Following Seas - New Year, new Junk

Hello, welcome to 2024 - and an annoying looped seabird sound.

Fairly small update here, as I've been stuck on a 7 days a week work schedule for a few weeks, but still have made some appreciable progress on the junk.

Texturing is well underway, but the most significant work has gone into adapting my sailing system to work a little better with battened sails.

Fortunately the base system is adaptable enough to work with most sail types, in that everything works mostly as it should, but getting the sails to look nice, and behave well while reefing has been a challenge.

It's important to me to be able to show that battened sails are not rigid, and that each batten has a fair bit of flex and range of rotation, while still being effectively tied to its neighbors.

It's not quite there yet, but I feel it's getting close. I need to do some significant testing to ensure my solution is performant however, as it's more complicated than I'd like, lots of configurable and spring joints.

I'm going to be working on this ship for probably another couple weeks, and my next task on the todo list is to improve environmental audio.

I've set up a discord server as well - but I'll admit I have no real experience with that -- so I'm not sure what I'll be doing with it. Stay tuned if that's something that interests you.