#azpherambles

[infin-8-morphosis]

Screaming and crying that vertex groups for shape keys dont work with the mirror modifier. Why. You can have assymetrical vertex groups but not shape keys???? Why not???

Cannot stress enough the evil that is the symmetrise option in blender. It does not only symmetrise your mesh, it symmetrises the vertex groups too. So it will break all of them. Which on the average model is hundreds of them. Pray to something if you dont notice this because it is a fucking model ruiner. You WILL have to go through them individually and unsymmetrise them all.

'only apply the mirror modifier when youre done with the mesh' who the. who the fuck know when theyre done making a model???

Like yeah its technically fine as long as you have good model hygiene and lock groups youre done (Edit: it symmetrises them anyway!! Even if you have locked them to be uneditable!!! aaaaaaAAA) with but man. I just. I dont want. to. If the limbs clip thats between me and blender I cant fix it without applying it and so its just gonna have to be wonky forever.

[infin-8-morphosis]

Cool spec idea I'll probably never ever do so if anyone wants to steal this go ahead:

Life on a planet recently hit by another planet/moon or whatever? Especially if said collider also has life. What happens on the collided area, is it a big crater, if part of the collider sticks to the planet, what happens there climatically, does the sun even shine on parts, etc. Who lives who dies.

[infin-8-morphosis]

Random thought but I absolutely don't mind when people compare my stuff to other stuff. It's nice for me! If I know what you're comparing it to I might be like 'oh yeah that's awesome, I'm just like an awesome thing!' and if I don't know what you're comparing it to, well that's also fun, especially if from my perspective the two seem completely different. That's funny!

And well if someone correctly guessed where I got my inspirations from on certain concepts, I'd be jus chuffed. Some of them are real obscure!

[infin-8-morphosis]

Kind of wierd, several times the past months I've become able to recycle extremely old ideas for my world to fit in with new ideas. That hasn't really happened before, it feels nice to return to some of the early, frankly self indulgent concepts I made, and give them new life that fits and makes sense and builds on the themes of the story while also connecting it to the worldbuilding.

In short though furries are canon now

[infin-8-morphosis]

Been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd do my usual little check-in. I'm most active on my Project's Discord, where you can see my conlang, worldbuilding, creatures, a taster of my comic, etc. I'm on Tumblr, Twitter, Pillowfort, Newgrounds, Inkblot, if you wanna follow me anywhere else, all under the same name. All the same stuff just different places! And always feel free to ask me about my stuff, I love being asked about my stuff.

More details under the cut. TLDR though, art is good, I might post more WIP stuff, and I'm good.

So, updates. I'm doing really good, super inspired but, uh, mostly because I haven't done anything except play Subnautica and watch The Good Place (both great), so I haven't had anything to post (Not that I do much anyway, which, speaking of...) but, I do really want to post more regularly. The big problem is that I want all the sites I'm on to have the same 'content', and I think that's really preventing me from just tossing up an untagged WIP or rambling about what I'm working on. I really want to get more comfy with thats so, I may try just... posting whatever I did that day, for a whole month, and seeing how it goes, on Tumblr, and maaaaybe Twitter (It's so dinky there tho...).

As for me, the boring human, I'm also very good. Think I went through a bit of a depression spike but I'm feeling much better now. Got rejected for disability allowance, but, I expected that to happen. I told my mom my autism diagnosis isn't proper proper, and, even though I am entitled to it, the idea of having money I haven't '''earned''' sounded very stressful, even if it would just go into improving my life and allowing me to keep doing what I love.

I'm having an MRI soon cuz... honestly several reasons BUT most excitingly hopefully will get me on the road to getting a hysterectomy (yooooo) and that's nice. Still on a like 2 year waiting list to get even just an appointment to get HRT but oooh maaaan. Getting that removed would really help my dysphoria. So yeah. All good.

[infin-8-morphosis]

I'm Back

I'm back! Kind of. From now on I'm able to draw whenever I like, though that doesn't mean everything I draw can be posted. In fact, I didn't end up making any progress on the comic these past months! I'm full of energy for everything though, so watch out :o As for what I've been up to, if you care to know, (tw pet death) I'm now officially done with school, though I didn't end up doing any exams as my beloved cat went missing 3 weeks ago. That made me completely incapable of doing pretty much anything. He did not come back, and he's an indoor cat so it is extremely unlikely he will. :( However, a feral cat in the neighborhood had kittens, and we've been keeping them in the house so we can get her neutered when they're older. So that has helped me, though I also know my cat adores kittens and it hurts that he didn't get to meet them.  I also managed to print the first chapter of my comic! Also very stressful, but it's done now, and I am so proud of myself!

[transmandrake]

Fun fact the first time I played paper mario ttyd (well, only tbh... i kept running into emulator problems that stopped me at certain points and gave up. I watched it instead) my emulator (dolphin probably?) Kinda Sucked and mines particular unique quirk was that all of the character graphics specifically was either completely missing or corrupted. I managed to complete the second chapter even though i literally could not see the little guys you had to save. 10 year old me had incredible patience.

Then i got to a bit where you had to spin the control stick and i couldmt get past because i only had a mouse and keyboard

[transmandrake]

Hmmm... it would be sort of fun and a learning experience to try and recreate as much of my own site to neocities as possible... but also a tremendous waste of time when ive, yknow, already made it.

Gotta say the pricing of it is surprisingly... high?

I pay €60 a year (albeit on a legacy plan... wonder when they'll boot me from it...) for a full website with servers and emails and neocities is also €60 for just the website...? The storage and bandwidth is very generous, and yes of course the fact its free by default means paying is more like a bonus than a proper bundle, but still. I hope people know that that's what they're getting, because paying for hosting isn't just the website itself, and that seems to be all that neocities gives you.

I dream wistfully of something with the freedom of coding yourself but the ease of use of a website builder... Did you know I had to install 3 add-ons to make boxes on my wordpress site. You can do it by default now but why the fuck could I not do that without 3 add-ons 4 years ago. Why. Took me like 5 minutes to do in html so its not like its a new thing. Whyyyy

...Boggles the mind that websites, the web itself even, just dont have commenting or accounts built into them. Probably one of the single biggest reasons i use wordpress. Many times I have wanted to comment on a site and given up because I forget my disqus or whatever 5 hosts there are's log in every time and figuring it out is not worth typing 'i love this! Great work!' And hitting send. Its also so damn ugly looking.

I would whine more but I should sleep... if anyone wants to hear more probably uneducated opinions about web hosting lemme know