Hey girl before we get started to this video, I would like to thank Nasty gal for partnering with me on this video I love Nasty gal because their pieces are so affordable, but give you that luxury feel which I love Okay, y'all so the first item I have is this cute little chain silver mini bag It's me plenty room for my hard holder and my keys silver bag is gonna add so much to my sporty looks So I had a copy. I love how it looks on Okay, y'all so the next item I have are these cute black slides This is giving me very vacation vibes So I had a cop these slides are so comfortable and they're definitely a must-have for the spring Y'all these shoes are eight these platform shoes are so comfortable They're definitely giving me very much McQueen vibes, but these are way more comfortable Let me tell you and they're so stylish and you can dress these up or down Y'all this dress is everything It's definitely giving me effortless on the beach vibe and also I did pick this up just in case I get invited to a wedding So I can wear it, but I just love the straps on here. I just love that one is thick and one is thin I love the split. It's just everything Talk about a top. This is green summer spring time. I just love this pink I love pink in the summertime, especially against my tan skin Baby, you need this top in your closet period point blank Okay, so the next item is this olive green jean crop button-up. I absolutely love this top I just can't wait to wear it during the spring time when it's kind of cold kind of not Okay, so next is this olive green jumper. This is obviously screaming effortless I love a good cute little romper Especially in the summertime don't got to do too much the outfit is already done for you And you just look so put together Okay, y'all so I said the best outfit for last and this is cute satin black Two-piece set y'all when I tell you I'm living for this because I can wear it as a sporty outfit But then again, you can put it with some heels a nice bag Baby, you gotta fit and satin just screams luxury So I just love how this outfit is so affordable, but yet still a luxury statement Hey girl, what's popping welcome back to another vlog if you're new here? My name is Cara. Do not forget to like comment and subscribe So today's Friday. I'm on my way to go see royal if you do not know royal is royal is like A top photographer.  So We're friends and I told him I have a new camera Land's a whole bunch of new equipment y'all whole bunch and he was like, I want to help you set it up I'm like, oh, you bet. Like I'm not gonna argue with somebody that I want to you know help me So especially him. He's like an expert of can't add cameras and stuff like that So I'm like bed like so I'm on my way to his studio right now Um, I brought all my equipment right there Um My laptop because I use that for like my um you finder and stuff like that So I'm taking all that with me so we can set it up.  So Um, hopefully it doesn't take all day to charge up Or whatever But yeah, and I still gotta go to the grocery store because I don't have no groceries. I don't even have no water Um, and I really want to cook tonight because tomorrow we're all going out to dinner and I really don't I always just want to start cooking more. So I really just want to cook tonight. So um Yeah, so anyway, that's a plan For this friday. I'm not going out or anything like that I'm chilling until tomorrow. I'm going to dinner with my girls. I can't wait to see them I haven't seen them in a minute. Like I love getting up with my girls. Honestly, like it's always a good time So I'm excited. So yeah, um, but I'll probably check them out once I um hit royal studio So so y'all can kind of see like what he'd be doing to Um, this is my first time being at his studio here in Atlanta. So I'm pretty excited. So And he invited me Y'all so I'm here at the royal studio And this is my Old camera lens this canning and this is the body that I have y'all I dropped it outside. I hope it's still where I switch it though She got a good body, but this is my new lens. This is the sigma I'm so excited And my camera battery is charging. What the this one looks like That's why I cannot drop this. This is expensive. Oh, this is this part I just locked it in here So it's locked. I'm excited to see what it looks like. Oh my god. It looks so just different So you'll see in the lenses are clearly way more wider Than this little thing so We're gonna see So I'll probably check them out. He's shooting people So I'll probably check them out We start OMG, I'm getting on blog again and y'all know what happened when I get on blog I go viral. She's sending me lots of new footage She's so famous. Oh my god. I'm not paying this stop. I'm really much very much regular No Yes Look at her royal what she's a superstar Look at her. Yeah, she's trying to turn up. She thinks she's so slim. Yeah She thinks she's so slim No, so how I see you is y'all I want this watch so bad She she got you can get it. I don't know what you give it to me. Yeah, you just give it to me. I can't You're the best Yeah, where's my birthday game? Where is that fix?  What is that?  How I do the baby hairs. How do you make the voice like that on tiktok? What the robot voice? I don't think they have that. Yes.  No, they don't Lani's my girl. So make sure y'all follow her on instagram Hi I look like a car kid So I just got I don't want to show y'all what I got today Because y'all already know I got to keep y'all up and y'all love when I show y'all my purchases So I got these ysl shoes today to wear There's these really cute booties. I know I'm gonna get a lot of wear out of them So I thought there are really good good piece to add to my shoe collection They're just the ysl bootie And they're honestly not even hard to walk on y'all and then I got Anu Dior bag today. I'm about to show y'all Right now The bag I'm wearing I've been wanting this bag because I don't have a red bag And I always said like if I get a red bag, it's gonna be the lady dior Whatever I'm getting it I'm just gonna go grab it today because I've been working hard and Obviously, I'm getting my closet together.  I enjoyed myself So anyway, today is a new day. I still have on the same makeup But yeah, I have some work to do so I'm about to So anyways, it's the next day. I still have on the same makeup dirty But y'all I'm in love with my nails. Like this is probably my favorite set Honestly and truly I love it. So anyway, so I kind of wanted to do a little unboxing I have two packages and y'all always asked me where my phone case from is from case to five um, I've been buying like phone cases like crazy and I just love like this um Like glitzy Um Like techie stuff because I'm real techie. I feel like I'm real techie You know, because I'm a youtuber and I'm always on the internet No, I'm always like editing this stuff. So I feel like I'm computer savvy Laptop case from them and also I didn't want to promote them because I was trying to get a sponsorship with them And they was just ignoring me. I'm like, why are y'all ignoring me? There was literally like opening the messages and just like Not responding, but I see all these Caucasian people with Um, case to five sponsorships, but I'm like, okay, cool. That's why I really didn't want to y'all ask me and I didn't want to promote them But it's me still buying from them. But anyway, so So this is how their packaging comes now. Um, but no, I think it's like this because um, they have a no Asian Um, stop Asian hate like promotion going on or something like that. I don't know because pricks I don't know if y'all know the owner of pricks, but I think she's like Asian um, and she had like a A collaborative case to find that's where her This where this case is from and then my other green one and I also ordered one from her website, but what is this? I want to know what this is But anyway, so I got a new laptop case. Um, I have my black one from I forgot where that's from, but anyway So this would have come in like this Oh my god, I hope this fits but This is my laptop case now. It's so cute. Ain't it like cute and like techie. I don't know I just like stuff like this. So it just looks like It's inside the machine like your device was broken, but it's really not but let me see if it fits. Hold on This is my other laptop case This black one cute, but I just wanted to switch it up. So And on case if I you can make your own laptop case y'all like you can do like a whole bunch of stuff On case the vibe can keep the bottom on here, but anyway, okay, she's cute See y'all it's like just like a little cute like techie Looking case that I like So yeah, that's what I got from case to five So yeah, this looks like from Behind like my laptop is broke, but it's not it's a case So But yeah, I like it. Anyway, I just like different stuff like that Oh, these are my new Dior So like sunglasses because y'all my other ones that I ordered they were crookies So I wanted to like a brand new pair for the summertime because I really love these sunglasses like They're like bomb And it's really hard for me to find really good sunglasses So if you want my other pair I'll give them to you for this kind of price I'm like, I'm pretty sure you can go get to go to somewhere and get it fixed But I'm just lazy and just don't want to because they're not really that bad As far as like quickness, but I could tell like that so Oh, and these look kind of different. Let me go look at them. Hold on Okay, so this is my old pair And this is the new pair So let me just Okay, y'all