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| Just One Fix
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, posted Wed 22 Oct 19:52
You might wanna try SBC Yahoo! DSL - $26.95 a month for the first year (if you sign a one year contract), then $30-$35 (I can't remember exactly how much) after that. You can get really good speeds if you're close to one of their offices, and it's only been down for a signifigant amount of time once or twice in the couple months we've had it. Right now, it's available in these states (copied from the site 'cause I'm lazy ^_^):
AR, CA, CT, IL, IN, KS, MI, MO, NV, OH, OK, TX, WI
Hope this helps :)
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| DarkZero 401th Post
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| "Re(4):BOOM" , posted Wed 22 Oct 20:25
If you really want that RPG back, you could try taking the hard drive to a PC repair shop. One of my old hard drives crashed a few years ago, but I really, REALLY wanted a school report back from it, and the local repair shop managed to find it in the hard drive's remains. It's a slim chance, but it's a chance all the same.
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also why are you making a 2d rpg
make it 3d
and use unreal engines free runtime version
Link Here
Because making a decent 3D RPG would take ten times more effort than making a decent 2D RPG? Just check out the Mog Mod over at Mac Hall. It's taken an excellent artist like Ian McConville over three months just to make a single 3D model that looks good. Making a 2D sprite that looks good would take, at most, a day or two, including a portrait to accompany it. And Ian's not even making an entire game world filled with people and locales. Just one model.
And plus, a lot of us just like 2D games. You're talking to the "SNES/Genesis/GBA is God!" crowd, here.
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| Gojira 1171th Post
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| "Re(5):BOOM" , posted Wed 22 Oct 22:57
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You might wanna try SBC Yahoo! DSL - $26.95 a month for the first year (if you sign a one year contract), then $30-$35 (I can't remember exactly how much) after that. You can get really good speeds if you're close to one of their offices, and it's only been down for a signifigant amount of time once or twice in the couple months we've had it. Right now, it's available in these states (copied from the site 'cause I'm lazy ^_^):
AR, CA, CT, IL, IN, KS, MI, MO, NV, OH, OK, TX, WI
Hope this helps :)
Sounds like a fairly sweet deal, but I'm not in any of those states. I'm in WA. Thanks for trying though :)
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| Oroch 321th Post
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| "Re(6):BOOM" , posted Thu 23 Oct 04:59
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You might wanna try SBC Yahoo! DSL - $26.95 a month for the first year (if you sign a one year contract), then $30-$35 (I can't remember exactly how much) after that. You can get really good speeds if you're close to one of their offices, and it's only been down for a signifigant amount of time once or twice in the couple months we've had it. Right now, it's available in these states (copied from the site 'cause I'm lazy ^_^):
AR, CA, CT, IL, IN, KS, MI, MO, NV, OH, OK, TX, WI
Hope this helps :)
Sounds like a fairly sweet deal, but I'm not in any of those states. I'm in WA. Thanks for trying though :)
be wary of sbc, they're not a reliable company
for a wa dsl company, try Speakeasy, they've got nice consistant speeds
and 3d isnt as hard as it may seem, even if uber artist ian takes forever to make a single model
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| Undead Fred 998th Post
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| "Re(5):BOOM" , posted Thu 23 Oct 15:53
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also why are you making a 2d rpg
make it 3d
and use unreal engines free runtime version
Link Here
Because making a decent 3D RPG would take ten times more effort than making a decent 2D RPG? Just check out the Mog Mod over at Mac Hall. It's taken an excellent artist like Ian McConville over three months just to make a single 3D model that looks good. Making a 2D sprite that looks good would take, at most, a day or two, including a portrait to accompany it. And Ian's not even making an entire game world filled with people and locales. Just one model.
And plus, a lot of us just like 2D games. You're talking to the "SNES/Genesis/GBA is God!" crowd, here.
That's what I was about to say. Although 2D also takes effort, it takes a whole different set of technical skills to model, set up properly, and animate 3D models. Plus, there's a different aesthetic in 2D graphics than 3D. Even if Gojira is able to do both, he might have had a reason for choosing 2D. I'm sick to death of people going "TOO-DEE IS TEH SUX0R!!! LOL! ROFL!!! THRIEDEE Z TEH BETER 0NE!!!!" regardless of how well-done the 2D work is. I've done lots of work in both 2D and 3D... and people who do 3D work need 2D skills as a foundation. I just hate it when people blindly throw out 2D as "inferior" to 3D.
As for the first post- dude, I can sympathize. I had a total disk failure a few semesters back, but I had managed to get some of the stuff backed up about a month before hand (and I know I've told this story before). I haven't been keeping up with recent computer prices, so I can't help you there. I just know I need to get a new computer soon, and I know I don't have the money for it now. Heh heh... so, hopefully someone else can help. You can try Gateway or any of the big computer companies, but I've heard it's a lot cheaper to build your own from separate parts (which I've got no clue how to do... I can add to a computer I've already got, but I don't know how to hook up motherboards and power sources and stuff like that).
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| Undead Fred 1000th Post
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| "Re(8):BOOM" , posted Fri 24 Oct 01:26
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As a 3d artist, I would say having good skills in 2d art is helpful; although with good modelling programs, it does not take THAT long to model something.
Zaku head
I modeled this zaku in about a week, working just about 20 minutes everyday; unfortunately, I lost the original file for it, so all I have to remember my work by is a JPEG snapshot and I cannot finish the rest of it :(
Well, it takes longer if the model's complex, and if you're going to rig it to animate and texture it. Same goes with 2D stuff; if your character's simple, then doing a million drawings of them won't be so bad. But, if your character is really complex (I heard some drawings in the new Vampire Hunter D took 6 hours to do...), then it takes longer and is a lot more tedious. But that goes without saying.
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