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What Everybody Ought to Know About Modding Battlefield 3

requiem2d — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:30:32 +0000

Many of you have probably seen the Battlefield 3 Screenshots floating around the net and they definitely look up to par with today’s technology. A lot more freedom is made available through increased use of indoor environments as well as destructible assets. With what seems to be the theme title, Battlefield: Bad Company or [...]

Video Tutorial - Speed Texturing #7

requiem2d — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:59:09 +0000

Here’s another entry for the ongoing competition. This time I decided to step it up to 1024×1024 given the size of the model. Let’s get straight to the action:

Video Tutorial - Speed Texturing #6

requiem2d — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:34:37 +0000

Once again, Game-Artist.Net is having a Speed Texturing competition, total of 90 minutes. Mesh & UV come prepared so it’s very easy to follow. Check it out here: Game-Artist.Net - Speed Texturing Competition #6

Crysis: The Frozen Release

requiem2d — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:52:29 +0000

9% of the respondents to my Crysis SurveyGizmo were under the impression that the game will not work on a Windows XP system, another 41% thought it was released too early. But the worst has yet to come: it ranked 4th out of 5 for the best of 2007 question, barely beating Enemy Territory: Quake [...]

Confessions of a Texture Artist

requiem2d — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:35:04 +0000

Amateur Texture Artist to be exact. Everybody has to let go of their best kept secrets at one point in their life, mine was literally learning how to texture in under a year. With few artists on Project Reality my break-through if you want to call it that came with Owen Demers “Digital Texturing and [...]

Mod Startup! I. Evaluating your Ideas

requiem2d — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:09:16 +0000

Your mod will fail, well the statistics dictate this anyway. 84% of Mods registered at Moddb.com for Half-Life 2 haven’t released yet. You can’t exactly say that the game is new on the market and that the best times are still to come. If you’re however a dedicated Modder and have really thought this over, [...]

Crysis: The Lowdown.

requiem2d — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:41:03 +0000

Is Crysis going to be the next big engine to mod? There are many ways to answer that question, but one thing is certain and can be seen on the chart below. Whilst the release hype faded in December, the modding curiosity is on the upmarch. Experienced Far Cry modders, amateurs from other engines and [...]

Getting the Best Out of Your Team

requiem2d — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:02:48 +0000

So you’ve recruited a couple of people online, have a design plan and set up a forum, now what? You want to put them to work right? After all, you may be creating this content-heavy mod which will require years of production. Playing Napoleon may work with highly-paid employees, but with the fellow recruits you’ve [...]

5 Ways to Dominate Recruitment!

requiem2d — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:36:30 +0000

Do you have a great idea but no team? Do you envision this great idea yet fail to find the manpower to translate into a game? When starting out a Mod, it is often very difficult to get a production team together for every process involved, especially if you’re planning anything remotely close to a [...]