{"id":640,"date":"2010-08-05T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:48:37","slug":"will-i-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/archives\/640","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will I Blend?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partly spurred on by the <a href=\"http:\/\/artpass.tf2maps.net\/\">Art-pass contest<\/a>, and partly by a lull at work, I&#8217;m (re-)starting my attempts to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/blender.org\/\">Blender<\/a> and create custom models for TF2.<\/p>\n<p>I have very little experience detailing maps&#8211;barring some narrow types of optimization&#8211; and I&#8217;m slightly worried I won&#8217;t have time to actually implement the story and setting I want to create after I spend time learning <em>how<\/em> to do it.<\/p>\n<p>On that note, I hope to also take some time to revisit how <a href=\"\/blog\/projects\/packbsp\">PackBsp<\/a> handles models. It is deficient when it comes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skins for models with &#8220;sub-model&#8221; pieces<\/li>\n<li>Gibs for models when they are destroyed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least to get the gib-data, it seems I need to write code to read the binary .PHY files. They appear to have less documentation than most of the other stuff so far, so I&#8217;ll probably have to tinker a lot in a hex-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partly spurred on by the Art-pass contest, and partly by a lull at work, I&#8217;m (re-)starting my attempts to learn Blender and create custom models for TF2. I have very little experience detailing maps&#8211;barring some narrow types of optimization&#8211; and I&#8217;m slightly worried I won&#8217;t have time to actually implement the story and setting I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[8,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technofovea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}