grill Palzer</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/06/01</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Automatic shadow color specification (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yui</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Automatic anime color conversion (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yui</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Replace designated color (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yui</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Point light source (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">htp 32</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Analog style Kake Ami (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ika Flower</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Retro filter 2.0 (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Manga</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concentrated line (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matcha</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Streamline (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matcha</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Color unevenness (filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Manga</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Categories (Filter)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Manga</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2016/04/20</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">0 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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<td><span style="font-family: inherit;">PDF I / O Plug-in</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Celsys</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows, Mac OS X</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">2014/12/25</span></td><td></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">500 G</span></td><td><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not Yet</span></td>
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MATERIALS SECTION</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The button to the right of the Works section takes you to Materials Management, which is just like the CSP Materials Palette, except it also allows you to UPLOAD custom materials you’ve created to the Clip Site:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Clip Studio Launcher 1.6.3 "Materials" Section</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those features were removed from the English version of the Clip Studio app because it’s not actually connected to a “cloud” at all. It’s little more than a web browser for the Clip Site, which is disappointing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually the Japanese version has a bunch more options even on that drop-down menu. Here's what they say after you apply the Unofficial Translation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And here is the Help Menu, though what it links to is in Japanese (of course):</span><br />
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The translation work on that menu isn't perfect, but you can pretty much ignore most of it anyway. The first item just links to a page about how to generally use the materials you download. The second one is general information on output formatting for printers. Good to know, but if you've ever worked with a printing company before they've probably told you how they want files formatted (granted the lack of support for "job" files means you have to set everything up by hand). The Kindle guide is really just using Kindle Direct Publishing tools. EPUP is only available as an output option from PAINT EX (not available in Debut or PRO versions). The "Convenience Store Print Guide" is for sending documents to a 7-Eleven in Japan, which offer copy-shop services. The "Cloud Guide" is probably good to look over since that's a new thing. Keeping in mind that you'll need to run the pages, which all open in your browser, through some kind of auto-translation first.</div>
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MATERIAL INFORMATION</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you plan to try uploading and sharing your custom Materials you MUST include information about each item. However you can edit the local information for any Material you have, for example providing notes for other users on your computer or reminders to yourself about if, where, when, or how you've used a given material. Regardless of why you're checking or editing the item's information here is how you do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Double-click on the item in the Material Manager</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have selected my "Grunk" 3D Character file</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Select "Material Information" from the next screen:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Click the last box "Material Information"</span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>NOTE:</b> This particular material is in the "old" format created with COORDINATE, which has been discontinued. Clicking that second box will no longer open the 3D material in COORDINATE. Once the 3D material has been "registered" as a material in the CLIP STUDIO apps it is obfuscated and can no longer be opened for editing. You'll have to have either the original model parts or at least the .c2fc file.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. You are taken to the Read-Only Information screen:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Click the green "Edit/Publish" button on the right bottom to go into Edit Mode</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Item Edit Mode</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you are done editing information in each of the provided boxes press the "Temporarily Saved" button at the bottom. This only updates the information in YOUR local Materials Database.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Set Public Information" button is for defining in which application your material may be used and what (if anything) it costs. <b><i>This only matters IF you were planning to upload and share or sell your custom materials on the Clip Studio Assets site.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You will be taken to screen on the Celsys Assets Site server that looks like this:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Set Public Information Screen for "Grunk" material</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because this isn't a local page it is in Japanese. Here is what the above screenshot says in English:</span><br />
