Welcome! Welcome!
This here be Los Habanero House. Put on your sorting hat and be assigned to your seat.
Our Mission, should you choose to have any choice since you have already accepted it, is to make the interior of the Spice Vendor House.
It's a passion thing, for us who want to keep making cool stuff and get this project to the next level and get your skills to the next next next level or continue perfecting your skills if they already are in the next next level. We are just a bunch of guys and gals wanting to see those doors open and reveal an interior that feels like someone really lives in it.
So the official story is grounded in reality. The Spice Vendor goes out on adventures and comes back with rare spices which he prepares in his house. It is set in the real world. Yet we in the forums continuously joked around and kept making a ridiculous background story which people grew attached to. Sadly that story is not the focus of the Spice Vendor project.
But that doesn't mean we have to discard them, our crazy talks can appear on the house as easter eggs. For example statues or lamps on a counter can take the form of some of the things we've been creating through conversation. So it all goes as follows....
Melvin lives in this house or at least the house is his responsibility.
It's not his house, he has no money to own such a big place and money and ownership is for earthly people anyways. The house is the spice vendor's house, things inside are made for regular people, plus you look at Melvin and he looks more like he likes living in a cave.
The name of the busyness is Vadimspice Merchantile Homestead “Delights in Spice”
He is to the spice vendor what Alfred is to Bruce Wayne, a loyal faithful helper that very much likes to keep things tidy up. He is a master of spices and keeps the property functioning to its fullest potential, makes all sorts of arrangements, knows all and has immense talents in spices and its mixtures, everyone in town knows him and likes him, the owner of the house trusts him very much, he travels a lot so Melvin is the primary caretaker of the property.
Legend has it that the spice vendor ordered a package on Amazon and when it arrived they charged him a fortune in shipping weight, and he was like what is this heavy box? this isn't what I ordered, and when he opened it Melvin was inside and that's how he came to live in the house. How did he ended up in there? no one knows.
We kinda know where he comes from since somewhere in the house there is secret entrance that goes to his world, you exit the same house but in a different place for sure..
Turns out Melvin is secretly is a Wizard, with his wizard robes and everything, when he feels like wearing them. Kinda of like Batman, when its called for.
In his world he can grow the most exotics of spices, that is where he gets them and baffles his spice vendor master.
Melvin has a pet whale is his world...
The whale lives free and swims up river to the house when called for. Its name is Willem Alfred Whalfred DaWhale. Melvin sets up all his bags on the back and off they go, traveling to all towns, trading in spice. The whale may or may not have her own room in the spice vendor's house.
In the woods not far from the house there lives an owl.
The owl rolls around in an unicycle and carries a cement umbrella. He rides the unicycle because he can't fly and he doesn't realize he can't fly because the cement umbrella is too heavy. The cement umbrella was given to him by someone very dear to him and he doesn't want to let it go not even for a second. Plus he doesn't understand the physics of mass and gravity and you know he gets confuse, it happens to the best of us. He tries to fly but he can't do it anymore, "what in the world is happening?" he thinks to himself. His past is hindering his future.
So Melvin has a life here, he likes it. Though his noble heart sometimes gets him in trouble.
Melvin has a record for "Illegal Potions and Spells Lab Underground Operation".
But it was not his fault, he was tricked by No Mouth, All Action Red Nelb.
Melvin had no idea Red Nelb wasn't just ordering potions for his dying grandmother, Melvin thought he was saving a life, Mr. Nelb here was re-selling them and making a huge profit, cornering the market and Nelb blamed it all on poor Melvin. And now Melvin is trying to put his life back together, using his potions for the betterment of all creatures. But since people have two grandma's, Nelb tricked using his other grandma as an excuse and Melvin fell for it again. Luckily people don't have more than two grandma's.
But that is not the only life challenge.
Melvin has a bunch of merry friends, they are all good, each with their own personalities, except for the blue last one, he is totally a bully. Every protagonist has an antagonist, he even has the W, like Mario and Wario, Melvin and Welvin. More there of, blue is even the opposite of orange in the color wheel, destined to turn to the darkside.
Welvin liked to put some magical extra something something on the spices and got in trouble. Melvin was like "We are not that kind of store Welvin! No Mouth, All Action Red Nelb tricked me with his grandma, twice!" A fight like in the tower with Gandalf and Saruman broke between them on the third floor of the house. It was not pretty.
Just what we already have been doing on the collab. It's the chance to make your own stuff with the skills we already learned. For now we don't have a direction of how the interior is going to be. Kent is working with Vadim to give is a north to follow. We'll wait for that but in the mean time we can start working on generic things that will be in a house no matter what. Pick an asset and say you want to do it and have a go at it.
i just uploaded the file (its in the blender file with closeth name in it. still looking to merge the mesh to my main file but i am struggling with it xD)
i hope to get it to work normal since i want to bevel with 4 or 6 cuts. so if i inrease the amount, it gets a bigger mess .
really wonder what is causing this.
meanwhile ill try to continue some glasses , mug's , teacups , spoons , pan ( for cooking stuff)...
wow you guys really are the magicans , someting so troublesome yet easy to fix XD
how you see those collors btw?
