Azxiana

Eight hours of take home tests. Three interview rounds. "We have decided to proceed with another candidate for the position at this time." 🤬😭 I wish I could work on Umamo full time. I actually enjoy that versus interviewing for the corporate grind.

I have been quiet about Umamo stuff for the past week. I'm actually doing some contract coding work for a game right now! I also had a successful first and second round interview for a new job!~ :D So that's why I'm quiet. Umamo will still get a 0.5.0 release soon.

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Announcement Regarding the Closure of Regular Sales for Halo Mics

⚠️If you get an email like this, IT IS A SCAM ATTEMPT. They are asking you to enter your Minecraft/Microsoft account details including a two factor code!

Rosarian troop carrier. #BloodflameArt #RavenCrafts #らでん似絵

Automatic mesh generation is coming in Umamo 0.5.0. This is a simple remesh with a bit of manual clean up.

I added a wireframe preview overlay to Umamo. :D

Anyone who wants to see the new Harry Potter series or play Hogwarts Legacy 2 should ask themselves if the existence of those things are worth genociding 1% of the human population for. In case it's somehow not apparent, no. Nothing is worth doing that.

Holy shit this is scummy of @JLCPCB. Just get people to sign up for spam emails accidentally. If you just click through to agree to the policy changes it signs you up for spam emails.

I'm looking at all the piles of stuff that I need to sell or get rid of. It's overwhelming. D: I don't have a car to take stuff to second hand stores to easily sell stuff either.

Umamo 0.5.0 is getting massive performance improvements.(By not doing excessively dumb things with Kotlin Compose.)

I replaced Jeuph's worn out valve guides and felts. He feels so good to play with now!~

The frustration of doing coding tests for company interviews, as an open source contributor... Could they maybe just look at my public code instead and let me skip all that? 🥺

Mac performance testing for Umamo... ~1 second from double clicking on the file to the application being open and the model rendered.

My fiancee has discovered Teenage Engineering synthesizers. We're never going to have money ever again.

I'm messing around with a potential application icon idea for Umamo. Left: 2022 icon based on a 3D silhouette. Right: Redrawn today, more details.

Art won, but only because Apple made it impossible for me to buy anything from them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm poking around on VGen and sending out requests!~

So I can pay artists to make art/logo/icon for Umamo OR I can buy a Mac Mini for MacOS testing and publishing for Mac users. I can't do both right now. Personally I'm leaning towards the art...

Been making steady improvements to OpenVT, so let's go over most of the user facing recent changes from the past couple weeks! Plenty of additions to blueprints, as well as general usability tweaks 🧵

I added artwork import options for helping to align new artwork, especially those with different sized canvases, to each other on import.

I'm really enjoying Cereza and the Lost Demon. It's a Switch exclusive, but it is really good so far.(I'm 20% of the way in.)

CMO3 file loading performance benchmarks... Loading a massive 850mb file, in seconds: Cubism: 55s (load) + 15s (textures) = 70s Umamo: 15s total 55 seconds faster. What is #Live2D doing in their code?

Shout out to Massgrave for fixing my laptop's Windows' activation quickly, that I have a license for, instead of being forced to use Microsoft login instead of a local account. Because they changed the TOS between now and when I installed it in 2019 all because I changed the hardware.

Umamo now can automatically reload source artwork after it's saved. 🪄

@ayumuhashimoto.bsky.social and I are now engaged!~ <3 💚🩷 She caught me off guard and asked first.(1.5 weeks ago, when I was in the USA!)

California? That is not even close. It isn't even the right side of the continent.

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New Operations Strip/Panel for changing operation settings and amendable history. :D Next week's release is going to be packed!~

Improvements to the atlas transformations!

Grab, rotate, and scale are in progress for the texture atlas now!~ It's a bit janky and only works as a rectangle for collision detection at the moment, but I will improve it over the next week.

I'm back and working on Umamo again! Do you speak Korean, Spanish, or any other language and want to contribute to the project, but aren't familiar with development tools? Now you can translate the application, download the strings.xml, and send it to me! i18n.umamo.org

public builds of openvt will be reenabled on itchio soon. CICD is currently set up and successfully creating artifacts on github that you can try now. It's been about a month since diving back into development. Lots of work has been put into improving UX in addition to the switch to Ayagami.

Being cuddled up under the magical great grandmother blanket while sick is proven to relieve fevers!~ Thank you, great grandmother.

I do in fact use the thermometer on my Google Pixel. It says that I'm sick!

Ayagami does screenshots now! Just drop your model in, pose it however you like, and copy/save as transparent PNG (current view or full model resolution) demo.ayagami.dev Tomorrow I'll stream again and wrap up work on the 5.3 blending/color issues ^^

Linux hackers are safe, Windows and macOS hackers will steal your data... and you'd better call police if you meet a GPU hacker?!?!

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OpenVT changes over the past couple days - support for expression groups - dynamic mask resolution to save vram - file drop support for adding any item asset to your scene by dragging a file onto the main window - customizable bg - native file dialogs, load assets from anywhere on your filesystem

I will be away for the next couple weeks!~ It's my parents' eightieth birthdays and also a special time with my lovely Ayumu. 💚

Stream pushed back two hours to let me prepare better!(Stomach is upsetti spaghetti.)