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  You bet your ass it does!   When moving between applications, each has it’s own unit of measure and frankly 1 has a very different meaning from application to application!  In Wings, a Wings “unit” is completely arbitrary.  So for example if you make a cube 1 by 1 by 1, the “1” means […]

Here you can follow the process of creating a game from the very beginning to the very end. I will be posting to this site as I progress on my game. In a nutshell, that means you can learn as I learn, letting me make the mistakes for you!   What you need to know? […]

  I just finished publishing an introductory tutorial about using Wings 3D.  It covers the basics like navigating the UI, common translations then illustrates many of the features like loop cutting and mirroring, extruding, cutting holes, beveling edges, bridging, etc.  I hope it is a useful introduction to those of you that are new to […]

  The following is a list of most of the available 3D applications, links to their websites, current MSRP and a link to the downloadable version if available.  If I have missed any applications, please email me at [email protected] and I will rectify that.       Autodesk 3ds Max The program most often used […]

I have published up a list of tools used/to be used, both for creating the game and for authoring the website.  In a few cases, tools that are just bloody useful in general are listed.  This is very much a live document, so I will be adding to it as time goes on.  Each program […]

In a recent forum conversation, it was brought to my attention a previous work of mine was now unavailable online.  You see, when XNA was a new technology I started writing a free book on the subject, working with the release candidate.  In the end I wrote 4 chapters, then Microsoft released XNA 1 and […]

  Hmmmm, really need to settle on a name for the bipedal robotic characters that isn’t Mech/Mecha soon just to ease these conversations! Not my most creative day so I’ll just go with GPR now.   Anyways, the GPR is very much fundamental to the game.  One of my favorite things about Autoduel and Mechwarrior […]

  Hmmmm, really need to settle on a name for the bipedal robotic characters that isn’t Mech/Mecha soon just to ease these conversations! Not my most creative day so I’ll just go with GPR now.   Anyways, the GPR is very much fundamental to the game.  One of my favorite things about Autoduel and Mechwarrior […]

So, choosing Blender for my art pipeline has some very big upsides, and a couple massive downsides.   Amongst the biggest downsides is that Blender is in the midst of a very long move from 2.4x to 2.5x, which means you are effectively using beta software in production.  Frankly, the 2.5x branch is probably as […]

While working on an upcoming beginners guide to Wings, I put some thought into something I had never really thought about before…  what the heck was the “Crease” command for?  Functionally it seemed identical to extruding an edge along its normal.  After some messing around though, I figured out the very small but somewhat important […]