![]() ![]() Note that when creating your tile set, you can "pad" the tiles with empty pixels if that makes it easier for you and then set offset and separation values when you create your tile set resource in GameMaker Studio 2, as shown in this next image: This will create a new tile set which can then be named and where you can supply the sprite resource to use. Once you've created your tile set, you would import it into the GameMaker Studio 2 Sprite Editor and then create a new tile set by right clicking on the Tile Set Resource and selecting Create. If you look at the wall tile set sprite shown below, you can see that the upper left position (tile index 0) is empty, for example: Essentially a tile set layer in the room editor will always have tiles, with the tile being used initially set as the empty tile in the tile set (note that even if you have a tile at the empty position, it will not be drawn). ![]() To create a tile set the sprite will need to have each tile spaced on a grid, and the very first tile should be blank, as this is the "empty" tile that is used for deleting. You can also animate tiles, but there are certain caveats associated with that too, which we'll discuss later in this tutorial.įor now though, this tutorial is going to explain how to create a basic tile set resource.Ī tile set will need to have been assigned a Sprite Resource before you can use it. You are also limited when it comes to rotating tiles, as they can only be rotated 90° or mirrored along the vertical axis or flipped along the horizontal axis. When placing your tiles in the Room Editor you can overlap tiles by placing them on different layers, but the tile set itself is one tile per cell. The grid does not have to be square nor does it have to be a power of two - so a tile set that uses 20x45 grid cells would be fine - and you can only have one tile per grid cell. To start with tiles are always placed on a grid. Now, tile sets do come with some caveats. They are very fast to draw and require little processing power, making them ideal for creating platforms, background scenery and anything else that objects may not have to directly interact with. A tile set is a graphical resource used to add images into your game but without the need for using an object. The tile set editor is where you can take a sprite resource and convert it into a tile set for use within your game rooms. In this tutorial we are going to look at the GameMaker Studio 2 Tile Set Editor. ![]()
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![]() If you don’t mind going through a couple of technical steps, you can transfer files between your phone and Windows PC without any apps. Access your Windows PC’s drive from Android phone and iPhone On your PC, you can drag and drop files or folders directly on the Send Anywhere program to send them to your phone. Once you have installed its apps, you can transfer files by selecting the “Send Anywhere” option in the Share menu. You can either create a shareable link for your files or connect your devices with a unique code. On Send Anywhere, you also don’t have to create an account. It supports many file types, and unlike AirDroid, its free plan has no size limit nor the number of items you dispatch in a go. As its name suggests, Send Anywhere is built for one purpose, and that is to transmit data across all your computers and phones. For a no-frills experience, try Send Anywhere. Send Anywhere: Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Web, LinuxĪlthough AirDroid works well, it has a lot of extra features you may not need. For larger transfers, you’ll need to shell out for the premium subscription, which costs at least $2.50 a month. If your device is synced to iCloud, the images will appear on it as well.With AirDroid’s free version, the maximum file size you can remotely send is 30MB. Wait until the program carefully delivers your photos and videos to your iCloud account… There they are. ![]() Select the files (HEIC, PNG, and JPEG images and MOV, MP4, and M4V video files) that you want to upload to iCloud. We use an SSL connection to protect your data, so you’re safe! If you need help, refer to the installation guide. If you don’t have it installed, download the program here: In CopyTrans Control Center, run CopyTrans Cloudly. To prevent data loss in the future, choose “Download and keep originals”: this will keep the photos on your device even if you disable iCloud sync later. And we know just the tool to help – CopyTrans Cloudly!