STH: Killzone Shadow Fall will have 22 weapons at launch, and pretty much all of them can be enhanced with various Since all the weapons are unlocked, what about the attachments? ( source) STH: Not sure what you mean by standard matchmaking, but when you select a Warzone, the game will then look for a suitable match to How many weapons are available for customization for multiplayer mode? ( source) We wanted to ensure that player-created, custom Warzones work on all multiplayer maps, and the inclusion of vehicles would have introduced too many new variables and exceptions to guarantee Since there are Warzones to join, does that mean there’s no standard matchmaking? ( source) STH: Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer will not have any vehicles (such as Exoskeletons or Jetpacks) at launch. However, we felt XP was less about skill and more about time, so we designed a new system with a greater emphasis on Any news of vehicles in the multiplayer? ( source) STH: Levels are part of the game, as completing one of the 1,500 Challenges increases your rank. We will continue to add new Challenges after Why did you choose to remove XP and levels? ( source) STH: We have a Challenge-based system, where completing one of the 1,500 Challenges will increase your rank by one. STH: We are running with dedicated servers to handle the transfer of data between How will the level system in multiplayer work? ( source) STH: We currently have no plans for split-screen Will Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer run on dedicated servers, or peer to peer? Will there be peer-to-peer hosting at all? ( source) For more information about the Online Co-Op Expansion Pack, please refer to our Season Pass Any plans for split screen support? Playing a game has always been more fun locally then online. However, we’re planning to release a separate Online Co-op Expansion Pack after launch it will add a new wave-based game mode, in which up to four players take on hordes of enemies in special arena maps. STH: No, the campaign will not have a co-op mode. STH: Killzone Shadow Fall’s campaign should last well over 10 hours for most Will Killzone’s campaign be co-op? ( source) And while die-hard fans will appreciate the nods to earlier Killzone titles, no knowledge of the Killzone universe is required to get into the How long is the campaign? ( source) Steven Ter Heide: Absolutely! In many ways, Killzone Shadow Fall is a fresh start for the franchise - the game takes place some thirty years after the original Killzone trilogy, so most of the characters and story arcs from those games have passed into history. Is Killzone Shadow Fall a good entry point to the Killzone franchise? ( source) We reveal new details on co-op, dedicated servers, weapons, DualShock 4, and much more. ![]() As Killzone Shadow Fall gears up for PS4’s 29th November launch in Europe, we caught up with Game Director Steven Ter Heide to get answers to your burning questions across single-player and multiplayer.
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![]() As always, we believe screenwriting should be simple, elegant, and open. We’ve been making Slugline for over seven years now, and we’re as committed to it as ever. This update fixes some bugs introduced with Apple’s torrent of recent iOS/iPadOS updates, and brings mobile Slugline up to speed with Slugline 2’s new document settings. An Overdue iOS/iPadOS UpdateĪlso today, you’ll find an update to Slugline for iPhone and iPad. Slugline 2 also features: A4 paper support (hello world!), scene numbering, formatting helpers, easier Title Page creation, preferences for new document settings, and ubiquitous auto-save. ![]() We did all of this without breaking the perfect, elegant simplicity of the plain-text Fountain file format. ![]() And its output is exactly what industry collaborators are expecting to see. It can even help you rectify changes from a collaborator. Or it can help you analyze the differences between two different drafts. It can act like “track changes,” marking your edits as you write. This simple mechanism is incredibly powerful for writers. These differences are marked on the right-hand margin of the page, both as you write and when you Preview and print. Live Compare allows you to track and show the differences between two screenplay files. With Live Compare, Your Changes Have Been Tracked All Along Trust us, this feels incredibly productive. For example, you could select a range of text in your screenplay, and batch-convert the Notes tagged “Todo” to “Done,” and watch them all change color. You can assign colors to Note Tags, and even do some useful batch-processing to them. In Slugline 2, those prefixes, ending in a colon, become Note Tags. We found that we would often prefix a Note to indicate its purpose, like this: Notes are, like everything else in Slugline, simple, powerful, and powered purely by text. It’s the perfect complement to Slugline’s Fountain-based outlining, which is flexible enough to be either the very start of your writing process, or something you fold into your work as you go. Our number one feature request, and it only took us seven years. Suddenly the name “Final Draft” feels perfectly appropriate. Slugline 2 does a very nice job of importing and exporting Final Draft’s FDX file format, including Notes. Hover your mouse pointer over any part of the timeline to reveal page count stats for each Section or scene. It’s the 30,000-foot view of your story, but it also provides amazing insights into your writing. Your Sections, Scene Headings, and Notes all appear on the Timeline, spaced according to where they fall in your page count. Now that we’ve lived with it for a while, we wonder how we ever wrote without it. We dropped this feature from 1.0, but we never forgot about it. Our very first sketches for Slugline included a timeline visualization of your screenplay. This is the closest thing to an upgrade discount that we could do with Apple’s App Store mechanics. If all you write are short films, you may never need to upgrade! That’s entirely cool with us.