It's an Overlay, works in all Modes, but makes the most sense when working in Edit Mode:
That was tough, I was almost certain it was the middle cup.
The moral of this story..... always listen to your head when following your heart, and close your eyes and just pick one.
I have just been looking at the reference images on the Google Drive,
It looks like someone already lives in a spice vendors house.
Or how Captain Disillusion says "Love with your heart, use your head for everything else".
That's a good point Keith. We're gonna be needing lots of plants variety.
Yukino, you can always trust Spikey, The Sane Scientist. You just had some normals pointing in the wrong direction. Take two of these and call me in the morning.
I am such an idiot; of course this was already possible with Bones, as the Armature Modifier can also be placed before (above) the Mirror and Array:
Thank you @waylow ! (I am learning so much from you (Looove your Rigging course, although I haven't finished it yet...so much to take in!) I always had trouble remembering what is the Head of a Bone, but now I just think: "It's Australian, the head is down, when a Bone come in..".)
I've never forgotten the order of selecting after the whole "Who's your daddy? I am!" thing.
dostovel and the TSFHI team - I'm sheepish to say that today is the first time I opened the assembly file. My jaw is on the floor!
I've been keeping a light pulse on this thread through March but I had no idea how thorough you all were being! I was like a kid in a candy shop slowly making my way through the house levels. I'm giddy over it.
Amazing work! I'm even more excited for April which I didn't think was possible 🤩
Thanks Kent. Still, right now it feels very empty, we're like 1% there. So much stuff is needed and placed where it makes sense in order for it to feel like someone lives there.
harbinger_ua Vadim said he would try and work on some concept art for the interior. It'll be even cooler once he finishes it and we have firm ground of how things should look like inside.
dostovel and TSFHI team!! 📢
I've got big news! I noticed THE original concept artist, harbinger_ua , lurking in this thread and mentioned offering their assistance. So I took the opportunity to officially invite them to join the project as concept artist.
Vadim has accepted! This is huge in my opinion! Now we have 1 almighty cook in the conceptual kitchen and we can be guided to the best, most authentic version of this environment.
Let's give Vadim a chance to develop the interior and after we get a fresh illustation the interior can continue production through April.
Yes, we have been on hiatus for a week. That's the part about Vadim saying he would try and work on some concept art for the interior, we're waiting for him to finish and that it'll be even cooler once he finishes it and we have firm ground of how things should look like inside.
He appeared out of nowhere like Jesus's second coming. But you inviting him and him accepting officially makes all the difference in the world. I was beginning to fear he maybe wouldn't be able to deliver since there was nothing official about our posts here on this thread. But now it's like The Avengers slowly coming together, we're like in the part when The Vision joins the team and Tony Stark is paying for the accommodations. We are going to seriously kick ass with this new team member.
This only gets better with the day :D , i am so excited to see what he comes up with :)
i really look forward to see the whole progress of this, as its my first time and i still lack some skills this will let me once more grow :D
Ahh good, you're on top of it dostovel! 🤝
So in talking with Vadim more, their time is stretched pretty thin with work tasks but there may be a couple hours this weekend to work on a rear angle of the house exterior. The front angle can be used as a base to make this develop quicker than a from-scratch interior.
This means that we won't have an interior concept ready when the collab officially starts this coming Monday. I suppose we will need to delay the interior team until we have the concept. I'll think through those implications more but probably will result in the interior team working on a different aspect of the environment in the mean time. That or practicing skills until they can be applied. We'll discuss during the stream Tuesday.
A kick-ass development for sure!
Their? So Vadim really is like The Vision, two consciousness living in one body. That's amazing, what a privilege.
Well, the Top Secret Interior Initiative has to cease then, man little by little it was developing potential. I guess even The Avengers Initiative was shelved for a while before it took off, and they saved New York.
Haha. Omar, you can always pick a small team, go rogue and do your thing against all odds, kinda like Cap did. That would make Kent Ironman, I assume?
Also I guess I should clarify to end Kent's struggle. He/him is perfectly fine :)
Yes that's how this whole thing got started, I went rogue like Cap did, a small team came with me, it was rough. But we were doing good in the world you know, doing what had to be done. The Spice Accords forced our hand and now we will face the consequences of our actions, but I'm not ashamed of my service. It was an honor.
You’re doing good work team. Melvin‘s peppers may be too spicy for us mere mortals, but the Accords would leave us all at the mercy of MSG.
