![]() I also have pointers to H'aanit's summon monsters. I have a pointer to Ophilia's times left with her summon character. I fixed the issue with battle character 4 not working if you had summon character like Ophilia or Primrose summons. If you have a negative amount to next level, just fight a battle and you will level up. You won't see the results in the battle screen, but you do level up faster. I added an EXP Multiplier script using a timer similar to the JP Multiplier. I tested it with changing an item to the accessory that removes random battles and it worked. You will need to take care to make sure you select something you don't already have or it could mess up your inventory. Hit the Perform Item Replacement after you select both those and it does the replacement in your inventory. I have options that you choose an item you want to replace from your inventory and then another option with the item you want to get. I came up with something for Inventory Editing. It basically gives you infinite item for those items you have at least 1 of. You can change it in town to 99 for example and it will revert back when you get into battle and earn EXP, but your path action will be close to 100%.įor item cheats, I came up with a Set Minimum Item Quantity. This affects Path Action percent in some cases (Scrutinize and probably Steal and others). I added in Level to the Character Editor. I added in a JP Multiplier/Infinite JP script using a timer but it works pretty well for me. I came up with all characters battle pointers and updated the Infinite HP, SP and Max BP scripts to affect all battle characters. ![]() I'm deleting EDIT 2.5 in favor of this one. Will work on more thing tomorrow as I have time. I will work on getting other battle characters when I play the game through some more and get other characters beside the one you start with.Ĭleaned up some of the Inf HP, SP and Max BP scripts to allow for enabling at the title screen and destroy them if you close the game without disabling them. I'm using a timer and just writing the maximum HP, SP and BP and hopefully have the condition to do that only when you're in battle. I have some scripts ready that give Infinite HP, SP and Max BP to Battle Character Slot 1. I'm removing EDIT 1.75 in favor of this more complete one. I have Character Editor with EXP, JP and Extra Stats for all characters now (Olberic, Tressa, Cyrus, Primrose, H'aanit, Therion, Ophilia, Alfin). I'm removing EDIT 1.5 in favor of this one. I guess I need to start everyone's chapter to find other character's values, but I have Tressa and Cyrus so far. These are the places where it stores how many additional stat points that happens when you use the Nuts in game. I now have the Extra Stats added to both Tressa and Cyrus. I believe all the characters are around the same area, but only played Cyrus and Tressa so far to nail those down.įleshed out more of the Character Editor. May work on scripts that do this later.įound some pointers to character stats of EXP and JP. You can freeze these for example to always have 5 BP, etc. Pointers to All Characters Level, EXP and JP and Extra Statsįound pointers to Character 1 Battle HP, SP, BP. Pointers to Summon Characters for Ophilia, Primrose and H'aanit Pointers to All Battle Characters HP, SP, BP Script/Pointers for Inventory Editor (Allows Replacing An Item You Have With Another Item You Want) Script for Leaf(Gold) Multiplier/Infinite Leaf(Gold) Scripts for One Hit Kill All Enemies, All Enemies Have No SP,BP and All Enemies Have 1 Shield Left Scripts for Infinite HP, SP, Max BP for All Battle Characters Scripts by TheBytesize for Battle Results and 100% Steal, Scrutinize and Inquire, Allure and Inf H'aanit Summons QTY The people who hacked the save game for the Switch version already had an item list I was able to use. I was able to get some pointers working though. It appears to use the same functions for multiple things, so scripts may be a little harder to make as the same function affects many things. I have some options ready for Octopath Traveler Steam version.
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After this photo was taken we made some minor changes to this planting so I’ll explain how it was when this photo was taken and what improvements we’ve made to it.