Project Files: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118337515 . Here is a demonstration of disintegration and re-integration effect for a skeletal mesh. Here, initially, the skeletal mesh shape will be disintegrated into particles and after a while, all the particles will be moved back to original location and restore the shape of the skeletal mesh. You can use this effect on characters as well. For something like vanish the character into thin air and re-integrate back like a ghost. Tutorial: https://youtu.be/St4dE8KuzOI // ! https://www.patreon.com/codelikeme Patrons will have access to project files of all the stuff I do in the channel and other extra benefitsJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb6Jh9EBV7a_Nm52Ipll_Q/join Like my facebook page for more content : https://www.facebook.com/gamedevelopersclub/ Follow me on twitter : https://twitter.com/CodeLikeMe2 Follow me on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/codelikeme #CodeLikeMe #unrealengine #ue5 #ue4 #indiegamedev

Between the success of the Fallout show, the first-ever Skyline Valley map expansion, the new legendary crafting system, and the Gleaming Depths update reintroducing endgame Raids, 2024 was one of the biggest years for Fallout 76 so far. Although 2024 will be hard to compete with, given how much momentum the franchise has going into 2025, this will surely be another major year for fans of Fallout 76.

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A Starfield player online has transformed their in-game ship into a Fallout-themed Christmas truck, bringing the festivities to the stars. This particular Starfield ship build is a great crossover between two of Bethesda's franchises.

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Finding the perfect present isnt always easyespecially if the people in your life are, lets say, challenging to shop for.And while gift guides can be a great resource for certain purposes, they arent exactly catered to your personal needs and the tastes of those around you.So what if AI could save the day? A new AI-powered gift-recommending chatbot has been winning over my colleagues, even leading one to find the just-right gift for her significant other.Heres how it works.Psst: If you love these types of tools as much as I do, check out my free Cool Tools newsletter from The Intelligence. Youll be the first to find all sorts of simple tech treasures!Your AI-powered personal shopperThe tool is called DreamGift, and it uses your input to provide personalized ideas for interesting giftsno matter who they may be for. To give it a go, just open the DreamGift website in any web browser on any phone, tablet, or computer in front of you. From there, click Start a chat here to get started.The chatbot will ask you a few quick questions, including the occasion for the gift, the persons relationship to you, their age, their interests, and how much youd like to spend. You can click an option within a dropdown list for each question or type out your own more detailed answer, if youd rather.You might, for instance, want to describe the specifics of your giftees interests more thoroughly than simply choosing Tech and Gadgets, Outdoors, or Cooking. But you can get some worthwhile recommendations just from choosing broad categories, too.DreamGift lets you describe what youre after in as muchor as littledetail as you want.Once youre done, the site will take a few seconds to put together some recommendations. Youll see categories like High-Quality Chefs Knife Set and Personalized Cutting Board along with individual product recommendations for each category the site offers up.The products it suggests all come from Amazonthough, of course, you can always opt to use those as mere recommendations and then look the same items up anywhere you like, on your own.DreamGifts recommendations include a range of options for each category it gives you.One of those picks might be just the right gift for the person you have in mindor, if nothing else, the AI-powered recommendations might give you some good ideas and a push in the right direction to finish searching yourself.DreamGift operates entirely on the webno downloads or installations required.The site is completely free. It uses Amazon affiliate links and may receive a commission when you click a link and buy a product directly from its suggestionsbut, again, you dont have to limit yourself to those specific store links.The service doesnt require an account to use and receives only the limited amount of data you share when using it.Give yourself the gift of productivity with my free Cool Tools newslettera single new off-the-beaten-path gem in your inbox every Wednesday!

