teach me baby teach

huh i don't know how i feel about that. also, i mean, impossible to say what percentage of those hits are from bots

sadly this does not include the first few streams that were full of people discovering just what haydee was

i don't know anything about any of this but it seems really complicated

ideally it would be nice to get back into a space where my initial emotional response to somebody else's sexuality isn't just 'tired exasperation' but hoo boy having what amounts to a constant tap on the most milktoast desires ever is not helping

anyway here's some grasses and an attempt at a sugarcane. trying to replicate the vintage story style isn't the worst target to have.

i guess i shouldn't say "things". softwares. softwares with complex uis. that's kind of different than things in general

i'm also very unclear about how to separate uv coord values b/c it seems like 90% of the time it treats overlapping vertices as 'the same vertex' (as in, selecting, moving, etc acts on all of them simultaneously) but then you can use grab to smear them around separately? but then sometimes the uvs are actually merged into a single coord (with 'stitch' i think?) but then any time i try to do that it tries to stitch together every single instance of that uv and not just the two i've selected. idk. blender is really complicated.

@ogrumm made me a test bush model so i'd have actual assets to mess around with! so i had to adjust my plant shader to handle things things like "has an actual texture" and "has alpha" instead of just drawing a cube. it's still early stages so it's still mostly using hardcoded colors, but now i could do things like have different bark vs. leaf colors, or have various gradients that get dynamically shifted... a lot of potential for all sorts of messing-around

i'm trying to get digging working right across chunk boundaries. this is one of those classic edge/corner case situations: digging inside a chunk is simple, but digging along an edge is complicated, and digging on a corner is even more complicated, b/c all of these things need to remain synced up, and it's not as simple as "just do the exact same dig at 4 different chunk offsets" since i might want to track the amount of soil moved, which means i can't double-count the exact edge points. aah.

(i am looking forward to having a billion flower types that have flower color that gets blended based on terrain ph. i haven't really attempted multi-material meshes yet b/c i... don't really know how that's gonna work. i'd have to start making procedural models for them i guess? seems complicated.)

see the problem with messing with landscape generation is you can do it forever and you'll continually slowly get better or more interesting landscapes (maybe) but it's usually not connected to any other kind of progress on the game. and you get an instant payout of "hey that looks new" so you keep doing it forever.