Įndless Summer Hydrangea and Evergreen Azaleas hiding in this landscape planting until it is their time to shine. This is an island planting right in front of our house. Island plantings can really add some sparkle to any front yard. Landscaping Ideas for an Island Planting in the Front Yard. Mike McGroarty’s Favorite Japanese Maples. ![]() The sound wasn’t great, it was windy, I think I shot this video by myself, but what’s interesting is that many of the plants that I’ve just shown you you will see in this video when they were smaller. Hey look what I found! This is a video of my favorite Japanese maples. ![]() If you have a really small Japanese maple, put it in an area where it can get a little shade for the first few years. In zone 8 most need some shade, but in zones 5 and 6 most do pretty well in full sun after they are established. Like most Japanese maples it is rated for hardiness zones 5 through 8. The growth comes out pink then turns to pink, white and green. It has green and white, variegated, delicately cut leaves with pinkish edges. Butterfly Japanese maple is an upright growing variety. This is by far one of my favorite plants, but then again, I have a lot of “favorite plants”. I have to devote at least on paragraph to this ‘Butterfly’ Japanese Maple. Using ‘Butterfly’ Japanese maple in a landscape design. Looking at the photo below you can see some Heuchera ‘Caramel’ in the planting on the other side of the sidewalk. Heuchera ‘Caramel’ which is burnt orange loves the sun! There’s a photo of ‘Caramel’ at the top of this post. Amber Waves did okay for me in the sun, but not great. I have some with a burnt orange colored leaf and they love the sun! Those with yellow, yellow leaves like Huechera Citronelle will not tolerate the sun. as a matter of fact, most Coral Bells do fine for me in the sun except the ones with a lot of yellow in the leaves. But those with dark colored leaves do perfectly fine in the sun. Using Heuchera, Coral Bells, in a Landscape Planting.Ĭoral Bells are shade loving, shade tolerant plants. There are rules written by so called experts, then there are proven, practical, boots on the ground, things that people like me know work, because we’ve actually done it and not just researched and written about it. But I did, and I do and it works out just fine for me and the Coral Bells. They say things like “Mike, you can’t plant Coral Bells in the sun!” And they are usually pretty mean about it. Now this is where the so called landscaping or plant experts like to slap me around. The colorful plants used as accent plants in this landscape design are Coral Bells, botanical name Heuchera. Two of my other favorite Junipers are ‘Blue Rug’ and ‘Green Mound’.Ī colorful landscape design idea for sidewalk planting.įrom another angle you can see the Japanese maples and the accent plants used in this design. It is low-growing, slower-growing than many, and very easy to maintain. ‘Table Top’ is an exception to that rule. There are a lot of Junipers to choose from, and most of them I do not like at all. ![]() The greenish blue evergreens that you see repeated in this design are Table Top Juniper. Left untrimmed or lightly trimmed, ‘Butterfly’ would grow to a height of 10′ or more. Even though ‘Butterfly’ is an upright-growing Japanese maple it is a slow grower and in this situation, my wife and I keep it trimmed so it doesn’t hover over the sidewalk and block the view as you walk down the sidewalk. The Japanese maple in the back of the photo, the one furthest from us is an upright Japanese Maple, the variety is ‘Butterfly’. The Japanese maple closest to us in this photo is a Laceleaf Weeping Japanese Red Maple. This design features two Japanese maples as specimen plants and a variety of color plants as accent plants, with repetition. Prices & selection may vary in stores & online. While delivery is contact-free, be sure to be home during your delivery window to bring any perishable items inside right away. Delivery may be delayed due to acts beyond our reasonable control, which may include, but are not limited to, weather, strikes, power outages, shutdowns, local, provincial or federal governmental actions, and other similar acts. Orders placed after 3pm will be fulfilled the next day. Order by 9am for delivery between 12pm-3pm, by 1pm for delivery between 3pm-6pm, & by 3pm for delivery between 6pm-8pm. Same-day delivery is available in most areas. Offer valid on .įree Same-Day Delivery offer valid on select merchandise purchased at when choosing Same-Day Delivery. 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Feed the flamingoĪnthuriums don’t need too much fertiliser. Remove spent flower bracts as soon as they begin to turn brown – and re-pot your flamingo flower every two to three years. Over-watering can cause the leaves to turn yellow and eventually lead to fatal root rot. Water every three days maximum – the surface of the soil should be moist, not wet. Refill the saucer and spritz the leaves with water from time to time. Remove the Anthurium from the old pot and transfer it into a new one. Place this into the new pot, that’s 1-2 inches bigger in diameter. Then prepare your potting soil, which should ideally be the same as the Anthurium’s current potting mix. TIP: Create your own humid microclimate by placing a shallow saucer of pebbles under your pot and pouring in a little water, being careful not to let the water level reach the pot. To repot an Anthurium, first, remove any wilted flowers and brown leaves. The flamingo flower, also called a flamingo lily or anthurium, is a beautiful tropical houseplant that can be kept in any house or apartment. In fact, a lack of humidity could cause your Flamingo Flower’s foliage to lose its gorgeous, glossy sheen. … and humidĪs natural rainforest dwellers, Anthuriums love humid conditions. Although they can survive temps as low as 15☌, they won’t grow as fast and may not bloom (what a waste!). They are able to 'run' on water, thanks to their webbed feet, to. The spathe, which everyone calls a flower, is just a modified leaf. Anthurium has large, lance-shaped or heart-shaped leaves and brightly colored, heart-shaped flower bracts. When a flamingo spots potential dinnerfavorite foods include shrimp, snails, and plantlike water organisms called algaeit plunges its head into the water, twists it upside down, and scoops the fish using its upper beak like a shovel. (Flamingo Flower Laceleaf) Anthurium is a large genus of about 1000 species in the family Araceae, native to the tropical regions of the Americas. Keep it warm…Īnthuriums aren’t accustomed to the cold so try to maintain a temperature of 25-30☌. Flamingos are famous for their bright pink feathers, stilt-like legs, and S-shaped neck. Place your pot in a bright, sunny spot – but away from direct sunlight as this can scorch the leaves. And don’t get too alarmed if you see roots peering above the soil – this is just one of the quirks of the plant. Place your Anthurium in a pot just a little bigger than the plant itself. Today Anthurium flowers are the most important cut flowers in Hawaii.Īccording to Anand Agricultural University, they are number eleven in the global flower trade, just behind the orchid.Here's how to keep your Anthurium happy: Perfect your potting mixĪnthuriums like a coarse growing medium so create the perfect potting mix with one part perlite, one part peat moss and one part pine bark. In the 1970s, fungal diseases such as bacterial blight spread, and the Anthurium plant production almost halted in Hawaii. They are also called the Heart of Hawaii. Over time Anthuriums started to symbolize hospitality, according to the Hawaii Herald. They are used in hotel and company lobbies around the globe. ![]() In the 1940s, Anthurium flowers were incorporated into flower bouquets by Hawaiian florists. ![]() Hawaii Neotropics mentions that Anthurium andraeanum was first brought from England to Hawaii in 1889 by Samuel Damon. The natives didn’t take a particular liking to these plants. In addition, Anthurium plants are easy to care for indoor plants.įor hundreds of years, these plants remained almost unnoticed, according to Ouranthosthenature. The Painter’s pallete is a popular houseplant. They are often gifted to the host of a party. They’re also great gifts for housewarming parties. As anthuriums symbolize luck and prosperity, you can give them as graduation giftsĪnthuriums are the perfect gift for invitations. The flamingo flower plant is a species from the Anthuirum genus that displays great looking waxed effect flowers which bloom with an orange curly spadix. ![]() You can download a free Halloween Word Searchand Build a Jack-O-Lantern activity to either print out or email to all of your students to complete on their own. Halloween Printables- Printable activities are always good alternatives to group games. Click HEREto play the video and have each child draw what they think the scary Halloween monster looks like based on the description it gives. 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![]() ![]() Blow them up or use your sword or staff to bring them down. Learn how to master the real-time combat system of Battleheart legacy and attack your enemies with such intensity they will desire never having met you. Just don’t forget that the things you do today, are also the ones you are going to be remembered by tomorrow. Which one is it going to be? Are you planning on becoming a powerful wizard, or who knows an intense rogue? A noble knight, with principles and honor, or a savage barbarian interest only in gold and survival? How you are going to forge your fate is up to you. Mika Mobile has crafted a lengthy and uncomplicated action/RPG adventure, with just enough challenge and depth to draw in gamers of all stripes.How about exploring a rich and detailed fantasy world? Even better, how about doing so being a unique hero, with dozens of skills to develop and hordes of enemies to defeat? Things keep sound more and more interesting, right? This is your chance! Play Battleheart Legacy on PC and Mac with BlueStacks and walk your own way. And it’s hard to go too wrong with the classic formula of wandering a map confronting a host of monsters. Unlocking the many abilities can be a bit of a grind, but the charming visuals and silly humor soften the blow. ![]() After game completion, there’s even an option to keep developing your skills in a new-game-plus mode. ![]() Add in a broad variety of weapons, armor, and power-boosting accessories, and it’s easy to craft a fantasy hero to your liking. Want a ninja/necromancer? How about a holy paladin with the lyric skills of a bard? While