AKA "Start, Stop, Study, Do Over", including "Where did it go?" and "that's not what it looked like in Blender!"
I must admit I'm having much fun building my first age, in spite of the stop/start nature of the experience. Having first downloaded Blender on Dec. 3 and PyPRP on Jan. 13, I feel like I'm light years away from the initial "Look, it's a cube!" moment. I have an actual partial age . Yes, I'm very proud of myself.
There will come a time when I'm going to be asking the writers on this board for help. So far, my age is named "Try3.1Grid". My skills seem to be rather limited to the technical aspects of age building. I did go looking for a D'ni dictionary, but gave up after I found one. Some things are better left to others.
I owe many thanks to Andy Legate, D'Lanor and the search function on this forum. But, one by one I'm solving the riddles and the age is being built. Having spent my career designing payroll systems and operational databases, I feel like a kid let out of school. This is WAY more fun and enjoyable, though much less profitable .
Most evenings I wrap up by choosing one of the fan ages to explore. Each and every time, I find something that makes me say "Wow, how did they do that?" There's an awfully lot of talent and expertise in this bunch.
One note of caution to anyone else wanting to try this - you know how sometimes you get a song stuck in your head and can't get rid of it? Well, I'm REALLY sick of "AAAWWW WHEEEE!" when I first open URU. I just keep hearing that sound over and over and over. I'm turning off my speakers from now on.