let me show y'all so y'all see how See like I said, it's not that much of a big difference But you see how this one is kind of like up it's not flat And those two are flat like it's even When it's like OD and air like this old pair So yeah, like I said, if you want to buy these for me, you can And probably go get them fixed somewhere. I'll show them to you for like a discounted price So if you want them But let me try on my new pair Y'all these sunglasses will have you looking fly like this is that like effortless Just just fly like just throw these on real quick. So yeah But like I said, I have a lot of work to do and also I'm about to go I'm probably going to go to brunch today with um Jewel and aliyah, I don't even know she's probably going to be up to it because I know she's editing but and I got a lot of work to do but I'm about to knock out some work So I can go outside because y'all it's so pretty out today in Atlanta. Can y'all see me? I don't even see me. It's so cute today out in Atlanta And I want to just go outside so But anyways, let me get to work because And I need to go grocery shopping Okay, y'all I'll talk to y'all later. It's all dressed. I did like a basic outfit So I got on these leggings from zara and this body suit from skins And I have on my jbw watch and my out my set of the day is um my time for a bitter beach Self fire This is my favorite scent and I'm just carrying this little Prada bag and then my easy foams I'm gonna wash them off, but I'm gonna see where aliyah's at so I can come Take a uber Well, do you want me to just wait to call my uber until y'all get there? Yes Okay, okay big I'll probably check in with y'all once um I get up with her and I'm bringing my vlog camera because I don't really feel like vlogging on my phone So because my phone I need a new phone So, but yeah, let me just Put y'all away Jew used to drive when I first moved. Jew was always driving.   It's coming. It's cool, but you know what you do? You don't have a manager That's what it is. I don't have to have your income and you can't because it's all your bank statements, right? See, I don't have that or whatever.  No, you're buying. Yeah, because I need two cars. You need what I need two cars Why don't you buy it though? Have you thought about leasing? I drive a lot though. You know, I'm a driver You so you think okay, well then that's a good reason to not lease So leasing is such a much because you're not gonna want that car in three years I don't know. You're not kind of cute. No.   She can also make that her everyday car. Exactly Wow Tasted like Kayla. How's the flavor? I never had blueberry mint Hey What I definitely did not mean to say that. I definitely meant to say I'm very competitive That's why I came back for it. Oh, what do you have?  God, this is too real. Let's go. Oh, let's prove No, let's do it in my house and I can't take the more animal. Did you say you could buy? You can come with me Okay, baby. You have to get over it. Okay. I know it's okay for you. I know It's the next day. I cannot feel my face right now. Um, I'm doing a face mask And this um the body shop, um Himalayan one I was gonna do um the temi Or this one, but I probably do the temi tomorrow because girl, I saw from my makeup like I told you all before and That was just like a no So Obviously I'm here doing a face mask so But yeah, um, I'm about to get to work this Monday. Um, I have A few things I got to turn in I already turned some stuff in this morning, but Um, I have one more thing to turn in today, but I'm about to make a little iced coffee Um, so I got this new vanilla syrup starbucks. So we're gonna see How Let's see. Let's see Let me get all my ingredients. I'm gonna get the skinny macchiato Because I ran out of culver I'm gonna use this milk organic almond milk And then my caramel pretzel since I'm already doing Like this period So anyway, I'm about to work at my desk today But the very first time I think I Need to give my new laptop case. So cute Little iced coffee and we're gonna unbox that little beauty later. I'm so excited.  I'm just gonna work here for today Oh, I'm excited because I've been working for my bed y'all and when I work for my bed, I just don't feel productive But this will do for now until we find a chair Not today though. I don't have time but Yeah So y'all it's been a little bit later Um, and I am about to get ready to go to the grocery store, but I wanted to make this little Content video for instagram. So Jeremiah is about to come through the door and help me because she's in the building so Because I need to get a tripod where I don't want to be in this bitch. I want I'm lucky This thing is cute. I like thank you.    Oh, there's my bed Where's that nice fan from? And there was a bunch of people I was doing one for 100 Oh, let me put some balm on because my hand's been dry Thank you. I can't wait to my big um, but oh, you can open that if you want This because I'm trying to figure out where it's mine. Yeah, I see a medium inside You know, christian sex club sent me some more stuff.  Yeah, no, wait, is this a women medium or just me? It's the unisex.  Show the camera Ignite This month, what else we got match the pants. Okay. Yeah, I'll just take the shorts Thanks, babe I'll be like you don't fit They're gonna hit her. What size is that a medium? Yeah, I'm gonna stay small. Oh, I like this Oh, this is fire. What's your easy fire? No, I'm gonna get some issues. Let me see if I can get this I just got a way Feeling a little breezy. No Oh, you can have these socks though No, I think they were you doing something Anyways, y'all, so like I said, I'm about to unbox this Chaneli I'm so excited to see I haven't seen it yet, but I know what it is That made my daddy you're weak So this how we're gonna do this. So I want you to record from above Wait, I think I need more light Oh, y'all leaving tomorrow. Yeah We're gonna do it in parts You're gonna open it and like stop it and stuff like that. Yeah So do this part first. Wait, record it and act like you like that. Know that you like the angle first Maybe you might have to get on it, but I'm taller. So yeah Oh, see like look I would go I'm gonna go like but look at this Yeah, that angle not too screenshot. That's why they're dressed, but I'll take a shithead on I know I've seen it. Oh, it was an ad somewhere Okay, so where so okay practice how you're gonna go first. I would like this Wait, this record because I can crop it Okay, but do you want this in it like the corner? So take it out and I'm gonna set it on you picky. So wait Let me make sure it's out the way there That's perfect. Oh, yeah, that's cute. Okay. Let's keep going.  I just washed my hands But I'm about to snack on this little taco day I got salmon because I'm gonna make salmon tonight.  She was like She was like, what is that? Because I was like get taco dip and she was like, what is that? I'm like y'all never had taco dip before It's like a bean dip with cheese salsa Anything that you want it could be meat in there. It's like real good Not This finger food I saw the Have you never had a taco dip before? You need to try it But anyway And the one I hopeful is decent You can homemade this But anyway, I'm about to put my groceries up And I'm gonna cook Oh, yeah, so I put all of my groceries away so Got bg on deck spin drip essential my favorite favorite favorite um little squeeze organics and then I have my um Coconut milk yogurt back here. This is a new um yogurt i'm trying I seen it and I was like, oh my god. I'm gonna try that so Got that gonna try that out got some spinach on deck because I kind of want to do um Well, I was gonna do like my salmon on a bed of um Like a little salad, but I think I'm just gonna make asparagus. Then I got my little ginger shots um pineapple And I just had to re-upload my coffee like alone because obviously I was running out So That's that and I got my salmon right there And then all this stuff is going to trash my favorite cereal um, and then I just have some I guess you could say healthy snacks Um for when I feel like it so this ponytail is starting to hurt noble So, yeah, so I am about to do some work real quick and then I'm going to cook So I'll probably check them with y'all once I once I start Um cooking so Hey girls, so it's the next day. Um, I didn't end up cooking y'all. I was tired Like I didn't even eat nothing last night, but that taco dip. But anyways, I'm on my way to my laser Hair removal appointment y'all.  I get so mad because what can I help you with nothing? But um, it makes me so mad when I'm making an appointment because um All right, the the appointments are the treatments are already paid for so when I miss an appointment It's just like it's not benefiting me because I already paid for it And I just actually love laser like I love I love that I have my Sorry, I didn't hear that properly I love that I get my why is that one? Why is that one? Anyways, I love that I get laser and that's just period.  I was growing back so fast or anything like that girl get laser Like I'm here to tell you like it's the best thing ever Today, I just have been doing a lot of work and I worked out this morning. I I made me some avocado toast. It was so good But I kind of like over Seasoned my eggs today.  We supposed to be kicking it. I'm not sure But I do definitely want to go see my friend jasmine.  So yeah, I don't know really what's the plans for today But I just need to get my work done. Um It's nice out today and I smell good.  