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This Blog will guide you with tips and tricks trough the Developement of video games. Starting with easy script editing, Interface creation and 3D Modeling, Skinning and Animating tutorials.

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New Channel - New Composition

Hi again! I may have mentioned it earlier but last week I made up my final decision. I opened my new kind of 'official' You Tube Channel. This means my new compositions as well as some of my older compositions will be hosted on my new channel side by side with my animation stuff (I never mentioned that on the forum but if you took a glance on my profile you might have read that I am actually a 3D game designer). The new name of my channel should sound a little bit more serious, howev
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Lonesome - Alternative Version Is Ready!

Hi folks! Yesterday I finished my first testdrive with my new keyboard. Today I explored the art of percussion! So here it is, the alternative version of my track 'Lonesome' with percussion! Lonesome - Alternative Version on Youtube Please feel free to leave your comments and if you like the music do not hesiate to subscribe! Cheers!
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Before War - 2Nd Epic Track

Hi again! It's time again for me to present you my latest work! The track is called "Before War" and it took me 2 days to complete it. Therefore I would like to mention that there might be some mistakes in the track that should have been fixed before the music went online but as this track was part of a competition (write a classical/epic track in 2 days), I tried as fast as I could to produce something that reflects my ideas. The basic idea for this track was a scene of King Arth
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Rising Sun - My Latest Composition

Welcome to the Rising Sun! Hi again, @ Addictgamer: You finally finished it! So now for everyone: Weeks ago I promised Addictgamer to give it a try and compose something epic, something that features drums, strings and emotion. It wasn't easy but after a while (after 2 weeks making test etc.) I finally got something but it still needed a name, you know a meaningful name! Well as evil as I am, I just asked Addictgamer to give the track a name (without having heard it y
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Modding Suite Release

Hello everybody! @ Cyrem: Thank you very much! SciGuy: Thanks a lot! Anonymouse: I really appreciated your suggestions! addictgamer: You were the best and only beta tester! Lair of Rockwhales: Thank you very much for your support! Community: You are the best in the world,everybody of you! So here is it. Reality hits us all, one day: I lost my job... Not bad, didn´t like it that well but the problem is I also lost my license for Revolution alias LiveCode so what do
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Overview - Building the Production Pipeline

Hello everyone! Well first who I am: I am not someone who will promise you that by the end of this blog you will have developed Rock Raiders 2 or something like that! What I want is to discover the way what we are able to do with the tools we got - Thanks to the Rock Raiders United Community - and what we are able to modify. So to clarify things: I am not a scripter - so don´t expect to learn here how to port the LRR PS1 version to the PC;) - I am a 3D Artist. So I will teach you here
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Pilot Library Rev 1 Release

So everybody. Time for our first attempt to actually mod LRR. I finished modeling the Pilot model for every Polymode (Lowpoly, Midpoly, Higpoly) and compiled the WAD. So here is the WAD Download (I don´t know wheter I am allowed to post this here but I think you can´t use it without the game so it should be allowed) Instrutions: 1. Extract RAR Archive 2. Overwrite LegoRR00.WAD with the new One or name it something higher (ex. LegoRR03.WAD) Changelog: Rev 1
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Lightwave/3ds max - Modify the first model

Note: Well I decided that I will write on this blog when I got something I want to share with you;). Today I started modifying the main model of LRR. You know it the LRR Pilot Model. Well as I said I will give you a tutorial based uppon the things I did and what I discovered. Modifying the LPhead.lwo You can find the head (I choosed this model because it´s very easy to add details to this and it fitted well in our Pipeline) in the extract Directory of your WAD file LRR0.WAD in th
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Modding Suite - Milestone 2

Modding Suite - Milestone II Today I have reached Milestone II in the Developement of the Modding Suite. Milestone II features a brand new Interface for the Modding Suite as well as 2 different skins and even more to come! The new Interface is cleaned up and very user friendly! Other changes that are involved into Milestone II are: 1. A heavy code cleanup. During the development cycle of Milestone II I removed over 1744 lines of code and rewrote 1350 lines of existing co
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Jdb - In Shadows - First Epic Track

Hi again, while the forum was offline, and I am really happy that it is online again, I completed my very first epic track! @addictgamer: Finally I created something you might call epic... at least I hope it sounds that way! So everybody I really hope you like the track and if you would like to support me please consider to subscribe to my channel on youtube. JDB - In Shadows HD That's it for today! Cheers!
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Some News

