Category: How to

Install SadTalker on Windows

NG AI, How to, Python, Useful

Prerequisites: Install ffmpeg on windows In order to install ffmpeg on windows go to https://ffmpeg.org/download.html Follow steps mentioned here is install ffmpeg on your system. https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows Now go to SadTalker Github page https://github.com/OpenTalker/SadTalker Go the the dev branch and click on README.md Go to the Download Trained Models section and click on the higlighed link to go to the SadTalker v0.0.2 rc Release Note page Download first four assets and Source Code.zip file Unzip Source code.zip file to a folder. We are are going to extract it to SadTalker-0.0.2-rc folder. In this folder manually create “checkpoints” folder and copy four .tar and .safetensors files in it once those also get downloaded. Open command prompt and go to SadTalker directory. There you would find webui.bat file. Run this file in command prompt to finish the setup. This will take a while to download and setup all required packages the first time.[…]

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Moving windows from HDD to SSD (Free)

NG How to, Tool

In order to move windows from HDD to SSD without buying a paid tool, we can use “Macrium Reflect”. This tool has one month of trial period and the software is fully functional during the trial period with no limitation on any functionality whatsoever. Download and install “Macrium Reflect” from https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree Launch Marcium Reflect and select the windows drive which you want to move to the SSD Make sure to select System Partition as well. Now click on “Clone this disk” which will ask to select a target disk. Select the SSD and click next and then finish Finally a popup will be shown. Click ok to start the cloning process Once the process finishes, restart the computer, and go to boot section (click F1 or F12 when the computer boots depending upon which key works for your computer) and move your SSD up in the boot sequence to make[…]

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Install DeOldify on Windows

NG How to, Python, Uncategorized

Download and install Anaconda Download Deoldify code from github https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify Extract contents of the downloaded DeOldify code zip file to a folder. Download Completed Generator Weights file for Video from the DeOldify github page (834 MB size) In the root of DeOldify folder create a new folder named “models” and copy downloaded Completed Generator Weights file to this folder (ColorizeVideo_gen.pth) Now launch Anaconda Powershell and go to root of DeOldify folder. Now we need to run few commands in sequence. Run following command first which will take a while to finish Once above command finished, run the next command as following Now run the following command Note: In case you face issues with running jypyter command such as “cmdlet not found”, check the path of python library in the system PATH variable. Also, make sure jypyter is installed on your system. You can install jupyter using windows command prompt as[…]

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Quick Tip

How to use LogCat to capture debug logs from an Android device

NG Android, How to

In order to capture logs from an Android device, the first step is to download and install Android Studio on your computer. Once Android Studio has been downloaded and installed, launch it. You need to create a new project in the Android Studio. Select the most basic template while creating the project. Once the project is created, it will be opened as following Notice the “Logcat” tab at the bottom. This is where we will be seeing logs from our Android device. The next step is to connect the Android device with your computer. Before you connect your Android device with the computer, make sure to enable developer options on your mobile device. In order to enable developer options on your mobile device, you need to go to the settings on your mobile phone and go to the “About phone” screen. You will see the phone’s build number. Tap it[…]

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How to verify a domain in Google Search Console

NG Hosting, How to, SEO

Login to Google Search Console In the top left corner, you would see a dropdown list of existing properties (or domains) you own. If the domain you want to verify does not exist, then simply click on Add New Property option in the dropdown to add your domain which will open a popup like below After entering your domain name, click continue to go the the next step You can verify your domain via DNS records in your hosting or a URL prefix property. Choose whichever is more convinient to you and follow the process which is explained in detail in the search console.

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Steps to add Play Games Services to HTML5/Cordova App

NG Android, Code, Cordova, How to, JavaScript, Mobile, Plugin, Useful

If you have made an HTML5 game and have compiled the game to an APK using Cordova and now want to add Play Games Services to your app to use Leaderboard and Achievements from Play Games Services, you need to follow a set of steps to make it work. If you want to learn how to use cordova to compile HTML5 game to an APK and publish to the Google Play Store, follow the steps @ https://www.netexl.com/blog/use-cordova-to-compile-html5-games-to-android-app/ Assuming that we have installed all tools for cordova on our system and can compile the game to the APK, we will follow next steps for the Play Games Services integration. First we need to find a cordova plugin which integrates the Play Game Services API and add it to our project. Go to NPM and search for the latest plugin for the Play Game Services integration. If you have not already created[…]

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Quick Tip

Resize external website to fit in the iFrame

NG Code, How to, Quick Tip, Useful

I recently had to publish a game on my website which was written by another developer and was in public domain. My website was responsive and worked great for PC, tablet and mobile but this game came in a fixed size and was not responsive. It was using canvas which could not be resized inside an iFrame to fit in the available space so I looked for options to fit this game in my website layout and make it work for all devices (PC, tablet, mobile). The idea was to use something which would work similar to how mobile devices use viewport to fit the content in its browser. CSS3 comes with the support for scaling of iFrame content which works perfectly in my scenario so the embeded game/page is scaled down to fit in the iFrame. There is some computation required to scale the embeded page correctly. The article[…]

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How to add AdMob Reward Ads to Phaser 3 Game

Admin AdMob, Android, Cordova, How to, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile, Phaser, Plugin

We will be using corodva to compile a Phaser 3 Game to Android App. We are going to go over step by step description of how to implement Admob Reward Ads to our game. Let us start by creating a Phaser Game. For simplicity we will not have any game code in it but only a butoon to launch reward ads. Create the cordova project by using the following command in Node.js console. Refer to this blog to go over basic steps to compile an HTML5 game to Android app. We are going to use Admob Plus cordova plugin for implementing Admob ads in our game. Add plugin by using the command below. Make sure to replace App ID with your App ID in AdMob console. You need to create an App for your Android app and then create a Reward ad for that app which will be used here.[…]

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