AniCator’s Weblog

Coming Up: My adventures in GMOD!

19-07-2008 – 18:58

I put Blender aside for a while. Why? Well, the title explains it. GMOD.
For those who are unfamiliar with ‘GMOD’. It is actually called “Garry’s Mod”. ‘GMOD’ is an acronym.
It is a sandbox mod for Source games.

I have been playing it for about one to two weeks now and I still can’t stop playing it! I have been playing with a Steam friend (Steam is a software distribution application) day after day. We laugh, we build, we fight and we disconnect (that’s the hard part).

My plan is to publish some screenshots of my adventures in Garry’s Mod on my website. It depends on how everything goes but I might even be able to make a video.

Stay tuned.

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Blender Can Do RTS 4

07-07-2008 – 10:00

Coding the ‘Ray-Tracing Cursor Height Controller’.

Music:
AniCator - Weird Childhood

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2999 Unique Visits!

06-07-2008 – 16:07

This is awesome!

Graph of the last few months:

2999 YAY!

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Blender Can Do RTS 3

06-07-2008 – 14:04

Making the mouse control the ‘object-placer’.

It was on my list of ideas and I knew this one was going to take me some time.
Coding this script in Python took me some time since it was a Trial & Error process.

Mistakes I made:

Save the .blend but not the .py file.
Check for information about Rasterizer in the wrong API documentation.
Python dLoc typo which was ‘DLoc’ instead of ‘dLoc’.
Behind-the-scenes: Forgot to compress the .wav files to 128kb/s mp3s.

Don’t worry. I faced them and fixed them.

Music:
AniCator - Trying Rock
Looney Tunes Back In Action - End Credits

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Blender Can Do RTS Timelapse Video 2

06-07-2008 – 11:03

Making the barracks and placing objects (basic system).
Sorry, I cropped the video which makes you unable to see the Game Logic.
The video is low-quality too. I messed up the H264 configurations.

Music:
AniCator - Latin Loading Screen
The Hamster Alliance - Where Are My Pants?
Rayman Revolution - Minisaurus Plains

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Blender Can Do RTS (Easily)

06-07-2008 – 10:15

Watch the Vimeo video!

Blender Can Do RTS

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More MUSIC!

04-07-2008 – 18:44

Modern Classical Loop

Genre: Classical/Pop

The End

Genre: Classical/Ambient

Latin Loading Screen

Genre: Latin/DnB
Samples by: FuriousStereo

Welcome Human

Genre: Ambient/Classical
Still has to be remastered.

Thanks for listening. Comments are appreciated.

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Work-In-Progress Track

03-07-2008 – 09:42

Hello everyone,

I have been working on a new track this morning and I wonder if you like the current version. I’m still working on it. I’ll probably cut down some parts and replace them with variations and bridges.

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ShortGame: Army Joe (concept)

02-07-2008 – 07:59

I couldn’t resits. I couldn’t wait. I just wanted to start. I will be taking four days to work on a game called ‘Army Joe’. But I won’t start working on it tomorrow. School still requires some attention, some closure (hehe..).

Anyway, here’s a drawing of Joe:

(click to enlarge)