Diorama Tier Update (Patreon)

So, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that Dioramas will be one of the new tier rewards for the Patreon. However, after doing some research, there will be some significant changes to this reward. 

One of the things I decided not to do is use Sketchfab’s service (for the time being). Right now, all of my shaders work only in Blender and Sketchfab has no way of importing my shaders to it. When I talked to several people, they said there’s a way of “burning” the light and shadow information from my shader to a FBX model that could be recognized by Sketchfab. I’m still trying to figure that step out since it appears to be a lot more complicated that I thought.

Until I can figure out how to get my shaders to work in Sketchfab, I will be uploading “turntables” of my models. These will be simple animations in which my models will rotate around at different angles. This is a temporary solution until I can get this Sketchfab service working. I’m hoping I can figure this out by the start of next year. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I hope to have interactive dioramas soon.

The plan is that I plan on asking the Gold Shades members what the first model would be they would like to see first. If they cannot decide, then I’ll put it up as a vote for Silver Shades members. Once we decide on the model, I pose the model and create the turntable for it a week or two afterwards. With that said, I’m sorry for the trouble and I hope this won’t be a problem for you guys.