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Jan
30
2024

January ProgBlog #2

In contrast to characters, furniture is relatively quick and easy to do. Though I did have a massive brainfart moment and temporarily forgot how I'd done woodgrainesque textures as it's been a while.

after I remembered that despite its distinctly woodgrainy appearance I wasn't supposed to use a Wave Texture, I was supposed to use and distort a Noise Texture, then it came back

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Sprat and I joked about warning kids with tails to not mess around on the chairs (the usual thing of don't swing on them etc) and then them falling over and getting their tails kinked and getting stuck in the chairs after falling and having unsympathetic caregivers yelling TOLD YOU.

Jan
16
2024

January ProgBlog #1: (not) working (much) with (a lot of) distractions

Silly Season Shenanigans set a precedent apparently, as the first progblog of the year is also late.

I've been home for the holidays, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

After finishing silly season shenanigans and homeschool miscellany (the two things that had a time limit) I was finally able to get back onto the Avian base model. For a change everything progressed relatively quickly despite the poor little MacBook Air struggling (it was enough to convince me to aim for the Framework 16 instead of the 13, the idea of the graphics module won me over despite the 13 being my vastly preferred form factor).

Jun
19
2023

June ProgBlog #2: thought track

A new problem arose. I have this song in my thought track:

and I found out from comments on that video that there is a version with vocals.

And it has beautiful lyrics.

Jun
05
2023

June ProgBlog #1: the folly of everythinging

Currently as I type, I'm pecking at Yet More Freaking Feathers, hive, lesson planning and somewhat trying to finish my Mekton character for a game which I'm not sure when it's going to start as I haven't heard much of anything other than some issues with mech building since it was proposed, but I did say at the time that they could start without me (and I would jump in if/when appropriate if they started without me) as at the time I wasn't sure if I would be able to play or not.

18yo was also thinking about running a CoD game but aside from looking to see who's interested is also waiting to see what's happening with this Mekton game.

It's also laundry day so I have to do that too (at least there's no leotards to wash today, they need to be handwashed and it's cold).

May
30
2023

May ProgBlog #2: sulking

That's what I've been doing for the past ages because I've been wasting a lot of time playing stupid phone games because stuff happens in the games unlike in real life where it feels no matter how much effort and hours you pour into something, absolutely nothing at all gets done.

My parents happened to be up for Mother's Day as they had come over for a quick holiday (which of course involved catching up as much as we could as we only see them a couple of times a year) so sibling dearest coerced asked me to please get some flowers and she would send a hamper of goodies.

I don't like cut flowers, however I only send the parents a Christmas present comprising of a photobook of everything the kids got up to that year and Mum loves flowers so I got a nice custom one from a florist.

Apr
19
2023

April ProgBlog #2

I'm still reasonably happy with how it looks given that they're polygons and I'm still internally screaming.

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This is a great case for geonodes.  Sadly that's beyond my meagre capabilities.  I also had to fix a topology nightmare on the shoulder which I completely forgot to screenshot probably because I was trying to remember if I'd been drunk when I did it (spoiler: highly unlikely as I haven't gotten past tipsy for a very long time).

Apr
03
2023

April ProgBlog #1: the insidious GAPS!

That's not an acronym, just me screaming in annoyance.

The underside of the wing was the absolute worst thing ever as no matter how I moved the feathers, gaps kept appearing.

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Sunday was a super slow day to begin with as the bigs and I were recovering from doing a show on the Saturday (they were more tired than me as they were the ones actually flipping out and stuff, I was just kind of trying to help direct as I'd been unexpectedly thrust into that role as the coach who had been supposed to be doing that job had unfortunately come down with something the night before).

Mar
27
2023

March ProgBlog #3: just ugh

That feeling when you're the only one that knows that you did stuff because it doesn't look like much changed at all.

That was a big part of why I decided to just let the streak break than try and push a late progblog.  The other reason was that all the other stuff was a huge fight (some of it physically fights, or at least shouting matches, but mostly just the usual struggle trying to keep on top of things).

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Stupidly I missed a whole row in that screenshot, this is what happens when your naming system is descriptive enough but you forgot what you were doing.

I think the layering is somewhat working out better, and I managed to resolve some issues I was having on the hands.

Mar
15
2023

March ProgBlog #2: not enough prog

Another day another not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Sunday was just a hard slog of realising that I'd completely munted everything and that the feathers are actually on stalks before going into the skin.  I versioned the model to see if doing that would solve some layering problems I'm having.

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And also making the shafts thicker while I'm about it.

minds out of the gutter @meesterboom and @galenkp

I didn't start over, the other feathers are currently hidden so I can see what I'm doing.

Mar
06
2023

March ProgBlog #1

At some point when I was rethinging my schedules, I decided that first Sundays were going to be mopping and windows days. Then promptly missed February.

The first weekend of March was a bit intense as J was in charge of scheduling the excursions and decided to schedule them both on the same weekend for whatever reason. We went to an Aboriginal Astronomy event at the Gravity Discovery Centre on the Saturday night and then went shooting at Topshot the following morning. I'll write a tiny bit more about them with the metric boatload oh photos in March Homeschool Miscellany.