Dr. Memnus Lagbane Soultooth the Mad

(4:30 pm) "When I came in here at 8:30 this morning, didn't you have that same window open?"

"That looks mind-numbingly boring."

"You really are anal."

I'm trying to get Fleck's UV coordinates all laid out nicely. For those outside the graphics loop, the UV coordinates are the mapping from vertices on a 3-D model (I can't believe I had to teach Firefox the word 'vertices') to points on a 2-D texture. Basically, laying them out is finding the optimal way to peel the skin off and lay it flat within a square. Try to use as much of the square as possible, don't distort any face any more than you have to, and put seams in easily-hidden place. Oh, and did I mention that the model has 12,606 individual quads? It's extremely fiddly and precise work, with the exact amount of everything-coming-together that enables me to fall into a trance and work on it for hours on end, forgetting things like eating.

Actually putting a texture under those coordinates is going to be another matter entirely.

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It's a gorgeous day, I'm sitting outside with a laptop, and Time Suck is playing Aqua. This is nice.

I should really grab some Aqua to go into my regular selection.

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