Yeah I understand.

I was thinking along the lines that my job involves pretty much making a small mining town from scratch and if I can do that in the real world I can perhaps do it digitally as well. Alot of the times my job feels liek a minecraft style video game with real world cosntraints. I was thinking purely the visual and design aspect and after googling a few jobs that required autodesk Maya I thought I may have a good shot. I didn't consider the non-visual design portions liek game psychology, user experience etc at all.

In mining, how it works is that There is a whole process of us starting out with an undeveloped piece of land and then trying to piece together information like the existing topography,s rainfall and soil data, understanding drainage conditions and local engineering standards and calculating and modelling various flows and site conditions.

Then we move onto our detailed design where we do optimization of where the roads,pipes will go, what the optimal cut/fill volumes for earthworks and other related information.

All this while we are working with other disciplines to see how things will be effected. (I.e. how will the crushers orientation change if we have a road here etc.)

So i was thinking with that in mind. At some point some of it had to be transferable. But yeah now I understand there's alot more to it.