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Arædan Draft 2 Done

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

I wrote the missing fight scene. Which turned out to be a lot of dialogue so it may need rewriting in the third draft. I’m going to pass copies to a few friends now to see what they think. I’ve also decided to cut the accents off the name so it’s easier to figure out […]

V5I: Camera Animation Save and Load Updated

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

FuzzyVizion discovered a problem with the Vue Camera Animation Save and Load script I wrote. I’ve updated the Load script so that by default it creates a new camera (which you can choose a name for). Both scripts come in a small zip file – Camera Animation Save and Load.

Dull Website Stuff

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I know. I know. Anyone who has ready this for any length of time knows I’m trying to finish my new website so I can launch it on the unsuspecting world. I spent the last two hours fighting with the content trying to make my About Me page not too serious but not too silly […]

Things Going Boom in Vue 5 Infinite

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

A day later than I’d planned but here are the animations made using Vue 5 Infinite and the VueDynamics script of a space ship (From Power Fusion 3D) exploding for no good reason other than I could make Things Go Boom. The first animation is the render from Vue. The second has been enhanced with […]

Tonight Postponed

Monday, May 15th, 2006

I was going to post a little animation tonight but it wont be finished rendering for a few hours yet.

Mission Mundane

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

So having gotten my thought on Mission Impossibe (like anyone cares) off my chest here is the rest of my Sunday. Two or maybe three hours spent doing some really boring reading about my pension including House of Commons reports (Dull), company statements (Dull and Unhelpful) and campaign web sites (Biased). Time I’ll never get […]

This Message Will Self Destruct in 5 Seconds…

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Sorry couldn’t resist the title. I bet if I did a search I’d find hundreds like it already. What can I say it is a classic line. Well hats off to Mr Abrams. The best of the franchise so far. I liked the first one but it lacked the team element for most of the […]

V5I: VueDynamic 0.2

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Note: VueDynamics is no longer available. Edit: See http://www.impworks.co.uk/vue/vuedynamics.php for the latest bug fixed version. I’ve just put uploaded a new version of the VueDynamic script, VueDynamics0_2.zip. Version 0.2 includes two new options for how starting forces are applied (horizontal explosive and 3d explosive. There are also new options to add a variety of rotation […]

V5I: Camera Animation Save and Load

Friday, May 12th, 2006

This one caught me out by being more difficult to get working than I expected when I volunteered myself to write it… Anyway a pair of little scripts savecameradata.py and loadcameradata.py hopefully they will make a certain amount of sense but given the late hour I’m not going to explain them now. Available in a […]

Hero not having a Good Time

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

I do love getting a hero in trouble that is right over there head. In this case he’s got the small problem of a sociopathic elf with a shotgun and an ogre with a sten guns in each hand and an axe to grind metaphorically speaking.

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