Ontploffing Boer @ontploffing@writing.exchange

@SuricrasiaOnline "you're a sharkgirl"

Making terrain progress for this city illustration. But I have no real idea how to get color or shading in #blender, especially if the setting sun's light will be coming from down-valley, to the bottom-right of this image.

Learning Blender lowpoly modeling and sculpting to get a better terrain reference for this city, because building a huge 1 inch to 100 foot scale model in the workroom floor just isn't high-fidelity enough.
That scale works out to 1 Lego stud to 20 feet, and that's an awkward scale to build Lego buildings in to populate the city. It's also hard to place buildings on sloped cardboard/cloth hills.

So, back to Blender, and converting low-fidelity topo maps to terrain.

@NylaWoethief You could put WordPress on a NearlyFreeSpeech.net instance. For money-making sites iirc they start at $5/mo

@stolas Zeta only sort of makes sense without the context of where the Titans came from. I'd recommend Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory before Zeta.

@basicbaka Makes sense. It's both possible and okay to appreciate a thing without adopting it for yourself.

@SuricrasiaOnline no way! Your brand is solid enough that it feels like it's been around for five or eight years at least.

@SuricrasiaOnline I do the same! It's useful. And it also gives me a log of how long I've been working on that project, if it's threaded or hashtagged.

In my continued quest to understand #Zeonism, I've at last finished watching #Gundam ZZ.
For a break, I watched Gundam F91, which focuses on the scheme to establish Cosmo Babylonia. It feels thematically related to Zeon, but there's no explicit Zeonism. Yet I wonder if I should include it in this review of Zeonism.

Writing little history-blurbs for cities on the seashore, towns on the river, metropoles by the bay.

Of course, if you give a worldbuilder a building, he'll want to make a city. Which is why I'm now dinking about with #Leaflet again, to make a slippy map showing all the different approximate sites I'm considering for placing the city that holds this convention center.
#worldbuilding

This is the in-progress physical model of the convention center, which I'll use as an art reference for the three-ish outside shots of the convention center.

Worldbuilding post updated with my notes on the final dimensions of the pyramid, an aside on geometry, and musings on how to model the thing: https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/convention-center-for-acrobatics/#final-dimensions

The musings haven't changed; I'm just writing them down outside Mastodon.