Īs a thank-you to existing Slugline writers, we have marked that down to $39.99 USD (20% off) for the first week only. If you want to go beyond the six-page free limit, you can upgrade to Unlimited Writing via an in-app purchase of $49.99 USD. Slugline 2 is a new app, which means that it’s effectively a paid update if you bought the original Slugline. A Paid Update, a Free Download, and a Launch Special Maybe the most important new feature is the price: Slugline 2 is a free download, and works without watermarks or limitations until you pass page six, at which point you can upgrade to Unlimited Writing.Īll this without changing what made the original Slugline so beloved: Slugline 2 is easy to use, free from distractions, and based entirely on the plain-text Fountain screenplay format. It has a slick new UI, which includes a lovely dark mode. Slugline 2 is a new app that replaces the old Slugline for Mac. We are very excited to finally share our hard work with you. Slugline 2 has a ton of new features, a new pricing model that includes a free option, and, well, is the reason you haven’t heard much from us in a while. Today we released Slugline 2, a massive update to the original Slugline for Mac. ![]() So do Crenshaw’s neighbors, fans who frequently turn Everwilde’s high-decibel jam sessions into impromptu concerts. “We know we’re good enough to do this,” Crenshaw said. Crenshaw has two sons and Adam Drudge’s girlfriend also has two kids.īut all four men say their families believe in the band’s talent and are willing to make the necessary sacrifices to help them make it big in the music business. Both Nicholls and Shawn Drudge are married with 2-year-old children. Where does the band go from there? The ultimate goal is to sign a recording contract, but band members insist they’re not going to quit their day jobs and jump at the first opportunity that comes along.įor starters, they all have family responsibilities. “If we want to do this as a job, we need to do it now.”Įverwilde’s music already has been featured on “Red Arrow TV,” a national hunting show on The Outdoor Network.Įverwilde’s new CD, “Further Down the Line,” will go public during the band’s official launch party April 5 at Uptown Alley. “It was like, ‘We’ve done this, but we have to keep going forward,’” Nicholls said. The band finished recording it in one weekend and walked out of the studio with a renewed sense of purpose. ![]() Nicholls wrote all 11 of the songs on Everwilde’s debut CD. 14-16 at Richmond’s In Your Ear Studio – better known in the music industry as the studio that produced Chris Brown’s Grammy-winning CD in 2011. With help from a local investor, Everwilde booked a recording session for Oct. “It used to be that we’d call anyone we could think of, asking if we could come and play at their place,” Shawn Drudge added. On several occasions, fans asked band members when they were going to put out their first CD. ![]() The band has played shows at more than a dozen different venues in Chesterfield and throughout the Richmond area. “But when we get on stage, all that stuff goes away and it just clicks.”Įverwilde has been extremely busy since last spring. “When you take four different people with four different lives and collaborate on something, you’re going to have issues sometimes,” Shawn Drudge added. The good-natured back-and-forth sometimes turns into heated disagreements, but the guys never stay mad at each other for long. There’s never any favoritism, either at any moment, you never know who’s going to become the next target. When the members of Everwilde aren’t playing music, they’re usually busting each other’s chops for one reason or another. “We’re all like brothers … well, Jimmy’s more like our uncle,” Shawn Drudge said with a laugh. Like the Drudges, Crenshaw graduated from Manchester High, but 20 years earlier. There’s obvious chemistry among the bandmates, three of whom – Nichols, Shawn Drudge and Adam Drudge – knew each other long before they graduated from Chesterfield high schools in 2001. “The biggest thing is we don’t try to outshine each other.” “Everything just came together,” said Adam Drudge, who has worked to improve the band‘s Internet presence since he came aboard. Gregory’s departure created an opportunity for him to join a group interested in recording its own original songs and Drudge jumped at it. When Gregory left the band last year to take a job in Tennessee, Drudge moved over to the drums and his cousin, Adam, became Everwilde’s new lead guitarist.Īdam Drudge had been playing with a local cover band, but filled in with Everwilde on a few occasions. ![]() Three years later, they added Crenshaw on bass and high-energy drummer Rob Gregory. Nicholls founded Everwilde as a duo with longtime friend Shawn Drudge in 2007. For users with complex and fast-paced digital workflows, this means they can easily pick up where they left off and benefit from extensive personalization of the desktop’s virtual apps and settings. ![]()
