BotCon 2001 saw the releases of The Protoform Sessions (featuring demos and rarities and including extended commentary from DiCola) and Artistic Transformations: Themes and Variations, containing solo piano renditions of songs from the soundtrack, as well as another complete score on a single disc named Lighting Their Darkest Hour. The song The Touch from the Transformers soundtrack won DiCola a 1986 Apex award for Best Original Song - Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror.ĭiCola has had enough of a cult following amongst Transformers fans to have warranted the release of several albums of music related to the Transformers movie, as follow-ups to the release of the original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.įirst released as a BotCon'97 exclusive, the 2-CD set Til All Are One contains the first full score of the movie. He received a Golden Raspberry Award in 1986 for his work on the Rocky IV soundtrack. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture for the song Far From Over which he co-wrote with Frank Stallone for the same film. In 1983, DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie Staying Alive, in spite of the poor critical reception of the film. He also admires film-music composers Thomas Newman, John Powell and Jerry Goldsmith. Since then he has been active in the capacity of producer, recorded and performed as both a solo artist and member of several bands, and continues to work as a session musician and contributor to film soundtracks as composer and performer.ĭiCola counts Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer among his biggest influences in progressive rock music. Following his work on the Staying Alive project, he was recruited by Sylvester Stallone to contribute key compositions for Rocky IV (1985), followed by scoring the original animated Transformers movie in 1986. ![]() His first major break came when he was chosen to co-write several songs on the Staying Alive soundtrack (1983) with Frank Stallone. One of his early credits as a session musician was his synthesizer performance on Juice Newton's Dirty Looks and Old Flame albums released in 19, respectively. ![]() After majoring in percussion in college, DiCola began his professional music career upon moving to California in 1981. Vincent Louis DiCola aka Vince Dicola was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1960. DiCola also pioneered the use of sequencers on his soundtrack recording for Rocky IV, one of the first to exploit the Fairlight CMI & Synclavier II's computer's sequencing capabilities. ![]() Vince DiCola (born 1960) is an Italian-American composer, keyboardist, and arran… Read Full Bio ↴ Vince DiCola (born 1960) is an Italian-American composer, keyboardist, and arranger best known for his work on the The Transformers: The Movie, Staying Alive and Rocky IV soundtracks.
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![]() When this save reaches the present I think I'll do the same thing but with an immortal vampire. This functionality works like Scarlet’s mod does. Animals no longer age up and die when the ‘Animal Aging’ option is turned off in Game Settings. If disabled, then the prior Sims 4 functionality will be used so new Sims are always zero days into their current age span rather than a random number of days. Apr-07-2019 07:57:19The dresser configuration file, C:UsersEG WarhammerDocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 4ModsDP MCCC 620mcdresser.cfg, is not found. It's been under a week and they've already had a house fire and just had triplets so even though I cheated to give them 150,000 simoleons to start, I think they may be in for a rough ride. This setting determines whether EA’s new random aging that was implemented with Get Famous will be used. So I never know what the actual lifespan is. I usually play on Short with a few lifespans tweaked with MCC. Normal is 5 and with the new pack skills j think you need way more time tbh. I'm playing in the Victorian Era, not an actual challenge but I thought it would be fun to play a specific house and family and update the house/outfits every sim year to enter a new period of history, vaguely corresponding to 20 years. Especially if you're planning on having siblings close to age. I haven't played long enough to be sure this works so I'll update if it doesn't. You can edit that file to delete things you DO want to allow autonomously. The Documentation menu has an overview page, which lists some overall information about MC Command Center and its modules. If you are looking for an older version of MCCC than what is listed there, you should read this. Scroll down to ' Annoying Actions Pre-Autonomy Scan:' and download the zip file, unzip and add the cfg file to your MCCC folder (if you already have that one, you'll need to replace it or edit it). The MCCC Downloads