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"Grunk" Public Setting</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "About rating" in the translation above is a live link to the Celsys page explaining what content is acceptable and what materials would need to tick that checkbox about making viewers uncomfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "How do I sell materials with GOLD?" is also a live link to the Celsys page explaining it. Basically they pay a 70% royalty on every material sold, so they need legit bank account information and mail a developer contract you have to have a valid ID to accept - and presumably accept with a personal stamp used to "sign" legal documents in Japan. The online form's address section is Japan-only, so I'm reasonably certain selling your items for "Gold" and earning royalties is not available to anyone outside of Japan. If you really want to get into that business you could always contact Celsys directly and see if they'll work with you or make an exception (if you do and they either will or won't please leave a comment about it below).</span><br />
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<i>It tends to show the warning even if you have done a "Temp Save" on your changes. Not sure if that's a bug or just trying to make damn sure you mean to leave the editor?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So CAN we actually uploading materials? Maybe. I haven't actually tried it yet myself. But so long as you were offering free materials or selling them for "Clippy Points" you probably can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can’t upload Clip Studio Paint native materials created with the English version of PAINT to the Clip Site because the English version of the Launcher/Assets app doesn't have any options to do so. However you can now set different language installations to share one set of materials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you go to the actual <a href="https://assets.clip-studio.com/ja-jp/" target="_blank">Clip Studio Asset Site</a> in your web browser (I recommend doing it in Chrome so it auto-translates for you) you’ll notice that the drop-down under your profile has more options than it does inside the English version of the Clip Studio Assets app:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Specifically, notice that it has a “New Upload” option that doesn't appear in the english-language version! But don’t get too excited. If you go to that sub-section there are three options:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That will ask to open the JAPANESE version of Clip Studio Launcher/Assets app <i>if </i>no version of it is already open. If you have the english-language version of it open it will shift focus to that. If you have the Legacy version open it will shift focus to that. If you want it to open the CURRENT version of the Japanese app either already have it open <i>before</i> you select the option in the browser or have NONE of the Launcher apps open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You then select the assets to publish to the Clip Site in the Materials Management section by clicking on it and selecting "Publish Material to Assets." However you should probably add some descriptions and tags before you do that (see Material Management above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Exactly *which* file types are allowed I’m not sure. For example, I think this could be used to upload OBJ or FBX models, maybe PSD files. I also don’t know if it would include individual .sut (brush), .cls (color set) files, since they don’t normally appear in the “Materials” palette, but clearly people are contributing them to the Clip Site somehow. Can Westerners upload to the site? I don’t know yet, I haven’t tried. You apparently earn “Clippy Points” by uploading things to the site, which you can then use to buy the non-free items (the non-free items show on the Clip Site when viewed in a web browsers, they are automatically filtered out in the English version of the Clip Studio Assets app).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The last option on the Uploads Options page takes you to the “Help” documents. Specifically it takes you to this section (translated automatically with Google Translate):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I haven't actually tried uploading anything yet. I think it should work (unless they are IP blocking for some reason). But that second upload options explicitly says it's for NON Clip Studio files and that you can't upload collections in ZIP files either. If someone else wants to try it ahead of me and it works or doesn't work, please leave a comment to that effect below. If it doesn't work, then you can always use <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/custom-clip-studio-paint-materials-packs.html">my work-around method</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Collections, as the name implies, are a group of related Materials. So let's create one! First go to the the Materials section in the Launcher app. Then look at the bottom of the second column:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Click on that "New Materials" button. It will pop up a box asking you to enter a name for your new collection:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Your Collection is created in the list of collections. Click on it and it will replace the huge list of Materials:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sweet! Except, of course, there's nothing IN this collection yet. It's just an empty box. I already know what items I'm going to put in it and have a nice "group shot" of them, so let's change that image thumbnail. Click on the "Management" button in the upper right of the Collection...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just like any other kind of Material a Collection has the options to "Publish" or Read/Edit the information. Let's look at the info and edit it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, first I had to click the "Edit" button in the lower right. As you can see I entered some descriptive text in the box, but lets also set a custom thumbnail image. Click the "Select Image" button above that "No image" picture. It will open your file manager to browse to the image. The image MUST be 240 x 240 pixels and in JPEG format. If it's not you'll see this warning:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now our Collection has a nifty thumbnail to help us know what is in it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, actually NOTHING is in it! Let's remedy that...