Jay Barnson's Forum Posts
| Thread | Post | Date Posted |
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| Utah Area Indie Night - Wed. Jan 18, 2006 | I will be there, as usual, Greg! Thanks for keeping this one running. I've been looking forward ... read more | 01/06/2006 (8:49 pm) |
| Which engine would you use for FPS? | Personally, for an FPS game I'd go with TGE / TSE so I could leave the door open for a for-profit ga... read more | 01/05/2006 (10:45 pm) |
| What does the game industry have against innovation? | Hey, even 20 years ago... heck, let's say THIRTY years ago... innovation was mostly technological ra... read more | 01/05/2006 (11:13 am) |
| What does the game industry have against innovation? | The trick with innovation is that people usually don't like to be pushed too far out of their comfor... read more | 01/05/2006 (7:31 am) |
| What does the game industry have against innovation? | My comments on this: [url=http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/2005/12/cage-match-innovation-vs-conte... read more | 01/04/2006 (7:48 pm) |
| TSE main benefits? | MoM is TGE 1.3, I think. Modified and customized, obviously, but it shows what's possible.... read more | 01/04/2006 (7:44 pm) |
| Torque 1.4 Missing Terrain Tile | Awesome, thanks muchly! I didn't know how this hole started. As soon as I modified the terrain, t... read more | 01/04/2006 (8:03 am) |
| Cubix Studio 1st - Female Content Pack | I'm downloading my copy right now. Outstanding value. Can't say I'm thrilled with the .RAR format... read more | 01/03/2006 (7:22 pm) |
| Script vs Programming | Wherever possible I try and do things in Torquescript instead of C++. It's easier to change and expe... read more | 12/30/2005 (9:48 am) |
| ... | SWEET. Python 2.4 + Blender 2.4!... read more | 12/29/2005 (1:23 pm) |
| Tiridinaut weapons pack now 10 | Order went through just fine - took about 1/2 hour. The pack is downloaded. Thanks for the sale, Ne... read more | 12/29/2005 (1:22 pm) |
| Pathfinding libraries | A* isn't particularly complicated - that's code that can be whipped out pretty quickly --- arguably ... read more | 12/29/2005 (11:50 am) |
| ... | Does the exporter even work with Python 2.4? I had to set 2.3x as the default, because I didn't feel... read more | 12/29/2005 (11:08 am) |
| Dissapearing Client Updates | Thanks, Stephen. I have that from a cut & paste I did with another resource, but I've completely mod... read more | 12/29/2005 (10:44 am) |
| Tiridinaut weapons pack now 10 | I just snagged the medieval weapons pack. My order is being "reviewed for quality." I'm still thinki... read more | 12/29/2005 (10:24 am) |
| Protecting my game idea | [url=http://experimentalgameplay.com/]Experimental Gameplay - some apparently new ideas[/url] [qu... read more | 12/29/2005 (9:44 am) |
| Protecting my game idea | This question comes up about once every month or two. There is one established method for protect... read more | 12/28/2005 (8:01 pm) |
| Dissapearing Client Updates | Okay, I got the chance to test one of the theories - it IS the camera. I have the client cam updatin... read more | 12/28/2005 (7:44 pm) |
| Non programmmers template | There's the Real Time Strategy Starter Kit for Torque. However, any sort of customization (or act... read more | 12/28/2005 (9:22 am) |
| A New Year dawns | What am I looking forward to most? * Torque Constructor * The Torque Lighting Kit for 1.4 * Shi... read more | 12/28/2005 (9:19 am) |
| Detail Levels? | Problem solved using "Detail1". The object was just too small to appear, apparently. I am much wiser... read more | 12/27/2005 (10:14 pm) |
| Detail Levels? | Hah. I was wondering what the numbers meant with "DetailX" - I never got a straight answer. I'll try... read more | 12/27/2005 (5:25 pm) |
| Detail Levels? | I haven't checked it in Show Tool. The .blend file can be located here: http://www.rampantgames.... read more | 12/27/2005 (10:42 am) |
| Detail Levels? | Hmmm... I made the change to code but I'm still not seeing the things. I'll dig deeper though. Thank... read more | 12/25/2005 (10:46 pm) |
| Feeling despaired - please comment | Steve: What would it take for YOU to drop what you are doing and work on someone else's project? ... read more | 12/21/2005 (10:46 pm) |
