Blog for AndrewOsborne at GarageGames.com

TGEA content pack..

AndrewOsborne — 2008-01-18T04:13:23+00:00

Here to announce my latest project.. a content pack aimed at TGEA.

The character weighs in at a meisly 1166 polygons, however with its normal map it achieves far greater detail. Coming with all the maps and material scripts to get it all going in TGEA easily, you have a ready made, rigged, normal mapped character at your fingertips!

I am pretty close to completing this (I still need to finish the texture map, test, and package) but should be available in the coming week or so.
If it is received well I will be looking at creating a soldier pack aimed at TGEA too!

Silhouette Studios is also currently available for fee-for-service work in both coding and art, if you are interested in a quote be sure to get in contact!

New website launch!

AndrewOsborne — 2007-09-14T07:26:18+00:00

we at Silhouette Studios are proud to announce that we have launched our new Website.

After undergoing a massive face-lift from our old site, content is now far easier for the viewer to access and far easier for us to manage (more frequent updates!). It took a lot longer than planned as midway through the process I broke my wrist pretty badly, with surgery happening over the weekend to insert plates :(.

To celebrate we have released a 2min trailer of our upcoming RPG game Tarien Flow (obligatory image below :] ) to showcase some of the effects and features currently implemented in its EPOC.

Please check it out and enjoy :)

Silhouette Studios is also currently available for fee-for-service work in both coding and art, if you are interested in a quote be sure to get in contact!

Tarien Flow

AndrewOsborne — 2007-07-27T11:27:34+00:00

We here at Silhouette Studios have been busy working away on our major project, Tarien Flow.

Tarien Flow is a single player RPG with some fresh and great ideas that we are currently keeping quiet about :) It is built on a modified TGEA using AFX.

I have got two videos to show off a couple of features in TF - apologies for the low quality vids too, I was in a hurry :) the videos will start playing at the same time too so I suggest pausing one as it starts (again, time didnt let me address this!). Much of the content is still WIP and needs refinement but you should hopefully get the gist!

The first is showing off our dynamic Day Night cycle, you can see as the sun lowers we move from morning, noon, sunset, then to night (and back again!). We still need to tweak some values/timing/colours but its there and working. I should also point out its playing at 15x the normal speed so I can fit it in a small time for the video!

The second video is displaying a mini walkthrough of the town, and a small glimpse of our combat (the character is fighting a pair of bisons, its a little hard to see with the quality). The bisons then drop an item (Horns) that you collect! The green and red icons you can see are our NPC indicators that let you know you should be talking to them :)

Finally I have got one last thing to show. We have been lucky to find an extremely talented 2D Artist, below is one in an excellent series of work for completed for Tarien Flow, it is of the Port district in our village.(click the image for larger version)

Hope you enjoy, we will be showing more updates in the near future.

Silhouette Studios is also currently available for fee-for-service work in both coding and art, if you are interested in a quote be sure to get in contact!

Citizen Pack Released!

AndrewOsborne — 2007-03-03T04:11:21+00:00

Well its finally released, and I am breather easier. You can find more information on the following link..
www.silhouette-studios.com.au/citizen_pack.html

Thank you everyone who has contributed with constructive feedback over the past couple of weeks. If there is a reasonable reception I will be following this up with a male pack to match.

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Citizen Pack

AndrewOsborne — 2007-03-02T01:34:51+00:00

I have been Polishing and working out the best distribution method over the last day or so, theres just final testing to do with a release imminent.

The pack will ship with the following animations. With the pack rigged to the default Kork skeleton it works with the default Torque animations, and is also compatible with the Torque motion packs (Probably with some minor tweaking involved).

*Idle/root
*Driver Idle/root (Driver sitting position)
*Forward
*Laugh Emote
*Indifferent Emote
*Sad Emote
*Talk 1
*Talk 2

Animation preview can be seen here ... www.silhouette-studios.com.au/citizenpack/citizen_pack.html

I am excited to see this finally out the door, it has come a long way since the first announcement! I hope this will be of use to the community in general.

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Citizen Pack

AndrewOsborne — 2007-02-26T12:06:18+00:00

Moving closer to a release for the citizen pack. Currently the pack contains the following animations.

*Idle/root
*Driver Idle/root (Driver sitting position)
*Forward
*Laugh Emote
*Indifferent Emote
*Sad Emote
*Talk 1
*Talk 2

She is also rigged up to the default Kork skeleton, so will be accessible for Torque motion packs and the like.

*edit* Updated Pose

Animation preview can be seen here ... www.silhouette-studios.com.au/citizenpack/charpack.html

Looking to have it done within the next couple of weeks, with add-on texture/accessory packs to follow shortly. As well as isometric renders for TGB.

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Character Pack #3

AndrewOsborne — 2007-02-22T08:22:49+00:00

Hi all,

more updates on the 'citizen' pack, tweaked the model and animation. Still going with the rest. Thanks very much to those who posted comments/crits its a big help to have fresh eyes on your work :).

I think the gif compression has borked up the cycle (it jerks at one point) but you get the idea.

Looking to have it done within the next couple of weeks!

Thanks

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Character Pack #2

AndrewOsborne — 2007-02-20T04:58:32+00:00

Hi all,

Further updates on the 'citizen' pack with the model pretty much finished I'm onto the animations.

As mentioned before I will prob. release additional skin packs to be used in conjunction with the model. I am also heavily considering setting the model up/rendering out the frames as a TGB Isometric set if it seems warranted by need.

Hopefully this can be useful to you guys/girls!

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Character Pack

AndrewOsborne — 2007-02-19T03:18:31+00:00

Hi all,

Im just here to tentatively announce a torque character pack I am currently working on. I say tentatively as I am still trying to gauge the need/want for something like this and figure if its worth my time to complete.

I am developing a 'citizen' pack, containing an ordinary human female (Male would follow) with animations such as Talking, dancing, pick-up, angry, happy, sad, indifferent, multiple idles etc.

work in progress below

My idea is to release in addition to this, additional skins/accessories etc to be used with the character. With a model like this you would be able to easily fill your environments with different looking characters based off the same model with multiple ambient animations etc..

Anyway, enough ramblings. I should get back to work!

Silhouette Studios is currently available for fee-for-service work in coding and art. If you have a project in mind be sure to contact us!

Breakthrough #3

AndrewOsborne — 2007-01-27T09:33:34+00:00

Silhouette Studios have been contracted over the past few weeks to develop art and code for a game for Breakthrough a non-profit human rights organization.

The game is being created to spark awareness on current deportation and immigration issues, to bring awareness of Human Rights issues. The game is about earning a Greencard in America, and the difficulties entailed in doing so. The object of the game is to learn how to navigate your character in the legal terrain to stay out of jail, or alternately to earn citizen points which will enable you to earn a greencard.

The final touches are being put on the HUD art, and the environments, and the game should be ready for release within the next few weeks. The last of the character models are being developed and put into the game.

Below you can see the BICE officer (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), he is an AI controlled character within the game that you need to avoid.

He can unfortunately can turn your character from this...

to this...

I will post further updates we move closer to a final release date!

Silhouette Studios is also currently available for fee-for-service work in both coding and art, if you are interested in a quote be sure to get in contact!