menu will display the supported public releases of MCCC and links to download the mod for those versions. You can also set the game to marry sims once they have a baby together, and move them all in. Both MCCC and Wicked Whims can help you disable jealousy in the game. ![]() Please come back and let us know of that was the. In my game it’s just 1 day a week so I don’t have a million babies everywhere, and you can set it to only allow adult ages to get selected for random pregnancy (mine is also set by traits, so that only nurturing / child friendly sims pop more out. WickedWhims is a mod for The Sims 4 that offers sexual and nudity interactivity. You will probably need to change 'MC Pregnancy' -> 'Partner Sim Selection' -> 'Valid Pregnancy Ages' which is also default to Adult. Because it was surprisingly hard to find, but easy enough to do.įirst of all, you need MCCC and specifically MC tuner. Click on any computer in your game and click 'MC Command Center' -> 'MC Pregnancy' -> 'Pregnant Sim Selection' -> 'Valid Pregnancy Ages' to check and change it. If doing it the way that article recommends doesn't work for your use case, then I'll be happy to try to help you find a better solution. Otherwise it's a manual process but can be done using wifi. If you have Apple Music set up, it will auto-sync. In fact, it appears if you now delete or move this folder, as I accidentally did the other day, BS (and Monterey) will auto-create another one for you.Īre you using a folder under Documents in order to have your music accessible on other Apple devices like your iPhone? Here's the way Apple suggests you sync music between your devices ( ). The default location that Apple, and accordingly Sonos, wants you to use to store your music files is in the stock Music folder in your Home Folder, i.e., ~/Music. And that's a big problem for me.īut back to your case, you're going to have to find another way to deal with your music files if you want to add them to the Sonos ML. ![]() that I used on Mojave are not going to work right on BS. So some of the GitHub apps, scripts, etc. Nothing Sonos can do about it, nor you, nor me apparently, which creates quite a few more problems for me than which folders I can add to the Sonos ML.Īs I've learned in the last couple of days of intensive research looking for workarounds on altering file/folder permissions on BS, it's virtually impossible to do so. ![]() This is just the way things are now with at least the last two Apple OS. So no need to waste time on the phone with Sonos. To prove this, I just put some music in a new folder in Documents, tried to add it to the ML, and here's the message I got: Your problem is Monterey, nor Big Sur (BS) that I'm now on, is going to give Sonos permission to add any folders from Documents to the Sonos ML. What is the location of the folder you're trying to add? I saw something flash by after I input my password during the Sonos Add music folder process, and suspect it triggered this executable to run which gave the OS the necessary permissions to add the folder to the Sonos Library.Īs I've frustratingly learned about Big Sur, Apple has added all these new permission requirements in order to not allow write permissions to be granted to certain files/folders, so I think that's the issue you're encountering on your Monterey install. ![]() If you double-click on the executable, you get the following Terminal output: SonosLibraryServer is a Unix executable and is found in two locations on my Big Sur install as follows: I was never asked to grant Full Disk Access (FDA) to anything, and I checked under System Prefs, and there is nothing Sonos-related under FDA. The folder I added wasn't in the system Music folder under my Home Folder, so I got the following popups in order to add it: I've upgraded to Big Sur from Mojave (erased the drive and did a clean install) since our last interaction, and I just added a folder to my Music Library. Bookshelf CheeseĬheese this boss battle by climbing ontop a bookshelf and using Wizardry like Venomous Discharge to deal damage while being completely safe. So before engaging both Li Jue and Guo Si, defeat the sorcerer standing in the back with ranged attacks. There is a sorcerer present in the room that buffs Li Jue and Guo Si. Stand between them and bait the bosses into breaking them to apply this debuff to whoever breaks these urns. Hua Xiong is a military general who guards the garrison gate. How To Beat Hua Xiong In Wo Long Fallen Dynasty. Breaking these urns applies a debuff that continuously lowers your Morale. A quick note is that even though there are over 30 boss fights in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, we’ve listed only the mandatory bosses needed to defeat to advance the main story. There are these Purple Urns that can be found within the boss room. Initiate this boss battle