Oops I’m late to post my update – too distracted it seems…
I’m about 2 1/2 weeks past my surgery now and starting to feel more human. Not on painkillers anymore which don’t usually agree with me and I’m back on my uppers so I’ve been busy busy with some things here. I’m almost able to have solid / crunchy food again which is nice. I’m so sick of sweet drinks, I want salt, I want chips, I want spicy jalapeno poppers.
I made a few more models this past week – you may have seen the Patreon exclusive statues + mini of St. Markovia. These were fun and my first models back at it after being bed ridden on all the modern drugs. I think St. Markovia is some of my best work on a character model.
With these props that was the last of the Church of Barovia props for the Kickstarter done.
Next I’ve been working on the House of Lament slowly chipping away on it and the model building system overall. I’ve learnt so much about Geometry nodes since starting that I wanted to go back to the dreaded Curves and UVs and fix some bugs and…..
I’m happy to say I think I’ve fixed the pattern alignment bug that I had.
Since I’m making textures via procedural nodes with material displacement the challenge has been aligning them by size (brick size) and with the pattern. I could eyeball it, I could shift the patterns up and down – side to side but it was always tricky and the size of the wall part change all of the sizes.
This was particularly tricky to do but I think I’ve cracked it.
Now regardless of the size of wall or the shape the patterns will align and the bricks will be the same size. I’m working on putting this proof of concept back into the overall structure builder and then it’s a big job of re-exporting and cleaning everything up but in the end I think it’ll be nicer and I’ll maybe receive fewer complaints.
Next I want to crack how to do rooftops like this too – right now they’re a challenge and pretty manual. Fingers crossed I can fix that.
Then I’m going to finish up a whole laundry list for the house of lament and the the Modular Barovia Kickstarter is done.
I’m gonna continue mending here – I should be back (on time) next week with another update.
That’s all for now. As always thanks for following along!
