Plan for Nauris Krauze

Torque2D quickstart pack and other stuff

Well, I guess I start every .plan of mine with "busy busy weeks" but thats the truth! And I still maintain it's a good thing :)

Snachurz are taking its toll, plus Craig and Robert, gearheads that they are, decided to create a bikes pack and I'm forced to research net for lots of shiny pictures just to be able to skin them in a convincing manner. Since I'm in no way fan of motorbikes, I suspect lots of looking over my shoulder and remarks like: "that's nowhere near as it should be" by Craig and Robert in near future:) But that's all good, I'm actually eager to try my hand on these puppies.


(Work in progress shot, Craig screams that forks on dirtbike and cruiser are placeholders. I heard you first time, man:)

In between all that, there has been an odd contract work then and now, and I like it, as it allows to take another task, when previous one becomes tedious, thus keeping me fresh all the time.

However, the main reason of this .plan is umm..lets call it Torque2D Quickstart Pack, although its not exactly t2d specific, and not exactly all-encompassing to be called truly quickstart pack. It's basically a collection of tiles and sprites, some taken from long dead 2D projects, some created specifically for this pack.
Its meant primarily for coders who are tinkering with T2D and prolly want to have some placeholder art to test ideas with. As I said before, its not all-encompassing, initial idea was to provide small sets of environments for side-scrollers, some "puzzly" elements etc, but we decided that it'd take too much time and effort we werent really ready to spare for a free pack.
Oh yes, there was an idea of creating commercial one, at some point, but in the end, i personally see no reason why people would spend money for a pack that does not feature hundreds of tiles and sprites. Plus, its really easy to modify 3D models and retexture them so no one even notices that this model has been in other games as well, but with 2d art you cant really do that. So, free it is.
Oh yeah, you can download it here or simply visit De-Railed homepage.

Below are some samples of what can be found in the pack. One thing, though, the top down forest+city shot is slightly doctored picture, since it was meant to be used in game as background at some point. However, those changes arent really that significant.