Week 19 (aka: Life won't let me get things done)

Mar 6, 2018
2 min read

This week was incredibly difficult to get anything done. First I had some personal things happen that I do not feel needs to be discussed here (good things though, don't worry) that cut into time I usually spend on Thesis.

After that I had probably the largest scare with my computer ever. Basically the keyboard lit up but not the screen. It had been working perfectly earlier the same day. I was in full on panic mode because at this point I'm with family for spring break with no access to any PC that can run the programs needed to work on Thesis. Luckily the repair shop near was caught up and got in to look at my laptop right away. Turns out a RAM stick failed and was preventing my laptop from booting up. That is now replaced and the laptop is running smoothly once more (though now I'm ultra paranoid and backing up files a bit excessively). Overall I only ended up about a day and a half behind where I wanted to be, which is not that bad all things considered, and can be made up.

I felt I needed to get the case textures out of the way before I forget what I had envisioned for them, so below is the revised scheduled I made for that change. (The same as before really, simply moving up the textures and moving down everything else that displaces)

For the case textures I made a base material first, in Substance painter, that I saved as a smart material to use on all cases. Then I masked and edited as needed, before adding details suck as some grime, stickers, and scratches.