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is as simple as dragging and dropping the items out of the Materials Manager onto the Collection name in the collections list:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Go through your Materials Folders finding each item you want to add to the collection and drag and drop them onto the Collection name. Now when we click on the Collection it will show us everything that is included in it like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "During Editing" means it is currently being edited and "You may add material." If you published it to the Assets site you can't add any more materials to it. The "Not Up" text for each item indicates that these Materials have not been uploaded to the Assets site either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you click on the "Management" button for the Collection you get back to the Edit screen, where you'll now see it has the things we added listed:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It automatically creates "Category 1" and puts the things we dragged-n-dropped into it. You can change the order of them, or add more categories to organize the Collection contents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, maybe you only put together a collection in order to have all the materials used in it in one convenient place and now you don't need it anymore? Or you've updated a published Collection and want to delete the old one. You select it in the Collections list and click the "Delete" button immediately above the list (or you can right+click on the Collection name and "Delete" form the context menu). If the individual items in the Collection *only* exist in the Collection, deleting it will also delete the items. This is usually only a concern if you downloaded a Collection. If you created the Collection yourself form items already in your Materials obviously you'll have the individual copies of those items as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Launcher has a bunch of sections that are really just information. For example each app has its own section accessed by clicking the four-squares to the right of the app name:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you click the app name/icon on the left, however, that will OPEN that app. It's the icons on the right-hand side that will take you to the information screens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That (1) by PAINT means there is a one update (in this case it was because I had version 1.6.3 installed and 1.6.4 had just come out). If you are using the Unofficially Translated versions of these apps be very careful about not updating them unless you know for sure the patches work with the newer version or patches for the newer version are available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You'll notice some of the blocks are still in Japanese. These are the updated data pulled from the Celsys servers in Japan. They are usually about app updates, but sometimes are also about events or sales. You can safely just ignore them.</span><br />
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The Cloud</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Cloud storage option is new in version 1.6.3 so it has its own Info Screen to help people understand how to use it. That last section takes you to the "<a href="https://www.clip-studio.com/clip_site/apps/clipstudio/cloud_guide" target="_blank">Cloud Usage Guide</a>" documentation. All that documentation is in Japanese of course, so you'll need to run that page through an automatic translation (I recommend visiting it with Google Chrome which will offer to translate it). I also have no idea if anyone outside of Japan can use the 10 gigs of cloud storage or not. I haven't tried using yet myself. I have, however, gone through both the (translated) Celsys <a href="https://www.celsys.co.jp/information/celsys_terms/" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="https://www.clip-studio.com/clip_site/information/service/cloud" target="_blank">Terms of Service for the Cloud</a> and saw nothing in it expressly prohibiting people from outside Japan from using it. It just says you need to register with a valid e-mail address and, if you're under the age of 13 do so with the consent of a parent or guardian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This screen is pretty straight-forward (once it's translated). You can tell it to either use the cloud or not, and if you do whether you want to use it for Software Backup and/or Material Synchronization. One of the more important things mentioned in the "Cloud User Guide" is:</span><br />
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<li>Capacity is up to 10 GB.</li>
<li><span class="" style="font-size: 13.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Up to 30 software backup histories are allowed. Oldest backup will be</span><span style="font-size: 13.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> deleted automatically to add new one.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If the capacity is exceeded, only the upload operation to the cloud is restricted (new data and update data are not uploaded). </span><span class="" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The downloading behavior is not limited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This option will save back-ups of your software tools and settings so you can recover and restore them if necessary. As noted above it will only save up to 30 back-ups, and then when you add a new one it will delete the oldest restore point. This is obviously data pulled from their servers, which is why it appears in Japanese and can't be translated with the rest of the app. I've added translated text to the screencaps so you know what it says. When you first go to this section, though, there won't yet be any backups in the list, so it looks like this (translations added):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Terms of Service </b>- this button launches your web browser and takes you to the general <a href="https://www.clip-studio.com/clip_site/information/terms" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Celsys TOS</a> page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.celsys.co.jp/information/privacy/" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a> - pretty standard online privacy policy, specifically is opt-in for sharing data with third-parties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.clip-studio.com/clip_site/information/asct/index" target="_blank"><b>Commercial Transactions</b></a> - opens your browser to a page about how to buy, sell, and return items - including "Gold" and "Clippy Points" under Japanese commercial transaction law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.clip-studio.com/clip_site/information/clearance/index" target="_blank"><b>Fund Settlement</b></a> - this regards their policies on charging or paying in the "Gold" currency used on the Assets site. However, in reading how to sign up for it, it doesn't appear to be available to people outside of Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Contact Us</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - this is <a href="https://www2.celsys.co.jp/support/service/service.html" style="font-style: normal;" target="_blank">a contact form</a> <i>specifically</i> just for issues related to the online services. It is not for software support.