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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,960
    Quasar said:
    xyer0 said:

    There do need to be more older schools, large and small.  I am a little surpised so many of them seem to be labeled purely as high schools, though.  There should be about as many elementary schools and the like in the mix, too, both interior and exterior.

    As for the Epstein thing.... yeah, there were a lot of other... strange things going on around that place, too.  o0

     

     

    What? Around 71st? Do you live in Manhattan? I left after high school and had no idea about any of this until I saw a photo of it after his death and went "Holy sh*t! That was my high school!" 

    I thought I was living a charmed life. You were raised in Manhattan and now you live in L.A.? How nice!

    Yes. My mother grew up in LA but moved to NYC and since I was a baby, we'd come out here to LA every year to visit my grandmother and I fell in love with the palm trees and calm compared to NYC! By the time I was 11, I decided  this is where I wanted to live when I grew up. And never looked back. (My parents ended up moving to LA too! ) 

    Sorry for going off topic even more but I really wish I could move to CA. LA would be cool but I've always dreamed of San Diego. It's just so expensive to live in those cities so I don't think a fixed income would be enough. Beyond that, I wouldn't even know where to start for transferring Medicaid services for my caregiver and medical needs. It would be awesome not to have snow anymore though. Getting around in the snow with a wheelchair just doesn't work lol.

    I know we're going really off topic here but California has MediCal which I guess is the same as Medicaid and Cal Fresh for food and you can even apply online. Housing is expensive though but now there's a rule that even expensive buildings have to have a few low income units but they are very hard to find. I'm talking about LA here, I'm not sure about San Diego housing but I'm pretty sure it's a lot less expensive than LA. If you're serious there are a ton of apartment apps and you can search for housing online and get an idea of pricing/location. There are non-centrally located places in San Diego that I bet are not that expensive. They even show photos of the interiors of apartments in the apps but of course it's best to see them in person because most use wide angle lenses that make them look much bigger than they actually are. You could maybe even hire a San Diego college kid for cheap to scout for you and take their own photos. The hardest part would actually be the physical move, getting all your stuff over there. I recently moved just 5 blocks away and it took me over a month to pack and move everything and I still haven't unpacked most boxes! 

    ...we have a similar ruling here, but there are loopholes that developers can sidestep around it with. Low and fixed income housing is at a dire shortage here with wait lists averaging around 3 - 5 years with some as long as 8.  Section 8 has been closed since August of 2016. It's been getting expensive in the outer burbs and smaller communities in the Willamette Valley. 

    I feel very fortunate to have the place I'm in even if it is small.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,765
    Quasar said:
    xyer0 said:

    There do need to be more older schools, large and small.  I am a little surpised so many of them seem to be labeled purely as high schools, though.  There should be about as many elementary schools and the like in the mix, too, both interior and exterior.

    As for the Epstein thing.... yeah, there were a lot of other... strange things going on around that place, too.  o0

     

     

    What? Around 71st? Do you live in Manhattan? I left after high school and had no idea about any of this until I saw a photo of it after his death and went "Holy sh*t! That was my high school!" 

    I thought I was living a charmed life. You were raised in Manhattan and now you live in L.A.? How nice!

    Yes. My mother grew up in LA but moved to NYC and since I was a baby, we'd come out here to LA every year to visit my grandmother and I fell in love with the palm trees and calm compared to NYC! By the time I was 11, I decided  this is where I wanted to live when I grew up. And never looked back. (My parents ended up moving to LA too! ) 

    Sorry for going off topic even more but I really wish I could move to CA. LA would be cool but I've always dreamed of San Diego. It's just so expensive to live in those cities so I don't think a fixed income would be enough. Beyond that, I wouldn't even know where to start for transferring Medicaid services for my caregiver and medical needs. It would be awesome not to have snow anymore though. Getting around in the snow with a wheelchair just doesn't work lol.

