I’m starting to feel ready to give up on this.
I have some ground, some trees, a tower and an owl (with messed up normals). I’ve spent so much time on just about anything but gameplay, and still haven’t got it to a stage where I can really start on that.
The idea was that the player is the owl, and flies around collecting moths that are drawn to the wizardly tower in the middle. The wizards were going to be mildly crazy and shoot fireballs at the owl. Or something.
But like I said. I’m too far behind on the basic 3d stuff, and still have some insidious bugs that probably won’t go away in time.

Don’t give up! What you have so far looks really good. Just take a quick break or work on something else, and maybe you can get the bugs worked out.
If you need to, go to the motivational posters
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
don’t give up.
you’ll regret it until the day you die. srsly.