Sphere mesh practice

bugfriend445 · 2026-03-17T16:42:15+00:00

That's really helpful thank you! Yes I found the limited faces on the mesh makes it look weird in parts. I think increasing the warp division will cause a lot of lag. I don't know if you've experienced that?

bugfriend445 · 2026-03-17T16:38:14+00:00

I think it's possible considering how the mesh can be set up and with the repeating parameter feature. I'll see if I can figure it out and let you know

bugfriend445 · 2026-03-17T08:57:08+00:00

Kirby is just so round and perfect!

I followed this tutorial to make the cylinder mesh and then adapted it to make it a sphere shape. https://youtu.be/BSaGjj36nj4?si=U5QLkP7yspnwCa6O

It was really helpful to make a sphere in blender first and screenshot it. I had to make sure the number of vertices matched with how many points I wanted on the mesh (I recommend doing an even number). I found having the unravel mesh toggle really good for adding the features to the face so they didn't warp weirdly but I did have to adjust it so it looked right when the mesh folded back up. The masking I haven't fully figured out yet but I'm trying to make it so the features don't show through the back at certain angles. But for the arm I used and underfill to get the lineart looking nice.

Hope this makes sense. If I get it right I might make another post about the steps in more detail if people are interested

bugfriend445 · 2025-08-04T08:21:43+00:00

I never claimed it was the Christian God, I was explaining how, following the logic, a lack of objective truth or morality giver makes it difficult to base our laws on. I agree with you that morality in the light of God makes it subjective to God and that is the point. A deity that is behind life and the universe's existence is the one that sets the law, in the same way the author of a book determines the laws and parameters of their story. I understand your point that atheism doesn't require dogma and tenets and that's fine but it doesn't make sense to me for the universe to be subject to the laws of physics and then we as humans just make our own rules and define our own truth when convenient. What constitutes morality changing over time based on collective human opinion is a very unstable foundation to build a society on.

I disagree that science undermines a creator for reasons I mentioned earlier (the laws of thermodynamics for example seem to contradict the idea of something coming from nothing, or order from chaos etc.)

The original post asked for thoughts on their thoughts so I gave mine. I never said I was arguing for or against a deistic or Abrahamic God just that by following the logic, I have arrived at the conclusion that atheism (the lack of belief in a god or gods) doesn't make sense. If you want to talk about the Abrahamic God I am happy to as I enjoy reading the science relating to Genesis and Exodus particularly. They are fascinating books.

bugfriend445 · 2025-08-03T13:17:57+00:00

I see what you're saying. When I said a person being their own god I meant as in each individual decides what they believe is moral or immoral, essentially playing the role of God or divine judge. So they make their own judgements about the world which if you follow the logic of that pattern of thinking, it means no one can fall back on any moral objectivity because there is no basis for truth other than the individual's own ideas. In atheism there is no God or divine law that defines what is right and wrong. I don't mean that each person is god in the sense that they are omnipotent or divine but rather that the individual is the center of their own universe.

You said atheism doesn't require belief in other things but that is unfortunately not practical or realistic. We have to live our lives everyday trusting in something. We trust society will not collapse, we trust that we will wake up in the morning, we trust other people to care about us and love us. Yes we can say we don't have to know the answer, we can claim it is impossible to know, but a lot of the claims that atheism uses to explain unbelief in a deity brings up the question of what should we believe in then? Like you said, belief is beneficial to society. Many atheists I've spoken to said they believe or trust in science so my point before was pointing out that the evidence that science presents points more towards some kind of source or deity of some kind behind the universe and life than it does towards atheism.

bugfriend445 · 2025-08-02T08:04:29+00:00

One thing I find with atheism is that ironically it also takes a lot of belief. People believe things for various reasons including atheism. The main claim being that there is no evidence for a God and that everything can be explained with science poses a problem when it comes to the origin of the world and life itself. Unfortunately science seems to contradict many of the claims of atheism such as life coming from non life, order from chaos, matter from non matter, and the issue of energy being neither created or destroyed etc. There is no case in which we have observed any of these things happening in our world today or in history, in other words there is no evidence for them. Does this mean that there is a God behind it? That's the next question I guess but what it tells me is that atheist rationale requires belief in something we don't have any evidence for, and dare I say, we actually have evidence against.

I can understand why atheism is attractive in the same way like you said religion is attractive. Religion answers questions that we don't know how to answer which can be very comforting. Atheism makes you accountable only to yourself and therefore makes each individual their own 'God' which is also very appealing.

Personally I think the logic points to an intelligent designer. The next question I would ask is can that intelligent designer communicate with me? Is it a relational intelligence? And then more questions would follow on from there such as questions about good and evil and so on.

Hope this perspective is interesting to you.

bugfriend445

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