In that gap was a slightly unexpected new puppy (which I wrote a bit about in the homeschool miscellany) and covid (not worth the ridiculously excessive fuss and the frantic stripping of as much freedom as possible in that space of time that was made of it, wouldn't recommend the headache though). And then there was me figuring it wasn't worth the blog because there hadn't been much prog and trying to manage that and consistently failing as other things kept happening (not least of which comp season started).
After a lot of stuffing around, I eventually worked out there was something either wrong with the file or with the particle system that was making my curve guides not work. A bit more experimentation later I found that recreating the particle system worked, and that NURBs paths no longer seemed to work but Beziers did.
I also found that changing the viewport path steps to 4 also made it work on the working copy, so switched back to that as that had wave settings that I liked. Still doesn't work with nurbs path but that's fine I can bezier. Just need to add a few more curves to get the shape right and then I guess I'll have to figure out how to animate it later.
I'm really annoyed that took weeks
This part of the mesh was a huge mistake but I couldn't figure out how else to close it.
And the reason that it's a huge mistake is because I can't sculpt around there properly, the denser area is more reactive than the sparser area so keeps bumping more than I want it to. Got similar issues around the knuckles. Aargh.
On the bright side at least they animate alright I think x_x
I'm currently failing to not obsess too hard about the feet and then I'm looking forward to playing with Sculpt Layers which I finally bought.
I'm making one more attempt with particle instanced downy feathers using different vertex groups to get around the rotation issue, and if I can't get that working then I'm going with these hair clump particle feathers.
I've been feeling pretty down with the amount of rework that I have to do constantly (it's been literal years of rework). Trying to look on the bright side, at least I don't have to pipeline anymore (I may consider it if I found something that was so amazingly mindblowing better both in design AND workflow for something that I wanted to do that it was worth the effort of wasting yet more time nutting it out). Pipelining is the absolute worst.
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Patience bro, stress is not going to help you, when you feel like this take a breath.
To resolve the mesh error, you just need patience. ✌️
I'm not stressed, just angry XD (unless that counts as stressed then I guess).
I don't want to spend anymore time on it (it's been literal years as I learned and then improved retopo skills so many iterations). It seems to animate okay so I'll just cope with the irritating issues that come up in sculpting til I can be bothered tackling it again x_x
and then hopefully I'll remember to pin the uvs first so that they don't jump around when I make changes which has happened before
LOL! Sometimes it happens to me to get angry with something in Blender, it gets silly, I think that anger causes stress and anxiety XD
I suppose it could do especially if you're on a deadline XD I'll be over it once I start making progress again, at the moment all of this is reworking stuff I've already done x_x
I seems to be two steps forward and one step back with this project. So it is moving forward. I can imagine it gets frustrating at times to rework things but I am sure this is a great learning experience. Just think how easy your next project will be. Loving the screen shots.
It is, but with such exquisite slowness that I am extremely angry and frustrated about it. I wanted to have been well into animating a freaking decade ago godsdammit XD
I'm working on two main projects simultaneously (not the smartest but neither am I). I got to test character generation in the second one and it was actually so fast that I was surprised and pretty convinced I'd done something terribly wrong somewhere XD I did find some bugs but they got dealt with. So yes things will get faster but in the meantime this groundwork (which is where I've been doing the majority of the repeat work) is pretty agonising x_x
I am surprised you have the brain space to keep on learning and improving.
This could be your passion project, that you spend forever on and my advice to you is to just enjoy the journey without stressing over reaching the finish. You will get there eventually .
I've recently been trying to learn Freecad and I now see that Blender has a very promising plug for doing cad models. I hope to purchase a 3d printer soon.
I'm not sure that I do which is why this is taking so damn long.
Also have a feeling that unless I exclude everything else and prioritise only this project, I'll die of old age before it's anywhere near any kind of state that might vaguely resemble finished, and I have so many other stories waiting in the wings that I want to tell as well.
Guess I better hope for a cure for aging in our lifetime XD
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