Welcome back after a nice long month hiatus from Game-Guru Reporting. Unfortunately life's call was pretty strong (and remains so) but at the same time I do need to make sure this report is brought up to speed on what's new and exciting in Game-Guru.
From a real world standpoint I had to do a migration of Redhat Satellite 5.6 to 5.8 for my day job for a very large company. This was a big part of my time sink along with yearly pentesting, etc. So again, apologies and without further wait here we go!
Official Game-Guru News
Over the past month steady progress has been made with respect to the engine and it's secondary DLC packs. Additional PBR assets (to the chagrin of some - some feel that the engine would be better served due to memory constraints with non PBR though I disagree personally).
There's also been a free weekend, which just ended today, to my knowledge. Nice to see TGC taking additional steps to bring in a bigger crowd as Game-Guru becomes more feature packed. I'd suggest a relaunch in media (magazines, online blogs, etc) at a good time, say next year when things are much more solidly done.
What's New in the Store
Teabone's "HUD Stance Script" is in the realm of 'cheap and must have'.
Pasquill did some really fantastic and extremely well priced shipping containers.
The above kind of illustrates what a deal 4 dollars can buy you (6 of these beauties!).
This is an amazing deal. I've already covered Pasquill's stuff in the past; for this price though I honestly feel like you're shooting yourself in the foot if you choose the old-out-of date freebie containers from FPSC. Spend the $4 and buy something professional, like these!
There's other stuff on sale, such as EAI's products which I highly recommend. Beyond that, not much new on the store that really caught my eye. As always if you are a store content creator and want me to check out your stuff in detail with a coupon/reviewer copy, let me know.
3rd Party Programs and Tutorials
Graphix is working on a simple web script to take 6 pictures and make a cubemap out of them. No link yet, but he says it should be on his website soon.
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219916 Bugsy put up a great little 'displaying pictures in sequence' help script thread which is a good utility script if you have nothing else like it.
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220000?page=1 Argent Arts (a new user) put up a pretty nice discussion on the current lighting system.
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220018 Which lead to Bugsy putting up a pretty thorough lighting test. Looks like dynamic 'specularity' is offline again. There's also a really good discussion on PBR here too.
Random Acts of Creativity
There is a significant body of new work to cover. I'll do my best, but if I miss you please send me a message and I'll include yours next time!
| A nice framework but needs refinement (lighting, in particular) |
The above are some very VERY preliminary screenies from VincentHendriks. Looks like a city slog, which GameGuru is surprisingly good at creating, so should turn out well. No title that I'm aware of yet.
CodeName:Protoscope by Synchromesh
And now of very important note: Acythian is coming along!
Check out this thread for all the juicy details by one of Game-Guru's premier artists (Wolf).
Above are a few of the many gorgeous screenshots he's put together. I mean it's totally worth a trip over to the forums, this project is masterfully done (assuming he can keep framerate above 10!)
DuchenKuke is also working on some interesting stuff - he's another 'premier' builder, IMO. He's got a new project here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219956
It's... unusual, right? Reminds me of the art for Hotline: Miami or some kind of retro-new wave album.
Work continues on the 'cogwheel chronicles' but one really amazing thing showcased was this 'dissolve fade' work. I mean .. WOW. It's something - definitely click the link and check it out!
In My Own Works
I've been furiously writing for lost time, to get ahead of the curve on my book's publication. I have a lot of really good stuff, I think though could probably use a proofreader or two soon. If you are interested in assisting, contact me via the form on the right or leave a comment below!