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Built on principles of technical rigor and ceaseless innovation, we were at the forefront of bringing RAW development to photographers, and continue to build the most powerful and versatile software on the market, all designed to offer the greatest image quality and creative freedom. About DxOįor over 20 years, DxO has blazed a pioneering trail in the fields of photographic science and digital image processing. Updates in March 2023 bring support for a number of cameras and lenses including two popular Nikon Z zoom lenses, an RF prime from Canon, and a selection of cameras from Panasonic. In addition, DxO PureRAW uses DxO’s highly regarded Optics Modules, a database of well over 80,000 lens and camera body combinations that provide the highest levels of corrections to lens softness, geometric distortions, vignetting, and aberrations. Having been trained using billions of image samples, the network is able to produce results that far exceed those made by human-designed algorithms, giving users Linear DNG files that have all of the flexibility of the original RAW file, but with the best possible image quality in terms of color, noise, and fine detail. As a result, X-Trans images can undergo incredible noise reduction, remarkable detail enhancement, and the restoration of accurate colors, especially when shooting at high ISO levels.ĭxO PureRAW is the only software of its kind, making unprecedented enhancements to RAW files at the beginning of a photographer’s existing workflow and therefore giving them the best possible foundations on which to edit.īreaking with convention, the software uses convolutional neural networks to perform the demosaicing and denoising processes of RAW image conversion simultaneously. However, with DxO PureRAW 3, Fujifilm X Series photographers will be delighted to learn that their cameras are supported, a development reflected in DxO PhotoLab 6.4, also released today. Until today, DeepPRIME XD did not process RAW files from cameras with an X-Trans sensor. This technology pushes the boundaries even further, and DxO PureRAW 3 will revolutionize any photographer’s images - and without disrupting their existing workflow.” “We quickly realized that a larger neural network could boost performance, and that’s what we’ve delivered with DeepPRIME XD. “DeepPRIME almost surprised us when we first saw the results,” explains DxO’s VP of Marketing and Product Strategy, Jean-Marc Alexia. The original DeepPRIME mode remains part of DxO PureRAW 3 for images that demand less enhancement or where faster performance is required. For example, images shot at ISO 4000 more closely resemble those captured at ISO 500 in terms of noise, color, and clarity.īecause noise reduction is performed as part of the RAW conversion process, DeepPRIME XD can also improve the dynamic range of an image, giving photographers greater flexibility when shooting in challenging situations where light is limited. With DeepPRIME XD, photographers report improvements of more than 2.5 stops in noise performance. ![]() By using a larger neural network than regular DeepPRIME, DeepPRIME XD delivers greater levels of detail, improved color accuracy, and smoother, noise-free bokeh when shooting at even the highest ISO levels. ![]() ![]() DxO PureRAW set the standard for noise reduction and image improvements – but the introduction of DeepPRIME XD pushes performance even further. Nationally, performance compact car enthusiasts spend well over $100 million a year on equipment to “trick out” their cars, according to Specialty Equipment Market Assn., the Diamond Bar-based trade group for the automotive speed and customizing equipment aftermarket. Such shops sell everything from custom wheels and low-profile tires to turbochargers and nitrous oxide systems that can double an engine’s horsepower. Robotek is one of hundreds of performance tuning and appearance shops in Southern California that cater to a mostly young, male clientele of import and compact car enthusiasts. The father said his son and Ngo were good friends and went to Robotek to spiff up Ngo’s Honda Accord. “Tony’s dead! Tony’s dead!” the horrified father shouted to his wife. Vo’s father, Henry Vo, raced to the UCI emergency room and, though relieved his son was OK, agonized over the death of his son’s friend. He is expected to fully recover, Pine said. Vo, who was inside the Honda when Ngo was killed, also was out of surgery by 6 p.m. The owner of Robotek, Kim, suffered gunshot wounds to his right side, cheek, arm, buttocks, thigh and neck, said Pine, the hospital spokeswoman. The two other gunshot victims at UCI also were listed in critical condition. The uncle said Kim was not an employee at Robotek he just happened to be there: “It was wrong place, wrong time.” “We’ve got a person between life and death,” said Kim’s uncle, who did not identify himself. and was transferred to the intensive care ward. Police quickly whisked her out of view.