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The Gnomon Workshop – Animating First and Third-Person Shooter Attacks for Games


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Brad Faucheux | Duration: 9:30 h | Video: H264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 1,93 GB | Language: English
If you want to know what goes into animating an FPS game, look no further. In this comprehensive workshop, Senior Cinematic Animator Brad Faucheux will take you step by step from planning out a first-person shooter attack through to the final polish. Additionally, he walks through a third-person attack for further animation practice.
Throughout this workshop, Brad shares his professional workflow, along with the important tips, tricks, observations, and studies that he’s acquired over his many years working at AAA studios. He dives deep into research and observation and demonstrates everything you need to know about Maya for the task at hand. The use of animBot toolset is also used in this workshop to help with the animation workflow. You will learn how to animate character traits, power posing, as well as timing and constructing for games, flow, and structure, through to the final polish and details.
All you need to get started is Maya, a character of your choice, and Photoshop for the pre-planning stage. By completing this workshop, you’ll have a sound understanding of how artists in AAA game studios approach, critique, and sync professional attack animations.

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The Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook Recipes and Stories to Celebrate the Bounty of the Moment


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English | June 24th, 2014 | ISBN: 1401605176 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 43.61 MB
Time at the table with good food in reach fosters community. The recipes collected in this cookbook fulfill that promise, drawing close a diverse assemblage of Nashville folk who understand how potlucks deliver both sacrament and sustenance.

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The Third Culture


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031481127 | 204 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
We are currently witnessing the emergence of a ‘third culture’, driven by unprecedented developments that are changing the playing field. These include advances in AI, big data analysis and robotics. The traditional ‘two cultures’ view (S. P. Snow) distinguishes between the sciences and the humanities. The wisdoms these two cultures offer are separated from each other, with little to no interaction or mutual comprehension. However, over the past two decades, and for the first time in human history, a new, third culture has appeared. This new culture, rooted in new technologies, not only pursues its own form of rationality but also supports advances in the original two cultures, deepening and expanding our individual and collective consciousness so that we can see more and do better. It will eventually give rise to new forms of consciousness based not on biochemical signals, but on copper wires and lithium chips. These new machine intelligences will change the world and force us to realise: we are no longer alone. The human species’ position in the twenty-first century will be fundamentally redefined: not as a conductor leading the orchestra, but a single string player within it.

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Basics of Statistical Physics (Third Edition)


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English | April 12, 2022 | ISBN: 9811256098 | 254 pages | MOBI | 8.57 Mb
Statistics links microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, and requires for this reason a large number of microscopic elements like atoms. The results are values of maximum probability or of averaging. This introduction to statistical physics concentrates on the basic principles and attempts to explain these in simple terms, supplemented by numerous examples. These basic principles include the difference between classical and quantum statistics, a priori probabilities as related to degeneracies, the vital aspect of indistinguishability as compared with distinguishability in classical physics, the differences between conserved and non-conserved elements, the different ways of counting arrangements in the three statistics (Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein), the difference between maximization of the number of arrangements of elements, and averaging in the Darwin-Fowler method. Significant applications to solids, radiation and electrons in metals are treated in separate chapters, as well as Bose-Einstein condensation. In this latest edition, apart from a general revision, the topic of thermal radiation has been expanded with a new section on black bodies and an additional chapter on black holes. Other additions are more examples with applications of statistical mechanics in solid state physics and superconductivity. Throughout the presentation, the introduction carries almost all details for calculations.

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Building Green Software (Third Early Release)


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098150563 | 87 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 3.11 Mb
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic-discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

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Third International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management


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English | ISBN: 1443876488 | 2015 | 315 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Held at Oakland University, School of Business Administration, Department of Accounting and Finance. This book provides a summary of state-of-the-art methods and research in the analysis of credit. As such, it offers very useful insights into this vital area of finance, which has too often been under-researched and little-taught in academia. Including an overview of processes that are utilized for estimating the probability of default and the loss given default for a wide array of debts, the book will also be useful in evaluating individual loans and bonds, as well as managing entire portfolios of such assets. Each chapter is written by authors who presented and discussed their contemporary research and knowledge at the Third International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management, held on August 2122, 2014 at the Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business administration, Oakland University. This collection of writings by these experts in the field is uniquely designed to enhance the understanding of credit analysis in a fashion that permits a broad perspective on the science and art of credit analysis.

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Infrastructure as Code, Third Edition


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098150358 | 108 pages | PDF | 2.62 Mb
The past decade has seen cloud and infrastructure as code move out of shadow IT and startups and into the mainstream. Many organizations rushed to adopt new technologies as part of their transformation into digital businesses, creating a sprawl of unmaintainable infrastructure codebases. Now, there is a need to consolidate cloud-based systems into mature foundations for sustainable growth.

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