Heh heh. For a supposedly smart guy, I'm kinda dumb sometimes...

Went riding quads out in the desert today with a bunch of friends. I wore shorts and a sleeveless shirt, no sunscreen, figured I would be okay. And I would have been; we weren't planning on being out that long. However, I didn't count …

Summer is pretty much balls-to-the-wall right now. Forecast for Wednesday calls for the temp to hit 117F. Got fried today in a big way, out hiking in the hills after work. Damned sun.

Been fiddling around with Accidental this afternoon. For some months now, I've been mulling over some ideas and thin…

Being the sneaky, conniving, no-good sonofagun that I am, I slyly replaced my headshot in the previous journal entry with one that isn't quite so frightening to small children and furry animals. Don't like it? Tough. I simply can not make myself look any less ugly; an artist is only as good as his …

Just picked up a new digital camera. Initially was only going to get something pretty inexpensive, in the ballpark of $200 or so, and while I still didn't exactly go top end I ended up dropping about $500 (minus a bit for some last leftover giftcards I used up) on a 7.2 MP sony DSC-W7, some batteri…

Just got a few things going on recently, haven't been able to update this thing.

Still working on researching various shadowing methods to find the simplest and most suitable for my needs. We'll see how that pans out in a week or so, hopefully. Assuming I don't start myself on fire accidentally this…

That's a 15 minute saguaro right there. Modelled in Blender, textured in the Gimp, and exported to Golem3D all in approx. 15 minutes. [grin]

I'm thinking decent shadows just might make a difference, though. I may end up evaluating my decision there. But later. Not now.

Quote: Original post by The Man Firstly, is it a need or a desire?

Good point.

1) Skeletal anim code-- Not a need. Current code works sufficiently well for my purposes. As it currently stands, blended animations are really not part of the design. And models will never be viewed up close or in suffici…

Quote: Original post by Mike T Guys, there's no need to spam the board. This is a game development site. I'm sure there are plenty of rap sites out there to battle on. The language was entirely inappropriate.. somewhere out there a little baby is crying and it's all your fault.

I'm sorta sitting on …

What a colossal waste of time today. Didn't finish the desert terrain set like I wanted, though I did do a quickie stone-paved road type that seems to work okay. Not fantastic, but it suits for now. I didn't get around to doing the grass/scrub texture like I wanted, and I probably should do a rocky…

Getting tired of looking at the same old terrain textures, so tonight in a fit of boredom I started work on a new set for rugged, sandy and rocky desert. Got 3 base types right now for the set, still need to do some tweaking and editing. Should probably provide a scraggly grass base type to add a l…