November ProgBlog #4: bugger that density
After getting increasingly annoyed about how dense the mesh was becoming as well as general annoyance about having to do yet more rework and the fact that some things simply didn't want to stay square, I threw that idea through a brick wall and decided to just extrude the nails like I was originally planning and hope it wouldn't make a mess.
Which meant first trying to get used to the extrude tool (press enter first, then move it, then switch tools because pressing enter again doesn't drop it, I don't even remember which program that habit came from).
The nails didn't make as huge a mess as I thought they would.
So back into Blender I went to replace the geometry and make some fingernail procedurals (which are super basic, there's a nail edge and nail material both of which use the principled bsdf shader with colours and tiny little pushing things around til it looks okay).
And found out the hard way that I'll probably need another extrusion layer to maintain the actual shape of the nails as they have gotten a bit dented between smooth shading and a subdivision surface modifier.
Additionally there are these fugly uv seams that for some reason keep getting baked into the normal map, so that will be additional time wasting trying to figure out why.
Sorry for the progblog being so late, silly season is seriously kicking my arse and it's not even silly season yet.
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Looks complicated and time consuming. Must be satisfying when you achieve the end result though I'd imagine?
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It is, though I've never been able to achieve something completely to my satisfaction and probably never will XD Have to settle for near enough is good enough sometimes ;D
It's definitely time consuming, and easy-when-you-know-how :) Most of my problems are either ignorance (mostly with pipelining or really technical things) or some random problem which I'm the only person on the entire internet to have ever encountered apparently XD
Well, it probably keeps your mind sharp and how good does it feel when it all comes together? Good I'd imagine.
Congrats! on your upvotes from the IBT Community
Have you ever considered nine inch nails?
Stupid joke and not my kind of music.
Sound like you're having fun ;>)
Hope you're making some progress anyway ( silly season or not ) and good to hear that you're still dealing with your emotions. Sometimes we need to push through brick walls indeed.
Big hug!
I think I liked at least some NiN songs at some stage XD
Part of the reason I do these progblogs is to try to convince myself that I am making progress and that even glacial progress is better than no progress but it only works to some degree XD
Yay hugs :D
I get it. I am actually not doing many prog blogs on my writing these days, as I'm doing a lot of writing. A day and a half to go, to reach the 50k and take some gas back ;>)
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