not every combo is advisable, there’s nothing to stop you from trying out options. Each of these classes has its own list of around a dozen skills to master, and you can mix and match to your heart’s content. By improving your ability scores, like strength and endurance, you unlock access to skills from no less than 12 distinct classes. The flexible class and leveling system is the spotlight feature for Battleheart Legacy, providing all sorts of interesting skills to mix and match. Even with careful monitoring, some cheap deaths are inevitable because the game doesn’t always do a great job of matching your level to the dungeons. Battles can get challenging as the game goes on, demanding you pay close attention to your health bar if you don’t want to start a site over. It’s a simple, tap-happy experience – especially once you have a full bank of abilities to utilize. Your hero enters a room to confront a group of enemies, and clever deployment of your timer-dependent skills is key to victory, along with the need to recognize which enemies need to be taken out first and which should be avoided until last. Once inside a location, the game takes on a classic dungeon-crawl vibe. Even so, a steady stream of fourth-wall-breaking humor helps to elicit some smiles, even if the jokes are never really enough to merit a laugh. A deeper quest chain would be welcome, especially because it might prevent players from wandering aimlessly on the map looking for an appropriate fight. Unfortunately, more often than not, my only reason to visit a given location on the map is because it matches my current level – it’s a shame that there’s not more context. The game rarely gets more complicated than that, which would be fine if there was a steady stream of quests to carry you forward. You’re a wandering hero, there are monsters causing problems, and the king needs a few artifacts retrieved. While narrative-based quests and NPCs are undoubtedly a part of the equation, it’d be a stretch to call what unfolds a real story, except in the barest approximation of the word. It loses some of the frantic multitasking that made the original so engaging, but adds a straightforward narrative and a more robust class and skill system that focuses on customization. Set 500 years later in the same cutesy fantasy universe, Battleheart Legacy maintains the touch-based combat mechanics, but opts for a single hero instead of a party of adventurers. For that reason, I was excited to finally see Mika Mobile’s follow-up. Its challenging combat and RPG flavor kept me engaged in the same way that many console and PC titles do. The original Battleheart was one of the first titles that convinced me to start paying closer attention to the new era of mobile gaming. ![]() Check out the best InDesign alternatives.The tools include spiral, paint bucket, brush, pencil and airbrush. In addition to the tools, you will be pleased with the ability of this vector design software to create or download ready-made plug-ins. Each of the tools has a separate settings window, which greatly simplifies the work without cluttering the interface. Inkscape provides many full-featured and well-designed tools for creating, editing and converting vectors. Meanwhile, if a tool is chosen to make the selected node symmetrical, it will let users pull out one side of the handle and the other side – to scale accordingly. It allows manipulating many parts of an object and moving its edges in various ways. Bezier handles are used for easy movement of nodes. Inkscape provides tools for moving nodes and Bezier handles. Nodes allow artists and designers to manipulate objects, images and graphics that are vectorized. Nodes are structures that show how vector graphics are created, and they are associated with some mathematical operations. Like Illustrator, the program includes such tools as Diagram Connector, 3D box Sculpt/Paint. Inkscape supports various gradients and offers a separate tool for creating complex combinations. Moreover, dot formatting in Flow Text often leads to unpleasant changes. Also, I don’t like the fact that the editor doesn’t have a feature to create paragraphs or character styles. The available formatting functions of this vector drawing software may seem incomplete or less flexible than those of direct competitors such as CorelDraw.Īccessing various functions, such as OpenType, causes difficulties because you have to assign a specific tool manually. To fix this, use a "Remove manual kernels" feature that fixes all custom formatting and typically solves the problem. Inkscape’s streaming text won’t be supported outside the program, so you will need to convert it into plain text, for instance, before exporting for web design.