Um, just some stuff that I ordered Let me go get my tripod because this is too low for me Okay, y'all that's so much better Hey, we live, okay Um, it's on my actual tripod like an actual tripod. So But anyways, so I got these pants y'all And it was a little instagram addy Like it's been a lot of instagram ads on my thing and I'm like damn. I should get that but I'm like, no, like But these like leggings or whatever I had to get they were so cute. So they're from this brand called ru v Roof or something like that so Very fast ship and so I was like So these leggings must have been new or out or whatever, but this is cute leggings and I got them because um Obviously it's gonna be summertime or and it's gonna be hot out or whatever They look real breathable. So they look like they have like just a lot of holes in them And they do have a lot of holes in them. So and this is my first time opening this so They just have like this material like nitty material. So like I said, it'll be okay to wear when it's hot out So even though it's like nitty like sweaters type of material And I don't know I just like how these looked on the model They were like real cute and I got them in a small because I just don't I haven't been really liking that like extra like saggy In the private area. I just don't like that So I don't know like I'm getting small or what but um, I've been needing like to get smaller sizes So I don't have that problem. So I got a small Indies and they look real stretchy. So I'm like, I can't probably get away with a small so So, yeah, I can't wait to style these. They're so cute Yeah, and I like the little detail at the bottom. It's like Like it goes like that or something. It's like diagonal So I think these are gonna be so cute for the summer I can like do like a pop of color with these Or just something cute. I don't know. That's why I got beige. They have like three colors I want to get the black, but they were all sold out, but I'll be okay with this color So, yeah Yeah, yeah Damn, it's gonna happen. Fuck. It's because of the sun is just beaming anyway Did y'all do 420 are y'all celebrating it?   Um, if you follow me on instagram, you know, I had Oh, I showed my first pair I had like the double platform shoes, but they looked like clown shoes on me there. There was so big I had got a 41 and I needed a 40 and I haven't seen to find a 40 So I'm like, I'm not going to get them if I can't find a 40 But I seen these brick orange shoes and I thought they were so cute and stylish I love a chunky shoe. Like I just love chunky shoes because I got big feet I got big feet. So I think chunky shoes look more flattering on my foot So I got these cute brick orange shoes. They're so cute. Um, they're like I don't know. There's like so different type of pattern right here going on at the bottom Some crazy issue going on. I don't know but I like it.  So And I got wide feet. So but I'm gonna make it work. It's okay So I think it just has to like stretch out just a little bit but other than that yeah, so and um I got these and also I had you I got these from farfetched And y'all know my friend Shayna. She had like a sponsorship with them But I wanted to support her and use her clothes.  So So, yeah, so All that I ordered this week. I need to order the skims. I just dropped. She came out with like this mesh hoodie I kind of like it. So I kind of want to go place my order after I'm done working But I'm waiting for Lulu kisses. Um, the girl that does my eyebrows. Y'all I really need my eyebrows done So she's gonna come here and do my brows I'm gonna get taint in uh threading and I'm just gonna tell her to just shade in the front. Like I don't want Like I want it to be ombre. That's what I'm telling her. I want the ombre Not too harsh in the front. So I'm just waiting on her to come. So, yeah, I'll probably check them back with y'all once she comes. Um She should be oh, she just texted me too My phone is on silent Oh, she's here Okay, she's here. So let me go get her So y'all my girl is here. You want to come on camera? Y'all she got them inches.  I'm my girl. You got Michael Langston. She was like, no This is my hair It's the inches for me But yeah, y'all I'm gonna have her instagram in the description box below little blue underscore kisses She's been doing so good on my brows. So we got to keep it going And I get a taint in a way I'm not even burning so Do you want to get on camera? But yeah, I'm gonna record the whole process. So This way So Fire Thank you. Boom.  Bye. Have a good night All right, y'all I'm in here after hours and Yeah, they trying to yell at me and shit, but I'm trying to go so I'm messing it up with the homegirls And yeah, we can have some fun. So I'll talk to y'all. Hey girl. So it's the next day. I just been in the bed We're not in the bed. Well, I've been like in the bed editing all day. So It's about like four something now. I wanted to unbox my second Chanel bag I have two. She has two Chanel So This one is like a smaller version, but I'm so happy I got a bag So I can like set it out in my closet on display. I'm like so happy about that But anyway, so this one is a smaller version. So obviously this box is a little smaller And then it has like the cute little flower on it. So cute So and I love that I have Double strain now double Chanel II This is like the packaging just makes everything like I'm a sucker for packaging So Then we're gonna open it right here OMG, I haven't seen this bag y'all in person So Obviously it's the cure with a Chanel Sticker we're gonna be a little gentle I'm so excited. Oh my god. This is so pretty Some brand new fresh Got a little booklet A little zuster bag To keep her dust free OMG So she's all wrapped up I love this cloth that it comes with like I'm definitely keeping that for both of my bags So I can make sure the quality is still nice Oh my god, y'all this is so pretty Look at the color stunning Stunning This bag is fire.  I'm gonna wear this way Oh my god, it's gonna look so cute. I wish I had the Alexander Ventura boots To go with like this it was this will be just like an icy blue moment But this is so fire y'all She is everything. What are we gonna call her? What are we gonna call her? I don't know. This is too cute Oh, I think you can like it's a way to do it. I don't know.  Y'all. This is so perfect and y'all don't even want to know the price But it's a little like but it was a cute little starter So yeah, I'm excited I'm definitely like now that I'm getting into more like the luxury The looks looks like the big dogs Um, I definitely want to upkeep with myself. So So yeah, that's what is going on Because I want to make sure like myself lasts for years and I want to just you know Be able to like, you know, if I have a daughter, she'll be able to like Wear this stuff. It's gonna be like vintage So, yeah, I'm pretty excited to you know Have a couple chanels, you know a little collection of things you know So yeah, I'm gonna put her back.  We'll see. I'll see But yeah, so anyways, I'm about to get ready. I'm about to do some laundry And um, I'll probably clean up a little bit. There's not really much to clean because I try to keep up with my health And it's not even a lot of fresh Maybe I would have to keep that in here I would have to keep this in here to hold it tight It's gonna look so cute as a top handle I'm gonna get blue nails So like take a cute little nail pink I don't hear y'all. I'm just excited.  I just forgot to vlog last night. I meant to vlog Um, but to add links with jasmine last night. It was so much fun um Wait, I'm trying to balance y'all something, but it was so much fun. Um, we had one to devise um And I had just salmon, but I got there really fast And yeah, it was so much fun. It was so good seeing her It's all so hopefully we get to see each other more often Um, but yeah, I'm so sad. I didn't bring my vlog camera. I meant to vlog, but I was rushing Because she was like, where are you at?  Let me hurry up. But anyways, um So yeah, that is it for this vlog. I hope you guys enjoyed Do not forget to like comment subscribe and I didn't even go find me a cheer for my office, but that's what I want to do today After I finish my lashes, so Well, yeah guys, I'll talk to you In the next video. I love y'all


