I’m not saying how I just spent the last three days wasn’t fun or interesting, but I am saying it was definitely a way to procrastinate on figuring out how the heist in Book Two is going to work.
I was the kid who waited until 9PM the night before an assignment was due (and… a few times until 6AM before it was due) and then banged it out and got 110% and ruined the curve for everyone. And that’s translated into adulthood with mixed if mostly okay results.
Anywho, I found a program called Unity that is used to create video games, and played around with it to create the various 3D models I’ve updated the site with this week. It’s simultaneously an opaque nightmare of one million options and parameters AND a really cool engine that’s pretty easy to get going in, once you get used to it. But it is incredibly fickle, and makes that tweet about changing a Microsoft Word image and everything going to hell seem like a reasonable result.
I’ve updated the Tomb of the Last God page with the new renders and some sample chapters that get sent as part of the Agent Query.
So, here are a few of the models I’ve created so far. Some day, hopefully all of this will be published and there will be far more talented people out there creating fan art for this world, but for now it’s nice to have something to visualize that’s better than the basic Visio wireframes.
Section-7’s HQ, a massive glass and steel pyramid that plunges
into the crystal blue waters of the Karababa Dam reservoir.
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The Giza Plateau, in its exquisitely maintained glory, in 1634 AE.
The Third Restoration Period was completed just fifty years prior,
part of an ongoing effort by the Free Nations (and the Alexandrian Empire before)
to keep the ancient monuments in full splendor.
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An ancient temple, rediscovered when the Sinai Canal project drained the area.
The massive steel seawall can be seen looming over the site.
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A gravimetric field fills a room on the reservoir-side of HQ with a testing scenario of obstacles and structures for the Stage Two test of Iota and Zeta Squads.
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