Some days nothing quite works out right. Unfortunately today seems to be one of those days.
I experimented around for far too long trying to find a way to get my dominoes placed properly, with no real luck. Doing them by hand makes it very time consuming and difficult to make the placement look nice, but at least the physics works out. Using the array modifier seems like a decent way to go, but it jacks up the controls for the rigidbody physics when you separate the copies out to be their own objects, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to use random dominoes from my collection. The particle hair system could be used to place them, in theory, and then have them turn into real objects, but if there’s a way to get the particles to orient themselves around a curve and actually, you know, curve, then I have not been able to find it yet. All in all I’ve managed to figure out several ways not to do it, and zero ways to actually do it.
So, realizing that there was no way I was going to complete that assignment and have something to show off, I decided I could at least try to implement one of the tutorials I watched earlier. Except that didn’t work out at all either. I’m fairly certain that I followed all of the steps, but something went wrong somewhere along the way and I ended up with a monstrosity. On the plus side I have enough of an understanding of the particle system now to know why it was a monstrosity, I’m just not sure why the one in the tutorial wasn’t as well.
Feeling really pressed for time, and not wanting to start over on that I thought I may as well just try a simple quick sculpt of an emoji style face, to express my ‘bleh’, but that led to technical issues with my tablet, followed by not being able to quite get the expression right. And by this point I am well and truly out of time for the evening and have nothing at all to show off. Oh, well. At least I leaned a bit. That’s got to count for something.