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Greetings!

My name is Patrick Sullivan. I have previously been on this forum, about a year ago, but I somewhat lost track of it after a long stretch where no progress was really being made at all. Now, seeing how much incredible work has been done in my absence, I have been inspired to come back and help out

Anyways, I don't really have much programming experience-- only very limited work with Java and C#, so that's not where I'll be useful. My main expertise is science and social structure. I'm currently pursuing a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering, and, while I hat to sound like I'm bragging, I know a lot about social structure and history. While those areas won't be a whole lot of use in the Microbe Stage, more for the Awakening and onward, I am by no means a stranger to biology. I definitely think I can be of use in that area as well.

Also, I want to ask a question: How do I edit posts?

For now, I'll just say the additional information here: I misspelled hate. I'm also pretty good at 3D modeling, animating, and graphics design, but you definitely could find some other people who are better at it.

EDIT: ....Never mind.

Welcome!

Sorry no one else has arrived to acknowledge your introduction yet - quite a few of us are busy with real life, so anyone who posts an application around this time is likely to have to wait for replies.

As you say, knowledge of nuclear engineering and social structures will only be relevant during later stages, but right now anyone with experience in modelling and animation will be useful, even if it's not perfect.

No problem at all, I've got lots of time.

If you would, could you please point me towards some sort of list of any 3d projects that need to be done? I know I can't post anything yet, but I'd like to maybe get a bit of a start on some work.

Try these: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/labels/modelling

That github group seems to be largely inactive. The last post was on August 5. That wouldn't ordinarily stop me from going ahead anyways, but it seems like there aren't actually any 3d models in this game. You might not know this (maybe someone will), but are these organelles supposed to be for collecting in-game or to add in the editor? Because it seems like all of the current models are 2d. Also, the only model left to be done is the cillia (I believe).

Well, I did make 1 singular cilia, but I haven't yet gone and made all the other cilia, as I don't know how we need it to "wrap" around the hex.
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You can see most of the modelling work being done and what has been done here: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues?q=label%3Amodelling+
While yours look great! It looks more like a flagelum at the moment! We have tjblazer currently working on cillia as seen at the bottom of this github page: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/125

There are some open modelling tasks here: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/issues/143#issuecomment-66261067

If any of this is confusing to you, don't freight to ask all you can!