House for Sale...Cheap!

Hi Everyone!

I'll get to the house sale in a moment, but I'd like to note that since my last post I've jumped back and forth between TGE and TGEA about a dozen times regarding CNMI. There are things about TGEA that I really like, but then I started to compile a list of resources/features that I've managed to stuff/wrench/hack into TGE and I'm not sure with my copy and paste coding skills I can do the same with TGEA.

It would require me to actually know why a reasonable portion of the code does what it does, and I'm not sure if I'm up to the task.

There are certain aspects that I have been able to come to a decision on. First I'm focusing on a three level demo similar to the old doom/quake shareware type demos. Three fully functional levels that will pre-date the events of Code Name: Monster Island by a year, entitled CNMI:Harbinger. I can't show much, since there might be a paradigm shift in main character designs, but here is a teaser screen:



About 75% of those textures are original or "highly" modified photo textures. I'm pretty please on how a lot of them are turning out.

I've also started to brush up on my textures from scratch skills for a possible set of generic game assets (health pick ups, ammo, etc.). Here is a test in TGEA:



Now onto this house thing. I've been working on a Haunted House Pack, and I had hoped to have had it done sooner, but I'm going to have it available on our site for a three day special starting Monday. It includes four types of trees, (2 LOD'd, 2 not), a couple types of grass, 13 gravestones, ambient audio, arched stone entrance, several paintings, some transparent stained glass and glass pieces and a few other odds and ends.

I don't like to pimp the price of things here on GG, but if I were someone looking at an idea of what this "special price" might be, just think of the seventh president of the United States and you'll get pretty close (and not his president number, but the bill he's on...I know how some of you think!).

Here are a few screens of the Haunted House Pack. It will be nearly all .DIF models, although if I have a relatively productive day off Sunday afternoon, some of it might turn up in the pack as DTS objects also (with the matching .OBJ and .3DS files). It will be on our site www.monsterpacks.com.













I also did a brief video, it's nothing to write home about, and I still haven't broken down and learned how to set up a cam path, but it gives you an idea of what's included.

www.reallyreallygoodthings.com/screens4/HHPHR.mpg

Anyway, it looks as if I'm breaking out Silo, Lightray, Fragmotion and Milkshape and breaking down and learning keyframing and model rigging. Once I make the final decision on which engine it will be, I'll have some more info to share. We also thought a change in diet might help our modeling skills:



Until the next post, thanks! And to those who are awaiting emails from me, I'll be firing off a bunch of correspondence tomorrow (that would be you, Ian, Kory, Josh, etc.)

- Alan

www.monsterpacks.com
www.reallyreallygoodthings.com

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention that I did snag a couple textures from Fruit Bat in Shades Texture pack he put up a few days ago:
www.fruitbatinshades.com
www.garagegames.com/mg/snapshot/view.php?qid=1517