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Holy Mackeral! This is great stuff. I was expecting cartoons with big eyes because it said anime, but I really liked this a lot. Great modeling and effects.

That is a funky cube. Cool displacement effect. I haven't played with displacement yet but it looks fun.

Hi I spent the last few days messing around with froggy wild west shoot out. This is just the humble beginnings. This is nowhere near the final level. The buildings will not be all the same texture and height. They are just there for my basic layout. I have a start on the stable and the general store though. I will need to make tons of props and stuff. My friend jin kazama is going to help me out. I'm gonna spend the rest of the week in torque working on the two game. I will do more to froggy shoot out on the weekend and keep you updated. Here's the wmv at 2.5 mb: http://www.3dfrog.com/wips/froggyshootout/herbieblast4.wmv Thanks

I see nothing but a spinning shape

I had a good time at the meeting as usual. Thanks Mike for your hosting. Thanks for the yummy bagels and the root beer

Very nice. I did some mechanical modeling in max when i was in school for drafting but yours look better than mine. Goes to show hash can do it all.

Jin I think a lot of people will benefit from seeing your car modeling. Don't give up. You are doing it because you love it anyway

That image is certainly worthy of a 3dworld cover. I wish it would come true.

Welcome Dan You are very lucky to have animation master so young and have your dad to help you. I wish I had a:m when I was 13 too but I didnt find it til I was 30 lol. I look forward to see your progress. I like your animation dan's dad

Hey Jin! Nice to see you working on a new car. It is looking real nice. I hope to see you on msn soon See ya soon buddy.

really beautiful. I see what yves means by the aliasing. You fix that and it will be perfect. Very inspirational!

Nice work. I hope to have a nice demo reel like that too someday.

I'll be there with bouncing balls and frogs. I will be driving in. Let me know if you want to carpool jerry. I can pick you up.

This looks very nice. Looking forward to seeing the whole thing. Really good job. And the textures are very nice to look at too.

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I cant see the video, just a white screen.

looking better. Why is that tree in the back shimmering like that? It is very distracting. Whatever you used to make those long green leave strands I would change.

Ross You are like a mind reader or something. Out on the street of the town there will be tumbleweeds rolling by that knock you down if they hit you and snakes slithering by that knock you down and you lose a little energy if they hit you. The street is where you go to catch flies to rejuvenate your health. Also the final battle with Otto is on the street so all this will make the last fight more challenging. I guess this is like frogger, I haven't thought of it as frogger but you are right.

I did a test of herbie in the game engine today. Took a long time to get the model prepared properly to handle the game engine shadows and stuff. I kept finding hooks. I didnt even notice these stray hooks til I ran a mesh test and found open faces in the model in gamestudio. It displays right in the model editor with the hooks for some reason, you cant tell there is a problem until you run the check utility. Then the hat was causing all these funky artifacts in the shadows. I had trouble figuring that one out. Then I finally found a double spline ring on the model. I deleted the extra spline ring and all was well. Well, there's some foreshadowing to some of the funky stuff that may come up while we do the two game too I guess. I'm sure torque has its own funky stuff to deal with too. I made a terrain today too. It is pretty basic but when it is occupied with trees and buildings and rocks it will look nice. Man I have a lot of work to do. Yeah this game is gonna be a pretty violent one with deaths. If he was just shooting the gun out of their hands that wouldnt be much of a revenge he has on them. The wild west was pretty violent though. I will try to keep it humorous. Hey, they old warner brothers cartoons were pretty violent too but they were still good fun. Like when daffy blows himself up as his great act and his soul comes out his body. Pretty weird stuff. I will not have any gore in the game anyway. It will be kept pretty clean.

Sorry no racing, Just shooting. Herbie the frog grew up in a wild west town where he was picked on by the villagers as a little frog. Now he is back and ready for revenge! If you want a racing game with a frog see my ot thread about a cool racing game. It is pretty much what I was going to make but has other characters besides the frogs too. There will be a shoot out in a bank. Herbie The Frog must kill everyone in all seven buildings. There is a saloon, general store, restaurant, bank, blacksmith, jail, and stables. He must complete one building before going to the next and they increase in difficulty. After he completes this he has a showdown with Otto the frog to win the game. Otto is the opponent from froggy boxing, he will be a cowboy too. He was Herbie's biggest bully as a kid. Thanks!

Here is Herbie the frog in his cowboy costume. Guns soon to come. This is for froggy shoot out game. Unfortunately you will be seeing the back of him most of the time. Wegg built the hat, I textured it.

I love these! You have created awesome characters. I can't wait to see what else you do with them!

This is a good first model. Very cute character. I like what it says on the sheild I agree the hands should be larger, but the three toes doesnt really bother me. My first model was a head which came out ok but took me a month to figure out. I think you are off to a fine start and you will only get better. Congratulations on your first model.

Really cute fish, lots of personality. I like the bright color a lot. DL, stop by chat and say hi sometime

Thanks folks. Well, I made the big time. I am on download.com Stop by and write a nice review http://www.download.com/Froggy-Boxing/3000...tml?tag=lst-0-1 The tutorial is almost ready.