Mike the3DGuy

Finally (Release 2 Update 9)

Excuse my French, but that was a bitch! For all sorts of reasons, most or at least some of which you already know. But it's done, and while it's not perfect I think it's pretty cool.

The next task will be yet another animation, though there might be a still image or two before it - haven't ...

I Hate Animation (Release 2 Update 8)

Not really... but sometimes it makes you want to tear your hair out. I'm exhausted and it's very, very late. Below is a preview of the animation I'm working on, or at least part of it! The image is a still render from one of the animation frames. I'll add more text here to explain in the morning....

Release 2 Update 7

I'm battling flagging optimism this week. The group of renders I completed took huge amounts of effort, simply due to their complexity. SO many articles of clothing that had to work ON characters, and OFF them, as props. And for all of them I had to use physics engines to make them conform natura...

Release 2 Update 6

Reasonably productive week in spite of our AC problems. Those are solved by the way, and my office is cooler than ever, despite the last few days being the hottest of the year (today my weather station showed temps reached 110.8°F, or 43.8°C at my house).

Had som...

Game Release 1 Download

Here's a convenient site post with all the Release 1 download links, a synopsis of the game, a sea of comments (both good and bad!) and my replies. Feel free to add your own comment or question there, and even rate the game!

2023-07-13 16:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Rough Day Yesterday!

My office is unfortunately in the hottest room in our house. I'm pretty heat-resistant myself - I can handle hot days better than most. But my PC? Not so much. PCs like mine with the kind of graphics card that can render 3D images well and quickly produce huge amounts of heat. So I have to be ext...

Scripting Serendipity

I'm very happy with the way the script is unfolding as this plays out. As a writer you know things are going well when you feel almost guided... that's the "less conscious", more creative part of your mind working. Characters tend to come alive, and behave in ways you didn't necessarily ...

Release 2 Update 5

Yeah, I got tired of trying to come up with a new dumb title for each update and just decided to number them. There are certainly other posts, but the "updates" are the ones where I share some renders for the upcoming release, and this is the 5th post like that for Release 2.

Wasn'...

Phone Texting Works!

Text system up and running, integrated into code. I've added around 100 text messages to the history so far, though there will be hundreds more! The phone looks a bit different from the one in his hand here, and I might try to update the images to match it. Not super critical, but I do l...

Release 2, Scene 3 Update and AI Voice News

So here are some recent renders. This is an unusual scene, as the only main character in it is the MC himself. But it's necessary to set up the rest of this release and events to follow.

I've spent a great deal of time working with this new programmer helping me get this ph...

Weekly TAG Progress

So this week has been different. I rendered NO images. Instead I burned a day or so trying to make a phone 📱 texting system work before I relaized it was probably beyond my ability. I found a fellow developer looking to do partial coding for other devs for $ and I've got him working o...

New Texting System

So far I've just shown an image of a phone screen when phone texts with Nina are exchanged, but there is a better way that allows actual scrolling of messages, and I've been trying to implement that in code. The ability to scroll back to earlier messages is somewhat useful I think, but the re...