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>NOTE: I have personally contacted Celsys customer service before and while the language-barrier is problematic, they did make the effort to reply promptly and in english.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">At the top of the Launcher app you'll notice the "G" and "CP" buttons to the right of the Cloud button. These stand for "Gold" and "Clippy Points" - the two different kinds of electronic currency used on the Japanese Clip Assets website. The numbers obviously tell you how much "money" you have available in your accounts. Clicking on each of those buttons launches your web browser and takes you to your Celsys Account "Passbooks."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">You earn "Clippy Points" by doing things like rating materials you download or selling materials you've created. The downside is that you have to SPEND your "CP" before the end of the month or they will expire! The only way to not have them expire is to become a "Gold Member." As CP are generated by actions within the site and can only be spent within the site, it appears earning and spending CP is available to anyone with an account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You BUY "Gold" with your credit card. I can't think of any technical reason people outside of Japan wouldn't be able to buy it, they accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. As for the actual "Gold Membership" though, that looks like it might be more problematic since the sign-up form is only set up for people living in Japan, they require bank account information to transfer "royalties" for anything you sell on the site in "Gold" that you want to cash-out into real money, and they require you to sign and sign for an actual contract to that affect - which they snail-mail, presumably only to Japanese addresses, and require signature confirmation to accept the paperwork. And in Japan you "sign" for stuff with your personal stamp. I don't see how any of that would work for someone who doesn't live in Japan, but if YOU want to contact them and find out be my guest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The lower section of the menu along the left-hand side is dedicated to various ways users (in Japan) can output their Work. These are just INFORMATION about the various output methods. You can pretty much ignore all of it. But for the curious, here's what those sections are about...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post to Comico</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a ComiXology-like site, though I think it's more for aspiring talent to get their stuff in front of an audience. No idea if it's open to people outside of Japan or not. The comico website is at:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Create Fanzine with pixev FACTORY BOOKS</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - This is a small-run printing company, but it only ships within Japan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Make a Fanzine</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - links to tips on how to configure PAINT documents to various printer specs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>EPUB output</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - is built into PAINT EX, I think other versions need the plug-in to do it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Publish Comic for Amazon Kindle</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - just links to Amazons Direct Publishing website. In the Unofficial Translation Kit I have redirected this to the US version of that page.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>NOTE: </b>The people who translated it in the app chose to use "fanzine" but it actually says "doujinishi" which has a slightly different connotation, but suffice it to say it means any kind of indie, self-published book with illustrations.</span></i></div>
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OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-72203608079459643392017-05-29T16:53:00.001-07:002017-05-29T16:53:06.866-07:00Clip Studio Launcher (LEGACY Version)<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post is specifically about the Clip Studio Assets/Launcher "Legacy" app. It is the version of the Launcher used with the pre-1.5 versions of the Japanese Clip Studio Suite apps. There is no english-language version. Version 1.1.7 is the final release of the Legacy Launcher. You can't download and install the Launcher by itself, but you can get it by downloading and installing the Legacy version of ACTION, which also includes the last version of COORDINATE that is compatible with the legacy apps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For details on the current version of the Launcher see my other posts about the the <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcherassets-16x-japanese.html">Japanese 1.6.x Launcher </a>or the <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-clip-studio-16x-assets-app.html">English 1.6.x Launcher</a>. If you never installed any of the Clip Studio Suite apps prior to version 1.5 then this post isn't for you. If you DO have the older versions of the apps installed (and you can have them installed alongside the newer ones and other language installations) then let's dig in!</span><br />
