hello my loves.a few things. first; i will most certainly be active again from july into the foresee
hello my loves.a few things. first; i will most certainly be active again from july into the foreseeable future. this break was greatly needed, but used wisely. i am rested and refreshed and looking forward to being active again. i have some new content that i’m super excited to share with you, and i’m already working on my birthday set for this year (the big three-oh)!also…i want to touch on 2 things that have been bothering me for a while now. when i started creating on patreon, i thought that i needed to offer something exclusive, you know, to say thank you to the people who choose to support me. make it worth their while. well - it turns out i was wrong, and i’ve felt pretty guilty about it basically the entire time. so i’m cutting this practice - i’ve just made months worth of ‘patron gifts’ public access. i think what i’ll do moving forward is have my early access sets, once or twice a month (depending on size), and continue with a single .package file as a patron gift once a week - but those will now also be early access rather than exclusive. i hope you can support me in this decision. it feels like the right thing to do, the same way dropping my tier prices felt like the right thing to do.the other thing is that i’ve seen lots of discussion lately about half-finished work, and i’m actually quite proud to say that this discussion hit me right in the pride and i realised that i have been guilty of this for the longest time. if you examine my work, you will note that there is not a bump nor a spec map in sight (for the most part). i really, truly hate the whole cube map system, but the truth is i was too lazy to learn how to make it work for my style. well, i’m happy to say those days are over my friends. i am now confident in my specular abilities, and have seen the error of my ways. please accept my apologies for my lackadaisical attitude towards these aspects of creating in the past. i will do better.lastly. i would like to say thank you to those in this community that call out the two issues i’ve mentioned above. it shouldn’t take someone jumping up and down about these things for someone to take action and change their behaviour, but sometimes that is exactly what it takes.ok thanks for coming to my ted talk love you bye x -- source link