Saturday, August 23, 2008

Vacation


Well, it's that time of year again, and I find myself on the shores of Lake Amston on vacation (visible here past the industrial utility wire fuse and lines).

I was supposed to leave to head back to Erie today, but am being held a vacation hostage until Monday.

On the graphics front, many cool things are happening. The weapons content pack has interest from a couple of parties, and I have been quite busy with other work as well.
I have FINALLY gotten a license for ZBrush, and am looking forward to what I can do with some AAA industry software.

Ah well, I'm back to the beach... gonna work on my sunburn >_>

Monday, August 4, 2008

Slow Motion


We released an Alpha version of the Weapon Content Pack Lite to most of the testers about 10 days ago. Ed from Fantasci got back to me with a couple of issues and had some nice things to say about the pack in one of his blog posts (Thanks Ed!), but we have yet to hear back from anyone else. I sent out a feedback questionnaire last night and am anxiously awaiting a response on that, although I expect it will take some time before folks get back to us. After an exhausting push to get the pack out to testers, it seems that everything is now moving in Matrix style slow motion.

I initially had attempted to email the content pack to the test group, but one or more recipients email systems rejected the 35 meg file, so I had used Pando as a fall-back to get the pack out to them quickly. I received a couple of complaints from users about Pando installing quite a bit of spam and ad-ware on their systems. In response to that, Corbett obtained a Golem Graphics SVN account with CVSDude. Until a distributor or host has been decided upon we will be setting up user accounts and making the pack, patches, and updates available there.

As far as the pack is concerned, I'll be making an update and posting that as soon as I have some additional feedback from the test group.

Got a couple of other interesting projects on the table. I don't want to spill the beans on any of those until there are some beans to spill though!