Īnother 18-year-old was fighting for his life at UCI Medical Center on Monday afternoon, with his family, shocked and clearly distraught, waiting nervously in the hospital waiting room.Įdward Kim of Garden Grove, who relatives said is not related to store owner Charlie Kim, was being treated for wounds to his back and abdomen and spent much of Monday afternoon in UCI’s operating room. When she learned of her son’s violent death, she went limp, sobbing in her brother’s arms. The college-bound man’s mother arrived a short time later. They said they raced away to alert Ngo’s family, who own a Vietnamese restaurant just blocks away. Two of Ngo’s friends drove up to the store after the shooting and saw the windshield of his Honda shattered with bullets and his white tennis shoes sticking out from a tarp on the asphalt. When he peered out again, he saw Ngo dead in the Robotek parking lot. Lee ran back inside his shop, called 911, then dove behind a counter to dodge possible stray gunfire. Something is wrong.’ Then I heard the gunshots.” “He was hiding,” said Lee, owner of Kevin’s Auto Center across Larson Avenue from the shooting scene. Lee saw a mechanic cowering behind a wall near Robotek’s auto bay. Kevin Lee was across the street from the storefront auto-parts store when he heard the “pop pop pop” of a handgun. Police said they were driving a 1990 to 1994 gray Mazda MPV minivan with tinted windows. The gunman and the driver were last seen headed east on Larson Avenue and north on Flower Street, witnesses and police said. Witnesses told police the gunman was an Asian man in his 20s, wearing a dark shirt, jeans and a dark baseball cap. The store specializes in lowering cars and trucks and outfitting them with chrome wheel rims and other flashy accessories. Robotek draws a steady crowd of young customers from the ethnically diverse Garden Grove community. Two spectators who described themselves as former Robotek employees identified the owner as Kim, who opened the shop with his wife in 1995. ![]() No one who was inside Robotek recognized the gunman. Ellsworth said a handgun was used in the shootings but declined to reveal the caliber. Police were reluctant to release details of the shooting. ![]() “We don’t know if it’s gang related or a random act of violence,” Ellsworth said. A third man was seen fleeing the area on foot, but police said he might have been a frightened bystander. Dennis Ellsworth of the Garden Grove Police Department. The motive for the bloody rampage was unclear, but detectives were checking possibilities that one of the assailants could have been a disgruntled customer or employee, said Sgt. Police have not released the identity of the person killed inside the store. A bullet pierced Vo’s neck and grazed his hand, but the 17-year-old is expected to survive. Ngo’s close friend Han Vo of Fountain Valley also was inside the Honda when the gunman began pumping bullets through the windshield, his friends and relatives said. The following segments will explore some of the most essential. When you’re choosing a material for constructing your CNC spoilboard, there are a few things you should consider. Some experienced machinists make their spoilboard much thinner, but we recommend starting with at least a ¾-inch thickness. If that happens, you may damage your router table. Some recommend MDF or LDF board as thick as 1¾ inch thick.īear in mind that, though you can use thinner boards, you’ll be more likely to cut through them accidentally. However, many CNC experts prefer a board that’s at least ¾ inch. Your preferred CNC spoilboard thickness is ultimately a matter of preference. What it comes down to is, would you rather spend more time or more money on your wasteboard? How Thick Should Spoilboard be? HDPE board can be expensive when compared to the other options. ![]() ![]() While these boards can give you better results on intricate workpieces, they also generate less traction. HDPE is one of the newer CNC spoilboard options and has the advantage of a smooth face. It has a much smoother face than either MDF or LDF and is more affordable than HDPE. The main application for plywood as a spoilboard is when you’re doing intricate work. It’s ideal for dusty projects that require an effective vacuum pump. LDF is also lighter in weight and more porous. LDF board, or low-density foam, has most of the advantages of MDF. It’s not as smooth as finished plywood or HDPE boards, but it’s readily available and can take a lot of abuse. It’s hardy, easy to work with and relatively inexpensive. MDF, or medium-density foam, is one of the most common choices for a CNC spoilboard. Let’s discuss the differences between them. The two most commonly used are MDF boards and LDF boards. You can use various substances to create a spoilboard. Spoilboards also help to ensure that the router cuts smoothly by creating extra traction and providing more space to clamp the workpiece. ![]() It protects the factory surface table from sustaining damage during processing while the tool works through the active material. What is a Spoilboard?Ī CNC spoilboard (often referred to as a sacrificial or bleeder board) is a disposable work area that attaches to the top of your router table. But what is a spoilboard, and how does it help? Below, we’ll answer these questions and more like them. The correct CNC spoilboard can mean the difference between an excellent project and a mediocre one. |