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Lockdown Continued… (notice the calmer Title Case)

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The VR world from the geranium project on simmer – www.simmer.io/@IanLatham/the-geranium-project – takes 8 minutes and 7 seconds to load.

The latest WebGL build on my own website – www.ian-latham.com/geranium/build – takes 11 minutes and 39 seconds to load.

I’ve spent hours trying to work out how to make the things load more quickly but everything I try seems to make little or no difference.

I participated in an online event for the Doncaster New Fringe art group, a kind of delayed open studio evening in which artists film their work and upload the videos to a website. This is the video I made Art Bomb Video for Doncaster New Fringe I found some old 3d models I made for sculptures over a number of years and built a VR environment for them, I then made an awful video of my studio and me explaining what I’d done in fluent gibberish and placed that video inside the VR world. I recorded that through the computer and there you go.

Other than that this week has been a lot of gardening, building a greenhouse, and the endless frustration of Unity!

greenhouse

My New Greenhouse

I finally got the WebGL build down to 6 minutes and 17 seconds! Or at least below 7 minutes over several tries, the load bar doesn’t work properly though.

LOCKDOWN CONTINUED:

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When I’ve spent time in the studio in the last week I’ve spent it trying to get the model to laod as WebGL from Unity. I can make it work in the programme and it builds succesfully but it will not work from the web! I’m typing this while I’m trying it again. If it works this time it will be here www.ian-latham.com/geranium/build As I type it doesn’t look like it will!

Otherwise this week I’ve been gardening, the bottom of my garden looked like this on Monday 20th April.

Waste Ground

Waste ground at the bottom of the garden

And like this on Friday 24th April

Mini Allotment

Mini Allotment

This film shows the WebGL build in Unity.

Spent another couple of hours trying to get the WebGL of geranium to work, it does work, it just takes 9 minutes and 41 seconds to load www.ian-latham.com/geranium/build

Studio Strike (Two weeks to leave)

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Upstairs Studio Cleared

Upstairs Studio Cleared

The upstairs of the shop is now cleaner and emptier than when I moved in.

I’ll be leaving my studio next Wednesday, no prospect of a new one yet, everywhere is shutting up shop, and I’m hopeful my van driver will honour the contract. We live in interesting times.

Shop ready to empty

Shop ready to empty

So all of this is now here…

Stacked Garage

Stacked Garage

Apart from the bits that are here…

Attic Studio

Attic Studio

Ready to work in isolation!

For the sake of future reference ACE effectively canceled all the National Lottery Project Funding currently pending in order to create a support system for freelancers who are seriously compromised by the current closure of everywhere. So all my plans are on hold along with everyone else’s. What I’ve decided to work on now is a Web GL version of the VR world and see what I can do to finesse it.