{"id":285,"date":"2020-06-24T01:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/?p=285"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:08:20","slug":"hey-look-what-i-found-this-past-week-in-game-building-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/2020\/06\/24\/hey-look-what-i-found-this-past-week-in-game-building-land\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hey – Look What I Found – & This Past Week In Game Building Land -“"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday – June 21st, 2020, Fathers’ Day? & it’s +26\u02daC \/ +76\u02daF – off and on cloudy – and muggy? @ 3:34 pm in Atlantic Canada –<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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– How about a rejection slip from Star Wars – for an unsolicited idea and sample bit of movie script in 1977? –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— I found the above hiding in plain sight here in my office when the ‘clearing away some clutter’ bug hit me. I thought I’d lost it a long time ago –<\/p>\n

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– “Julienne taking a moment to appreciate the beauty through the coming fog – with reflections in Glacier Valley -“<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— Glacier Valley has been around since 2011 – But – while I thought I did a good job of getting the slopes from high mountains right, and learned that white gravel doesn’t just just look like authentic hillside ‘crud’ { – that’s a technical term used by climbers – “Crud” – } —> It also looks like real snow in some places \/ under the right conditions. … And I was able to pick up a really good ‘Gaming’ monitor during Boxing Day\/Week after my 3 month appointment taking photos and working them into a complicated database for the local museum here in the fall of 2018 – and wow – I was actually stunned at how good this looks on a decent gaming monitor.<\/p>\n

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– “Gremlin -” I thought I’d have to try to get my cousin Emelie involved to come up with some decent creature designs – but while this character { one of Doug’s } has some glitches and weird appearance problems – it looks pretty darned good { or Evil – or both } – to me –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— Without the hat – this character has dark eye sockets on the top of his head, and his neck looks like it has a bones sticking out if you look at it too closely – but dang – { I wish the ears were creepier – but heck – } Having a couple of these guys running around burning down whole neighbourhoods could make for some interesting game play…<\/p>\n

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– Annie – up to her waist in pretty green water in the Enchanted Sea – Even stout hearted Pirates avoid this area whenever they can –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

– Annie looks like she’s really worried that there might be hungry sharks in the shallows of the Enchanted Sea here —> An area that’s just mostly very basic right now – And getting a little bit more finished every day – Even if I work on this game until I pass out and wake up with my neck aching and my head pounding much too often…<\/p>\n

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– Moe – the slightly Pirate-like Cat-Person – learned that a little bit of some dust from Crystal Mines – when added to whatever they burn in those lamps – both increases the brilliance of the lighting and gives it some colourful tints –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— Moe was my first successful attempt at ‘creating’ a charismatic Cat-Person – With just a little bit of modification we have Fox People who might need bushier tails – But yup, they are different enough –<\/p>\n

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– This was another view that ‘knocked me out’ – When you see this on s decent sized screen – it looks pretty darned good – & on the Gaming Monitor it looks Magical. –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— As I was ready to wind down – I knew I would pass out soon if I didn’t – Draelen – { My Character } And Nikki – His love interest – met in the dark on “Lovers’ Lookout Hill” and Me, out here in the ‘real world’ was stunned at how good this looked –<\/p>\n

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– Draelen might have been just as stunned as I was – And the morning fog and scenery isn’t bad here either –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— After the magical looking night in the two ‘photos’ – above – A one nano second miss-click messed up several game areas right around this ‘Inland Sea’ harbor – and after three long days of fixing things – we still more to do – But – yeah – seeing that we’re able to have results that look this good – doesn’t keep me from waking up with my forehead on the keyboard – but it does give me hope that we’re actually getting somewhere.<\/p>\n

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– Somebody had to make armor in the DelVahrian style for Gaeren – an Ursan { Bear Person – } –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— These two are in the same unit – guarding the city of ‘Emeliea’ with spooky clouds coming down from mountains in the west –<\/p>\n

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– We’ve also been seriously learning how to ‘make trees’ with Speed Tree software – from the same company that designed software that made some really impressive virtual plants for movies. –<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— I have to ask Cousin Debi if this is what a real spruce tree looks like, and not a Colorado Blue Spruce –<\/p>\n

— Sigh – And I better sign off and get some rest before I blink and wake up a couple weeks from now with a splitting headache…<\/p>\n

— \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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