With the basic game dynamics working, I started to add animation to the assets. Blender's glTF exporter makes exporting animations to webGL relatively simple, but there were still plenty of Opportunities For Learning (OFL) to occur. :)
One challenge with working on a project part-time is the variation in the look and feel of the models created. I didn't have a good sense of whether I wanted the game to feel realistic or cartoony. I didn't know if I wanted something that felt modern or pseudo-historical. That generated a wide variation in the assets I created. But I finally found some reference images that were close to what I wanted, so I went back and started updating the assets, concentrating on keeping everything consistent.
When a family member moved to a different house, I decided to memorialize their old house with a 3-D model and associated visualization. It had been at least six months since I had done anything architecture-related and I was pleasantly surprised to find that both the Blender 2.8X update and associated Add-Ons continue to make the workflow better and faster!
This is the second in a series. You can start the series here. The series follows my journey figuring out how to use OpenFOAM for something more than repeating tutorials that already exist! Sometimes that journey gets a little rocky! :)
I'm starting a series of models, all involving commercial airline aircraft. Starting off is the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 700-series, known as the CRJ-700.
This is a project I started almost a year ago, but which soon stalled. I'm back to actively working on recreating one of the paintings in the series, Piazzo San Marco, by the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal.
With the basic game dynamics working, I started to add animation to the assets. Blender's glTF exporter makes exporting animations to webGL relatively simple, but there were still plenty of Opportunities For Learning (OFL) to occur. :)
One challenge with working on a project part-time is the variation in the look and feel of the models created. I didn't have a good sense of whether I wanted the game to feel realistic or cartoony. I didn't know if I wanted something that felt modern or pseudo-historical. That generated a wide variation in the assets I created. But I finally found some reference images that were close to what I wanted, so I went back and started updating the assets, concentrating on keeping everything consistent.
When a family member moved to a different house, I decided to memorialize their old house with a 3-D model and associated visualization. It had been at least six months since I had done anything architecture-related and I was pleasantly surprised to find that both the Blender 2.8X update and associated Add-Ons continue to make the workflow better and faster!
This is the second in a series. You can start the series here. The series follows my journey figuring out how to use OpenFOAM for something more than repeating tutorials that already exist! Sometimes that journey gets a little rocky! :)
I'm starting a series of models, all involving commercial airline aircraft. Starting off is the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 700-series, known as the CRJ-700.
This is a project I started almost a year ago, but which soon stalled. I'm back to actively working on recreating one of the paintings in the series, Piazzo San Marco, by the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal.