Got our annual onion crop braided yesterday I've now made 5 onion braids in my lifetime, and the 5th finally turned out quite well! Maybe it wont take a decade of harvests to master this new skill Love the homestead feel they give the house for a few months

Dear everyone making those short blender tip videos, stop beginning with sloppy "newb" examples of bad versions of whatever you're trying to teach Show what you want at the beginning, I'm not wasting my seconds watching clumsy mistakes on purpose, hoping you eventually have a good point. #b3d

Yellow roses in front of a smoke bush and yellow sky 30 mins before sunset. #SurreyHills #Sunsets #Roses #ColorADay #YellowThu

A meteor striking a live volcano is exactly the kind of portent the ancients would be losing their minds over

Highly recommend visiting your friends if you haven't seen them in person for years. Reach out, however long it's been.

Actually visiting an old friend in person today, like a real social interaction. Haven't done an offline social thing since like... pre-covid

'Walk softly and leave no trace' crossed with 'If you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all' Polite obedience training from childhood resulting in me being very quiet and very alone for long stretches at a time, barely attached to reality.

Between this and Enshrouded, I may be very quiet for a while

Using a metal knitting needle to hold up my hair today, feels very much like being armed with a dagger. Time to bring back Victorian stabby hair pins for sure

After a much needed break I am back into working on my little game daily. It will be much more fun when the math and code skeleton is done and I can just play with the art side of things.... Python/node system progress feels like accomplishments, but makes for boring screenshot update posts.

Wow, how problematic was that balloon ball pit that it got its own FAQ entry with industry lingo term? How many meetings do you think they've said the word "hyperfrequency"? Im clearly still alive and doing important things.

contemplating time

Anyone I know who's playing Enshrouded? Just picked it up finally, having a great time so far

Coeus devlog update day 20: crater scatters and physics added in Each planet will be endlessly scrolling procedural texture and objects (with samples to find). Made entirely in UPBGE (Blender's game engine branch) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gameart #upbge #b3d #python

A very alpha look of my current project. Find a suitable planet before your sun vaporizes your species. #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev

Ready for another Coeus progress peek? Lots of time spent getting all these wheels behaving, almost ready for fun things #gamedev #indiedev #b3d #upbge #python #procgen

Occasionally after getting dressed I realize an outfit consists entirely of handmade items I created for myself.. Bonus when the outfit also feels cute

Primordial 20”x20” oil on canvas

For my game's terrain, I've long mulled over how to combine the epicness of grand mountains with the "what's around the corner?" intrigue of smaller cliffs and hills. After a lot of fiddling over the past two days, I think I may be onto something. #GameDev #ProcGen

Harvested my Weld plant today, safely tucked into the shed for drying. Eventually this (yellow dye) and my woad (blue) will be used to naturally dye some raw silk green

Atlascape for Blender. Bundle your textures into atlases and build complex multi-layered PBR materials which use only a few textures. Export to Unreal, Unity, and Godot. Coming soon to my Superhive and Gumroad stores. #b3d #blender #blender3d #cgi

Progress peek, driving on endless texture that's purely noise generated. There will be no image files, no baking, no format conversions, no imports. Everything will be built, assembled, and executed within this one program Countless unique seamless planet surfaces driven by math. #gamedev #indiedev

Quiet but productive week - I'll have something worth showing soon hopefully. Almost have the bones of my first project sorted out, digging into save systems and procedural seeds now. #upbge

Managed to roam this world for more than 40 years without a coding language to clutter my brain... Alas, I am now mired in learning Python. Wish me luck, this artist needs it.

Sci-fi planet surface material experiment (now to add some rocks and alien plants)

Physcia sp #lichen (grey) with a dollop of Xanthoria sp lichen (orange). Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

This difference of gaussians stuff is pretty cool #godot #shaders #godotengine

compass

The Birches

Side note, this is that same seamless leaf texture but with some math + 1 noise texture added.. it produces a truly seamless material Works on displacement/bump etc too btw Someday I'll make a bunch of boring posts about it with the logic snippet. #blender #b3d

Okay folks it has been a RIDE but we got a basic human shape scaled to the size I wanted and moving in 4 directions. Progress. Baby steps. UPBGE is working now, finally getting a proper start. Next up will be orientation and camera. #gamedev #indiedev #b3d #upbge

First few days with upbge (blender Game engine) have been rather fraught... Newest version had major issues, but I was able to contact the (very nice!) Dev who sent me repair files Hopefully now I can get back to fun and learning

'Goodbye' Earshot 'Exit Music (for a film)' Radiohead 'Weak and Powerless' A Perfect Circle These 3 songs have been endlessly spiraling in my head for weeks

Archipelago #ProcGen

My attempt at an abstract painting of trees during a windstorm. #art #artsky #nature

Focusing on real basics today: getting a cube to walk around, getting camera attached and 1P/3P switchable.. Nothing like learning a new program to keep you humble.

Merry Equinox (today is kinda like Pagan Easter)

Day 1 wrapping up with Blender Game Engine and I'm genuinely excited All those tasty new nodes and bricks! Very intuitive, and very similar to Dreams logic (from Playstation). Slow-ass development of Herbs and Crafts officially begins.

quiescent

It's been... 8 months.. since I started learning Blender. I've been wildly undecided on which game engine to learn (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc).. but I think I'm going to keep being contrarian and go this route instead. Geometry node flexibility during run time sounds amazing...

Swapping to light theme on Blender feels like the equivalent of cutting one's bangs

Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.1! 🎉 Rock solid, feature-packed, and a performance beast on all fronts, from animation to modeling and compositing. 🎁What's New: www.blender.org/download/rel... 📺Watch Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3x... #b3d #DevFund

Played with mountains today, but will be back to fun things again on the morrow

🐠 We have recently released a pack of coral-inspired geometry nodes generators for Blender. Here's a quick overview of the life-based tools. #blender

Screenshot with the new crystals added plus some other scene tweaks. Also a reminder that I have a devlog on the process of making this diorama so far: youtu.be/odhrvx1Igeg #art #gameart

Btw, the new Texas thca hemp flower ban only applies to in-state purchases, this is NOT a possession/use ban, simply order online from another state. (Random PSA sorry but some news coverage has been misleading)

Early stabs at the petal texture, still a work in progress but much less placeholdery than before. Feels really nice to be working on a plant again, thinking about those rock projects all the time drains my soul..

Speaking of those unfinished forever-projects haunting the back of my mind... Eventually I need to finish this hydrangea.. stuck at this very tedious place for months

Occasionally still tormenting myself with this cobblestone texture... Passed the halfway mark! (only the orange square outline is my actual future material, the rest is projected live clones to test seamlessness) Figured out how to make all texture and gradient nodes apply real-time seamless, too.