Spending a lot of time making sure the proportions are accurate. I want this to be a portfolio piece that shows attention to detail and discipline (i.e. it's not a cartoon ray gun).

It Took Some Tough Love

Goodbye, long sword. It's time for me to move on with my life.

Oh My Fucking God

This is going to be (another) do-over next week on the hilt, but in the process of making this piece of shit, I have some ideas for how I'll make the real one.

Complicated shapes are complicated.

On Symmetry

No pretty pictures this week.

• Took a couple of shots at the cross guard on the sword using subdivision surface modifiers. Both ended up looking like double-sided dildos.
• Research and practice with the symmetry functions (side note: GRRRRRR)
• Tutorials on above.

Well It Starts with a Bloody S.

The google image search find.

Photoshop file for reference and proportions.

First fucked up attempt using a surface subdivision modifier (Yeah, not so much.)

Working.

Finished blade.

Let Me Axe You a Question

And the fucked up render. Talk about taking a knee at the 1 yard line.

Skyboxes are Hard and For Boys

So it turns out there isn't an easy mode for adding Skyboxes to a Leadwerks scene. The easiest way is not to easy, and involves using a script to create it on the fly during execution. So LUA isn' t something I can avoid anymore.

I spent a lot of time this week reading up about the language and basic syntax. It's not what I want to be doing but I think getting my head back in the scripting game will be a good thing in the long-term.

(Incidentally, I tried just copy-pasting someone else's skybox script into my terrain scene. Not only did it not create a Skybox; the map wouldn't even compile. Sadface.)