![]() This gun is really about function over form, and each part seems just to serve strictly in its intended purpose, without any fluff or fanciness. It is quite bare, without any decorative bits. The lower receiver is made out of an interestingly textured polymer, which has a lot of strength and rigidity. ![]() As far as attaching fixed stocks, it's not a standard AR style buffer tube mount, so changing out the stock tube will take some creativity on your part.įrom this point, click all photos to enlarge It's a damn tight fit regardless of the aftermarket brand, so some sanding may be necessary for it to fit. I was able to fit stocks made by DBoys, Element (including the CTR style stock currently installed), and an A&K stock that I have lying around, but not a JG, G&G, or SRC. ![]() ![]() As far as aftermarket stocks, the inconsistency in airsoft products is really shown here. The fit on the buffer tube is just ok, with some wobbling that probably would be eliminated with a properly adjusted locking rod. EDIT: After tinkering with the stock a bit, I was able to adjust the locking rod to sit deeper in the stock tube holes, negating this issue! Just loosen the grub screw, extend the locking rod a bit, and tighten the screw back up. If you come across this, a possible solution is to sand the locking post slightly to make it smaller, or just do what I did and replace the stock. This became a problem when cocking the gun, especially after installing the upgrade kit. It appears that the locking rod on the stock is too short to lock into the molded holes in the buffer tube, meaning that it occasionally would retract when shouldering the gun. The stock is made entirely of plastic, and is the only major flaw that I had with my gun. The stock is designed after an LE retractable stock, with the addition of a sling loop at the very top rear of the cheek rest, right above the butt plate. Starting at the stock, if you are normally a user of an M4, you will feel right at home here. This combination of materials makes for a strong, but lightweight gun. Following this, the ASR is also made mainly of various polymers, with a metal upper receiver and barrel. The Echo 1 ASR is based on the design of the Maruzen SR2, which is a predominantly plastic gun. Sight Radius: NA (no included iron sights) My gun did not include a manual, but Echo 1 has it posted online in PDF format, located HERE. It's pretty basic packaging, but it gets the job done, and that is the whole point!Įcho 1 throws in three magazines and a QD bipod with the ASR, along with the standard cleaning rod, loading tool, warranty card, and a few allen wrenches that are needed to strip the gun as well as adjust the hop-up. The muzzle end of the foam bottom could be a little bit thicker, as my barrel popped a hole in it, but the cardboard top keeps everything inside safe and sound. The ASR comes packaged in a foam based box with a cardboard lid, and a simple and tasteful sticker bearing the name of the gun. Like all Echo 1 products, the ASR comes with a warranty against manufacturer defects. They also have an upgrade kit available, with reinforced internal components, priced at about $30. Being that I write for Airsoft Retreat (ASR), I knew that we had to have a review of this unique gun! The gun is practically made for us! It is currently available at most large airsoft retailers, priced at about $110, including three magazines and a bipod, which is a great price for the gun. The ASR is based on the design of the Maruzen SR2 sniper rifle, but with a few improvements to the overall function. I first saw the ASR in Echo 1's 2010 catalog, and was very interested in seeing what E1 would bring to the bolt action table. I will be covering all of the various aspects of the ASR in this review! Offering a unique look, solid performance, and upgrade potential, it's a great starter rifle for the aspiring sniper. The ASR (Advanced Sniper Rifle) is Echo 1's first foray into the bolt action market, and it is a formidable competitor at that. Echo 1 has, for the last several years, focused entirely on AEGs, never dipping into the bolt action fray.
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![]() ![]() Smooth Move – Defines a start and finish position, scale and rotation for clip content with controls for how the clip moves from start to finish Effects – Compositing PluginsĤ Up – Display four clips on the same screen, or switch between themĪdjustment Layer – Any effects or transformations you apply to this title will be applied to all timeline clips below Rotate + Extrude – Rotates clips in three dimensions and adds simulated 3D thickness Rotate XYZ – Rotates clips in three dimensions Grow-Shrink – Animates a change in scale for a clip Tile – Offset clips, scale, rotate, distort and skew tiles Effects – Animation PluginsĬurves – Adds Final Cut Pro 7-style animation curve controlsĬurve Rotation – Rotate around a point of your choiceĬurve Scale – Scale aroud a point of your choiceĬurve Trim H – Crop the left or right edge of a clipĬurve Trim V – Crop the top or bottom edge of a clip Sparks – Adds animated stars and spark particles Scale Mosaic – Pixellate with control over scale of elements used in each pixel Random Tile – replace clip with multiple copies of a selected part of the source Opacity Gradient – Add areas of colour that fade over clips Light Rays – shine light from behind the clip YUV Adjust – Adjust values in the YUV colour spaceīlack Hole – Sucks clip into a single pointīulge – Pushes a clip out from or into a single point ![]() YIQ Adjust – Adjust values in the YIQ colour space OpenEXR Tone Map – Apply tone maps to OpenEXR encoded content Levels – Map the darkest and brightest channel values to black and white Gradient Colorize – Choose a channel to map a range of colours onto Gamma – Precise brightness and brightness range control Unsharp Mask – More controls than standard sharpen effectĬMYK Halftone – simulate close up of magazine or newspaper printĬolour effects– 11 colour control effectsĬhannel Mixer – Combines colour values from red, gree, blue and alpha channelsĬolor Balance – Colour wheels for shadows, midtones and highlightsĬolor Reduce – Choose two, three or four colours to keep – with option to chang them Soft Focus – Overlays the clip on top of a blurred copy: a ‘fogged lens’ effect Gradient Blur – Applies a blur gradually between two points I’d love to hear how you are using my plugins – links to your work would be great.Īlso check out my Alex4D Animation Transitions plugin pack – instant animation using transitions:Īged Film – More controls and ‘Bad TV’-style rollingīad TV – More controls than the Final Cut Pro X versionīlurs – Six blurs and one sharpen effect:Ĭhannel Blur – Blur combinations of red, blue, green and alpha channelsĬompound Blur – This blurs the clip based on values from another clipĭefocus – Simulates the way clips go out of focus when using a physical camera If you find my content useful, please consider donating as a sign of your appreciation. Tip for older versions of Final Cut Pro: Why does my viewer turn blue when I use your new plugin? – Tip for those using to use newer plugins on versions of Final Cut Pro X older than 10.0.6 Sound Only – Cut only transition that crossfades audio between two clips choosing whether the video cuts before, during or after the crossfade Will scale a clip up or down over the duration of a clip (including transitions if need be) Grow-Shrink – Effect that animates a change in scale for a clip. A collection of free plugins for Final Cut Pro X that I created for my blog from July 2011 to August 2013.Įach plugin listed here has its own installer. ![]() Save typing and import tags from online databases like Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once.ĭownload and add album covers to your files and make your library even more shiny. You can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags for multiple files at once covering a variety of audio formats.įurthermore, it supports online database lookups from, e.g., Discogs, MusicBrainz or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and download cover art for your music library. Usually commercial software or games are produced for sale or to serve a commercial purpose.Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. Even though, most trial software products are only time-limited some also have feature limitations. After that trial period (usually 15 to 90 days) the user can decide whether to buy the software or not. ![]() Trial software allows the user to evaluate the software for a limited amount of time. Demos are usually not time-limited (like Trial software) but the functionality is limited. In some cases, all the functionality is disabled until the license is purchased. Demoĭemo programs have a limited functionality for free, but charge for an advanced set of features or for the removal of advertisements from the program's interfaces. In some cases, ads may be show to the users. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Note: The download is a compiled LAME MP3 binary (not a source code).įreeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. MP3x: a GTK/X-Window MP3 frame analyzer for both.Fast! Encodes faster than real-time on a PII 266 at the highest quality mode. ![]()
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In addition to Dirt Late Models, we also have a preview mod for our upcoming Sprint Cars, both Wing and Non Wing. Such as damage mapping, RealRoad, and animated flaggers, officials, and drivers. Graphical updates will come later, which will bring out the most we can with rFactor 2. Handling will be tinkered with and updated often, based on feedback and ![]() By now, we have better equipment, and our skills have improved at least a little since that lastĪs the title indicates, this is a Beta, so there is still a lot of work to be done, especially as far as graphics and handling. Titles, where we are still active, and return to rFactor 2 when we have better skills and equipment. After a rough start in rFactor 2 several years ago, we decided to go back to those aforementioned Randle Sim Racing has been making mods for NASCAR Heat 2000 and rFactor 1 for just over a decade now. We will start the racing season in November of 2012.Thank you for downloading RSRFactor 2 Dirt Late Models and Tracks Beta 1. If you have any other questions feel free to contact us. Many people use the Logitech G25 or G27 which you can read up at īut depending on your budget, there are other wheels compatible to use, this is up to you on what you decide to use. Steering Wheel: Many people ask what type of steering wheel should I use or can I use the keyboard? We strongly suggest you use a steering wheel. ( the video isn’t necessarily specific to our series or game but still has a lot of the same functions and a good video to pay attention to) You can watch sim racing etiquette video by clicking here. Racing Etiquette: Even though a lot of us are here to have a good time and something to do in the off season, please remember there are a lot of people that really take their sim racing serious. You can purchase your license by clicking here This file will be updated as we go.