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This older version has a much simpler Star Screen than the newer ones. As you can see it is still pulling data from the Celsys servers, at least for now.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whenever you are uploading/downloading anything from the Celsys Assets site the double-arrow icon in the toolbar will show how many transfer jobs are in process. The Legacy version is not compatible with the Celsys Cloud. Also note that you cannot direct it to store Materials in a different location than the default one, so there is no way to share one set of them between the Japanese and other language Legacy installations. Note that this is not the number of <i>files</i> being uploaded or downloaded, but the number of <i>connections</i>. If you want to see what's going on in detail, click the double-arrow icon and this <b>Communication Management </b>window will pop up, where you also have some control over those individual connections:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s an entire sub-section called “Work List” in this Clip Studio app that lets you pick documents to open in the various apps in the suite: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some default "folders" for All Works, Work (including PAINT docs), and that last one that missed getting translated says "The Works" which shows documents excluding PAINT docs. You can organize your work any way you like, including creating new folders by either right+clicking in the middle column and selecting "New" or pressing the "New" button at the top of the middle column.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can click the "Delete" button to get rid of Folders you create, but not the default ones. You can also drag to reorder the Folders or drag and drop them into other Folders to create whatever kind of hierarchy you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unlike the newer version of Launcher, the Work section neither backs things up to the Cloud nor does it have a right+click context menu with other actions for the items. The only thing you can do in the Legacy version is click the Work file to open it in its respective app in the suite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><br /></b></i><i><b>NOTE:</b> If you select a Work item and intend to open it in PAINT be aware that it will open in the Japanese version of PAINT. Also be aware that the latest version of PAINT will likely be set as the default for opening .lip files when double-clicking them in your operating system's file manager unless you change the default opener for those file types. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i><i>This can get confusing if you have multiple installations! For example, on my computer if have the Legacy Japanese Paint 1.3.2, Legacy English Paint 1.4.4, Japanese PAINT 1.6.4, and English PAINT 1.6.2 installed on my machine. It wanted to open all .lip/.clip files in the Japanese 1.6.4 because it was the latest version and the last one I installed/updated.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i><i>You can always override this behavior by right+clicking on the file and telling it which specific version to use when opening the file. But simply double-clicking may open it in an unintended installation.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the left-hand column there is an option to search for materials. This is the same as the "Assets" section in the non-Japanese versions of the Launcher app.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sorry to trouble you but update it.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation sans" , sans-serif;">What that means is that you can no longer download assets from the "Clip Site" with the Launcher to the installed "Legacy" apps. If you really NEED an asset in the legacy apps you could download it with the newer Launcher, find the folder, and manually copy it to the legacy apps. That, of course, assumes it's compatible with the legacy apps (for example an older asset that has not been updated). If it's in the format for 1.5 or later, though, it most likely won't work even if you manually install it by copying it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation sans" , sans-serif;">Note that the "Plug-In List" link on the Start Screen takes you to the same message. Apparently the plugins now available on the Celsys Assets site are only compatible with the newer versions of the apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the Legacy version of Launcher you get to your installed Materials List with the first button under "Material" in the left-hand column:</span></div>
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You may notice that the actual Materials are the same as my screencap of the 1.6.x version, including the "Grunk's World" Collection I created with the newer Launcher.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'd recommend that you only Rebuild or Initialize things from the 1.6.x Launcher or you're just begging to corrupt your database. As it is you'll probably still have to at least go through some "Organize Materials" operations when you open apps in different language installations or between "legacy" and current. Especially if you're sharing materials across all of them like I am.</span><br />
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While "Material Information" details, etc., are also still available in the Legacy Launcher, I strongly recommend that you edit that information with the <i>current </i>Launcher, especially if you plan to upload and share the Materials on the Assets site. See my other post on Launcher 1.6.x (Japanese Version), "<a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2017/05/clip-studio-launcherassets-16x-japanese.html#material_info">Material Information</a>" section.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Help" Menu under the question mark is less-extensive in the Legacy Launcher than the current version:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You'll notice some of the blocks are still in Japanese. These are the updated data pulled from the Celsys servers in Japan. They are usually about app updates, but sometimes are also about events or sales. You can safely just ignore them.</span><br />
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That's pretty much it for the Legacy Launcher. In fact there's really not much reason to bother opening it at all since you can launch the individual apps from your operating system, it can no longer search, download, or upload Materials from the Assets site, and it's safer to manage your installed Materials with the newer Launcher.</div>
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The release of the English language 1.6.2 version of Clip Studio Paint FINALLY added a built-in method for those of us outside of Japan to download some of those over 10,000 assets they have on the Japanese “Clip Site.” It also meant some changes to the user interface, chief of which is the entirely separate "Clip Studio" asset download app, which is what I’ll go over in this post.<br />
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This is new for us Westerners, but will look familiar to anyone who has been using the unofficial language hack versions of the suite. Unfortunately we’re getting a feature-limited version of it. Here’s what you see when you fire it up:</div>
