Posts by TomWithTheWeather

Ooo finally someone to fetch me coffee.

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That was Crytek, Tom.

Oh yeah. That was my other guess.

Wasn't the Stalker dev's building raided a few years back? Something about them using pirated copies of software?

Holy crap, Shack front page.

What a train wreck. I vote to close.

Someone's e-penis just got bigger.

I have a house, not a room.

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btw, someone should probably remove me from the list until I get settled in down south.

Attempt to read this.

hahaha Nice Klein!

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its a selling point.

Exactly. Because when you're making a PC game for snobby PC gamers, you have to come up with a few technology-related bullet-points to put on the box, regardless of how much of a breakthrough they really are. Because graphics are important and spouting off the latest rendering buzzwords to fellow geeks earns you cool points.

Yes, UE3 seamlessly loads as you play through the game.

Complain to the big hardware companies. We've been able to do this stuff on the software side for years. That's not the problem.

The problem is, we need features like this to run in real time and affordable hardware that can do these things smoothly in a highly detailed game environment is slow to come.

One thing we often forget when developing games is that we are an industry of magicians. We are concerned with faking effects and hiding what's around that next corner just for the sole purpose of giving the end user a smooth real time experience. We use such things as normal maps to fake real 3D geometry, not because that's how it should be done, but because that's how we have to do it to create a playable game.

Kismet takes all of 5 minutes to understand and begin using.

I was bored and walked around in the woods last Saturday. Didn't get many good pictures, but I like these few.

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hahah shemales

UE3.

I can't wait for my controller to yell, "Hey! Listen!" over and over again.

I just played Excite Truck on one of the two Wii kiosks in the local GameStop at the mall. The controls were really cool. It took me about 15 seconds to get the hang of it. The game feels very much like Burnout. I generally don't like racing games that much, but this was fun.

For all you GBXers, that's Collin Creek Mall.