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[obliviousriki]

Wreckage of Alcamoth at night.

#xcde #xenoblade #once again #the night lighting makes me sad #especially after how cool it was in xc1 and xcx #the atmospheric effects are still pretty good #there's a reason that the night pictures are mostly angled upwards while the day and evening pictures can focus on stuff on the ground #i tried playing with the brightness for a couple shots but i think the issue is more the saturation of colors at night #those might be the right words but i know i have an issue with it

[obliviousriki]

Wrecked Alcamoth in the evening.

#xcde #xenoblade #so pretty #i talked about why i love this area so much in the tags for the day post of alcamoth #but its just #so so so good #i hate the fact that you can't get to the top floor until the very end of the game #like what would be the harm in letting me up to the coronation balcony #i just want a little peek #they actually show multiple areas of alcamoth in the credits that they don't let you into in the actual game #and it makes me SO FRUSTRATED #i just want infinite content from this game tbh but i don't feel like that's too much to ask #like oh hey you beat the game? you can go to a single new area that you could go to in the original #i know for a fact that it's all rendered #definitely not the one that you get to go to where you could look over the entirety of eryth sea but that's understandable

[obliviousriki]

Wreckage of Alcamoth.

#xcde #xenoblade #i had so much fun with these #the apocalyptic feeling of alcamoth is super super good #like it had already been turned into a horrifying area when the bionis did its thing and the telethia swarmed into it #and now it's horrifying for an entirely different reason #it's fallen into ruin and been invaded by a new giant entity #the hexagonal panels having fallen out leaving geometrically precise holes is probably my favorite change they made #because they look cool as fuck #but also they kind of remind us what an advanced and precise society the high entia were #and then the fact that it's all fallen into ruin makes things feel just that much more desolate #i really wanted a sidequest like colony 6 where you repair alcamoth but future connected could only be so much #but imagine in another world where you could go back to the new colony 9 and explore the surrounding area #traveling between the colony and the shoulder via junks #collecting things in both places to repair the glass ceilings and clear the plants #and then you get alcamoth working again #and it's beautiful because of the effort you put in and then it evolves into a new trade hub #and maybe you get to watch as traffic increases and you see more ships flying back and forth #anyways

[obliviousriki]

Night on the Bionis’ Shoulder.

#xcde #xenoblade #had to fucking FIGHT the xc2 lighting engine for these ones #ive definitely talked about this before. the xc2 lighting engine makes everything look like shit at night #what looks okay at night? glowy things #so i sought out glowy things #all things considered i think these turned out pretty good #but at any rate #what happened with gael gar. like what purpose did he serve #the final quest with him was just annoying to be honest like he basically asks melia to come kill him #like i didnt think he even had a reasonable point of view #which could be interesting to investigate from a position of 'he's a fanatic and isn't logical' but it isn't played like that #he just kind of exists #blows up a lab #says some weird unjustifiable shit and then leaves #melia's comebacks were not exactly that good either #anyways im sure theres more analysis to be done about that character but i just dont want to #he does not interest me and neither do his perspectives #which i think is kind of sad because there could have been some really interesting stuff about how the post-zanza world should be run #considering everything that has changed #like who put shulk and co in charge? they are mostly essentially children who grew strong enough to kill god #i feel like they could have done something really interesting with some people reasonably pushing back against the new people in charge #but instead we get 'i dont like the ancestors!' vs 'i like the ancestors!'

[obliviousriki]

Evening on Bionis’ Shoulder.

#xenoblade #xcde #i love gran dell #its so so so nice and its' got a big tower and it's got machina #the one thing i dont like about xc3 that i've seen so far has been what they did to the machina #that is a human man #with gray face paint #but gran dell also has wheat fields #the thing that xcfc really nails is the apocalyptic feel #like these people have escaped a horrifying creature and are really just making do with what they have and staying behind their walls #the land may be beautiful but they are trapped and defenseless until the companions show up #and then their armus start attacking them??? that fucked me up #the things that are providing you food and keeping you alive are suddenly trying to kill you #probably going to ramble about what i didn't like in the next post but the feel of apocalypse was very present and very well done

[obliviousriki]

Daytime on the Bionis’ Shoulder.

#xcde #xenoblade #i flung shulk off a cliff for at least one of these pictures #i got really frustrated with how low res the game is a lot #i think i talked about this a while ago but its like the game renders things farther away at lower resolutions #which makes sense from a performance perspective but the trees look awful on my tv #but thankfully tumblr does not display these at a size that would show this anyways

[obliviousriki]

I finally finished Future Connected. The game has been out for over two years at this point

#xcde #xenoblade #whats up. im alive #ive been posting on my sideblog awareriki pretty frequently these days but have had no time to play games #and suddenly its winter break #and i remember i haven't finished this game #this semester almost killed me #trying to do engineering and music at the same time does not leave a lot of room for playing videos game #unfortunately i will not be purchasing xenoblade 3 yet #i doubt i'll have time to finish it over winter break just based on the number of hours I've seen people say it takes to see most of it #and i would want to go through basically every sidequest #looks fun though! i haven't seen much gameplay but the characters look pretty fun #i might buy it in the summer but honestly i dont know what my summers gonna look like #because last summer i had a 9-5 and spent like a collective two weeks traveling to opposite sides of the country #and i was living in another city! so who knows #its wild to think about how much i've changed since i started this blog like i was a little baby when i posted that first photoset #but anyways ive got some stuff coming up and maybe ill do another landscape gradient thing people seemed to really like that one

[obliviousriki]

So uh

This game better be good

#(crawls out of my hole) #xc3 #xenoblade #woah new tag #please holy shit let this game be good #can we not talk about xc2 ever again and just have this game be the only xenoblade game on the switch #also hello everyone its been at least several months #been at college so its been basically impossible to find time to post anything #may do some reruns after the announcement #hopefully ill have time to give this game some time over a break whenever it comes out #because fuck #this looks like it could be really good #like we have reasonable character designs again thats excellent #anyways thought id post literally anything since theres a whole ass new game coming out

[obliviousriki]

hi! i've enjoyed looking through your xcde and comparison shots a lot lately, and whenever i miss the game i come back to them!!! they all really capture the beauty of the game, and reading your comments on it is really cool! i was wondering how you took such good pics without the ui and characters showing up, though? i too want to take pics, but i cant get them out of the way unless i get melia to kick the air ;v;

First, thanks so much for your kind words! I appreciate that people still look at this blog even if it's not as active these days.

As for taking pictures without the UI and characters, the original Xenoblade and Definitive Edition are a bit different, so I'll talk about each of them. In both, you can remove the entire UI except for the party gauge in the game's settings. The only way that I know of to remove the party gauge is to run it down completely by standing still (which is much easier in the original when you have a speed-up button on an emulator).

For the original Xenoblade, you can't zoom the camera in all the way through the character, who then always shows up in the frame. You can get around this by moving whoever you're controlling next to a solid surface and then rotating the camera towards the surface so it clips through their character model. This doesn't actually make taking pictures that much harder, as there's tons of little rocks and ledges scattered around that you can clip the camera through. It definitely takes some getting used to, but I think it's fun to run around looking for the best wall to frame your photo in front of.

Definitive Edition doesn't have this problem, and you can zoom the camera all the way in like you can in XCX and XC2. In the original, there were several places that I really wanted photos of but there weren't any good walls nearby, so being able to run right up to them and get great shots in DE was incredibly rewarding.

As for party members you don't control getting into shots, there's no real way to prevent this besides wiggling your character around until they resettle and leave the frame. This is a lot worse in the original, because having a wall behind you means that the NPCs will tend to walk right in front of where you're trying to point the camera. It takes some practice and some luck (usually more luck) to get certain shots, but it's definitely not too hard to get the hang of.

Side note: if you're interested in taking pictures of XCX, it essentially has the same UI & camera things as DE, and is thankfully very easy to get pictures of. XC2 is by far my least favorite game to photograph (and in every other respect), as there's no way to remove certain large parts of the UI.

Anyways, there's my long winded response. Hope this helps!

