This last week I have been learning quixel and I think I got the basics down. I can set a model up and use the program to apply textures quickly. Quixel is great for being able to change textures on the fly and add a lot of small details quickly with masks and a fairly good library of textures. Still I did run into a couple crashes and one annoying thing: it kind of sucks at updating a model. Like if you set it up a little wrong with material IDs and need to reload an update it tends to fail at that. The set up is key and I would say double check it.. but even if you have to reload applying textures is so smooth it almost doesn't matter time wise if you have to restart from scratch (as long as you haven't gone too in depth in making really unique materials). So I would definitely just keep textures in a draft form until the model is fully textured to make sure everything is working how you want before you get into the small detail work. So here is my first quixel result, with a couple of my own textures and some of the built in sets as well:

Other than that I have been finalizing Sundered Arvena and renamed it to Knight Quest just to make it a little easier to find and remember. Overall The game does not seem too popular. I think the main mistake I made was making it too hard from the start. You open the game and right away you are bombarded with enemies. Which would be fine, but I could see how it might get frustrating pretty quickly. From my standpoint I like the challenge, but I suppose a lot of people might find it very discouraging. The other theory I have is maybe the combat just isn't fun enough. I mean you tap and stuff dies but that is about it... I don't have any cool skills or powerups. So that aspect may be too simple. Even Mario has to hit an enemy a certain way to defeat it or have a certain powerup.

That is about it for this update. I am thinking of some other game ideas to try and implement and also keeping up with my other two projects. See you again in a couple weeks!