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ragdoll masters shareware game [url="http://www.ragdollsoft.com/ragdollmasters/"]http://www.ragdollsoft.com/ragdollmasters/[/url] Ive been playing this game loads..very tempted to buy the full version, played the (short) demo at …	3 Last	Mongrelman May 2006
"Self taught" Soon to be past tense? I dont know if you guys have been watching developments with the industry at large the past few years via IGDA and other organizations (like the local WSA). There is a push to have employees "certif…	47 Last	gauss May 2006
taking too long to post ... results in losing all your precious text... didn't this get fixed... years ago? it was really annoying... kind of is now again that it popped up...	4 Last	gauss May 2006
Closed what is up with the thread ratings? When did rating threads start up? Personally I don't like them. It changes the community feeling of a forum group. If I remember right there was a big discussion about this a while back and the rati…	28 Last	Vito May 2006
Call of Duty 3 I know, I know, another WWI themed game. This is the only WW based franchise I'll ever play due to the fact thats its an insanely fun game to play (CoD2), so I'm pretty excited about the third one. …	12 Last	LordScottish May 2006
Polycount Challenges Idea Today, watching Dodgeball I came up with the idea of a community like mod-project. Now I was thinking of something SIMPLE (like Dodgeball or 'Ultimate Frizbee' (3dguy's suggestion) into an engine th…	21 Last	Steve Schulze May 2006
E3. Who's going? Most anticipated game? Well, I hope to be going. Vivendi let me down and didn't get me a pass... so hopefully some friends from Sweeden will be able to help me. Right now I'm looking forward to seeing Gears of War, Quake…	24 Last	Steve Schulze May 2006
Star Control sequel? The original group that created Star Control 1 and 2 (but not 3) have re-acquired the rights to the franchise and want desperately to make a proper sequel to 2. All they need to do is convince Activi…	1 Last	McIlroy May 2006
Pet peeves? We've all got em! Mine? When someone is talking to me about a family member and refers to them as if I know them like they do. For example, a friend coudl tell me a story about their mother and st…	109 Last	Zergxes May 2006
UED3 Version with AEGIA PhysX card So like it comes with a version of Unreal Editor 3. Albit an older one, but something us peons can play with. Of course you have to fork out $200 to get ahold of it.	28 Last	Dravalen May 2006
Quake-like movement Hello everybody. I am designing a game engine, and I would like to know how to implement a function that moves my camera and weapon together like in quake. The pure Quake style movement with polar c…	15 Last	KDR_11k May 2006
Serious Game: Dafur is Dying Heard about this on the radio today. I know a few of us here (like Elysium) who are interested in expanding what our medium is about would be interested in this. [url="http://www.darfurisdying.co…	6 Last	thnom May 2006
Amazing sand castles. [url="http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/HARRISONSandCastles01.html"]http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/HARRISONSandCastles01.html[/url] Craziness!	5 Last	Nafets May 2006
HL2:Ep1 available for preload / preorder Just logged onto steam, HL2:Ep1 is available for preorder and preload for ~$18. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]	32 Last	KDR_11k May 2006
33 more days of work for me! Well, the decision has been made.. I've kicked it around for so long but finally... June 25th will be my last day of full time 40 hour a week work for a couple semesters. In July, I'll continue going…	4 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom May 2006
middle east modding community [url="http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/al-qaeda-using-video-games-for-recruitment-171722.php"]http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/al-qaeda-using-video-games-for-recruitment-171722.php[/url]	8 Last	spacemonkey May 2006
Official MUDBOX demonstration by Petey Konig at CA [url="http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3516071#post3516071"]http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3516071#post3516071[/url] Some people might be interested in attending? [img]/im…	8 Last	spacemonkey May 2006
Awesome game trailer! Besides the whack crowd, this was fun to watch: [url="http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/775/775530/vids_1.html"]http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/775/775530/vids_1.html[/url] Watch the official e3 trailer.	3 Last	nitzmoff May 2006
level building timeframe Just wondering if anyone could give me some insight into how long, (on average) it should take to build level for a platforming type game for ps2? From concept to completion. And an average staff siz…	11 Last	gavku May 2006
coming to america shortly i'm setting off on my first proper holiday since 1992. If you're in the Massachusetts and Maine area over the next 2 weeks and see someone driving on the wrong side of the road, trying to wre…	3 Last	Joshua Stubbles May 2006
Buying a laptop Hey guys, you seem to know a lot about hardware and stuff. And you also use lots of art applications. So let me ask you - do you know of a good laptop for doing modeling and photoshop and stuff? I do…	21 Last	notman May 2006
Building a P4 machine Hi, I might be making a new system since my old system from 2000 is well ancient and I'm starting to need something more powerful. I don't need the super top of the line but I need something beefy th…	15 Last	Sage May 2006
Polycount i've been coming here since it was the Q2pmp. And what I love about this place is what it achieves. It succeeds in promoting the idea of player customization and the art of doing so, not just the art…	11 Last	KDR_11k May 2006
MGS4 realtime devkit demo (movie) Some insightful (and sometimes amusing) stuff in here: "As for the hair, I think you can actually see the streaming hairs in the demo, They are reproduced by 60,000 vertices primitives actually driv…	39 Last	moose May 2006