with a combination of a backstab, Divine Beast Summons and Spirit Attacks to deal with Guo Si as quickly as possible. Use weapon martial arts to keep pressure on the boss: Martial arts is one of the key elements of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty's combat.The techniques associated with the dual-bladed weapons allow you. It is easier to defeat Guo Si first because his attacks are somewhat similar to a previous boss fight, Zhang Yan. How to Beat Li Jue (General Tips) Kill Guo Si First Li Jue twirls his spear above his head before thrusting it at the player. Li Jue uses his spear to vault into the air and strike downwards at the player. Li Jue Movesets Critical Blows ・ Spear Vault The second variant of the attack is similar to an attack used by a previous sub-mission boss, Zhang Yan. One is a short hop that slashes downwards at the player, while the other is a crouching attack that swings both blades upward. Guo Si Movesets Critical Blows Twin Strike Downwards Attack
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Īt the time, Google was finding that over 25% of its searches were of a geospatial character, including searches for maps and directions. Intrinsic Graphics was sold in 2003 to Vicarious Visions after its gaming libraries did not sell well, and its core group of engineers and management including Brian McClendon and Michael Jones transitioned to Keyhole with Hanke remaining at the head. Keyhole was soon contacted by the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for use with defense mapping databases, which gave Keyhole a much-needed cash infusion. Public interest in the software exploded and Keyhole servers were not able to keep up with demand. During the invasion, It was used extensively by Miles O'Brien and other on-air broadcasters, allowing CNN and millions of viewers to follow the progress of the war in a way that had never been seen before. įortunes for the company changed in early 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Dave Lorenzini (Director at Keyhole) enticed CNN, ABC, CBS and other major news networks to use their sophisticated 3D flyby imagery to illustrate Baghdad Activities, in exchange for on-air attribution. Despite making a number of capital deals with Nvidia and Sony, the small company was struggling to pay and retain employees. The product, called "Keyhole EarthViewer", was sold on CDs for use in fields such as real estate, urban planning, defense, and intelligence users paid a yearly fee for the service. Keyhole then developed a way to stream large databases of mapping data over the internet to client software, a key part of the technology, and acquired patchworks of mapping data from governments and other sources. The demo was popular, but the board of Intrinsic wanted to remain focused on gaming, so in 1999, they created Keyhole, Inc., headed by John Hanke. As a demo of their 3D software, they created a spinning globe that could be zoomed into, similar to the Powers of Ten film. At the time, the company was developing 3D gaming software libraries. The core technology behind Google Earth was originally developed at TerraVision in the late 1990s at Berlin, Germany. Some countries have requested that certain areas be obscured in Google's satellite images, usually areas containing military facilities. Google Earth has been viewed by some as a threat to privacy and national security, leading to the program being banned in multiple countries. The web-based version of Google Earth also includes Voyager, a feature that periodically adds in-program tours, often presented by scientists and documentarians. Other features allow users to view photos from various places uploaded to Panoramio, information provided by Wikipedia on some locations, and Street View imagery. A flight simulator game is also included. Additional globes for the Moon and Mars are available, as well as a tool for viewing the night sky. In addition to Earth navigation, Google Earth provides a series of other tools through the desktop application, including a measure distance tool. In 2019, Google revealed that Google Earth now covers more than 97 percent of the world, and has captured 10 million miles of Street View imagery. ![]() Google Earth is able to show various kinds of images overlaid on the surface of the earth and is also a Web Map Service client. Users may use the program to add their own data using Keyhole Markup Language and upload them through various sources, such as forums or blogs. The program can also be downloaded on a smartphone or tablet, using a touch screen or stylus to navigate. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and coordinates, or by using a keyboard or mouse. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. Linux ( Ubuntu 14/ Fedora 23-equivalent or later). |
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