#virtual diorama

[wanderingnork]

i am asking everyone to please buy cloud gardens you won't regret it: you're covering post-apocalyptic landscapes of broken things and trash with plants and fungi

so far i've unlocked the three plants here, along with multiple other vines, ferns, ground cover, and there's definitely more to come. you unlock them, and pieces to use in creative mode, by playing the main game of more structured plant growth and object placement. it's really intuitive and smooth, i'm playing on a laptop with a touch pad and having no problems at all. music's pretty, the birds fly around and land on your stuff and take off when you toss objects or seeds near them, and there are unique sound effects for each plant and for placing items.

in creative mode (this video) you construct your own landscapes, including a very nicely customizable lighting system, great ability to edit placement and orientation of objects, and you even get a chainsaw to sculpt your plants! then you can take a video and watch your plants grow over whatever diorama of junk you made.

despite being pretty light it does make my computer a bit...toasty. but then again my laptop is OLD so that might not be true for you. all in all, 10/10 will be playing this for a while.

[thamechanist]

So there's something I want to try next year, but it requires me to be a lot more creative-from-scratch than I have been before, and since putting me anywhere near drawing tools(either physical or digital) normally results in something combusting, I thought I'd try my hand at virtual dioramas since that way I could kitbash a lot of it using stls I've picked up over the years

And this... doesn't look too bad? From a 3D perspective, it's hitting everything I need for the project. But ideally I want to be able to actually add colour to the models, and that's making my head spin 😵‍💫