Ross Scott

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans at 6:00pm UTC on March 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Still running behind, but lots is happening on the videos, hope to have SOMETHING out soon! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

I was interviewed by another Youtube channel earlier this week, he asked questions about the GUI, games, technology. I was partially coherent, but I think I rambled too much too. Also, not the tag line I would have used on the thumbnail. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

February videochat with fans. Talked about a several things, Microsoft buying Blizzard, minor drama with the Youtube channel, usual ramblings. Towards the end, someone made a post about the Copyright office that sounded helpful for regulating games as a service, but it ended up being a false alarm, you can disregard a lot of what I said there. Instead it's just another restrictive measure on IP on the internet, not helpful at all. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans at 6:00pm UTC on February 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Things still happening! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

January videochat with fans. My brain almost wasn't even working initially, but then got better. Nothing too important, talked about many misc. things. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans at 6:00pm UTC on January 2nd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. This time I'll get the time zone right. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Merry Christmas, new Game Dungeon! This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

December videochat with fans. Had a lot of music questions this time, we'll see if my humming gets copyright claimed. This went on too long, but there were some interesting topics, including sort of a stepping stone to the Dream Software. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

I meant to mention this days ago and forgot. I was on a gaming podcast In the Deep End where I was asked several game questions. Most of it was more or less a recap of the Game as a Service is Fraud video, but there were some other discussion also. Here's a link to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/inthedeependpodcast/episodes/Accursed-Farms-Game-Preservation--Piracy--and-YouTube--Ep--7-e1aon93 This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

Links to some of the music tracks mentioned in the December 2021 videochat: MDFMK - Missing Time Offspring - Genocide Draven April Fool's Day Theme Transformers movie theme Best cover of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme Cheap Trick - Reach Out Tower of Mist from Symphony of the Night Bowerstone theme from Fable Orchestra Castle theme from Super Mario World Ambient Wonder from Halo Peril from Halo 2 Theme from The Black Hole Breach theme from Path of Exile Xbox trailer music for Path of Exile

These are some leads I've had on 2D image / video & model generation. This is not the dream software, but it is an interesting halfway point I'm seeing how far I can take. Some stuff worth checking out: Best 2D to 3D depth map generator I've found (Midas v3): https://github.com/isl-org/MiDaS Instructions + code for a way to fix the flickering from Midas, however, I believe it is only for v2 of Midas + the instructions are only for Linux, but the code is apparently cross-platform: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YOLXsb4JUOD1wt5TXB2ln78koocm-bu8?usp=sharing#scrollTo=zUYrfiNRfTUv https://github.com/facebookresearch/robust_cvd Method to generate model from a depth map + contains links to open source code on how this was made: https://depthplayer.ugocapeto.com/ Sample content I made containing footage + different versions of depth maps to experiment with (about 330MB). I generated it with Midas v3, and I used 2 different temporal blurring scripts on the depth maps in order to balance out the flickering: https://mega.nz/file/H6BERRqZ#QWuZlHimMmq83zy9AZpMPnVsui7WrRCNZiXGNBGKG0M There's also the program StereoPhoto Maker + Depthgate, but I found that while they do an okay job, the depth can't be pushed without skewing the convergence too much, which can hurt your eyes. I think converting to actual models that can be manipulated will have much better results. STUFF TO SOLVE: 1. Figure out how to get the anti-flicker code working (preferably for Windows 10, but Linux would be good also). 2. Figure out how to have a dynamically changing model based on the individual footage frames + depth maps. Maybe modify the code from the model generator? 3. Figure out how to export above models to VR + and / or batch convert it to frames for stereoscopic video. 4. Integrate the Midas v3 depth map generation code with the anti-flicker code (this one is a longshot and may not be doable). Feel free to reply here or email me ([email protected]). I'll more reliably notice the emails. Work on this could go towards a future video!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans at 5:00pm UTC on December 4th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Things still happening. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

November videochat with fans. This one felt less crazy while I was doing it, but now I don't know. Talked about future video plans, Facebook's metaverse, other misc. things. Also, I'll be streaming Darkwood on Nov 13th at 6pm UTC on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here »

This was related to a recent videochat, this is a list of artists (so far) I've been looking at for finding wallpapers. They almost all contain environmental art, particularly sci-fi or fantasy settings: