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Geek Culture / Newsletter Issue 66

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RickV
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 13:51 Edited at: 1st Jul 2008 13:51
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Hi,

Issue 66 has been released;

http://www.thegamecreators.com/data/newsletter/newsletter_issue_66.html

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MSon
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 13:57 Edited at: 1st Jul 2008 14:07
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looks good ill have a read this week, the new commands are a good idea, looks like you got a fair few useful ones listed.

Edit: Sorry but will make memblock From Array and via versa be compatable with UDT's? if so then it could be very useful for an easy load/save

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Silvester
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 14:09
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Wait, is that realmcrafter 1 or 2? If its 2, Very dissapointing... It looks like it works in the same crappy way as 1 did.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 14:53
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Quote: "Soft Bodies

This new technique is so fresh it hasn't been used in mainstream games "


Really?

Isn't that what Little Big Planet uses?



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Zotoaster
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 15:12
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Everytime I read a new TGC Newsletter I feel more and more proud to be part of this community!

Don't you just hate that Zotoaster guy?
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BatVink
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 15:52 Edited at: 1st Jul 2008 15:58
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Quote: "Isn't that what Little Big Planet uses?"


Not sure. I see lots of cloth and heavily-jointed stuff put to good effect, but I'm not sure I saw any soft bodies. Irrespective of that, it's one of teh coolest game videos I've ever seen!

That quote is from NVIDIA by the way, not TGC.

[EDIT] Found another video where the narrator tells us it's cloth that is used to make rocks etc. It's a fantastic video all round...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvhPSZKnLI&NR=1

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 18:17
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Where did biggadd's tutorial go?!

I was highly anticipating that!!!

Favorite Quote: Dramatized code? Code Drama!

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 19:10
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I'm sorry! I was unable to get one out on time. Completely my fault.
I shall try get something extra special done for next months.
I do apologize!

But another great newsletter again Mr. BatVink. Good show!

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monotonic
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Posted: 1st Jul 2008 19:26
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Little Big Planet looks like great fun.


Good work on the newsletter guys.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2008 01:26
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Quote: "the narrator tells us it's cloth that is used to make rocks"


I watched the video: The narrator refers to the blocks as cloth blocks but I think that is in reference to the real world analogy rather than the game physics.
I'm pretty sure that they are soft bodied physics objects. So, I presume that Nvidia wrote that quote before Little Big Planet was made public.



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Van B
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2008 11:11
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Ditto BiggAdd, seems to have been a bad month for a lot of people :/.

Little Big World may well be the game that makes me buy a PS3, looks like enormous fun.


less is more, but if less is more how you keeping score?
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BatVink
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2008 15:26
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Quote: "The narrator refers to the blocks as cloth blocks but I think that is in reference to the real world analogy rather than the game physics"


It would make sense. Otherwise they would need some kind of frame to support the cloth. It bounces back, whereas even stiff cloth would retain it's new shape, and soft cloth would collapse.

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Veron
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2008 06:53
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Just got a chance to read this, it's another great and well-polished issue.

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KeithC
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2008 17:41
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Nice work Steve.

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Peter H
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Posted: 8th Jul 2008 00:48 Edited at: 8th Jul 2008 00:48
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sweet, i'm downloading fps creator now, while i'm listening to music on rhapsody that i wouldn't be able to listen to otherwise (legally, and that's the way i do music).

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lazerus
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Posted: 8th Jul 2008 18:18
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i climed mt snowdon about a year ago lol i was 14 ^_^

really fun, the weather let me down though rain in wales who would have guessed lol


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Master Xilo
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Posted: 28th Jul 2008 00:34
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Quote: "get dx version$"


Sad that you can't use this program for something like:
"Sorry, your dx version is 8.0 and you need 9.Xy. You'll be forwarded to a website with download."
Because DB already gives the dx error message itself before even starting and shuts down.

That command is quite useless (I think).


But the newsletter is as good as usual.

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