Soul Wanderer Blog Post #3

This week was very eventful as it was the week we had an escape room scheduled! Flynn figured it would be a good way to find out how we work together and how we solve problems and I think it was super effective and fun! We conquered the first room relatively quickly and only had issues once we reached the second room but it felt like most of us were pretty active in solving the puzzles and we managed to get out with seven minutes left!

Since that took up most of our Tuesday class there wasn't too much else that was done for the project. I did a lot of research on Blender add-ons and tools that would make our lives easier and one that particularly stood out to me was an add-on called Mix Damage 3 that would allow us to generate damage on meshes which I felt would work well for our ruins since the setting was blown up by a nuke (Below are some examples from the add-ons website).

I also intended to look into rigs that could go from bi-pedal to quadrupedal however when doing research on it I found that we didn't really have a good reference for Sulker movement so I switched gears and started looking towards that since depending on how we wanted them to move we might not need a rig that can do both quadrupedal and bipedal movements. I really enjoyed the movement of Xenomorphs from Alien so I will be looking down that avenue. Going forward I also plan to make a tutorial for people who aren't as versed in Blender and show them how to use the software.