īuy Your MOWA SPR 2013 License: In order to race in the sim series along with downloading rfactor and the mods you will need to buy a mowa/spr 2013 license. Specific League Rules and Instructions: General Sim Rules can be found by clicking here. ![]() Skin Pack: You will need to download the following skin packs below. Skins Download: MOWA Sim Series Skin Pack can be download by clicking the link below Track RFM: You will need to download the following track rfm files(these files will be required to run Sim Pro/MOWA League races You can download the tracks by clicking Here Tracks Downloads: Once you have rFactor and the mod downloaded you will need to download the tracks. MOD Download: Next you will want to download the boz sprints mod, the boz update, and the add on file also located in the downloads page by clicking Dirt Mods. System Requirements - 1.4 GHz processor - Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, XP 64-bit, Vista, 7 (will NOT run in Windows 95 or Windows 98 first edition) - 512 MB RAM - Geforce4 4200 or Radeon 9200 - 128 MB video RAM - DirectX 9.0c - 2.0 GB of hard drive space for installation - Internet connection required for one-time activation Runs Best With - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor - Windows XP - 2048 MB RAM - Geforce 7900 GT or Radeon X1900 GT - 256 MB video RAM - DirectX 9.0c - 2.0 GB of hard drive space for installation - Internet connection required for one-time activation Tips, Tricks, and Helpful Hints: Click Here Below are the requirements to run rFactor Once on the downloads page, download rFactor and TeamSpeak 3. So you want to race against the real drivers and show off your talents huh? Ok, here ya go, below is the information you will need to b able to race the MOWA 410 Racing Sim Series.Īfter you register click the downloads button at the top and click the essential downloads. If you do so, make sure you’re aware of the risks that might be involved and re-enable the antivirus software as soon as SP1 is done installing. You can temporarily disable your antivirus software before the installation. Some antivirus software might prevent SP1 from installing or slow down the installation. Make sure your PC is plugged in to power and you’re connected to the Internet. It’s a good idea to back up your important files, photos, and videos to an external hard disk, USB flash drive, or the cloud before installing the update. Disk space requirementsĬheck to make sure your PC has enough free disk space to install SP1.Įstimated amount of free disk space neededĭownloading SP1 from the Microsoft website The version of Windows 7 is displayed next to System type. Select the Start button, right-click Computer, and then select Properties. You’ll need to know if your PC is running a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (圆4) version of Windows 7. Before you begin Check if your PC is 32-bit or 64-bit If Service Pack 1 is listed under Windows edition, SP1 is already installed on your PC. To check if Windows 7 SP1 is already installed on your PC, select the Start button, right-click Computer, and then select Properties. ![]() It takes about 30 minutes to install, and you'll need to restart your computer about halfway through the installation. ![]() The recommended (and easiest) way to get SP1 is to turn on automatic updating in Windows Update in Control Panel and wait for Windows 7 to notify you that SP1 is ready to install. We recommend you move to a Windows 11 PC to continue to receive security updates from Microsoft. Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 The Company was awarded Best Live Moment by Digiday for its “Social Gloves” PPV Event, and has been a finalist for 8 more awards, including Best Live Event, Best Virtual Event, Best Overall Social Media Excellence, and Best Original Programming from Cynopsis and Digiday. As of March 3, 2023, the Company has accrued a paid and free ad-supported membership base of approximately 2.85 million**. come with a paid membership to LiveOne’s Slacker Radio (that now includes PodcastOne) which is paid by Tesla. Nearly all new Tesla EVs sold in the U.S. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, a membership music streaming service, and PodcastOne, which generates more than 2.3 billion downloads per year, 350+ hours distributed weekly, and 14M+ monthly unique listeners. (NASDAQ: LVO ) (the "Company") is an award-winning, creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveOne, Inc. With Saboo's addition to the team, LiveOne reinforces its commitment to providing the music industry with cutting-edge technology and elevating the musical experience for producers and listeners alike. "The combination of Saboo’s technology prowess and Crotinger's incredible team of music producers promises to bring the company to a whole new level." As Head of Product, Saboo will bring his expertise to enhance the Splitmind platform and deliver new and exciting features to its users. “Saboo's exceptional tech skills and entrepreneurial mindset make him a perfect fit for the Splitmind/Drumify team,” said Josh Hallbauer, Head of Publishing at DayOne Music Publishing. This acquisition marked DayOne's expansion to include Grammy-winning, multi-platinum music producers. ![]() Last month, LiveOne’s subsidiary, DayOne Music Publishing, made a significant move by acquiring a majority interest in Splitmind, a Los Angeles-based music