Much has been written about the Pictish people of ancient Scotland, those so-called painted people as named by the Romans, yet very little has been written about them, by authors who lived during the era in which they lived. That is one thing that makes Beed's account of these people so intriguing. Who on earth is Beed, you may be asking yourself, however? Beed was an English monk born in 673 AD in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He joined the monastery early in life and finished writing his best known work in 731 AD, called the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In this treasure trove of history, various aspects of English and British history are covered. And yes, you guessed it. He has a lot to say about the Picts. For context, the Picts appear in history from around the 3rd century to the 10th century AD. Although this is an approximate timeline, this means that Beed's 8th century work was written during the time of the Picts. Another aspect of Beed's account that is so interesting is the fact that he says that the Picts initially came from the Eurasian area known as Scythia. The Scythians existed from around the 8th century BC to the 2nd century AD, occupying a region that stretched from the Black Sea area of Eastern Europe through the Russian steppe region and into parts of Afghanistan and other Central Asian republics, reaching as far east as parts of China. The Crimea region was apparently the centre of their powerful empire at points in their history. The Greeks referred to Scythia as all lands north-east of the Black Sea, and Scythia refers to both a region and various peoples and nomadic empires that emerged from this culture. The Greek historian Herodotus said that the Scythians' name for themselves was the Scolotti. But what did Beed actually say about the Picts and Scythia? In order to capture the detail completely, I will quote him in full. Beed writes that, It is related that the Pictish race from Scythia sailed out into the ocean in a few warships and were carried by the wind beyond the furthest bounds of Britain reaching Ireland and landing on its northern shores. There they found the Irish race and asked permission to settle among them, but the requests were refused. Now Ireland is the largest island of all next to Britain and lies to the west of it, but though it is shorter than Britain to the north, yet in the south it extends far beyond the limits of the island and as far as the level of north Spain, though a great expanse of sea divides them. The Picts then came to this island, as we have said, by sea and asked for the grant of a place to settle in. The Irish answered that the island would not hold them both, but said they. We can give you some good advice as to what to do. We know of another island not far from our own, in an easterly direction, which we often see in the distance on a clear day. If you will go there, you can make a settlement for yourselves, but if anyone resists you, make use of our help. And so the Picts went to Britain and proceeded to occupy the northern parts of the island, because the Britons had seized the southern regions. As the Picts had no wives, they asked the Irish for some. They later consented to give them women, only on condition that, in all cases of doubt, they should elect their kings from the female royal line rather than the male. And it is well known that the custom has been observed among the Picts to this day. In course of time, Britain received a third tribe in addition to the Britons and the Picts, namely the Irish. These came from Ireland and under their leader, Rude, in one lands among the Picts, either by friendly treaty or by the sword. These they still possess, they are still called Dao Rodini after this leader, Dao in their language signifying a part. Yet is there any credence to the fact that the Picts may have sailed from Scythia to settle parts of Scotland? Some interesting points to note are that Scythians were often described as having reddish hair whilst also having a tradition of tattoos, traits that are arguably similar to the Picts. Obviously, it is hard to say definitively, but what is certainly true is how often Scythia is referenced in relation to Scottish history. For instance, in the Declaration of Arbroath written in 1320, a major work in Scottish history. Scythia is once again referenced as the place where the Scots sailed from. The Declaration states, Most Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients, we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots have been graced with widespread renown. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Terranian Sea and the Pithers of Hercules and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain amongst the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea to its home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons at first drove out, the Picts at utterly destroyed and even though very often, assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, it took possession of that home with major victories and untold efforts and, as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude ever since. What is your thoughts on why Scythia is referenced so often when it comes to Scottish history? Please let me know in the comments below. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe and hit the bell to turn on notifications. You can also support this work through buymeacoffee.com and Patreon. 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Welcome everybody. Thanks so much for joining me today I want to talk about procedural workflows in Houdini the Houdini engine and Unity 2017 for game content My name is Kenny Lambers, and I am a freelance technical artist these days But you can find me on IndiePixel.com or GameTutor.com. I produce a lot of training material and Blog articles, you know the usual internet stuff So I've been working in the game industry now for just about 20 years It's almost 20 years. I rounded it up a little bit. I'm not sure if that makes it more cool or if it just makes me look old But I've been working in the game industry for almost 20 years now and I've worked at Microsoft Game Studios Activision and Serial Software I've been using Houdini and Unity and Substance now for quite some time and have been following the evolution of proceduralism over the last I don't know. I would say six seven years something like that And I really started picking up Houdini when I was back at Microsoft You know doing a lot of procedural track development stuff like that And then from there I decided to create GameTutor.com and it was quite successful And what I did is I you know really started teaching the basics of Houdini and Houdini engine And just how do you start to get into the world of generating procedural content for your games? And it went really well So I definitely encourage you to check out GameTutor.com and IndiePixel.com That's where you can find most of my stuff and see what I'm up to I worked on Call of Duty 3, cracked down 2, Alan Wake, Connectimals Connect Star Wars and a lot of others. My situation when I was working at Microsoft and Activision Was a little different. I was working in the central technology teams And so instead of you know working on one game for the whole duration like two three years, you know in the whole production I would basically be the technical artist that would be dropped into teams take care of a couple You know issues or some pipeline issues I would also present, you know new ideas for pipeline type of technologies new software I would give little demos and you know try to get the studios up to speed I did a lot of shader work on some of these games on Call of Duty 3 I actually Got the opportunities to start working with 3d scanning so and photogrammetry and stuff like that So did a lot of that on on that project So my situation was a little different I would I would you know be with the team for maybe like a month or two and then I would go over to another team You know so, you know, I've worked on a lot of games, but I did spend a large majority of my time on Call of Duty 3 and I did a lot on crackdown 2 and Alan Wake and Connectimals and Connect Star Wars, especially I cut Connect Star Wars. We did all the procedural tracks with Houdini and I really sped up the production process for us. We were working with it was Terminal Reality Anyways, so that's a little bit about me in my background I'm currently, you know working As IndiePixel producing training content and you know doing a lot of client work and stuff like that All right, so moving on so what is proceduralism if you're not familiar with proceduralism even though We're starting to see it more and more these days Proceduralism the actual definition. I always wanted to do this from a presentation Just because it's fun to you know, see what the actual definition is So proceduralism is a belief in the importance of using agreed procedures a rigid adherence to established procedures It might not give you a lot of information about how you use proceduralism in games But at the core of it at the heart of proceduralism, it's it's a set of procedures You agree to a set of procedures and the output from those procedures is a prop or it's a terrain or it's a road Right or in this case a guard tower and a ladder Some barrels and stuff like that everything see here is all procedural none of that was hand modeled or anything like that it's all generated from nodes and It's all generated using the Houdini engine for unity All right, so that's proceduralism in a you know very high-level standpoint so what we're seeing today is An explosion of proceduralism in terms of you know textures with like substance designer and substance painter Terrain generation. There's tons of different types of terrain generators out there nowadays and they're starting to get quite advanced and Houdini has quite a nice suite of terrain tools inside of it and Really speeds up the process of generating large trains You see it for city generation, you know anytime you have Situations in the game where you have to generate a ton of content the city is a great example because there are So many buildings and street signs and streets and you know garbage on the sidewalks and trees and then there's people and There's a ton of content that needs to be generated for all that stuff and having a team of artists Just you know kind of work on that stuff for months and months and months is you know It's hard and it's expensive So what you can do is you utilize Houdini and the Houdini engine to really reduce costs speed up production and maintain the visual quality You can even use it in animation though. It's still a little rough I've seen lots of procedural animation out there and it's still in its early phases But it's you know coming