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Rules for Beetle and other Old Games

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Years ago I was asked for a set of rules for the game Beetle and the other day I got an email asking if I still had them.  So tonight I’ve posted them into my games section along with the rules for Dice Poker, Tiddley-Winks Football and Tiddley-Winks which I found sitting around on my […]

Red Wine and Red Ink

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I was going to post about some work I did this afternoon with Vue, light filters, arrays of lights and other good stuff I’ve been working on to restart my series of lighting tutorials for Vue. However a reasonably decent bottle of red wine from M&S put pay to that idea as I got sidetracked […]

Updated Add Material Layer Scripts

Monday, September 28th, 2009

I’ve just uploaded version 0.4 of my python scripts for Vue that add material layers to all the materials in a scene. This release includes a new script which adds a material layer at the top of the list of layers so long as the material doesn’t include any nodes attached to the Transparency output […]

Living Longer to Slag!

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Sent a short article for BTRC’s Slag off to Nick at Ragnarok earlier including three new systems and four ships designed to use them. All of them are built around a theme of creating ships that enhance the survivability of other ships through defence or distracting the enemy.

Create Sexy Characters the M&S Way

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I’ve done an update of an old blog post about describing characters as though their food in an M&S advert and put it up as a page in the impworks site proper to make it easier to find: Sexy, Memorable Characters the Marks & Spencers Way.

25 Years of Elite

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Its 25 years since Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell published by Acornsoft went on sale in September 1984 for the BBC Micro computer. I played it for many hours on the spectrum in my youth. Even though its not an RPG I’ve added it to my Open the Door page – only the […]

Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom – Accepted

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Astonishing Adventures Magazine has accepted my short story Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom for issue 8.  I’ve one minor rewrite to do and I’m going to look at adding back in some of what I cut to get it down to 3000 words since their word limits gone up since I first […]

Fairy Tale Castle

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Another quick test render of the I just finished of The Gothic Castle from Cornucopia 3D’s. Having gone all dark and gloomy last time I’ve gone for the opposite extreme: lightening the materials, a bright atmosphere with a low cloud layer and a hundred low power point lights scattered invisibly round the castle to light […]

Blogging Differently

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

I noticed awhile ago that I was blogging less.  Partly I put it down to frustration with the time it took me to add a page to my web site.  If I couldn’t easily add a page about something I didn’t need to blog about the page.  Partly it was a disatisfaction with the blog […]

The Gothic Castle Test Render

Friday, September 11th, 2009

A quick test render I just finished of The Gothic Castle from Cornucopia 3D’s which I picked up last night. I tweaked the wall material to make it darker and the glass materials to make them illuminated. I also played a bit with the atmosphere for effect. I darkened up the final render using Vue’s […]

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