Small steps
It cannot be easy, can it?
After I had saved my project last night, I made a plan to wake up early this (Wednesday) morning and carry on with work. It came out that reality hit me with a different agenda. After a sleepless night, I struggled to stay awake during the day, not to mention to focus on the game project.
I managed to do a couple of little things such as adding an OVR Camera Rig to the bike workshop scene, adjusting build settings and building the game so it could be run on my Quest 2. I played the BIKEhose game on the Oculus and was pleased with the result so far. The scene looks as I wanted it to look, with Sophie, all bicycles and all the tools.
I am excited but also a bit nervous about the next elements I need to work on. I watched a couple of lecture recordings last night about coding and animating assets through the code. I wanted to carry on with tutorials so I can practice as I build my game.
This is when another disturbance occurred.
I sat at my desk this evening and turned my laptop on. When I tried to login in to Moodle and to my UAL blog, a login error appeared on the screen. I was a bit surprised, but thinking that I had possibly typed the password incorrectly, I tried to sign in again. Sadly, with the same result. I panicked a bit and tried for the third time. Again, no success. I managed to send an email to the UAL IT Helpdesk and take a screenshot with their telephone number, before Office 365 also denied access to my account. I am hoping that whatever issue I am dealing with, it will be resolved soon. I have no access to any of the learning materials from this past academic year and that only adds extra stress.
Considering all the above, I think that it is fair to turn the computer off, go to bed and (hopefully) have a fresh start tomorrow.
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I contacted the UAL’s IT Helpdesk first thing in the morning and it came out that my password expired and therefore, I have had no access to my university accounts. I was not able to create my new password through the online service, but luckily a lovely man on the other side of the line helped me with that. I now have access to all UAL’s accounts and can work on the project again (as much as it is possible). Working on this project, I have come to realization that every little piece of done work counts, and leads to the accomplished project. It is impossible to have several hours of interrupted work now, so I started appreciating more those short time periods I have available to carry on with the project. Small steps toward big goals.
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As it cannot be easy, I am unable to upload this post to my blog. I have checked my internet connection and it looks like it is unreliable today. Hopefully it will improve soon. Another day, another struggle, I guess.