along and obviously shaders and materials a lot of our shader Editors are now node-based and makes it a lot easier and a lot faster So my point is you know there the proceduralism is really starting to get a foothold in the game industry and the Houdini and the Houdini engine itself is are really at the core of all of this and It's a great segue into the next slide here because you know I've done a little bit of web development in the past And I always like the way that web developers explain the technologies that they use as a stack of technologies, right? And in the game industry we just call them DCC packages, you know digital content creation packages So use my or use photoshop, but you are using a stack And so the current procedural stack at least for my standpoint in my perspective The current procedural stack is Houdini 16.5 Houdini engine 2.0 substance designer and unity 3d And I'm very biased towards unity. I love unity. You can do this all you could replace this whole portion of the stack with unreal and It would be pretty much the same so That's the procedural stack And I really just wanted to put this slide in here because I really feel like this is a whole workflow right here You know you generate your your or your you author your digital assets inside of Houdini You import them into the Houdini engine for unity and then design procedural textures using substance designer Now you can do it in in Houdini as well It's just that substance designer so focused on Textures itself whereas Houdini is trying to do a lot of things You know they use it for the movie industry and also the game industry and you know It's largely been used as an effects package But more and more we're starting to use it for games And so it it does a lot of things where a substance itself is focused on textures And so the tools and the the nodes they're really focused on that and so it just speeds it up But I just wanted to say that you can't do it inside of Houdini. It's just it's not a streamlined yet I know they're working on it, but It's just still not as as streamlined but the other advantages of Houdini far outweighed the fact that you know The texture creations inside of Houdini Isn't as powerful as substance the modeling and the effects and just the amount of stuff you can do with Houdini is incredible Okay, so that's the procedural stack All right, so moving on so what we're going to do is we're going to take a look at a few Different workflows inside of Houdini engine 2.0. So this is actually new. It's it's in beta now. So What we have it is a completely new version of the engine. It's been rewritten. It's a lot more organized. It's more optimized it it's actually Way better than the original versions and it takes time, you know to evolve this stuff and you got to get people using it So the Houdini engine itself. So what is the Houdini engine the Houdini engine allows us to take our digital assets from Houdini And import them into Unity or Unreal or Maya Or max all those 3d packages and stuff like that and it it's super powerful. We're gonna get a little bit more Examples here in a little bit, but the Houdini engine allows us to fully fully utilize that power inside of Houdini inside of our game engines and the awesome part about it The one thing that really drew me to it initially because I I wasn't a programmer, you know when I first started out in the game industry It was largely just an artist a character artist not just in terms, but I was a character artist, but You know, and I slowly moved into technical art and then I started picking up programming and Programming while I've done it before the programming of procedural geometry system. I've Program my own inside of inside of Unity It just takes a lot of time to do that it could be months to create something that is as powerful as You know a lot of the procedural systems Like for example Procore inside of Unity. I mean that took years to make Using Houdini and the Houdini engine you don't have to be a programmer You don't need to have a PhD in mathematics to start building your own geometry tools Or your own level layout tools You just need to know how to use the nodes and that it does take time to do that But you can actually get started really fast. I would say You know, you could probably learn the basics in about two hours inside of Houdini To generate a really basic digital asset But it really doesn't take that long and then from there you just kind of start building up your knowledge about what all the nodes do and You know, you learn about attributes and grouping and vex and stuff like that. So You can get into this really quick and that's why I really wanted to mention that you don't have to be a programmer to do this It they took a very technical and a very complex Problem right and just made it really simple. We just use the nodes inside of Houdini to create our own digital assets All right So that's the Houdini engine. That's what it does. It allows us to import digital assets procedural content into Unity and unreal All right, so let's take a couple. Let's take a little break here and let's look at a few examples I built a nice little demo that kind of explores every feature of the Houdini engine except for the painting portion that's still being worked on but Let's let me play the video here for you guys So you guys can see it In a nutshell is what we can do with the Houdini engine in 2017 and for unreal as well It allows us to take those our digital assets and import them into the engine and we still have the procedural power So we can go and change all over our models and we can add more, you know detail to it or rough it up There's just an unlimited amount of things you can do. It's really up to your imagination. So Let's move forward then and Go on to the next step Excuse me. So where do we get the Houdini engine? All right, so first off, it's part of the Houdini 16.5 installer it's labeled as the beta package So this is the new package so the original version of the or the current I would I should say the current official version of the Houdini engine is still included with the installer of Houdini But that's where you get it. So Let me go up there. So I had these guys ready here So if you go up to Houdini, you can get the free learning edition called Houdini apprentice and You just download it and install it and what's gonna happen is when the installer runs it's gonna ask you if you want to install the packages for The Houdini engine for Unity or Unreal and you just hit the little checkbox and continue and What it does is it creates the Unity package. So I have it open here So once it's installed in your program files and side effects software you get the installation folder And then inside of there you have the engine folder right here So this is where you can go and get the Unity package and it's actually recommended to Just import the Houdini engine script dot Unity package and just pull that in Into your current Unity project and it'll go and install everything get it all set up. So the New version of the Houdini engine will be in a folder called labeled beta So I just wanted to mention that so that's where you get all that stuff And if if you you know really enjoy the workflows and you know, I highly recommend it I would then you know move up to Indy if your revenue is under a hundred thousand dollars It's pretty cheap compared to the amount of stuff that you can do There are limits inside of the learning edition. So moving up to Indy allows you to Get the full effect of Houdini. So, you know, you have effects stuff and you can do FBX Imports and exports Render out higher res stuff like that And if you're at a studio, then you're probably going you're going to want to get the Houdini core or Houdini effects so I Would start with the free, you know, versions just get used to if you haven't done this before just get used to using Houdini using the apprentice version and then move on up from there, so Let's move on to the next slide here All right So the full release is going to come out later this year. They're still working on a few features and Things are still going. They're still testing it with the users and stuff like that. So The the older version still does work So if you do our current only working on a project where you're using the Houdini engine All of your stuff will still work I highly recommend checking out the beta version because it's so much better You know, I've been using the Houdini engine for a couple years now and This version too is great. It's really it's really coming along. So Again the installation details just import the unity package. It'll just save you a lot of headaches It'll install everything for you. So But there's a plug-in cache folder inside of Your project so if I come over here to unity There's there's a plug-in cache folder So here's the asset cache folder This is where basically all the the baked files go and the working files go over here. You can see All right, and I just really wanted to point that out because when you when you start working with it You know these assets here And you start baking prefabs if you if you actually end up baking stuff They all go here first and then from here you can go and move them around as you see fit Okay, so that is that Alright, so let's go on to the next slide here Alright, so let's talk a little bit about digital assets Let's get a better understanding about what this process is like. What's the workflow inside of Houdini and unity with the Houdini engine. So I'm gonna play this video guys for you guys So you can get a better idea The core of the Houdini engine workflow Starts with the digital asset here and a digital asset is a collection of nodes that basically assembles our procedural content here Basically what it does is we start with a bunch of primitives Here we have a grid.  