īefore you start uploading photos, enable iCloud sync on your device: go to Settings -> your Apple ID -> iCloud -> Photos and set the toggle switch to ON. Here is the idea: if you could upload images from your PC to iCloud and enable iCloud syncing on your device, the photos would migrate straight to your Camera Roll. There is actually a trick to add photos directly to Camera Roll, but you will need to use iCloud power for that. How to add photos to iPhone Camera Roll with Cloudly Alternatively, you can sync an empty folder to your iPhone using iTunes, which will also make the photos go away. With the help of CopyTrans Photo, you can delete photos from Photo Library. Make sure your photos do not get stuck in Photo Library after you’ve copied them. ![]() The photos are now part of your Camera Roll. Then select the Share option in the lower-left corner of the screen and choose “Duplicate” to add photos to Camera Roll or “Add to album” if you want them as part of a specific collection. In the upper-right corner, press “Select” and choose the photos you need. ![]() On your iPhone, go to Photos -> Albums -> From My Mac, then select the album with the photos you need to copy to Camera Roll. If your photos are already in Photo Library, here is a little trick to put them into Camera Roll: Also, you can’t delete these images, at least from your device:ĬopyTrans Photo can delete these images just fine.Īlso, we know a few tricks that will help you add photos to Camera Roll in the end! Here they are:Ĭopy photos from Photo Library to Camera Roll NOTE: On your iPhone, you see photos added to Photo Library in the “From my Mac” section, which is not part of Camera Roll. Photo Library as viewed in the CopyTrans Photo interface: Here is the difference between Camera Roll vs. The photos you add to your device from your PC (with iTunes, CopyTrans Photo, etc.) go to a separate folder called Photo Library.
![]() ![]() "Once you say it is, it's no longer true." But only internally: "It's like calling something classy," Mr. The graffiti design is part of what is referred to internally at Paperless Post as the more-casual "hipster" line. Yet another designer, the side of his hand blackened with Sharpie ink, drew letters for a graffiti-inspired design reading, "Let's Get Buzzed." By the window, another designer carved a flowering tree into a linoleum block, which he would then douse with light-blue ink, press onto paper and scan into digital form. Her colleagues were busy designing for other events, including the Oscars and St. Song used an X-Acto knife to cut a zebra from heavy black paper, to be scanned into the computer and replicated so that two zebras would be this-close to kissing over a gold heart. ![]() Paperless Post cards tend to be more ornate. Paperless Post is another example of the convergence-and it has competition from smartphone apps like Red Stamp, which offer a way to make e-cards on the go. Boddington's Nephew, is among the company's new Valentine's Day offerings.Įvery invitation or card sent "becomes its own piece of marketing because it goes to potential new customers from someone they know," says Alexa Hirschfeld, 27, who founded the company with her brother, James Hirschfeld, 25.Īs the rise of electronic and social media dovetails with a surge in DIY projects, websites like Pinterest offer a way for people (mostly women) to aggregate visual ideas for home design, food and style. This 'Eye Chart' card, created for Paperless Post by Mr. But as of last week, stamps are no longer required-meaning it's now possible to send a no-frills Paperless Post greeting card at no cost. (The price of a single coin is 20 cents but when bought in bulk, it can drop to 6.5 cents.)Ī "stamp," which used to be required, cost between 5 cents and 16 cents. Under the old system, customers would create personalized cards by purchasing "coins" to be used to buy design up-sells: An envelope liner costs one coin, a corporate logo costs three coins. ![]() To help create an entry point for young users, the company has introduced new designs, and it is changing its pricing structure. Paperless Post is doubling its Valentine's offerings, which range from a plain heart-shaped card to a design based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. What sets Paperless Post apart from most other electronic invitation companies is that it charges for its product, and as a result it offers its cards free of ads. But they want the ease of digital technology. Modern stationery lovers appreciate the design, color and texture of a handcrafted card. ![]() ![]() ![]() The hands-off nature of the device points to a concept Amazon calls ambient intelligence, the idea that digital systems, services, and devices can work together in the background on our behalf, helping us create a world that can foresee our needs so we can focus on the things that matter to us. “There’s something so magical about the ‘set it and forget it’ experience with Halo Rise, where all you need to do is go to bed and wake up. “If we can make our customers’ lives easier and help them improve their sleep, all without requiring a lot of thinking or hands-on interaction, then we believe the potential of Halo Rise is boundless,” he said. “We want Halo Rise to both empower the customer to improve their sleep performance, while also being a real ambient product that intelligently works in the background,” said Cody Gordh, product lead of the team that built the device. The Amazon team designed Halo Rise with robust accuracy and sleep insights because they wanted customers to meaningfully engage with their sleep data. They can trust that the information they get in the app in the morning is easy to understand, and it's actionable,” Dr. It’s so important that the information Halo Rise provides really means something to customers, and I think it does. “All of this has upped the ante for us to put products out there that meet the pressing needs of customers. Gupta also said that the pandemic increased peoples’ attention toward their health. Peters because it wanted to create “a wellness device that people can trust, that has evidence behind it, and that the medical community could embrace so we can really start to move the needle here on what digital health means for people within their homes.” He said that Amazon is working with additional third-party sleep scientists to validate the accuracy of Halo Rise even further.