Book Stuff and a Little Bit About Me
Impressions: The Rage of Dragons
Quick Take: If you love RTS/ARPG games give this book a shot. It might let you scratch that itch while you recharge your switch.
Review: Dresden Files #16 – Peace Talks
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher is the 16th book on a long running series. I feel like this title has particularly tried to harken back to the earlier days of the series, referencing Harry's conflict with ghouls and the sorcerer Justin from the first book. This creates a bit of [...]
Impressions: All the Stars and Teeth
Quick take: I found this book immediately engrossing, but capital G on gross. Partial Review The sample of All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace that I downloaded from Kindle was good enough that I ended up buying this book. It features a strong female protagonist named Amora who [...]
Embossing like a… something.
I am finally figuring out this UV map stuff and getting textures the way I want. Parts of this gun are starting to look real!
Render Disappointment
I'm posting my first results from Substance Painter. There are some things I like about how it rendered and some things I am pretty unhappy with. As I suspected, the cylinder looks really wonky and the UV maps are way off. Generally antique revolvers have a pattern engraved on them, [...]
Colt Classic
Tonight's project was learning to model a Colt model 1848 Baby Dragoon percussion revolver. It was one of the first handguns small enough to be carried in a pocket. Since the barrels were wrought iron these things were super heavy and had to have very thick walls to withstand the [...]