īesides, if you copy and paste text from Illustrator or other programs using more sophisticated printing tools, Inkscape can paste gobbledygook. ![]() To do this, you need to use the Flow Text tool, which can be installed inside any shape, and with Regular Text, you can choose any desired font and its size. You may easily create individual text lines without frames in addition to the paragraph type. This free vector graphics software copes perfectly with printing and preparing files for it. To get rid of the unnecessary panels, go to “View” – “Hide”. However, I like that the editor lets you customize the interface, remove or add functions and tools. At the top of the program window, there is a panel with various functions, on the left – basic tools, and on the right – the command bar.Īll this together may seem difficult for a beginner. ![]() It hasn’t been updated for more than 5 years. Cluttered and Inconvenient InterfaceĪll available versions of Inkscape software for Windows, Mac OS and Linux have a fairly old interface. Unlike Illustrator and Photoshop, Inkscape has minimal system requirements, and is also highly optimized (programs like GIMP and PhotoScape also have a minimum system requirements threshold, but are poorly optimized). I tested Inkscape on a fairly weak laptop for architecture and I was pleasantly surprised with the speed and responsiveness. Inkscape is a cross-platform vector graphics editor with advanced tools. What's more, in the EU, this dummy is required in just one of five regulatory tests, and only in the passenger seat. In reality, this dummy is simply a scaled-down male dummy-and women are not scaled-down men. In the last few years, car regulators seem to have belatedly realized that women exist, and have since introduced what they call a “female” car crash test dummy. In the 1950s, when car crash test dummies were first introduced, the dummies were based around the 50th-percentile male, as if he were the 50th-percentile human. In the 1930s, the influential Swiss architect Le Corbusier came up with “the human scale” for architecture, and by "human" he meant a six-foot man with his arm raised. What does the default male body look like? And how are you able to determine if something was designed for a “default male” body? Men (and women, and people of all gender identities) obviously come in different shapes and sizes. You mention the “default male” in the book as being the body type for which so many things are designed, from seat belts to cell phones. And so tech for women remains, for the most part, of the shrink it, pink it and price it up variety, rather than genuinely catering to women’s needs. They are therefore less likely to get funding. As a result, entrepreneurs developing new tech for women need good data because they will not be able to rely on a VC already having personal experience with, for example, how terrible all the current breast pump options are.īut because we lack data on female bodies, such entrepreneurs are less likely to have the information they need to make the case for their ideas. Ninety-three percent of venture capitalists are men, and these teams suffer from the same problem as male-dominated developer teams: they simply aren't aware of certain female needs. Tech is littered with examples of how this plays out, from Apple’s “comprehensive” health app that you could use to track your copper intake but not your period, to step tracker apps that forget women usually don’t have pockets big enough to carry their phones on them at all times. And so the tech that they develop will inevitably be biased towards white middle-class men from America. This is a data gap in its own way: white middle-class men from America simply cannot be aware of the needs of all of humanity. The other issue is how male-dominated tech is. ![]() If they had designed their schedule based on sex-disaggregated travel and hospital admission data in the first place, they could have saved a lot of money over the decades. Because it wasn’t men in their cars who were falling over and fracturing their bones: it was women pushing buggies through the snow. So they decided to switch the order around-and found to their surprise that the number of admissions to the emergency room fell dramatically. As a result, the order in which the snow was being cleared (major roads first local roads and sidewalks second) benefitted men. They make lots of short interconnected trips, and are more likely to use public transport. But because women have to combine their paid work with their unpaid care work (women still do 75 percent of the world’s unpaid care work), their travel patterns are more complicated. Men tend to have much simpler travel patterns than women: a twice daily commute in a car. When local officials in the town of Karlskoga in Sweden looked at their snow-clearing schedules, they realized that they had designed them to meet the needs of men. How, exactly, did you notice this showing up in your research? Can you give us an example that really surprised you? In the book, which cites hundreds of studies from around the world, you talk about how women are systematically excluded from data gathering. |
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