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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

This Week in Game-Guru - 1/10/2018

I'll admit that I'm being a bit lazy again with this stuff but the fact is I get maybe 50 hits on a good day to this blog and that's being generous so I don't feel an overwhelming pressure to put these things out on time.  You get them, plainly, at my leisure, which is fairly inconsistently available at this point.  That said, the community is fairly quiet as of current.


ENGINE UPDATE PROGRESS REPORT


I got an update from Lee on a question I asked, basically asking me to wait and that an update may *knock on wood* be scheduled for later this month.  That is literally all I have at the moment.



NEW PRODUCTS IN THE STORE







Not a lot going on here.  Corrosion appears to be putting a bunch of scripts up which have good utility.  You can find his store here:

https://www.tgcstore.net/artist/221852

FREE STUFF


Graphix did an 'elf girl' for download (NON COMMERCIAL ONLY). https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/217932?page=6#msg2593436

No new scripts that I saw, anyways.

THIRD PARTY TOOLS


Nothing really new here but there was an excellent infodump by Preben on his shader/GG Loader thread here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/215236?page=4#msg2588372  .. he did recently add PBR support which is fairly impressive given it's capabilities.  Preben continues to amaze the rest of us.

RANDOM ACTS OF CREATIVITY


Not a thing.  Pretty quiet all around. As usual, updates generally cause a big uptick in activity, a flurry of new posts then it goes silent again for a bit.

IN MY OWN WORKS

It's like 'in my own words' but it's talking about my works so it's very clever, right? RIGHT?  SO CLEVER!  *Pats self on back*.
 
So I'm adding this section to keep people apprised of what's going on with my own stuff.  I have two new code kits coming, both are pretty nifty stuff but they will take some time to create.   They both will have fairly reasonably large impacts on two different game genres so it should be interesting to see who will purchase them.  I don't want to give away too much before it's ready.  Bottom line is simply keep your eyes peeled in this space for more details later as we approach a point where I can release the code on the store.

2 comments:

gaby said...

Hey mike, your blog has been super helpful. Thanks for the content you are providing on a weekly basis. It really helps me find interesting game guru content that i had not heard of. Also i am very new to game guru and i want to learn to make new weapons for the player. Is there a tutorial you can point me to or something?

Mike aka Bolt-Action Gaming said...

I'm glad you find it helpful. It's good to hear that once in a while when I'm curating this stuff as it takes a lot of time and energy to maintain this blog.

With respect to making weapons, specifically new weapons there are some decent forum posts from the past few years on the subject:
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218425
Which has this very detailed video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sNJWvdmj8

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218131 has some interesting info about using EAI's weapons as a backbone.

There's also the 'weapon welder' which can be helpful as a third party program for using/making weapons: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218123#msg2580033

Hopefully these will help you out.
Thanks for reading!