| XBox Live Arcade Developer | Avery - you are absolutely wrong (from what I can tell) by saying it looks like a "Good place to get... read more | 12/20/2005 (10:33 pm) |
| Blender and collision box + blender | What you COULD do is model the pendulum as a separate object, and then rotate it with code. That way... read more | 12/19/2005 (12:35 pm) |
| King Kong is the... insert explative filled exclamation | This comic (warning, somewhat offensive punchline) is just TOO appropriate here: [url]http://www.... read more | 12/16/2005 (11:24 am) |
| Minions of Mirth - Now Available on Windows and OSX | Note: It's not clear on the website whether or not the game is a download or CD-ROM. Or is ei... read more | 12/14/2005 (3:30 pm) |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | I saw it last night. Loved it. Its only flaw was probably that it stuck TOO closely to the book - so... read more | 12/10/2005 (12:56 pm) |
| Live in Utah? You really need to see this. | I have nothing good to say about Comcast right now. We DID go with them at one point, in our old ... read more | 12/02/2005 (11:39 am) |
| Live in Utah? You really need to see this. | I'm in Riverton --- it was a nightmare just getting DSL to our new house. But Utah is trying to... read more | 12/02/2005 (10:14 am) |
| Fantasy Theme Pack | Well, I'm not currently working on a fantasy themed game. If I was, I'd strongly consider this ONLY ... read more | 11/28/2005 (1:16 pm) |
| Feedback on the Torque 1.4 Getting Started tutorial | Okay - I had a chance to play with things a little bit over the weekend. Here's my feedback. Firs... read more | 11/28/2005 (8:52 am) |
| Working on research paper: answer a few quick questions? | 1. Jay Barnson 2. 36 years old, SLC Utah 3. Yes. Nine have completed, shipped, and sold. I als... read more | 11/28/2005 (8:41 am) |
| What new features TGE 1.4 will provide? | Main thing that I'm seeing so far: * Multi-lingual support (YAY!!!! I'm getting half my sales fro... read more | 11/28/2005 (8:14 am) |
| Some "Official Clarification" on 1.4 info... | [quote]How will this be handled on the forums? A guy posting code from 1.7, allowing people from 1.5... read more | 11/25/2005 (5:14 pm) |
| My team has hit a plateau, how to get past it? | Oh, boy. I've talked about this one before in previous blogs. You are hitting pretty much the cla... read more | 11/25/2005 (12:20 pm) |
| Tlk 1.4 | Yeah, me too. I want to upgrade my game to 1.4 ASAP (better sooner than later), but I depend upon th... read more | 11/23/2005 (4:07 pm) |
| No, i'm not dead [Maintainer | Is the update still progressing, or has James been consumed by Constructor?... read more | 11/22/2005 (10:52 pm) |
| State of Texas vs. Sony (cd trojan lawsuit) | I fear for this opening up a whole bunch of lawsuits for far less deserving companies (does your ind... read more | 11/22/2005 (2:32 pm) |
| A touchy subject I encountered | @Ben: Nope, we learned you just don't argue with the magazines. Well, usually. There's ways of doin... read more | 11/21/2005 (10:22 pm) |
| Iotd - Help | Hmmm.... maybe you shoulda waited until you had a second disc already available for a charge - but h... read more | 11/21/2005 (8:39 am) |
| A touchy subject I encountered | Especially with finished products - you are going to have to learn to take some really extreme criti... read more | 11/21/2005 (8:22 am) |
| Word-wrap in GuiMLTextCtrl? | AH, got it working, thanks for talking me through it. I had the client (child) area set too large... read more | 11/18/2005 (11:57 pm) |
| Low FPS when camera moves | Is this fer sher the framerate? It can APPEAR crappy if the motion of the camera isn't properly inte... read more | 11/18/2005 (1:41 pm) |
| Word-wrap in GuiMLTextCtrl? | It's a grandchild of a GUIScrollCtrl and the direct child of a GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl (to provide a n... read more | 11/18/2005 (1:38 pm) |
| Word-wrap in GuiMLTextCtrl? | Hmmm.... didn't work for me. I tried using setText() with a string that was too long for the cont... read more | 11/18/2005 (11:45 am) |
| Clipping Problem in Torque | There may be some other solutions to the problem, but the best one is to change the collision detect... read more | 11/16/2005 (12:28 pm) |
| Notice anything funky about this? | Just a touch :) Although yours is probably better for a general-purpose content pack. I'm just w... read more | 11/16/2005 (11:08 am) |