You can go and change the parameters on this guy and it all updates appropriately like so And all you need to do is just go and drag out another hda if you want another Version just like any other game object, but this is a game object that has a bunch of parameters So we can provide it a different type of mesh. It doesn't have to be a oil barrel There can be some other type of mesh. I'm just going to add another oil barrel here And do a transform override There we go. Now we have another set of barrels that we can place somewhere else in our levels And it always stays active and procedural until you hit the big prefab. So once you hit the big prefab You then get Prefab that you can use over and over again Let me reset that here And there we go So now we have a clean prefab that is just the geometry All right So that is the digital asset and it really is the start of the whole workflow Really is the core component to everything that Builds up your procedural content with the dng engine for unity 2017 All right, very cool. So that hopefully gives you a better idea about The process. I know it's you know relatively brief, but you know, we go and create the the digital assets inside of Houdini and We really just start to connect all the notes together to create procedures that then output You know something like a stack of barrels, right? Or like the guard tower or the the wood wall or the sandbags or the ground Even the ground here is a procedural or digital asset so I can change the noise on it or the size or the resolution Stuff like that. So Hopefully that helped give you a little bit more insight. So What's the workflow? Like inside of unity now with houdini engine 2.0 All right, so I'm going to jump back over here into unity over here and let's take a look here first And let's see what the first what was the first topic. Oh, so we have the re cook and the reload So that's a little different now So Let me drag out. Let's start at the beginning here. So I'm going to go to the guard tower here and pull out Uh an asset the the oil barrel asset over here And what I want to do is assign a barrel But the the process here is once you're done with your digital asset you import it into Unity to here and obviously you have to make sure you have the houdini engine installed all right Once you do that you can start importing the hdas And then all you need to do is just literally Drag it into the hierarchy here and I have a procedural asset So what I can do now is I can provide this uh an object, right? So if I come in here and actually Give it the barrel and it doesn't need to be the barrel you could do anything Any object it'll take anything and try to stack them Together I just don't have any other assets here that I can use Um, so the the oil barrel Is now stacked and you can see I can go and change this however I need so I can come in here and Make it bigger I can bring this down to something like two by two if you want just the single there we go All right, we'll do three by three there you go, so You can imagine the amount of things that you can actually do with this instead of having to come in here and just Constantly drag and drop out you know prefabs inside of the scene we can go and Drop these digital assets and create a bunch of different variations of these Stacked oil barrels Okay So that's that basic process so Anytime that you go and make a change to any of these digital assets You overwrite this particular asset asset because you've made a change inside of Houdini You can come in here and you can either reload the asset or you re you can re cook it So if I reload it it's going to completely reset everything So you can see that the oil barrel got removed and that's just because it completely reset the whole asset in here And it removed the input mesh that I gave it So let's just re-add it here I'm gonna do the barrel There we go All right So if you don't need to necessarily reload it completely I would then opt for using the re cook asset re cook will just update the parameters over here And push it into the actual digital asset So if we just hit re cook you can see that I kept The oil barrel this time it didn't remove any of this it didn't reset anything in here But it updated and looked for any changes that I might have made to this hda All right, so hopefully that makes sense there Let's go to the next one So let's take a look at the structure of the or the new structure inside of Houdini Engine 2.0 All right, so I'm going to go back over here. So let's take a look at this if you if you are familiar with the Houdini engine You'll remember that or you still know. I mean because if you're still using the current version That the Structure in here was quite large And navigating it was quite difficult and whenever you selected a particular object it would Open up or expand the hierarchy here and select one of the Inside game objects that had the scripts for Houdini Engine and everything like that So this has all been changed and cleaned up and I love it because it's a lot cleaner It's just a lot simpler and it makes a lot more sense So what we have here is the root object here. Okay, and this root object is where the Houdini asset root script goes and this contains all of the parameters and the different types of Tools that you can perform on this particular digital asset. So like reloading Re-cooking just keep only the output. So just give me just the geometry and get rid of everything else Or bake the game object or make a prefab out of it And the events which I don't really use that often yet. I'm sure I'll get into it here pretty soon You have all the asset options All right, just like before And then out we have all of our parameters just like before but the the editor has been cleaned up. It's way more pretty I love it. It's super awesome All right, so that's the root and then we have this hd a data game object and this data game object contains this Houdini asset script and this basically is the definition or the Um, yeah, no the definition. That's a good word. We'll stick with that It's the definition of the entire asset And it's good really for just debugging or just seeing what's going on Inside of the actual asset itself I wouldn't go through and actually change any of these materials these parameters. Um, because You really just want to stick with this root object and just change things here This is really just taking care of stuff in the background So but it's good to know that this is there and if anything goes wrong You can always come in here and debug stuff or Maybe you know, someone did actually mess with something. Um, and it screwed up the digital assets most likely Something that was changed in here and not at the root level. So that's what the hd a Game object is it just houses the this controller script really All right, and then below there, um, it's just a bunch of nodes that Are housing the copied geometry And then finally we have, you know, all the other actual geometry that's being created All right, so you can see I can click through each one of these individual barrels that Were copied Okay, so that's the basic structure now of A digital asset instead of the houdini engine weight cleaner. I love the new ui much better So there's that all right, so let's move on so baking and updating All right, so one of the really cool things that we have here I we we had baking before it, but it's a lot better. So you can you have two options here You also have this new bake update All right, which I'm not going to really cover it here in this Talk because I'm kind of running out of time and I do have some more stuff to get through But what we can do is we can now select the objects and just say a big game objects And what happens is now we have just A regular game object For everything so it removes all the houdini engine stuff. So I know I in the past I wanted to do that where it just Removes all the actual scripts. I just want the geometry and maybe the you know, the collision meshes and stuff like that So now that's what that button does and then we have a bake to prefab and now this is where the cache folder comes into play so if I were to Hit bake prefab What's going to happen is it's going to put it into that cache folder that baked folder all right, and so Now if I were to drag this out I have a nice prefab Again all the houdini engine stuff has been stripped out and now it's just a everyday game object that we're all used to All right, so that's baking and stuff like that. That's how much That's changed materials are pretty much the same. So inside of houdini You can do a create attribute node and assign the unity material Attribute to it and then give it the path to the material. So it's basically the same as it. It currently is in the official build There's not much that really needs to be changed But one thing I should mention is that the game developer tools for houdini now has a really tiny node that just Goes and allows you to set up the unity material So it's just faster instead of you know Creating your own create attribute node and then you know writing out the attribute name and then doing all the path assignment stuff so All right, so moving on. So let's talk about