[S.C.O.T.: Progress, and the magnificence of iClone Animation Pipeline.]

Thanks ChrisV for writing blogs about our progress as I never seem to get time to do it

[Level Construction Set Part 4: When Things Get Useful]

My congratulations to such a good achievement.

Thumbs up for you

[Unwrapping Character Model : Final]

Looking great .)

[Level Construction Set Part 2: Level Editor WIP]

My hat off and my head to the floor .... That GUI is quite an achievement and with pure LE commands, which shows that pure LE is fully capable for a really nice GUI. GREAT WORK!!! and a great inspiration for me.

[First UV Unwrap from my character model]

Nothing else to say that I looks great

Almost as much hair as I have

[Leadwerks 3 on Windows 8]

Nice to see. I tested Win8 on one machine and also found that all seems good. I'm running Win7 on my development computer but I could see no reason for using Win8. As always when something new comes along their are a long row of skeptics but I think Win8 will be quite nice. Its faster and the new theme is quite nice.

[Visual Studio]

@Roland, the debate is XP development support (2010) vs. 2012 with theoretical XP deployment that doesn't exist yet.

 

(But in any case, XP is better for high-end graphics with OpenGL.)

Aha... okay. Well 2010 is the way to go then. I will not debate if XP is better or not as you are the expert on that. I believe you. But in any case Win7 is the only choice we got for the future.

[Visual Studio]

This seems to render out in a debate about XP or Win7. No matter if you thinks that XP is 10%, 15% or 20% faster than Win7 (which it is not) there is just baloney even suggesting to keep development for XP or development with VS2008. They will not be supported by Microsoft in the near future. That's it! Fewer and fewer users will even have XP or VS2008 as its not sold of supported. Even talking about that alternative for a "modern futurist game engine" is really ridiculous. Going with Win7 and VS2010 is kind of okay at this moment as Win8 + VS2012 is so fresh, But certainly they are the future whether you like it or not. But Win7 is VS2010 is OK. That's my thought about this.

[Visual Studio]

2010 or 2012 is okay with me.

 

and here is what I get when testing you 'testapp'

 

[Rocky Scene]

Really nice looking.

[Level Building: Lego Construction Set]

Very nice blog with solid good info on what you are doing. Have been thinking of this my self but not come to it. Thanks for sharing.

[Terrain Errosion Blending Technique]

Looks great. So what you did was essential making the height map with some terrain-software and imported that. How did you apply the textures ... by hand?

[More Rocks (or Rock..) 200 tris!]

Holy ... you are really making awesome stuff. Any plans for selling at the Asset Store

[Rocks, Stone and Walls]

Whow. Really impressive !

[Terrain from ground perspective]

Looks awesome

[Mages Alchemy]

Looking just awesome. Great work there.

[Final touches on the script editor]

Great work guys. Looking forward to see it in action.

[How to create a material]

I also say Yes, Yes, Yes ... not as an answer. Its a statement of what I see

[Level Management: A Bucket 'O' Walls]

Simple makes Great. As usual you have made great things in a simple way. Cudos!

[Chasing RIM light/reflections]

Whow! .. Each time you write something I jump on reading it directly ... and never gets disappointed

[Designing Characters & Concept Art]

Great reading and a good show on getting the thumb out of that place you are mentioning it the post title .

[Mistakes of the Past & Animation Fun]

Thanks for sharing your past and thoughts. I found it very interesting to read as I could recognize what you are telling. I have been through (or are in) same process of making mistakes. Maybe its so that one has to go through those phases to get somewhere as almost everyone makes them. Can it be so that a really good and stable base has to be built on mistakes. I tend to believe that. Its great to talk about them as it may end in someone else avoids making at least some of them.

 

I could not agree more about animation. Animation seems to be one of the most important things in the game of the reasons you describes. I have taken this approach. To get somewhere I have bought some descent basic animations as walk and run. I now use those and is concentrating on the game logic and structure. When that's in place I (or more precisely me and ChrisV) will add the animations that are missing and polish the existing ones. The same goes for the models and art. Last time I tried to get a game done I ended up in never getting somewhere while making end-perfection on detail right from the start.

 

Great reading

[Myst like action game with realtime physics/puzzles.]

Mike -- I think you are right there. Its always tempting to have to much "sheen" as the normal maps show off better then. We will decrease the shininess.

 

Thanks for the input

[Myst like action game with realtime physics/puzzles.]

Finally getting somewhere now that I meet ChrisV. And he's a very good partner. So now I'm coding and coding that my fingers glows while he is taking care of the art. I'm really exited about this and very happy with the way things are going. Besides that we have a good chemistry, we also have the advantage to be in the same timezone, which has been a real trouble when trying to cooperate outside Europe.

[A Second Date with Leadwerks Software]

This time I will try to remember although I'm an old guy