Posts by KoKo5oVaR

I just played the game on XBOX 360 last Saturday at a videogame festival in Paris.

There was a communication guy from Bethesda at the stand to answer people's questions and especially, to guide you through the demo . I played a bit with his nerves and this was actually pretty funny .

The first thing i noticed is the emptiness of the universe, i don't know if it was because i played an unfinished demo or not. But it's basically like Oblivion : an environment about the same size with some monsters scattered around. Sometimes you stumble upon a wrecked city with 2 or 3 dragoon ants to make it a challenge, i asked if it's possible to scavenge items from these places, apparently you can, but i didn't found anything.. Everything looked really generic.

Secondly i found the combat parts really deceiving, the game is a FPS, but compared to STALKER to take an exemple , a really bad FPS. Once again, it's oblivion with a gun; Including the AI. You got action points you can use whenever you want to shoot accurately at your enemies, but there's not any real tactical aspect in that, It's more like a powerup you can choose to use or not.

I visited megaton, insulted the sheriff, saw a brahmin, killed a bunch of dogs and molerats. Then i wanted to see how far i could go if i was walking straight forward, the guy told me there's about 40 minutes to walk from one point of the map to another, so i gave up. I saw a little children wandering and i asked : "Can i kill that kid ?" "Yeah go for it" I tried to get an accurate shot in his groin but the option wasn't there anymore, so i shot him into the head. Nothing happened, the kid just ran away from me.

I was looking for items in a city, but didn't found anything, so i started to look at texture bugs, collision problems, holes in the geometry of the environment and stuff like that . Once the communication guy saw it, he told me : "Alright you played enough, there's some people waiting to try"

That was my Fallout3 adventure. Sorry to deceive you guys, honestly; i'm actually not worried about the fact that FALLOUT3 will be a good sequel, but the fact that it will be not a good game at all.

But yeah, i didn't saw any real RPG parts, quests, investigations etc, that's what was missing. Hopefully, the game will be better than what i saw.

@2D chris, I have to agree with you to a large extent, but to make a game to please nerds, you need to be a nerd yourself

Thrik, my hero!! thanks for the time you put working on the core !

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That's how my kokos should look like!!

I wish , i still need some beard fertilizer

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It must be a lot more fun with a joypad though!

Actually yes, because i can't get pass area 6 with a keyboard. On the map i need to go north-east, BUT, i only can get north and east.

I'm trying to push the two keys simultaneously with no luck, it's impossible on a keyboard, the chopper transfer me only north or east. I'm stuck and it's lame , anyone knows how to get pass this without having to buy a pad ? grin employes ?

Well i don't know if you've read it kt, and i don't want to spoil anyone. It depends of your interpretation really.

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To me, it's a bad ending. Indeed, the beautiful part is that the efforts of the father to keep his son alive were not in vain. After the father's death, the boy comes across some survivors who take him with them. He'll live a bit more longer, yes; but in a world where living become something without any sense, with no other goal than the straight line to death (the road).

I'm sorry for your mom e-freak, hopefully she'll be back on her feet soon.

Be sure your mom likes bad ending stories, because I'm not sure this is the kind of book to everyone taste, it's a pretty particular experience which needs to be taken seriously if you want to enjoy it, otherwise you'll have a bad time. Look at the plot summary on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road

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Definitely the best book i read this year so far. Incredibly disturbing.

Needs to be read listening to some "godspeed you black emperor!"

Edit : i saw that there is a movie based on the novel which is already in post production, directed by John Hillcoat featuring Viggo Mortensen as the first role.

Looks pretty damn good!

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Not seen any news for months...

lol, now i guess you know why

crazy stuff

O K i'm an idiot

I just had to assign the vertexcolor map to the diffuse channel of a material and go ahead to "rendertotexture'ing" its diffuse map.

thanks !

Is there anybody on mapcore who is familiar on rendering the result of the realtime render of a viewport in 3dsmax ? not sure if that is clear ..

I'm modelising a character with MAX, and before starting texturing, i wanted to have a good dirt map to help me visualizing the volumes when painting. i came across a little MAXscript called pits&peaks which is somekind of fake ambient occlusion working with vertex colors, it comes in very handy :

(this is the realtime rendering of the perspective viewport)

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Unfortunately, i can't manage to render this on my uvsheet with rendertotexture because pits&peaks works only on the realtime rendering of max. I know there is a way to use rendertotexture with only the realtime render of the viewport but i can't figure how. if anybody got an idea, thanks in advance !

funny fact : I actually know Ludovic Texier irl, a member of the artists team on daikatana since 97' to 2000. He doesn't talk much about his years at ion storm ...

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HOLY SHIT!!!!

Amazine~~ ~

i wish i could have sci fi at home

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The continuation of the armour !!!

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I remember making it under 3dsmax 4

Nothing come from free mind except if you are gifted and got a great visual memory, work with references if you are into "realistic" drawing hessi, there's not an once of shame in that.