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It loads the <a href="https://assets.clip-studio.com/ja-jp" target="_blank">Clip Studio Assets</a> site inside of it. One thing you’ll probably notice right away is that everything is FREE! Actually that’s because it will ONLY show the materials that are free, because their payment system still isn’t really set up for users outside of Japan. But don’t worry there are a LOT of free materials available. And if you click on any of them there is even an built-in button to translate the item description from Japanese, but it’s also an obvious reminder that first and foremost this is really a Japanese app.<br />
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Prior to version 1.6.2 you would Install, Organize, or Reset materials from within Clip Studio Paint’s main menu:</div>
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Those functions are now all moved to the Clip Studio Assets app under the “Gear” icon in the top bar:</div>
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Install is front and center, and the old Organize and Reset are now under the “Maintenance Menu” fly-out. But you’ll notice some new things on that menu too:</div>
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<b>Location of Materials</b> - the default location is in your Documents folder, but now you can point it somewhere else if you want, for example a secondary drive (note: as far as I know network/cloud drives don’t work)</div>
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<b>Reset Materials Installed from Cloud</b> - when you install 1.6.2 it will go grab updated versions of a ton of the default materials you used to have to install from a gigantic zip file. I think it also includes any additional materials you download from the Clip Site. Reset will re-download them ALL (be sure you want to do that, it’s like 1400 something files!)</div>
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<b>Sync All Materials Installed from Cloud</b> - I think what this does is just re-download any materials you downloaded before that are missing (because you accidentally deleted them from your Materials palette, maybe).</div>
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In the top bar of the Clip Studio Assets app there is a button with two arrows going this way and that. If you are downloading/syncing from the Clip Site it will show you the number of communications going on. You can click the button, and it will show you the details in the Communications Management dialog:</div>
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Since the Clip Site is actually in Japanese they were nice enough to integrate a Microsoft Translate “View Translation” button on each of the item descriptions:</div>
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As you can see, though, the translation will only work with actual text. Any text that is part of an image cannot be translated. So you go ahead and click that “Download” button and…it tells you to log in first! So you click the “Log In” button at the top and it opens this dialog:</div>
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You’re going to need to press <b>“Register as New Member…</b>” which will open your web browser and take you to this page:</div>
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Sign up, click the verification e-mail they send you, and then you’ll get to your Account to set up your profile. But this is all happening in your web browser, NOT the Clip Studio Assets app. So let’s go back to it. If you need to click the “Log In” button again to get the Login Dialog, enter your email and password. NOW you can go download that freebie!</div>
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Materials you download from the Clip Site will appear in your Materials Palette under “Downloads” and not under the category type of the material. However, once you have them you can manually drag-and-drop the downloaded materials to the desired Materials folder to organize things.</div>
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Regardless of where you put the downloaded Material, when you mouse over it you will see a little icon appear in the upper right-hand corner. If you click that it will open the Clip Studio Assets app and take you to the Item detail page on the Clip Site. This is useful if you downloaded a “Limited License” material and want to check the terms of use before including it in a project.</div>
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But what do you do if you downloaded something and accidentally deleted it? You go re-download it! Once you’re logged into the Clip Studio Assets app look for your profile drop-down in the upper-right of the Clip Site window, click it and select “MyDownloads” from the drop-down menu:</div>
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That takes you to a page showing, unsurprisingly, everything you’ve downloaded! You can either click on the thumbnail to go look at the item details again (there will be a big, red “Re-Download” button waiting for you there) or…just click the little download icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the item thumbnail.</div>
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If you are looking at items on the Clip Site in your web browser and click the “Download” (or “Re-Download”) button it will want to open the Clip Studio app. If you still have it open and are logged into it, no problem - the activity just jumps from your browser to the app. <i>(Note: if you have the Japanese versions installed as well, like I do, the Clip Site in the browser will try to open the Japanese version of the Clip Studio app *unless* you already had the English version open)</i>.</div>
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Ok, so you downloaded stuff. Where does it actually GO?!? Assets downloaded from the Clip Site are treated as local (user-level) registered materials rather than “installed materials.” They’ll be located somewhere in one of the <i>numbered</i> sub-folders (NOT "Install" or "Install2") inside of:<br />
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OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-79718014062678955582016-08-18T14:24:00.000-07:002016-08-18T14:24:09.629-07:00CLIP Studio Paint Stuff!Yup! STUFF! You like stuff right?<br /><br />Just added a very LONG page about how to create custom materials in Clip Studio Paint. Ho-hum right? Except I figured out how you can collect them into "packs" that allow you to back them up (including how you organized them in your Materials Palette) and - this is the biggie - SHARE them with other users!<br />
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Clip Studio Paint is just one app in an entire suite of creativity apps, and for users in Japan there is a robust marketplace of additional materials available for free, purchase, or licensing - and users can share or sell their own, original materials too. Sadly, so far, the rest of us CSP is the only part of the suite we get and there is no native materials marketplace for anyone outside of Japan. Neither the original software publisher, Celsys, nor their North American distributor Smith Micro, seem particularly interested in establishing such a marketplace for us either.<br />
