Target (tm) as a laxative?
why is it that whenever i go to target it makes me need to take a crap? every time i go there, i start walking around, looking for the stuff i need then like 5-6 min later, BooM! i need to poop. wtf. it's probably a bad marketing ploy, but i think i will take up that campaign.... "Target! Better than EX-Lax!
CNN.com - Sony to halt use of controversial CD protection - Nov 11, 2005
that's right http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/11/sony.copyprotection.ap/index.html
they stopped using it for a while. what idiots they are. they make me mad.
they stopped using it for a while. what idiots they are. they make me mad.
Lately
lately i've been really busy, almost to musy for life to happen. it's been really bad. it's mostly my fault for why i'm so busy now, but that will hopefully change in the future.
-gg all
i'll be posting some more when i get around to it. right now it's late.
-gg all
i'll be posting some more when i get around to it. right now it's late.
public education = oxymoron
:The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile:
something to think about...
i'm glad i went to private school where they could never figure out how to get the bells working right most of the time. haha.
something to think about...
i'm glad i went to private school where they could never figure out how to get the bells working right most of the time. haha.
Reality Engine
Reality Engine
cool stuff. to bad they don't advertise the price of licenceing it.i wonder how it does with racing games. or if it would even work at all
cool stuff. to bad they don't advertise the price of licenceing it.i wonder how it does with racing games. or if it would even work at all
Actors Weigh Strike Over Video Game Voices
News Story - NCBuy
something interesting. i figured game studios can employ their own to do voices in the future. that would get them around the crap that the hollywood crapfaces want. blah blah blah. oh well.
something interesting. i figured game studios can employ their own to do voices in the future. that would get them around the crap that the hollywood crapfaces want. blah blah blah. oh well.
E3 and other random crap.
Ok, i went to E3 (electronic entertainment expo, for those out of the know). it i must say has and will remain a giant circle jerk for games marketing. Now that that's out of the way. I can continue with saying, not much jumped out at me this year expect for the ad campaing for infected. They literally jumped out at me. people dressed as zombies. it would have been a little more impressive if they had 100 people instead of 5. but still we got the point. EA's booth was the most impressive there. At least the trailer section was. it was a 360 degree theatre. and had some parts of the trailers be a complete 360 degrees. as in when a car accident happend in front of you , you could turn around and watch the aftermath behind the camera. it was rad. i want one in my home. that's how cool it was. The next coolest thing was America's Army with their combat simulator. in the outside booth you were able to sit in the top of a humvee and man a machine gun, and a second person was able to man a M-4. and you shoot and a screen while moving through a video game level. it was very cool.
I also said 'Hi' to my friends working at the show. but, of course, they were working so i couldn't hang with them. that part sucked. oh well.
must finish some stuff for tomorrow.
oh ya, put up a new template. the other got kinda old.
I also said 'Hi' to my friends working at the show. but, of course, they were working so i couldn't hang with them. that part sucked. oh well.
must finish some stuff for tomorrow.
oh ya, put up a new template. the other got kinda old.
A new home for Animated GIF's?
I swear My Space is the new home for annoying animated GIF's and crappy webpage design. Not since the birth of free personal homepages back in 95-97 have so much crap been shoved onto one page. Not only have the people who have control of the webpage been able to showcase their scavanged annoying animated GIF's but other people now have the ability to add to owner's page with thier own annoying video's/pics/animated GIF's. These people think what they are doing is cool. It's not. It's painful to see. Those people should stop being suck nutsacks.
Midterm post
been a while. I worked the Newport Beach Film Festival and that was hectic and a lot of work. It was fun though, i got the see some really good shorts and documenteries. and also movies. wheeeee
Post Spring Break Post
Found some really interesting sites while researching stuff. The more interesting is the second link with the HDR lighting using Direct X 9. Read it. It's good for you. Honest.
http://www.machinima.org/paul_blog/
HDR LIGHTING
http://www.machinima.org/paul_blog/
HDR LIGHTING
:: Kitty Litter ::
:: Kitty Litter ::
i posted a comment. wheeeee!... and my girlfriend really does have a gay guinie-pig, we're pretty sure he is at least.
i posted a comment. wheeeee!... and my girlfriend really does have a gay guinie-pig, we're pretty sure he is at least.
Found and new template
I found a new template. I modified the free Blogger template from spiderman site. I'll probably add some images to it eventually, cause Dreamweaver does a kick-ass job with editing the CSS. OK back to my ADV-rigging final
oh ya, i signed up to help out at the Newport Beach Film Festival
it should be rad. i'm really stoked.
oh ya, i signed up to help out at the Newport Beach Film Festival
it should be rad. i'm really stoked.
new Blog template
i'm looking for a new blog template... in CSS. if anyone has a cool, clean one let me know.
UT2004 map
Ok, I have finally completed my UT2k4 map. Here is the link. You can download it HERE.