Golfers or golfer friends? We've just done a lot of rework on our golf score tracking site, I'll bet a few of you play or have family that. [url="http://www.egolfcard.com/"]http://www.egolfcard.com/[/url] Its 100% free, and …	1 Last	AstroZombie May 2006
Konami internal development tool Leaked? [url="http://www.djork.net/castlevania/"]http://www.djork.net/castlevania/[/url]	3 Last	KDR_11k May 2006
Remember that I promised a GP2X Review? Well I am too lazy... but since it is finally at a market ready state (my preview unit from october 2005 still has a few flaws) I guess I can post this really complete review: [url="http://craig.gp2…	4 Last	PfhorRunner May 2006
Polycount Video Tutorials There was a really nice video tutorial on painting a head. Can anyone tell me where I might find it or who made it? I thought it may have been Bobo but i could be wrong. All I remember is it began wi…	7 Last	BRUTICUS(CW) May 2006
EA_Spouse followup Just saw this on Fark, thought y'all might be interested in reading it: [url="http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/04/exclusive_nicol.html"]http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/04/exclusive_nicol.…	22 Last	snap.crackle.pop May 2006
Polycount Image Hosting Service? It seems like a lot of you guys don't have any sort of online storage at all. I see lots of images being posted using free image hosts like ImageShack and PutFile and such, and I also see lots of br…	6 Last	Vito May 2006
10 grand poorer today, [img]http://www.rollos.co.uk/solicitors/propertyimages/auc30-05.jpg[/img] The mortgage folk cut it fine, but we sign for it tomorrow morning.	30 Last	Moz May 2006
Mario Brothers Live Brings back so many memories <sniff> And it's awesome. [url="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/mariolive"]http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/mariolive[/url]	4 Last	Mongrelman May 2006
Episodic AITD [url="http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148729.html"]http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148729.html[/url] 30-40 minutes? jebus it's like paying for demos now	6 Last	aesir May 2006
South park isnt funny. What the fuck happened, this season sucked. I WANT MY MONEY BACK BITCHES.	34 Last	ElysiumGX May 2006
putting down the mouse I'm officially putting down the mouse for a while, for some reason I thought it was a good idea to put my life on hold while I try and get a nice portfolio together. My dad came down with a strange …	18 Last	Mike_Carlyle May 2006
happy bday me! sigh, no recognition by the boards that today is my bday. [edit]appears there is now a cake by my name[/edit] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] 26 now and about to start my life over. going t…	12 Last	flaagan May 2006
Newest Rampage not that Bad (IMO) Picked up Rampage for the GC today, it was about what I expected. I think the reviewers slammed it because they had to play the thing for hours on end. It's honestly a lot of fun for an hour or two…	9 Last	ElysiumGX May 2006
Hack together a Cintiq... Ok. So I got bored recently, and went "I wonder what would happen if I stuck my Intuos 3 behind my laptop monitor?", so I did. And it worked...somewhat. What kept it from working perfectly is that…	11 Last	Illusions May 2006
Colbert vs. G. W. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II[/url] This rules.	13 Last	rooster May 2006
visual music i've always been a fan of all kinds of music, (i'm a metal fan mostly) but lately i've been listening to a lot of stuff that i'd only really describe as visual.. and i'm finding it's AWESOME to do ar…	10 Last	Mister Sentient May 2006
tomb raider legends 1 mill units!! TOMB RAIDER LEGENDS 1 MILL UNITS IN 10 DAYS! HAH! this is the best bday gift evar. -R	26 Last	Downsizer May 2006
Save Palladium [url="http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=57048"]http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=57048[/url] Figured some of you might have been familiar with these guys and …	23 Last	Scott Ruggels May 2006
18 years! Hooooray! Today to me 18 years, my friends. It is a turning-point in my life. It would be pleasant to esteem your congratulations. Day has been lead to fun, all over again and up to the end. First, as well as …	13 Last	conte May 2006
Silent Hill Very much looking forward to this one. I can't wait to see one of my all time favorite franchises realized in full glory or go down in an incredible blaze of B-movie hilarity. Anyone else going ton…	40 Last	Downsizer May 2006
Revolution has changed its name to wii i guess too many asians couldnt pronouce revolution so now its just wii as in "we". pretty goofy [url="http://revolution.nintendo.com/"]http://revolution.nintendo.com/[/url]	168 Last	hawken May 2006
Any good half life2 single player mods? I've tried Minerva Metastasis and it was really great. Recommendations?	3 Last	Joseph Silverman May 2006
Art School Confidential hahahahaha! wow this looks good, instantly brought me back to my art school days. was a big fan of ghost world, same writer director combo.. [url="http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/artschoolconfi…	2 Last	obson May 2006
About the site overhaul... Will it retain all the original content? There were a lot of resource articles I found usefull, the one about getting a model in UT from A to B in special. It would be great if they would remain on …	0 Last	XepptizZ Apr 2006
Hexagon 2.0 for $1.99 Well, sort of. Platinum Club members at daz3d [url="http://www.daz3d.com/"]http://www.daz3d.com/[/url] can buy Hexagon 2.0 for $1.99. I haven't checked myself, but others have said it's $29.95 to joi…	8 Last	Joao Sapiro Apr 2006
Google Summer of Code [url="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html"]http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html[/url] I know some of you have just as much coder in your blood as 3D artist. It looks as though Blender has …	1 Last	hawken Apr 2006