The Postman

A quick little Me-109 I did in about 1 hour because I was bored. 256x256 skin and about 500 polys

Did you know that in South Africa when you say "robot" it means traffic light? So we're going to be making a South African Jesus themed driving game?

I love you Tom. Hahaha

Ugh, yes. I can see how this played out already. Some scared 45-55 year old soccer mom franctically dialing her cell phone and hyperventilating into the receiver to some surprised officer. "OMG THERE ARE MYSTERIOUS BOXES WITH ?s ON THEM DEAR GOD SEND A BOMB SQUAD BECAUSE IF I WAS A BOMBER I WOULD PUT MY BOMB OUT IN THE OPEN WITH BRIGHT YELLOW PAINT AND SUCH. I AM A DUMB BITCH." Okay, maybe not the last part but seriously, this isn't a surprise for me

You'd be surprised what some religious folks out here (especially in the south) believe.

However it's important to remember which market is the biggest and most important. Japan and Europe are nice enough but the markets there aren't nearly as huge as America. In doing so they've also limited themselves in markets as well, though. People who want to purchase PG13+ or MA rated games don't go to Nintendo for it. Granted, the younger audiences are still a good market share, but have nowhere near the buying power of the good ol' 18-25 bracket. Furthermore, whether or not those laws stick doesn't mean they're any more enforceable. However, I will say that they've got the handheld market nailed down like crazy and I love my DS.

Point taken, I actually meant to say emulation. However you are right that it's a smaller group of people who know about emulation, but it's also an ever smaller and smaller group that remember these old games and will buy them for nostalgia. That being said, this business model can't continue forever. It's a marketing tactic because they're offering a kitsche service because vintage is popular currently, although personally I see that trend waning a bit. Think of it kind of in the same vein of "vintage" tee-shirts. They market to the kitsche audience now. That's really all they've got and when that dries up, then what? Sales of the 'cube paled in comparison to other consoles like the PS2 and hell, even the XBox later in its life. Regurgitating old content can only keep the coffers full for so long. If Nintendo wanted to keep in the game, they'd re-invent some of those franchises or even seek new ones with strong ideas backing them. I do realize that there is nearly zero overhead for these to be "made" though, so I suppose that's a plus in their direction. I'm still re-buying them though. I'm re-buying games I've already purchased. That just rubs me the wrong way. It might not bother you, but it bothers me, let's leave that one to opinion, eh?

MAN! Fucking sweet! I can't wait to re-buy all the games I originally bought instead of you know, downloading MAME games. This is a shitty marketing tactic that is really REALLY going to fall short in the long run.

I think he's alluding to it "pushing" god into a narrower and more precise definition while removing a lot of the mysticism and well, ignorance surrounding many religious assumptions. It is a valid statement and argument to suggest that all of creation explained by science is well within the powers of God(s) to create. It is not a valid or defenseable position to suggest that all evidence against biblical creation mythology or other creation mythology is false simply because it disagrees with the mythology's storyline. IE: Nexus's all-caps post of "NO IT'S NOT!" which is so much chaff in the breeze when it comes to a real argument.

NO IT'S NOT THE GOD EXISTS! it's not funny and not ridiculous. you just dont belive. Thanks for contributing. Get out of poli-disc. What Mikey and others suggest is a possibility and religion isn't necessarily against anything science finds out. I would see that as a very valid opinion, although it is not my own. It at least acknowledges logic and science.

I mean I want to say that I don't trust about the bigbang theory even if it's true but it's up to you. I belive that the bible contains real situations/happenings in our life, noone would be so dumb and write just like that! The sciense is ok from my view but the religion have an bigger impact on our lifes. Atheists that don't belive In God I mean, They have to belive in something? If you ask an Atheist where is the human from he wouldn't really answer since he doesn't really know so he can then turn to bible and read it and then he gets that's life is not what he thinks, it's far from what he thinks. I mean I love the sciense too, the spacetravels and space and other spaceresearch going on is all good.. But the bible is like something that allows us to know who we are. And I belive in God.. I only don't know if the sciense is aiming to go the good way, to do good things that is good for us. I mean look the global warming is another sign the icebloks are smelting and the sea level can be lifted up by some years. Wee need something smart if we do in sciense, but if we don't care about the nature it's of course sad. I mean we have no other home then Earth planet. I think religion and sciense goes close together to eachother in a way. Hm.. And by sciense.. we at least got internet! Oh hay guys, i don't know how this works personally so GOD MUSTA DONE IT. Get out of here and don't come back until you can write coherent English or back up your ridiculously silly claims with some unbiased study that shows you're ideas aren't the tripe we know them to be.

