Although there were a couple of really good games last year: Dragon Age, Assassins Creed 2, Resident Evil 5, Batman Arkham Asylum….Uncharted 2 is just so…awesome.  It looks good, has great voice acting, and plays out like a movie.   Hell, they could turn the game into a real movie and it would be very good.

If you have a PS3 and some time, you should check it out.

On the work front, I’m still neck deep into fixing terrain objects to conform with new code.  Still working on vehicle cockpits that are having alpha sorting issues due to new code.  Man, there is still a lot to do.  I finally have a partner to help push the infantry (3rd person) revisit.  It’s still going slow, but at least people are giving it a bit more thought now.  If you think it’s a good idea, keep your fingers crossed, maybe we will get it done eventually.
Jeremy and I still debate over the merits of ZBrush or Mudbox.  We are in opposite camps over here, but we do agree that either one is still just a tool and can be used to achieve our ultimate goals.  Mudboz rulz!

Hey all.  Happy New Year and all that cool stuff.

Christmas was good, my wife bought me a new guitar and I bought myself a new amp.  Sweet.  I’ve been doodling every day for at least 30 minutes on my new Wacom, and coming up with some lame scribbles.  Maybe I will start posting them here on a weekly basis.

At work we are going through a new terrain build log that gets generated when we…build terrain (heh) and trying to fix nagging issues with place modes, LODs, and other such nonsense.  Oodles of fun.  I’ve been trying to bully Gophur into hooking me and Dekard up with some new dev PCs…thats not turning out so well.  Maybe I will hold his iPhone hostage to get what I want.

Wow..busy week.  Last night me and my wife went to her Christmas Party; free food, free drinks, live band, and got to watch Wade Phillips line dance.  That’s win right there.  Also got a peak at Romo’s new girlfriend who, yes you guessed it, is blonde.

Today I’m checking the AT Gun Pit back into the project hoping I have seen the last of that thing.  The lunch crew tried out a new Mongolian Grill called Batar’s and it will make the list.  That’s two new places in a little over a week’s time.  We recently added MK Sushi Bar to the list as well.  Everyone eager to see what the people say about the public release of the 1.30 offline client.  Lot’s of stuff still to do to get it ready for official release in the live game but it’s promising.

In the wake of all this, I might not remember to post here before the 25th, so I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.  I hope Santa leaves you what you want, or if not, just go buy it yourself.  That’s what I do.

Well the “rest of the week off” thing turned out to be….well….not true.  Everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off today.
It looks like the atgunpit1 is going to need a little more work.  It amazes me how a “dress up” of an existing art asset can turn into a complete redesign over night.  I’m not complaining too much, at least I still have a job in these tough times.

On a personal note, I got my PC back up and running with Windows 7, my new Wacom tablet, and the UDK.  I’m am now ready to dive right in after next Weds.  The Wacom was giving me fits with it’s darn zoom bar.  I was constantly dragging my arm across it and causing the current document/psd to wig out.  I finally disabled it and things are rosie again.

So Gophur tells me and Jeremy, as soon as we finish the urbans, we can take the rest of the week off.  I wonder if he will stick by it.

I got my 64bit version of Windows 7 installed on my home box (thanks Gophur), I got my new Wacom hooked up, all of my programs re-installed now I’m ready for my Christmas time off to dive into some Unreal Dev Kit stuff.   I’ll probably spend the time finishing Dragon Age for the second play-through, or drawing funny faces in Photoshop.