the Instancing feature inside of the houdini engine. So what is the instancing and how does it work? Stuff like that. So instancing, you know itself makes your geometry lighter It's it's also less resource intensive for things like the gpu When it's trying to render everything because what it's doing is it's just making a copy off of one actual object So a really good visual representation is on the side effects Help for houdini. So trying to understand packed primitives here What it does is it takes an original Version of the mesh and basically locks it up right and it just references You know the geometry that is inside of that packed primitive And rather than making just full-on copies of all that which takes up more memory All right, what it does is it references that back to that same original piece of geometry and saves quite a bit of memory And so really at at the core of it. That's what the pack primitives is And there are a couple of example assets that come with the houdini engine that you can check out and It'll help you get started with pack primitives. It's relatively easy to set up But the concept is that it just saves you memory when creating these particular types of procedural geometries inside of Unity because you can imagine that let's say for instance, you know something like this if I were to type in, you know 10 by 10 for this we're going to have a ton of barrels and if They weren't incensed or packed or anything like that It would take quite a lot of time to Generate all these particular barrels here so by leveraging the instancing and the Pack primitives inside of the houdini engine or inside of houdini the houdini engine really just kind of reads it if you set it up inside of houdini and then It adheres to those rules to those procedures Instancing is awesome because inside of unity here when you go and create An object like these barrels here what it'll do if you have instancing on it'll actually set the instancing parameter on a material so Let's go and you know get into one of the materials here So what it'll do is it'll turn on the gpu instancing for you automatically So in this case it doesn't look like I actually set it up But what it'll do is it'll automatically set this to An instanced object, so it'll share all the geometry and just make it lighter overall for the gpu to render it to screen Okay, and that's really the the core of it the example assets obviously I don't have enough time here to walk through how to do that. It's not really a tutorial type of setting here But there's a lot of example assets that come with the houdini engine that will show you how to set all that stuff up all right, so Moving on let's go and so houdini engine inputs. We already kind of saw This with the oil barrels again. I know I'm using the oil barrels quite often here And I I should just drag out some other assets so you guys can get an idea of it but when we went and added Our own custom mesh to this we were using the houdini engine input and there's two types of inputs that you can Accept with the houdini engine here We have the unity mesh and the hda now the unity mesh is just your everyday generic game objects You know some sort of static object that you imported as an fbx here inside of unity and then you just assign it here If it's an hda, that's just another digital asset. So if we take another digital asset provide this To the input here what it'll do is it'll process all the information that's in that hda So it'll it'll take all the attributes and the material ids and the assignments and stuff like that and it'll pass it through to this particular Digital assets so you can use them So you can start chained together your digital assets to create even more complex procedural Assets and I did that with the guard tower here. So the guard tower itself Here if we Select just the tower house. What it's doing is it's taking in the guard tower. So I have two components here Let's rebuild it here. So you guys can see it really quick and I'm going to try to make it quick I know I'm running out of time here. So let's just Rebuild this guy here really quick. So I'm going to go to guard tower hda And what I want to do is just first drag out a tower object Like so and I'm going to place it over here And let's just play around with some of the parameters so I can adjust the height of this guy. Oh, I just need to Turn this off here Like so there we go Just make it easier for us to see so I can change the height of this guy here And you'll notice that all the collision meshes are being adjusted all the uvs are being created for this. I'm even baking aiming inclusion into the vertices with this particular Mesh so everything's being generated everything here is being generated procedurally I'm not using any sort of static meshes to build the wood planks all the the posts and the wood planks are built procedurally as well Uh, then we have the bottom offset so I can move The guys from the bottom there and we have the top offset Right because why just do the bottom Then you can change the amount of those guys. I'm going to make this really tall There you go. So now we have even taller tower.  I'm going to provide this the guard tower hd a and Well, this is all good to go. It's going to think about it. So it's processing all the information there Now we have a new guard tower here. So let's just hide this guy So now I have a fully built guard tower over here. That's even taller And you can see now with this particular asset what it did is it actually went and assigned textures materials to it And the cool thing about this particular asset is it takes both hd a and a unity mesh so I can provide this a Sandbag Whoops. I just need assets actually So we'll do that And you can see it went and it placed sandbags on the top So this particular asset is utilizing both the inputs and hd a so the bottom portion and a unity mesh So a lot of flexibility and all of that and so right off the bat I now have two versions of this guard tower And it only took me a minute or two to set up and I can go to the tower And change the height to something like five. Let's say it's too tall. I didn't like that, you know So I just make it smaller Segments. I want five I'll change all that so Super powerful Very useful and when you're done, just bake it out to a prefab and there you go So now you have another version of a tower or you can keep it Like this cool thing about the Houdini engine now in version two Is that all these particular Scripts and stuff like that that are attached to these components. So this hd a data This Houdini asset script and this root script right here are all stripped out They're all set to editor only in the editor here inside of unity So you can actually keep all this stuff Live even in your final build because when you go to make your build it'll strip out all these particular Assets and really the at the end of the day just becomes a static piece of geometry Right, and that's when you start to take advantage of insensing so that all your meshes are instance as well. So Uh, you can have more performance levels and stuff like that All right, so that is pretty much that let's go back Let's see what we've got left here. So those are inputs. We also have the curve editor So let's take a look at the new curve editor inside of the Houdini engine And I'm kind of running out of space here, but we'll keep this relatively small All right, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up here to the Houdini engine unity And I'm going to just say create new curve asset And right off the bat what it does is it gives me The new curve editor like so Let me just enter to finish And you can see that the UI has been cleaned up. It's a lot easier to edit these guys now All right, and what we can do is we can now use these in our particular Okay, uh digital assets. So if I take something like the sandbag wall Here and give it the Curve object here, so I'm going to give it an hda so Houdini curve and then I need to give it the mesh so what I want to do is Give it that sandbag again Because we're going to make a sandbag wall here And there we go. We now have a sandbag wall And of course these all have parameters so we can go and change the the noise parameters and stuff like that But I'm Again, I'm running out of time. So I'm going to keep it short All these assets are actually going to be available for free I did record a an entire course on how I made all of these assets. So They are available to you. So you can go and learn how to use the new version of the Houdini engine Pretty cool stuff All right, so that's the new curve editor We can go back and we can change a particular Shape of it. So if I go to edit Over here, I can just move this guy over And what will happen is the asset itself will update Super cool Makes it really easy to lay stuff out really fast And again, once you're happy with it, just you know, bake it to prefab or keep it live Because all this stuff gets stripped out All right, let's go and see what we have all right, so Obviously a lot of people know that you know learning Houdini can be you know quite a steep There's quite a steep learning curve to it But there really doesn't have to be if you focus on certain areas You don't need to get into all the effect stuff right away. You don't need to get into the compositing stuff or Fluids or dynamics or anything like that. You could actually be very productive with Houdini and the Houdini engine Um, literally within a day, I'd say a couple hours to a day, you know And these are some great learning resources side effects has a ton of videos now Up on their website. So I highly recommend checking those out plural site, you know, they're always a good go to for these types of training Material and tag my my some of my favorite those guys are awesome. I love those guys They're they're training is amazing.  Um, I have tons of videos up there and I'm constantly updating it. So Um Go and check it out. And if you have any requests, definitely drop me a line, you know on youtube Or you know sign up for indypixel on the website or game tutor and just shoot me an email from there And I do my best to try to get to all of it too So anyways, those are some great re learning resources All right, so thanks so much for listening to me. I know we went on there for a little bit, but Um, definitely let me know if you guys have any questions and I'll try to come up with answers for you. All right. Thanks so much