Sort of. Heightmaps (greyscale images like you said) don't HAVE to be an exact match to the image under it, but can be a supplament to it. IE: If a diffuse (colored texture) map had concrete, the height map could just be tiny divots and wear. Well, I meant that one must make the normal map by hand with that filter in mind. To make sure you don't get "fuzzy" or soft edges you have to make sure that your normal map image has very stark contrasts on the edges of its structures. You can add detail scratches, etc. to it by using a heightmap along with it later. The problem with converting images like the tutorial suggests is that EVERYTHING is essentially the same height and any detail is "fuzzy" or soft. It doesn't stand out very well and the whole thing looks like wrinkled cloth, not brick/concrete/iron. Sorry to stomp all over this, but there's a smart way and a sloppy way to use normal maps and unfortunately that filter is very very sloppy.

haha, very clever, i dig it

Great work nooba!

That's how science and logical reasoning work. And strangely you fell through the cracks... What...the fuck? Did you read the article in this thread or are you just typing to see yourself type? These are scientific studies. Come off it. Uh...Nexus, I know plenty about world religions and mythology. Probably larger amounts than you do. They're myths and made up stories from a bygone day when people thought the sun sank into the ocean or that gods roamed the earth and could be sacrificed to. It's not real and has no bearing on scientific reasoning.

Please please PLEEEEEEEEEEASE don't make normal maps like this. Squirrel I know you mean well but that's a ghastly way to make normal maps. A good rule of thumb is to think of normal maps like this: Anything that juts out from the wall more than 6 inches uses a normal map (and will require you to make that map piecemeal in photoshop with that filter by hand, not by filtering the entire image, or by making a model for it) Anything that juts out from the wall less than 6 inches should be a height map (black and white image) and this counts divots, scratches, woodgrain and subtle changes in the surface of materials. Making normal maps like you're suggesting makes very muddy edges on textures in game and really loses a lot of strong details and contrast.

Because, if you'd read the article we now have proof up until about a millisecond before hand that yes, the big bang did happen. You're fine to believe what you want, however distrusting science and research for the sake of distrusting it is just patently false to both science and religion. Furthermore, science and research had repeated experiments and controls and are constantly changing and figuring out new information to patch old gaps in research. Religion is the same "we don't know what happened so here's a story" claptrap, it never changes in that regard. That's not a fact, and no religion doesn't explain scientifically where life came from. It's an interesting tool for indepth philosophical musings on morality and such, but beyond that it has no merit in science. What in the fucking hell are you on about? What does this have to do with the big bang? Nexus... please read more books and make an effort to learn more about the world, please. Seriously, what the fuck are you on about? This has nothing to do with the thread. Because science has research and evidence backing it up. Quit speaking out your ass. Christ, I thought you guys had good education systems over there.

100 years ago? Try 5 years ago. This shit still happens, just not as much. Even 30 years ago there were still lots of lynchings and a new rise given to the KKK.

Sweeeeeeeet, more stuff to get a third mortgage on my tiny 1 bedroom hovel for! I can't wait to put these on my Neon.

Oh man, that crap. It was actually from a local cult from right here in the good ol' US of A! It's tripe and has been repeatedly trounced.

I vote that we name it "Toilet Shark."

A locked subforum that mods can send posts to instead of deleting them, that way people who get their posts chopped can see what they did that wasn't kosher and the mods can still have control over their forums. Win-win, baby!

I do believe he's been acquitted. http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/afghanistan

My favorite series of patches for BF1942: Pilots are too powerful, let's take 'em down a peg. Now you can shoot pilots. Oh snap, turns out that flak kills people with headshots like crazy now and the falling planes kill more people than the pilots do! Remove this feature and make it so that planes faster. :psyduck:

these aren't very funny.