Posts by FrieChamp

  • co_galvanise

    Not too long ago "you" were also one of "these" NS mappers, making more or less generic NS maps

  • Worst game idea EVER!!

    S"aue"rkraut

    Funny stuff

  • Reality engine

    http://www.cgonline.com/content/view/646/2/

    Computer Games - What would you say are a couple of the big features that make the Reality Engine stand out from other similar products?

    Tim Johnson - In terms of rendering technology we have some cutting edge stuff, such as Precomputed Radiance Transfer which allows real-time CGI quality lighting and shadowing. We also have all the same graphical effects you’re seeing in upcoming technology like UnrealEngine3. These days however technology is more than pretty graphics. Development budgets are rising, and games are getting much more complex, so anything you can do to make life easier for the artists and programmers is going to result in better games being made faster, and this is an area where we also stand out.

    In this respect we have some cutting-edge “development” technology, such as our use of Microsoft’s C# language for game scripting, which makes it much easier for programmers and artists to create the actual gameplay logic which drives the game. On the artistic side we have support for dynamic scene construction, where you can visualize all the lighting, shadowing and materials in real-time as you move objects around the scene with no compiling, waiting, etc. Another killer feature we have is network level editing, where you can build a scene over the Internet in the level editor, where other people are also connected to the server, creating different parts of the level, or even running around playing it while you’re working on it! This is really going to revolutionize level production. We’ll be releasing this feature to our official licensees in the upcoming months.

    Now THIS is the most interesting part about reality engine. I don't really know whether it's a useful feature for designers, but maybe some games can benefit from it in terms of gameplay (dungeon master editing the level while others are playing it for instance).

  • Our colony

    http://www.ourcolony.net/

    More info, from shacknews:

    Quote

    Had fun trying to figure out how bees coincided with the impending release of Halo 2? Well, you get it to do it all over again, this time with ants, as Microsoft has a new viral marketing campaign underway to promote the next-gen Xbox. Using the site Ourcolony.net, gamers can catch a glimpse of the design of the Xbox 360, as it's rumored to be called. GameSpot found further proof that it's a Microsoft ploy as during the Game Developer's Conference, there's a picture of J Allard wearing a shirt with the same logo as on the site.

    Link to gamespot article: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/07 ... 21871.html

    Heh interesting marketing strategy. Here is more from the gamespot forums:

    http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/sho ... 215&page=0

  • Acteon - finished - the movie

    The first scene is awesome, some of the other stuff too, I just wish they were a little longer and in a connecting story. Some background information on the exercise you did this for would be nice as explanation for why you made these scenes like this. Anyway good job!

  • Graves

    Quote from DaanO

    Pictures are pretty. But i think the graves get something glorious in your pictures (because they're pretty and are in nice colors and all), so they don't portrait the graves well, which they should do.

    Well, they are war heroes in their country after all, so maybe it isn't that bad.