Bill-
About those files, the problem is that they’re not single OBJ files.
The Dagger and Toby are a collection of MANY OBJ files, parented to each other.
You have the same files on that hard drive already.
Look in AAA Webcomic > Props > Vehicles > DESN (and > DEMC)
If you open them in Studio, you’ll see what I mean.
Some of my files have become corrupt, you might have to try different ones.
I think the original is named “AAC Cobra” in Products.
Look for the folder named Thumbnails>vehicles>air.
That will give you an image the product name.
I looked at a few of those (not the same ones you used)
all I’ll say is DAMN! An aircraft carrier I looked at had
over 1000 parts and the cost was almost $300.
I’ve been stuck on Hex, I’ve got some of the basics down
but when it comes to the surface effects, I get bogged down.
What don’t help is the only time I get undisturbed is when
both of them are asleep…
Somebody just stuck their foot so far into their mouth it
will hit daylight before yesterday’s breakfast.
Don’t you just love when idiots cause their own downfall?
As PC’s hover text in the last comic said,
“Open foot, insert mouth.”
Cycling clubs like this need to be disbanded,
or at least forced to take a “safe driving
course” to remind them the rules of the road
do apply to bicycles.
I want to wrap up the bottom story next week. I have a new story planned.
Damned power blips are killing me, I’ve ordered new batteries for my UPS.
Old ones are stone dead.
The small UPS unit I had back when I was running a
World of Warcraft server about 20 years ago had
Ni-Cad batteries, after the second set or batteries
died I tossed the hunk of junk. The lithium batteries
might hold up better but nothing is perfect. I shudder
to think what a new unit would cost now.
Try this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y24DEU?th=1
I bought it together with the add-on battery pack, BR24BPG,
to give me more run time back in 2020.
Those are what I’ve been running my main computer on,
but now the batteries are dead. Time to replace them,
but APC replacements would cost almost as much as replacing the entire units.
So I ordered aftermarket replacements at half the cost, hope they work.
Total runtime when new with my old computer was over 500 minutes.
If I had to do it all over again,
I’d go with a couple of deep-cycle marine batteries,
a sine-wave inverter, and a big charger. It would be cheaper and easier.
It is hard to imagine the power problems you have over there.
Last time we have experienced a power drop around here was
a couple of years ago when some buffoon rammed his car into
a local 10kV transformer.
Drunk as a skunk I believe some would say.
With all of the industry and technology being built in the USA,
our power needs are increasing rapidly.
But people like Greta Thunberg, AKA the Pint-Sized Green Goblin,
are determined to cut our power supply, instead.
But they’ll never say a critical word about the biggest polluters like China,
it’s the free world that they criticize, that must sacrifice.
But at least with the Global Cooling/Global Warming/Climate Change scam falling apart,
she’s given up and now it’s “Palestine-Palestine-FREE PALESTINE!”
Grrrrr… Once again I break my own rules.
But my biggest problem is micro outages, blips just long enough to kill my computer.
But the new batteries ought to stop that. When they arrive. If they arrive,
they’re coming via USPS, after all.
Age old story, have a bunch of morons with athletic skill,
have only one with half a brain, and he leave the area for
5 mins, the idiots ruin everything and their only defense is:
“Well, I didn’t know! How could I know?” Open brain, insert
knowledge.
I don’t think even the one with half a brain could save them.
Unless he were the only one always riding tight to the right,
and tried to keep them in single file, but the rest of them just
spread out from there to block traffic.
I believe they are going to lose the sponsorship at least,
and maybe some attempted rape and/or assult charge
on Nathan? Either way, I’ll need that fork back once Minka
is done 😉 Jee Cha MIGHT be allowed to recover with a
new team, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. With my history
with jocks, I have little sympathy.
My guess is that Minka didn’t know about the team at all.
I expect she’ll fire the lot of them except for the guy who
spoke up. Then she’ll have Mavia ferret out who authorized
the bike team behind her back. That would result in a pink
slip if I was in Minka’s place.
She might have known but not their behavure until the complaints
came in. That belongs to the bikers, not the employee that ok’d
the sponsorship. Tiger Woods lost a lot of his sponsors after the
entire mess of his cheating on his wife, as if her beating the crap
out of his fancy SUV wasn’t enough… Actually, she wanted to do it
to him but he ran and tried to leave.