ĭr. Gupta said that Amazon worked with partners like Dr. We might even see an improvement in our mood.”ĭr. But once we recover, once we get adequate sleep-more hours or better quality-we’re much sharper, we can think more clearly. “We wouldn't recognize that we're moodier or that we're making more mistakes at work or that we're not thinking as clearly. And if we don't get proper sleep, “we don't have good insight into our own deficits,” he said. ![]() Peters said most adults need at least 7-9 hours of sleep. Peters, who helped steer the development of the device’s sleep tracking algorithm powered by machine learning. Gupta is part of a large Amazon team that spent the last few years building Halo Rise. “The issue here is that for something that is so common, we don't have great solutions at scale.” Good sleep doesn’t need to be just a dreamĭr. ![]() Vin Gupta, chief medical officer at Amazon Devices & Services, the business unit that developed Halo Rise. “Like diet and exercise, sleep is a cornerstone of people’s wellness and overall health, and too many people struggle with it,” said Dr. Halo Rise also includes sleep and environmental sensors that give customers insights into their sleep quality, helping them deduce actions like lowering the room temperature, drawing the shades, or reducing light levels to improve sleep. The LED light can simulate the subtle darkening or brightening of the sun to ease users to bed and help them rise feeling refreshed. Halo Rise comes complete with a smart alarm built to lift you out of sleep at the ideal time for waking up and a wake-up light. Vin Gupta, chief medical officer at Amazon Devices & Services ![]() Fitting snugly on the nightstand, Halo Rise is a first-of-its-kind contactless sleep tracker powered by the latest low-energy sensor technology and advanced machine learning.ĭr. He lives in Seattle, which is also the home of another innovator keen on helping people get a good night’s sleep: Amazon.Īt the annual Devices & Services Fall Launch event, Amazon unveiled a new device called Halo Rise, which is designed to help customers analyze and improve their sleep. and has written more than 1,000 articles about the subject, now helps patients suffering from sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, and other sleep disorders. Peters, a Stanford-trained sleep medicine physician who has practiced in hospitals around the U.S. “He could go to a play or see a movie and stay awake,” he says.ĭr. Peters said “I got him treated and noticed how much it really transformed his life.” His father ceased snoring and stopped falling asleep during the day. “He was the first person I diagnosed,” Dr. A neurologist by training, he was first drawn into the field two decades ago, when he helped his father get treatment for sleep apnea. Decoding the mysteries of sleep was always Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() You CAN play Fox In The Forest Duet casually losing doesn't feel like you've failed and we didn't get angry when the other player took a risk or things didn't pan out. What Makes It More Interesting?ĭid I say simplicity? Yes and no. It also forces you to talk about other things and that shouldn't be a bad thing. In fact, the ban on discussing the game only adds to the tension. Which makes the game a fantastic balance between playing cautiously, strategically and recklessly - or more accurately you'll occasionally need to gamble in order to win. And whilst some other cooperative trick-taking games, like The Crew, give you limited communication, this one doesn't. And why would you need those kinds of special abilities? Because Fox in the Forest Duet doesn't let you communicate about what you have in your hand. Examples include ignoring some of the movement or allowing a player to not follow suit. When you win a trick, the team marker moves across the board towards the winner depending on what cards have been played.