There's an artist active on RenderHub that makes really nice models with just the right mix of realism and style.

Looks even better imported into Blener (Eevee renderer). Isn't he a nice big boy?

I think I'll use this model as the first mob/charmable follow in my game.

Could it be that the #UnrealEngine default mode of failure is to crash by segfault on memory adress 0x00000003?

Input bad texture compression level? Crash. Segfault.
Something not quite right with imported mesh? Crash. Segfault.
Content panel moved to non-dockable location? Crash. Segfault.

Most of the clothes are matched to the new body now.

Auto-Rig armature is fully fitted as well, but I'm dreading hitting that "Bind" button because then the chain of noticing rigging issues and fixing or starting over or accepting imperfections is set in motion :D

#gamedev

Bah. Can't get any of the Awesome Games Done Quick streams to play.

Maybe it is my ISP's annoying routing issue again. Content won't load for TheMovieDb, CGTrader, SketchFab and some other sites.

Watching it later on YouTube just isn't the same 😢

#gamesdonequick

Trying to get into Auto-Rig Pro. I'm pretty confortable with Rigify (Legacy) but the bone hierarchy was always messy (
lots of ORG_ and MCH_ bones in the export and not in the hierarchy one would expect).

If I can get equally familiar with A-R P, things should hopefully be better.

#gamedev

I'm having a hard time combining a day job with moonlighting as an indie developer.

Started work on a game again (and the pile of unfinished projects grows).

Currently fitting clothes to the main character. Pants already match, now putting the equipment where the AO map expects it...

#gamedev

It's tragic what happened to Epic's asset store since the fab.com merger (or whatever it was).

Suddenly there are two licenses, requiring me to pay double or more, or to use a personal license and keep track, individual asset by asset, which ones have a revenue cap on their usage.

In the past, I've been using Blender Rigify (Legacy) and even wrote a lot of tools for it.

But, more and more, I am tending towards Auto-Rig Pro. No confuddled tree of MCH, ORG, DEF bones. Why not have prefix-less bones as derform bones in a clean tree that copies ORG/MCH xforms, Rigify?

#blender

Fictional scenario for Silly Tavern (AI Dungeon-like texture adventure system). Any similarities to real places accidental.

Feel free to grab and do whatever (image is a loadable card, too, if the embed survives BlueSky).

#ai-dungeon #silly-tavern

Tinkering a bit with AI nonsense.

I thought I could turn some 2D RPG tiles I purchased from itch.io into 3D meshes and then be able to suddenly zoom into the scene and catch the viewer/player off guard.

Look at that realism. It turned the tree stump into a 3D mesh... of sorts... erm... well...

I have to say Blender 4.2 does not exactly feel like a step up from Blender 2.79.

Resize some panel - app freezes for 10 seconds. Switch shading type - app freezes for 10 seconds. Right mouse drag - no reset.

Still gotta switch because AutoRig, shaders and many cool add-ons are Blender 4.x only.

The world has more color.

I think there is ample space for NSFW games and art, even of the kinky and outrageous kind, in a liberal world, which he haven't really had since the 1980s onwards.

Always has been. The late 1960s proved it. I'm so ready for a new hippie / counterculture movement!

In 2011/2012, comments kept popping up in the NSFW indie game community blaming feminists for the growing prudism.

I tried to stay out of it, but every two years it's a new scapegoat and new outrage. "SJWs" "CRT" "woke" "DEI" and on and on.

Fuck conservatism. Fuck right wingers. Fuck Russia.

So, well, hello Bluesky.

I'm an introvert and not very outspoken, still quietly working on getting *that* game finished when life allows me to.

A good friend I used to work with left Xitter the moment that bastard took over. That was the right moment and the right choice. So I'm late to the party.