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3287 :: Drone Patrol Found Footage

Added 2024-06-19 08:12:57 +0000 UTC

Hello, dear drones. Hex here.

Firstly, I finally have a backlog of work again! This last 1.5 months has been pretty tricky as pretty much everyone I usually work with has been ill. So I am really sorry that stuff wasn't coming out nearly as frequently, but hopefully that phase is now over and we're back to bringing stuff out!

For this video, the drone's command was pretty simplistic:

"When it arrives at a defined patrol node, it will count down from 10.

Then it will turn to face the next patrol node in sequence.

It will count down from 3.

It will march to the new patrol node."

It's quite similar to a lil game project I was experimenting with!

And it's fun to treat drones as such simple, easily programmed NPCs.

Then you just set them to work, have them repeating a very basic task, and watch them do nothing but that task until you say 'stop'.

For me, even though this is possibly a bit silly, it's having drones repeat such repetivie motions that is such a vital component of dronification. Giving their minds a lil loop to focus on really helps too.

I hope you enjoy, darling drones!

~ Hex