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CSP has options in it to easily export your custom brushes or color sets, but anything that is "registered" as a material in the Materials Palette was not something you could export...until NOW!<br />
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I spent about a week trying different things and trying to figure out what the Materials Installer Utility actually does. I'm about 99% certain those of us outside of Japan now have a safe, manual method for building, distributing, sharing, installing, and uninstalling custom Materials Packs.<br />
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Here are the full details: <a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/custom-clip-studio-paint-materials-packs.html">http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/p/custom-clip-studio-paint-materials-packs.html</a><br />
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As part of this I also put together some experimental Materials Packs for testing as as a proof of concept. Among them is a pack with 3D materials in it - notably my 3D Character Model project "Caveman Grunk" - but the pack also includes a 3D Background model, 3D Object model of his club, and 2D Background Illustration. It's mostly to demonstrate how you can bundle a whole bunch of related materials together and distribute them.<br />
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Also, since I originally posted the 6-part article on my experiments trying to make and import models to Clip Studio Paint I've had numerous people ask if they could have the original Grunk model or Coordinate file so they could see how the hell I put it all together. Well, somewhat reluctantly, I decided to finally release <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pi7ALBcptXRHdjdm1nd0NRWHM" target="_blank">all the source materials</a> that went into making him. As long as I was at it I included the source materials for his 3D Club, 3D House, and the 2D background in the hope that will be enough to help other people see how the things in the Caveman Grunk Pack were assembled.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-19843452124196073042016-01-19T16:59:00.000-08:002016-01-19T17:17:14.841-08:00Can Anyone Edit This?!?Do you know how to edit binary files in a Hex Editor?<br />
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If you came to this blog looking for the "unofficial" English translations of the Clip Studio apps you may be disappointed by the fact there are no translations for the current versions of anything in the suite - only outdated versions. That's because all I did was adapt someone else's work translating the Windows versions to the Mac versions, plus a tiny bit of my own work editing the Mac-only interface files.<br />
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Which means I have no clue HOW the person who originally translated the Windows apps did so. I suspect they did it the "hard way" - by which I mean they manually edited the interface language binary files in a Hex Editor of some sort. Something that I do not know how to do and for whatever reason the original translator has never (to my knowledge) released translations for later versions.<br />
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"Clip Studio Modeler" is the program that probably has the most interest because the newer versions of the program added 3D Character creation tools. Which is where YOU may come in IF you actually know how to manually edit binaries in a Hex Editor. Here are the files that need editing:<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8pi7ALBcptXd2Z6NzRaakQ3NzQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Download the Clip Studio Modeler 1.0.2 Language Binaries</a><br />
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Though I have an auto-translation of the User Guide for the newer Clip Studio Modeler that added the Character tools I haven't been able to get very far with the program interface still being in Japanese, which is not a language I know.<br />
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If I can connect with someone who has the skills and desire to edit these language files there will be a pathway to creating translations for the CURRENT versions of the Clip Studio apps. I hope. I'm just *guessing* that the original translations were done by altering those files with a Hex Editor. The person who did the existing translated files never posted about how, exactly, they did it.OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-64341378330110120142015-11-10T15:07:00.001-08:002015-11-11T13:38:33.821-08:00home.comcast.net site is gone<i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">offworldgirl.home.comcast.net</span></b></i> and <i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">home.comcast.net/~offworldgirl</span></b></i> are now <b>DEAD</b>.<br />
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This site was originally set up for the RSS blog feed into the static website hosted with Comcast's "Personal Web Pages." As of 1 November 2015, however, Comcast has DELETED all the personal web pages sites and discontinued that website hosting service.<br />
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So I am <i>gradually</i> migrating the content worth keeping over to this blog site (and hopefully Google won't suddenly decide to shut down Blogger and force me to move it all somewhere again).<br />
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As for what is "worth keeping?" Well, over the years I've received quite a few e-mails related to the Star Trek and Star Wars costume and prop content, as well as my in-universe Star Trek history articles about the Constellation Class starships and Section 31 (but those are going to take a while to bring over here). Files that used to be hosted at the Comcast site are being moved to Google Drive.<br />
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<br />OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-32529642244121685122015-11-10T14:50:00.004-08:002021-10-31T09:21:43.601-07:00Star Wars Cosplay: Jedi Pouches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Jedi Pouches seen in the prequels aren't really pouches at all. They were cast resin props painted to look like hand-tooled leather. There are numerous sources online offering DIY kits for those pouches, both as solid blocks or modified so you can actually put small items inside them. I wanted functional pouches, and since one of my goals was to make the costume on the cheap (and quickly) I didn't have time or money for replica prop pouches. There ARE actually a couple leather pouches seen on Jedi belts, and at least <a href="http://mattmp.home.att.net/jedi_pouches.htm" target="_blank">one source online</a> I know of that sells leather reproductions of them.<br />