The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothe Chalamet, focuses on Dylans early 1960s transition from idiosyncratic singer of folk songs to internationally renowned singer-songwriter.As a music historian, Ive always respected one decision of Dylans in particularone that kicked off the young artists most turbulent and significant period of creative activity.Sixty years ago, on Halloween Night 1964, a 23-year-old Dylan took the stage at New York Citys Philharmonic Hall. He had become a star within the niche genre of revivalist folk music. But by 1964, Dylan was building a much larger fan base through performing and recording his own songs.Columbia Records was on hand to turn Dylans October 31, 1964, performance into a live album. [Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images]Dylan presented a solo set, mixing material he had previously recorded with some new songs. Representatives from his label, Columbia Records, were on hand to record the concert, with the intent to release the live show as his fifth official album.It would have been a logical successor to Dylans four other Columbia albums. With the exception of one track, Corrina, Corrina, those albums, taken together, featured exclusively solo acoustic performances.But at the end of 1964, Columbia shelved the recording of the Philharmonic Hall concert. Dylan had decided that he wanted to make a different kind of music.From Minnesota to ManhattanTwo-and-a-half years earlier, Dylan, then just 20 years old, started earning acclaim within New York Citys folk music community. At the time, the folk music revival was taking place in cities across the country, but Manhattans Greenwich Village was the movements beating heart.Mingling with and drawing inspiration from other folk musicians, Dylan, who had recently moved to Manhattan from Minnesota, secured his first gig at Gerdes Folk City on April 11, 1961. Dylan appeared in various other Greenwich Village music clubs, performing folk songs, ballads, and blues. He aspired to become, like his hero Woody Guthrie, a self-contained artist who could employ vocals, guitar, and harmonica to interpret the musical heritage of the old, weird Americaan adage coined by critic Greil Marcus to describe Dylans early repertoire, which was composed of material learned from prewar songbooks, records, and musicians.While Dylans versions of older songs were undeniably captivating, he later acknowledged that some of his peers in the early 1960s folk music scenespecifically, Mike Seegerwere better at replicating traditional instrumental and vocal styles.Dylan, however, realized he had an unrivaled facility for writing and performing new songs.In October 1961, veteran talent scout John Hammond signed Dylan to record for Columbia. His eponymous debut, released in March 1962, featured interpretations of traditional ballads and blues, with just two original compositions. That album sold only 5,000 copies, leading some Columbia officials to refer to the Dylan contract as Hammonds Folly.Full steam aheadFlipping the formula of its predecessor, Dylans 1963 follow-up album, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, offered 11 originals by Dylan and just two traditional songs. The powerful collection combined songs about relationships with original protest songs, including his breakthrough Blowin in the Wind.The Times They Are A-Changin, his third release, exclusively showcased Dylans own compositions.Dylans creative output continued. As he testified in Restless Farewell, the closing track for The Times They Are A-Changin: My feet are now fast / and point away from the past.Released just six months after The Times, Dylans fourth Columbia album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, featured solo acoustic recordings of original songs that were lyrically adventurous and less focused on current events. As suggested in his song My Back Pages, he was now rejecting the notion that he couldor shouldspeak for his generation.Bringing it all togetherBy the end of 1964, Dylan yearned to break away permanently from the constraints of the folk genreand from the notion of genre altogether. He wanted to subvert the expectations of audiences and to rebel against music industry forces intent on pigeonholing him and his work.The Philharmonic Hall concert went off without a hitch, but Dylan refused to let Columbia turn it into an album. The recording wouldnt generate an official release for another four decades.Instead, in January 1965, Dylan entered Columbias Studio A to record his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home. But this time, he embraced the electric rock sound that had energized America in the wake of Beatlemania. That album introduced songs with stream-of-consciousness lyrics featuring surreal imagery, and on many of the songs Dylan performed with the accompaniment of a rock band.Bringing It All Back Home, released in March 1965, set the tone for Dylans next two albums: Highway 61 Revisited, in August 1965, and Blonde and Blonde, in June 1966. Critics and fans have long considered these latter three albumspulsing with what the singer-songwriter himself called that thin, that wild mercury soundas among the greatest albums of the rock era.On July 25, 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, Dylan invited members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on stage to accompany three songs. Since the genre expectations for folk music during that era involved acoustic instrumentation, the audience was unprepared for Dylans loud performances. Some critics deemed the set an act of heresy, an affront to folk music propriety. The next year, Dylan embarked on a tour of the U.K., and an audience member at the Manchester stop infamously heckled him for abandoning folk music, crying out, Judas!Yet the creative risks undertaken by Dylan during this period inspired countless other musicians: rock acts such as the Beatles, the Animals, and the Byrds; pop acts such as Stevie Wonder, Johnny Rivers, and Sonny and Cher; and country singers such as Johnny Cash.Acknowledging the bar that Dylans songwriting set, Cash, in his liner notes to Dylans 1969 album Nashville Skyline, wrote, Here-in is a hell of a poet.Enlivened by Dylans example, many musicians went on to experiment with their own sound and style, while artists across a range of genres would pay homage to Dylan through performing and recording his songs.In 2016, Dylan received the Nobel Prize in literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. His early exploration of this tradition can be heard on his first four Columbia albums records that laid the groundwork for Dylans august career.Back in 1964, Dylan was the talk of Greenwich Village.But now, because he never rested on his laurels, hes the toast of the world. Ted Olson is a professor of Appalachian studies and bluegrass, old-time, and roots music studies at East Tennessee State University.This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

