I'll be offline for a while as I buy and move into a new home.

I've been too busy to do anything interesting as a result, but a new house will be superbly awesome. It'll be my first home, and it's pretty big, but I'll still have some roomates as well.

Until RL calms down, there isn't much to report, except that Blender 2.46 lets me make incredibly sexy looking things (PS3 quality! Yay shaders!) as well as continuing to make levels and models for VFighter.

I sure hope I get some time to work on it! It seems everyone is paining for a replacement to MUGEN, and this should be exactly what we are looking for.

If you are curious, go play Odin Sphere on PS2, and then play Star Gladiator on MAME to see what I'm thinking. I want OdinSphere style gameplay with the plasma combo system that Star Gladiator uses, since that covers the gamut of generalized fighting. It works for basic combo and attack moves, and the addition of 'helper' objects (projectiles, other characters, drones, seekers, sensors) makes it just as versatile as mugen. As for effects, generic and custom particle / audio interaction is a cakewalk (QueueEmitter( ~ )) so yay.

I hope you all stay cool this summer, peace out till later!

~Z

Be safe! Congrats on the house!