Or Arnold “I’ll be back” cheating on his beautiful wife
with a pudgy middle-aged cleaning lady… Same
with the tiger. They both claimed it was “addiction.”
Whatever…
If he even *had* half a brain, he wouldn’t have let the team block traffic in the first place.
He’s just as stupid as the rest of them. He just knows what their meal ticket looks like.
AFAIC, no bike belongs on major roads. Shoulder ONLY if there is no other option. Otherwise,
side streets, residential streets, service roads and back lanes. Those parallel EVERY road
they snivel and complain they have the right to be on. They should be on exactly NO road that
has a speed limit over 30 klicks, or is multilane for traffic volume. Expecting multi ton or
tonne vehicles to stop on a dime for if their dumb asses wipe out, or WHEN they run red lights,
as if they have a god-given right to. Especially the utter morons who bike in winter on roads.
I’ve seen retards biking in snowstorms holding up traffic, not able to go even 10 kph.
Then their moronic selves hit ice and down they go.
And they shouldn’t be on ANY road at all, unless they are just as licensed
and insured as the drivers they’ll happily sue for accidents THEY cause.
And so, we find that it appears Scenario B was correct.
At least on the base assumption. It’s up to PC to see how
close I was to the consequences. Of course, Scenario C
is still possible, but Jee Cha actually knows who Minka is.
So I think B is still more likely.
Regardless, Nathan E. Willstone III appears to be headed
for a severe reversal of his situation. No job, bad reference,
bad reputation if Minka advertises who the head asshole
was that was tying traffic up.
Well there’s always Workfare, but if she presses charges,
he’ll be at the hog farm or might take the Legion route.
Cocky guys like him or like Sgt. Rock always need a lesson
in humility and behavure modification… AKA “Have some
respect, fool!”
Oh I can attest to that! I married one, with 3 brothers and
a half brother and 2 step brothers. She’d play the helpless
role, but then “ring the bell,” AKA kick the junk or start throwing
things lol. I taught her a few basics, but she never used them.
After she seen me take down a “Mr. Grabby” at a bar, she was
content on watching me. 😉
I don’t know what PC has in mind for Mavia’s friend
Big Guy with Gloves, but I’d love to see him pick up
a few of those bikes and bend them in half…..
barehanded. (Leave Mr Cha’s bike alone)
Have a nice walk home, dudes!
I was thinking he would load them
into van and tell them to call a cab.
I agree to leave Cha’s bike for him,
was he was guilty of traffic hold up as well.
Naa, just ask his help rip those shirts
off if they don’t remove them willingly.
Maybe bend the front wheels of the bikes
so they have to carry them back.
Depending on how the sponsorship was structured,
it could end up with Minka doing an asset recovery right there.
Bikes, shirts, shorts, shoes, all hauled back to Imogen,
minus the former team.
Now they would be in socks, (hopefully) underwear,
and potentially a phone on at least one of them.
I like some of your ideas, but what I’d REALLY like to see is,
after Minka and crew are through with them, after they watch
them pull away in whatever shape they’re left in, they turn
around to see a coterie of local girls in various sizes, shapes
and colors carrying baseball bats, tire irons and maybe cattle
prods smiling “sweetly” and asking, “So, what was this about
the facts of life for country bumpkin nobodies and hillbilly girls?”
That last one wad Cha. He may be aware of and fear power
embodied as money, but so far I have no reason to believe
he’s any better than the others at being a human being.
Heh, I can picture my wife and that pint-sized gal pal of
hers making suggestions and calling out escape attempts…
My dear darlin’ would be frustrated she didn’t have
enough air hose to reach ’em…
Fuuuck.. Thunderstorm rolling in, and the batteries for my UPC are at the post office.
I can’t go get them because my road is flooded.
Even if I got them installed, they’d need all day to charge up.
I just got my test results in, I’m physically in better shape that I expected.
My problem seems to be depression. Not “unhappy” depression.
Lethargic, don’t want to do anything depression.
Had a long talk with the guy who ordered the monster computer about what
he wants vs what he needs and budgets.He’s scaled it down a bit.
