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TorqueX 3D Hiding Meshes Part 2

Update on Hiding Meshes I have finally completed my testing on my art asset creation. In my last blog, I had a barebones static mesh , that was able to hide and show meshes using my MeshMana...

Author David Everhart Date 09/03/2008 (3:23 am) Comment 0 comments

TorqueX - First Stab at Hiding Mesh Resource

When I started to think of character customization, I was doing Arillian in 2D at the time. I used an approach similar to Diablo 2's style. However, per my last blog post, I am now in the 3D world. I ...

Author David Everhart Date 07/09/2008 (2:26 am) Comment 3 comments

Journey Into 3D

It has been about six months since my last post, and a lot has happened with my development of Arillian. I was going pretty strong in my 2d development of Arillian, but it was very time consuming, and...

Author David Everhart Date 06/22/2008 (5:09 am) Comment 3 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #6

Quite a bit has been done on Arillian since the last update. The main advances have been: 1) Introduction of another animation 2) Revamp of the project setup 3) Revamp of the animation system 4...

Author David Everhart Date 01/28/2008 (9:29 am) Comment 6 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #5

Well, I had a real long post written out, going into some pretty low level detail, but it seems this site has eaten that blog.... This time I will save off my post. Nonetheless, below is a screenshot ...

Author David Everhart Date 01/07/2008 (3:44 pm) Comment 10 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #4

Well, this has been a busy period , but I have been able to make a lot of strides recently. I am currently learning Poser 7,3DSMax, and WorldCreator. I am thinking that my toolset will be: Poser 7 ...

Author David Everhart Date 12/12/2007 (3:07 am) Comment 0 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #3

Animation Creator Well, after spending a lot of time with the torquex 3d stuff, I have decided to instead spend some more time trying out some 2D approaches. As such , I began researching 2d...

Author David Everhart Date 12/07/2007 (2:36 am) Comment 5 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #2

Well, it has been an eventful last few days. I continued working on the Main menu GUI aspects of Arillian, and also dabbled in other areas. I have a ton to learn. [b]GUIBitmapButton and Mouse clic...

Author David Everhart Date 12/01/2007 (6:34 am) Comment 5 comments

TorqueX Newbie Diary #1

Well, my foray into the world of Torque X has begun. I recently went through and paired down my scope to test out the viablity of using Torque X. Arillian (formerly World of Arillian) has around 20 ra...

Author David Everhart Date 11/27/2007 (12:51 am) Comment 2 comments

And so it begins...

When I was a kid , in the 6th grade, I was introduced to the commodore 64. My dad subscribed to a magazine called compute gazette, and I would spend hours typing in the code, and try to play. I learne...

Author David Everhart Date 11/24/2007 (1:27 am) Comment 9 comments