this is MY FIRST GAME

These are some nice projects! Nice work on Curver Amr0!
szecs, your LEGO® Technic™ models have always fascinated me. Have you ever considered working at LEGO®?

Let’s keep it coming!


L. Spiro

Thanks!

Yes I have, though there are some much more talented people than me.

Also I think it's pretty hard to get in (there is hardly any fluctuation...), and I don't think I would move to Denmark. A home office employment would be nice but I doubt they will ever make that. I submitted some projects to Ideas (if a model gets enough support there, Lego considers releasing it as an official set), but they don't get enough support.

Day Job:

Unannounced project at Ubisoft Toronto

Personal Projects:

An audio engine for Unreal (just for the hell of it)
A 3D remake of an old PS1 game, Blast Chamber

@mikeman - Hyperdrive looks nice, I can really see the F-Zero inspiration there.

My dayjob is being an electronic engineering student. By night I mostly maintain a software tool used by a department in the company that sponsors me for analysing measurement data from ultrasonic flowmeters.

Among many features, the one I'm most proud of is the embedded python interpreter which exposes the data processing pipeline of the measurement data. Being able to hot reload scripts (which is a feat for python, apparently) and adjust python variables and have the data update in the UI in realtime really takes algorithm prototyping to a whole new level. This is something MATLAB cannot do.

For this application I wrote an intrusive performance profiler and thought it would be interesting to visualise the profile from "hot" to "cold" using graphviz. It's somewhat useful and pretty, check it out:

Wow! I loved blast chambers, good luck with that!

Yeah it was such a great game! Things are coming together pretty quickly working with Unreal. Network replication is (so far) an absolute breeze, and the animation system is a lot of fun to work with.

Got a couple of low-res videos of work in progress...

Blowing up if you don't grab the thing:

Not blowing up if you do grab the thing:

I do find myself getting distracted playing around with all of the material editors :D

drawing prairie grass

Although this screen shot was uploaded at 1920x1080 to show the detail, the site seems to have cut the size to 640x360.

This is from the blog entry on drawing grass. The site only cut it to 1200x675....

Since the images are small, here's a closeup of the work as it was in progress. The grass with flowers uses a smaller version of the standard grass texture on an "atlas" with a flower image. Shrinking it made it less see-through, and thus darker. I think it may have blended a bit of the black background into the edges too. Lightening it and a non-aa background floodfill got rid of the dark edges and brought it more in line with the shade of the rest of the grass. Frequency distribution of the different plants types had not been done yet either, so you see a lot of Queen Anne's Lace. At this point the small wildflowers were also too high up on the grass meshes. All the upper ones were later moved down. All this is done with low resolution meshes and textures (<100 verts, 256x256), and no instancing. Only the ground texture is high resolution (1024x1024). Once the grass with flowers was lightened up and thinned out a bit, their quads became unnoticeable, just like the regular grass.