Archive for March 12th, 2026

I lost count of how many attempts I did for these chain links. And it turns out that most of them were useless:

• Having a visible weld/closure point was too distracting.
• Turns out that rounded links look worse because it makes it more obvious which link is which when they overlap.
• A dark background is normally a big no-no for alpha textures, but here it actually looks better when you zoom out.

So here we are, I’ve put the two textures side-by side, so you can see the difference. I wanted an improvement, but not to the point that it became too distracting, and I think that’s it.

Some minor changes to the cigarette case after a friend started showing me some really nice engraved guns.

I’ve also done a lot of writing in the past 3 days, nearly 2000 words. And much more since the year started. The Froznovia manuscript is growing, but it is more a spider web than anything resembling a story. I really wish I could release more of it, but I have no idea how.

It has a bit of everything, mostly lore building and chronological data, but also a bunch of new elements and characters: Erika getting the Von Kraul arm from her father Leupold, a visit of the Von Kroenen family vault in the Wurmingstein imperial fortress, an interrogation scene with the daughter of a diplomat… Hell, I even wrote a mini scene involving a social media influencer being forced to Vlog her own arrival in the Froznovia penal colony (this is absolutely not canon, but it was funny, in a way that a corpse is funny).

It helps me cope, it serves as a conduit for some really dark thoughts.