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I have finally found the time to update my 3D printed avatar model. The previous attempt at printing it didn’t work because the flame effects were could not be printed in my chosen material (full colour sandstone).  They were too heavy to support their own weight. I removed these flame effects and added another, much […]

I have now finally finished my Phoenix Avatar Model, for the second time. The first time it was not printable, due to the walls being too thin in several places. This time, I am confident that it will print successfully. I had to redo quite a lot of the mesh, and the quality did suffer […]

I have almost finished my next attempt at 3d printing my phoenix avatar. I have added some flame effects to the hands to prevent the fingers from protruding too much and breaking off. There is some more work to be done with the model, the texturing, and some more preparation for printing, but I think […]

I have implemented the floating origin system successfully for the time being. The issues that I was having were related to the fact that I have a number of collision meshes on my shuttle object that are within other collision meshes. This is because the ships hull has its own collision mesh, and the web-based […]

Some time ago, I completed a model that I had planned to have 3D-printed, but there were some issues with the wall thickness which prevented it from being accepted for printing. I am in the process of reworking this model to remove the thin walls. This is taking a long time, and I have had […]

The last thing that I want to get finished before the end of the year is some decorative art to make the scene look more interesting. I am using basic shapes and simple textures made in substance painter to create the art, but so far it is looking ok. I have included some materials that […]

I have added guns to the VR demo. The hardest part was making the guns fit into the hands properly, actually getting them to fire was quite easy. I also fixed some issues with the guns, such as spend cases not being ejected properly, and odd lighting issues on the muzzle flash texture at certain […]

I have added the first weapon to the game. I have created a guided missile object, with a rocket engine/exhaust effect, and an explosion effect. When fired, the missile will steer itself towards the nearest target, and destroy it. For now, the target is just deleted when it is hit, but in future I intend […]

The progress of my model in quixel is not going well. In addition to trying to figure out how to use the program to it’s full extent, I am also having problem importing the materials into Unity. The materials seem to look completely different in Unity from the way the do in the “3DO” renderer. […]

Progress on integrating the Space Exploration engine is good. All code is compiling, and everything seems to be working behind the scenes. After some effort, I decided that it was easier to integrate my project with the demo scene, rather than vice versa, since there is a lot of setup to be done. I was […]