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- Thread starter kk405
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How did you add that 3D effect to the chip? It looks like you titled the perspective but then added something to the bottom left to make more 3D. That's what I'm trying to do with my image.More chips
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Side note: It would be cool to build a set of chips with the community and have them professionally photographed. I know a guy.
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These are awesome! Great work!More chips
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Side note: It would be cool to build a set of chips with the community and have them professionally photographed. I know a guy.
OP
OP
YES! so many great chips that can be made into awesome sets for Mavens... what I've noticed is that players like/comment on chips that have more complex spot patterns...the Ambassador $500, for example would make a great chip....the ES $500 is probably the same.More chips
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Side note: It would be cool to build a set of chips with the community and have them professionally photographed. I know a guy.
I photographed them that way, adjusting the lighting so the visible edge was lit but darker than the face.
Ooooooh... So you cheated; got it.
Well, amazing job! But wait, that means that you actually have those chips. Like the outpost error frac, outpost $2, empress star, casino Aztar... I mean... Daaaaamn!
So I've just been taking high resolution scans, and altering the perspective in Photoshop. The problem is it doesn't give it a nice 3D edge with a shadow, so I've been looking at ways of trying to add it in post-production.
I would have thought that it would have been too hard to photograph and get each chip as consistent if it was at an angle. But you definitely did it. Glad actually means that if we got a professional to photograph some really nice and awesome chips, it would come out as good as yours, if not better.
Venturalvn
Full House
I'm curious if anyone has put the higher res chips in play yet. I tried with some real chips in V6 a long while ago and the spots were just too thin to make any sense at small scale.
OK, I think I've got the idea how to make mine more 3D ... labor intensive right now (until I figure out how to move overlapping elliptical selections together)... Maybe I need to call out sick form work on Monday and spend some time on important things...
OK, I ignored the children for an hour. I've updated my link above to go this file, but here's my updated chips with 3D edges (v1 b/c I know I'm gonna take more time and change it in the future)
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GREAT WORK! WOW! These are awesome!
The 3D effect came out GREAT!
Love how the chips turned out. Also, the avatars are super clean. Looks great!
This is too much fun ...
I'm trying to decide if I should remove the denoms from the chips. I've done it on a few of them where it was large and still a little visible when put into play (like the Isle $1 on the right and the green BTP). For a few of them where the denom matches the chip's position in the lineup (like the Flamingo $1), I left it.
I'm trying to decide if I should remove the denoms from the chips. I've done it on a few of them where it was large and still a little visible when put into play (like the Isle $1 on the right and the green BTP). For a few of them where the denom matches the chip's position in the lineup (like the Flamingo $1), I left it.
I prefer the denoms.
OK, I promise I'm going to stop. But I wanted to see what the ES lineup might look like. It's only the 1c up through $1M; still missing chips, not sure what else to put in to make it whole... But I just like looking at it.
I think my issue now is lighting. There's a lot of inconsistency between the images, and trying to modify the lighting takes too long and doesn't come out quite right. So, maybe that's investigation for another day...
I think my issue now is lighting. There's a lot of inconsistency between the images, and trying to modify the lighting takes too long and doesn't come out quite right. So, maybe that's investigation for another day...
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Hey, quick question about my renewal. I paid the $99 for t2, but I just discovered AWS has also been charging me an additional $2-3 a month. Isn't the reserve instance all inclusive?
No, that extra two to three dollars a month is for storage. AWS separates the cost for compute and storage. The T2 instance reservation is only for the compute aspect.
F-ing Bezos...
StevieG
Pair
Very impressive and well done. I have been struggling with customizing the chips and had not even considered this technique. I will definitely give it a try.
Is it the same with t3? I think t3 was $130, but with the additional few dollars every month, I'm going to get to that amount anyway.
Yes; the instance type is just telling you the specs related to computational power (CPU, RAM, GPU, etc) ... actual storage is separate from that and always additional. It's still going to be $2-$3 / month no matter what level instance type you choose.
