Of course, for one, I've been setting up this very blog. Figuring out the general format, putting together the About page, trying to start things off well if I can. Considering I've never done anything like this before and I don't tend to read blogs myself, it's very unclear to me how to go about doing this, but I'm going to keep trying until I find something that works, and I'm hoping that by not just following the usual format I'll stumble on something unique. That's one of the things I've been trying to do lately, just try things and see if I can make it work. It's hard, because I'm not particularly good at coming up with "random" ideas to try out, but I'm good at expanding on an idea once I have one. But the idea is, if I can come up with enough, some things will stick around.
Anyway, today's been kind of weird. It was mostly a mix of just kind of floating around, not doing anything particularly interesting. I did a couple things in Blender for instance, but they weren't particularly good. There's something else I know I need to work on in Blender, I just haven't gotten the spark to actually go and do it. But perhaps that's what I'll do after I type this up. It's this warp-speed type of animation, I really like how it looks. I don't think it's particularly accurate or anything, but it looks cool, and often that's all that really matters. I strive for some semblance of realism but when your premise is going faster than light in the first place, something completely impossible under currently known physics (except by mechanisms we don't seem to see existing due to other physics) you might as well throw in some artistic license to make it look cooler.
What I was working on today, was much less substantial. I got an idea on how I could make a city (something I've tried numerous times) and it didn't work out too well, the smog and clouds ended up being the best things about the image. So I went on to try another idea I had, to map a 2D image sequence to the third dimension to get a volumetric texture, in particular for making a visual of the Milky Way I've wanted to make for awhile. Turns out that doesn't exactly work. I ended up bringing the trash bins up from the street while I was trying to figure out how I could make it work, if at all. I come back in, and my computer is completely shut off. Not like it was shut down, it has lights that stay on even when it's not booted up. But those were off, so it was a power issue of some kind.
For some background, I've had a couple issues like this before. The first time resulted in some kind of bug with how my GPU monitoring software interacted with, presumably, a windows update, and caused almost everything that I opened on the computer to crash immediately. This obviously made my computer basically unusable, and it remained so for quite awhile before someone thought up a different way of getting at the problem, which ended up solving it. But that took a long time, so needless to say, ever since, on the occasion my computer does some kind of unexpected shutdown I freak out. So it was today.
Turns out the extension cord I use to plug in my computer to an outlet in a distant room (that's a whole can of worms) had actually been two cords that came unplugged from each other. So it ended up not being a big deal, and is possibly a solution to my other problems too, but that's just speculation. So I freaked out, found out that stuff was fine, and continued about my day. Reminded me again that I really need to set up a backup system.
After that, I decided to start working on some music, since I hadn't for a bit. So I started making some sounds and ended up with a synthesizery ambient track that I actually quite like. It really conveys the wonder of exploring space as an interstellar civilization. I named it "Uncharted Stars, Lonely At Peace".
Even earlier I tried to create a formula for how fast civilizations in my setting A Sophon's Cosmos could travel at different times. It didn't really work out that well, because I couldn't get the numbers right on my own and the only website I found that could help required money to do the things I wanted. And I don't exactly have money to spare, so it was a no from me.
I also worked on a giant wall I'm building in Minecraft, replenished my furnaces supplies of lava buckets for smelting, and did some space battles in Everspace.
And that's about all I can think to mention for now. Have a good day/night and be sure to check back in later for more shenanigans :-) This one's been light, as I'm still working things out, but I'll be getting more specific as time goes on.
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