#ts3wips

It has been a very long time since I've been active in the community, and I am so happy to be back at it! I've been quietly working on some things for the last week or two, as I wasn't sure how much time I would actually be able to allot considering I haven't been able to touch my projects in so long.

Happily, I was able to get some pretty big progress going while we wrapped up summer break for kiddos. Here's my latest work in progress! (Please forgive the screenshots, I'm in testing mode so I'm switching back and forth between game and files lol)

Welcome to the Armory:

These are all Skyrim Weapons I pulled from my own game files and converted, and while I was doing that, naturally I came up with half a dozen ideas on how to properly display them - which led to the display cases and weapon racks you see here.

Mmkay most of you probably won't understand this, but I am documenting my progress because I just like doing that on my blog. And if this post reaches anyone with experience willing to help that would be great lmaoo.

So the good news is I've got the ingredient model into ts3. The geostates are done! The mesh was originally 20k POLYGONS, but I got it down to 438 :). And it was very easy. @bietjie was VERY helpful to me in answering my noob questions and I did not want to bother them too much more! But their help and their guide probably cut my project time in HALF! I def would've stumbled over this part without them so TYSM for that!

Taking a brief break on plants to try and avoid the dreaded burn-out, and switched over to rocks. This is technically terrain paint, but I had several textures for the beach that I wanted to tackle to get tiny rocks in without the polycount. I think I found a few that will work very well, and further fiddling with it produced seaglass - which is stupid exciting because I couldn't find any for the longest time, and now I've managed to make some myself!

Forgive the sloppy terrain painting, I slapped it on there to test the texture and take quick pictures.

More progress on the actual rocks as well, I now have a few bedrock pieces, cliffs and a whole mass of rocks/boulders to add to the collection. I'm editing the older rocks I put out to better match the mountain texture I have for the world (which took me what, two years to settle on? Never mind - we'll ignore that bit lol) and a couple of landmark pieces such as druid stones and cairns. I'm still fine tuning all of it, and trying to optimize the best angles out of the rocks I have so far - which drives me crazy because one rock can quickly turn into ten because different angles and textures can give wildly different results.

Cliffs and bedrock -

Druid stones and cairns - in progress

Getting the rocks to better blend in to the world with the matching textures (while still maintaining details such as moss, lichen and normals)

And trying not to get overwhelmed by how many I have left to do lol.

I've also been slowly chipping away at getting plant singles finished, so those will come along shortly too.

And finally a peek at part of the world - super happy with it so far! I finally have my mountains! :D

Kidding, totally kidding, but I’ve worked my butt off for the last few days trying to cram everything into this Halloween gift lol

More.... pots! [Again, if you’re just tuning in, all of these will be in the various cauldrons and pots I’ve put together. Some of the following, however, will not be in bowls... because you don’t boil stuff in small bowls... You get it.

I tried to get these as even as possible, but some of these were harder to find than other. In this set, you’ll get fresh fruit, boiling fruit, simmering fruit, jams [and a couple of sauces]

Apples!

Pears and Strawberries!

Cherries!

Blueberries!

Chocolates, and caramels [Hot chocolate included]

Various drinks: [And boiling water]

And another gift [hopefully BEFORE Halloween, ugh!]

You’re high if you think that’s all the donuts I have in there lmao ANNNDDDD they’re edible :D

Been tinkering with some of the plant files I’ve saved! Now the garden looks like it has some variety! :D [These aren’t finished, just tested them and thought I’d share because I’ve been quiet around here <3