Yikes!

 I've been rambling along the tail-end of Summer in a state of ignorant bliss. On Monday, the penny dropped: I'm back at work on Thursday (tomorrow). It's an odd time to return to work. I guess we'll be using the days before the teaching staff return to do deep cleaning or disruptive work.

Yesterday

I missed making a post because it all got jolly busy. I got feedback on the project work. I need to make some tweaks, which I'll have completed for end of tomorrow.

I progressed the Texas Tower 4 model.

Texas Tower awaits the final elements. Mostly the radar dishes on the back face.

True-VFX

The True-VFX team released a cool new utility, which I had the opportunity to test. It works well!

Updates

True Terrain 5.1.2 arrived, delivering several bug fixes and official Blender 4.5 support.

Photographer 5.6.1 returned, after being pulled by its creator because of some serious compatibility issues with scenes created with earlier versions. The add-on now does a conversion step.

To-do list:

* More work on the previs terrains (priority)
* Complete tutorials for Photographer and Render Raw. These tools look to be stepping on each other's toes with crossover/super-imposed parameters. I still haven't reached the bottom of the over-exposure issue on start-up. 
* Texas Tower 4 work. Complete the deck crane, do some tidy-up, then textures.

Timeout

 I've had a couple of days where I didn't get much done. I played with World Creator and found myself going through the old flow of sculpting a terrain, exporting maps and playing with them in Blender. Not very useful or productive, it's a therapy thing.

The colour map is "banded". Commented as a bug

Today, I found what appears to be a serious bug in the latest World Creator beta that corrupts exported material maps. As good a reason as any to go away and do something more productive. I'm supposed to be doing a final clean-up on the service road, but I wanted a weekend break.

Dark Tower

Last night I watched a YouTube video about the Texas Towers. Built by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s, these oil rig-like structures provided extended radar coverage of America's eastern seaboard. The final tower (Tower-4) was notorious because it was sunk in a storm, dooming its crew to a watery grave.

Texas Tower

The story touched a nerve. I love these structures, so I decided to create a quick model. Time limited to be completed tomorrow.

Work-in-progress