If you are new to 3d, getting stuck and having to rework things using better techniques that you figure out later is perfectly normal (unless you're a prodigy).
And if you went to some fancy school to learn stuff, experiment anyway because the stuff taught in schools is one way to do things, not the only or necessarily best way to do things.
I originally held off progblog on Friday because I got cool things from @bearone which I wanted to write about instead, but my computer and phone don't want to interact properly (I can plug the phone in, tell it to trust the computer, the computer can see the phone and see all the photos and videos on the phone, but importing is flakey. Sometimes stuff will go in (including old stuff which it can't seem to work out is old stuff which then ends up in completely the wrong date folder even though it's supposed to be sorted by exif date which is shown correctly, at this stage I don't even know how it's sorting things but it's absolutely not doing what it's supposed to be doing).
So until the end of the several days it's likely to taker to get all the photos off my phone (I'm not even exaggerating here) you'll just have to take my word that the stuff is cool.
So yeh anyway I hate being stuck. I really wanted to have something new to complain about. Most of being stuck was getting a handle on the brush with these settings, and then trying to get over Blender apparently giving me the choice of correct shape OR smooth mesh before I managed to figure out how to get both. Then the mesh went violently off symmetry as can happen with sculpt mode and I don't know if the resymmetrise tool caused the problem that had me restarting the sculpt but I'm kind of too chicken to try it again so I've just been doing it manually (it is possible to get it to sync back up manually if you're careful and it's pretty easy with the tail as it's on the centreline but would be slightly more challenging to keep track of on things not on the centreline).
Blah blah blah still plodding along on this tail ergh. I'm on the home stretch now which means it will take forever.
Most of what I'm doing right now is smoothing the bumpy bits, trying to keep the shape right and fixing minor symmetry issues (you can see in the lower left panel where it's off, the green line is the centre line).
I also continued translating a character's dialogue into Sona (that's a fun exercise and I've had to come up with some words on the fly because I couldn't find an appropriate word in the dictionary and I'm not sure if I'm doing anything right) and wrote the same ficlet from two different viewpoints. Initially I sent them to Sprat and told her that I wasn't sure which one I wanted to use so I would probably post them both. And some time afterward remembered that I had actually wanted to experiment with writing the same situation from different points of view so I guess I did that. I really should post them both together but I'm not sure how I'm going to reconcile that with my irrational dislike of posting multiple times in a day and it's probably going to be too long to put in one post but that's probably what I'm going to end up doing.
The ficlet sprung from finding a couple of new characters that I was kind of vaguely aware of but hadn't looked into due to first wanting to get the outline copied into its new home. I have since been adding more notes and really don't know how I'm going to get through all of these stories in the time I have x_x
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Here's my tip for sculpting: regularly BUBYFU when you have reached a point in the model development that you like.
BUBYFU? Back Up Before You F*ck Up
It is a paranoid (but useful) habit I started years ago when programming Commodore Amigas that would crash regularly. Secondly, computers have Murphy's Law built into them.
I support you, that is my strategy not to bother me too much and thus save the life of my computer 😅
yes, save yourself the pain.
Interesting acronym XD I did learn that one early on when I started 3d (before sculpting became a proper thing), soon as I hit a point where I'm worried about what the next steps will entail I version save XD I'm up to 12 with this sculpt, some of the work files for the other stuff I've been doing are higher because I occasionally get a bit paranoid/obsessive x_x
Commodore Amigas :O
LoL it certainly seems that way!
I have to frequently BUBYFU with Blender. For some reason it crashes like a pig on my machine and often on very simple GUI interactions. I'd really like to dive into Blender, but this and I can't use my GPU slow things down a bit.
I'm dreaming of a brand new 3D capable beast so I can dive into Blender.
Ergh that sounds frustrating DX
Hopefully crypto makes us all rich soon so you can buy a new one XD
That and or I make some more good art sales. 😀
I seem to be making progress with learning to trade.
Well one of those is more reliable than the other XD
Yay for learning to trade!
that will be forever out of my reach I think XD
Learning to trade is just like learning anything else. It takes time. you will make mistakes and you need to practice. How long has it taken you to (still) learn Blender?
xD this is fun when you're not in your shoes ahahaha As I understand you... the only reason I've survived being there is that I ever came out of that hole and I know it's possible. At this point there is a option on zbrush called zremesher, but I don't know if blender has something similar.
It's still funny in an exasperating kind of way XD This isn't the first time, I've lost count of the number of times I've been stuck so I'm used to it x_x I think it's better than having to completely redo things anyway which I spent a chunk of 2012-2014 doing DX
I have the remesh option turned on for the brush but I'm not sure if that's what you're thinking of. I'm doing all right now that I've figured out the brush, it just took me a while to figure out the brush coz I'm dumb :)
So I'm very dubt too xD Whenever I discover the button that could solve all my problems from the beginning I think it
Here is an example with images in the "retopology" part that shows what I mean
Not doing retopo yet, want to get all these lumps out first XD or as many as I can because I don't want to have to try and edit the normal map x_x
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I think this is not limited to being new to 3D....it has been a constant thing throughout my career 😂
This is true, I'm definitely not new and well look at me XD
It was more to let people who were relatively new know that this is a constant problem and they don't need to feel so dumb if they find they have to repeat work ;D