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Geek Culture / TGC Newsletter - Issue 49 (February)

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 23:21
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Hi all,



Issue 49 of the TGC Newsletter was just released. This issue contains the FPSC X10 Demo Released (the one NVIDIA are showcasing around the world at the moment), Dark Shader Released, massive Dark GDK updates, a new tutorial series, a great interview with Minionsoft, and more!

Grab it from the usual place:

http://www.thegamecreators.com/?gf=newsletter

Cheers,

Rich

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Peter H
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bye rich
(well sort of anyway, as you're not leaving the forums supposedly)

and nice co-newsletter BatVink!

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Steve J
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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 23:58
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Great Newsletter! Love it!

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 00:58
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Quote: "As many of you know, Rich has moved on from TGC and now works with a man and a dog with a passion for cheese!"


Quick poll.. How many knew?! Am I still living in that cave I grew up in...

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Peter H
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 01:09
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they announced it last newsletter

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Flindiana Jones
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I knew it.

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Michael S
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Good job on the newsletter steve

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Miguel Melo
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Great to see so much of it dedicated to the GDK - Nice one guys!

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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 01:43
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Quote: "Quick poll.. How many knew?! Am I still living in that cave I grew up in..."


Indeed you are, it's old news.


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Great newsletter guys! Just as good as the Rich only ones, so I think Bat will be able to handle his job well! Downloading the X10 video right now. DarkShader sounds really cool, I may buy it and use it to try and teach myself shader scripting and easily see results and all.

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 03:39
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Great newsletter! Good work Steve

The price on DarkShader is MUCH lower than I expected. In fact, I expected it to be double that!

EZrotate! TextureMax! Enhanced Animations! (coming soon....) 3D Character Maker! (coming soon....)
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 04:11
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Yeah Steve did a great job It was a joint issue, various articles in there were mine, some his, and some Ricks - and it all came together nicely. Next issue is the big 5-0 and there are some great things planned!

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Great newsletter. Just one typo that I spotted (FSPC 0_o) Glad to see the tutorials getting more lower level for newer programmers

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Nice newsletter!

Am I being thick or shoud 'Never Loose Your Keys Again' really be 'Never Lose Your Keys Again'

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Also on that note, why do I have lots of keys with no product label over them? Do they go with the one listed above it?

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We want dbprox10 on action lol


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Nicholas Thompson
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Quote: "why do I have lots of keys with no product label over them"

Same here... I have 1 labelled eXtends, then 3 others with no label - only 1 of them matches the key I have noted down for DBP...

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Nice newsletter guys

I also found out my application got mentioned

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Big Man
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only problem I had with the newsletter was it felt a little empty however what was included was brilliant, a very good read

BM

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2007 11:56
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Sure keys for things like trial versions of DBPro or Advanced Terrain etc will appear too. And some people do just have more than one key for some plugins.

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Hi Richard! Another Fine Issue of the newsletter! (I'm sorry to hear you leave!..... but well done on the new job!)

I've sent you an email about Dark Shader.
For the Christmas card competition i asked for Dark AI and Dark Shader. (Dont mean to be rude.... im just reminding you thats all!)

Thank you very much for your help.

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David R
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Just wondering, is it actually possible to use shaders produced with DS outside of DBP - as in, with another 3d engine or whatever? (assuming it supports HLSL)

Or is it deliberately restrictive toward DBP? Since I have no knowledge about shaders what-so-ever, so I reckon DS would be a good intro to the world of shaders, coupled with my current (non-DBP/GDK) project.

Possible without DBP/GDK?


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Jess T
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I'm not on top of the whole DBP shader scene, but I know a little. Like how certain "normal" shaders wont run in DBP because of certain things that DBP expects.

So, I would assume that if you make a shader in DS, then you could export it and it would be 100% HLSL with those certain things that are forcibly included to make it compatible with DBPs needs.

At any rate, if you're going to use it to just make Shaders in general, you're probably better off nabbing ATI's, or NVidea's Shader Tools.

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Wow this thread's almost a month old.
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i hope that was a joke

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Yeah it was. Look at the date... Thanks for ruining it.
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sorry, hard to tell with your sarcasm... it's so... stealthy

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How is that?
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Peter H
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if you want to know the truth i thought you were a n00b who'd assumed sarcasm stealth squad/(whatever you want to call him)'s identity and just posted a really n00bish statement.

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He was. Its Drew G.

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oh...

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What? I'm not Drew G. I'm... Dang, you got me.
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