#xenoblade #xcde #xcx #xc2 #xc1 #dont totally remember how my tags work but i think this is good #thanks again for the message #im still fairly active on here just not posting too much #considered starting up a sideblog for reblogging #but it might be more work than i want to put into it #my likes are public so if you're incredibly interested in my tastes in art and memes you can check those out

[obliviousriki]

Landscape gradient

#xcde #xenoblade spoilers #xenoblade #forgot what all i used to tag stuff #sometimes i will remember i can also post things on my blog #thought about doing some xcde reruns or something similar #i did a best of thing for xc1 and i might do more color palette stuff for xcde? #genuinely dont know if i will have time or if there's still any interest for this game #side note if i do start posting more and post+ becomes a thing i will never charge anyone for the stuff i do #doubt thats even like #legal? #i just take pictures and organize them because game pretty #anyways #extra will not be able to take new xcde pictures soon because im actually moving on campus this semester #so might just be some reorganizing and repackaging old screenshots for a couple months and then silence again #or i could actually get around to playing godmaster for hollow knight #the last time i posted screenshots for that game was in fuckin #2019 #anyways again #i realize every two or three months when i finally post something #i end up writing a huge novel in the tags #i just feel like i should say a thing or two after not posting for a long time #anyways hope you enjoy the gradient! it took more effort than i thought it might #could actually just literally do another one of these rainbow ones with all the screenshots i have

[obliviousriki]

Gengar Pokedoll pattern

Disclaimer that I almost forgot to add: these don't account for seam allowance, as I usually don't use seam allowance (never run into any problems with it but it's probably a good idea to do in the future)

#sewing #pokemon #gengar #yeah babey #pdfs do not work on tumblr #dont know why i thought they would tbh #heres some images instead #if you can't tell this is my first time uploading patterns like this #also these were the actual ones i used to make the pieces which is why there are sometimes pin holes in them #except for the eyes and the four piece sphere thing #im like 90% sure that's the right size #when i started this thing eight months ago or whenever it was I made the eyes and the body and then they just sat on my desk #for eight months #and then it's like almost finals week and i go oh shit i should finish this #and then i did

[obliviousriki]

After forgetting about this project for about eight months or so, here's my best approximation of the Gengar pokedoll! It's by no means perfect, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I'll be posting the pattern I used on my blog too!

Gengar Pokedoll - New upload of this because some people were having trouble viewing it, let me know if this video plays correctly or not

#sewing #pokemon #gengar #here it is #been working on this for a while #unfortunately it does look much more like the beautiful animation in real life #i'll be linking the PDF on this post too after i actually make the post with the pdf on my blog

[obliviousriki]

#my cats #photography #hey yall #its been like half a year or something #figured i'd give people an update #i started college since my last post i think or at least my second semester #which has had me pretty busy at basically all times #im doing engineering if anyones curious #haven't really been playing video games at all lately #there was a period of like three weeks in january/beginning of february where i would get up in the morning and play fallout new vegas #for hours at a time #ive considered trying to take pictures of that game but idk #i still haven't technically finished it and it's been almost two months since i even booted it up #did i get into it because of hbomberguy's video on it? yes #do i plan on playing any other fallout games ever? probably not #but long story short #nothing is happening right now in terms of this blog #and probably nothing will happen for a bit longer #i don't really feel motivated to finish future connected because it was kind of eh from what i played #oh wait i did actually play hours and hours of xcx like four months ago too but i think decided against trying to upload pictures #was more focused on gameplay than anything #plus its a pretty big hassle to upload anything from the wii u #BUT anyways #i still plan on finding new things to post on this blog but just. not for a while #might put more irl photography on here #i'll keep y'all posted

[obliviousriki]

Me too

#xcfc #xcfc spoilers #xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #(points at kino) hes my son now #idc idc #riki adopted him already idc idc #son boy

[obliviousriki]

A new world.

#xcde #xcde spoilers #xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #yes ok i recreated the one set i did a long time ago #considered doing a comparison #maybe i will? #idk ive been thinking about doing like a whole set of comparison shots #but god ive spent so much time with this game #i think i was ~110 hours when i finished? #might still want to beat superbosses

[obliviousriki]

Shulk’s decision.

#xcde #xcde spoilers #xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #sonocomics puts it very well #choose between this thing that goes against all your morals and the entire point of going on this quest #or do the cool thing #also holy shit a picture with the entire party and none of them are blinking???? impossible #shulk is 100% blinking in the last two shots

[obliviousriki]

Final battle with Zanza.

#xcde #xcde spoilers #xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #god what are you wearing #ha ha look at me i have so many god damn particle effects #look at all my colors #and my telethia ass