Lucas

ATLA book 1 always felt slow to me. I've always been pretty meh on Korra Season 1 and 2. Both of those shows become amazing in their later seasons. Seven Havens just delivered a completely satisfying arc for season 1 that has left me satisfied, and with plenty of questions about what's next. It was just so well done, I'm still processing it.

I really really really need to get around to doing something about that asphalt. I really dont like my current approach with the decals, as it makes me feel like i dont have much control. I think i'll prob just texture these up in painter instead of trying to put things on top of a tileable in UE5

Btw, lots of WIP in here, but my blueprints *mostly* working (after spending a week more on this than I expected lol) I've been making spline-based power line blueprints for UE5, all using nanite for the wires. One Blueprint handles overhead lines and is tuned for quickly placing consistent spans and the other is for smaller, intricate wiring and built for flexibility and ease of use. Wires can be easily snapped to static mesh sockets on components and structures, and follow when the parent mesh moves. We've also got a ton of great tap/splice/attach features. Wires can be parented to each other to create splices, and we can also parent static meshes to part of a wire, inheriting the parent's wind sway. I can even attach wires to sockets on an attached mesh to build complex nested assemblies that sway together realistically. There’s also per-wire noise control and optional auto-placed fittings and lugs at wire ends, plus a lot of newer QOL fixes I did today! About to do a big ol optimization pass at this then get deep into world building with these tools, and finishing up the assets and materials!

Did i need to put this much energy into power poles for this project? Probably not, but it was a lot of fun and it allows me to do things like this to speed up set dressing