Beau Seymour

Hello Internet! I was recently inspired by the latest Dune movie to make a desert scene that was just as compelling and believable as the wastes of Arrakis, but it ended up being more difficult than I expected! I realised that making something look "barren" just makes it look, well,...

This time on 'Behind the Scenes!' I talk about my first Godot 3D gamejam (Go Godot Jam 3 Ultra) with another attempt at making a game in an afternoon, but this time I actually finished! (mostly) Despite being a lot of fun, and I can finally say I've 'released' my...

My twilight city idea originated from an attempt to make a 3D game in an afternoon in Godot Engine (3.X). Not only did I not finish, but I found out my keyboard sounds horrendous in my mic, making the footage largely unusable without a lot of editing. Instead, I talk...

My second breakdown video covering making realistic 3D fire for my Forest scene in Godot engine 3.4. Again, I stick to high-level musings and mostly just talk about my thought process and how I tackled 3D fire in Godot. Hopefully, it is still informative and inspiring though, and like before...

Hello Internet! Today, I want to share with you my workflow for creating a 3D forest scene in Godot engine. This is my first attempt at a breakdown/making-of, so I'll try to keep it fairly high level. Hopefully this will give you some ideas or inspiration. I feel it'd be...

Another project from some time ago but again in Blender, this time modeling a simpler sunset scene but learning the basics of compositing. I am by no means a pro with Blender and have a lot more to learn. Rather than providing any kind of tutorial, if you wanted to...

A recent project using Blender and FSPY to hard surface model a vault from a photo.

Another early model created on my Surface Go while travelling Japan and teaching myself Blender. I vaguely recall this was when I was just learning about the modifier stack, in particular the array modifier. Despite this, this still took an inordinate amount of time to make and still looks pretty...

This was one of my first serious attempts at creating a game scene in Blender, being the 'Loftly Estate' for my WIP horror game in Godot. Main Hall The building has evolved many times as the scope of the game keeps shifting, and I'm sure it will continue to shift....

This was one of my earliest 3D scenes which I created in hotels/my tent while travelling Japan. I essentially taught myself Blender on a Surface GO while bicycle touring, so a lot of this early work is long overdue an overhaul, but still feel I should post about it. Japanese...

I occasionally like to revisit my early Blender models to breath new life into them. As depressing as it is to see how bad they look, I like seeing the differences in how I approach problems as I continue to learn, so consider it a valuable exercise. This time I...

Another early attempt at a game asset, this time a windmill that completely does not fit the idea of a forest setting. The inspiration for this one was the beautiful windmills in Nausicca, though I definitely don't do them justice.

SO! to the no people who read this, you may have noticed there's been a bit of a step backwards in the posts (namely all my Cycling videos) and some broken links on the website. Well, this was because of me. In my infinite wisdom, on returning to Sydney I...

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. Usual disclaimer about my shocking microphone quality. The GoPro was hit & miss too resulting in some oddball cuts but whatever. It will be interesting to see...

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/OnBevKd-8UU Nagashima is up there as one of the best places to ride in Japan so far, and really is a hidden gem. Absolutely stunning coastline roads...

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/BETN8x90GeQ My apologies for the long hiatus, with the announcement of Japan's State of Emergency I self quarantined myself in a cheap hotel for ~two months in...

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/ZIpnnmm-v1o The persistent drizzle had sodded off so it was time to make a dash inland to the Ebino Plateau and maybe a few onsen en route....

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/-juECkgwDEQ Appears my stint of good weather was over for now as it turned shortly after I started my journey north from Cape Sata. As such there...

Join me on another episode of my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/Hx2uFNEhaEw Having spent an extra day at Lake Ikeda to recharge, it was time I cracked on and hit the southern most point of Japan's mainland. Once...

Join me on my solo bicycle tour to wherever will take me for the next ~year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/frqQ-FW2Qco After sleeping off the first day in a hotel, it was time to head into the hills and explore Japan's incredible countryside. I got super lucky with both of...

Join me as I take social distancing to extremes by solo bicycle touring for a year, starting in Kagoshima, Japan. https://youtu.be/kkQI6ly3BE8 Having spent two hours in the airport going through customs & rebuilding my bike, I was keen to hit the road. Little did I realise I had not packed...

Join me as I do a quick loop through bicentennial parklands near Sydney's Olympic park on my touring bike and lay out my loose plan for bicycle touring across Japan and North America. https://youtu.be/FqrKB71VDGE I've since bought a GoPro 8 Black, so future footage should be better quality/less shakey. Can't...

So I run now.... sortof. I have been spending too much time on the backend/projects pages of the website in the shadows and not enough time updating my blog, so here's a few posts in quick succession to prove I'm still alive! Quite a simple one this and another bucket...

As if the droughts weren't bad enough, and now, this. While living in Sydney's inner west means the odds of the fires getting anywhere near me are near zero, that doesn't mean we havn't had an obscene amount of hazardous air quality warnings and crazy smoke haze. While my thoughts...

Deceptive title, I'm not touring yet! As I am now gearing up for my 'sortof round the world' Bicycle tour, I bought myself a Mavic Mini Drone. This thing weighs in at 249grams not only making it perfect for my already overweight touring setup, but also cunningly coming in under...

Another early start, this time for a casual 100km Jaunt down the coast with Mr Will Childs partaking in the MS Sydney to Gong chairty ride. I tend to do a couple of these larger rides a year but havn't posted about them to date. I truly recommend to anyone...

I've never really been much of a runner, but this felt good. A few years back I got into a groove of running thrice weekly during my lunch break and really got myself into what is probably the best shape of my life so far (80kg cycling130km/wk &running 10km/wk). Unfortunately...

