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Plan for Andy Schatz
Name:Andy Schatz
Date Posted:Mar 31, 2005
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Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa! integrates Synapse Lighting Pack into RTS Pack to make pretty pretty ponies.
Dr. Willoughby here again-

The integration of the Synapse Lighting Pack into the RTS Pack, which we are using as a base for the game was relatively straightforward. The various forum threads on the subject provided all I needed to know. I do wish that the Lighting pack had dynamic shadowing of DTS objects. In order to get the shadows I need, I am going to have to use a combination of regular lighting and the Lighting Pack lighting, which is too bad, since the LP lighting is tremendously beautiful.

Here are a couple of images from the latest build of the game.





Again, all animal models, tree models, and terrain textures are likely to be replaced in the next few months. In the second image you can see a poor zebra being picked up and moved about the world. They hate it when you do that.

Signing out,
William Willoughby, PhD
aka
Andy Schatz

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Josiah Wang   (Mar 31, 2005 at 19:57 GMT)
heya, erm, for some reason, you need to capitalize the ".JPG" in order to see those screenshots


looking nice!

Vashner   (Mar 31, 2005 at 20:19 GMT)
Wow looks sweet.

Michael Cozzolino   (Mar 31, 2005 at 20:30 GMT)
Heh at first I thought that zebra had some super jumping skills.

Jeff Tunnell   (Mar 31, 2005 at 20:44 GMT)
Hey Andy. Nice looking stuff. Welcome aboard. Are you Chris Cole's friend?

-Jeff Tunnell GG

Josh Williams   (Mar 31, 2005 at 20:46 GMT)
I like the look William, keep us up to date!

Jeremy Alessi   (Mar 31, 2005 at 21:11 GMT)
I like the look already ... even if the art assets are temporary it looks very nice ... I like the first shot a lot.

Andy Schatz   (Mar 31, 2005 at 21:28 GMT)   Resource Rating: 5
@Jeff -- Hi there Jeff, yes I hired Chris at TKO a couple of years ago after he moved on from Monster Studios. I quit in December to pursue my own small games. Chris is an awesome guy, as I'm sure you know :) Thanks for the welcome... We're all pretty lucky to have something like GG around.

John Kabus (BobTheCBuilder)   (Apr 01, 2005 at 00:26 GMT)
Hi William, fantastic work man
Edited on Apr 01, 2005 00:27 GMT

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