In 2024, the singer Sade released her first song in six years, Andre 3000 debuted a 26-minute flute song, and Sam Smith covered Sylvesters You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)and it was all for the same project. They are three of the more than 100 artists who contributed original songs and covers to Transa, a nearly four-hour epic of a compilation album from longstanding advocacy-through-music organization Red Hot.Co-produced by Red Hot executive director Dust Reid and artist/activist Massima Bell, Transa is an effort to center trans people and the gifts we bring to the world, Bell says. The albums mix of music and spoken word tracks is separated into eight chaptersstarting with awakening and survival, ultimately arriving at liberation and reinvention. Many of songs pair trans and cisgender artistsEzra Furman and Sharon Van Etten cover Sinead OConnor, trans singer Lauren Auder teams up with Wendy & Lisa of Princes Revolution to cover I would Die 4 U.[Photos: courtesy Red Hot]When Red Hot debuted in 1990 with its AIDS-benefit album Red Hot + Blue, the compilation of Cole Porter songs from the likes of U2, Neneh Cherry, and Sinead OConnor was this watershed moment of having musicians who werent necessarily gay stand up with gay people and really turn the tides against the cultural stigma of HIV/AIDS, Bell says.Inspired in part by the 2021 death of artist/producer Sophie, Bell and Reid see Transa as having potential to play a similar role as Red Hots first release. Like Red Hot + Blue, Transa arrives at a time when the trans community is under attack. The ACLU is currently tracking 574 anti-LGBTQ bills in the United States, and the Anti-Trans Bill Tracker has logged 48 anti-trans measures that have passed state legislatures. President-elect Donald Trump spent $19 million on a swing-state attack ad that cast gender-affirming care provided to California inmates under then-Attorney General Kamala Harris as a drain on taxpayer money. The ad and its zingerKamala is for they/them, President Trump is for youhelped shift the race 2.7 points to Trump in swing states.Part of why these attack ads succeed is thatsimilar to only 15% of Americans personally knowing someone with AIDS in 1990a majority of Americans dont know a trans person. Polling firm Data for Progress in 2023 found that only 30% of likely voters said they personally knew a trans person, with only 21% saying they personally knew a nonbinary person. Singer/songwriter Teddy Geiger, who has a song on Transa with DJ and artist Yaeji, says albums like Transa can help combat that unfamiliarity.Sam Smith & Beverly Glenn-Copeland [Photo: Eleanor Petry]When people have personal experiences with trans people and you really get to know someone that has been on that journey, it just clicks, says Geiger, who came out as trans in 2017. There are so many people who havent had that opportunity, and projects like this allow people [that experience].Transa is aimed at providing that example for a new generation at a critical time for the trans community, but doing so has required the organization to undergo its own transformation while confronting a music industry thats worlds apart from the one that helped Red Hot make an impact in its early years.Frankie Cosmos and Soft Rnin [Photo: Alex Tepper]Building a New LegacyWhile Transa fits well into Red Hots longstanding ability to bring musicians together for a cause and change some minds in the process, its also the first effort of what Reid hopes will be a new legacy he is charting for the organization.When Red Hot marked its 30th anniversary in 2020, Reid pushed the organization to adopt a new, formalized mission statement that encompassed its legacy of fighting AIDS while broadening its efforts to raise awareness of broader LGBT issues. I believe Red Hots primary mission is in promoting diversity, and thats through equal access to healthcare, they say.Ahya Simone [Photo: Kenny Laubbacher]Reid says the new focus opened the door to projects, like Transa, that are designed to showcase trans talent and solidarity from the broader industry rather than entirely focus on AIDS. Obviously we still care about that cause, too, Reid says. But this project is a way of suggesting that all of our issues are interconnected. We cant solve HIV and AIDS if we cant solve the issues within ourselves first.[Photos: courtesy Red Hot]Island in the StreamRed Hot is releasing Transa into a music industry thats starkly different from the one Red Hot + Blue launched into. That compilation sold more than a million copies and sprouted a TV special,helping bankroll a nearly $1 million donation to AIDS advocacy group Act Up.Streamings dominance and physical medias decline have completely changed howand ifprojects like Transa make money that can be donated. When I started at Red Hot, Spotify didnt even exist yet, Reid says. Its radically shifted the way the org has operatedthere were even some dormant years where we just didnt know how to bring projects to fruition.With Transa, Reid says Red Hot has acted as its own label, rather than partnering with a label that would fund recording and marketing budgets, as it has for past compilations. While it means that all revenue comes back to Red Hot, it also means sales have to make up for the costs of creating the recordpart of why Transa isnt positioned as a benefit album.Hunter Schafer [Photo: Elia Einhorn]In the 90s and 2000s, you could have a release that sold like, 500,000 [physical] units without any promotion, and then that would bankroll a huge gift to Act Up, Bell says, adding that with Transa, We havent wanted to promise something to the orgs wed want to support. She notes that the organizations Transa could benefit, if possible, include the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the New York Trans Oral History Project, and housing-focused organizations Dallas Hope Charities in Texas and GLITS in New York.As part of the release, Red Hot is taking pre-orders for a six-LP box set that will ship in Spring 2025. Our main mission is to raise awarenesswe think this album is a historical document that will help lead people back to themselves, Reid says. Hopefully streaming, sync, and licensing will help raise funds. He adds that Spotify has helped boost Transas profile, with Transa tracks populating personalized playlists for users, and the album getting some Times Square billboard time as the album of the month for Spotifys Glow LGBT equity program.Its been a struggle to get on Spotifys radar for Red Hot releases to date, but Transa is unlocking a lot of doors, Reid says. It was industry people at MTV back in the 90s that really helped platform those early Red Hot projects. We need places like Spotify and Apple to step up and do the same today.

