It has been going rapidly downhill.
IanM32
joined 2 years ago
Excellent!
Yeah, I'm sold on Lemmy too.
It's also totally in the alpha stage, too. I would hope that with the influx of new users, the pace of development will pick up as well.
I'm gonna miss Boost so bad.
I made it using SD and Krita. I started out just painting big blocks of color, so like bright yellow for the face of the amulet and a darker yellow for the edges. I painted over a picture of an amulet laying on a table just as a guide so the perspective wouldn't be too wonky.
Ran it through with a description of the item and tweaking parameters until I got something that was starting to look like what I wanted. I bring a bunch of iterations into Krita at a time and use layer masks to composite together the parts I like best from each image. Then the result gets kicked out and run through SD some more. Rinse and repeat until satisfied.
The splatter effect is a layer mask on the final image. That was actually done with SD too, just prompted something like "a splat of white paint on a black background."
EDIT: I know there are models and Loras now that are trained specifically around RPG items. I didn't use them for this because they didn't exist at the time, but might be worth looking into!
I don't think one just stops being an icky nerd.
I can't find the source for the original item, I'll have to look again later. But I got the stats from somewhere else.
Without looking, as I recall it allows the player to spend spell slots to get HP back once per day. Can't remember if it's a fixed number or a roll. Kind of a good "oh shit" item.
I'm on a different instance, but I figured I would just say hello to a fellow Minnesotan!
Why have you done this
I'm at the same place. Liking the platform, lamenting the current lack of content. When (if) it really gets rolling though, I can see this as a perfect replacement.
And while I was a bit leery of the distributed nature at first, I could see finding new niche instances being as fun as finding new subreddits.
Yes, sluggishness and timeouts. As others suggest, there are growing pains. I have faith that as the new number of users starts to stabilize, these problems will settle down.