    Actually you needn't rule out moving there because you're on a fixed income as California and New York receive more federal tax dollars to subsidize the retired people and fixed income people than anywhere else in the nation by substanial margins. Native Floridians call them Snowbirds but the fact is the federal government has planned for a lot of people to retire to warmer sunnier climes and appropriated tax dollars appropriately to California, New York (coastal New York is warmer in Zone 6 with the Gulf Stream glancing by, than supposed, usually not colder than where I live in central Appalachia), and as those states got far too expensive, increasingly tax subsidies are going to Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and the Carolinas.

    Just apply before moving there and don't move there until you get accepted. The waiting list is long enough (actually a long waiting list for anywhere where you might care to apply anywhere in the nation) that your time on the list before they evaluate you might expire but just reapply & repeat. Each place does it a little differently so read up on it directly from the site that are actually maintaining the wait lists. You should never, ever have to pay to apply to a wait list or to rent a tax government subsidised dwelling. There is usual one or more government offices per town or per county that manages the wait lists to government subsidized dwellings so search for them in the county you want to live in.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,960

    ...content to stay in rainy old Portland here.  Very walkable  good transit, good local coffee, good local beer, no sales taxes (unlike most places in California [I don't even bother with the Bay Area because is is so ridiculous expensive there]) 

    I've also been to Florida, as well;as lived in the deep south, hmm, gators, high humidity, mosquitoes, hurricanes, no mountains, no thanks 

    Have a friend who once lived in Vegas, said it was one of the most depressing places he ever lied in. 

  • Doc AcmeDoc Acme Posts: 1,153

    I'd be interested in knowing where those buildings are from, too.

    Kitbash3D

    I don't think DAZ is too worried about me mentioning it sans link because when you see the prices you will run back to the DAZ store sweating devil

     

    Understandable, but there still might be some who'd at least like to "Window Shop", ya know? wink

     

     

  • QuasarQuasar Posts: 681

    @Wonderland and @nonesuch00 Thanks for the information. I'll have to dive into some online research.

  • hi, I went ahead and bought the the Victorian Builing pack, Im semi-new to this and I have a question. When I import the obj file I see the group of buildings just the way it looks in your image. When i look in the Scene window there is only item there, which represents all of the buildings. I only need one of the buildings. I need to either select the  one I want, or delete all the others. In the viewport if i try to select one building I end up selecting them all. Any idea how to isolate just the one building i want? thanks

    xyer0 said:

    Answered your PM.

     

  • ben98120000ben98120000 Posts: 469
    edited March 2020

     

    spentacle said:

    hi, I went ahead and bought the the Victorian Builing pack, Im semi-new to this and I have a question. When I import the obj file I see the group of buildings just the way it looks in your image. When i look in the Scene window there is only item there, which represents all of the buildings. I only need one of the buildings. I need to either select the  one I want, or delete all the others. In the viewport if i try to select one building I end up selecting them all. Any idea how to isolate just the one building i want? thanks

    1. Import the obj file and have it selected in scene tab.

    2. Adjust the view in your view port in such a way that building you wish to keep haves empty space all around it. For example, a view in which the building you wish to keep is in the center of the view port and you are looking from top down on it.

    3. From the Tools menu select Geometry Editor tool.

    4. Click with right mouse button in the view port to get a menu and from the menu select Selection Mode - Marquee Selection (thats box selection).

    5. Hold down left mouse button and draw a box around building you wish to keep​. This will select all geometry thats inside the box; all geometry of the building you wish to keep​.

    6. Click with right mouse button in the view port to get a menu and from the menu select Geometry Selection - Invert Selection. This should select all geometry, except geometry of the building you wish to keep.

    7. Click with right mouse button in the view port to get a menu and from the menu select Geometry Editing - Delete Selected Polygon(s). Click "Yes" at the "warning" message. Now you should have just the building you wish to keep.

    To get out of geometry editor select some other tool, like universal manipulator. Before you save it you may want to rename it in the scene tab so that it doesnt have same name as full set. You can save it as figure/prop (File - Save As - Support Asset - Figure/Prop Assets...). Just make sure that "Write Geometry Definitions" is active when you save it as figure/prop.

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 943

    Would this work. https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjcastlexiii. From the person who makes all the scripts... mcasualsdazscripts7 & it's free.

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