To get it to work in UT2k4, you must first have win-rar or any zip program that understands .rar file format.
un-rar the file into the root \UT2004 (or wherever you have it installed).
then you are all set. The file should put everything in the right directories.
if it doesn't let me know. Here are some small screen shots.
CAV3-ALPH4
To get it to work in UT2k4, you must first have win-rar or any zip program that understands .rar file format.
un-rar the file into the root \UT2004 (or wherever you have it installed).
then you are all set. The file should put everything in the right directories.
if it doesn't let me know. Here are some small screen shots.
CAV3-ALPH4
Level Design
Finally got something to post from my level. It's for UT2004, will post the final version later. It will include bot pathing for those of you who don't have any friends to play with.
wow, ,a really long time no update
ok, i've been busy. I have a girlfriend now. whom i love. she's rad. but i've also been super busy with school. my grammer is off today cause i just wanted to update quickly. so i can get back to working on my projects.
oh ya, on a side note, i bought a licence to a video game engine and have begun preliminary work on my own racing game. I will use it at a portfolio peice as well as to sell it eventually. i'm hopeing it will be fun.
the licence i bought was for the torque engine. (was used for tribes 1 & 2). i realize i could mod an excisting game, but i wanted to create my own game. and not have someone else have to buy the game i'd be modding.
i hope to do this in my spare time. so it'll probably take a while. now i just need a C++ programmer to help me with the difficult bits :)
oh ya, on a side note, i bought a licence to a video game engine and have begun preliminary work on my own racing game. I will use it at a portfolio peice as well as to sell it eventually. i'm hopeing it will be fun.
the licence i bought was for the torque engine. (was used for tribes 1 & 2). i realize i could mod an excisting game, but i wanted to create my own game. and not have someone else have to buy the game i'd be modding.
i hope to do this in my spare time. so it'll probably take a while. now i just need a C++ programmer to help me with the difficult bits :)
CNN.com - NASA: Cosmic�blast among brightest recorded - Feb 18, 2005
CNN.com - NASA: Cosmic�blast among brightest recorded - Feb 18, 2005
something very cool about this. not sure why.maybe big things making really big booms is a guys thing.
something very cool about this. not sure why.maybe big things making really big booms is a guys thing.
Pres' day wknd update
It's president's day weekend. My plan was to go to strategicon this weekend. but i'm going to spend it making my UT2004 levels. One for class. and the other for fun. gonna be posting screen shots shortly. so stay tuned. i'll also post them for download of people who want them. cause i'll need people to help test them.
Update Groundhog's day eve
It's my mom's birthday today, gonna give her a call and chat. been working on a friend website trying to get stuff forwared to another site so that the site can be custom, and not just have some crappy templates to choose from, cause it really looks lame right now.
So I thought I had updated more recently than the 26th but maybe I just closed everything before I actually did. Oh well, no biggie. I've been on MySpace recently, I have 33 friends now, WOOO! I only add people I know in real life. unless the're girls, then I think it's okay to add them. Because you always should invest in potenial nudity. It's just good for they environment.
Ok, back to the grind. I must get some kick ass stuff done today. That is all.
GG all
So I thought I had updated more recently than the 26th but maybe I just closed everything before I actually did. Oh well, no biggie. I've been on MySpace recently, I have 33 friends now, WOOO! I only add people I know in real life. unless the're girls, then I think it's okay to add them. Because you always should invest in potenial nudity. It's just good for they environment.
Ok, back to the grind. I must get some kick ass stuff done today. That is all.
GG all
Boring update mk2
oh ya, i'm thinking of getting one of those mini mac's. they're cool. AND affordable. i'll probably upgrade the ram in it. so i can use other people mac stuff. just in case i get someone who doesn't have a PC. you know, stuff like that.
Boring Update
well, updating takes time. i thought i had updated this but i haven't . so here goes. i'm working on homework. I helped my friend erik and his family move into a new apartment on sunday. then the next day i went to the school for 14hrs. i was beat. never drink caffine after 8pm if you want to sleep by 10 or 11pm. oh well. i was off tuesday, and i'm off today. it's nice. but i'm going homework today. oh well.
MLK2 day
Well i'm up in loma linda today. I was going to be working on a website, but am working on some 3d homework instead because the person who was suppose to email us the data to post , emailed it to the wrong address. so who knows who got it. heh. so we had to go buy a fax machine so they could fax us the data. So, now I have to type everything in by hand instead of just copying and pasting it into the web. I hate it when that happens. Oh well.
This is a boring update i know. I just had to post somthing mundane. Take that interesting people!
This is a boring update i know. I just had to post somthing mundane. Take that interesting people!
Life, the universe, and everthing. pt. Deux
I am starting to develop a cold, it sucks. Because developing a cold isn't like anything else, it takes so much work. You have to deprive yourself of just the right amount of nutrients and sleep to get a really good low immune system foundation.
I'm debating weither or not to take some NyQuil©®™ and wondering around in a semi-high daze for the day... then again, I might get some really good posts out of it.
