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Emily

@sumac.bsky.social
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Who left all this garbage out here? This is perfectly good trash. Hiking fan & solo game dev. Nothing I post uses any AI Check out the devlog for my upcoming game, Poisoned Gravity! sumac.neocities.org

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For non-gamedev people - if you're modeling by hand, you have to really be fucking up for basic objects to come in far above 20k polygons. You can maaaaybe get to like 200k for a complex mesh, if you're working on high-end assets, but even when I go all-out I struggle to blow past 10k triangles.
A 3d model of a fictional computer showing around 1000 vertices, 1700 polygonsA 3d model of a futuristic hanging chair with a monitor mount on a hydraulic arm. It uses around 7,000 verts, 11,600 polygons.A cutout of a 3d scene showing a cryosleep bed, hydraulic arm, lid, some ducting and other miscellaneous objects, and part of the room. All this manages to top out at around 6,500 verts, 11,000 polygons.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Little dawn hike along the cliffside
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also saw a weird bug that looked like a partially-pupated tiger moth or something similar. It had two useless little wings, and legs along the front of its body, but it wasn't really great at moving.
A moth-like larvae or something. The front half just looks like a mature tiger moth or similar, but with stunted wings and no legs in the back half the way a larvae would.Alt angle of the same moth(?)A third angle showing the coloration of the moth(?)'s tiny wings
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saw some great birds today on our hike
Three woodpeckers (acorn woodpeckers???) perched in a hole-filled tree. Two ravens perched on top of a pine tree. The tree line was filled with them all doing the same thing - perching on the highest point of the tallest trees, and watching a pair of red-tailed hawks flying around the meadow below.A red-tailed hawk, wings spread gliding on a thermal or something. It was followed with a constant escort of annoyed ravens, and watched by dozens more in the trees. They weren't attacking it, but they were shepherding it away from the tree lineA small blackbird perched in the dry grass. I think it's a brewer's blackbird but I'm no good at identifying blackbirds that aren't ravens, crows, coots, or scrub jays
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
wife and I doing some dark souls coop mod, and I love that fromsoft just gives you the zweihander immediately after the tutorial
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'll probably need to uproot most of these and replant them into their own things, but the basil seedlings are sprouting already!
A shallow planter with soil and a bunch of basil sprouts peeking out.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
herbarium status: 's all good smells real nice
Planters on a wire rack indoors. Leftmost is chocolate mint, next to normal rosemary. Next planter over, from back to front, is lemon thyme, tarragon, and hot oregano. I planted some chive and basil seedlings way on the other side from the rosemary to see how they hold up with this kind of lifestyle.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And here's the pocket mouse! For scale, the rat's body is around 25cm long not including tail, but the Desert Pocket Mouse here is a mere 7cm (with a 10cm tail!) You see them all over the deserts at night when stargazing and they're super cute (from a distance, they have diseases) #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Right now the texel density is too high for Poisoned Gravity, but here's my guy! Made him about a year ago for a more-realistic game where you can talk to him and feed him pizza just like IRL In poisoned gravity there's a whole colony of these guys, stowaways on a decade-long journey #rat #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Got the rough idea for the hallways set up in Blender. Still need to finalize the layout, build some cutouts for sparse greebling, and figure out what I want to do about corners. Drawing some inspiration from Alien obvs, Event Horizon, TNG, and my pediatrician from when I was 8.
A blender render of a space ship hallway with padded walls. A bulkhead door control panel with a rough draft texture sits in the front of the view.A view from inside the quarters showing the bulkhead door retracting. A sign reads "Promeande" at the top of the door, but I'm not married to that name for the hallway.A quick and dirty blender global illumination pass showing the hall lights. In Unreal I'm going to bake some lighting for these panels, which run symmetrically on both sides of the hallway. I want the lighting to be ample, but dim, so brighter than this, but in the sort of way that a hospital is after midnight, where it's lit, but only just.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An edit of the meme where a woman is reading off a news item and the man rips a month off the calendar to reveal "January 1984." This edit gives both of them beards and the woman is quoting the recent DF patch notes: "Tavern goers will no longer order a drink from every single tavern keeper in the bar and drink them all, causing them to die of acute alcohol poisoning." The man rips a page off the calendar to reveal it's January 1920, which is the date that the US banned alcohol consumption.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
office supplies in microgravity mysterious pens... who can say what brand they are at this texture resolution. Modeled this after the shitty velcro setups they have on the ISS
a 3d render of some tools and folders pinnned to a red board with velcro stripsan alternate angle of the tools and pens and stuff on the red board
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
a nice evening in the desert, checking out the aftermath of those rainstorms we saw last weekend.
