Isolation Day 22: Return of the Updates

I Really Hate Windows… Have I Told You That?

You know when you want to do a really simple task on your computer to make life easier, and then everything decides to go against you? Well, today was one of those days.

All I wanted to do was enable remote desktop features on our home server and share a couple of drives. Of course, Windows had other plans. First off, the screen wouldn’t output anything—nothing a quick restart wouldn’t fix, or so I thought. Three hours of updates later, I finally managed to tick that singular box to enable remote desktop.

Then came the next set of updates. God knows how, but in the five minutes it took me to find the hidden setting in the Windows 10 interface (what happened to just right-clicking on the "My Computer" icon?), Windows decided it needed another major update lasting two hours. Seriously, how the hell does Microsoft expect anyone to get any work done?

While waiting for the updates, I booted up my laptop to do some work on WYSIWYG. Things went well at first while I was running Blender in macOS to create a new set piece, but then the inevitable happened: I Boot Camped into Windows, and my laptop started yet another update—the first of three that would hit in the few hours I was actually trying to work. At least I got the set pieces imported in between the first and second updates!

After finally getting through all the updates, I managed to spend a couple of hours playing with WYSIWYG and produced a quick render in the design engine.

The Set Design

It’s still a work in progress and hasn’t been connected to a lighting desk yet, so I can’t focus the moving lights in a controlled way just yet. I’m also planning on adding a few movers on the floor. You may have noticed I added some bars to the back of the stage; these are actually LED battens and LED sticks, but I didn’t turn them on for this render since I’d been seeing them all day in the "Quick View."

I plan on playing with this stage for a few hours a day and eventually filming a video set to some music. I’m thinking maybe The Prodigy or Rammstein—a little present for the wife!

Have you been getting a ridiculous amount of Windows updates lately? What do you think of my new set design, and what music would you like to see me light this set to? Let me know in the comments below!