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Due to the work schedules of my flatmate, we're having our party a week early. It's not even really a Halloween party. There are costumes and there will be karaoke. That much I know. Booze and narcotics as well. Should be pretty entertaining.

Shaping up very nicely now.

Very Nice.

Maybe some blueish lighting as well?

Current look is good, not too cluttered, understated, but plenty of detail.

The distortion on that makes it look like metal. Battered looking galvanised steel would look about right IMO. There's plenty of that in tower blocks etc

The thing that always astounds me about him is that he fails to realise that themajority of people on the internet regard him as a total prick with hte intellectual credibility of pondlife, which when you consider the average internet IQ is pretty astounding.

Lack of order? Looks very thrown together.Bunch of disparate obkects in apparently random positions for no reason?

Lighting and burshwork good, but it looks very disconnected and somewaht random at the mo.

Yeah, I thought it was clunky and uninspiring TBH.

s'true enough in many ways.

I guess if I cared about games enough, I'd have spent time mapping/modelling rather than drinking and pissing aroud. Equallly, I'd be sat here working on something rather than posting this and necking Carlsber Export. However, I do disagree to a point with his comments on Indie games. The problem there is due more to a talent/time/idea imbalance than one revolving around lack of effort.

Plenty of people have good to great ideas and have one or more important skills. The reason for these projects failing comes down (generally) to a lack of coders and animators. You can make a beta without any art assets (just about) but coders are fucking gold dust. You generally needn't worry about 3d modelers, 2d artists and level designers, they're ten a penny compared to coders and if you know a good one, you're guaranteed a good bit of promom art.

In my (reasonably limited) experience with mod/game development, it's always coder driven. If Jimbob C++ want a game made, it's gonna happen, getting art assets is the leats of his worries. The game conceived by Billy-Ray Hammer Editors ain't gonna happen. He can know 4 modelers, 2 texture artists and a whole ton of Sean-Paul Hammer Editors, but if he hasn;t got a coder, his ideas gonna sink like a fat chick on the Titanic.

I'd enjoy the movie like feel more if it actually felt like I was in control. In the kong bits I felt I should have died at least three or four times, but I never did, it was just so.. hgngh Words fail me.

Steven Spielberg used his vast fortune to build a time machine so he could go back and make it look like there were Dinos so he and Michael Critchton could make a fuckton outta Jurassic Park.

Which is about as plausible a theory as intelligent design. So there.

it was seriously 5ft high? you had to duck whenever you were standing? or are you a shorty?

no pics of my place cause its still shitty out

oh yeah, twas fricking tiny in there and very bloody cold in the depths of January, I had very item of clothing and bedding I owned packed in and around me to try and keep the heat in.

If I didn't know better, I'd say that the bottel there was the chesy corner shop voddy that you get in this country in a wee plastic bottle, Price Consort or whatever.

Our places till looks a little bare. Need to get ze posters on the go. Alas, all I have is crappy ones from my student days.

Renos box table reminds of when I lived in Canada and we had the pikiest furniture ever. I slept in the basement in a room that was about 5ft high. No furniture in there at all, everything went on the floor. I, unsuprisingly, lost a lot of stuff. The living room had two sofas that we'd gotten 'free' and the rest of the furniture was made of bricks and wood. And our heating kept breaking. Good times...

It didn't really feel as if I waws in control as Kong, which was quite annoying. It just bounced me from one bit to the next, I mashed some mouse button and that was that. TOok me all of tne mins to play through both segments (mostly because of the horrid controls when you're Jack). It was kinda cool, but very short lived and with little of the interactivity or freedom that I associate with games.

Bonnet could do with some optimisation, otherwise the model is sound. Yeah, sort the lighting and get some spec maps etc on there and you're good to go.

306 Sedan.

Mines a 1.8 SR. At the rate it consumes fuel you'd assume it was a 2.2 or soemthing. Still, it's doing well so far, even if I have ahd to fork out a fair bit on it. It's French, so obviously it's 'quirky' which is just another way of saying that because it's now more than 10 years old, at least half of it is oging to stop working.

I love it though. It's comfy, it goes at a decent rate when I ask that it does and it has tons of space in the back adn the boot.

Nice article.

Personally speaking, I fucking loathe Flash. It's primary purpose seems to be to hamper navigation and slow up the process of viewing the page. Generally speaking, if I'm on a website, I want some information. Anything that slows down the process of me obtaining that information irritates me. Flash has it's place and there's no doubt it can be useful, but mostly it's just abused.

I work in IT procurement and if one of out suppliers switched to using Flash on their website I would dump them in a second, one of suppliers has their pages hosted inside a frame so the URL always stays the same. Huge pain in the arse. To give the direct link to a certain products page requires a whole lot more clicking than with our other suppliers who don't do anything that fancy, meaning you can just copy/paste the URL. Yes, it's a minor thing, but over time, it becomes very, very irritating indeed.

The point is that a lot of this neat/flashly stuff that people do to make things look tidier is just hampering them, whenever you're dealing with things in high volume you're looking for convenience and usability. Those things ain't the same as something being pretty and neat.

hahaha

classic

bah, in games or nowt!

There any tools so that you can creaate custom content (building and the like) in MAX and then exdport them?

ja, render is something some game engines could do, but modelling etc looks good.

mgghgr lighting is teh whore.

Lots of smaller light sources are better than a few big ones. Thats about all I can offer.

Go home, your mums got cake!

arr, I be doing a monitor eval for work as it happens. Samsungs looking very good at the moment, low response times, good brightness/contrast etc If it were my money, thats what I'd be going for. Have heard very good things about Benqs as well and a mate got a lovely Sony trueblack thing (super pricey though).

Just don't go with some unbranded piece o' crap, they invariably use the cast off rubbishy panels to make them.

Some of it looks rather refined, other bits look pretty chunky and a tad messy, maybe some more custom props required?

Glad to see you working again Gin.

Nice one!