Ĭertain cards in each suit have extra abilities. Dealing out eleven cards each, you'll play three rounds with a trump suit decided randomly each time. ![]() You'll also get gem tokens, forest tokens, a forest board and your team tracker - along with two handy reference cards. You'll get a set of cards in three beautifully rendered suits (doves, roses and stars). Game Overviewįirstly, there's the beauty and simplicity of the game. However, Foxtrot and Renegade came up with some clever tweaks to make it a fun and challenging little card game. ![]() This might make the whole thing slightly boring. Collect all the gemstones to beat the game. In essence, the game is incredibly simple: win tricks together to collect gemstones. Which makes Fox in the Forest Duet by Foxtrot and Renegade Games a worthy addition to your selection. Ones that have beautiful artwork, come in a small box, are cooperative, and play really well? Even harder. True two-player games, rather than games that have a two-player mode, can feel a little hard to come by. Run out of time or head off the end of the path with no forest spaces in reserve, then you can just keep running in defeat or shuffle the cards and start the game anew. One character allows players to exchange one card with each other, while another allows a player to change the decree card.Īt the end of a round, you add five gems to designated spaces, add a forest space to shorten the path, then receive a new hand of eleven cards from a freshly shuffled deck. ![]() The odd-numbered character cards have special abilities when played, allowing the trick winner to move the tracker in the direction of their choice or to ignore the footprints on one of the played cards so that you can land on just the right spot. If the tracker would move off the end of the path, return the tracker to the center of the path, then add a forest token to one end of the path, reducing the number of spaces upon which you can move (with you sliding gems next to this covered space next to the new end of the path). If the tracker lands on a space next to a gem, the players collect one gem. The winner of the trick moves the team tracker toward them a number of spaces equal to the number of fox footprints on the cards played. For each trick, one player leads a card, and the other must follow suit, if possible. Reveal one card as the "decree" card to determine the trump suit. At the start of each round, shuffle the deck of thirty cards which contains three suits, each numbered 1-10 and deal each player a hand of eleven cards. To set up the game, place gem tokens on the designated spaces of the game board and the team tracker token in the center of the movement path. Collect all the gems before the end of three rounds of play, and you win! In the two-player, co-operative trick-taking game The Fox in the Forest Duet, players team up, helping each other move through the forest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long story short: same genre, plays a bit different, if anything higher quality. A natural progression for Serious Sam into VR. Might have to leave the non-Fusion variant of the game running just to get a positive review up there. This time around, the pace has slowed down and Sam's macho shtick has grown wearisome, draining much of the energy that once fueled this manic shooter series. For Serious Sam 3: BFE on the Xbox 360, GameFAQs hosts videos from GameSpot and. Critic Reviews for Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope. Still trying to wrap my feelings around Last Hope - stationary. 1 & 2 are amazing and full locomotion - classic FPS action. Well worth it - fast action and straight up fun. They go on sale often for ridiculously cheap. I intended to write a positive SS3 review on the SS3 VR store page, but silly Steam doesn't know that I've played it since I play it in Fusion. Wait for a sale - I picked up the entire Serious Sam VR collection for something like 12 between Steam sale and Humble Bundle. It's the crown jewel in the crown of SS Fusion. ![]() It's still about mowing down hordes of interesting (though prdictable) arcade-style baddies, usually in corridors and arenas, though here the environments are sometimes a bit more complex. SS3 is polished and different and has a (slightly) more methodical play style. ![]() Even though I love Serious Sam First Encounter and Second Encounter in VR, and feel that The Last Hope is an excellent rail shooter, I still felt that Doom 3 BFG VR was the crown jewel of the first person shooter VR experience.Īfter my first hours with SS3 VR, I think it's possibly been dethroned. ![]() ![]() There are 3 dynamic codes, yet every one of them are irregular for every client, this is the thing that you need to do to get the Raven’s Talon Scythe, the Sword of Raven, and furthermore the Katars of Raven Brawlhalla Codes – New Codes Twitter Code – Free Raven’s Talon Scythe Skin
![]() Wolfram|Alpha computes integrals differently than people. Wolfram|Alpha can solve a broad range of integrals How Wolfram|Alpha calculates integrals A common way to do so is to place thin rectangles under the curve and add the signed areas together. Sometimes an approximation to a definite integral is desired. This states that if is continuous on and is its continuous indefinite integral, then. īoth types of integrals are tied together by the fundamental theorem of calculus. The definite integral of from to, denoted, is defined to be the signed area between and the axis, from to. Since the derivative of a constant is 0, indefinite integrals are defined only up to an arbitrary constant. The indefinite integral of, denoted, is defined to be the antiderivative of. What are integrals? Integration is an important tool in calculus that can give an antiderivative or represent area under a curve.
