I’ve finally uploaded Tool’s prize for winning Caption Contest 96 — the following gun blade, available now in ItemRight-Pistols. Hope you like it, Tool, and that everyone gets some use out of it!
Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3
I’ve just uploaded a new set of items for HeroMachine 3, Companion-Dinosaurs. Why dinosaurs? Because they’re cool! Of course, while I think they’re cool, I don’t actually know anything about them. So if I have left out some that absolutely have to be there, please let me know.
Here’s the set as of initial launch:
Enjoy!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
The always awesome Zyp has graciously put together a brief guide on how you can create incredible looking faces in HeroMachine 3 just like he does! I’ve always been impressed with the dimensionality and personality he gets into his characters, and really appreciate his sharing his secrets with us. Thank you, Zyp!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Recipes, Tips & Tricks
[Panner is not only a fantastic troubleshooter and critique-giver, but he’s also an expert digital archaeologist, uncovering hidden gems of knowledge when using HeroMachine 3. He was nice enough to put together some of his findings here to share with the rest of the community, for which I’m very thankful. Enjoy! — Jeff]
HeroMachine has changed a lot over these latest months. In a short time we have seen the debut of a beautiful interface, extremely useful features, dozens of items to work with, and a forum for sharing creations. I don’t think anyone will contest that these changes have made the HeroMachine experience a lot more pleasant and a lot less exhausting.
Since HeroMachine is currently in alpha stage, there are a few oddities that can be exploited to reach results that are unavailable when using the program as intended. Here I present three such exploits that all produce results you might have thought were impossible. I hope this will be educational or at least entertaining!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Tips & Tricks
I got a wild hair this morning (get it?!) and decided to throw together a set of braided female hair for HeroMachine 3. A few are from the current Female Standard set, but where possible even there I broke them up a bit. If you can find examples of other braids you’d like to see, now’s the time to speak up or forever hold your split ends.
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
With many thanks to the incredible dblade for drawing them, I am happy to announce that the following items are now live:
Hockey Mask in Headgear-Masks:
Awesome gas mask thing (both in the complete format seen here and broken up into individual pieces) in Headgear-Military:
Extended Sharp Claw Hand in HandRight-Standard:
In addition to these fantastic items, I’ve still got at least three other things dblade has created to add in. Be sure to drop by in comments and thank him for his volunteer work expanding and improving the program!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
I’ve heard disturbing reports from AMS, Hammerknight, and a couple of other folks that after a Flash update, they lost all their saved files and now can no longer save characters between sessions. Has anything like that happened to you? If so, could you please post in comments with your browser version, operating system version, and Flash version (which you get by right-clicking on the HM3 app and choosing “About Flash Player” from the flyout)?
I’m really hoping Adobe didn’t change something about the way they save Flash cookies in this latest release …
This is a good time to remind you that, as with any piece of software, you should back up your characters on a regular basis to avoid catastrophic loss. There are now three ways to do so:
The saved Flash shared object library files (.sol for you Windows users) are LIKE cookies, but they are NOT actual cookies. They are not stored in the shared internet data files and will not be deleted if you erase all your cookies. You can only remove them by right-clicking on the movie, and going to Flash Settings, removing them there.
In Windows it’s at %AppData%MacromediaFlash Player#SharedObjects\www.heromachine.comhm3 where %AppData% is a variable leading to your browser.
On a Mac they are in HD / User / / Library / Preferences / Macromedia / Flash Player / #SharedObjects / / https://www.heromachine.com / hm3 / heromachine3.swf / hmcharacters.sol
I hate to think of people losing their hard work, and I’m trying to do a bit of digging to see if anything changed with the latest Flash Player update or what.
Edited To Add: Sure enough, Adobe has implemented much easier methods of deleting “Flash cookies”, which is what the HeroMachine save file is. You can get the details here. AMS identified the specific setting you need to change if you don’t want all of your saved characters to be wiped out the next time you close your browser after installing the update, at least in Internet Explorer:
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Meta, Tips & Tricks
dblade sent in another nice armored gauntlet, now live in two pieces (HandRightStandard and GloveRightStandard). Thanks dblade!
Posted in HeroMachine 3
The very talented dblade has come through once again, providing some nifty new items for the Headgear-Masks set! I think you’re going to get a lot of use out of these as you build your creations, so be sure to drop by in comments and thank him for his time and effort. Great job, dblade, thank you!
These items are now live, though you might need to clear your browser’s cached to get them to show if you’ve recently used the Headgear-Masks set.
Posted in HeroMachine 3
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
