BLOG REMOVED
by Ron Kapaun · 04/11/2012 (5:35 pm) · 25 comments
THIS BLOG IS REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR. THANK YOU FOR VIEWING, SHARING AND DEBATING GAMES AND GAME DEVELOPMENT FOR NEARLY A DECADE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT OVER THE YEARS. I SEND YOU ALL A MESSAGE OF HOPE THAT EVERYTHING YOU WISH TO ACCOMPLISH WILL COME TO PASS. I TRULY DO. GOOD LUCK, GOD SPEED AND MAY THE BUGS BE EASY TO HUNT, TRACK AND ELIMINATE. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST OF LUCK. MAY ALL OF YOU ENJOY SUCCESS AND TRULY ENJOY GAME DEVELOPMENT FOR AS LONG AND AS FAR AS YOUR DREAMS, HOPES AND SKILLS CAN CARRY YOU.
RON
RON
About the author
Guy that has been with Torque Game Engines since... well, since here was a Torque Game Engine. (V12 and beyond).
#2
04/11/2012 (7:06 pm)
Wonderful, i have the Conifer Forest Pack and i will get the Tropical very soon. Awesome work!
#3
04/11/2012 (7:32 pm)
Nice video and pack!
#5
04/12/2012 (2:27 am)
so beautiful as always, congrats !
#6
04/12/2012 (4:26 am)
nice work Ron.
#7
@Ron: Great work! Keep it up!
04/12/2012 (4:47 am)
@David: Ack! All the thumbnails are missing the drop shadow. :P@Ron: Great work! Keep it up!
#8
04/12/2012 (6:35 am)
Thanks for another great pack, Ron. I'm working on my tan as we speak!
#9
04/12/2012 (3:47 pm)
Absolutely stunning. Your video has an Avatar feel to it. I must say this looks like some amazing work.
#10
04/13/2012 (5:30 am)
Splendid - Gorgeous - Grand - Superb!
#11
@Maria. Good luck with kickstarter, I have been following your progress for awhile now.
@Chris Good luck and thanks
@Surge thank you, however I was not even thinking of Avatar...though it does give me some ideas :-)
@Steve Your project is looking great! Been following you forever as well. We need to collaborate sometime.
@Dan Thanks man, you have posted many times on my stuff and I really do appreciate it.
Jean-louis Thanks glad I could help. Hope you find it all useful.
@D Fasel - Congrats on your release as well. I will keep an eye on you.
@Mike - thank you for your support as well.
thank you all. I promise the next pack will be the same quality and even larger. I hope you all find something useful in these and I will continue to try to support everyone at garage games, your all brothers and sisters to me!
04/14/2012 (4:44 pm)
@all! Thanks for the support. There is more to come. @Maria. Good luck with kickstarter, I have been following your progress for awhile now.
@Chris Good luck and thanks
@Surge thank you, however I was not even thinking of Avatar...though it does give me some ideas :-)
@Steve Your project is looking great! Been following you forever as well. We need to collaborate sometime.
@Dan Thanks man, you have posted many times on my stuff and I really do appreciate it.
Jean-louis Thanks glad I could help. Hope you find it all useful.
@D Fasel - Congrats on your release as well. I will keep an eye on you.
@Mike - thank you for your support as well.
thank you all. I promise the next pack will be the same quality and even larger. I hope you all find something useful in these and I will continue to try to support everyone at garage games, your all brothers and sisters to me!
#12
04/15/2012 (2:22 pm)
I don't really like to mention such things in an open blog, Ron, but I wanted to mention that a couple of meshes are looking for wrong materials. I did a clean install (full with no PhysX) and simply placed your assets into the directory. Almost all meshes had to have their mats reapplied, and a couple only seem to be rendering the collision/bounds. I'm assuming that this is something I'm doing, or failing to do, but wanted to mention it anyway. The models are top notch, though (as usual). One other question I have concerns the lack of skyboxes. I seem to recall reading that this pack comes with 4 skycubes, yet the folder is empty. What gives?
#13
04/15/2012 (3:02 pm)
@Dan Let me take a look at the directories. It is possible that I missed something. I haven't had any other mention of them missing though. I will get back with you shortly on this.
#14
I believe there are actually 9 total skyboxes in there. Let me know if you can't find them.
04/15/2012 (3:07 pm)
@Dan Check under TropicalRainforest Source/game/art/shapes/Torque_Sourcefiles/game/art/skies.I believe there are actually 9 total skyboxes in there. Let me know if you can't find them.
#15
04/16/2012 (3:44 pm)
How embarrassing! Thanks Ron. My materials issue is probably due to something like this as well. I'll reinstall it properly this time.
#16
04/22/2012 (4:21 pm)
And bought. Dirt road alone was worth it.
#17
@Dan No issue, as long as you are happy with your purchase then I am a happy developer :-)
04/22/2012 (5:30 pm)
@William Well, if you get absolutely anything out of the packs I offer. I am happy. There will be more 'paths' and such in my next pack as well. Thanks for the support.@Dan No issue, as long as you are happy with your purchase then I am a happy developer :-)
#18
04/22/2012 (8:52 pm)
Happy? I'd prefer everything to be free! But my unhappiness is minimal. Certainly my island looks a lot better now that it has palm trees. I also made a boulder a coconut. I can't believe we didn't get coconuts! :D
#19
05/05/2012 (10:06 pm)
Hmmm, I can not believe I did not create a coconut! My bad Dan! That would be a big "DUH!!!" look for it in an update soon. 
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