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[marshmonkey]

working on a new kart to fit the whole space theme, it's inspired by this toy:



I've got it modeled and UV mapped with a starter ambient occlusion base texture. Will do the fun part and texture it next.



here is what the UV map looks like

[Corpus]

I don't see unlockables as being necessary or even all that appropriate in a multiplayer game such as this.

COD4 is really all about the grinding - especially on the consoles - thanks to the unlockables, challenges and prestige system.

[Akhel]

I don't see unlockables as being necessary or even all that appropriate in a multiplayer game such as this.

COD4 is really all about the grinding - especially on the consoles - thanks to the unlockables, challenges and prestige system.

Agreed. Same goes for stats and achievements.

Other than that, though, looking as great as ever.

[marshmonkey]

finished texturing it tonight, here are some shots from the engine:



and here is the flat texture



since there are no exhaust tubes to animate or anything, I am going to make the antennas wiggle around as an idle animation

[cyber95]

Is it wrong that I want to sex this game?
I have never felt such feelings from a racing game before today.us

[marshmonkey]

if it is wrong, then I don't want you to be right.

[Hideous]

I suggest a tiny steam locomotive as a vehicle.

[atomic1fire]

I think it would be cool for carts to have special features that effect gameplay
That way it encourages people to have certain road stratigys
like stay away/avoid/slam into

[Bree]

Unicycles, anyone?

[Hideous]

I suggest a contest, where you make a hat for this game, and the winner gets his hat packaged with the game

[marshmonkey]

I hope do do that kind of contest with hats,karts,tracks and everything once we get our modeling SDK in place. I have been making sure to post my game progress in places like polycount just for that reason!

[cyber95]

Can you use models from Lightwave, or does it have be specifically from a certain program?

[marshmonkey]

you will be able to use any 3d package that has a .mesh exporter to Ogre3d's .mesh format. Most popular ones are supported.

[marshmonkey]

just finished modeling and texturing a new character, now comes the terribly fun part of rigging him to a (lol) skeleton

[Zaphos]

Nice skeleton

now comes the terribly fun part of rigging him to a (lol) skeleton

Do you do this by manually painting blend weights on the mesh?  ... or do you have a better way?

[marshmonkey]

I mostly paint them on. I usually block in separate pieces of the mesh to different bones and then tweak it as necessary. I used to be terrible at it but I am starting to get the hang of it I think.

[marshmonkey]

we had our first full test over the internet last night, it was a bit of a whirlwind trying to get everyone set up and working but it went pretty well. Here is a blog post Brian wrote about it:

http://nimblebit.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-big-internet-test-grand-ole-party.html

as you can read in the post, we are looking for some kind of dedicated server to rent with decent bandwidth so we can test with more that a few people, if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to shoot me a PM.

Also, we were using our Zero Gear Steam group to co-ordinate during the test, even if we aren't on steam YET, anyone is free to join our group to show your support of getting us on Steam eventually! http://steamcommunity.com/groups/zerogear

Also, I did a new accessory and hat this week!

[Akhel]

Haha, fez! Awesome.

Joined the Steam group, too. Go NimbleBit!

[marshmonkey]

spent today setting up some forums for the game, hopefully it will help us form a tighter community around the game as we get further along with development!

http://myzerogear.com/phpBB3/index.php

[Hideous]

Is there a black character? lolracism