Interested in a "clearance" sale?
by Jacob Dankovchik · 12/14/2013 (12:21 am) · 2 comments
So some of you may remember my T3D environment pack. The pack of mine boasted 355 different textures, all with parallax maps included, with several test environments and ambient sounds as well. Unfortunately, due to time and money problems, I'm not able to keep up with work on it like I hoped. Part of the idea was for unlimited updates in the future. But it's just hard for me to pull time together for it.
But also now that I DO have some time, I don't have hosting. Keeping hosting going was getting too expensive in the long run, as I'm barely keeping ends together right now. And so now I wanna try to do SOMETHING with the idea and so I came up with something that may work out.
My idea now is to do a clearance sale of what I have. Just push it out the door at a low price just so it doesn't collect digital dust. If I manage to make updates, cool. If not, sorry. I will still try though, now that I have a little time for it. And I'll inform people when such updates are done.
But the big thing here is distribution. All told, it was a few gigs worth of assets. So how does one go about distributing that with no hosting? My idea here is a torrent. I could send a torrent to anyone who buys it and just leave my computer running for a while.. A long while. I admit that the entire process could end up taking a long time for a complete transfer, but it's still something.
So for a price, I'm thinking $40. This is down from the normal $100. So for just $40 it would be 355 textures, each one carefully made to tile as well as possible. Also removed the normal visual artifacts from it like detail textures fading in and changing the overall brightness of the texture. Carefully made to keep all of that way, and at 1024x1024 resolution. Normal and parallax maps. Plus starter terrains and ambient sounds. And hopefully someday here, some ambient effects and better sounds.
The drawback, your download will be on the slow side. But you'll get it all the same, in the end. Would this appeal to anyone out there? I need to try to move what I have left and scrape together some funds, so hopefully this is able to do SOMETHING for that. :)
But also now that I DO have some time, I don't have hosting. Keeping hosting going was getting too expensive in the long run, as I'm barely keeping ends together right now. And so now I wanna try to do SOMETHING with the idea and so I came up with something that may work out.
My idea now is to do a clearance sale of what I have. Just push it out the door at a low price just so it doesn't collect digital dust. If I manage to make updates, cool. If not, sorry. I will still try though, now that I have a little time for it. And I'll inform people when such updates are done.
But the big thing here is distribution. All told, it was a few gigs worth of assets. So how does one go about distributing that with no hosting? My idea here is a torrent. I could send a torrent to anyone who buys it and just leave my computer running for a while.. A long while. I admit that the entire process could end up taking a long time for a complete transfer, but it's still something.
So for a price, I'm thinking $40. This is down from the normal $100. So for just $40 it would be 355 textures, each one carefully made to tile as well as possible. Also removed the normal visual artifacts from it like detail textures fading in and changing the overall brightness of the texture. Carefully made to keep all of that way, and at 1024x1024 resolution. Normal and parallax maps. Plus starter terrains and ambient sounds. And hopefully someday here, some ambient effects and better sounds.
The drawback, your download will be on the slow side. But you'll get it all the same, in the end. Would this appeal to anyone out there? I need to try to move what I have left and scrape together some funds, so hopefully this is able to do SOMETHING for that. :)
#2
Terry
12/14/2013 (11:50 pm)
40$ humm send me some more info what all do U have now let me know send me an email to tbarlow550@gmail.com thanksTerry

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
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