Using only openly available data Having previously worked with analysing/visualisaing traffic modeling data while at TfNSW, I found one of my biggest complaints was the amount of time I had to wait for the modeling team to produce their outputs. So one day, long after leaving TfNSW, I thought to...

Another fairly noteworthy upgrade to the website in the last two weekends. The first was the addition of the 'Gallery' page (button below) where I will be hosting my albums while touring on my bike. Unfortunately most of my pictures so far have been taken on a camera phone but...

Finally taking some serious steps to get back into bicycle touring again and to resurrect the old bicycle blogging (partly why this website exists in the first place). SO in line with buying the Surface Go, essentially a USB chargeable 10" laptop that's going to be perfect for touring providing...

I'm planning to get back into some bicycle touring and so bought a Surface Go as an ultra portable device I could still type effectively on, while chargeable by USB. The idea mostly being just to update the blog/manipulate photos and the like in the evenings, but I thought 'why...

I finally got round to giving the website a touch up and removing that horrible animated GIF loading transition (that sometimes took longer to load than the transitions) in favour of a generic SCSS one. As yet this is not in place for the home page or resume page. Also...

As everything I make for work I obviously can't publish, I knocked up a dashboard in Tableau for fun ages ago and posted it to Tableau Public. It's a bit on the slow side unfortunately but obviously I can't host my own Tableau server for free >.<;Having some embedding issues...

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It was highlighted to me recently that while the PSMA normally charge for their data-sets, their GNAF address database is openly available on data.gov.au :D So I downloaded and imported into Postgresql to have a tinker with it and maybe retire my multi-processed Google API Python scripts. (took a few...

Quick update, added some icons to the bottom panel and setup two new services, OpenProject and SAS Univeristy Edition:

Starting a new contract always ends up pulling me away from coding at home but as I spent 2 days in Hospital this week, I am spending the weekend properly 'R&Ring'. Which means I'm back on the game dev wagon!After all but giving up on Unity for just being too...

Not finished with the website but feel like my Python is getting rusty again, so have a little side project going on tinkering with efficient graph network analysis using graph-tool. Without going into detail for where I plan to take this, I will just show how Sydney's road network looks...

I've had another day updating the website and made good progress with a lot of the UI bugs, the main ones being: - Bootstrap elements that weren't working responsively now should be - Page transitions and loader should now be mostly working (though the order of operations maybe iffy) -...

Well I finally got round to giving this a touch up. Still a lot to go on the backend, but front-end is beginning to take shape now too. Unfortunately this may mean a few things are broken/missing for a while, gives me more incentive to actually finish this time ^^.

Third update, I will do a better write up perhaps but right now it's 2am >.< import pygame from pygame.locals import * import time # Local Imports import starfield import sprites # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Constants # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Initialize the pygame library. pygame.init() # screen variables NUM_STARS = 400 display_width...

Day 2 (More like 3). Basically finished the conversion from sentdex car dodging game tutorial to side scrolling.... dodging game... thing. More to come I'm sure, this is good fun ^^ #!/usr/bin/env python """ What follows is an early framework for a side scrolling space shooter style game in pygame....

More weekend fun ^^. I'd hit a bit of a wall with Python recently after following plenty of QT tutorials with Pyside and writing some simple GUI apps, I was struggling to use this knowledge to link it with my Powershell scripts as intended. I felt I needed a stepping...

After following a number of tutorials on Kivy and deciding it was beyond me, I instead decided to give tkinter and QT a try to see if they were any easier. Both are (though still complex for my lowly ability), but QT struck me as far more mature and once...

Having modestly overclocked my Pi2 I had done the same to my Pi3 without much consideration. It was only when I started trying out PyCharm that I noticed a yellow square appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen. Turns out this is an indicator the Pi was...

Sorry my back garden is so dull, the small storm that rolled through made the daytime interesting at least. Did this with some tinkering with the GoPro and my Raspberry Pi. Simple Python Script to issue HTTP commands over the wifi to it allowed me to set up a 24hr...

As seems to be common lately, I spent another weekend tinkering. This time, after looking online to see if I could find some cheap or home built Lidar-like hardware to play around with. Figuring it would be cool to build an autonomous drone of sorts that could drive around/map my...

So once more I felt like tackling a coding challenge to improve my minimal skillz, this time I thought "How does Strava, or any fitness app really, output my GPS data onto a map?". Principally it should be simple. Take an image of the portion of a map you know...

Fairly minor update Script and graphs seem to be running well again since switching to multiprocessing to handle threading. I will do a better write-up of that another time but I believe the delays caused by generating the graphs in the same thread as pulling/processing the data was causing it...

While I believe I have fixed my issues generating graphs in matplotlib by forcing multiprocessing, I can't help feeling this is ultimately a bad way to render images. While I have no real interest in web development, I think it would be wise to have the browser render the graphs...

I've switched away from IDLE as it was getting on my nerves. I've switched to using Eclipse now as my IDE of choice which I am still getting used to. It runs a bit slowly on the Pi but the superior code autocompletion and easy ability to manipulate multiple .py...

Finally took a minute to have another dig at the code surrounding the graphs in order to make them more functional/expandable for future use. Created a Class for generating the graphs which then feed the variables relevant to which sensor you want to generate, rather than having multiple code blocks...

It is still very early days, but I have been toying with Matplotlib in Python, with an Arduino and sensors connected to my Pi to create a data logger. Originally I was trying to learn C++ but frankly the curve was a bit steep and the complexity to even get...