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a scene consist of hot air balloon, palm tree, a building

same scene with different art style

Here is the progress comparison:

DAY 9 vs DAY 30

My notes:
Modeling is much easier and I can actually create things I like :) I think cohesion improved a lot, and overall look is way better.

Next up: Characters!

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low poly balloon in middle of cornfield viewed from diagonal angle

🌽Day #30: Cornfield 🌽

🏁🏁FINISH 🏁🏁

Thanks to all who've followed along. I hope I added some value to your feeds!

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a single acorn laying on the ground

🌱Day 29: Acorn🌱

What is a thing in nature that reminds you of autumn?

Focusing more on gameplay/coding until the weekend.

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A flower field with cube in the middle

🌷🌷Day #28: Flowers🌷🌷

Inspired by Frieren, now I need a statue to put into the middle of the field.

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Small side quest completed:

Now I have 0 warnings and 0 errors!

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Me: Takes extra time to create rotation animation.
Bluesky: lemme make this a static image
😭

a spyglass on ground rotating like a pickable item

to-do item from 27th of april for spyglass

🗺️Day #27: Spyglass🗺️

I had functionality to zoom in with spyglass for a while, and this in to-do list for 20 days :D

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Driftwood on beach

🪵Day #26: Driftwood 🪵

I think populating the ground with some medium and small sized items will make it look good. So we'll be doing some items that we can put around for the beach.

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2 red capped mushrooms can be seen next to two green bushes

🍄 Day 25: Mushroom 🍄

I wanted to create a simple thing since the day here is almost over (11.30pm). Also red is good contrast with the green. I also played lots of Valheim :D

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s low poly tree, behind a hot air balloon can be seen

🌳 Day #24: Tree 🌳

I think I want the first island to be beach + forest area. For forest we need to make some trees 🌳

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bushes and palm tree near blue shop

Day #23: Bush 🥬

My keyboard is slowly dying, so smol post today.
Also, only 1 week left to finish the challenge!

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I think even with the MatCap it looks way better to work with 💯

a ring shaped thing at the end of rope

Day #22: Release Handle

Why there was a rope in the first place :D

⚠️If you use Blender 4.1+ and have both material and vertex color, then you'll lose vertex color if you export gltf2.0/glb. Fix plugin in the blog post.

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✨Clean✨

Day #21: Rope 🪢

I've created a rope because balloon and basket were not connected. Shared the code in blog post too, if anyone requires view-only ropes in their games!

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That sounds like a cool way to personalize your balloon <3 I hope I have time to add these to my game 🤞

Turns out you can customize the bottom of the hot air balloon burners! Very cute🌼

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Low poly rocks, fence and palm tree

Day #20: Palm Tree, Rocks & Project Management 📝

I've started using ClickUp (free) for personal project management. So far, much better fit for me than Trello. Also a little more to learn tho, so be warned.

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A red low poly balloon

🎈Day #19: Balloon 🎈

This was tough one. I think I can get better geometry with these constraints. Also no texture stretching :D

I wonder if I can apply some generic noise to all textures.

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GL bunny!

low poly basket

♻️Day #18: Basket Revisit ♻️

Sorry, couldn't manage to finish before work today!

I'll revisit all objects and get used to the new style that I decided I go for. I hope it doesn't look poop-de-doop 👀

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low poly chicken, looking at distance. thinking about future, and gameplay loop

🐔Day 17: Chicken 2 🐔

First chicken was so good it got a sequel.

Now trying low poly with more constraints. This one was easier to do and make textures for.

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a chicken

🐔Day 16: Chicken 🐔

We'll now switch to low-poly, flat colors version of the models and test out how that looks.

Also accidental wide-chicken meme in blog post :D

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Bad news: PS-X is not fit for the genre I'm going for.
Good news: I have time to experiment

low poly scene, player is surrounded by fences

🪵Day #15: Fences 🪵

I wanted to do something modular. Light is a little weird because I am trying other styles atm (I use git so don't worry)

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yellow topped and purple topped Flowers can be seen

🌷Day #14: Flowers Part 2 🌷

Today was last day of my textures com credits. So I spent whole day downloading textures today.

Trying to learn more about 🎨art direction🎨. Wish me luck!

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Low poly scene, some yellow flowers can be seen on the ground

🌷Day #13: Flowers 🌷

A little late and tired today.

Learning about what art direction is. I'll be doing some simple objects for a while.

Please share if you have any resources on 🎨art direction🎨!

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Also to #gamedev s, think a good amount when you decide to make a multiplayer game. Testing your game becomes quite a bit harder, as well as adding "quick" fixes QoL improvements to your game.

🎚️Day #12: Lever 🎚️

There was an element with no visual changes when used. So I updated the visual while at it, it looks poopy but better than default scaled cube.

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Ready for test tomorrow 🙏
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