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IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

June 16 2011 18:12 GMT

Honor.

Pride.

Devotion.

I've none of these things. I've not the means to define these things. In the darkest of times I fight the greatest of battles. Those against myself. That reflection in the mirror. I am my own worst foe. I cannot conquer that which can match my every move, exploit my every weakness. Instead, I seek to absolve, not conquer.

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Note - Polycounts shown are inaccurate due to hidden objects. Model is also heavily WIP.

Earlier this morning I was offered paid commission work for an independent game company. Within five minutes I sent them my answer.

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I declined, of course.

I've no desire to work for anyone besides myself. I've told you this. I do not care for fame. For glory. I've tasted neither and have not the addiction of success to give me any concern. I have chosen to undertake Black Sun Episode 1, and I've already started running into the engine limitations of Sins of a Solar Empire. The first limit - the Texture entry limit. No, not a RAM or GPU limit, just an arbitrary number of textures the game can load. It loads every single texture available on startup, regardless if they are used or not. To make headway for my project, I have undertaken what us Canadians call a "Conservative Majority" and have proceeded to obliterate a quantity of vanilla content in preparation to completely gut the base game of all unneeded textures.

By now it is clear that my project for Sins will never actually be truly playable. It serves now exclusively as a front to creating the Black Sun videos. These videos serve as a front to inspiring dreams and visions of my world. It is my hope that, through these events, I can bring back motivation to start writing on my novel again. If I can finish it before I die... well, I'll die proud.

Delusions of a UDK project and other fantasies will have to step aside for now.

I don't know what amuses me more. The fact I was able to uptake Black Sun again without any provocation, or the fact a game company thinks I'm good enough for commercial work.

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Hah! I told you I would update. Yes...

Particles need much work... maybe one day I show you in motion? Another day...

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

June 16 2011 18:24 GMT

At first I was like, wow nice work.

Then I read your text and I was like... Wat?

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

June 16 2011 18:25 GMT

Read previous blogs. Everything will make more sense.

Well, maybe.

/e Nevermind, I can't even understand it myself. Whatever. Enjoy the pointy.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

June 16 2011 18:40 GMT

If you didn't care about recognition or success you wouldn't keep posting these blogs.

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

June 16 2011 18:43 GMT

A few people seem to enjoy them. There isn't much success in blogging.

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I am really sleep deprived and am about to really starting pushing myself to stay awake as long as possible. I should have waited until I was finished to post this, but I'll add the finished product when I get to it. Hee! If I get to it.

Z3kk

4099 Posts

June 16 2011 19:14 GMT

Whoa, nice work...this is CAD on steroids :O

mucker

United States1120 Posts

June 16 2011 19:22 GMT

Cool seeing so many in-progress pics. This song came on while I was looking at them and I kinda just spaced out and got lost in it all for a while.
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IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

June 16 2011 19:23 GMT

I was going to post a much, much larger blog with a lot more text to go along with those progress pictures, but then I deadlocked in progress days ago and kind of drifted away from that model. If I do finish it I may post the entire thing in the future, but with the way I go about things probably not for a while. Most of it is just nonsensible ranting like the above, anyways.

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