An esteemed work colleague/manager/mentor is visiting the UK with his wife. They're visiting Sheffield for a day, so I'm going to catch up with them today or tomorrow, possibly both if it means reconnecting with a few ex-colleagues.
It's going to be nice/a bit weird/possibly emotional to catch up with people after three years. Especially having spent the intervening time in a bit of a self-care bubble. We will see! I will report!
Edit: It was too short notice for other ex-WANdisco people to make the date; it was just the visitors and me.
Splashdown
Subnautica 2 has entered early access. I have purchased. I have played. About four hours, so far. It's quite smashing! So far, it seems to have everything I loved about the first game and its stand-alone expansion, only a bit better. Obviously, I will only be dipping in as a reward for completing work tasks—the Scene 002 terrain is now very late. That should be a priority!Scene 002
Firstly, I had to do some repair work. The critical lake area disappeared. Looking into the problem, I realised that the lake EXR file wasn't loading in because I'd renamed the directory it was stored in. Once that was identified, the lake was quickly returned, and I could concentrate on adding a final set of hills.The next step will be to rebuild the scene in Blender using new displacement plates and mask files. Once done, it's "dressing-up" time, with the addition of some foliage scattered in the foreground and a lot of structures, here and there; for starters, the city.
This week
I haven't fallen too far behind on the project effort, but I need to get more productive so that a small slip doesn't get any worse. I've missed my targets for Blender School - that will be a second item on the list.Gaea vs World Creator
The challenge I posed to Gabe: create a terrain in Gaea, and I will attempt to match it with World Creator, has not yet started. We'll see if Gabe delivers the challenge. I did have a bit of practice, creating a flow terrain in about forty minutes.
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