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 All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started as it is 4 p.m. So welcome to Prime Time.

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 This is the half hour, sometimes hour, segment where Prime rants about recycling and sometimes

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 please drop it in the office hours text chat thread. That is a couple of channels above this one.

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 There is a thread dedicated for questions. Please drop them in there. They'll be answered in the order that they appear.

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 So we have some questions here and we're gonna go ahead and get started.

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 So first of all, we have a question from Lex that says "are there any projects you want to work on given infinite time?"

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 there are a few worlds that I have that

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 I need to finish that because that was gonna be a huge big project that I never finished

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 so I need to finish that, but I haven't had time to work on that in about three years.

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 2019 Prime who thought that they could work on that forever and then join the Neos team and etc, etc.

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 Yeah, there are currently four finished. So there are four items to find. No one to my knowledge has found the fourth.

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 Next question, Beagle says "where's the Atlas field inside the point cluster cloud component? There's nothing about it on the wiki."

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 I will go ahead and take a look. I have actually opened the code base today so I can go ahead and take a look.

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 Point cluster, sorry. Point cluster. Point cluster mesh. There we go. Point cluster mesh.

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 I'll take a look in just a second. He said Atlas. Let's take a look. Atlas info.

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 I think that's probably gonna render the point cluster a little bit like

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 a little bit like a particle animation sheet because it uses Atlas info there.

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 Atlas info. Yeah, you want to drop in an Atlas info component.

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 which I meant to work on later, but never have had time to. Wow English is difficult today.

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 I need more coffee. Moving forwards, Reddy says what's with this website? It's a website.

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 You'll have to be more specific on your question. Beagle says how come a user has a thing Atlas info.

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 it should just be dropping the Atlas. So go to the Neosensals assets particles.

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 frames from that sheet. With that we're out of questions. I'm waiting for like a broom to arrive.

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 This is gonna be like another tangent whilst we have - I will get back to questions at the moment, but like

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 I'm waiting for a broom to arrive. So like my apartment has a balcony and I don't really use it.

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 I didn't intend to use it, but then last year when I thought I was moving and then didn't move, I got rid of my

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 But it's really dusty out there and I was like I'm gonna clean that because they'll charge me on the deposit for cleaning it

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 so I'm gonna clean it. But then I realized I need like, you know, an ability to stand up and brush it.

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 like, you know, I need a brush I can stand up. So I brought like a, you know,

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 a full-on like hard broom that you might use to clean an entire deck just for this like tiny balcony.

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 you can't charge me for that. It's just like what? But they try to so that's fun. They'll also be like, "Yeah,

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 cleaning that balcony will take me the cost of the broom, which is I don't know like $11, and I don't know, an hour or two

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 Lucas says "May I ask what's currently been working on development-wise? Last I heard of Geens was starting work replacement for Unity.

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 How's that coming along?" I don't know, you'd have to ask Geens about that particular one. That's continuing.

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 It's an open source project outside of Neos, which of course means it like it's free from bullshit.

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 Moving forwards to Baxter's question. Baxter says "There's a rotation scale. You can see information available to build more materials.

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 So I've heard but I've not encountered information on that. Do you have a quick insight into that or a video available somewhere?

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 Is there something you don't touch yourself?" I have not touched billboards. Every time I think about billboards,

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 Alex asks "What if they do that? I'll string all over again." They will.

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 But I also plan to get a cleaner to do a pass on this once all my furniture's out.

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 And that cleaners invoice and details will be left in the apartment like on the side. They're free to ignore it, of course,

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 but like when they start saying "We're charging you a cleaning fee." I'm like, yeah, I already got it professionally cleaned, so piss off.

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 you can link together, which is also similar to sort of logics plus blender shading nodes, right?

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 Like you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't see much, well not in this particular case.

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 they're shape keyed animations, which means they are a little bit unperformant, but like they're cool.

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 I don't think they're billboard. It might be though. I don't know. I didn't inspect one, that was like last year though.

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 Revy says "Is something gonna happen sometime soon? I've been hearing rumors with this new studio under frugs. Feels like you guys are getting somewhere."

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 then you ask that person to go back to their source and ask them why they think it's appropriate to make silly rumors.

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 It's inappropriate, and that's all I'll say on that matter.

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 All available information will be in the announcements channel when we're able to share it, if we're able to share it, when we're able to share it.

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 Whatever it might be.

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 I hate to sound like a broken record there.

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 the People's Republic of Congo is gonna purchase Neos." I'm just like "What? Like who the, like what?"

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 Just like it's ridiculous, right?

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 And if there is no available information in the announcements channel, don't then immediately say "But there is no information in the announcements channel."

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 There is. It's just all the information we have is already in there.

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 Beagle says "On that are we able to do motor groups?" Yeah, I think so. I own like three, so yeah.

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 Check the Patreon tiers for how many groups you'll be able to create there, as I am on the Neos team.

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 Beagle says "What time are we getting on Neos to Mess with Atlases?"

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 Tell you what, like can, I never know, like can you share a screen on stages? If you can do that,

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 I'm not sure, but like I think it would be like probably like five minutes or so just to take a look at it.

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 In that case, I should start Neos. I really do think it's gonna be like less than five minutes,

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 so I'll do it right at the end. Oh, that's an old thread. I should lock the threads. Thank you for forwarding that across, Mike.

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 Peach Clover asked, "Everyone who refuses to use Neos whines about the lack of P.O.M.I. Will there be a P.O.M.I. converter to win the MontaN.I.O.S.?"

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 They're like, no, I just want Ocean Breeze. It's like, just like, is that like a, you know, a cyan-y blue?

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 Is there like, you know, more green in there? Because like, you know, it's a paint store.

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 like actually a series of them, you know, it's like, 10 things you don't need mods for on Neos.

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 would it be practical to create a physics collision check node that only runs on character colliders,

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 of them. Let me check my emails again. Has my broom arrived? My broom has not arrived.

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 at nighttime, like cleaning. Cleaning my patio. Yeah, something like that, Alex. That's good.

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 Problem with a material video is, it's again unclear what people want. Sometimes they want,

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 like a big common one we have is the sparkles, right? So something in Pyumi is able to make

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 that it is on? I think I know why. Yeah, that's just a design thing. So what happens with

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 the UV map, I know Trig for a reason, dang it I want things to spin." I didn't really

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 there's one in Neos Essentials. Yeah, I got one in Neos Essentials, it's a ring. That'll

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 do. Alright, so we got a few more questions. I'll go through these questions, then we'll

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 go to bed and sleep. Anyway, Specs says "Any mesh you can convert it to a point cloud?"

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 object that dictates the volume, like the object's starting point, is audio volume 0

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 and the slider goes far to where the volume reaches." Yeah, that's just a slider, that's

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 exactly what we're talking about. I know you can't hear the audio right now, and I will

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 need a thing, Beagle, I've got a thing, I found one. Alex says "An inventory searcher?"

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 fog volumes, I'm sure someone in here has, I'm just gonna throw some onto the bus here.

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 If not I do see a few other people lurking that might be able to help. That's untrue,

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 I've used one in one of my worlds, but Vigilab set that up for me. With that, I'm gonna cut

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 just slipped in, so we'll go for it. We'll go for it. "Would it be possible to make it

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 so Logix works a bit more visual coding where you pull from a node, drop it in the air,

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 to the way Blender does it, where there's like a search bar, yeah. Now that's it. No

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 it to OBS and shove it in my random info playlist, which is where I do low-effort content. Alright,

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