Felly, mae'r trafodaeth o'r Ysgrifennid Ysgrifennid yw hwnnw i'r ysgrifennid yw 23 November, pan drwy'r Passyf Lleithwyr. Trafodaeth yn cael ei wneud i gweithio'r risg o'r cyflym yn ymgyrchau yng nghymru gyda'r prospes iawn o'r ysgrifennid. Mae'r tych yn fy mhwyaf i ni'n gwybod yw ysgrifennid yw'r ysgrifennid yn gwybod ysgrifennid, ac mae'n gwybod eich sylwgr yn ymgyrch yn ystod yn sylwgr yn amser, As we head into Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday in the US, with equity and bond markets closed. Also at the end of the week, Black Friday sales figures will be closely watched to track any hint of resilience in consumer spending despite the pandemic. Hardly any catalysts will be offered from the US data calendar, with PMIs on Monday and a bunch of releases on Wednesday, durable goods, second reading of third quarter GDP, PCE and personal spending. All and likely to have major implications for the markets. The minutes of the quite uneventful 5 November FFMC meeting will also be released on Wednesday, with any possible surprise coming from hints at a QE expansion in December. Also expect more on the minutian pal dispute on preserving the emergency lending programme, although this is not proven to have a large impact on markets so far. So, from a technical perspective, the dollar index remains in a consolidation phase in what we anticipate here is a wave 4 consolidation pattern. The shrink in volatility we've seen will further support this. So, as we head into this week, as the 92 level supports, we could see a pop back up to retest the 9350 monthly pivot from below. From here I would look for fresh supply to come into the markets, ultimately looking to target the wave 5 ideal level of 90. From here I think then we could see a more meaningful correction in terms of the dollar index. Only a move back through 9475 at this stage will invalidate the wave 4 thesis and put on the table a more protracted and extended corrective phase which could see prices trade back up to 95 level before trading lower. Any early loss this week of 92 would suggest that the wave 5 decline is underway and we should trade down through to this 90 objective. The Eurozone, the re-emergence of frictions around the rule of law conditionality on the EU budget and recovery funds have held the euro back somewhat. Recent comments suggest Hungary and Poland may be opening up to a compromise. This should remain an important background story for the euro and other European currencies next week. Although it appears that traders are only marginally pricing in the risk of further frictions and upside potential if an agreement is reached looks fairly limited. Wider implications for the euro should come from the EU-UK trade negotiations. I'm not really inclined to think a deal will be agreed next week, although there have been news reports that this is a possibility. The news flow is set to intensify and would likely spill over into the euro if there is a deal agreement. Data-wise, Monday's PMI will be in focus while we saw only a small drop in the last month for most indicators. Most market economists expect a significant slump, probably below 40 in the composite gauge. Driven by a drop in services due to fresh containment measures. Manufacturing should also inch lower, but should remain above the 50 mark and possibly sweeten the pill for the markets. Grim PMIs could cause the euro to start the week on the back foot, although the impact should be short lived, considering traders have largely factored in the euro zone growth, derating and improving vaccine prospects are keeping investors upbeat on a sustained recovery. Finally, keep an eye on ECB President Lagarde and Chief Economist Lane, whose speeches will get a closer look towards the 10th of December meeting when the bank is set to unveil expansion of QE. From a technical perspective, the euro dollar remains in a fourth wave consolidation pattern. Whilst we hold the 19-20 level of resistance, we could see a move back down to retest the 17 handle of support if we can see bullish reversal patterns develop here, then we would be looking to set long positions, targeting the ideal wave 5 objective of a 121.19. However, if we don't hold the 117 support, then look for a deeper decline to test the equality objective at 115.30 before looking for that wave 5 advance. In the UK, a number of significant events loom next week. Her markets will keep a close eye obviously on the EU trade negotiations, with time running short before the end of the transition period on 31 December. There is even a suggestion that allowances could be made for the ratification process which will take longer on the EU side than the UK side to continue into the new year if a deal is agreed before year ends. There is potential for sterling volatility which could be exacerbated by low volumes as the US is obviously out on Thursday for Thanksgiving. The Chancellor will provide a one-year spending review together with updated economic forecasts from the Office for the Budget responsibility on Wednesday. The fact that the spending group will cover 2021 and 2022 rather than the usual three or four years is testament to the high levels of uncertainty about the economic outlook related to the impact of COVID-19 and also the new trading relationship in whatever guise that is. It suggests that the Chancellor's primary focus for now will remain on supporting the economy through the pandemic, although there are multi-year priority commitments in areas such as health education and infrastructure. From a technical perspective, sterling continues to trade in and around the 133 handle. As 133.50 continues to act as resistance, we could see a pull back to test 130 as support for getting the next leg higher to ultimately retest prior cycle highs at 134.87 and we have that 135.20 resistance cluster just above there. Very quiet week next week, data wise in Japan and even more quiet end of the week obviously with the global markets due to the long Thanksgiving weekend. There is some scope for a marginally flatter US yield curve next week which may put a flaw on the inversely correlated yen. Otherwise any upside for the Japanese yen will likely rely on potential negative developments in Europe with respect to the EU-UK Brexit deal or a setback in the EU recovery fund negotiations. Further rising infections worldwide may still offer some support for the Japanese yen in the crosses but with the prospect of a vaccine accelerating, risk havens look unlikely to enjoy a fully fledged rally at this stage. So from a technical perspective with respect to the dolly hen, as this 103.20 axis support I've been looking for a retested and sending trend line up to 15.30 before potentially seeing some renewed weakness. Any move back through 105.65 would suggest that we have seen an interim low in place and we could extend higher to retest 107. Finally, the Aussie was up on the week but underperformed really its closest peer, the Kiwi which stage an impressive rally. A standard Labour data came in stronger than expected on Thursday and gave reasons to believe that the RBA easing may have peaked. The RBA minutes from November suggested the bank considered holding off on the rate cut but also signalled an ongoing discussion around extending the EU control to the five year. Let's see if we get some clarity about possible future options from the speech by Deputy Governor De Bell which is on Tuesday. For now what is clear is that the RBA in terms of Governor Lowe's perspective is one, looking at negative rates are a remote option and two, that Aussie strength is not really a concern at current levels. All this suggests the downside risk for the Aussie stemming from the RBA policy stance are relatively contained. Looking at other factors, any developments in the highly tense diplomatic and trade relationships with China remain central for the Aussie with the Aussie data calendar very light for the week ahead. From a technical perspective, as we continue to trade above the 72 level I'm now looking for a retest of prior cycle highs and I'm just taking out the stocks above there so we could probably look for a test of 74, 40, 74, 50. From there I think we'll see some profit taking and get a retest of the 71 level as support. That concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 23rd of November as always traders. I would like to join me on Thursday at 1pm UK time for some live market analysis where I'll be updating all of these charts and the technical patterns as they are playing out. Thanks very much for your time and have a prosperous week.