Zanzibar Weekly Update 6
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 3:05 am
This week's been a bit of a bitch, that's the reason our little (literally) update is a little late. It's been more of a week testing than it was playing, especially in the Energy Swords' case. We want it to be an exact copy of the Halo 2-one, which also means the energy. And that is exactly where we find problems; the Halo 2-engine has a much more advanced lighting engine. We tried almost a dozen different shaders, but each time it would look better.
The reason for the short update is the fact that JamesD restored his comp due to his computer was hacked (including "guess who"-messages in Word and browse through files). Earlier Madrox' comp was hacked, so let's hope this is just caused by the many porn-websites they visited. ZexGX is moving this week, so a lot of time has been lost this week.
Mucho el animationes
JamesD and Madrox are working on very cool stuff, such as FP-animation. In order to do this, we would need to completely rebone the Chief's FP-hands, which is, even generously said, a pain in the ass. Madrox had to create every single joint, and there are about 44 of 'em. He didn't do it for nothing though, because soon, FP-animations will be possible. That means the Battle Rifle (of which we saw the first in-game images this week) will get his respective reloading animations (as in, moving the switch and putting in the magazine).
Model-O-Rama
cold_Fusion has been extremely busy this week, basically creating the Warthog Rocket Launcher and the Stationary Turret while recovering from surgery he had this week. It isn't really easy to model while you're half asleep because of the anesthesia, I can tell that from experience. Now for somewhat sad info: this will be the last visual update... From now on, we will only give away 1 screen every 2 weeks. The explanation for this is simple; we don't want to give you guys half-finished material. It's not that we hate you or something. Really. It's just that it saves us a lot of time, instead of being forced to have a playable build ready every Sunday to show you guys the new material we have (+ the changes will be more than visible, since a lot changes in 2 weeks).
Well, that's about it for this week... Join us again next week.
The reason for the short update is the fact that JamesD restored his comp due to his computer was hacked (including "guess who"-messages in Word and browse through files). Earlier Madrox' comp was hacked, so let's hope this is just caused by the many porn-websites they visited. ZexGX is moving this week, so a lot of time has been lost this week.
Mucho el animationes
JamesD and Madrox are working on very cool stuff, such as FP-animation. In order to do this, we would need to completely rebone the Chief's FP-hands, which is, even generously said, a pain in the ass. Madrox had to create every single joint, and there are about 44 of 'em. He didn't do it for nothing though, because soon, FP-animations will be possible. That means the Battle Rifle (of which we saw the first in-game images this week) will get his respective reloading animations (as in, moving the switch and putting in the magazine).
Model-O-Rama
cold_Fusion has been extremely busy this week, basically creating the Warthog Rocket Launcher and the Stationary Turret while recovering from surgery he had this week. It isn't really easy to model while you're half asleep because of the anesthesia, I can tell that from experience. Now for somewhat sad info: this will be the last visual update... From now on, we will only give away 1 screen every 2 weeks. The explanation for this is simple; we don't want to give you guys half-finished material. It's not that we hate you or something. Really. It's just that it saves us a lot of time, instead of being forced to have a playable build ready every Sunday to show you guys the new material we have (+ the changes will be more than visible, since a lot changes in 2 weeks).
Well, that's about it for this week... Join us again next week.
but maybe I'll get a better one soon. Like someone said earlier, I'll just be swingin' a blue stick and using my imagination.