Too many people want to throw money at computers instead of sitting down
and figuring out what they want to DO with the damned things and what’s
the best way to get there.
3D Graphics computers like mine have different requirements than video
computers than office computers than gaming computers.
I swear, if I hear one more ignorant idiot point at my computer and say
“Dood, that’s stoopid! You don’t need (those/that) for Gaaaming!”,
I’m going to prison.
Comes the Dawn.
Nate, – Nathan E. Willstone III
new friend, Jee Cha.
The big guy with the dolly walking out next to her?
oh, thought that was Ivan,, head of security…
time for new name.!
mik – Sergei Mikhas.
Mavia went into the store to find the driver of that delivery van.
ok,, change 3… 🙂
just noticed: Jee called her Imogan
not Imogen…
Right before he spelled it right. Why is the big guy with Mavia
wearing gloves? And not work gloves at that!
Chris, the delivery driver…
And the hammer falls.
Not yet. He has been made to look up and see it poised.
Bill-
About those files, the problem is that they’re not single OBJ files.
The Dagger and Toby are a collection of MANY OBJ files, parented to each other.
You have the same files on that hard drive already.
Look in AAA Webcomic > Props > Vehicles > DESN (and > DEMC)
If you open them in Studio, you’ll see what I mean.
Some of my files have become corrupt, you might have to try different ones.
Oh, okay. All I really need is what looks like the fuselage
of a Cobra gunship. I’ll look where you suggested.
I think the original is named “AAC Cobra” in Products.
Look for the folder named Thumbnails>vehicles>air.
That will give you an image the product name.
I looked at a few of those (not the same ones you used)
all I’ll say is DAMN! An aircraft carrier I looked at had
over 1000 parts and the cost was almost $300.
I’ve been stuck on Hex, I’ve got some of the basics down
but when it comes to the surface effects, I get bogged down.
What don’t help is the only time I get undisturbed is when
both of them are asleep…
Somebody just stuck their foot so far into their mouth it
will hit daylight before yesterday’s breakfast.
Don’t you just love when idiots cause their own downfall?
As PC’s hover text in the last comic said,
“Open foot, insert mouth.”
Cycling clubs like this need to be disbanded,
or at least forced to take a “safe driving
course” to remind them the rules of the road
do apply to bicycles.
I want to wrap up the bottom story next week. I have a new story planned.
Damned power blips are killing me, I’ve ordered new batteries for my UPS.
Old ones are stone dead.
Is there supposed to be a story in the second
part all I am getting is blue pages twice?
Wednesday and today.
What Paul said. I’ve only seen blue for two days now.
I’ve had so many problems this week that I’ve
barely been able to finish the top story.
The bottom story will return Monday.
Thank-you and I hope your ‘luck’ changes
The small UPS unit I had back when I was running a
World of Warcraft server about 20 years ago had
Ni-Cad batteries, after the second set or batteries
died I tossed the hunk of junk. The lithium batteries
might hold up better but nothing is perfect. I shudder
to think what a new unit would cost now.
UPS battery backup. $60 – $80 on Amazon..
the $80 one has LAN protection…
the $120 can filter the whole house for ‘micro pulses.’ 0.o
Wow, they really came down then!! I paid that much for a
15 min max run time, just enough to shut everything down.
It was from Best Buy though…
This is along the same lines as the one I had, but way weaker. Plus mine only had 4 outlets.
https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Standby-UPS-600VA-Outlets/dp/B073Q48YGF/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2CLXMDHRB53V2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.otEGIDUKQgsPMEktBorExCxQ9mqmMtOrxtiOOLDgqTHkHGsNVoPZsogpmfVUgBjord4uqH5_d3fL_wEj2frGqRk469GcS0FUCSmfyRqK-QFqKP2qO2u8gNfA2pr4IorO7Og6qFV_fDk3Lj501DCnqrN7plS_gAGk7tqAKiiQT7A_vv-KeDuFV2GwSdACRWUGyebd4ijVF2cIa9VLMwPoZDW7tmMEZIbXallhko2bG3E.Raz7Hf2c2bIPc0uhr3zXGWpjcMOU8xa2rGGmhXtjiPI&dib_tag=se&keywords=ups%2Bbattery%2Bbackup%2B%26%2Bsurge%2Bprotector&qid=1756001955&sprefix=UPS%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-10&th=1
Try this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y24DEU?th=1
I bought it together with the add-on battery pack, BR24BPG,
to give me more run time back in 2020.
