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Yeah, it's been a while since I posted one of these. In my defense, I have been working on something but had to start over twice when undocumented keystroke combinations rendered me unable to continue editing the project. I could render it, and technically I could edit it from the perspective of the camera, but the field of view was blank in top/front/side views.

I know I've mentioned that Blender isn't user friendly, but I'm not sure if I mentioned precisely how. Just about everything can be done by keyboard command, and that takes a lot of keys so just about every key is overloaded. Shift+key, Alt+key, Ctrl+Key, Shift+Ctrl+key... Keys that will do different things depending on whether you're in edit mode or in object mode, or if your cursor is in the view window or the control panel window. As a result, while I know that it was pressing "Ctrl+P" that messed me up, I don't know what it actually did. Normally it just parents on object to another, and I have no idea what I did different those two times. Now I just save before I use it just in case.

Anyway, I turned this out while taking a break from building that project for the third time:
( This is actually just a cylinder on a simple plane . . . with a bunch of fancy material work. )

This time not everything was procedural, I used a drawing of an eagle from here.

Weather

You know how Wednesday I complained about snow in April? Today's high was 82. Yesterday's was 53. I know, I know. I've lived in the so called "temperate" zone all of my life so I should be used to this kind of thing, but I don't want to be. Somewhere there must a place that the old adage of "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes" doesn't apply and which is also neither too hot nor too cold.