Mine was $17.56 last month. Was running between $3-4 monthly then took a jump last April to about what it is now.
MrCatPants
Full House
I've been consistently around $16 a month.
One reason AWS separates storage from compute is that you can mix-and-match to suite your needs. You can have a high powered compute instance type and marry it to a less expensive storage type. For me, I use GP2 (general purpose 2) EBS storage. This is a solid state drive with certain general-purpose-y capabilities (more than i need for mavens) and it's billed at $0.10 per GB/month. I have 30GB provisioned, so I have a $3 / month bill.
If you jumped to $16-$18 / month, I highly doubt it's because of storage (unless you suddenly asked for a 160GB hard drive). I suggest you go into AWS's cost explorer and see what comprised that extra $12-$14 / month over the $3 cost of storage.
In the past, people have accidentally disassociated their elastic IP address from their EC2 instance. Although Elastic IPs are free, if you have one but it's not assigned, they actually charge you for that b/c it's "wasteful" ... but there has to be some other costs in there that is causing you to see extra charges / month.
Venturalvn
Full House
A lot of people also signed up with an introductory rate and got bumped up when the term was over. My plan was also $3 a month for a year until it expired and now pay $16 a month.
Ah, but I know that @DoubleEagle pre-paid for the reserved t3.micro for the year, so it shouldn't be that.
eightyWon
Straight
Has anyone messed around with or does anyone have interest in automated deposits/withdrawals using bitcoin's lightning network? Strike would make it really easy for normal users to move money in and out of their mavens account. Just download the app and fund in USD from a bank account or card and they're ready to deposit/withdraw to/from a mavens instance (with the right server-side code in place).
Since strike runs on/supports lightning, it would be pretty trivial to write the interface for accepting deposits/facilitating withdrawals via lighting and then use the mavens API to credit/deduct chips on mavens.
This assumes you run a lightning node (which isn't so trivial) but there may be a custodial way to do it assuming there's an API available for whatever the custodian service is.
I've got a full node, I think I'll do a proof of concept.
Since strike runs on/supports lightning, it would be pretty trivial to write the interface for accepting deposits/facilitating withdrawals via lighting and then use the mavens API to credit/deduct chips on mavens.
This assumes you run a lightning node (which isn't so trivial) but there may be a custodial way to do it assuming there's an API available for whatever the custodian service is.
I've got a full node, I think I'll do a proof of concept.
eightyWon
Straight
Working proof of concept:
This is very rough. There are many improvements that would need to be made before using this code live, like:
1. Validate the Mavens user prior to allowing the deposit (can authenticate against the API)
2. Add duplicate invoice/expired invoice handling
3. Improve the interface including showing a QR code and expiring the invoice after a certain period (2 minutes?)
4. Better error handling
Withdrawals could be handled in a similar way but I'd likely want some kind of human authorization instead of fully automating them (totally possible to manually pay out but still via lighting) just to be safe
Code here - https://github.com/eightywon/lnmavens
eightyWon
Straight
Tweaked our weekly tournament table a bit:
+1 for Pokerrrrr2. Used it over lockdown after trying all the rest.
eightyWon
Straight
Updated demo -
Biggest improvement is no longer needing a lightning node to accept deposits. It's all handled through Strike now (the underlying technology is still btc lightning which is important to me)
Some other things I'd eventually like to do:
1. Add more payment methods/services (candidates have to offer API access and preferably no need to sign up for a "business" account)
2. Add notifications to mavens admins when a deposit has been made (for more oversight)
3. Create a config UI (configuration right now is just done by editing the config json file)
It seems like to me that one of the bigger hurdles to getting players onto Mavens sites is the headache of coordinating deposits which is why I started this thing. I think smoothing down that speedbump will increase usage and play.
I'd also eventually like to find some additional testers who are willing to try this out live
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