Those are what I’ve been running my main computer on,
but now the batteries are dead. Time to replace them,
but APC replacements would cost almost as much as replacing the entire units.
So I ordered aftermarket replacements at half the cost, hope they work.
Total runtime when new with my old computer was over 500 minutes.
If I had to do it all over again,
I’d go with a couple of deep-cycle marine batteries,
a sine-wave inverter, and a big charger. It would be cheaper and easier.
You get more Amp/H that way than any Lith batteries. Or go with this:
https://tinyurl.com/yyhvu2t4 w/100amp/h Lith.
It is hard to imagine the power problems you have over there.
Last time we have experienced a power drop around here was
a couple of years ago when some buffoon rammed his car into
a local 10kV transformer.
Drunk as a skunk I believe some would say.
With all of the industry and technology being built in the USA,
our power needs are increasing rapidly.
But people like Greta Thunberg, AKA the Pint-Sized Green Goblin,
are determined to cut our power supply, instead.
But they’ll never say a critical word about the biggest polluters like China,
it’s the free world that they criticize, that must sacrifice.
But at least with the Global Cooling/Global Warming/Climate Change scam falling apart,
she’s given up and now it’s “Palestine-Palestine-FREE PALESTINE!”
Grrrrr… Once again I break my own rules.
But my biggest problem is micro outages, blips just long enough to kill my computer.
But the new batteries ought to stop that. When they arrive. If they arrive,
they’re coming via USPS, after all.
It’s getting better since the new sub was built,
but it’s the same for us.
Age old story, have a bunch of morons with athletic skill,
have only one with half a brain, and he leave the area for
5 mins, the idiots ruin everything and their only defense is:
“Well, I didn’t know! How could I know?” Open brain, insert
knowledge.
I don’t think even the one with half a brain could save them.
Unless he were the only one always riding tight to the right,
and tried to keep them in single file, but the rest of them just
spread out from there to block traffic.
My guess? He’s about to become
the new captain of the new team.
The other guys? Buh bye…
I believe they are going to lose the sponsorship at least,
and maybe some attempted rape and/or assult charge
on Nathan? Either way, I’ll need that fork back once Minka
is done 😉 Jee Cha MIGHT be allowed to recover with a
new team, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. With my history
with jocks, I have little sympathy.
My guess is that Minka didn’t know about the team at all.
I expect she’ll fire the lot of them except for the guy who
spoke up. Then she’ll have Mavia ferret out who authorized
the bike team behind her back. That would result in a pink
slip if I was in Minka’s place.
She might have known but not their behavure until the complaints
came in. That belongs to the bikers, not the employee that ok’d
the sponsorship. Tiger Woods lost a lot of his sponsors after the
entire mess of his cheating on his wife, as if her beating the crap
out of his fancy SUV wasn’t enough… Actually, she wanted to do it
to him but he ran and tried to leave.
Or Arnold “I’ll be back” cheating on his beautiful wife
with a pudgy middle-aged cleaning lady… Same
with the tiger. They both claimed it was “addiction.”
Whatever…
If he even *had* half a brain, he wouldn’t have let the team block traffic in the first place.
He’s just as stupid as the rest of them. He just knows what their meal ticket looks like.
AFAIC, no bike belongs on major roads. Shoulder ONLY if there is no other option. Otherwise,
side streets, residential streets, service roads and back lanes. Those parallel EVERY road
they snivel and complain they have the right to be on. They should be on exactly NO road that
has a speed limit over 30 klicks, or is multilane for traffic volume. Expecting multi ton or
tonne vehicles to stop on a dime for if their dumb asses wipe out, or WHEN they run red lights,
as if they have a god-given right to. Especially the utter morons who bike in winter on roads.
I’ve seen retards biking in snowstorms holding up traffic, not able to go even 10 kph.
Then their moronic selves hit ice and down they go.
And they shouldn’t be on ANY road at all, unless they are just as licensed
and insured as the drivers they’ll happily sue for accidents THEY cause.