French architect Philippe Starck has created a red cube to house the LA Almaraza olive oil mill, museum and restaurant in Andalusia, decorated with symbols referencing the area's heritage.Surrounded by groves on a 25-hectare estate near Rona, the building was designed for oil producer LA Organic as part of a wider project to boost oleotourism tourism based on olive oil production in the region.Starck finished the otherwise plain building in large symbols celebrating the "magic and poetry" of the area, including a bull's horn in Corten steel and a carved eye referencing the area's historic connection with the surrealist movement.Philippe Starck has completed a mill, museum and restaurant in Andalusia"LA Almazara itself is surrounded by acres of olive groves, bathed in powerful and warm lights of Andalusia," Starck told Dezeen."This gives a kind of sense of the radicality I had to come up with for the project," he continued. "Everything had to be out of the ordinary, out-of-scale, a little strange and surrealist. The place is full of fertile surprises that reflect Andalusian symbols.""On the outside, it is a huge monolithic red block, as if fallen from the sky," added Starck. "An enormous eye at the facade illustrates the vigilance of the great Andalusian surrealist artists, the smoke that emanates from it is totally surrealist and reflects mystery."Sculptural symbols are used throughout the centreThe interior of LA Almaraza is designed as an "inhabitable work of art", continuing the oversized, sculptural symbols found on the exterior.Its restaurant area sits beneath a suspended metal pipe and funnel that allude to the production of oil and a wing-like form that references the Andalusian scientist thought to be the first human to fly.Read: Philippe Starck reinterprets Brazilian modernism in So Paulo penthouseA small seating area around a fireplace is positioned beneath an oversized bullfighting sword leaning against the wall, while the horn and half-olive forms on the exterior also project inwards below a large mural that covers the entire ceiling.This space opens onto a terrace that cantilevers out from one side of the building, appearing to be supported by large metal chains. It has views of the landscape that provide a dramatic contrast to LA Almaraza's dark interior.A bull's horn punctures a wall of the restaurant"As soon as you enter, you are struck by the contrast in lights. In the building, it is dark and cool, to respect and enhance the delicate process of olive oil production," said Starck."Yet the inside shadows hold strong symbols as well, such as monumental half-olive embedded in the rusty steel wall, a metal pipe penetrating the building without ever coming out," he added.A museum and production space are hosted on the other floorsAcross the other two floors of the centre are a museum space and facilities for the production of extra virgin olive oil. Outside, the building is surrounded by a wider programme of walking trails, sculptures by Starck and other visitor facilities.Other architectural projects recently completed by Starck include the renovation of a hotel in Saint-Tropez that draws on mid-century references and a So Paulo penthouse inside a tower by architect Jean Nouvel.The photography is by Alfonso Quiroga Ferro.The post Philippe Starck creates "strange and surrealist" olive oil mill and museum appeared first on Dezeen.

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