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Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
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The recovery of my nuked work is going well, it's indeed quite a bit easier to retrace my own steps than it was fumbling around for a solution, but I'll probably need another week to wrap it up.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
I found out why my objects kept accelerating all over the place.
As it turns out, Unreal doesn't need colliders to do collisions and physics and whatnot. Meshes can do just fine on their own if you tell them to, and by default they're set up to! And since I stuck to what I had seen in code examples - i.e., have both a collider and a mesh on an actor, as one would in Unity or Godot - I had components that were added to the same actor physically overlapping each other. Which did not register as collisions, at least not of any sort I had been watching out for. It certainly did cause those components to attempt to violently separate, which they couldn't because, as said, they were attached to the same actor. Fun.
So I disabled the physics ont the meshes, and everything just dropped to the ground as is proper.
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I finally worked up the motivation to get back out to my shop and work on some bookshelves I've been planning. This old IKEA veneer and cardboard monstrosity needs replacing as it's overflowing completely, not to mention falling apart after 4 more house moves than the 0 it was designed for. This CRT I keep hooked up to an old Nintendo (well, Nintendo on a chip reproduction) needs a place to go too. So my plan is a three section almost built in, heavily inspire by this New Yankee Workshop episode. Only I'll be using pocket screws wherever possible instead of dados and rabbets, because I'm feeling lazy.
Step one, spend $400 on 6 sheets of birch plywood, half 3/4 and half 1/4.
Step two, break them down using a circular saw and a Kreg ripping jig.
Step three, make the cases. The first two came out pretty good, a little wobbly but nothing some shims can't fix. And then the rest.
My goal is for this to be a pretty quick project. I have some soft maple from the bargain bin laying around for the faces, as well as the rail and stile for the cabinet doors down below. The plan is to stain it black, and then wipe on poly for protection. Wish me luck and speed!
Don't forget that Imgur has blocked the UKGBNI for legal reasons. You may want to start hosting images somewhere else—e. g., on your own personal website.
Listen, I can't go solving Britain's problems for them. If they want to see my woodworking projects, they're just going to have to
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