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| Name: | Phil Carlisle |  |
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| Date Posted: | Sep 04, 2007 | |
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Blog post
Wow, is it that time again?
Yes, summers almost over, end of this month its back to work for me (bah). So I thought I'd do a quick update.
FBX Importer
Didnt get much time to look at this recently. But I did get the collada stuff from feeling software and had a look at integrating that into the pipeline. Either way, its basically a scene graph based format which has to be munched into TGEA internal format.
Whats weird about these things, is that neither FBX nor Collada seems actually very well documented. I mean, you see people complain about documentation all the time, but both Collada and FBX are supported by huge companies and yet they are still relatively creaky (i.e. undocumented features, formats or methods that work differently than expected). I'm actually kind of surprised how Discreet are saying that Max and Maya are both going to use this format for sharing assets.
Game
We are pretty much desperate to get our game shipped. So huge feature choppage has ensued :) but on the upside, we are stitching together the body parts left over from the great cull reasonbly quickly. Of course this isnt the epic tome we first envisioned. But if we can get a nice polished little game out there, we'll call it even.
Other stuff
Been reading about the amazon web services api. Got some useful stuff in there. Things like the flexible payment system, elastic compute cloud and the S3 file store are pretty damn neat. Of course, there is a downside (always is) and in this case its a pretty nasty one. For the FPS at least, the downside is that you need to have a US registered company!! Now I dont want to scare amazon, but I think someone should tell them that the world does NOT revolve around the USA. I just find it kind of painful that they only thought to innovate the internet for US companies only. Bah!
Why am I interested?
Because the FPS purports to actually support microtransactions. Think about it, microtransaction payments by a well known and trusted online vendor like amazon? Using an easy to program with API? Doesnt that sound like an opportunity? It sure does to me. I've got a product idea in mind for it, but of course its not possible until Amazon decide that the rest of the world isnt just some backwater made to do the cheap grunt work for all the high tech americans. Maybe I'm being a bit cynical there :)
Anyway, a quick update. Next time, pictures of the game!!
Yes, summers almost over, end of this month its back to work for me (bah). So I thought I'd do a quick update.
FBX Importer
Didnt get much time to look at this recently. But I did get the collada stuff from feeling software and had a look at integrating that into the pipeline. Either way, its basically a scene graph based format which has to be munched into TGEA internal format.
Whats weird about these things, is that neither FBX nor Collada seems actually very well documented. I mean, you see people complain about documentation all the time, but both Collada and FBX are supported by huge companies and yet they are still relatively creaky (i.e. undocumented features, formats or methods that work differently than expected). I'm actually kind of surprised how Discreet are saying that Max and Maya are both going to use this format for sharing assets.
Game
We are pretty much desperate to get our game shipped. So huge feature choppage has ensued :) but on the upside, we are stitching together the body parts left over from the great cull reasonbly quickly. Of course this isnt the epic tome we first envisioned. But if we can get a nice polished little game out there, we'll call it even.
Other stuff
Been reading about the amazon web services api. Got some useful stuff in there. Things like the flexible payment system, elastic compute cloud and the S3 file store are pretty damn neat. Of course, there is a downside (always is) and in this case its a pretty nasty one. For the FPS at least, the downside is that you need to have a US registered company!! Now I dont want to scare amazon, but I think someone should tell them that the world does NOT revolve around the USA. I just find it kind of painful that they only thought to innovate the internet for US companies only. Bah!
Why am I interested?
Because the FPS purports to actually support microtransactions. Think about it, microtransaction payments by a well known and trusted online vendor like amazon? Using an easy to program with API? Doesnt that sound like an opportunity? It sure does to me. I've got a product idea in mind for it, but of course its not possible until Amazon decide that the rest of the world isnt just some backwater made to do the cheap grunt work for all the high tech americans. Maybe I'm being a bit cynical there :)
Anyway, a quick update. Next time, pictures of the game!!
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| List: | 12/05/07 - The importance of good tools for productivity 11/17/07 - Using the way back machine. 09/21/07 - Juggling cats. 09/04/07 - End of Summer. 08/27/07 - Come work with me!! 08/14/07 - The changing nature of entertainment 07/25/07 - Someone stole my notes!! 07/16/07 - Art pipeline and other things. |
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Submit your own resources!| Vashner (Sep 05, 2007 at 00:45 GMT) |
but it's that when they are based here all the US law codes apply.
Amazon's founder is well known tightwad. He said it himself on TV interview his office desk is from like second hand plywood.
| James Brad Barnette (Sep 05, 2007 at 01:49 GMT) |
Besides like $200 and you can open a Corperation in LasVegas Nevada. You don't even have to actually have the company there. There are are almost no cost when incorperating in NV. I live in the US and I'm incorperated in NV. For not much per yeah you can get a service that will give you a mailing address and an answering serviece. They will forward you your mail and everything. Besides Taxas are pretty high in the UK why would you want to have your self incorperated in another country and keep your cash somewhere else.
Having your company in the USA is not a bad thing if you think it through.
But yeah the amazon thing is awesome.
Edited on Sep 05, 2007 01:49 GMT
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