Orion Skies

   TL;DR: Lots of progress in 2021! Especially on graphics and weaponry. Plans are in place to build 3 connected plug-ins for Cosmic Frontier, culminating in Orion Skies itself. Progress in 2021    Orion Skies , and its affiliate projects, have come a long way in 2021. The design and planning work has made great progress, a new weapons-and-outfits generator is functional enough to be useful, and I also learned how to create 3D graphics in Blender .    Looking back, the year started as I was working my way through 3D tutorials, trying to learn Blender from scratch. I already had a number of aspects of Orion Skies planned out, and wanted to develop some of my own technical skills so that I'd be ready to build a TC when Cosmic Frontier was ready. An underway version of the F-86 Sabre I built as a practice project.    For the first half of the year, 3D remained my focus. I learned how to make 3D jet aircraft , oceans , and skies, and learned many...

   TL;DR: The Tech Generator is making progress, focused on generating weapons in the style of different EVx games as a way to test its abilities. Meanwhile, "The Expanded Suite" will carry on the legacy of EVO: Expanded in the new Cosmic Frontier era. Tech Generator Recent Progress    At last month's posting, the Tech Generator was producing weapons in the style of EVO(E) , based on user-provided specifications, and I was in the process of updating the way it worked to give the user more control and flexibility in specifying a wider variety of weapon styles. That's done now. :)    The next phase of work on this is testing-by-doing: adding specifications to generate weapons in the style of Frozen Heart/EVC *, Ares , EV Nova , and some Magic: the Gathering -derived concepts that I've been pondering for Orion Skies . Each stage inevitably identifies bugs and limitations in the tech generator, and prompts me to improve its capabilities.    (*Much of...