My Actifit Report Card: October 20 2019

Another lower step day. My left knee has been bothering me; I don’t think it’s anything significant–it’s always just been a little temperamental. Cons of being tall and overweight, though my weight is now down quite a bit. I presume that being better about exercise and getting my weight down will help.

Doesn’t help that I also sleep like I’m trying to fight the mattress, but that’s just another thing that contributes.

Didn’t do a whole lot of writing today; my game didn’t really work out (coordination, yay!), but I chatted with one of the players while working on a map. I think it turned out pretty well, and I was able to try out some things I haven’t done before. Voronoi noise to generate cells, area paint tool, then copy, rotate, and do some finishing individualization.

I think that in the end it all looks pretty much organic, with a few interesting buildings as well as a lot of generic ones. Even knowing what I did there’s enough deviation and alterations that I can’t tell where the pattern “repeats”, though knowing what I did I’m also able to see a couple of the more distinctive buildings repeat themselves.

Since I was working on this for my home campaign of Degenesis and I’m shamelessly stealing their stuff (literally in terms of color scheme and some of the assets I use), I don’t feel right posting it here, but I might do some overview of my method and post it somewhere else.

The only things I don’t like have to do with the paint-fill stuff for Inkscape, and honestly I think there might be some solutions to that if I fiddle with it. It produces really bad geometry, which is not good when you want to hide the fact that you’re repeating a lot of stuff.

Daily Activity, Walking