First Strike Dev Diary #11 - PUMBAA

[[MyIS]Spawndemon]

There is a new dev diary posted today over at the First Strike (http://www.firststrikemod.com/) mod website featuring Peter "Pumbaa" Jansson. Here's what he had to say:

For you who recognize that intro I can say that naw Im no coder, Im actually a texture artist for First Strike! Im using HaVoC's dev diary as a template and starting out with telling you all a little about myself.

I'm Peter "Pumbaa" Jansson from Stockholm, Sweden, I'm 24 years old and I just graduated from Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU) in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, where I studied Computer Graphics (CG) for three years. Before that I had no game creating skills what so ever and I didnt get to start out with CG until my second year at LTU. I kind of took a wild shot with my education since I had never done cg before, how was I to know if it would interest me at all? All I knew was that I liked games. A lot.

Anyhow, when we started out I obviously had a lot to learn. Everything was really confusing and I seriously doubted my career choice several times, but I kept struggling because my personal goals I had kept me highly motivated, also, the more I learned, the greater my thirst for more knowledge became.

<a href="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/sshot1_lrg_small_tat_house.jpg"><img src="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/thumb_sshot1_lrg_small_tat_house.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/sshot1_lrg_largeadobe.jpg"><img src="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/thumb_sshot1_lrg_largeadobe.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/sshot1_lrg_slave1.jpg"><img src="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/thumb_sshot1_lrg_slave1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/sshot1_lrg_slave2.jpg"><img src="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/thumb_sshot1_lrg_slave2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/sshot1_lrg_jabbas_house2.jpg"><img src="http://images.myinternetservices.com/images/thumb_sshot1_lrg_jabbas_house2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>

To check out the rest of this new dev diary, click here (http://www.firststrikemod.com/).

[Arid]

Cool!!!! JABBA'S HOUSE!!!!!!!!

[Vikaman]

They need to speed up to meet my desperate need for this mod.

Bored of 2142 vanilla!

[solodude23]

Sweet! I only looked at the screens now because I don't have time to read, but I have it on the top of my list. :D

[Kaznitelj]

Is any of this mods ever gonna come out in our lifetime?

[[FSDev]Preacher]

I would like to note, for those that may notice that the houses are perhaps not as detailed as some of our other stuff, and there is a good reason for it :)

basically the map is going to be VERY city like, so we have had to shave off teh odd few pollies here and there in order to accomplish good performance for a range of machines.

we have retained as much detail as we can but some sacrifices must be made for a grandar scene.

yes the mod will come out, we are looking atm (without giving an exact date) dependant on testing and peoples work hours (this is vacation season) sometime this summer.

[Vikaman]

I dont mind testing, its vacation here, and I am on a boring internship.

[rebel_scum]

Nice. FS was a factor in me buying BF2142 :)