I'm debating weither or not to take some NyQuil©®™ and wondering around in a semi-high daze for the day... then again, I might get some really good posts out of it.
Life, the universe, and everthing.
Ok, i've been posting comments in peoples blogs, this has been fun. I think it's human rights to make comments on things that in normal society says we should keep our noses out of. At least I think we should keep out of. But as long as people bring it up, i'm happy to make comments about it. I mean if they didn't want us to comment about what they says then they wouldn't have brought it up to begin with. So there. Take that. Muahaha. Carry on, you may go about your business.
New Quarter, Level Design, and Weapon of Choice.
Ok a new quater is starting at the Art Institute of California, Orange
County. So i go to class today (wed. 12th) and i find that my 3d
scripting class has been canceled. This is due to the lack of a
teacher. This sucks. It's not that i wasn't expecting it of course.
This is because a week before the quarter I was the job posting on
gamasutra.com and the IGDA OC chapter sent out a note in their
newsletter that the school was looking for one. So most of the people
rushed right over to bitch and complain without first picking which
class they'd like to replace it with. Sometimes i think people are to
quick to anger. Sometimes i think it's warrented but you get so much
more done if you are nice about it, especially if you have all the
info and there is nothing they can do to screw you over. (heh)
Ok, i'm in level design this quater, I'm already tutoring one of the
people in class. She's only had 2 3ds max classes before and now she's
taking level design. I think it's because she had a large amount of
transfer credits, so now she's learning all the 3d programs at once. I
think i'm the only one in the class that already is semi-familiar with
the game software. i'm not sure if it's a bonus yet. I hope I don't
end up doing most of the work. I usually don't. I don't think she will
try to get me to, but if she does, I'm out.
Lately i have meed using Maya more often than 3ds MAX. I'm starting to
prefer some of the stuff in Maya. Mostly like the character rigging
tools and the material editor, you can do so much more it seems with
the Maya materials. Max seems rather limited. Not that i don't know
the work arounds and stuff, but still. There are some things I still
prefer about Max in terms of modeling (like ring, loop, and connect,
those are my fav). Other then those however it's pretty much just a
different tool to get the job done. Right now i'm trying to learn
Softimage XSI (the one you can mod half-life 2 with) and it seems to
be going ok.
Ah yes, back to Level Design. We're using Unread ed. The one that
ships with Unreal Tournement 2004. It's fairly stable and has quite a
bit of documentation. I think it's a better editor than HL2, mostly
because HL2 is still using Hammer, a tool used for HL 1 and older
stuff. Good lord, they still use Quake C or .QC, that's what half-life
1 was done in. However they use QC now and a compiled scripting
language, so it's not as bad.
Ok that's it for now. Time for some food and finish Level Design
stuff. Putting on Fallout 1 & 2 music now, it's rad. Amost as good as
playing the games.
=Ryan
County. So i go to class today (wed. 12th) and i find that my 3d
scripting class has been canceled. This is due to the lack of a
teacher. This sucks. It's not that i wasn't expecting it of course.
This is because a week before the quarter I was the job posting on
gamasutra.com and the IGDA OC chapter sent out a note in their
newsletter that the school was looking for one. So most of the people
rushed right over to bitch and complain without first picking which
class they'd like to replace it with. Sometimes i think people are to
quick to anger. Sometimes i think it's warrented but you get so much
more done if you are nice about it, especially if you have all the
info and there is nothing they can do to screw you over. (heh)
Ok, i'm in level design this quater, I'm already tutoring one of the
people in class. She's only had 2 3ds max classes before and now she's
taking level design. I think it's because she had a large amount of
transfer credits, so now she's learning all the 3d programs at once. I
think i'm the only one in the class that already is semi-familiar with
the game software. i'm not sure if it's a bonus yet. I hope I don't
end up doing most of the work. I usually don't. I don't think she will
try to get me to, but if she does, I'm out.
Lately i have meed using Maya more often than 3ds MAX. I'm starting to
prefer some of the stuff in Maya. Mostly like the character rigging
tools and the material editor, you can do so much more it seems with
the Maya materials. Max seems rather limited. Not that i don't know
the work arounds and stuff, but still. There are some things I still
prefer about Max in terms of modeling (like ring, loop, and connect,
those are my fav). Other then those however it's pretty much just a
different tool to get the job done. Right now i'm trying to learn
Softimage XSI (the one you can mod half-life 2 with) and it seems to
be going ok.
Ah yes, back to Level Design. We're using Unread ed. The one that
ships with Unreal Tournement 2004. It's fairly stable and has quite a
bit of documentation. I think it's a better editor than HL2, mostly
because HL2 is still using Hammer, a tool used for HL 1 and older
stuff. Good lord, they still use Quake C or .QC, that's what half-life
1 was done in. However they use QC now and a compiled scripting
language, so it's not as bad.
Ok that's it for now. Time for some food and finish Level Design
stuff. Putting on Fallout 1 & 2 music now, it's rad. Amost as good as
playing the games.
=Ryan