And so, we find that it appears Scenario B was correct.
At least on the base assumption. It’s up to PC to see how
close I was to the consequences. Of course, Scenario C
is still possible, but Jee Cha actually knows who Minka is.
So I think B is still more likely.
Regardless, Nathan E. Willstone III appears to be headed
for a severe reversal of his situation. No job, bad reference,
bad reputation if Minka advertises who the head asshole
was that was tying traffic up.
Well there’s always Workfare, but if she presses charges,
he’ll be at the hog farm or might take the Legion route.
Cocky guys like him or like Sgt. Rock always need a lesson
in humility and behavure modification… AKA “Have some
respect, fool!”
Sgt Rock learned it. This guy?…
I just meant Nathan needs to show it.
A movie quote, sadly I can’t remember
what movie heh.
Hang in there, Cat-Man!
And the hillbilly girls -I- know are -more- likely to teach you
they aren’t frail flowers if they aren’t respected.
Oh I can attest to that! I married one, with 3 brothers and
a half brother and 2 step brothers. She’d play the helpless
role, but then “ring the bell,” AKA kick the junk or start throwing
things lol. I taught her a few basics, but she never used them.
After she seen me take down a “Mr. Grabby” at a bar, she was
content on watching me. 😉
I don’t know what PC has in mind for Mavia’s friend
Big Guy with Gloves, but I’d love to see him pick up
a few of those bikes and bend them in half…..
barehanded. (Leave Mr Cha’s bike alone)
Have a nice walk home, dudes!
I was thinking he would load them
into van and tell them to call a cab.
I agree to leave Cha’s bike for him,
was he was guilty of traffic hold up as well.
Naa, just ask his help rip those shirts
off if they don’t remove them willingly.
Maybe bend the front wheels of the bikes
so they have to carry them back.
He looks strong, but he’s not the strongest guy there. Negron is.
Depending on how the sponsorship was structured,
it could end up with Minka doing an asset recovery right there.
Bikes, shirts, shorts, shoes, all hauled back to Imogen,
minus the former team.
Now they would be in socks, (hopefully) underwear,
and potentially a phone on at least one of them.
Sorry I just noticed Imogan vs Imogen 3rd frame
Damnit filter fairy leave me be! heh.
Sigh 2 for 2…
Negron was right next to her quick too I see,
Nathan is lucky Jee showed up when he did.
I like some of your ideas, but what I’d REALLY like to see is,
after Minka and crew are through with them, after they watch
them pull away in whatever shape they’re left in, they turn
around to see a coterie of local girls in various sizes, shapes
and colors carrying baseball bats, tire irons and maybe cattle
prods smiling “sweetly” and asking, “So, what was this about
the facts of life for country bumpkin nobodies and hillbilly girls?”
That last one wad Cha. He may be aware of and fear power
embodied as money, but so far I have no reason to believe
he’s any better than the others at being a human being.
Cha may be many things, but
he was the one that called out
Nathan on the “country/nobody”
remark. Leave Cha be for now.
Heh, I can picture my wife and that pint-sized gal pal of
hers making suggestions and calling out escape attempts…
My dear darlin’ would be frustrated she didn’t have
enough air hose to reach ’em…
She’d most likely have me go fetch my b-ball bat
and her travel tank…..
Personally, I’d rather have my old staff 😉
Fuuuck.. Thunderstorm rolling in, and the batteries for my UPC are at the post office.
I can’t go get them because my road is flooded.
Even if I got them installed, they’d need all day to charge up.
I just got my test results in, I’m physically in better shape that I expected.
My problem seems to be depression. Not “unhappy” depression.
Lethargic, don’t want to do anything depression.
Had a long talk with the guy who ordered the monster computer about what
he wants vs what he needs and budgets.He’s scaled it down a bit.
Too many people want to throw money at computers instead of sitting down
and figuring out what they want to DO with the damned things and what’s
the best way to get there.
3D Graphics computers like mine have different requirements than video
computers than office computers than gaming computers.
I swear, if I hear one more ignorant idiot point at my computer and say
“Dood, that’s stoopid! You don’t need (those/that) for Gaaaming!”,
I’m going to prison.