55 frames ... 48 people

Woooooooooooooooooooow, NPC madness continues! Today Rowen has been incrementing on the NPC script slowly but surely and after many iterations, a revision to the path generation and our new shiny animation level of detail we have a now fully populated world! Thats 7 more NPC's than we wanted max not including mission NPC's and still have frames to play with... Sweet


Eleeso - surveying his targets

I have just been reliably informed this now includes animation Levels of Detail ... Sweet ^_^

Ive been trying to put together a very special video to highlight the epicness but have been having issues with sound so maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow were also going to be compiling our art assets to send off for Protoplay so kind of scary as its our first(ish) milestone.

Phew yeah so continued making 2D assets today, found out the technical term for those little flags you get is called bunting. .. cos knowing is half the battle (Especially when using google) and some awesome signs for our new denizens. Ross made an epic return today and had made some really good renovations to the island after his weekend experience with Crackdown and learnt a few lessons about making space more populated with what we've got. Its looking really good now and makes life a bit easier so bonus all round.

Texture wise Dave is real close to finishing the player character, ready to get some buildings done tomorrow so we can get our latest screen shots off for Protoplay. We also took delivery of our fancy new scrolling menu system and flight cam from Rich.

So things are really coming together now - while I still had to explain to Dare Dave why we didn't have so many finished art assets in, I think that by the time of the internal show well be just needing to tweak here and there and apply testing and polish. The only real hurdles at the minute are animating the player character and texturing the more specialized buildings but now with weekend access im sure thatll happen.

Also found out today that Alex Ward (Burnout Series, Black) wants to come down and meet us. It'll be a good experience as well need to justify what were doing and why, so its extra preparation for Protoplay. Also he says good things about Army of Two - so hopefully I can gleam some info and it will be like playing it by proxy :). Other than that the new video is out - Check it out Ross has his own section ! Apparently Northern Ireland are preparing some kind of Epic video rebuttal, thats so click warp intensive Mark refused to have anything to do with it ^_^ sounds great

On the subject of E-fame I don't know if i mentioned but i was having crazy VMO / 360 troubles Big thanks to mini rich who informed me of a sneaky driver update - sorted now, but while searching for 360 controller, VMO and virtools our blog came up numero uno on google - which while not helping me solve my issue was cool :) . Jeebus! Apologies for the rambly nature of this blog - just keep ... remembering ... things ...

Good day Good day!

Team Lucid Dream

(p.s A prize to anyone who can accurately tell me the frequency of the word Epic and Awesome in this post cos im sure its high)

(pps Hi Mike)