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May 08 Patch news14°C, heavy rain
Brother in Arms: new patch, it's been out nearly a month but went unnoticed. Description to follow.
Not much of a fanfare on this release, it adds some new single-player missions, get it here: BIA_EiB 1.03 It's possibly changing some of the bahaviours of the AI as well, but maybe I'm imagiing that since it's not stated in the readme. It does add three new single games:Brothers in Arms:
MySpace: was in the news today, what is it? Is it better than msn spaces? Does anyone know, (or care)? May 02 To the Endth degree12°C
Nth... thanks to Y12 for that little goof. Pity it wasn't from one of my lessons. Last time someone in one of my groups made an error like that, I issued them a commendation. I did of course point out it was wrong, but some errors are so well thought through. On that occasion we were talking about mono-chrome, so I first asked what "mono" meant- ( they got this one right), the second part was what is "Chrome" about, the first brave reply was "something to do with time?"
I love things like that! There are stupid mistakes and there are brilliant mistakes. These are examples of the latter. Without them, we'd have no creativity.
Ubisoft have aplogised for the botched patch they released this weekend. see->Terriblysorry :
Boontybox are probably the real culprits, Ubi will have commissioned them to provide a download manager-installer, just like most software houses employ Wise-installers. There will be more paid-patches for games, so I guess we'll have to install Boontybox to add patches then remove that dirty little prog' each time we've finished with it. Oh well, at least the patch itself is of high quality. April 28 Peshka16°C
Ubisoft paid addon is now available for Forgotten Battles. Pe-2
It's a massive download at 160Mb, so it better be good. Ubi are using a nasty little download manager, which is probably good for dialup people who suffer broken downloads. It's a shame we can't download another way.
boontybox is the program they use, there are rumours on the forums about it installing spyware on your machine, UBI forums are populated of paranoics though, so who knows?
Still, it's curious the patch being so big. there must be a language pack or maybe a new map or something ni there. March 21 Chi-ha6 to 2°C, cold NE wind
Far Cry level now has some vegetation! Nevermind the fault with the ground texture, now I can place objects and am formulating a kind of plot for the mission. Trees bend in the breeze- and there's a setting to make them flex more in the wind- this shows up on screen. not only that- there is a brush tool for "painting" various trees and other things onto the landscape. This is neat, shame we can't have this in a 3D application like 3Ds max. March 20 Sandboxing6°C.light grey.
Sandbox turns out to be a very capable and relatively easy to use game editor. The interface is remarkably 3dsMax-like. Here is a basic landscape and begun texturing it so far. Heightmap editor has excellent tools to work with rather like Sitni-sati Dreamscape 2. The height brush is especially neat- since it works in the perspective viewport (which incidentally is fully textured with an animated saea surface). Beat that!
It's built in programming language is LUA- which I'm reliably told -is easy and light.
Make sure, if you get into this that youhave the most recent sandbox manual- the one supplied in the box is terrible.
In short- it's a fully fledged 3d app, sold as a level editor but cost me only £5.99. It would be good enough to use at school, in some kind of after-school club except for one thing: the game is rather violent. March 19 Sandbox6°C
Removed Far Cry to make space for Brothers In arms on the PC yesterday. Unfortunately, my first impressions of BIA is not overwealming. It's all a bit boxy- and resstrictions in movment are quite frustrating. You can jump but not over a low gate, there are ladders but you can't climb them.
Cryek hae released a much better manual for the Sandbox editor- it's the level editor for Far Cry which makes the possibility of making my own level more "do-able". So it looks like I'll be re-installing Far Cry - even though I have actually overplayed the game somewhat. Perhaps, with a bit of luck, if the plugins are available, I can make my own objects to insert into the game.
I dunno. March 13 Crymods2°C, sun & rain
Nearly there. Cheerfulness has returned, feeling cold all gone, but I still need a lot of sleep- over 7 hours!
Far Cry: some interesting sites for "modding" the game.
There is a free exporter for 3ds Max, so it's possible to make models for the game.
Crysource: mostly in German, but that's not too much of a problem.
I don't know if I will follow this up or not. Who knows? Far Cry maps.com: page of downloads to play in Far Cry.
Linseed: working on a page of rough sketches, which is more trying out ideas and a warm-up than any planned finished piece. Warm-up is os important in drawing & painting- it gets you rmind into the right mood and loosens up the muscles for good co-ordination. February 24 Far Cry - finished2°C, Snow.
Far Cry: finished it. I supppose if I'd bought this game ( it was a loan) then it would be good value for money. I've played it for nearly two months now, (installed on 2nd January 2006) so cost per hour is very good. I'm trying out previous routes because it's a game with many alternative ways of completing levels. Pacific Fighters: the new patch has fixed problems that were putting me off loading it up at all. Now it's quite usable again. January 25 obsessive1.9°C, same as yesterday(near enough).
Far Cry: it's truly an addictive game. I knew there would be a part where mutants turn up. It could have been the point that spoils it all, leading to uninstalling the game. However it's appeared as a natural continuation to the story. Some of the cut scenes are rather poorly done, the animation should be a lot better. It's a shame because the models and rendering quality are decent.
Sleeplessness: let's see how it goes tonight. Now: camomile. |
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