{"id":39,"date":"2016-07-12T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T13:12:46","slug":"after-much-angst-i-built-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/2016\/07\/12\/after-much-angst-i-built-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"After Much Angst &#8211; I &#8216;built&#8217; a Tree &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tuesday, July 12th, 201 &#8212; 13\u00b0C \/ 56\u00b0F Clear &amp; It looks like the sun might rise on Atlantic Canada @5:38 am &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?resize=780%2C584\" alt=\"Speed Tree 'built' with sample templates &amp; textures.\" width=\"780\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?resize=1024%2C767 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?resize=549%2C411 549w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?resize=200%2C150 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?resize=150%2C112 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MyFirstTree.png?w=1257 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first tree &#8211; Um &#8211; my first tree that looks like a tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It might not look like much, &amp; I&#8217;m not 1,000% pleased with the way it looks etc. &#8211; not crazy about the &#8216;ash&#8217; type leaves, don&#8217;t love the overall shape of the branches and stuff &#8211; [ but they have &#8216;tools&#8217; that let you mess with the branches, droop them down, warp them &#8211; twist them and apply anthropomorphic human characteristics like that to them&#8230; but not right now, I&#8217;m tired and my brain stopped functioning a couple hours ago. ] I did not do much modifying after loading the templates, textures and colours that come with the application, but there it is. ( I was afraid it would blow up if I tried to do anything more with it.) And I&#8217;m sure Nikki would be proud to stand in its shade while she&#8217;s planting flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Um, the angst part. I could not get the application to work on my souped up &#8211; tuned up computer that can actually connect to the game world and do stuff. &#8212; When I finally got the application to load, it could not load any of the sample files it needed to get down to basic tutoring mode. Crashed every time, no matter what I tried to do &#8212; The application does, however, load and work fine ( in the bought-it-used for less than two hundred bucks &#8211; almost-as-spiffy-as-the-souped-up-tuned-up-world-building computer &#8212; but it can&#8217;t connect to the game world to save its life. )<\/p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; If I have to burn out and feel all my brain cells dropping dead in total confusion, I might as well go deliriously happy because something actually worked &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brain dead in Canada &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>~~~~~ TaleRocker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 12th, 201 &#8212; 13\u00b0C \/ 56\u00b0F Clear &amp; It looks like the sun might rise on Atlantic Canada @5:38 am &#8212; It might not look like much, &amp; I&#8217;m not 1,000% pleased with the way it looks etc. &#8211; not crazy about the &#8216;ash&#8217; type leaves, don&#8217;t love \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/2016\/07\/12\/after-much-angst-i-built-a-tree\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,4,2,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-stuff","category-game-graphics","category-progress","category-uncategorized","category-virtual-botany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Eu2W-D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/TheUniverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}