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I had purchased far more vinyl than I thought I actually needed for my Jedi Utility Belt - just in case I made a mistake I wanted enough extra fabric to start over. Since the belt (mostly) went as planned I have more than enough vinyl to make some pouches too. However, trying to find a pattern online for pouches was a problem. I found a couple different patterns for the "Ammo Pouches" on Boba Fett's bandoliers, figuring maybe I could just modify them, but I wasn't happy with the way that looked. Then I found a PDF file tutorial on making leather utility belt pouches - which only references patterns in a book, but doesn't provide them. I also wasn't quite sure how big they were supposed to be, but I did know they were different sizes. Using the sizes listed on the aforementioned web site selling reproductions I got to work drafting my own patterns.<br />
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Unfortunately that was as much as I got done before the convention. I didn't have time to actually MAKE the darned things, and ended up borrowing a Russian-surplus pouch for a field gun cleaning kit from my brother just so I could have something pouchy on my belt. Now that the convention is over I plan to get the pouches done at my leisure - and hopefully before I need them for the NEXT convention!<br />
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<i>UPDATE: after the convention I did actually make a full set of these pouches, but they looked wrong being the same color and grain as the utility belt. So I tried to make them look like a richer leather and a bit distressed by spray painting them with a sort of reddish brown and wiping them while it was still wet. The effect was pretty good - the problem was the paint NEVER seemed to dry. The pouches remained sticky to the touch. I reluctantly had to throw them out and now don't have enough of the vinyl left to make another set. So, for now, I'll be sticking with the surplus pouches.</i><br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8pi7ALBcptXQUNkTHU0WGEwTHc/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-ujwZNRNR2RutL2yfVgZaEg" target="_blank">Here is a PDF file of the patterns I drafted for the pouches.</a> Just print it, cut out the pieces, trace them onto the back-side of your vinyl with a pencil and you'll have what you need. If you can swing it, these should probably be made of slightly darker color than the Utility Belt (or painted with vinyl paint). I'd also recommend faux aging them by roughing them up with sandpaper and/or a file and I've had some luck with brushing India Ink on the bottom edges and wiping it - it makes that dull, dark "leather that got wet" look.<br />
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<span class="s1">More:</span><br />
<a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2015/11/star-wars-cosplay-jedi-costume.html">Jedi Costume</a><br /><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2015/11/star-wars-cosplay-jedi-utility-belt.html">Utility Belt</a><br />
<span class="s1"><a href="http://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2015/11/star-wars-cosplay-lightsaber-prop.html">Lightsaber Prop</a></span>OffWorld Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15239467069925469355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6780760006974194693.post-17099090267650403782015-11-10T14:50:00.003-08:002015-11-10T14:50:24.773-08:00Star Wars Cosplay: Jedi Costume<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1">This drawing above was my original concept drawing for my Jedi costume. I had originally planned to do something funky with the tabards where they'd be one piece instead of two (as you can see below the obi/belt line). I wanted to put an accent like some tapestry embroidery or something in that panel below the belt. Then I wanted to mirror the "arrow" of the tabards with a point upward in the top of the belt, and use a large metal button in place of a buckle (since they actually buckle in the back). However, since I started working on the costume less than two weeks before I was planning to wear it I threw my concept notions out the window and just tried to do something simpler and more standard, as you can see from the photo on the right of what I actually ended up making.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">My Tabards and Obi are actually sewn to one another. I did that partly to keep things from shifting too much in the back when wearing the costume, but also because it makes it easer to dress in the costume without help. The tabards stop at the obi in the back, which is where they are sewn at an angle going up to the shoulders. the front of the tabards are loose. Obviously if you want the tabards to extend beyond the Obi in the back (like Qui Gon's did) you'll need to decide if you're going to attach them to the Obi in the back or if you're just going to have three separate pieces and let the Obi actually hold the Tabards in place. Some people also like to add buttons or velcro at the shoulders of the tunic and to the underside of the Tabards to keep them from slipping off the shoulders. I didn't need to do that because there was enough friction between the Tabard and Tunic material to keep them in place. The obi attaches to itself in the back with velcro. Like the Outer Tunic this piece was also made from an old bed sheet. Below is a photo of the Obi/Tabards I made and a diagram (click for larger) of how that was assembled.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I don't have any idea how to do leatherwork, and since I was starting on my Jedi costume less than 2 weeks before the convention I wasn't keen to try learning it. So I made my Jedi Utility Belt out of heavy, upholstery vinyl, which actually looks better in person than in these photos (enough so that more than one person asked me, first of all where I got my belt and secondly were surprised it was vinyl, and not leather). Both the wide belt and the narrow belt have card stock inside to stiffen them up so they are firm like leather would be. The card stock strip was simply strung through the vinyl tube, it isn't sewn in. I did that so I could replace the card stock as it wears out. The front buckle on the narrow belt is just for show, and the vertical loops either side of it are actually attached to the wide belt behind with upholstery thread (to keep the front from drooping).</span></div>
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