{"id":1155,"date":"2020-08-31T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:40:24","slug":"anvropomotron-1-1-1-update-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/anvropomotron-1-1-1-update-notes.html","title":{"rendered":"AnVRopomotron 1.1.1 Update Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anvropomotron.com\" target=\"_blank\">See it here<\/a> or read on.<\/p>\n<p>Scale Model Hall and VR Grab Lab each got a thing! Various fixes also abound.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proconsul walks on a big branch into the scene!\u00c2\u00a0I took the rhesus monkey and conformed it to Proconsul proportions. It was probably a bit easier than making it from scratch. Challenges: the rhesus polygons were\u00c2\u00a0rough with some ugly shapes around. They especially held back re-posing since the polygons were connected to each other awkwardly. Improvements: ear and eye details enhanced\u00c2\u00a0from the earlier appearance. Proconsul-specific challenges: There are a lot of opinions on how to classify proconsulids, including changing names for fossil specimens up to the genus level. I went\u00c2\u00a0with a larger Proconsul, <em>P. nyanzae<\/em>, and kept the Proconsul name due to my taxonomic lumping tendencies. Another challenge is that Proconsul is kind of plain? It is a notable prehistoric primate so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s here. It is always presented walking on four legs on a tree branch because that&#8217;s what its traits are adapted for. A later change to the model was to add a little interest by giving the model a slightly twisted mid-step pose. I used other quadrupeds, especially baboons and mandrills for the pose reference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1156\" src=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/proconsul-450x320.png\" alt=\"proconsul\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/proconsul-450x320.png 450w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/proconsul-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/proconsul-1024x728.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/proconsul.png 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Guinea human femur dagger I promised a while ago is now in the Grab Lab. It was a quick conversion from the original model using just normal maps. Thanks to Dartmouth College and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morphosource.org\/Detail\/ProjectDetail\/Show\/project_id\/375\">Morphosource <\/a>for making it available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1157\" src=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/dagger-450x546.png\" alt=\"dagger\" width=\"450\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dagger-450x546.png 450w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dagger-124x150.png 124w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dagger-845x1024.png 845w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dagger.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Grab Lab tables now have a border of &#8220;interaction orange&#8221; for UI consistency.<\/li>\n<li>Jamestown church picture replaced with another that showed the grave site better. The previous picture will be repurposed.<\/li>\n<li>Re-render of the rooms to include Proconsul shadows. I also learned how to de-noise the baked texture in Blender so the shadows and highlights are a little more crisp with a little pixelation at the edges.<\/li>\n<li>Woops, the first credits page, the one with my name and stuff, was invisible because the text wrapping was accidentally set to zero. It&#8217;s back with new info on the Creative Commons and open source nature of the models and code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See it here or read on. Scale Model Hall and VR Grab Lab each got a thing! Various fixes also abound. Proconsul walks on a big branch into the scene!\u00c2\u00a0I took the rhesus monkey and conformed it to Proconsul proportions. It was probably a bit easier than making it from&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/anvropomotron-1-1-1-update-notes.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;AnVRopomotron 1.1.1 Update Notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[202,201],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","tag-anvropomotron","tag-vr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}