Category: infrastructure

Asset Classification Scheme

Reclassifying Assets for TACTIC Migration

Migrating data from one system to a radically different system typically requires a lot of thought and…

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TACTIC Replication & Backup

TACTIC Replication & Backup

I’ve been considering how we want to set up our virtual-studio asset-management system. There are a number…

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Afanasy Schema

Virtual Studio Addendum

Apparently, our Virtual Studio project is interesting to more than just us. I got a number of…

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Virtual Studio Plan

Studio Progress and Development Plans

Happy Moon Day 2017! It’s been over a year since I first posted this video explaining what…

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Ansible School

After several abortive attempts to write an Ansible script (“playbook”) for installing our server repeatably, and thus…

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Partially installed framing for office extension.

Infrastructure Projects Update

Most of my time lately has been dedicated to remodeling work on our office here in Texas. This…

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KitCAT UI Mock Up screen capture

Prototyping KitCAT

As I described in a video last month (A Virtual Studio for Anansi Spaceworks), I’ve decided to…

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Handling Languages in Lunatics!

As we’ve already mentioned in an earlier update, Lunatics! will start out with two soundtracks — one in “original language” and one in “English-only”. These tracks will be nearly identical most of the time, but they will handle the few cases of characters speaking other languages differently.

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Technical Requirements for Lunatics – Render Cluster

One of the line items on the budget for this Kickstarter is to build a “render cluster”. You might be wondering what that is, and why we might need one.

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Subversion Repository Started (Finally)

So after much procrastination, some reconfiguration, and a lot of re-organizing, I have finally got a sourc tree into our subversion repository.

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