A view of borrego springs and the mountains behind from an overlook.A photo of a fence separating different parts of the anza borrego desert state park. Shrubs in the foreground, mountains in the backA little sun spilling over the mountains, succulents and grasses in the valley belowsome more succulents in the falling twilight
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cool hike today along a ridge looking down into the anza borrego desert
A photo of a cliffside over the desert. There's storm clouds and some rain in the distanceAnother cliff looking down into line after line of mountains.A tiny scrub of some kind growing out of a rock. Cliffs and desert rain sits behind it.A shot of the anza borrego right before we left, as the storm was intensifying.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Don't remember if i posted the chair animated and textured or not, but here it is! #blender #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Little zoo trip
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
girl dinner
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
kinda wanna get this embroidered on a hat, edited a stock image and added some text
en edited stock image of a bass with the text "Fish don't think about me at all" added
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Manza-neato
A manzanita branch with red curly bark twisting around the dry grey barkA closeup shot of the curling red manzanita barkManzanita berriesAnother shot of manzanita bark
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
my software in christ that is like a hundred dollars worth of SSD space
a screenshot of the Steam library page for DCS World, showing a 264 gig install size
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
any time i use anyone else's computer
The damn bitch you live like this goofy meme but with fucked up windows mouse settings in the background
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New PB for Cactus Canyon! Finally got that table down. Crazy how much better I am at pinball just having the pinone controller instead of a gamepad. It feels way more real but more than that, the buttons are a lot easier to feather the flippers with than like, shoulder buttons ever were.
A screenshot of the high score for Cactus canyon showing me getting 128 million points.A full playfield screenshot of cactus canyon.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Pretty much done texturing and animating the sleep pod for my game Poisoned Gravity! Let the powerful hydraulic arm tuck you in securely for a good year's sleep :) #blender #gamedev #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Spent a good 10 mins trying to figure out why I named an idle animation for a zero-g treadmill "Babette's Feast" p sure I must have had the wrong window active when I was looking for it on criterion channel a few months back and renamed it? who can say
The channel tab of Blender's action editor. The animation is called Babette's Feast.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My favorite thing in DF is getting petitions for guilds and temples. I love making little themed buildings for each, decorating libraries, making dance floors, whatever!
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And you only really have to do minimal clean-up in Blender (Blender is better than any tool I've used at cross-seam blending and smudging), and occasional work in Aseprite if I need some more precise image work.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The main reason I'm so into Texelizer right now is that it's one of the only tools that doesn't feel like it's fighting against me when I want to use a 256 texture. Even for a simple mesh like this one, it's a lot easier to be expressive when the tools are made to work at the resolutions you want.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
it's kinda funny how much harder it is doing UVs and texturing low texel density meshes compared to high-res stuff. Slapping down a stack of megascan layers and painting some masks is easier than making sure your UVs are pixel-perfect and hand painting details when every little pixel is so huge.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Made a kirby ball decal for VPX too! First you set your ball decal to kirby Then you set the ball image to black Disable ball lighting And presto, it's Kirby!
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have made a discovery
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Couldn't find any glo-ball style ball images for VPX, so I turned a macro shot of a pinball on my desk into some glo ball-style textures for VPX. All the neon ones look best if you disable ball lighting! #pinball
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
something's wrong with my copy of Eraserhead
A screenshot from the 1999 Trailer Park Boys movie showing a very young Ricky drinking at a bar
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th of july from Data East Dennis Nedry
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
forgot to turn on the second material oh well
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Alternate angle of the computer split in half, with shading in blenderAnother angle of the computer split in half
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
king solomon says fuck the computer #blender #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
She seems trustworthy, her story - it checks out.
Dwarf Fortress screenshot showing an undead warlord dark slayer visiting our fortressThe visitor claims to be here because our tavern the place to be if you want to kick back and relax.The warlord has no memory of feeling anything, ever.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ended up taking the soft side of some leftover adhesive velcro to dampen the solenoids and they're perfect now! Ok slightly too loud to use after dark, but not bad at all. Wife and I have been passing it back and forth this evening and having a blast with it.
A solenoid with a piece of velcro insulating the strike plate.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
getting the pinone mini set up today, super-excited! solenoids are so loud...
a pinone mini kit by cleveland software designs spread out on my desk with toolsThe assembled pinone mini kit
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
quick and dirty #lowpoly pineapple. Took way longer than I'd like to admit cuz i kept going back and forth over whether or not to cut more geo for the diamond pattern.
Two lowpoly pineapples, one sliced in half
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I wish i had waited like 2 mins to post cuz I realized it looked a lot better with the lid ring filled in.
Cool
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Made a quick cooler for my game while Dwarf Fortress created a new world. Very excited to try out the dino update that just dropped! Really feel like I found a good workflow for texturing now, Texelizer was the missing piece. Getting my texture time down to a reasonable amount per mesh now.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
that's better #lowpoly
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
i think that's just a type of stylized giant chui, which itself is kind of just the Chinese word for any kind of like, mace or flail. There are some real crazy ones out there! I esp think meteor hammers are cool.
A pair of Chinese meteor hammer-style chuiAnother pair of meteor hammer-style Chui, this one dating back to the Ming dynasty according to wikipedia
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
bottom surgery carrot
it's a carrot! it's uh, yknow. Just a carrot. I didn't do anything to it, it was just like that. Oh! there's some onions in the background too.
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
i continue to be surprised at how the seltzers are like, the only Guy Fieri-branded thing that's good
a can of waterloo guy fiere's flavortown apple pie seltzer
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trying out Texelizer on one of my older meshes for this project. Pretty cool how cohesive it can look for very little time investment! Baked AO and Curviture masks w/ manual adjustments, some palette color fill, smoothed noise for variation and it's pretty decent! Really good texture paint tool!
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
pork store status:
a pinball display saying "pork store difficulty moderate"
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