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I realized my bug fix overlaps with my mucking about with skinned mesh particle trails, because the particle trails also don't work if you use an 8-bone mesh, but my pull request fixes that.

This plus the Disney example in the comments, I wonder if “phishing test” consultants kind of zero in on anxieties within a given company. But they weren’t hired to address why those anxieties exist in the first place, they were hired to run a phishing test.

Trying out skinned meshes as trails in the particle system. Not well documented. Rig might need to be upside down from what you might expect.

So I did the tough version with the skinned meshes, but the method of using a Viewport Texture for emission points could just be playing with math if you want

Anticipation frame

Glorious

I answered a technical questionnaire for a job application and got an automated response that I didn't address a question about "movement" because I foolishly wrote about setting the position and velocity.

Got Directed Points emission working with GPU particles so it emits from a mesh. So of course I tested on an egg mesh

I think I fixed an obscure rendering bug in Godot. (You would only encounter it if you used BONE_INDICES in a shader on a mesh that has ARRAY_FLAG_USE_8_BONE_WEIGHTS set.) Demonstrated here, these cubes are supposed to look the same, with each face bound to one bone, not stripes along two faces.

Okay, took another run at texturing from photogrammetry. Since I have cameras aligned with the photos I can project multiple UVs from each camera view and then in the shader blend between each of those based on masks. Then I can texture paint the masks to blend between different angles.

"Be not afraid"

On the down-side, project UVs won't account for the offset and scale, which undermines my goal with this approach. I liked the idea of manually making a low-poly mesh and then projecting the photos from the position the photo was really taken.

"Be not afraid"

From further tests in Blender, it has something to do with camera settings or how Blender displays images. If I overlay images on generated mesh, they don't line up. If I offset and scale the image until they do line up, then aligning points from different camera angles starts to work.

"Be not afraid"

Hmm. Tried using the source images as backgrounds for the cameras in Blender, and manually identifying an intersecting point on the monkey's left eye. But maybe these camera positions aren't accurate, because aligning it for two of them doesn't converge at the right spot for the third camera.

"Be not afraid"

This is from me trying to get position from Meshroom depth and camera positions but my math must still be off or I think they'd overlap better.

I’m making another short film in Godot. I’ll set up each shot as its own scene file. Previously I would export each scene individually but this time I tried chaining them together where one scene loads the next.