Kick-Ass Flash 3D export
I found this while I was doing some research on Dungeon Siege II (Gas Powered Games). Click here and check out this wicked flash clip of the Morden-Viir Cavalry beastie running. To export this they used 3D Studio Max? Maya? Don’t know, but it looks great!
Rant
There is nothing that I hate more in the world than creating mock usability pages. It’s not fun, it’s not cool, it’s not even good to pass the time. I can’t reuse the code either because to create any code to be reusable, I’ll not be able to make deadline. So it’s limited HTML and image maps. Yippee.
Have a nice weekend. I’ll be coding.
btw…this is my 100th post. I Rule!
G4TechTV
Well apparently I can breathe a sigh of relief. G4 has posted the shows that will be remaining on the merged network and it looks like all my shows are sticking around. Just hope that all the current hosts will also remain. I saw a preview commercial last night and it showed The Screensavers with the same people, so hopefully this will stay the same.
Here is the Show List
Car With Attitude
Evil Car 1
Evil Car 2
can’t stop laughing…
“Official” Doom 3 Requirements
It’s in quotes because I haven’t seen the box yet but Grendel Carmack told the press at E3 that the system requirements would be:
- A video card with at least 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 1.1 support is required
- A 2.5GHz CPU should be enough for the stencil shadows and physics calculations
Also noteworthy:
- DOOM 3 will be released on 4 CDs
- Multiplayer will include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Tournament and Last Man Standing
- Full Linux client support
(drool)
Have you lowered your poly count today?
I have enrolled in Modeling for Games with Maya at NYU starting in June. It’s part of a professional certificate program dealing with video gaming. I guess I’ll find out if I like it, huh?
I’m pretty psyched. I’ve been thinking about this program long and hard for a year or so, and doing a lot of research into the games industry and how/where/why I might fit in. Over the weekend I was doing a ton of air travel and was reading Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic by Kind and Borland (uh, ISBN 0072228881). I read the stories of guys like Gary Gygax, Richard Garriot, Carmack and Romero, Crowther and Woods (Zork!) and I realized that what they did and are still doing is valid within a social context. To put it another way…it’s been bothering me: is a career in video games kinda dumb?
I read an interesting theory about how technology drives our culture and growth as human beings…ie, dangle a problem in front of a scientist and you’re guaranteed to get some results, which breed new problems, which breed more and more, etc. I think gaming is still very much in it’s infancy and promises to offer a lot to the technical industry; entertainment initially, but the medical and educational sectors too. Hell, the first Quake engine helped push the boundaries of 3D design.
Way I figure it, if all these people out in Hollyood can get paid bags-o-money to look pretty while portraying some of my favorite Greek stories of all time and yet not know, in all likelihood, who Heinrich Schliemann or Richmond Lattimore were, I can mess around with some 3D models for a while and ponder the successes of the likes of Carmack and Romero.
Not to mention, blowin’ stuff up with rocket launchers rules.
Star Wars eIII on /.
This made me laugh… buncha slashdotters talking about Episode III and the supposed Surf Board Lava Fight between Anakin/Vader and Kenobi:
And at some point during that battle, there *will* be a “clever” visual gag that makes the lava-surfing look like real surfing, and at that point a major character will say “whoah!” like unto the manner of Keanu Reeves. Ad at that point, I will fling poo at the screen.
Mark my words, George Lucas! Poo!
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