150 Nirns! and more to see

Haven't been updated regularly the last 2 weeks been busy with a work commission and playing some Guild Wars 2. I'll write comments when i can be bothered, back to Guild Wars 2 :P

Also played some Two Worlds 2 for a few hours whilst waiting for Guild Wars 2 to Download

So  I've started playing a Charr Ranger 

Back to Nirnroot Road!

Back in Oblivion to catch all the Nirnroots!

What do ya know, apparently Dead Flame Atronachs can't float.

Silver bow! Which is exactly the same as steel except heavier? =\

Getting Close to 150!?

 Finally have a slightly better bow

Starting the day with some oblivion

It's been raining outside so i decided to start the day with playing some oblivion before getting on with some work. Hunting Nirnroots and running around playing around with the mouse mode on my tablet to play rather than the mouse. I've played Quake 3 and Age of Empires 2 with my tablet before which is quite fun but on my smaller older Wacom Graphire a6 4 years ago.

More Oblivion haha

Hey fellow worldees, going to play some more oblivion been writing notes and thinking for a few hours, i'm hoping i will get more ideas for my FYP playing. I've chucked in the game of thrones and everquest 2 soundtrack into the music folder so I'm not stuck listening to the same oblivion music and and over again xD

I think I forgot how nice the Oblivion manages to look without any complex or much lighting at all, always been a shame about the texture resolutions thought. There art travelled with slr's and the high rez versions are 256/512 in a lot of cases? Really!? xD

Here's an insight to some the stuff i have for my Final Year Project already for those of you who don't know I'm doing an investigation into good design work practice in Modular Environments for Open world RPG's. So I'll be producing a Tree city environment from concept art to 3d models to texture solutions and using the set in a Game engine.

I hope explore a lot, inavate and demostrate ways to make really good reusable content.

Back to Oblivion...

Stumbled across some ruins with Slaughter fish and goblins.

With a camp right next to it.

Well it appears I'm at the stage of the game which I'm harassed by bears and this time with fancy titles, extra hit-points and collectable teeth. Thank god for these fences that although sheep can through bears fortunately cannot.

So after killing bears I went inside to meet the farmer. Initially just to point out his sheep and time and space problems.

Despite his early temper immediately throwing everything off the table onto the floor when I entered, it seems this guy not so bad after all he's just as i being harassed by these western bears and has promised a good reward for six of there damn fangs, why i can't just pluck 6 out of one of the 3 nasty critters I've had to fight through fences I'll never know.

Fetch quests because apparently some games just can't be bothered to make things interesting any other way. Never fear Mr Thorley I'll glitch up some bears through your fence which seems to be doing a mighty fine job defending your sheep anyway, if they didn't glitch outside of it when in danger perhaps you and your precious woolly friends would already be safe.

 Well that's nice of him, to walk out and lock me in his home, aren't i supposed to be fighting bears? *rummages through house* finds nothing but cheap wine. >.<

Waiting game Anyone?

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It appears all he was doing once i broke out is hacking out the floor outside with a hoe in the middle of a sheep pen O.o Got start somewhere? and that sir is not the place to start fixing your bear problem... infact

and neither is this, crazy foo ran at a close by bear with a hoe and before I could help he was gone, forever hiding your secret gift for bear teeth. Guess i have another free house and i'm going to celebrate by killing the other 2 bears.

Stole some steel armor then raised about 1000 gold on some binge alchemying all the flowers i gathered gained about 17 levels in alchemy in a few mins.

Well enough for one I think day.

Another mini Break

Took a 1 hour break to play some oblivion today and a few yesterday. Managed to catch vampirism on the 1st game day of my character which kicked in on day 4 xD first times that's ever happened as well =\ wow after feeding once and realising how much of evil cripple my character started looking like i looked online as to how to cure it. Apparently with a a large quest-line i have no means of affording the items to complete.... fuck that xD *spawns cure*

Here's her Vamparic cripple face

Back to normal and level 10 now :)

Resting at Mortal Camp

This time my characters blocking is so high he can with stand bears : ) instead of running around in circles screaming heals. Hit 75 Blocking so he can also shield bash which is really cool/useful had no idea that was in the game until now.

Guard couldn't save this guy from a Spriggin attack xD so free house for me!

remember kids that's what happens when you go wandering tons of monster infested wilderness in city clothes unarmed i guess.

Back to animation.

Revision/Resits for Animation

Spent the last 2 days recapping on Animation, Character Studio, physique modifiers and skinning and quickly modelled a scene and a World war 2 sub-machine gun (M3 Grease Gun) for the stick man I'll be animating for my Resit.

For anyone that is interested the gun's 1, 316 tris but not its not optimized could easy be about 1200 cutting inward-facing verts.

Along side that a spent 3-4 hours playing oblivion :) been the first time I've relaxed into some gaming for awhile now, perhaps if my time management improves I can continue to do so and start playing games again, will sure help if I'm going to my alone next year commuting in for Uni.

Spent a lot of time blocking and messing around in the starting tutorial that by the time I left I had to rest 7 times to level up xD (after wasting half an hour realising taking screenshots was broken for me in oblivion) here's some taken on fraps.

I really enjoy agile fighting, I've previously played the game about 4-500 hours with mostly 2 other characters both of which where blue male Argonians, with high speed and light armour. I never trained block properly and suffered for it so it was my first priority this time, next i need to work on acrobatics for the movement quirks. I really like the acrobatics movement quirks on it even if they are just a rip off of Zelda: Ocarina Time dodges xD

Overgrowth Map

Not that anyone really cares, but here's  the finished version of the map

Started up a moddb page for the maps, which you can check out here http://www.moddb.com/mods/stormandys-melee-maps

Probably going to be doing a fair few more maps this summer, looks like it's going to be quite uneventful this month, thought I made a friend I could hang out with for a good week this august but they haven't spoken to me in a month =\ almost deliberately.

Lost my house for this year of Uni, so I've been having to work out how I'll be couch surfing/commuting, been talking about building a desktop with my brother recently, its been nice using a real computer and not a laptop this last couple of weeks or so. I'm actually able to just work/map as some of you who know me might have noticed.

I'm not really sure I have it in me to deal with all the academia again this year still have to do my animation resit for the 13th of august. Retarded module if you ask me doesn't cover anything about game animation and is as massive waste of time around the time when I actually have freelance paid work. Being reminded constantly by all the dare teams about what I'm missing out on. I genuinely thought this year was going to get better  for a few weeks.

I'll just daydream about making SC2 maps at bliz quarters for a bit haha, one thing I am looking forward to is saving up to go to America next year.