Did I say the consoles are not currently capable? Consoles are not only capable, but already doing it, with Xbox live etc. What I said was, until we have the next generation of consoles that will likely be heavily reliant on digital distribution as the main path of getting games into consumer's hands, you're still going to…
I'm working on a Quake 1 map called Monastery Gardens for a while now and have released it as beta one week ago. If you play Quake 1, I would love to get some gameplay feedback (item placement, enemy placement, encounter difficulty, map layout). You need to have the Copper mod installed and use a modern engine port like…
Thanks poopipe. Chat tells me it has true vector brushes which can be set to curve deform or distribute images randomly like some old 2d vector soft . I am so tired of Designer curves system that almost impossible to control and Painter indexed square stumps blurry brushes. is it true ? Chat hallucinates a lot again with…
@Richard Kain that last bit sounds positive. i sure hope so. i think that digital distribution will change the face of games and film distribution and the two mediums will merge into one pipe of interesting stuff to entertain the masses. more then likely no one company will ever own the internet infrastructure. it is in no…
I don't see blender making any great strides for some time - i think it'll happen but I don't think it'll happen very quickly example reasons that aren't silly - The studio probably has a 15 year old Maya toolset which they don't want to rewrite - I've rattled on at length about DCC agnostic tooling on here in the past -…
Ah fuck, I forgot to distribute the library it goes with (duh!). Please download this file and also place it in startup: http://tech-artists.org/hg/tao_official/tao_function_library/raw-file/tip/fn_strOps.ms Also redownload the autoback file. Sorry the distribution is cluttering your startup folder, this will be worked out…
I think the new online marketplace models for the new consoles might bring these new electronic distribution models to the less savvy consumer. Steam & its ilk for the PC Microsoft/Sony marketplace for the consoles. The whole retail distribution paradigm is on its way out. It'll take years and it will fight its demise…
What's the difference between a Total Conversion of UT3 and a UDK game? Distribution. Does distribution define whether its a 'game' or not? Were Counterstrike and Red Orchestra not 'games' until they got standalone licenses? If so, what would saying that achieve? Now if CANVAS is basically HL2 reskinned, then yes, it's a…
Saw this video as well. Should help get the idea across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4kMri55rdE Also couldn't resist mocking up how this image would look like if rendered in the realistic style. In case you want to go with option 1 you might have a better target with this as this would be more information on the noise…