Hey, year's almost over! Man.
Unfortunately I haven't managed to get anything worth showing done. RL has been creeping up on my time lately. Probably would need to do something about it. Most of the stuff I'm doing right now is in progress. Maybe I'll be able to get something nice out by the end of the year.
Blender 🔗
I've been learning how to use the material node editor, using the scripting API and other things. Nothing worth showing yet and also no work yet on getting a sequenced music plugin working. I'll need time on this.
StretcherDrill 🔗
Nothing worth showing here either, but I was learning how to get autotiles working in Godot and I've managed to do it. There are slight gotchas in understanding how they work and I'll make an article soon about what I've understood about it as a reference for myself, if nothing else.
Project Page 🔗
Nope. Haven't started on this, sadly.
New Video 🔗
This is in progress. I'll try my best to get it out by the end of the year. I have a few pieces of music that I am in the process of writing but I'm unsure on how they should fit into the video. One of them is definitely out of the question of showing in this video but I'll definitely be using it in the future. Its a good one :).
There's also the thing about uploading descriptive videos, or "narrative" videos that I discussed about in the previous SoT (November End). I haven't really given it much thought yet, but I have to eventually give it some time.
Other Musings 🔗
Decay in Output 🔗
I don't know, but I do feel like I'm haven't been doing as much stuff as I could have as I was doing last month. There's this thing where when I do anything regularly, I eventually start to slump on it. Maybe that's what happening here as well, but at the same time this is the first thing that I have ever committed to, and remained committed to over a month. Although that shouldn't be an excuse to go easy on myself.
Bad Decision? 🔗
I don't think starting this series of update articles instead of just pushing to release something at the end of the month with an article on the side was a bad idea. Making myself write these articles has made me regularly put my rough thoughts into words and then process them in my mind more. I'll have to continue this for a few months to really see whether this is a bad thing or not.
Proofreading and Spellchecking 🔗
If you have read the previous articles, you'd notice that most of them are full of spelling mistakes or grammatical mistakes of one kind or the other or just have weird phrasing at places. That's mostly because my mind just refuses to look for errors once I am done with some article. Aside from that I am just using a plain text editor to write my articles at the moment. The dodgy spell check that it comes with definitely does not help.
Conclusion 🔗
Things are maybe getting tougher to do, but hopefully I will get through this eventually. Just need to be smarter and persistent about it.
See you in two weeks!