What are you working on? - Page 162

flam · 10-02-2007, 02:00 AM

daveW: heh, i used willem dafoe as ref, guess that explains the mouth

DaveW · 10-02-2007, 02:02 AM

Yeah - that makes sense now.

weasel.acuh5o · 10-02-2007, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talon

Well, it's not artwork (as such) but I've been working on an SMD exporter for Modo these past few days;

can't wait to get my hands on that. looks very promising

WesleyTack · 10-02-2007, 07:10 AM

Hows Hull Breach doing btw Talon ?
Any new stuff? planning to release soon ?
Details details !!

Talon · 10-02-2007, 07:32 AM

Ehr... *deep breath*

We've pretty much had to kick everyone off that's not active, sit down and work out exactly what we can achieve for a release and start the design doc for B1 from sratch (thankfully we've still got a lot of useable art assets and code that we can keep on).

The maps we had planned were too big for us at our current state so they've been sidelined and 2 new, smaller maps (with a fresh new gameplay mode) are being built.

Sadly that means we're currently down to just 3 artists and 2 mappers. We need to go find coders, but we need the design doc finished before we do that (or they'll have nothing to work on).

I've been bumped up to co-lead and so I'm trying to get stuff going again, but I don't have the free time I used to :P

Also no release soon and no new stuff worth showing :/

WesleyTack · 10-02-2007, 09:08 AM

Sounds familiar... I think you'll find out that it will go much smoother with a smaller team. We've been working on ours with only 2 people mostly, and we get help from some people from time to time, but luckily Keats and I can handle most of what we need. We don't use a design doc, maybe you should just drop that as well and use the time to work on the mod instead? Co-Lead should help, I actually thought you were leader of the mod ..

ahhh.. modding.. what a pain

Talon · 10-02-2007, 09:17 AM

Heh, well the design doc came up becase we realised that a lot of the features we had planned needed tweaks and then coders went off and did stuff then added their own twists to them as they were being coded (usually for the better, but sometimes not).

We had one before, but it stopped getting updated and became useless but we still referenced it for some bits.

I'm writing a design doc so that there's always a hard, official copy of what all the games systems should do, both for reference if whoever should know isn't around and so that things don't wander off on their own.

WesleyTack · 10-02-2007, 10:16 AM

I see, well I hope you'll be on track again soon, and release some bloody media!

To bad though that the HL2 modding scene is as good as dead (at least that's what I think).
When you see that no HL2 mod goes over the 300 mark after a few weeks after release, it's a shame. And I doubt any mod will ever get more attention then that. Valve with their new upcoming games is just no match for any mod. Mods should have been released 2 years ago to have some effect. But yea, we all know how hard that is to do (and Valve didn't help in that regard one bit). But we learned from it at least

Talon · 10-02-2007, 10:55 AM

Ach, I don't think anything will meet the level of HL1 mods.

It's still fun

benclark · 10-03-2007, 01:18 PM

been messing around with render passes in Zbrush to show my hi poly meshes a bit better. This one is 5 passes, I've still a lot to figure out

10-02-2007, 02:00 AM	#1611 (permalink)
flam Artist 39 - 0	daveW: heh, i used willem dafoe as ref, guess that explains the mouth __________________ aka citizen_j

10-02-2007, 07:10 AM	#1614 (permalink)
WesleyTack Industry Artist 402 - 27	Hows Hull Breach doing btw Talon ? Any new stuff? planning to release soon ? Details details !! __________________ www.wesleytack.com www.off-limits.be www.dice.se

10-02-2007, 07:32 AM	#1615 (permalink)
Talon Game-Artist.net Staff 2,770 - 470	Ehr... deep breath We've pretty much had to kick everyone off that's not active, sit down and work out exactly what we can achieve for a release and start the design doc for B1 from sratch (thankfully we've still got a lot of useable art assets and code that we can keep on). The maps we had planned were too big for us at our current state so they've been sidelined and 2 new, smaller maps (with a fresh new gameplay mode) are being built. Sadly that means we're currently down to just 3 artists and 2 mappers. We need to go find coders, but we need the design doc finished before we do that (or they'll have nothing to work on). I've been bumped up to co-lead and so I'm trying to get stuff going again, but I don't have the free time I used to :P Also no release soon and no new stuff worth showing :/ __________________ > My Portfolio > Hull-Breach Lead Modeler > Supporter of good crits. Last edited by Talon; 10-02-2007 at 07:34 AM.

10-02-2007, 09:08 AM	#1616 (permalink)
WesleyTack Industry Artist 402 - 27	Sounds familiar... I think you'll find out that it will go much smoother with a smaller team. We've been working on ours with only 2 people mostly, and we get help from some people from time to time, but luckily Keats and I can handle most of what we need. We don't use a design doc, maybe you should just drop that as well and use the time to work on the mod instead? Co-Lead should help, I actually thought you were leader of the mod .. ahhh.. modding.. what a pain __________________ www.wesleytack.com www.off-limits.be www.dice.se

10-02-2007, 09:17 AM	#1617 (permalink)
Talon Game-Artist.net Staff 2,770 - 470	Heh, well the design doc came up becase we realised that a lot of the features we had planned needed tweaks and then coders went off and did stuff then added their own twists to them as they were being coded (usually for the better, but sometimes not). We had one before, but it stopped getting updated and became useless but we still referenced it for some bits. I'm writing a design doc so that there's always a hard, official copy of what all the games systems should do, both for reference if whoever should know isn't around and so that things don't wander off on their own. __________________ > My Portfolio > Hull-Breach Lead Modeler > Supporter of good crits.

10-02-2007, 02:02 AM	#1612 (permalink)
DaveW Super-mega-awesome artist 331 - 22	Yeah - that makes sense now.

10-02-2007, 10:16 AM	#1618 (permalink)
WesleyTack Industry Artist 402 - 27	I see, well I hope you'll be on track again soon, and release some bloody media! To bad though that the HL2 modding scene is as good as dead (at least that's what I think). When you see that no HL2 mod goes over the 300 mark after a few weeks after release, it's a shame. And I doubt any mod will ever get more attention then that. Valve with their new upcoming games is just no match for any mod. Mods should have been released 2 years ago to have some effect. But yea, we all know how hard that is to do (and Valve didn't help in that regard one bit). But we learned from it at least __________________ www.wesleytack.com www.off-limits.be www.dice.se

10-02-2007, 10:55 AM	#1619 (permalink)
Talon Game-Artist.net Staff 2,770 - 470	Ach, I don't think anything will meet the level of HL1 mods. It's still fun __________________ > My Portfolio > Hull-Breach Lead Modeler > Supporter of good crits.

10-03-2007, 01:18 PM	#1620 (permalink)
benclark Game-Artist.net Staff 2,031 - 299	been messing around with render passes in Zbrush to show my hi poly meshes a bit better. This one is 5 passes, I've still a lot to figure out __________________ www.benjaminclark.net

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