collective founded by Aidan "Halfway" Crotinger in 2020, and, a marketplace that allows music producers to share sounds while retaining their royalties. Saboo, a young tech developer and entrepreneur, is the creator of Instafest, a widely popular app whose downloads skyrocketed to over 20 million since its launch in December 2022. LOS ANGELES, CA, Ap(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - via NewMediaWire - LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), an award-winning, creator-first music, entertainment, and technology platform, announced today the addition of Anshay Saboo as Head of Product for Drumify, a majority owned subsidiary of DayOne Music Publishing. Saboo's AI Expertise Generated 20M+ Instafest Downloads and 1B+ Global Engagements Instafest Creator Anshay Saboo Joins LiveOne's DayOne Publishing as Head of Product for Splitmind/Drumify The prototype, Fujibayashi hoped, would help the team translate this new Zelda experience from a passive one - you can only take one route forward, and each dungeon can only be solved with its matching item - to more self-directed, active play. He asked the game’s technical director to design a simple 2D version that mirrored the original The Legend of Zelda for NES. Breath of the Wild’s director, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, revealed during a 2017 GDC talk how he’d tried to design for more open, “active” play. Nintendo’s deliberate design choices bolster this freedom. For me, playing Breath of the Wild became more about true exploration, about following my gut whenever something on the horizon outweighed Link’s to-do list. But, by designing around player curiosity and offering rewards with every detour - tangible or intangible sometimes a stunning view is all the reward I need - Nintendo liberated the journey itself from the traditional game cycle. There are still the “best” routes or play styles that will be rewarded in-game, either by earning experience points or another drip of narrative. ![]() And that new standard is changing how games are made.ĭevelopers love to promise that you can “play your own way,” but that often isn’t the case. ![]() Its world is so reactive and expansive that it set a new standard for players. My map is never littered with quest objectives.īreath of the Wild bucks many of the trends from recently released Zelda games, but also subverts all the open-world hallmarks that came before it. It doesn’t rely on waypoints (unless the player sets one themselves). No NPCs are in your ear, telling you which direction to go in to get to the next town or the next objective. Instead, they simply reward the player’s curiosity.īreath of the Wild set a new standard for exploration-heavy open-world games. They don’t fill up a completionist checklist in a quest log. Many things in Breath of the Wild don’t serve a purpose beyond making Hyrule feel rich and lived-in. Which is what makes its inclusion all the more fascinating, when you step back and consider it. It’s just a picturesque place tucked away into one corner of Hyrule’s vast reaches. There isn’t a special set of armor hidden there, or a rare item I couldn’t get in other spots. The best comics of the decade Just over the next hillįinding Lurelin isn’t essential to completing Breath of the Wild. The best movies of the decade, according to us And we’re reevaluating the all the ways in which the face of entertainment changed from 2010 through 2019. ![]() Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon | Source images: Various The best of the decade, 2010-2019Īs the 2010s draw to a close, we’re taking stock of the best pop culture of the decade. ![]() “How did I miss all this?” I wondered as I puttered around, chasing crabs and attempting to retrieve treasure from the depths of the calm, crystal-clear water. That’s when I stumbled onto Lurelin Village, tucked back in a cove, a beachfront community inspired by tropical fishing villages. But just an hour or so after I started, my aimless wandering led me to the southeast corner of the map, following the line of a coast I maybe had ignored before. I thought I’d already wrung everything from Breath of the Wild during my 120-odd hours with the game, or at least everything I wanted to get out of it. In my mind, the brilliant foliage and varied landscapes available to Link would be an acceptable substitute to an actual park. I was feeling anxious, which I’d normally cure with a walk outdoors, but New York City’s swampy August humidity kept me inside. It was mostly on a whim, to ride around Hyrule’s verdant fields uninterrupted. I turned The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on for the first time in two years this summer. ![]() ![]() No matter the spells you choose they have to work well with your basic attacks as this will allow you to chain attacks together, which is how you deal large amounts of damage in Wizard of Legend. Personally, I have been beginning with a spell that adds fire to my dash, a lighting spear that stuns my enemies, and diablo style chakram snowflakes that spiral around me causing damage as they do. From ranged weapons, to close quarters combat, and traps that you can set, all of the spells given to choose from can cater to the way that you prefer to play. Arcana spells can vary from shooting cascading obsidian arrows, plowing through the enemies with a huge sword of fire, or using wind to launch your enemy into the air then smash them into the ground. So that they can be chosen as one of your four starting aracana in the beginning