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Sooo… After excessive testing (and I mean excessive…) I ended up deciding on using a Logitech Keyboard since it’ll be easier to program (probably…) And, I also ended up modeling the keycaps myself and adding some extra skirt length so the light doesn’t escape too easily at the bottom. I’ve been working on making all of the keycaps have the modifier shrinkwrap so I can make the texture be the original texture I made. I also have to apply the same modifier for the letter, with slightly different settings. This is highly tedious, which explains why I work on other projects too! I tend to work on them in blocks of 5 keycaps then print them, which takes around 4 hours per block. Blender is getting pretty laggy, so I gotta be real patient and sometimes I get rid of at least 20 extra tabs running in background to decrease lag (you gotta do what you gotta do :)). I’ve finished a lot of the generic keys and I will be working on the extra keys like the spacebar and the shift keys soon!

side note: I had blender open cause I was about to work on the models then tried to open prusaslicer so I could get a screenshot of my most recent block of models for the attachment and then my computer crashed lol. It’s all fine Flavortown saved my writing and all, but I guess I know what not to have open at the same time.

So far I’ve just been playing with Pygame and figuring out how the hell to use it. Pygame documentation is very very VERY helpful also Gemini. I had fun and made the DVD screensaver thing and I’ve also made a base where the DVD is the player and you can move it around, use a shield that rotates around it, and an expanding circle. All of these things will be used in the future game :)

Recently I’ve been modeling more of the keycaps on blender. I think I’ve finished one keycap, but I haven’t printed it out yet, so I will do that soon. The keycap I’ve finished is the Z key. I’ll probably print it before trying to finish up the other keycaps, since I don’t want to have to fix around 59 keycaps. The keycaps will be printed on my Ender 3 S1 and with transparent PETG filament so I can paint on the vines but the letters will be see-through. My hope is to be able to have it so the letters are like the portals to the Upside-Down. For all of the special keys like the shift and enter keys, I might just print figures and put them on there or maybe a cap to go on the key if I don’t want to model those separately.
I did get the 3d model of the keycap from: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7165604

Today I’ve been sculpting the vines on blender. There was some extra hour or so of modeling the bike on Fusion but that didn’t work with Hackatime so that time isn’t accounted for here :(

I’m getting a Logitech G213 because it should work with OpenRGB which is what I hope to use. I tried using a Keychron K2 but it didn’t work with it even after flashing several times :\

I’m probably going to wait on putting the texture on keycaps because I’m probably doing this for the normal size keys and also because of Amazon shipping speeds, I don’t have the keyboard yet, probably getting it around sometime next week. So once I get that, I can make a layout of the keys and bake the design on. Then I can make the other special sized keycaps have little figurines on them like the enter key could have a Demodog or something fun.

(side note: I asked my dad how it looked and his only reply was that it wasn’t red lol)

Today I worked on starting the project and thinking about what I would do. This idea has been in my head for a while but I’ve been pretty busy. Just wanted to get something down today so I can’t procrastinate it too much :)

I’ll probably have more time soon but it really depends.