New article on TBGL website - TRA

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi!,

I was not able to do anything for psch.thinbasic.com for 2 months. Now the psychic block is hopefully over :) and you can check out new article!

First - my apologies it is not the long promised bone tutorial. I decided to wait till Mike will come with his poser, as I am sure it will be great.

So what is new article about ? As my new PC can crunch new games, I chose Tomb Raider: Anniversary for little analysis. From demo I like the game very much. In article you will see how developers would do some effects if they would use thinBASIC :).

Hope you will like it, check it out >>> HERE (http://psch.thinbasic.com/articles_gamingfx_TombRaiderAnniversary.html) <<<.

You can also download sources there, one of them has quite strong binding to TopDown... ;)


Thanks,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

Thanks a lot for this new article and for the fantastic examples included.
You are the man.

[Petr Schreiber]

:)

thanks a lot Eros!


Bye,
Petr

[Michael Hartlef]

Good article, a very nice read.


I decided to wait till Mike will come with his poser, as I am sure it will be great.

And thanks for putting the pressure on me. Now where do I start. Models, Blender, ThinPose, arggghh

[kryton9]

Petr, absolutely amazing wonderful article and examples.

The power that is in there is amazing, we just need great articles like that to show us what is possible.
Glad you have more planned, looking forward to those and for now have good ones to study thanks again!!

Mike, take your time, you picked a challenge. We all know there is so much to work out with such a beast.
Enjoy the process, this one will take planning and lots of tests to decide which way to go. Take it in small steps.
Let us know if anything we can do too.

[Petr Schreiber]

Mike !,

I knew you will say it :), but please do not feel like that!
I know how unpleasant is to be under pressure, but I did not meant it like "Mike, tommorow post thinPose as I can't go on with article". I am just curious about it, as I can see you do things with perfect precision; do it when you are in mood and release date "when its done" is ok for me. I am really not in hurry ;)

kryton9, thanks !
I am happy you liked it :) I would probably not write the article without render to texture stuff brought to thinBASIC, also from TR there is evident enthusiasm it was created with which is feeling I have just in few cases ( Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Fahrenheit, MDK, ... and last Tomb Raider ). So I did 1+1 and created some text around :)


Thanks,
Petr

[kryton9]

I'm glad you found the inspiration with TR to make these articles. I will enjoy studying them for some time!!

[Petr Schreiber]

Thanks Kent,

there are few more effects in TR I would like to show, but still not sure how they done it / how to do it fast.
In case I will get it I will simply update the article :)

Bye,
Petr

[kryton9]

Sounds good I will be referring to it often as I seem to do the other ones.