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Decently, thanks for asking. Got some time in, but I was admittedly very sloppy.
Got some UI work done, basic but it works. Layout, buttons, nothing fancy.
But mostly I dug into procedural geometry. My old hobby horse. I've implemented some for every engine I ever worked with, often several times over. This time I decided to do it differently, to not make the same old mistakes again, and just let ChatGPT do it for me. The results were decidedly nonfunctional, and I had to smooth it all over by hand quite a bit just to get it working at all. That said, the good chatbot did have some input I hadn't heard before, and it did help me get it running in Unreal C++, and it was useful for spotting obvious bugs that I couldn't be assed to sift from the logs. But overall I am indeed just re-doing what I had already done previously.
It's supposed to give me roughly spherical planets to deform and paint. Right now all I have is an icosahedron with vertex coloring. Subdividing it for greater resolution leads to incorrect results. That'll be the next thing to tackle - find out why some triangles are missing after subdivision. Shouldn't be too hard, but right now I wish I had just done it all myself instead of accepting LLM muck. Maybe it would've turned out better if the LLM had been integrated into my IDE, but I use JetBrains Rider, and their integrated AI assistants all require credit cards even just for the trial versions. I do not own a credit card, and I decided against finding a workaround like a virtual credit card. Maybe I should switch to Visual Studio and get Github Copilot - it's worthless at work, but maybe it'll do the job for Unreal development. Maybe I should trust my instincts and just do it all manually. Maybe just asking ChatGPT now and then is the optimal solution. I have no idea.
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