I've not been very productive for a couple of days. This morning, I felt terrible and immediately blamed yesterday's vaccination. I'm feeling a lot better now.
Backup
It struck me that I've run out of cloud storage for Blender assets and stuff. I back up most of my work files and scenes, but not consistently. Big chunks are now stored on a secondary storage drive on my workstation.
We've been here before. Data loss often comes out of the blue! A few years ago, I lost a huge number of digital photographs and other backups when I lost my two backup drives in two weeks.
It's also a mistake to think that storing files on Microsoft's Onedrive cloud service ensures that no loss can occur. The platform has let people down in the past. So I picked up a Western Digital Passport drive, a whopping 4.55 TB monster (that fits in the palm of my hand).
I'm currently backing up all my Blender Add-ons and Support files. Next, I'll back up my scene files and some height maps.
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| Playing with terrain and a Beetle. |
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| Last night's effort. |
I created a very short test animation of the grassland. It suffered greatly from "noise boiling" where the grass clump placement changes slightly from frame to frame. The result is an extremely weird shimmering as grass jumps around as the animation plays.
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