Friday, 10 April 2026

Production Meeting

 The Halo: Raptor Project had the latest production meeting. It was good to catch up. The non-NDA-breaking gist: We need to up our work rates, we have a new and exciting commitment, and there's a drive to get together more to watch stuff, play games, and hang out. All good plans!

I really have fallen into a low-productivity slump — partly because the current task is very difficult to do well. I'm not yet ready for deep geonodes R&D, so I have been tackling the same technical challenges for months using the same toolset. I need to widen my technical skills and confidence with Blender's more advanced elements.

I need to be pushing my training more—if you, for some crazy reason, read these posts, you'll know I talk about getting training done far more than I actually do the training. Blame my ADHD! Writing this blog is 50% an attempt to hold myself to account for not meeting creative milestones or delivering on productivity commitments.

Random photo of my old school

My mind wandered as I searched for the shots I created (below) and just added a photo of Myers Grove School. This school was demolished to make way for a brand-new school, Forge Valley.

Oh, look, terrains!

Moah Nova

I was looking back at a post from about four years ago when I was using World Creator's ability to create seamless terrain tiles, so you could duplicate and match up. This is a capability that wasn't carried over to the latest version -- sadly. Moah Nova is a huge (16km terrain tile), baked out of True-Terrain, decimated to about 20 million polygons, then instanced and mirrored so that it can tile nicely.


Old old terrain that I had a quick look at. I need to audit the terrains I've created.

Today

Gather yesterday's sculpted mountains and arrange them in shot 002, along with the lake plate. Then work out how to incorporate canyons in the foreground. Do a low-res block-out version before worrying about any details.


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Production Meeting

 The Halo: Raptor Project had the latest production meeting. It was good to catch up. The non-NDA-breaking gist: We need to up our work rate...