I like my dumb solution for an "elastic" bouncing curve without wanting to implement the math. Just a vibe of "does it feel bouncy enough"

"We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" or something

Hope you solved whatever was plaguing you though

Node setup for all of the above

node setup, the 2 scales are just to prevent it from blowing up in size which was an issue that I'm not sure why but I guess that'll be the dt element

:(

Writing for myself for next year, but I think I'll make a script to pull like 4 random models from sketchfab or polyhaven/etc and have to come up with something using them. Definitely easier to get more practice with lighting and compositing that way instead of 3hr to smash everything together...

This was all over the place. The floor was gonna be a street, then it turned salt flats something with voronoi. Then I remember it was camping so I added a tent but I didn't wanna do a wooded area. This was just a series of bad decisions where I was too stubborn to redo things.