go-kart model

I will concede it is probably too strong, it's so easy to overdo things when you are first excited to start playing with them

It's directx and opengl.

I'm working on a new character model right now, hopefully I will have another update soon.

a new little guy

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for st0lve

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ooo, a 50's kart would be pretty cool, with big ass fins.

anything specifically that makes you say that?

I've been doing that today, and animating him - I think he looks a lot better than the old guy at least.

rigging and animating is such a hassle . . . I'm starting to learn the things you can and can't do to not screw things up in the process.

yup, seen that before. looks like a fun mod project.

I don't think so, I will certainly try it out when they release something though.

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Customization is very near and dear to both Brian and my own heart, so it's no surprise that a high level of customization is a big goal of ours in ZeroGear. While Brian has been working on our physics and camera system, I had some time to play with Ogre's material system. After a little bit of poking around I developed a system to let us have user-customizable color on most anything we wish. After implementing it on most of our existing assets I spent a while time trying out different color combinations. Here are a compilation of some straight out of the Ogre model viewer.

I start out by making sure that all the areas that are going to be re-colored in the material system are desaturated. Things that are not going to change color (such as the tail lights or mud splatters in this example) remain full color.

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Then I make a solid white color mask of the parts of the texture I am going to be filling with an RGB value. Then in the material file I tell the engine to fill the mask color with the desired color and then combine it with the black and white base texture.

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We will hook up a color picker widget in the game gui to supply the material with whatever color the user wishes to use for his kart or character or other accessories.