![]() ![]() 2 It integrates with various calendar apps, including Outlook by way of Exchange. But in Due, it’s just one long list of everything.Īpple’s Reminders.app is a viable alternative to Due. Some are for work and some are for personal tasks. ![]() It’s also not easy to segregate and categorize all of the reminders in the Due app. It’s nice having a place to see everything in the coming week all at once. Second, Due is outside of my other scheduling apps, like calendars and Outlook. ![]() It’s not a terrible burden, but also not ideal. The syncing requires me to open the app on iOS periodically. There are also a few downsides to Due.app. Because the apps all sync through Dropbox or iCloud, I’m much more likely to get the message.ĭue.app also has a great URL scheme which means that it can integrate well with Drafts or Editorial. It has terrific plain-english syntax and flexible repeat reminders. I’ve used Due.app on Mac and iOS for quite awhile. I’ve always found OmniFocus to be too passive and easily dismissed (or missed) to rely on the notifications. While OmniFocus incorporates alerts at a basic level, it’s never been my preferred tool for reminders. They don’t grab you any more than a paper notebook would. TaskPaper and similar apps are not active tools. I’ll lay out what I’ve found and how I’m attempting to use it below. 1 Some solutions work almost perfectly without any tweaking but on iOS, it’s a Sisyphean feat to have full control over a task list. I’m attempting to string together many disparate applications and scripts to accomplish what OmniFocus does with a single platform. The downside is that most tools just do the basics. One of the great things about plain text systems like TaskPaper is that pretty much any application that can read and write txt files can do the basics. If you are looking for my R&D notes, then you’re at the right address. If you are looking for a solution, this is not it. I’ll also mix-in some of my own custom tools and conclude with a small initiative to help expand on the available tools. Some work very well and some are unsatisfying. This will not be a description of the “ideal” but rather a catalog of options. In this article, I’ll document a broad set of tools available on various platforms for working with TaskPaper documents. But the system is only as good as the tools available for working with the documents. The tag and project structure in the TaskPaper format is flexible and easy to comprehend. In part one, I discussed the rules and detail designs of a plain text based task management experiment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clickable objects and tabs make it easy for you to access your favorite pages. How to Make a Digital Planner?Įveryone wants a digital planner with hyperlinks. Digital planning will let you adjust to your mood and personality. Or you want to be quick and productive and skip the handwriting all together. Whether you feel like a slow day start, writing each and every letter. And most of all, you’ll be able to type faster and more beautifully.Ī digital planner works for every mood. ![]() You won’t have to worry about the words that you have to cross. With a realistic planner, you can have the best of both worlds: enjoyable, eye-catching, easy & efficient. ![]() Digital planner is basically all of your paper planners in one spot. You can use a digital planner as a diary or plan every second of your life. What’s a Digital Planner?Ī digital planner is basically a paperless journal where you can plan your days, create eye-pleasing pages, share them on social media or just keep your favorite memories. If you prefer to watch a video instead of reading detailed instructions, feel free to go to the bottom of the article. In other words, if you’ve ever made a presentation before, this is going to be extremely easy for you to follow. I won’t use any fancy paid digital programs, just Google Slides, which are completely free. Want to know how to create a digital planner? This step-by-step guide will help you create your own digital planner in the easiest way possible. ![]() |
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