website maintenance + website stats + quick update

Getting about time to consider some changes to the website

freshen things up

maybe move crafting compass back to trinket and get rid of the render version

consider changing the layout

just some simple changes

stats update:

this last year has been the biggest year for upbe4t.com yet over 90,000 views in the past 12 months

the horizon fishing guide has got over 350 views since being posted

to think we were only at 20,000 views after about 13 years being live

and in the past two years jumped from 20,000 views to over 128,000 views

this website really does not get the attention it deserves from me

I post when I have something I think others could benefit from or updates to what I am doing in game

when I finally get back on my feet irl hopefully I can get back to taking this site serious and actually get some good content out

my ssi is supposed to get fixed in 2 months and that will give a ton of freedom to actually pump out content

I have 10 more months of supervision then I can start smoking and drinking again which really triggers my creative side to create that good content

as far as programming i've really hit a wall, everything that can be made already is made and I have no idea what I could write that isn't already written

my last project was converting a .py I wrote to a c# standalone and it worked the program works and everything went as planned but during the process I learnt c# is very very different from .py and requires several steps i'm not really comfortable with yet. Really I just need to learn the commands and the code structure

end game for programming, I want to clean up and enhance the all in one tool

the hard part about that is the code to run that all in one is about 3,500 lines long of .py

straight converting to c# would be impossible

and the only way to reliably upgrade it is to break it all down to sections for what it does

need to save the beginning of the code, break all the things it can do into separate sections, and save the end of the code

then go in to all the different sections add and remove more lines of code

then have the beginning, middle sections, and end section all work together like they should

and once you get past about 3,000 lines gemini no longer works properly and you'll get page terminated

so while I would love to jump on this and get an upgraded version out

it's going to take most likely a long time before I can get to it

and embarrassing to say but the main reason, I'm too interested in actually playing horizon rn to want to take a break from horizon to work on my all in one  that maybe 4 people besides me actually use

possibly isolating the tools but then I lose my ability to use keys

it's something i'll have to sit down with some smokes and coffee and a lot of alone free time to figure out.

On the bright side:

SSI is going up, just maybe 2 more months of waiting

Supervision only has 10 more months, only 9 more office visits

I can finish paying my fees in 7 months

I get my ebisu this sunday

making major progress with CoP only 1 more path of 5-3 left

the girls are all napping hard

waiting for my mom to come over, she's supposed to bring some rent money, toilet paper, and kitty litter

I currently have Degrassi Season 3 on PlutoTV playing

Which I watch daily since I lost my disney+ sub BUT I will get it back hopefully before October Gotta watch Hocus Pocus all october

My little apartment is going great just me and my three girls

Salem gets to go outside all the time, she went out today, but it was a little too hot for us today  88F

got my ebt today and spent $80 on groceries

5 pounds of chicken breast, pound and a half of beef fajita, 3 cups of folgers instant coffee, head of lettuce, reeses chips ahoy, grape juice, pico de gallo, guacamole, 2 pounds of fresh peaches, large tortillas

realized as soon as I left the store I forgot tuna, salt, and chicken seasoning

I'll probably go back as soon as I post this to get that stuff.

I need to do my dishes, Sweep + mop, and change the litter box

which is stuff I always need to do lol

Anyways before this post gets entirely too long

time to post it and get on my way

I'll see you guys next post!

-upbeat

Upbeat's graphics settings

I tried Reshade couldn't find a way to minimize the setting window

I've used Dgvoodoo for years at this point

My computer is a AMD Ryzen AMD Radeon and it has a graphic setting window/application called AMD software: Adrenaline Edition or AMD Software

I decided to go with Atomos version of d3d8.dll

that can be found from this link below:

https://discord.gg/UBfdSyAfJ 

I can't really say exactly what it does vs Reshade or Dgvoodoo but atomos worked very hard to stop the lag spikes and it runs really smooth looks great the best for me so I choose to use it

my init or default.txt for ashita has this added:

/fps 0

/drawdistance setworld 10

/drawdistance setmob 10

/drawdistance setentity 10

which goes here:

#

# Important: The wait here is required! If you remove it, addons will not

# see any commands inside of this file!

#

################### DO NOT TOUCH THIS WAIT LINE ##########################

/wait 3

##########################################################################

#

/fps 0

/drawdistance setworld 10

/drawdistance setmob 10

/drawdistance setentity 10

#

##########################################################################

#

# Horizon Launcher Controlled Settings

#

##########################################################################

after the /wait 3

this is in the: C:\Users\Upbea\OneDrive\Desktop\Horizon\HorizonXI\Game\scripts file

remember it won't be Upbea on your computer it'll be the user name for your windows account so can just ignore that and go in your horizon folder to find it

next setting is going back to amd software

this is what I am using:

most important setting you need set is radeon chill turned on to idle and peak fps set to 60

/fps 0 sets your framerate to uncapped radeon chill will cap your fps to 60

also I find radeon image sharpening makes the game look amazing I just turn it all the way up and go

quick little demo of how it looks STREAMING not from recording then reposting which would be better:

and a longer demo of logging in, zoning, 45 mins long:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2774519357

Only 1 more Ebisu progress post before rod!

Was able to hit 95,000 guild points today

grabbed sea serpent's rumors & traded both gug and lik items to the npc in rabao

next step is just waiting for weekly reset on sunday

so about a day a day and 17 hours or 41 hours until I finally can grab my ebisu

as soon as I get it im finishing skilling up

maybe not all in one go because I have several other things im interested in doing

but it'll be high priority getting skill lvled up to 100

look out for a graphics settings guide later today !

Ebisu Progress 2 and other updates

Sitting at 65,000 fishing guild points

95,000 is the total amount I need

so 30,000 more

2,000 is usually what I can get daily but sometimes a 4,000 or 5,000 turn in pops up

expecting this 30,000 to take about a week and a half

been doing a lot of dunes leveling

sam is my last job under lvl 19 sam is 14

getting sam to at least 19

then leveling everything again up to 30

and I plan on leveling everything together 10 levels at a time

easier on inv to get gear that most jobs can use the melee type gear mage type gear

finished 3-5 diabolos tonight

did missions up to ouryu

slowly making progress to unlock sea

time to start saving gil for that homam set

looking like it's going to cost me between 6.4m and 7.4m

ebisu nearly costs me 8m

and I feel pretty confident I can save up that 7.4m to get the full homam set

no idea what my gph will be on gugs but I can't wait to try it out

expecting around 40k gph fishing for skill then higher on gugs

and I have my farming spots. one is a good 65k gph and the other is 60-150k gph depending on nm drops

looking at about 10 hours to make a mil

about 70 hours to farm enough gil for the homam set

seems like a lot

but really if I can do 10 hour days that is only 7 days

just read to get ebisu 100 skill and the other guild point items(apron, waders) then really see what I can make

eventually after homam after some basic gear upgrades

i'd like to level bonecraft to 100 and get all the guild items for that

once I get all jobs 66+, ebisu, 100 fishing, all fishing gp items, 100 bc, all bc gp items, homam set, and really good thf gear besides homam

then it'll be time to level digging

I don't even know why i'm worrying about getting maat's cap

it isn't even the bis ws piece for thf lol

but I guess it is fun leveling the jobs up so I get that at least

anyways, 5:30 am now, have to be awake at a specific time tomorrow so time to start getting ready for bed