Saturday Weekly Roundup: 27th February 2010
February 27th, 2010 | 
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This week has been a roller-coaster, on Monday night at 11:30pm the drive containing all frontier animations stop registering on windows.
You can imagine the look on my face…one of sheer terror. Thinking all was lost (as my backup situation leaves quite a lot to be desired) I phoned my wife’s brother in law who took the drive away to look at.
So Tuesday was spent in absolute suspense hoping against hope that the news would be good and there would be a way to recover all the data on this drive.
At 3pm I get a phone call and the news couldn’t be better: ‘the drive is fine, but your power supply needs upgrading’. It seems all the extras I had added onto this system: extra 2GB RAM, extra 1TB Drive had pushed the power supply over its maximum.
So thank God everything was fine and the animation now continues – God bless my wife’s brother-in-law.
As for Part 8 – it is sitting currently at 71% and I imagine I’m on target for the early March release on youtube.
This week has seen animation of foliage on the surface of Toyr’diablo as we get closer to the first troops disembarking from their carryalls and into enemy territory.
Without giving away too much I would say it’s going to be a bumpy landing.
Other non-animation specific things occurring this week – I started playing a game called Broken Sword 4 – which is a major throwback to the old Police Quest style games on the late 80s/early 90s, and let me tell you that Police Quest II: The Vengeance was one of the first games I played as a kid and definitely one of my favorites of all time (sometimes I even go back and replay it now). So Broken Sword 4 is shaping up to be pretty nostalgic.
And more space orientated old-school gaming, there’s a wicked article that wcnews.com is covering about a review of Wing Commander IV from 1996 (the Wing Commander Series is actually one of the key inspirations for the Frontier series), check it out here!
Stay tuned for more.
Lew
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Is it just me or has this part been bumpy?
First: You move which is understandable
Second: Evil Clouds appear
Three: Your drive got messed up.
Wow Lew! Love the behind the screen shots. Did Ryan shoot that pic?
*placed in wrong section*
Hey Sean,
Yeah tell me about it, bumpy bumpy part, but they say bad things comes in threes to maybe it’s over now? Nah I took that photo myself – thought about needing a photo of me looking really peeved sitting at the comp lol.
Yeah lol. Is that police car a model in the “Arksville” series?
Haha sort’ve – same sort of black n white scheme – though that car is a late 90s model whereas the first Arksville movie is set in 1967.
So I take it your father was a police officer? I used to have a U.S. carrier model but it broke during the move. Dad was a electrician on the U.S. Carrier Saratoga CV 60 during 1971-1972 Vietnam War. He didn’t go to NZ the closest he got was in the Phillipines.
No family member was a cop I made a film at high school and that police car was used as a miniature during a scene where stuff was blowing up.
Glad to hear the problem was merely a power supply Lew. The rendered images look great, as always.
I remember the Police Quest series as well, although I was kind of partial to the 3rd game “The Kindred” myself. Ahh good times.
Oh, and I cut my gaming teeth on the Wing Commander series!
Ah yes the Kindred – very cool as well, I remember how hard it was to find PQ3, so I never had it as a kid, but eventually I got the PQ Series years later so had a happy ending lol.
Say Lew, has your um wife’s bro in law seen the series?