GURPS: A German trailer

Lexx said:
See the "Three Dog" productions at start of the video. They have stolen from Fallout 3!! Years ago!!
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I was wondering what that was all about myself. Does "three dog" have a meaning in fallout?
 
Pope Viper said:
I've got a question for the artists out there.

How long would you estimate it would take to sculpt, then scan one of those heads?
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I'm not an artist, but I've done a little work with 3d scanners....

Our little, rather cheap, $3000 dollars desktop scanner takes anything between 45 to 180 seconds per scan, depending on the desired fidelity level. For a decent model a minimum of 6 scans, spanning a full 360° are required.

On our somewhat more expensive, $60000 scanner, things are a bit faster, as each scan takes no more than 2 seconds, and we can afford to take upwards of 20 scans for some very precise models.

With the little guy there's ussually an additional 30 minutes to a couple of hours work to patch the scanned point cloud into a decent mesh.

The big guy comes with more powerfull software leveraged by its superior scanning ability, so the whole process is significantly shorter.
 
Yeah, I think those guys were eventually outsourced to PC Action, PC Games' sister mag which was originally supposed to be all about action games only. PC Action got the quirky humour and PC Games became somewhat more serious.

Then the late 1990s came and suddenly every genre was about action and the two magazines ended up copying each other's reviews for the most part.

No idea where they went from there. I think I quit my subscriptions in 1998 (had been subscribing to both since mid-1996 or so).

It's odd how it always irked me that game mags are written for teenagers -- even when I was one, I could never relate.
 
Ashmo said:
It's odd how it always irked me that game mags are written for teenagers -- even when I was one, I could never relate.
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Indeed and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I'm a bit surprised that there aren't any gaming mags that seem to be written for adults or, at the very least, people interested in some depth in what they read.
 
Ashmo said:
Yeah, I think those guys were eventually outsourced to PC Action, PC Games' sister mag which was originally supposed to be all about action games only. PC Action got the quirky humour and PC Games became somewhat more serious.
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I thought PC Action was supposed to be all about having half-naked cover-girls in game-related outfits.

Ashmo said:
No idea where they went from there.
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PC Action dropped the cover girls and, because people complained about the 'funny' ones, also added 'proper' captions to screenshots. I guess they try to be a bit more serious these days.
I infrequently buy an issue of PC Games/PC Action/Gamestar, either for the game that comes with it or to get an overview of recent hardware and stuff.
 
I'm pretty sure they started with the cover girls AFTER I subscribed to them. I guess I cancelled my subscription before they dropped that fad, though.

The semi-naked girls drenched in olive oil and the witty captions were all that distinguished the magazine, so it's pretty sad to hear that they went out of the window.
 
Yeah, I liked the cover-girls. They kept the funny captions, they just added serious ones. And there are pics of naked boobies in nearly every issue.
 
Naked? That's going a bit far for their demographic, isn't it?

I remember all the flaming backlash from when they first introduced their cover girls.

Disregarding that most of their initial cover girls looked like they were random interns dragged in front of the camera under false pretences.
 
There's usually some small pic of a porn star or something in the reader's feedback section. For no apparent reason.
 
2:12 to 2:15.

So that's how they managed to make all those thousands of NPC sprites. Anyone who unpacked critter.dat will probably be thinking the same thing.
 
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