Hi all, I finally got everything running what I need to go on working on the Mod and everything else. I am now using a newer version of 3ds max (sponsored by my admin) so you will see a new interface on my pics (basically everything stayed the same in the UI, the only thing that changed was the colortheme -> white to black. So here I am starting work and this is the Plan: 1. Programming LRR Mod Manager for my programming exam in C++. 2. Recreation of the whole Pilot Library
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LRR Pistole Modeling

Hi again, well first of all the Modding Suite is well progressing (means in coder´s terms: 1-2 months until first preview^^) but for today I have something different for you. We want to have a new Pistole Model for the Pilot Figure in Lego Rock Raiders. I won´t describe how to import & export models into Lego Rock Raiders and 3d editing packages as I have done that before and if you missed a point I kindly ask you to check my previous entries or to take a look into the Moddin
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Lightwave - Analysing the Model Setup

So here we are again. Actually I wanted to write on this blog weekly but yesterday evening I have discovered something I would like to share with you now. So what happened. Well I took a look at our LWS (Lightwave Scene) Files which include all LWO (Lightwave Object) Files. Like it looks here to me, it seems that the models are animated by the LWS Files. That means we don´t have to touch the LWS Files, we just have to modify the LWO files. A very good addition to our Pipeline is thi
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Rock Raiders Modding Suite - The End

Hello everybody, this is a sad day, at last for me because today I finally canceled the Modding Suite and the Mod Manager. I noticed that alot of you didn´t even notice that these projects existet for a while (6 months to be exact) and this is one of the reasons I quit programming these tools any further. The lack of interest is one thing the other thing is the Tool itself as I didn´t manage to get it working properly with the MySQL database which Cyrem provided for me, thanks Cyrem for y
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Modding Suite - Developement

Modding Suite (MS) - Developement Today I won´t write about the final steps in Modding Suite Developement. Why not? Well there is no progress. Hitting my first Milestone was a great pleasure and this pleasure was doubled when I reached my second Milestone shortly after the first. Now I have to admit that I wasn´t able to work on MS for weeks. The reason ... The reasons for this slow... stopped developement are based on multiple problems I had and still have to solve. I don´t kno
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Modding Suite: New Idea + New Solution = Progress!

Well today I am going to talk about this formula: Modding Suite: New idea + new solution = Progress! Well it´s true there is progress. The new idea was born while reading an entry about array storage in flash (altough I am not coding in flash). I managed to transfer this solution to Revolution (my coding language) and now I have a working array storage solution! Well I assume almost everyone of you don´t know what this means so here´s the explanation: My life just go
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Modding Suite - The Future

First off: A happy new year to everyone! I know it´s a little bit late by February but since this is my first blog entry in 2011: Happy New Year! So and now let´s get back to business! The Modding Suite Last and latest news was that I dropped the project back in November 2010. And I picked it up by December 22th 2010 Since then I fixed my errors and the bugs I encountered, I also asked Cyrem to create a new Interface layout for the Modding Suite. In January Cyrem deliv
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Channel Migration Complete

Hi again, just wanted to inform you that I almost completed my channel migration. The new channel is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJDBArtist/featured As you can see I changed the video design, there won't be any sound animations anymore. Instead the videos will feature adequate backgrounds underlining the themes of my music. At the moment the following tracks have been redesigned and uploaded to the channel: Before War In Shadows Gleam in the N
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Upcoming Tutorials

Sorry about the lack of updates in the last two weeks. I was on vacation in France so there was no time to dive further into the LRR Modeling Stuff. But now I am back again and I just wanted to tell you that we will discuss some tutorials about modeling and animating in the next days. When I finished my Lego Pilot Library (Since there are parts VLP_ ; LP_ etc. I call these librarys for better organisation) I will release a first Rev of the mod to see if the new model works and behaves proper
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Rock Raiders Modding Suite Release

Hi again, well I just thought that it could be interesting to release the Modding Suite as a Binary infront of the SDK so you can test it out and see the tools in action. I decided this way because for an SDK you have to write and documentation and when I take a look at my code I can tell: This will take some time to clean this mess up and write some documentation about it. So here for everyone to download the Lego Rock Raiders Modding Suite: Lego Rock Raiders Modding Suite (Binary)
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