of each round. Playing through each round earns you gems which you can use to buy new spells and relics, permanently. As the Wizard of Legend as a TON of spells and relics, playing through to try and find the perfect combination that works with your play style is tons of fun. Before jumping into each new play through, you choose which spells you will equip, along with a relic that will give you a unique ability. Either a horde of deadly enemies just waiting to drain your health, a piñata challenge that could possibly reward you with a brand-new arcana spell, or a cage match where you accidentally dash your way into a fire pit. The dungeons are procedurally generated, so each round you aren’t sure what will be lurking around the next corner. Separating them into elemental groups of three, fire, ice, and earth with each element having two levels to complete before that element’s boss. Each level of the chaos trail is a different dungeon that you must crawl through defeating foes and leveling up. However, using your spells on practice dummies is nothing like casting them in the throes of battle and the systems take quite some time to get a solid hang of. A dash, basic attack, normal spells, and a heavy spell that you can access in battle once it has charged. The tutorial section of the game, lightly walks you through your basic moves. Furthermore, the learning curve is especially steep. As Wizard of Legend is a rogue-like, keeping with the tropes of the genre it is incredibly difficult. When first jumping into the chaos trials, be prepared to get obliterated time and time again. Where you are a wizard competing to become a wizard of legend. Beginning in a museum touring the wizarding greats of the past, those who undertook the chaos trials, you are magically sucked into another Beginning in a museum touring the wizarding greats of the past, those who undertook the chaos trials, you are magically sucked into another world. ![]() From the Greek helios comes the rare adjective heliac ( / ˈ h iː l i æ k/). The principal adjectives for the Sun in English are sunny for sunlight and, in technical contexts, solar ( / ˈ s oʊ l ər/), from Latin sol – the latter found in terms such as solar day, solar eclipse and Solar System (occasionally Sol system). Indeed, the l-stem survived in Proto-Germanic as well, as * sōwelan, which gave rise to Gothic sauil (alongside sunnō) and Old Norse prosaic sól (alongside poetic sunna), and through it the words for sun in the modern Scandinavian languages: Swedish and Danish sol, Icelandic sól, etc. This is ultimately related to the word for sun in other branches of the Indo-European language family, though in most cases a nominative stem with an l is found, rather than the genitive stem in n, as for example in Latin sōl, ancient Greek ἥλιος ( hēlios), Welsh haul and Czech slunce, as well as (with *l > r) Sanskrit स्वर ( svár) and Persian خور ( xvar). All these words stem from Proto-Germanic * sunnōn. Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. The English word sun developed from Old English sunne. The predominant calendar in use today is the Gregorian calendar which is based upon the standard 16th-century interpretation of the Sun's observed movement as actual movement. The synodic rotation of Earth and its orbit around the Sun are the basis of some solar calendars. The Sun was thought of by some cultures as a deity. The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times. After this, it will shed its outer layers and become a dense type of cooling star known as a white dwarf, and no longer produce energy by fusion, but still glow and give off heat from its previous fusion. ![]() It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable in five billion years. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which the Sun is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, its core will undergo a marked increase in density and temperature while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the Sun into a red giant. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape the core, is the source of the Sun's light and heat. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process.Įvery second, the Sun's core fuses about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium, and in the process converts 4 million tons of matter into energy. The central mass became so hot and dense that it eventually initiated nuclear fusion in its core. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. As such, it is informally, and not completely accurately, referred to as a yellow dwarf (its light is actually white). ![]() The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V). Roughly three-quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen (~73%) the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron. Its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, comprising about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. The Sun's radius is about 695,000 kilometers (432,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radiation, and is the most important source of energy for life on Earth. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. ≈ 370 km/s (relative to the cosmic microwave background) ≈ 20 km/s (relative to average velocity of other stars in stellar neighborhood) ≈ 251 km/s (orbit around the center of the Milky Way) Sun, Sol ( / ˈ s ɒ l/), Sól, Helios ( / ˈ h iː l i ə s/) ![]() True-color image taken in 2019 using a solar filter |
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