go-kart model

nothing to show, but I just wanted to let everyone know we had our first playtest tonight, which consisted of 3 people driving around champion circuit bashing into each other (as there is no real gameplay yet). But the networking is coming along very nicely!

yea, we plan to have some skid marks in there for sure. In the corners and stuff I do have a road texture that blends to one with streaks on it, but maybe it's hard to see on the video or the streaks aren't dark enough.

btw, the article I mentioned earlier in the thread is finally up on gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... atness.php

also, our development blog got mentioned on this list of "great development blogs" which seems to be getting spread around a bit and should bring us a little more attention, yay!

Having this thread in the WIP model gallery forum is starting to seem a bit silly. Maybe a proper thread is in order soon. I'm kind of nostalgic about this one though

working on next character

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unwrapped and AO bake base

texture painting time

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basic texture, still deciding how I want to divide up the coloring customization areas. On to rigging!

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set up the color layer stuff this morning and got him all set up in-engine

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all the colors are customizable

yea, his lower body is kinda screwed up when he is in the sitting position, I'm starting to think I should have modeled and posed them sitting to start with instead of standing. I am sharing a skeleton with all the characters though so I think it's something I can fix for all characters down the road. Luckily, you can't ever really see the bottom half of the characters when they are in the karts.

Lets see whats on my list for the near future . . .

finish polishing a little playground test map for the multiplayer test LAN this weekend (loop-de-loop!)

adjust new character model to play nice with all the accessories (his eyes stick through everything!)

write down the footage I need from the LAN to do some of the shots I want for the video

investigate rendering a new character poster using robot ( would be neat to do one of every character )

start thinking about putting something placeholder at http://myzerogear.com

start new character? ( skeleton I think! )