Things were going pretty well for TLT in the first half of the year, with the "Monthly Tuttle" concept managing to keep things moving slowly but surely. Obviously that fell through a few months back, but only on the blog; behind the scenes I've still been doing something on a monthly basis. Even if it's just an hour or so (the case last month, I believe).

 

Unfortunately, November broke this trend, and aside from this post I honestly didn't manage anything. I'm sure everyone is used to the usual excuses--life is just so busy, etcetera--but I can't help that it stays relevant. As a programmer and full-time worker in Unity, the struggle to carve out time for TLT faces two obstacles: one, the few hours I have in the week that I'm not working are all the more important to rest, and two, it's remarkably difficult to jump into a code project that has become distant. You wonder where you put that script, where that reference is going, and what could you possibly have been thinking when you rigged up that sorry excuse of a system. Quite often, the little time I make for TLT finds me stumbling about the now-foreign codebase and only managing to take a few notes of my findings for the next time I'm ready to take a stab.

 

If life ever settles down even a little bit (my sincere wish), I hope to be able to dive into TLT on a regular enough basis that the project structure stays familiar and I can finally get some real work done.

Naturally one can't wait for miracles, so until then I intend to continue doing what I can, when I can. To that end I have a few more things I'd like to accomplish next month before the year is out, so here's hoping.

 

Thankfully, texturing and modeling is a bit more straightforward for fAB to pick up where he left off when he does find the time, and he did chip away at updating Nodin's model earlier this month. That's something for November, at least.

 

Anyway, I don't mean to complain or sound negative. It's been awhile so I just wanted to update you on where things stand and give more insight into the struggles of busy programmers. On a lighter note the holiday season is upon us, and we two TLT workers wish you a happy one!