23092020

Spent the evening driving around and talking with Haolun. We talked for a real long time. Earlier today I decided to pursue a new direction with the observatory interior after struggling for way too long with the wretched curve of the dome’s wall. I’ve decided to commit full-force to the top-down perspective. It’s saved me a tremendous amount of time and work and is also pretty interesting in its own way, which works well with the intended mood I’d like to convey. I’m gonna have to build new visual effects for it – basically, a sonar pulse that gradually reveals outlines of surfaces and objects temporarily, and a tracking interface – but I don’t think they’ll be too difficult and I’m honestly pretty excited to work on them. I think the end effect will look pretty good. Here’s hoping…